Windows 8? I beg you, don't do it!

[John P. Myers]

Not that there aren't enough reasons not to use M$'s bloated whore of an OS already, the German Gov't now also warns you to stay away. These are some extremely serious concerns...

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/nsa-spying-on-windows-users,news-17433.html


For years, you've been able to run anything you want on a Windows machine. But with Trusted Computing and the related Secure Boot initiative, which lets only Microsoft-approved operating systems boot up a PC, Microsoft is moving toward an Apple-like "walled garden" model, in which the hardware and software makers, not the users, decide what runs.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Not that there aren't enough reasons not to use M$'s bloated whore of an OS already, the German Gov't now also warns you to stay away. These are some extremely serious concerns...

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/nsa-spying-on-windows-users,news-17433.html

That is my Screen-saver now and I am not using Windows.

http://wpmedia.blogs.vancouversun.com/2011/09/stop-online-spying-web.jpg

[Slicker]

My older sister was visiting last week and needed to print her boarding pass. She has Windows 8. I told her that the printer on my computer was shared with the public on our LAN. After 30 minutes, she finally found where they hid the "connect to a printer" option, but that really didn't help since it didn't give her the option to type in the network address or to tell it that it was a network printer. I had her try and browse my machine but it wouldn't prompt for a password. Eventually, she gave up, went into my office, and just used my computer to print it. I'm sorry, but I really don't want my PC to act like a smart phone. I want control over it, not the other way around. Too bad MySQL sucks for large databases or else I'd migrate my work environment to LAMP and switch to Linux myself.

[John P. Myers]

Oh boy! And now we have some evidence: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs-tech-companies-paid

[zombie67]

Snowden is dead, he just doesn't know it yet. It will happen accidentally somehow, I am sure of it.

When this whole thing broke, I assumed it was another Bradley Manning... "leaking" things that only hurt the US, and killed our foreign agents. And that does need to be punished. That crap can't stand.

But Snowden is an actual hero. His motivation or bias just a distraction. Without him, we would know none of this, and neither would our elected representatives! Many say there are official paths for whistle blowers. I call BS on that. A few guys tried this exact thing a few years back and were ruined for it. And in any case, the whistle blower ruled do not apply to contractors.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/23/edward-snowden-nsa-files-timeline