Thanks to Swordmaker for the ping!!
Posted on 08/02/2015 6:28:49 PM PDT by dontreadthis
Once again, Microsoft screwed the world with its Windows 10 feature called Wi-Fi Sense. This nasty feature has serious legal implications for it will automatically connect your personal Wi-Fi network to anyone in your e-mail list using HotMail, Skype, or Outlook, and even Facebook, making those friends questionable. If any such person comes within range of your home Wi-Fi, they could secretly access your system from hundreds of yards away.
The real problem with this is rather sinister. The government would no longer need a search warrant for your surrendered privacy; good luck finding a judge who will uphold the rights that exist only in your imagination.
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+1 Word.
Did the same this weekend.
I’ll stay with 7 a while longer.
Sigh . . . you know. . . another. . .
Please tell me you did not merely hook up a wireless router and not bother to set up encryption?
I blocked SSID and set up encryption.
M4L Win 10
My friend did it. I don’t remember what he did. I may as well have been trying to understand modern art.
Thanks to Swordmaker for the ping!!
Cortana also learns about you by collecting data about how you use your device and other Microsoft services, such as your music, alarm settings, whether the lock screen is on, what you view and purchase, your browse and Bing search history, and more.”Lots of things can live in those two words “and more.” Also note that because Cortana analyzes speech data, Microsoft collects “your voice input, as well as your name and nickname, your recent calendar events and the names of people in your appointments, and information about your contacts including names and nicknames
We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to protect our customers or enforce the terms governing the use of the services.
http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2015/07/29/wind-nos/
8.1? Just install Classic Shell and you’re good to go.
Anyone think that the OFF switch actually works!!
Uh, this is a little bit of a stretch, I think. The typical home wireless router is lucky to offer good coverage all throughout a large home. Hard to swallow the claim of "hundreds of yards"...
THE LAST Windows update you will need.
Combined General and Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Bill Gates hasn’t been a substantive part of Microsoft since 2008 and left the company completely in 2014. How is it that Windows 10 is related to his tenure there?
Who know who has the problems with it? People who don't read fine print. If you're an average Joe who just click-click-clicks through everything they see, you're probably setting up something you shouldn't. If you have even a hint of curiosity or concern, you're ALWAYS clicking the "Custom Install" option.
It's 2015 folks. The days of innocence with the Internet and applications and operating systems are over. If you're blindly clicking through every prompt you get on your computer, you're installing something you shouldn't. I can guarantee this is the case over 75% of the time.
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Linux may be the last windows update you’ll ever need, but you’ll spend day after day, hour after hour updating, patching, and reconfiguring linux itself. People want to use computers and not work on them, which is why they use Apple and Windows.
I’m happy with 10 so far. No complaints.
“Linux may be the last windows update you’ll ever need, but you’ll spend day after day, hour after hour updating, patching, and reconfiguring linux itself.”
Absolute rubbish. I have used Ubuntu and Mint on multiple PCs for the last five years. I spent FAR less time administering those OS’s than I ever did with Windows. Whatever you are doing with Linux must be way off the beaten path. If all a person needs is the basics, such web browser, office suite, photo manager, then Linux fills that need with minimal fuss.
Which is why Linux has taken off as a major OS even after Dell, IBM, and others have offered Linux?? Of course not. Linux is OK, but it is terribly unsupported and too complex to use for the average computer user.
I don’t manage my Windows 7 machines at all, and rarely the servers. They hum along just fine.
“Which is why Linux has taken off as a major OS even after Dell, IBM, and others have offered Linux?? Of course not. Linux is OK, but it is terribly unsupported and too complex to use for the average computer user.”
The market dominance of Microsoft and Apple OS’s is due more to decades of massive advertising than anything else. They have captured the public’s attention. Most non-technical people have never even heard of Linux. True, Linux is not nearly as well supported as the other OS’s, but that does not make it technically inferior as an OS. Hard to use Linux? I have invited users at work to borrow my computer and it takes them a while to even figure out they weren’t using Windows. Even installation has gotten simpler. I installed Red Hat over ten years ago, and that did require technical knowledge to partition the hard drive and install. That’s not the case anymore. Linux will remain a niche product, but don’t tell me it takes days and hours to install, configure and maintain it. ‘Taint so!
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