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Microsoft draws fire for stealth test program
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| 06/13/2006
| Joris Evers
Posted on 06/13/2006 11:45:10 AM PDT by Panerai
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To: Panerai
Windows Genuine Advantage NotificationsI had a message about that pop up a couple of days ago. First did a search on it and then OKed it.
I thought it was resident software verifying some update from MS.
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posted on
06/13/2006 1:35:29 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: Panerai
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posted on
06/13/2006 1:50:57 PM PDT
by
mysterio
To: Panerai
I don't think ANY software should EVER be installed on a user's machine without their consent and without an easy method for complete uninstallation, but this doesn't strike me as Big-Brotherish simply because it's for anti-piracy.
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posted on
06/13/2006 1:55:34 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball
As for the second, I think the US govt should threaten to turn over microsoft to the Chinese.You think there's backdoors in the current version, just wait till Red Star Win 1.0.
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posted on
06/13/2006 1:56:56 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
To: John Lenin
Windows XP Pro is $200. The latest version of Mac Tiger is $89. There is something very greedy in MS's pricing policy. If Apple didn't require you to run Tiger on it's overpriced proprietary hardware, I assure you it wouldn't be $69.
To: Leroy S. Mort
To: Panerai
I've got that update sitting somewhere on my computer right now.
My comp automatically downloads the updates and then asks me if I'm ready to install it.
Well, I don't want to install it but can't figure out how to dump it and stop asking me.
I've searched for the file and can't find it.
My copy of XP came with my Dell, I just don't like the idea that MS could shut me down if the wished.
Pretty sure it's ..K892130
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posted on
06/13/2006 2:03:38 PM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball
As for the second, I think the US govt should threaten to turn over microsoft to the Chinese . Then maybe they will write some good software price it right.Too late, Gates already did that...at least with Windows 98.
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posted on
06/13/2006 3:06:39 PM PDT
by
Calvinist_Dark_Lord
(I have come here to kick @$$ and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta bubblegum! ~Roddy Piper)
To: theFIRMbss
Thanks.
That is a cute web site.
I only own a couple of I-pods, but I have 6 Macintoshes.
(I also have 3 PCs and a Sun Unix workstation in my basement)
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posted on
06/13/2006 3:29:28 PM PDT
by
Sundog
(cheers.)
To: John Lenin
I think MS should be taken over by the government and made into open source. So do most of the open source crowd. Their leader Richard Stallman even has a plan to tax us for it.
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:10:27 PM PDT
by
Golden Eagle
(Buy American. While you still can.)
To: Golden Eagle
I'm against monopolies of any kind. MS is a monopoly.
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:14:00 PM PDT
by
John Lenin
(The RAT party is still Stuck on Stupid)
To: Golden Eagle; rzeznikj at stout; John Lenin
Iggle's Back!!
Whoohooo!!
LOL
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:14:50 PM PDT
by
MikefromOhio
(aka MikeinIraq - WTFO)
To: MikefromOhio
No name calling or I'll ping the moderator.
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:17:44 PM PDT
by
Golden Eagle
(Buy American. While you still can.)
To: John Lenin
Well then I guess we we should have turned the oil industry over to the government because of Standard Oil, turned the phone industry over because of AT&T, and even the computer industry would have already been taken over from IBM and handed over to the government back in the 60's. Yep, you could have prevented Microsoft that way, so we wouldn't even have to worry about it today right?
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:21:57 PM PDT
by
Golden Eagle
(Buy American. While you still can.)
To: Golden Eagle
We did turn Standard Oil over to the government in as much as they were forced to be broken up. Why do the Chinese get a low price and not everybody else ? There is something wrong with this picture.
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:28:00 PM PDT
by
John Lenin
(The RAT party is still Stuck on Stupid)
To: Golden Eagle
No name calling or I'll ping the moderator.You do that and see how far it gets you.
To: Vinnie
My copy of XP came with my Dell, I just don't like the idea that MS could shut me down if the wished. The MS spyware calls home every boot. What happens if you configure your external firewall to stop the connection from happening? My guess is that your system declines to boot. (An interesting situation for people who do not want their system having connectivity to the net for security purposes)
Now what happens when MS decides to desupport XP, and pulls the plug on the server that all the XP installations phone home to?
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posted on
06/13/2006 4:45:14 PM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
To: Admin Moderator
Hopefully I won't have to, but if I do I would appreciate your support. I've been a very long time poster here and would like to see an end to the unprovoked name calling as we just saw above. Thank you very much.
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posted on
06/13/2006 5:03:56 PM PDT
by
Golden Eagle
(Buy American. While you still can.)
To: Admin Moderator; MikefromOhio; Golden Eagle
No name calling or I'll ping the moderator. You do that and see how far it gets you.
LOL!
Thanks! You just made my day!
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posted on
06/13/2006 5:19:07 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(I reject your reality and substitute my own in its place.)
To: SauronOfMordor
The MS spyware calls home every boot. What happens if you configure your external firewall to stop the connection from happening?Excellent question Sauron. I don't have XP here, but my firewall definitely has the ability to blackhole sites, or entire networks.
Would anyone here care to try it?
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posted on
06/13/2006 5:20:52 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(I reject your reality and substitute my own in its place.)
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