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DKnoll3on Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Windows 10 upgrade

If the EULA is nullified (MS didn't hold up their end of the bargain/terms), that won't matter.

DKnoll3on Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Windows 10 upgrade

>Why is it okay that my iOS and Android devices essentially require an update several times a year but not my PC OS?

Who said it was?

DKnoll3on Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Windows 10 upgrade

Uh...how?

Windows 10 advertises Microsoft products, and 3rd party products, and is the first step into being suckered into Microsoft's foray into a paid subscription OS.

Sounds like a great metaphor. Let us "upgrade" you to make more money from you.

DKnoll3on FBI says utility pole surveillance cam locations must be kept secret

So they'll become more careful.

Good luck putting everyone in jail. But hey, we'll all be safer in cells, right? That's what this is for, isn't it? Our safety?

Have you looked at red light camera traffic death stats? This person cited in the story is correct.

DKnoll3on Supreme Court to hear petition seeking ban on WhatsApp

Please explain how the State had 100% surveillance of attackers'/terrorists' communications before they became electronic, and I'll be "genuinely concerned" about the "crippling" of their work.

Sounds more like we're returning to a state of how things were (suspicions would have to be aroused, and actual police work would have to be done, instead of just retrieving all of the relevant metadata on people the State doesn't like from a database of just about every piece of information transmitted across a wire for 50+ years).

DKnoll3on FBI says utility pole surveillance cam locations must be kept secret

It's going to become a social problem when people start knocking/shooting them down, covering them, or spraying the lenses.

DKnoll3on Dr Heimlich saves choking woman with manoeuvre he invented

Maybe instead of just calling it a crackpot site, and attacking the commenter, you can refute the content that's been linked.

Much harder to argue against a well-reasoned response than personal attacks.

DKnoll3on Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites

France already pumped the brakes on Facebook using their position of power to target non-users http://thehackernews.com/2016/02/facebook-france.html,

I wonder where this will land them in the future with France, Brazil, or other countries that aren't as "friendly" with FB as the United States.

DKnoll3on Mapping the spread of America's drug overdose epidemic

The heroin spike starting in the 2000s almost certainly has to do with Afghanistan and black budget building cartel connections.

DKnoll3on Google Home

Sure, so let's give them as many sources, streams, and means of accessing our lives as they want!

DKnoll3on Google Home

Google is a very low-profile, high-importance contractor for the US Federal government, specifically for the intelligence agencies. It's kind of startling how little even HN readers know about this.

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo...

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/why-google-made-the-...

https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/

I find it very difficult to believe that US Federal Contracts have not swayed their levels of cooperation at the highest level.