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The administrator of AE News (an online news portal for Czech and Slovak expatriates) writes a very revealing article regarding the Windows 10 collection of user data. Here is the original Czech article. Here is a Bing translation to English. Here is a English condensed version translated by a blogger. And finally a PDF of the original Czech article.
In the post the AE News administrator states:
With the advent of Windows 10, I decided to undergo several tests. The collected knowledge for someone may be alarming. The Windows operating system 10 is essentially the end terminal, more than the operating system, because many of the processes and functions of this system is directly or indirectly dependent on remote servers and databases to Microsoft.
All text typed on the keyboard is stored in temporary files, and sent (once per 30 mins) to:
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
pre.footprintpredict.com
reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
AE News also references an arstechnica.co.uk article which states it might be impossible to stop this communication:
And finally, some traffic seems quite impenetrable. We configured our test virtual machine to use an HTTP and HTTPS proxy (both as a user-level proxy and a system-wide proxy) so that we could more easily monitor its traffic, but Windows 10 seems to make requests to a content delivery network that bypass the proxy."
arstechnica.co.uk also "asked Microsoft if there is any way to disable this additional communication or information about what its purpose is". Microsoft did not reply as to a way to disable this chatter but did respond to the 'additional communication' stating Microsoft is now 'delivering Windows 10 as a service'.
Although the original source for this story is skeptical, Smart nerds on soylentnews can easily fire up Wireshark and reveal the communication for themselves. It appears that MS has fully embraced the cloud where your OS is now a terminal. And regarding privacy? Well, according to arstechnica.co.uk: Windows 10 privacy policy is the new normal
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Sunday August 30 2015, @02:42AM
o you wanted to know why you need ReactOS to run? Because the answer is simple, if given the choice of running inferior software or using Windows 10 people ARE gonna choose the latter, and if you don't get your numbers up but quick? Well in a couple years MSFT will just get the OEMs to lock UEFI "for security reasons" and you'll be stuck trying to use a Raspberry Pi for a desktop as Apple,MSFT, and Google simply split the market. All three will spy on you, all three will copy all your data, and there won't be a damned thing you can do about it...reason enough for you?
No, that's not enough reason to bother working on a project I have no interest in. I don't want to use Windows, nor do I want to use a clone of it. There's no way in hell I'd want to help build a clone of it; that's like building a car that looks exactly like a Pontiac Aztek for a car guy. There's a reason other FOSS projects (like the Linux kernel and distros) have tons of developer support, and ReactOS doesn't: no one wants to work on it.
As for a RPi desktop, we can keep using existing PCs indefinitely. This isn't the 90s when a 5-year-old PC was too slow; software isn't getting any slower (unless you're running Adobe crapware maybe), and PCs aren't getting any faster, only more energy efficient. You can already use ARM chips as desktops anyway. The Linux users will just do one or the other, they're not going back to Windows. The Windows users will just continue to put up with MS's shenanigans and complain about them while continuing to do the same thing, expecting a different result. You can't save addicts; they have to want to change.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday August 30 2015, @06:06AM
LOL use existing desktops forever....hate to break the news to ya but motherboards have caps and traces and those WILL die, no matter how well you baby your system. Now some will die sooner, some might make it to the decade mark, but as someone who has had to buy NOS computers for clients whose software wouldn't run on newer systems I can tell ya the stuff is thinning out VERY quickly and nearly all died from either caps popping or traces breaking from heat cycling.
So I hope you are good with a soldering gun, have your own reflow oven, and can make a new motherboard because what you have, especially if its originally designed for consumer or SMB instead of industrial, WILL die and the only question is when and when it does? Then you are stuck, just try looking up prices on AM2 (not +) or 423 boards, they are nearly all gone and the ones left are pretty expensive.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday September 02 2015, @02:57AM
hate to break the news to ya but motherboards have caps and traces and those WILL die
Huh? Electrolytic caps are easily replaced. Lots of small businesses popped up doing just that when the Capacitor Plague hit. Bad caps are still a problem because of crappy Chinese caps, but again they're easily replaced for a few bucks. Traces don't die. Traces are copper. The only way for them to "die" is if they get damaged somehow. Leaky caps don't usually cause that much damage; the cap normally fails, causing the equipment to malfunction, before anything catastrophic happens.
What eventually will kill the computer is electromigration in the ICs. But you're looking at decades for that to happen, if not longer.
and nearly all died from either caps popping or traces breaking from heat cycling.
You couldn't just replace the caps? You don't know how to use a soldering iron?
Traces don't "break" from heat-cycling on any decent PCB. Even if they did, it's possible to fix them with mod-wire as long as they aren't some high-speed serial link or something. Again, this is not a problem on any decent PCB that I've ever heard of; I've never even seen this. But I've seen lots of boards die from caps, and fixed a few when it was worth it.
So I hope you are good with a soldering gun, have your own reflow oven
Who the fuck uses a "soldering gun"? That's something they used in the 1950s before PCBs were invented. This alone shows you know nothing about soldering.
And yes, I do have both a temperature-controlled soldering station and a reflow oven.