Not ONE MS PC is driving anything you mention above. MS itself would notAMDIsTheBest010 said:As i said b4, what if those computer are linked to Nuclear Weapons, or Aircraft GPS system, you could have a 747 trying to touch down in LA or something and kill alot of people.
jobeard said:Not ONE MS PC is driving anything you mention above. MS itself would not
certify their systems for such applications. Even Sun Micro Systems will not
certify JAVA for these applications.
Systems with weapons OR life support responsibility are not purchase over the counter -- they are written from scratch.
Sounds like a paranoid conspiracy theory to me. I wouldn't worry about that too much. there's more important things to worry about like asteroids hitting the earth or getting abducted by aliens! hahaVigilante said:What's even more scary about the "kill switch" is that, not only could they kill your PC IF they think you did something wrong. What happens when that system is hacked and somebody has the button to shut down every internet connected XP or Vista PC in the world?
What happens if the update system is hacked and some virus is force fed to millions of PCs overnight through Windows updates?
Seems to me, just like our government has a finger on a button to let loose nukes. MS has a button now to shut every "law abiding" citizens PC down. But of course, the hackers and crackers who are not connected to the system or have gone around it, will be laughing at all us who paid good money for the software that now turned on us.
MS, through auto-updates, just force fed one of their newest WGA crapwares on my PC at work. I happen to be running SP1, so now I have a "star" icon in my system tray that basically takes up 5megs of space and tells me over and over to get SP2. If you kill the process, it pops back up immediately and doesn't go away. They don't give you any options to close it or "don't remind me" or "hide icon". Not even a "remind me later". No they just slap it on there and there's nothing I can do.
Seems MS has learned some tricks from the spyware creators. Because they are using the same tactics to tell everybody what to do. I'll be hacking out their hacks next time I get a chance.
I propose MS remove all WGA from Vista. And if XP is so dang insecure without SP2 and WGA, then they aught to start a massive recall and give everybody copies of Vista for free.
How many parts of your new car have to go bad before you use your warranty? 1 or 2? And yet we live with a swiss cheese OS with problems on every corner and MS solution is to crack down on pirates by implementing things that don't work, and just hurt valid users. And then force us to BUY more stuff from them?
How would you like Ford to say "oh, your breaks were faulty? Well, you'll have to buy $2000 in new equipment to replace it."
Anyway, rant over, MS bugs me. Um, quite literally
Sounds like a paranoid conspiracy theory to me
Spike said:Not at all. There have already been reports of genuine users who MS have told to buy a new copy of XP because they've failed validation - possibly old OEM customers perhaps.
Well said tedster, this is indeed becoming a "paranoid conspiracy theory". maybe some people have been watching too many sci-fi future "corporate controlled everything" where big brother sees, smells, and knows every single thing we do and think. but this is not reality, and i don't think it will be either (at least not in any of our lifetimes).Tedster said:Sounds like a paranoid conspiracy theory to me. I wouldn't worry about that too much. there's more important things to worry about like asteroids hitting the earth or getting abducted by aliens! haha
huh?? where did that come from? LOLCrossFire851 said:Nor will Intel CPUs.
now if I was in Communist China...... then I'd worry.....KingCody said:Well said tedster, this is indeed becoming a "paranoid conspiracy theory". maybe some people have been watching too many sci-fi future "corporate controlled everything" where big brother sees, smells, and knows every single thing we do and think. but this is not reality, and i don't think it will be either (at least not in any of our lifetimes).
I do not like the idea of microsoft (or any 3rd party for that matter) to have the ability to control PC's remotely. however I also am not worried about it going further than the targeted pirates.
as far as it shutting down government systems?? i highly doubt that would happen via M$ WGA. the secretary's computers may run windows, but mission critical systems do not depends on such a flawwed operating system as windows.
huh?? where did that come from? LOL
MarcFOnline said:it's what malicious hackers do with the huge security hole created by the WGA.
AMDIsTheBest010 said:Yes, if MS is really serious about this, they could eventually shut down the whole planet. considering that 95% of the worlds computers run Windows then they could create serious problems. For example, lets say they issue a Kill-Switch for the computers that control the satellites for Nuclear Weapons on the ground. Then we're all going to be in real trouble.
IBN said:This is stupid. If they kill the Xps off then that will force many to buy Windows Vista. I really diagree about everybody having to buy there own individual XP. If I buy something I then own it. I should be able to do anything i want to with it. If i want to share it whats wrong with that?