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You can bet your bottom dollar.

JorgeA, most regrettably I must inform you that your new avatar is of extremely bad taste and unbearable to watch. For it is too skeuomorphic and démodé, and totally lacks in modernness and sophisticated design. Please allow me to suggest a more fashionable alternative: [/sARCASM OFF]

I'll just leave this here (another epic quote from this McFluffy guy from the Pale Moon forum, he must be a relative of Mr. Spock, devastatingly logical):

New Windows 7/8/8.1 updates spy on you just like Windows 10 - Microsoft is pushing KB3075249 and KB3080149 updates for Windows 7/8/8.1 users which can spy on you "... In simple words, both these updates, if downloaded and installed will snoop on you and report back certain data to the Microsoft servers. Once you have updated your Windows 7/8/8.1 with these updates, your PC is no better than Windows 10 as it will report back your user data ..."

This post at the Pale Moon forum caught my attention: http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7745&start=440#p62077 Will the new Resident World Controller not even allow any islands for dissidents in this Brave New World? Check your six, squadron mates ...

^ Agreed. Please don't forget to share the experience.

I still keep my 1984-vintage ZX Spectrum+ 48K somewhere in the attic. Dat noise!

^ (The spanish inquisition certifies that the above video contains no gore)

Looks like the Dell Dimension 2400 could only run socket 478, 400 or 533 FSB, 512K or smaller L2 cache P4s tops. So the fastest would be the non-HT Northwood 3.0 3000MHz 400MT/s, or the non-HT Northwood 2.8 2800MHz 533MT/s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_4_microprocessors#Northwood_.28130.C2.A0nm.29 You would be happier if you paid more attention to objective facts, and less so to other people's subjective opinions. "Opinions are like a·s·s·h·o·l·e·s. Everybody has one." (Harry Callahan)

^ Epic!

^ This reminds me of the film . Whenever the guinea pigs people inside the maze thought that they had it figured out, whoever was in control rearranged the labyrinth at will. And at the end the only person that was OK was a retard.

^ Now this is sociologically interesting. I guess 'Gabe' is Gabe Newell and you're implying that I'm a shill on Steam's payroll. Correct?

Come on Jaclaz, only the spanish inquisition would censor a thread just when it's heading to a course as suggestive as "online promiscuity".

Epic comment: "All these crappy tools that everyone is using is like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound. This is not the answer. The answer is to cut this crap off at the source and tell M$ to stop this crap to begin with."

And with good reason : Intel 750 PCIe SSD = Worst SSD in the world! "... The reason the drive is slow is because it is very poor at low queue depth below 4KB ..." "... It depends on your usage pattern, sure at QD32 it has great 4KB random performance, but if you scale it down to QD1 which is what a normal single user workstation spends it's most time at it's completely horrible! ..." "... the Intel SSD 750 is not faster than for example a Samsung SM951 M.2 drive in a client workload. The 750 is based on the Intel P3700 server SSD, it's great for server workloads but sucks for client workloads. And the reason is that is has been optimized for very high queue depths, which fits well for heavily loaded servers with very many users on them ..."

Sounds reasonably reasonable. And yet one of the baits that the shills are throwing all over the web is: "Forget about privacy, you lost it long ago, Windows 7 is as intrusive as the abomination". To be honest that has me a bit worried ...

Is that a direct order, sir?

^ Thanks Jaclaz, the link to this venerable 2006 thread shows that they've been rigging the hosts file behaviour since XP SP2 times at the least. A quick exploration of Windows 7's dnsapi.dll yields this: www.msdn.com msdn.com www.msn.com msn.com go.microsoft.com msdn.microsoft.com office.microsoft.com microsoftupdate.microsoft.com wustats.microsoft.com support.microsoft.com www.microsoft.com microsoft.com update.microsoft.com download.microsoft.com microsoftupdate.com windowsupdate.com windowsupdate.microsoft.com

Well of course my friend, that's how the game is played. Did you really expect otherwise come to this point?

A tough business the defusing of booby traps: Even when told not to, Windows 10 just can’t stop talking to Microsoft "... For example, even with Cortana and searching the Web from the Start menu disabled, opening Start and typing will send a request to www.bing.com to request a file called threshold.appcache which appears to contain some Cortana information, even though Cortana is disabled. The request for this file appears to contain a random machine ID that persists across reboots ..." A Traffic Analysis of Windows 10 "... While the inital reflex may be to block all of the above servers via HOSTS, it turns out this won't work: Microsoft has taken the care to hardcode certain IPs, meaning that there is no DNS lookup and no HOSTS consultation. However, if the above servers are blocked via HOSTS, Windows will pretend to be crippled by continuously throwing errors, while still maintaining data collection in the background. Other than an increase in errors, HOSTS blocking did not affect the volume, frequency, or rate of data being transmitted. ..."

^ ROFL, is that stained glass for real or some photoshopped joke?

^ Exactly. There's no logic in planting a polymorphic bomb on your desktop and then futilely trying to defuse it.

Couple of sublimely epic comments to the article 10 reasons NOT to upgrade to Windows 10 by some 'blah blah' guy, worth reposting here: "Let's just state the obvious... PC Master Race is over. MS killed PC gaming with xbox. PC is killing desktop with Win 8+. Win 10 is just a glorified patch to Win 8. MS is seeing that there's still some hold-outs on PC, so they're trying to bring xbox gaming to pc. But, PC is not their target audience anymore. We are red-headed step children now. PC power users are taken-aback by all of this, because computers used to be complex things we could manage and tweak and such. When smartphones went viral, all the companies realized that if you give folks a dumbed-down device you will unlock a huge demographic of customers that just want computers as appliances. They've now been trying to herd us into that slaughter house, too. I'm not saying it's a bad thing ... having a computer take care of itself is nice. But, they're trying to simplify and get everyone and everything on-board with single-source and what-not. And that's p***ing off the PC Master race, because they're realizing they are no longer the favorites. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The other "read between the lines" stuff is that... 1) MS has a track record of stagnating if you let them. IE6 stagnated like crazy until other browsers lit a fire under their a** to evolve. With Win 10, MS is not longer going to do this "make up dumb things to give an excuse to buy new upgraded versions." However, they are no longer going to advance it or make it robust. They had all kinds of promises with Ultimate editions of Windows that never came true. They have a track record of saying great things, then never delivering. Win 10 will stagnate into an old shoe that wears nice, and is constantly patched to be wearable, but will no longer pave the future (or try to keep up with it) unless a competitor really comes out with something spectacular to light a fire under their butt. 2) but maybe that's ok ... because what OS you use is no longer relevant. Every OS can do the same stuff ... media, stream, office work, etc ... linux, unix, apple, win, chrome ... they all can do it. So, what OS you're sporting doesn't really matter so much these days. That's why they can get away with saying Win 10 will be the last Win. It's good enough... because people don't care bout the OS, they just care about the services it can run. And they can all run them all these days. 3) However, your OS is goign to turn into a walled-garden with app stores and services it can provide. That's MS trying to get you into a single-source login. MS learned from the 80's and 90's that lockin is what keeps customers. Keep a "good enough, cheap enough" solution to get folks in, then lock them in. Generations of kids grew up on Windows PC's, which is why it made it hard for them to try something different. However, as more and more OS look/act/feel the same these days, it's easier to jump ship. So, they have to find more ways to keep you locked in ... services. Get all of your files stored on our cloud. Use our movie / music streaming service, use our office service, use our personal assistant service that you've already spent years training to know exactly what you like, etc, etc. 4) Google has shown that monetization from personal information is far more lucrative then monetization from products. So, MS is geared towards all of that now. Their privacy statement is ludicrous, because they want to track everything you do so they can target advertising to you. They're getting paid for this. In fact, they're going to get so much money from this they should just give Win 10 away for free forever. Win 10 is just getting you locked in on MS' own tracking system that monitors what you're doing and lets them sell your personal info to whomever wants it for targetted advertising. This was Ubuntu Linux's profit model... free OS, but monetize everythign around it. MS has finally taken a page and realized if they give away the OS for free they get a ton of folks locked in ... onto their own information tracking service. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is a wake up call to a lot of folks. PC Master Race folks are coming to terms with being irrelevant now (from a corporate consumer demographic). If you want to "work" on a PC they expect you to go get a tech job and have your IT guys manage all the updates and things with enterprise-level windows. Otherwise, as a personal consumer... they want you to get on the "dumb consumer" band wagon. The wake up call to the "dumb consumer" is that MS, Apple, etc are no longer OS'. They are information gathering hubs, and they want to keep you. The OS is just a tool. Everything around it is being monetized ... especially you. You are not the customer. You are a piece of cattle out in the pasture with a tag on your ear that they track info off of. The real customers are other large corporations that will pay dearly to get that information to figure out how to target advertising to you, do market research on you, etc. This is actually what's sadly ironic and funny. Cows get chips and tags forcefully implanted onto them to do all this s***. Humans, however, are more then happy to go out and spend HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS ON THEIR OWN PERSONAL TRACKING DEVICES. Just because your tracking device does whiz-bang stuff doesn't mean it's any less of a tracking device. We are all just cattle. We're just too stupid to make the companies GIVE US a tracking device, instead we still shell out money to get them and be part of their great social tracking experiment." "1) Win 10 is just a glorified patch to 8 with extra layers of monitoring software, single-source login, and increased ways to try to monetize services around you 2) Win 10 is basically Microsoft turning your devices into nothing more then glorified ID tags on cows' ears. YOU ARE NO LONGER THE CUSTOMER. You are cattle that is being monitored, and the real customers, the marketing research companies, then pay MS for whatever info they've gathered off you. 3) MS has a track record of letting things stagnate. EG: IE6 until Google and Mozilla lit a fire under their a** with better browsers. MS will only add more features to Win 10 if it benefits them, not you. Other then that, it won't change. This is why Win 10 is free. Their OS is no longer their bread and butter. It is merely a "good enough" tracking/monitoring solution. They are not giving away a free gift. They are opening the gates on a walled garden and holding out a carrot on a stick to lure folks in. Then, they charge admission to the box seats of the stadium to let marketing researchers watch what you do... so they can create bells and whistles to try to sell stuff to you better. MS is monetizing you ... they sell you services, they sell your info, etc, etc. The OS you use these days is irrelevant. All of the OS' can do the same thing. Companies have known that for a while, which is why they push for monetizing everything around it. MS can't monetize your pandora or netflix subscriptions. So, they want to sell you similar services that they own and can profit from. That is what this is all about. If you're on 7 and you like it, stick with it. Because upgrading to 10 is just turning your PC into a glorified cow ear tag."

Well I think my choice is gonna be to 'rear' it.