Yep, I remember when 8 came out, my boss was all jazzed on it because his stock app was in a widget, I told him I thought the whole OS was crap and that they took a powerful desktop and made it into a useless phone app. He scoffed, ff to today, he hates Windows 8 cause he can't figure it out.

Good for not rolling over and taking.

Far too long have we rolled over and just took it.

Time to push back!

If nothing else turn them in to the EPA when they have a firefight. I'm sure there is something in EPA regs about lead pollution.

I think what most are missing here, is that let's say Microsoft burst in they're a corp right? Do they have the right, the authority to bust into a home? If not and it doesn't apply to MS then what pretense does that private SWAT team have? If the money comes from public money and they are run by police or contracted by the local gov, then private corp status is moot.

Blackwatch was a private security firm, they still had to answer for what they did.

Xerox

Look at it from a security standpoint.

Isn't it nice they keep so many details in one company?

A VR Faye Valentine, looks like there's an OR purchase in my future!

I learned to code while I was working as a car detailer.

Why not have Perl running on the windows box and just send the data out that way?
Active Perl anyone?

Hello IT,
Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
No problem mate.

Subsidy that's what they call it.

I call it, "Monkey Improbability Hacking".

I'll lease it to you for the low low price of .0000024 btc

Like NSA would allow that!

Wheaton.0

Fabulous, pass the seppuku blade please.

Of course the other option is to send animals and tons of sensors, we've done it before.