US Government behind Windows 10 upgrade

[BC38]

The only thing she'll hear on the internet is what the government wants her to hear...

Really? If you believe that I'm starting a lead fedora factory you should invest in.

If you meant that tongue in cheek then you need to start using smileys.

Otherwise you're giving the impression that you're one of the tinfoil tricorn brigade...

 

[DWalt]

Does anyone remember the old saying "Being paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to get you"?

 

[finesse_r]

Yeah, and the USA never landed a person on the moon and Oswald didn't assassinate Kennedy.

I would say you are half right, which is better than most.

 

[Practical]

From my reading Windows 10 does monitor you a heck of a lot more than windows 7 and you have to configure it a great deal to get privacy back.

I don't think its the government I think its the corporations writing the softwaare the side benefit is that with subpoena power the government can monitor you through it.

You should be more worried about your car.

ALL cars in 10 years will come with built in cell phones and be part of a required cell network. They will allow remote access to monitor voice communicate with you and with onstar like efficiency if a public safety event occurs you will be reduced in speed, stopped or your car will NOT be allowed to drive all from remote control.

If police are in pursuit they will be able to command your car via the control center to reduce speed, idle to stop or remotely listen in or communicate with the occupants.

Cars WILL have this capability it is already designed in by Standards bodies. Adoption is a a 'law' away.

 

[Harrison]

Don't sell the wisdom and knowledge of the younger generation short.

 

[Mainsail]

Really? If you believe that I'm starting a lead fedora factory you should invest in.

If you meant that tongue in cheek then you need to start using smileys.

Otherwise you're giving the impression that you're one of the tinfoil tricorn brigade...

That only hurts because we're both in WA.

 

[Malpasowildlifer]

Me too; to red head ones.

Thinkin' more like these Amazons.
I surrender.

 

[BC38]

That only hurts because we're both in WA.

Still having a hard time "reading" you pard.
I'm thinking that's intentional.

But as to your original comment, if we could only see/read what the gubmint wants us to on the innerwebs, then this site - with all it's pro-gun and anti-gubmint talk - wouldn't even exist.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Windows 10 can see through our aluminum foil hats!!!!

 

[bushmaster1313]

Pugsters is cool, she won't rat me out.

Dogs are non-judgmental

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Well as always you guys did NOT disapoint!
I'm thinking up the next thread topic as I type!

 

[eyegots2no]

Good Ole Pungsters

 

[rcnixon]

I think it may be getting close to time to buy Apple stock. I have used DOS and later Windows since the early 1980's and I was what would be described as a heavy user most of those years.

But I am really seriously thinking of making my next computer related purchase a Mac computer. I am tired of hundreds of windows updates each month if not each week, when some of them disable my computer, I am tired of the viruses, and I am tired of Windows invasion of my privacy.

Even if they give this version 10 away, you know there is a catch buried somewhere.

I am not savvy enough to run Linux, so it looks like an apple will be in my future. This is sad as I don't like Apple that much more than MS. Apple has focused on WiFi and high speed internet to the exclusion of us country folk who still use phone modems. But even if I have to install a satellite high speed connection which is like doing business with the Devil himself, it still beats having do deal with a MS product.

So I doubt I will be downloading Windows 10 other than I may try and put it on my old back up computer that is running Windows XP Pro now.

Apple OS isn't Linux, it's another flavor of Unix called OpenBSD with a pretty windows-like front end. Modern Linux distros look and feel like Apple OS and Windows.

Russ

 

[carpriver]

My theory is all the vets that use the VA get a tracker attached when they go in for treatment. Every time I go they draw blood ( insert a new tracker. The local VA has a large array of antennas on there roof. There are six floors in the hospital but the elevator has only button for 5 floors Just a theory.

 

[A10]

Y'all are worried about Windows........look in to what Google is doin. AI stuff is serious bidness there.

 

[BAM-BAM]

My theory is all the vets that use the VA get a tracker attached when they go in for treatment. Every time I go they draw blood ( insert a new tracker. The local VA has a large array of antennas on there roof. There are six floors in the hospital but the elevator has only button for 5 floors Just a theory.

Listening station......... to spy on those pesky Canadians ....... they've never gotten over the War of 1812....just biding their time

 

[kraynky]

Just got a new laptop this week for work (company issued) and it has W10. I hate learning new stuff. I was just learning the last version (7 or 8). I figure that outside of voting, I really don't have much say in what goes on in our Guvment, and I'm not sure my vote even counts anymore. So I'm going on with my life as usual, Windows 10 or not.

Dang, I just visited this site using W10, now you're all infected!

 

[GatorFarmer]

My theory is all the vets that use the VA get a tracker attached when they go in for treatment. Every time I go they draw blood ( insert a new tracker. The local VA has a large array of antennas on there roof. There are six floors in the hospital but the elevator has only button for 5 floors Just a theory.

Tim McVeigh did claim that the Army put tracking chips in his buttocks.

 

[SmithNut]

that has existed since windows 3.1
Bill Gates has had a backdoor coded into ever version since the beginning of microsoft.

If you've had a colonoscopy since 2008....You're in!

Hmmmm.... I finally know what "backdoor code" means..... ughhhh

 

[Arik]

Trying to get my printer to print normally. ...Yea I believe it is a gov conspiracy!

 

[Krell1]

My laptop is so old I have no idea what version of windows I have. As a matter of fact, it's so old, at times it forgets what it's doing. I tend to do things on the computer to specifically confound anyone who may be lurking in the background. Let them look, I don't really care.

 

[CH4]

If you've had a colonoscopy since 2008....You're in!

Yep, I can believe it. When I came to after my colonoscopy I was in IHOP.

 

[wbraswell]

I can relate to that. When I had mine, I came to in recovery, but that is not saying I was completely conscious. My friend who drove me there and I went to Chili's for lunch when I got released. I thought while we were waiting for our order, and said, "I never got to talk to the doctor." My friend reassured me that I had indeed talked to the doctor and he said I had no issues at all. I still have no recollection of that.

 

[GaryS]

Every thread in The Lounge should have the subject "Annoyed with Thread Drift", followed by a non sequential number.

Well as always you guys did NOT disapoint!
I'm thinking up the next thread topic as I type!

 

[mag195455]

What does this have to do with S&W Forum??? I'am here to learn about and look at other peoples S&W's. Why does this stuff get posted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bugkiller99]

Someone got any salt for my popcorn????????

Hope you got one of them there humongus hot buttered popcorns. Maybe two.

cuz you done good on this one!! Stirred the pot purt good.

 

[mag195455]

Is there not another Forum for you people that like to spread this mindless **** to get on rather than ruin the S&W Forum. I subscribed to this forum for S&W guns and related topics!! It is getting worse everyday on here. Why don't you try "I need a life forum" rather than ruin this one!!

 

[finesse_r]

Is there not another Forum for you people that like to spread this mindless **** to get on rather than ruin the S&W Forum. I subscribed to this forum for S&W guns and related topics!! It is getting worse everyday on here. Why don't you try "I need a life forum" rather than ruin this one!!

You sound like one of the youngsters that never learned to read. This is the lounge, not the gun section. My guess is you signed up to be a pain in the butt and a whiner. This is the fun section, not the gun section.

 

[tattooo]

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[BC38]

Yeah, the Lounge is meant to be the place for these kinds of threads - specifically to keep them out of the other forum sections.

If the threads in here irritate you, don't open them. Even if you click New Posts or Today's Posts, on the right side of the page it shows what forum each thread is located in. So if this kind of thread bugs you, just don't open the ones that are listed as being in the Lounge section. Different strokes for different folks and all that.

Simple.