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I don't use 10 and not likely to do so.
Many have said that since I don't have dirrect experience with it, then I've got nothing valid to say about it. Same could be said about the rabbies virus. In any case, one of the things (among many) that is totally and completely UNacceptable is the apparent telemetry and spyware. How could anyone accept this ? ! |
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On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:44:11 -0500, casagiannoni wrote:
I don't use 10 and not likely to do so. Many have said that since I don't have dirrect experience with it, then I've got nothing valid to say about it. Same could be said about the rabbies virus. In any case, one of the things (among many) that is totally and completely UNacceptable is the apparent telemetry and spyware. How could anyone accept this ? ! I am curious about which OS you find acceptable. Is there a specific one that you use? |
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On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:50:51 -0700, KenW kenw@
noplace.com wrote: On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 01:18:23 -0000 (UTC), wg_2002 wrote: On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:44:11 -0500, casagiannoni wrote: I don't use 10 and not likely to do so. Many have said that since I don't have dirrect experience with it, then I've got nothing valid to say about it. Same could be said about the rabbies virus. In any case, one of the things (among many) that is totally and completely UNacceptable is the apparent telemetry and spyware. How could anyone accept this ? ! I am curious about which OS you find acceptable. Is there a specific one that you use? Windows 10 x 4 and it works great. If Microsoft itself wasn't a despicable liberal company which donates money to LGBT groups and promotes anti-free speech causes, I'd have a lot of trouble hating Windows 10. On the other hand, Bill Gates is vaccinating the low-IQ negroes in Africa and the sewer rats in India and sterilizing them in the process so he earns brownie points for that. |
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| In any case, one of the things (among many) that is totally and | completely UNacceptable is the apparent telemetry and spyware. | | How could anyone accept this ? ! It's been compared to the well known analogy of boiling a frog. The process has been slow and gradual. Microsoft started with ads on the desktop in 1998. 20 years ago. (Remember the "channel bar"? It was a desktop billboard with ads from Disney and others.) MS have been patiently trying to move in that direction whenever possible. (So Bill Gates really is as much of a genius as he thinks he is. He had a plan to exploit his customers decades before it became fashionable.) In '99 there was outrage when MS were caught reading registration info from the Registry at the Windows Update site. (With ActiveX they could do anything.) MS promised to stop spying. That seems so innocent now. They weren't trying to double dip by selling their customers to advertisers. They were only trying to get a list of customers. And rightly they were told that the computers and data of their customers were none of their business. Facebook started out as a site for chatting with friends. Now they own their customers' social lives and those customers are forced to live with intrusion and ads, just to talk to their friends. How do they accept that? When Facebook really started to get sleazy there was a lot of discussion. The conclusion I heard from people repeatedly was that they couldn't leave Facebook because they'd never hear about parties otherwise! Nearly 1/3 of millennials in one recent survey, male and female, think that telling a young woman she looks good is harassment. But they don't complain about Facebook deciding which friends' comments they'll get to read or how many ads they'll have to go through to get there. Their own private lives are now something like a retail store. And they gave it all away willingly, for a little titillation and a lot of convenience. It's like one of those sci-fi movies where everyone is drugged into passivity. But in this case it's not so much passivity as it is that people ar willingly becoming "consumeroids", with no other purpose in life but to consume momentary distraction. (I was struck by that reading about the woman who wrote about her date with Aziz Ansari. She was complaining anonymously to the world that she spent her time doing something and was not fully gratified. In the process she blackballed another person, but she's clearly too childish to even understand that.) Yesterday I was reading about an older man who leased a car and thought it was odd that the contract forced him to agree to being spied on wherever he went. He decided that while it was odd, he didn't really care. He figures his life is boring. The ethical angle never crossed his mind. The logic was simply: I want this car. I don't rob banks. So their rules shouldn't hurt me. So I'll get this car. The conspicuously missing element in all these stories is social fabric, sense of social responsibility, and sense of membership in society. But I guess it could be worse. You could be a starry-eyed member of the Apple Church, standing in line to have your wallet vacuumed out in exchange for a device that won't be supported in 3 years, and all the while cheering Apple's integrity because Timmy Cook is going to report Apple's true income now that he can get a good deal on the taxes. It's front page at the NYT today: Thanks to the Republicans, Apple is now free to improve America and create jobs. With facts like that who needs fake news? |
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Always a great posting as usual.
At the risk of doing something wrong, I'm asking, your gender ? Name sounds kind of feminine, but I don't know. OK not to answer and please excuse if appropriate ... Steve |
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| 71, retired Professional Engineer, Long Island NY. | Avid programmer : QB45-VB3-VB6 . You predate me by quite a bit. I never used a computer until '98, feeling that my "penta-digit computer" was entirely adequate. The occasional replacement of pencils and paper was also easy and cheap. |
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But this newsgroup is a forum for people to come to to ask questions about Windows 10 and to get help with their problems. It is not a place for complaints about Windows 10. NGs are not only for asking questions about the title subject but more importantly for an open exchange of ideas relating to the subject. If you don't like that, then killfile away and good luck. |
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