In the original post, I'd linked to the image after having uploaded it to a server...don't know what happened, but just edited it to directly upload it here, and it now seems to be visible.
Nope, I didn't try to post it using 10...10's not allowed here
Now that's better! LOL, totally appropriate! No, we're not supposed to think for ourselves. We're supposed to take whatever "they" give us. With joy, of course!
Last Edit: Jan 17, 2016 7:29:29 GMT -6 by Techie007
Microsoft, is Windows 10 the best you could do? Really? After promising to listen to our feedback, what a letdown!
Very true...sometime around April or May of last year, I wrote a post over there, but before I hit the button to submit it, I highlighted the text and copied it to Notepad, as I had a feeling the post wouldn't last too long. Where they've become so heavy handed now, it wouldn't even last an hour.
This is that post in its entirety:
I sometimes wonder what Rod Serling would make of today's world, if he were still around to see what it...and we...have become.
Between trading our privacy for our online pastimes (soon to include the very operating system that runs the computer), micromanagement taken to extreme measures in the workplace, and let's not forget the polite NSA agent we hear saying "Bless you" in the background, if we happen to sneeze during a phone conversation.....we have become a perfect premise for a Twilight Zone episode.
Evening, an old man sits in a comfortable living room. Two young children, a girl and a boy, run into the room, asking "Grandpa, will you tell us a story?"
Grandpa smiles, and says, "Of course! Now you two sit on down, and get comfortable, and I'll tell you about a time long ago...."
"Once upon a time, before the year MegaCorp 1, the poor citizens (they weren't called "users" back then) were left to wander aimlessly through the world, without the benevolent guidance of MegaCorp to lead them.
They actually were left to their own devices, forced to actually think on their own, and worst of all, to make their own decisions!
Children, can you imagine how frightening it must have been for them? Just imagine if you had to decide what food to eat, what clothes to wear, and what you were going to do when you grow up, all on your own?
Of course, many of those lost souls made unwise decisions, and did not choose the things that MegaCorp selects for you and I today. Luckily, many of those poor creatures were rescued from themselves during the great flood W10, which observed their every move, their every thought, and led them to the promised land that we know today as MegaCorp.
In those turbulent times, the lost souls formed something called "governments" to provide leadership and authority. Fortunately, those governing bodies were completely controlled by MegaCorp's ancestors, so they soon became absorbed and as MegaCorp rose to being, disbanded and joined the ranks of the users, bathed in the warmth of the MegaCorp cocoon, free of the need to think, to choose, or to decide, as MegaCorp knows what is best for us all, and leads our way.
Yes children, we users are the lucky ones indeed. We'll never know the fear and stress our ancestors faced each and every day, dealing with all those decisions and choices. MegaCorp is with us always, and will guide us down the path that it knows is best for us!"
Just then, the flat panel on the wall comes on, filled with the smiling face of an attractive young woman.
"Wasn't that a lovely story, children? You should thank your Grandpa for telling you that story."
As one, the children smile and say, "Thank you, Grandpa!"
"Well done, children...remember, all users are happy users! Now, it is time to enjoy a refreshing glass of Kool-Aid, and then it's off to the dream chamber for sleep. We have some lovely dreams ready for you to enjoy tonight!"
Grandpa and the children smile at the lovely woman on the screen, and as one, say, "Thank you, MegaCorp! Good rest to you!"
>Between trading our privacy for our online pastimes (soon to include the very operating system
>that runs the computer),
We're already well past "soon", unfortunately.
I just found another minor privacy invasion. This one's called "Network Connectivity Status Indication" and is not new to Win 10, but I got a kick out of the name of the registry value you can use to disable it: EnableActiveProbing
NCSI tests connectivity by trying to connect to www.msftncsi.com, a simple Web site that exists only to support the functionality of NCSI.
Sounds "secure", doesn't it? Yet Microsoft's legal eagles worded that to be a self-eating snake. THEY define what "NCSI" is and does.
Oh, and if you think "only" has a pretty solid meaning, check this out, I caught another DNS resolution ending up at that exact same address:
[17-Jan-16 00:37:28] Client 192.168.2.32, v4.download.windowsupdate.com A resolved from Forwarding Server as 118.214.160.168 [17-Jan-16 00:50:54] Client 192.168.2.32, www.msftncsi.com A resolved from Forwarding Server as 118.214.160.168
"Only" indeed!
Any network activity Windows does without having been initiated by the user is something that could be co-opted and corrupted (especially by today's Microsoft).
"NCSI" requests are no doubt logged by Microsoft's server (as any web server would do) and such information could be used to infer what you're doing with your computer and network setup, and to know when you did it. I'm sure Microsoft feels very comfortable in "improving Windows" by using that info.
Overheard at a thinkanon meeting: I'm Noel and I've had WAY too much to think.
Very true...sometime around April or May of last year, I wrote a post over there, but before I hit the button to submit it, I highlighted the text and copied it to Notepad, as I had a feeling the post wouldn't last too long. Where they've become so heavy handed now, it wouldn't even last an hour.
This is that post in its entirety...
Ah yes, I still have a copy of that post in my email client. Posted May 10 on the "There is not a single redeeming thing about Windows 10, is there?" thread.
Welcome back!
Last Edit: Jan 17, 2016 21:42:36 GMT -6 by Techie007
Microsoft, is Windows 10 the best you could do? Really? After promising to listen to our feedback, what a letdown!
<Rick> Good video. It's almost hard to believe that at one time Windows 98 was the resource hog, but even then, it still ran circles around what Windows 10 can do on today's modern hardware and look a heck of alot better doing it.
May 25, 2021 22:55:12 GMT -6
<Rick> As stated elsewhere, So much for the launch of Windows 11, "The Great Crash." Myself, I had a hard time getting into the site listed above, when I did get in, the video was partly done and then it crashed. There has been many other reports of crashing.
Jun 24, 2021 9:52:33 GMT -6
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<Rick> I see Microsoft has been very quick to pull down reports of site crashing regarding the Launch of Windows 11 on the Microsoft Insiders forum.
Jun 24, 2021 9:57:31 GMT -6
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<Rick> The rebroadcast is working okay.
Jun 24, 2021 11:00:25 GMT -6
<Rick> With reports of people being able to install the dev-edition of Windows 11 on machines not meeting spec, I thought I would give it a what-the-heck try. Lucky me, I'm caught in the downloading, doesn't meet spec, clearing, re-downloading loop on my machine!
Jul 2, 2021 7:08:46 GMT -6
<Rick> I've recently purchased a license for ArcaOS from www.arcanoae.com/ to play with. First impressions, it's still OS/2, but it now has a Linux twist to it.
Jul 2, 2021 7:32:53 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> laptop shit out and am stuck buying a new one. os win11 as fucked as win10 was?
Oct 2, 2021 12:56:10 GMT -6
<Rick> Let's see ..., my impression of Windows 11 is that it is a spruced up version of Windows 10 requiring a 64-bit processor plus a piece of security hardware that is less than 4 years old in order for it to run.
Oct 4, 2021 18:25:49 GMT -6
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<Rick> On the plus side, Microsoft is supposed to be supporting Windows 10 for some time to come for those of us still using systems with I7 or older processors.
Oct 4, 2021 18:44:35 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> i tried installing win10 om the 'shitout' pc this morning usung media creation. EPIC FAIL! went into an endless bootloop. win7 reinstalled just fine
Oct 21, 2021 11:23:38 GMT -6
<dozrguy> STILL so much bullshit and so little time for the kiddie ideas from the hill. My new laptop (MSI GE 11-UH461) would be an awesome "10" machine but because of Winblows I can only give it a "2"......wasted $3500
Oct 27, 2021 9:36:47 GMT -6
<Rick> Hello. Just checking in.
Mar 17, 2022 10:46:54 GMT -6
<isidroco> Each new w10 update adds >100000 useless files to \Windows\Servicing\LCU\Package_for_RollupFix... folders. Even in a SSD takes time to delete that stuff. In each version they manage to worsen stuff.
Mar 27, 2022 16:14:51 GMT -6
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<dozerguy> still traffic here?
Oct 9, 2022 17:32:44 GMT -6
<Rick> No, there does not seem to be very much traffic these days. I still check in from time to time.
Oct 9, 2022 20:08:58 GMT -6