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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 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.