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At times when I get a video of say, a lacrosse match, the volume is extremely low. I told that to some online pals and they say this is actually quite common. After a few fixings here and there the volume went up. But there is still some work to be done. Will check on those links above - thanks for sharing them.
 

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Yes, it works well, but unless you take steps to prevent it, as we've been discussing here, it's also spying on everything you do and reporting it all to Microsoft.
 

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Yes, it works well, but unless you take steps to prevent it, as we've been discussing here, it's also spying on everything you do and reporting it all to Microsoft.



Well, I guess if you're doing something illegal, or shady, that may be a concern. It's not, for me.
 

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I think you miss the point. You may think you have nothing to hide, and I'm sure you're an honourable and decent man who really doesn't have anything to hide, but what Microsoft is doing with Win10 and the updates pushed out to earlier versions is equivalent to having a neighbour peering in your windows, recording what he sees, and reporting it all to CSIS. Even if you have nothing to hide, that's a serious invasion of privacy.
 

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I don't think windoze 10 is the culprit 100%. If e-mails and voicemail and texting are collected then it is from any device that can create those documents. The advantages it has over mouse driven OS's is that it is touch-screen based and that is the mode that will be explored in the future. I wouldn't mind having a 9" tablet that is touchscreen and that is 'the mouse/keyboard' combination and if you can run two at a time all it takes is connecting it. First change I would make is to change the QWERTY layout for a single handed DVORAK layout and in a visual form the layout is easy to adjust too. Why bother, the DVORAK layout would allow you to type 2x as fast and maybe even faster depending on how slow you are. For me it would save time doing editing for keystroke errors but modifying a keyboard means all keyboards I type on would also need to be changed. Using that as the mouse would result in a larger screed (2x 32" of the extra crisp version monitors rather than 1 larger one)
Since ANDROID is available as an ISO that could be installed on a machine running Win10 using Virtual Box without the need for installing from the BIOS. That would be the system that most peole would be using as an alternative and if you start off with that you could skip learning win10 and just use it as a host system and use the rest of your disk as the drive for the virtual box. That storage method is secure in that you can make the file too damn big to copy and snooping programs can be defended against.

Yes, it works well, but unless you take steps to prevent it, as we've been discussing here, it's also spying on everything you do and reporting it all to Microsoft.
Microsoft is the collector, they pass the information on to the ones that sift through it. Business secrets and Government and Military secrets would have inspired the base programs and the public is more or less the final link in the chain of 'who gets tracked' rather than 'who gets spied on' as that would include everybody, not everybody has the authority to search the data base. The 'Government" is fine looking for ways to track what person does what but they balk at citizens having the right to track them using a fine toothed comb in that they serve the public rather than the people serve the Government (of other Nations) There is only one group could use all the data that could be collected.
Gerr proposed the idea that if you have nothing to hide you shouldn't mind being looked at. That doesn't apply to all groups equally as the 'authorities' are supposed to be 'honest' yet they demand the most secrecy of any group. Why that doesn't set off alarm bells means the system that used to be protection is broken. The Watch Groups used to have the authority (and the time and the people) to look closely at what the Govt (and business) did as far as affecting the public/consumers. If the public retires at 65-75 then that should apply to the ones looking at the data also. Rather than shoot them they could become the teachers at the higher schools (or local) and they could teach that up and coming generation all the tricks that worked and didn't work as far as pulling the wool over other people's eyes.
 

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gerryh

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I think you miss the point. You may think you have nothing to hide, and I'm sure you're an honourable and decent man who really doesn't have anything to hide, but what Microsoft is doing with Win10 and the updates pushed out to earlier versions is equivalent to having a neighbour peering in your windows, recording what he sees, and reporting it all to CSIS. Even if you have nothing to hide, that's a serious invasion of privacy.


Oh? So they are reporting all information gathered to CSIS/HS/FBI/CIA/Whatever other government agency you want to stick in here?


:roll:
 

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I decline 10 when it comes up. The problem is I am becoming more and more dissatisfied
with Windows I also have a Blackberry and not happy with that either. The one I use the most
is my old 2006 Vista computer and program. Bought an Inspion from Dell with back lighting
and I hate it. I am shopping for a new one but have no idea what the hell I should get
The time has come for companies to stop putting crap out there before the bugs are worked
out
 

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I can install adblocker to get rid of the ads, no such luck with finding a NSAblocker. Looking for one might be enough to get you on a list that collects certain data that is normally overlooked. If 'the cloud' acts like a proxy server then the more information it collects the smoother the machine runs.
 

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I'm intentionally avoiding Microsoft products sinse 2010, and I see no reason to change.
 

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Again that is fine but it isn't a solution that everyone is willing to take. When I gave up 'the TV' I just stopped believing that everything they promoted was the truth. Now it is a game to spot what parts are facts and which are 'advertisements'.

Hollywierd movies are the same in that they promote a certain agenda no matter what the facts on the ground say. If it was innocent it would not be a big deal but it is about control via deception and that is never good, no matter how much 'they' claim it is only helpful.
 

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Again that is fine but it isn't a solution that everyone is willing to take. When I gave up 'the TV' I just stopped believing that everything they promoted was the truth. Now it is a game to spot what parts are facts and which are 'advertisements'.

Hollywierd movies are the same in that they promote a certain agenda no matter what the facts on the ground say. If it was innocent it would not be a big deal but it is about control via deception and that is never good, no matter how much 'they' claim it is only helpful.

Web site like this one are even that way.
 

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That would be equal to the deceptive part of the public media, 'whack a troll' is a talent that can be developed as they only have so many moves, at least the ones I have met. The ones I use are the standard tools so no secrets about how I troll somebody (deserved or not)

 

Angstrom

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Not the trolls that inhabits the site, But the agenda the site promotes.
 

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Ah, I stand corrected. An 'inner collective' if you would, not such a strong group once they are know to have the 'pack' orders or just the mentality. One is curable, the other is not.
 

Dexter Sinister

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Oh? So they are reporting all information gathered to CSIS/HS/FBI/CIA/Whatever other government agency you want to stick in here?
Yes, as a matter of fact they are. Read Glenn Greenwald's book No Place To Hide. He's the journalist who broke the Edward Snowden story. The security services of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, are cooperatively engaged in spying on everybody they can, a project called Five Eyes, and they've been doing it for years. The data cloud gathered by Microsoft's operating systems is accessible to them.