Comment Re:Dice (Score 1) 65
Aside from the fucking annoying factor, it didn't even link anywhere or tell you where to buy them. Way to fail even at shilling, DiceDot!
Horseshit.
When the tray icon appears, there is no dismiss. There is no "piss off and go away".
There "upgrade now" and "reserve your copy". There is no description of WTF not reserving my copy does, there is no dismiss. There is "I am going to sit here reminding you to upgrade to Windows 10 until you do".
The average user is going to read that and think "Oh, I guess I have to do this". It took me 20 minutes to identify the source and figure out what I had to remove.
When that crap is presented to you, there is NO indication it is optional, that you can cancel it, that you can choose not to do it
And it means Microsoft is acting like they own the machine, and it's up to them to decide when to make changes to it.
They're doing more than advertising it.
In Windows 8.1 they pushed out an update which put an icon in the task tray which said "upgrade to Windows 10, now or later?"
They're not pushing it as optional. They're installing stuff which is going to do it to you, and isn't giving you a way to decline. You end up needing to uninstall an update (KB 3035538).
I'm sure they'll do it again.
Microsoft seems to have decided they own the computers, and the networks they're attached to. Which is completely bullshit.
And, don't forget, once they have all those juicy passwords they can pass 'em off to law enforcement.
Microsoft have always been assholes, but this takes the cake.
Basically Windows Phone and Windows 10 are gaping security holes, and Outlook.com is now acting as malware.
No, someone needs to be shot.
This is the most idiotic thing I've heard of in a long time.
Microsoft has said "fuck security", and once again have decided to "innovate" something which stupidly becomes a gaping security/privacy hole.
What shithead thought of this?
These passwords aren't Microsoft's to share, and decreeing that anybody who hasn't changed their SSID to opt out has consented.
Fuck that.
How bout we charge Microsoft with hacking and enabling unauthorized access to computer networks?
Fucking idiots.
So Microsoft has taken it upon themselves to share the network credentials with anybody it sees fit?
Fuck you, Microsoft. How about you help us make networks more secure and not less?
Not only will I stick with my Windows 8.1 install, but no Windows 10 device will ever get my network credentials.
This has to be one of the stupidest things I've heard of. And, of course, since Microsoft will centrally store your passwords, law enforcement can subpoena them.
Microsoft are too fucking incompetent at security to be trusted with this. And then to have the nerve to suggest we have to change our network names to opt out of their shit?
Fuck you, Microsoft. Fuck you very much.
I currently have a web radio transceiver front panel application that works on Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android, Amazon Kindle Fire, under Chrome, Firefox, or Opera. No porting, no software installation. See blog.algoram.com for details of what I'm writing.
The one unsupported popular platform? iOS, because Safari doesn't have the function used to acquire the microphone in the web audio API (and perhaps doesn't have other parts of that API), and Apple insists on handicapping other browsers by forcing them to use Apple's rendering engine.
I don't have any answer other than "don't buy iOS until they fix it".
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