Or how about Mexico City, right underneath the Popo volcano... umpteen million population, right next to a volcano that shows all the signs of becoming quite active... Don't wanna think about trying to evacuate a city that size.... shudder
Oh THAT is rich... Microsoft using the words "good faith"...... I'm having difficulty typing I'm laughing soooo hard at that.. Sooo glad I left the Microsoft world back when I retired, and moved all my machines over to Linux...
There are several highly technical studies done of what Windows 10 does even after you've disabled all of the crap... Keylogger still sends your keystrokes to MS, if you have a webcam it sends video to MS, if you have a microphone it sends voice data to MS... EVEN AFTER YOU SUPPOSEDLY DISABLED these "features"... If this doesn't bother you, well. I don't know what to tell you... It sure the FUCK bothers me, and only reinforces my choice back in 2011 to switch all of my systems over to Linux....
The Ubuntu/Amazon thing you allude to is ONE LITTLE thing that is trivially easy to turn off, and once you're turned it off, it STAYS OFF..
The MS/Windows 10 thing is multiple keyloggers/uploads of any video from a webcam/uploads of voice data from your microphone, and this continues to happen EVEN WHEN YOU TURN THESE FEATURES OFF....
If you can't see the difference, you're braindead...
yup... MS has shot themselves in the foot with this one.. If a technical user wants to turn off all of the privacy-destroying crap, then MS has ZERO business ignoring said users wishes.. This had to be said...... FUCK YOU MS!!!
Yes, since Windows 7, Windows has been a pretty fine operating system. This coming from a VERY long time Linux guy (1995/Slackware). I supported Windows 3.11 thru XP, till I retired in 2010, and at that time, my home systems were on Windows 7, but I decided I was tired of MS and moved all my systems to Linux (KUbuntu, thank you very much). When 10 started with the previews I decided to try it out in a virtual machine, but now thats it released, and all the "spy-ware" thats being found embedded in it, I'm not gonna recommend it to anybody, rather suggest they stay on 7 or 8.1.... Fuck MS
And *allegedly* even if you find/turn off the all of the "spy-ware", It *still* forwards your shit to Microsoft.. THAT, friends, is *precisely* what your garden-variety malware does.. I have a strong feeling that as time goes on and more people become aware of just how invasive Windows 10 is, they're gonna revolt.. I'm a retired Windows/Linux admin, cleaned up behind Windows since 1991 and Windows 3.11. Once I retired, I decided that I'd had enough of MS and moved all my home systems to Linux. I'm sort of the local "tech-guy" and I'm already telling people who ask to stay with Windows 7 or 8.1, or if they're still on XP, I'd be happy to get them over to XUbuntu...
If this is true and you're not just trolling us, you'd be doing yourself a BIG favor by staying on Windows and leaving Linux strictly alone.. This from a retired Windows/Linux admin that has used Linux since 1995 and Windows since 1991 and VASTLY prefers Linux....
So, how about the machine that only has local accounts rather than the MS account logins? Is that gonna go against MS's precious EULA?? Oh well, I might as well just say what I'm thinking... FUCK YOU MICROSOFT!!! Long live Linux for me and mine...
Being the local "tech support" in my neighborhood, I've already had a buyer of a new system that came with Windows 10 ask me about the privacy problems with it, having read some of the articles about it in some mainstream website (CNN?).. I handed him a Linux LiveCD and told him to boot from it, and let me know if he liked/could live with it on his computer... Couple days later he came back and said DO IT... and I did.. One less Windows 10 sucker...
I've already "upgraded" one neighbor who just bought a new system from a big-box store that came with Windows 10 to XUbuntu.. He'd read some of the articles about Windows 10 and its "privacy" and wanted to know what he could do about it.. I gave him a Linux LiveCD and let him play with it for a few days and he told me yesterday to switch him over, which I did...
Since I retired, I've become the defacto "tech support" for my neighborhood.. I've already been approached by a neighbor who bought a new system from a big-box store, which came with Windows 10 on it, and the new owner having read some of the articles on the privacy nightmare that *is* Windows 10 and came by to ask me what he should do... My first and ONLY suggestion was get Windows 10 OFF your machine... His response, obviously, was "What do I replace it with" and I handed him a Linux LiveCD and told him to boot up from that CD and see if you like/can live with that.. and that I'd check back with him in a few days to see how he wanted to proceed. Those few days were up yesterday and he told me he'd read quite a bit more about Windows 10 and he'd never allow anything like that on his property again, and that he was able to do everything he needed to do on the computer with Linux.. I suggested, since the system was under warrantee and that two-letter manufacturer of computers wouldn't talk to him for warantee service if the system didn't have the original OS, that we go to Frys, buy a $50 SATA drive to put Linux on, and pull/keep the original drive for use if the system had problems down the line.. He said nope, just DO IT... So yesterday afternoon, I wiped a brand-new Intel i5-based desktop of Windows 10 and put XUbuntu on it. I suspect that as time goes on, as more -somewhat-cluefull- people learn what a privacy nightmare Windows 10 is, they'll be VERY interested in Linux...
The only way to win with Windows 10 (or any MS product) is to NOT PLAY.... Funny thing.. Linux has its faults (systemd f'instance), but other than a few VERY minor (and easily turned off) privacy gotchas (looking at YOU, Ubuntu), if you use Linux, you don't have to worry about ALL of your business becoming a large company's business.....
A good example of this is where I needed a small cheap Linux vps with ipv6 for reasons.. I found one with a small Dutch vendor with 256mb of ram, ipv6 support, and a fair amount of diskspace for $4.00/YEAR.. I knew they were getting cheap but not THIS cheap.. anyway I'm probably not going to need it for more than a few months, so I signed up for one and when I went to provision it, the provisioning config page showed it came with 2 ipv6 addresses included, but if you wanted a v4 address it was an additional $2/MO for each v4 address, making the vps cost $27/year vs $4/year...Since the need for the vps only entails ipv6, I skipped adding a v4 address....
Until *some* carriers (I'm looking at YOU, Cogent) stop playing silly network peering games, widespread use of ipv6 isn't gonna happen. For example, at home I'm on Cox, who doesn't seem to even know ipv6 exists, so if I want to use ipv6, I'm stuck with using a kludgy HE tunnelbroker 6to4 tunnel. I also have a Linux vps with a vendor who provides TWO ipv4 addresses and three ipv6 addresses. I told them I only need one v4 address and they could take back the second one, but they said "no problem, we have plenty" (????) Anyway, at least on ipv6, this vps vendor is single-homed to Cogent, so they say (and traceroute shows). This is important, as I'm trying to access said vps via ipv6 from home and guess what? No can do!!!... You CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE... Seems there is a long-going peering dispute between Cogent and HE, thus Cogent does not have a full v6 network view, Googling this shows this dispute has been going since at least 2008..
Yeah.. I have a Windows 7 Pro virtualbox vm I was going to upgrade to 10, the 7 copy has been blessed and updated by MS, but I'm ALSO told the cpu is not compatible.. The cpu is a Xeon Quadcore W3520, and as far I can tell thats a supported cpu...
Windows 10 does not *force* an MS account when installing 10... They may make it the default choice, but its a no-brainer to skip that and use a local account..
I'm on the released build of Windows 10 and I had zero trouble with making Firefox my default browser. It was no more an issue that it was on XP/Vista/7... Guess the guy just wants to bitch at the MS CEO...
I was wondering about that too, if you d/l the iso, how do you get a 10 product key??
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No kidding on the "express settings".. Since I'm kinda my neighborhood's "tech support", I've already told several people to be very careful in setting up 10, if they decide to upgrade to it, of course my recommendation is to wait at least 6 months, but I *know* several wanna-be geeks in my neighborhood who will want it on day 1... they're kinda the "oooooooh shiny" type of user...
Since MS loves their goof-ball product keys, *how* do I get one if I download the ISO? I have several legit Win7 and Win8.1 product keys.. I understand how the upgrade works if you're actually running 7/8.1 on a machine. It knows you're "genuine" so it downloads and upgrades whichever older version of Windows you have.. But I'm not currently running these copies of Windows, but want to have a copy of 10 on hand *if* I decide to run it in the future.. Anybody know how getting a 10 product key works in this case??
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Or how about Mexico City, right underneath the Popo volcano... umpteen million population, right next to a volcano that shows all the signs of becoming quite active... Don't wanna think about trying to evacuate a city that size.... shudder
Oh THAT is rich... Microsoft using the words "good faith"...... I'm having difficulty typing I'm laughing soooo hard at that.. Sooo glad I left the Microsoft world back when I retired, and moved all my machines over to Linux...
There are several highly technical studies done of what Windows 10 does even after you've disabled all of the crap... Keylogger still sends your keystrokes to MS, if you have a webcam it sends video to MS, if you have a microphone it sends voice data to MS... EVEN AFTER YOU SUPPOSEDLY DISABLED these "features"... If this doesn't bother you, well. I don't know what to tell you... It sure the FUCK bothers me, and only reinforces my choice back in 2011 to switch all of my systems over to Linux....
The Ubuntu/Amazon thing you allude to is ONE LITTLE thing that is trivially easy to turn off, and once you're turned it off, it STAYS OFF..
The MS/Windows 10 thing is multiple keyloggers/uploads of any video from a webcam/uploads of voice data from your microphone, and this continues to happen EVEN WHEN YOU TURN THESE FEATURES OFF....
If you can't see the difference, you're braindead...
yup... MS has shot themselves in the foot with this one.. If a technical user wants to turn off all of the privacy-destroying crap, then MS has ZERO business ignoring said users wishes.. This had to be said ...... FUCK YOU MS!!!
Yes, since Windows 7, Windows has been a pretty fine operating system. This coming from a VERY long time Linux guy (1995/Slackware). I supported Windows 3.11 thru XP, till I retired in 2010, and at that time, my home systems were on Windows 7, but I decided I was tired of MS and moved all my systems to Linux (KUbuntu, thank you very much). When 10 started with the previews I decided to try it out in a virtual machine, but now thats it released, and all the "spy-ware" thats being found embedded in it, I'm not gonna recommend it to anybody, rather suggest they stay on 7 or 8.1.... Fuck MS
And *allegedly* even if you find/turn off the all of the "spy-ware", It *still* forwards your shit to Microsoft.. THAT, friends, is *precisely* what your garden-variety malware does.. I have a strong feeling that as time goes on and more people become aware of just how invasive Windows 10 is, they're gonna revolt.. I'm a retired Windows/Linux admin, cleaned up behind Windows since 1991 and Windows 3.11. Once I retired, I decided that I'd had enough of MS and moved all my home systems to Linux. I'm sort of the local "tech-guy" and I'm already telling people who ask to stay with Windows 7 or 8.1, or if they're still on XP, I'd be happy to get them over to XUbuntu...
If this is true and you're not just trolling us, you'd be doing yourself a BIG favor by staying on Windows and leaving Linux strictly alone.. This from a retired Windows/Linux admin that has used Linux since 1995 and Windows since 1991 and VASTLY prefers Linux....
So, how about the machine that only has local accounts rather than the MS account logins? Is that gonna go against MS's precious EULA?? Oh well, I might as well just say what I'm thinking... FUCK YOU MICROSOFT!!! Long live Linux for me and mine...
Being the local "tech support" in my neighborhood, I've already had a buyer of a new system that came with Windows 10 ask me about the privacy problems with it, having read some of the articles about it in some mainstream website (CNN?).. I handed him a Linux LiveCD and told him to boot from it, and let me know if he liked/could live with it on his computer... Couple days later he came back and said DO IT... and I did.. One less Windows 10 sucker...
I've already "upgraded" one neighbor who just bought a new system from a big-box store that came with Windows 10 to XUbuntu.. He'd read some of the articles about Windows 10 and its "privacy" and wanted to know what he could do about it.. I gave him a Linux LiveCD and let him play with it for a few days and he told me yesterday to switch him over, which I did...
If you HAVE to use it, ONLY use a local account.. its not all that easy to find, but it supposedly keeps much of the crap at bay....
Since I retired, I've become the defacto "tech support" for my neighborhood.. I've already been approached by a neighbor who bought a new system from a big-box store, which came with Windows 10 on it, and the new owner having read some of the articles on the privacy nightmare that *is* Windows 10 and came by to ask me what he should do... My first and ONLY suggestion was get Windows 10 OFF your machine... His response, obviously, was "What do I replace it with" and I handed him a Linux LiveCD and told him to boot up from that CD and see if you like/can live with that.. and that I'd check back with him in a few days to see how he wanted to proceed. Those few days were up yesterday and he told me he'd read quite a bit more about Windows 10 and he'd never allow anything like that on his property again, and that he was able to do everything he needed to do on the computer with Linux.. I suggested, since the system was under warrantee and that two-letter manufacturer of computers wouldn't talk to him for warantee service if the system didn't have the original OS, that we go to Frys, buy a $50 SATA drive to put Linux on, and pull/keep the original drive for use if the system had problems down the line.. He said nope, just DO IT... So yesterday afternoon, I wiped a brand-new Intel i5-based desktop of Windows 10 and put XUbuntu on it. I suspect that as time goes on, as more -somewhat-cluefull- people learn what a privacy nightmare Windows 10 is, they'll be VERY interested in Linux...
Simple remedy... The ONLY way to "win" with Windows 10 (or any MS product) is NOT TO PLAY......
The only way to win with Windows 10 (or any MS product) is to NOT PLAY.... Funny thing.. Linux has its faults (systemd f'instance), but other than a few VERY minor (and easily turned off) privacy gotchas (looking at YOU, Ubuntu), if you use Linux, you don't have to worry about ALL of your business becoming a large company's business.....
A good example of this is where I needed a small cheap Linux vps with ipv6 for reasons.. I found one with a small Dutch vendor with 256mb of ram, ipv6 support, and a fair amount of diskspace for $4.00/YEAR.. I knew they were getting cheap but not THIS cheap.. anyway I'm probably not going to need it for more than a few months, so I signed up for one and when I went to provision it, the provisioning config page showed it came with 2 ipv6 addresses included, but if you wanted a v4 address it was an additional $2/MO for each v4 address, making the vps cost $27/year vs $4/year...Since the need for the vps only entails ipv6, I skipped adding a v4 address....
Until *some* carriers (I'm looking at YOU, Cogent) stop playing silly network peering games, widespread use of ipv6 isn't gonna happen. For example, at home I'm on Cox, who doesn't seem to even know ipv6 exists, so if I want to use ipv6, I'm stuck with using a kludgy HE tunnelbroker 6to4 tunnel. I also have a Linux vps with a vendor who provides TWO ipv4 addresses and three ipv6 addresses. I told them I only need one v4 address and they could take back the second one, but they said "no problem, we have plenty" (????) Anyway, at least on ipv6, this vps vendor is single-homed to Cogent, so they say (and traceroute shows). This is important, as I'm trying to access said vps via ipv6 from home and guess what? No can do!!! ... You CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE... Seems there is a long-going peering dispute between Cogent and HE, thus Cogent does not have a full v6 network view, Googling this shows this dispute has been going since at least 2008..
Yeah.. I have a Windows 7 Pro virtualbox vm I was going to upgrade to 10, the 7 copy has been blessed and updated by MS, but I'm ALSO told the cpu is not compatible.. The cpu is a Xeon Quadcore W3520, and as far I can tell thats a supported cpu...
Windows 10 does not *force* an MS account when installing 10... They may make it the default choice, but its a no-brainer to skip that and use a local account..
Users who upgrade to 10 will have their default browser automatically changed to the new Edge browse
NOT TRUE.. I just upgraded to 10 from 8.1, where I had FF as my default browser.. After the upgrade, my default browser was *still* FF....
I'm on the released build of Windows 10 and I had zero trouble with making Firefox my default browser. It was no more an issue that it was on XP/Vista/7... Guess the guy just wants to bitch at the MS CEO...
I was wondering about that too, if you d/l the iso, how do you get a 10 product key??
No kidding on the "express settings".. Since I'm kinda my neighborhood's "tech support", I've already told several people to be very careful in setting up 10, if they decide to upgrade to it, of course my recommendation is to wait at least 6 months, but I *know* several wanna-be geeks in my neighborhood who will want it on day 1... they're kinda the "oooooooh shiny" type of user...
Since MS loves their goof-ball product keys, *how* do I get one if I download the ISO? I have several legit Win7 and Win8.1 product keys.. I understand how the upgrade works if you're actually running 7/8.1 on a machine. It knows you're "genuine" so it downloads and upgrades whichever older version of Windows you have.. But I'm not currently running these copies of Windows, but want to have a copy of 10 on hand *if* I decide to run it in the future.. Anybody know how getting a 10 product key works in this case??
Or perhaps Putin will have him killed is some spectacular false flag operation to make the US government look like total tools.
This government certainly DOESN'T need Putin to make them look like total tools.... Obama and his ilk do a bang-up job by themselves...