[News] [Rival] Microsoft Wants to Get on Your Nerves, Continues to Betray Trust
Roy Schestowitz
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| Not content with running your computer, Microsoft now wants to read your mind
| too.
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http://www.newscientist.com/blog/invention/2007/10/microsoft-mind-reading.html
Digital slaves. That's the dangers of letting companies control everything...
even control (restrict) access to our photos and other media, let alone the
brain. You can't even trust this company with that spyware called Vista, even
updates with a mechanism that is misused.
What’s really broken with Windows Update - Trust
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| Some people feel that stealth updates and pushing WGA to users under the
| guise of a security update is paving the way for all sorts of nasty and
| restrictive DRM mechanisms to be pushed down the system.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=855
Class action over WGA is apparently on its way.
Is Windows Media Player 11 Watching You?
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| I thought Microsoft stuck to monitoring Vista systems but XP could be under
| surveillance too. If you have read my previous articles this should come as
| no surprise.
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http://nixedblog.thenixedreport.com/?p=92
Related:
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| Vista--Microsoft’s latest operating system--may prove to be most
| appropriately named, especially for those seeking evidence of how a
| computer was used.
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http://www.abanet.org/journal/ereport/jy13tkjasn.html
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems
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| The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to
| sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files,
| user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status
| messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more. How could
| we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status
| messages?
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Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel?
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| "The kernel meets The Colonel in a just-published Microsoft patent
| application for an Advertising Services Architecture, which delivers targeted
| advertising as 'part of the OS.'
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/043200
New software can identify you from your online habits
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| That is the spectre raised by new research conducted by Microsoft.
| The computing giant is developing software that could accurately
| guess your name, age, gender and potentially even your location,
| by analysing telltale patterns in your web browsing history. But
| experts say the idea is a clear threat to privacy - and may be
| illegal in some places.
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http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg19426046.400&feedId=being-human_rss20
http://tinyurl.com/2lrazk
Microsoft Responds to Re-discovery of Vista Network Slowdowns
Yahoo in China human rights case
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| A human rights group in the US is suing Yahoo for alleged complicity in
| rights abuses and acts of torture in China.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6966116.stm
Chinese Internet dissident committed to mental hospital
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| "It is not acceptable that Chinese authorities use such methods to silence
| citizens who have merely peacefully voiced their opinions", expressed the
| organisation in an announcement. Apparently authorities have not abandoned
| the practice of punishing those who have exposed the abuse of power and
| defied censorship by compulsorily committing them to mental institutions.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/94864/from/rss09
Microsoft could be teaching police to hack Vista
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| Microsoft may begin training the police in ways to break the
| encryption built into its forthcoming Vista operating system.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2150555/microsoft-teaching-police-hack
UK holds Microsoft security talks
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| "UK officials are talking to Microsoft over fears the new version of
| Windows could make it harder for police to read suspects' computer files."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4713018.stm
Is Microsoft’s Windows “Genuine Advantage” program installed on your computer?
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| Microsoft’s “Genuine Advantage” program is now being challenged by a number
| of Windows XP users in Federal court. If you are interested in helping in
| this effort to hold Microsoft accountable for using your computer to help
| Microsoft chase down software pirates without asking for your permission,
| contact us.
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http://www.classactionconnect.com/?q=node/715
Microsoft, Yahoo Tailor Ads To Users' Behavior
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| Google will remain on the sidelines — at least for now. But its Web portal
| rivals are stepping up their efforts to use behavioral targeting to make
| display, or banner, ads more relevant to Web site visitors.
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http://investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17&issue=20070823
Yahoo!, Microsoft ink web pact with Chinese government
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| Microsoft and Yahoo! have signed a pact with the Chinese government
| that "encourages" the big name web players to record the identities of
| bloggers and censor content. So says Reporters Without Borders, an
| organization that fights for journalistic rights across the globe.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/yahoo_and_microsoft_ink_chinese_blogging_pact/
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[H]omer
> Microsoft mind reading
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Not content with running your computer, Microsoft now wants to read
> | your mind too.
> `----
Is this going to be one of those "exciting" new "inventions", like that
touchy-feely table thingy, that subsequently turned out to be useless,
impractical, expensive, and er ... an idea stolen from someone else?
Sweaty can't even read the OOXML specs, never mind somebody's brain.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
| make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
| - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
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Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) on sky, running kernel 2.6.22.1-41.fc7
19:47:37 up 68 days, 18:42, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.19, 0.22
7
> Microsoft mind reading
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Not content with running your computer, Microsoft now wants to read your
> | mind too.
> `----
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/blog/invention/2007/10
microsoft-mind-reading.html
I think the first customer should be Blammer and the peripheral
needs extra wires to attach high voltage electrodes to his testacles.
Whenever he feels pain in his brain, his testacles gets it.
Then we put him in front of a Pista machine and watch the fun.
[Allow, Deny?]
{AAAAARRRGGGGUAAUAAUAAaaaaaa!!!!!}
Roy Schestowitz
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Microsoft mind reading
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Not content with running your computer, Microsoft now wants to read
>> | your mind too.
>> `----
>
> Is this going to be one of those "exciting" new "inventions", like that
> touchy-feely table thingy, that subsequently turned out to be useless,
> impractical, expensive, and er ... an idea stolen from someone else?
>
> Sweaty can't even read the OOXML specs, never mind somebody's brain.
He never got that degree of his either and I doubt he understands formal specs,
let alone anything but lock-in and mafia tactics. The man is demented and
violent. He makes the Enron execs seem merciful and out of place (behind
bars).
--
~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | #FFFFFFF4 ADD &R1, "9999999", &BankAccount
http://Schestowitz.com | RHAT GNU/Linux | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
run-level 2 2007-10-16 15:14 last=
http://iuron.com - help build a non-profit search engine
DFS
> He never got that degree of his either and I doubt he understands
> formal specs, let alone anything but lock-in and mafia tactics. The
> man is demented and violent. He makes the Enron execs seem merciful
> and out of place (behind bars).
Ballmer: self-made, risk-taker, empire builder
Schestowitz: self-serving, Usenet-reposting, perpetual-student
And don't you worry, Little Roy. Windows knowledge and skills will be in
high demand - as they have been for 15 years - if you ever decide to leave
school and unlatch from the parents teat and try to support yourself.
Sinister Midget
wrote:
> ____/ [H]omer on Tuesday 16 October 2007 19:49 : \____
>
> > Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
> >> Microsoft mind reading
>
> >> ,----[ Quote ]
> >> | Not content with running your computer, Microsoft now wants to read
> >> | your mind too.
> >> `----
>
> > Is this going to be one of those "exciting" new "inventions", like that
> > touchy-feely table thingy, that subsequently turned out to be useless,
> > impractical, expensive, and er ... an idea stolen from someone else?
>
> > Sweaty can't even read the OOXML specs, never mind somebody's brain.
>
> He never got that degree of his either and I doubt he understands formal specs,
More proof that Roy Schestowitz has been popping stupid pills once
again. Unlike the losers here, Ballmer has always been a leader.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer
[quote]
- Biography -
He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in
mathematics and economics. While in college, Ballmer managed the
football team, worked on the Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the
university literary magazine, and lived down the hall from fellow
sophomore Bill Gates. After college, he worked for two years at
Procter & Gamble as an assistant product manager and, before joining
Microsoft, attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
[quote]
> let alone anything but lock-in and mafia tactics. The man is demented and
> violent. He makes the Enron execs seem merciful and out of place (behind
> bars).
>
> --
> ~~ Best of wishes
>
> Roy S. Schestowitz | #FFFFFFF4 ADD &R1, "9999999", &BankAccounthttp://Schestowitz.com | RHAT GNU/Linux | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
> run-level 2 2007-10-16 15:14 last=
> http://iuron.com- help build a non-profit search engine
Sue Romer
"Roy Schestowitz" <newsg...@schestowitz.com> wrote in message
news:1512032.5...@schestowitz.com...
> ____/ [H]omer on Tuesday 16 October 2007 19:49 : \____
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>
>>> Microsoft mind reading
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Not content with running your computer, Microsoft now wants to read
>>> | your mind too.
>>> `----
>>
>> Is this going to be one of those "exciting" new "inventions", like that
>> touchy-feely table thingy, that subsequently turned out to be useless,
>> impractical, expensive, and er ... an idea stolen from someone else?
>>
>> Sweaty can't even read the OOXML specs, never mind somebody's brain.
>
> He never got that degree of his either and I doubt he understands formal
> specs,
Once again the Roy Schestowitz proves himself to be the biggest idiot of
all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer
- Biography -
He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics
and economics. While in college, Ballmer managed the football team, worked
on the Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the university literary
magazine, and lived down the hall from fellow sophomore Bill Gates. After
college, he worked for two years at Procter & Gamble as an assistant product
manager and, before joining Microsoft, attended Stanford University Graduate
School of Business.
> let alone anything but lock-in and mafia tactics. The man is demented and
> violent. He makes the Enron execs seem merciful and out of place (behind
> bars).
>
> --
> ~~ Best of wishes
>
> Roy S. Schestowitz | #FFFFFFF4 ADD &R1, "9999999", &BankAccount
> http://Schestowitz.com | RHAT GNU/Linux | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
> run-level 2 2007-10-16 15:14 last=
> http://iuron.com - help build a non-profit search engine
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Roy Schestowitz
If you can't stick with one identity, then your postings are not worth reading.
*plonk*
Mark Kent
> ____/ Nymshifter on Wednesday 17 October 2007 15:16 : \____
>
> If you can't stick with one identity, then your postings are not worth reading.
>
> *plonk*
Gary's got his skirt on again!
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