Damnit! I just Downloaded that Trojan code (Thats what it truely is,
it's a MS-trojan pretending to be a security update.) Bastards...
I am 100% against AdWare (This is the hidden stuff pop-ups and
somesites download onto your computer, it can moniter everything
you do, and most of them are imperfect causing system crashes...)
And SpyWare (Pretty much the same as AdWare.)
I've disliked what MicroSoft has been doing for a long time. I won't
even touch XP. (God, that things never NEVER getting on my machine...
I hope...) after releasing crappified 2000 and ME, effectivly killing
off Dos support. Making it much easier to sneak AdWare/SpyWare into
your machine in XP. (And lot of general bad MS stuff.. I could go on
for hours but I'm trying to not enter into that rant.)
But this! This is definatly not right. I don't care who they are or
why they think they should sneak around in my machine. It should not
be allowed!!!!
On the other hand, I do agree that piracy is a major problem. Perhaps
this would kill of a majority of piracy? (Doubt full, it will most
likly simply hurt alot of small fish well leaving the big ones on
touched.) It would be nice to know that your game/application is
much more secure then it would be today. (I guess.) Still. I does
feel like MicroSoft is taking something, the internet will become
primarly theirs won't it? (Shit they've already got such a monoploy,
and it's not because their product is the best... which really sucks
cause if it was the best I might, maybe, be able to let alot of their
shit slide.)
To sneak this onto your computer... that really... REALLY pisses me
off, (Yes I know, how else would you get such a file onto someones
machine.) it feels almost like they've installed their own MS-Virus
on my machine. (A backdoor it is... grrr...)
My privacy has been violated.
People may say "If MS does this, hackers will surly take them out."
But the sad fact is, MS is a mega corporation that has enough money
and power to do what it pleases (Pretty much) hackers can not really
do enough damage to stop them, and besides, if someone attempted to
hack any MicroSoft location there is a huge chance they would be
caught. (Or they'd have fallen long ago.)
I think sadly MicroSoft's strangle hold on the Personal Computer world
will tighten, and continue to do so.
(If they attempt to crush any compitision by locking down their
programs on all MS-systems, I pray they're company falls for it.)
And now, a song that struck me as oppropriate for this topic:
Title: The Sound Of Silence.
Author(s): Simon & Garfunkel.
Album: Best Of Simon And Garfunkel.
"Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of
a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one deared
Disturb the sound of silence.
"Fools" said I,"You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you."
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the signs said, The words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence."
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When I dream, I carry a sword in one hand,
and a gun in the other...
