Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

ComRes’s monthly poll is out today, topline voting intention figures are

CON 40%, LAB 28%, LDEM 7%, UKIP 10%, GRN 5%.

hays polls are bollocks all my family and hundreds of friends will vote out so will my mp .
I am off to oxford for the weekend and will be taking the piss out of them allowing all the migrants to ruin their area .
they hate being told . and will swing them to vote out
back Tuesday then off to the usa

England should win easily.

They are starting to bat and need only 121.

T

Looks like you will be wrong about the cricket. You were VERY wrong about UKIP when they got ONE MP. You will also be wrong when we stay in the EU.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/windows-10-spying-almost-everything-opt-130502898.html

Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do – here’s how to opt out

Ta Haystack I was about to ask if anyone had got WIN10.I got the " free?" offer but reckon I will wait a while.The freebie offer lasts for a year I believe

‘Incredibly intrusive’: Windows 10 spies on you by default


Published time: 31 Jul, 2015 22:39

http://www.rt.com/usa/311304-new-windows-privacy-issues/





Microsoft’s new Windows 10 operating system is immensely popular, with 14 million downloads in just two days. The price of the free upgrade may just be your privacy, though, as changing Windows 10’s intrusive default settings is difficult.

Technology journalists and bloggers are singing Windows 10’s praises, often using the words such as “amazing,”“glorious” and “fantastic.” The operating system has been described as faster, smoother and more user-friendly than any previous version of Windows. According to Wired magazine, more than 14 million people have downloaded their upgrade since the system was released on Wednesday.

While the upgrade is currently free of charge to owners of licensed copies of Windows 8 and Windows 7, it does come at a price. Several tech bloggers have warned that the privacy settings in the operating system are invasive by default, and that changing them involves over a dozen different screens and an external website.


According to Zach Epstein of BGR News, all of Windows 10’s features that could be considered invasions of privacy are enabled by default. Signing in with your Microsoft email account means Windows is reading your emails, contacts and calendar data. The new Edge browser serves you personalized ads. Solitaire now comes with ads. Using Cortana – the voice-driven assistant that represents Redmond’s answer to Apple’s Siri – reportedly “plays fast and loose with your data.”

“I am pretty surprised by the far-reaching data collection that Microsoft seems to want,” web developer Jonathan Porta wrote on his blog. “I am even more surprised by the fact that the settings all default to incredibly intrusive. I am certain that most individuals will just accept the defaults and have no idea how much information they are giving away.”

As examples, Porta cited Microsoft having access to contacts, calendar details, and “other associated input data” such as “typing and inking” by default. The operating system also wants access to user locations and location history, both of which could be provided not just to Microsoft, but to its “trusted partners.”

“Who are the trusted partners? By whom are they trusted? I am certainly not the one doing any trusting right now,” Porta wrote, describing the default privacy options as “vague and bordering on scary.”

Alec Meer of the ‘Rock, Paper, Shotgun’ blog pointed out this passage in Microsoft’s 12,000-word, 45-page terms of use agreement:

“We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to.”

While most people are used to ads as the price of accessing free content, writes Meer, Microsoft is not making it clear enough that they are “gathering and storing vast amounts of data on your computing habits,” not just browser data.

Opting out of all these default settings requires navigating 13 different screens and a separate website, the bloggers have found.


Meer was underwhelmed with Microsoft executives’ claims of transparency and easily understandable terms of use. “There is no world in which 45 pages of policy documents and opt-out settings split across 13 different Settings screens and an external website constitutes ‘real transparency,’” he wrote.

Tracking and harvesting user data has been a business model for many tech giants. Privacy advocates have raised concerns over Google’s combing of emails, Apple’s Siri, and Facebook’s tracking cookies that keep monitoring people’s browser activity in order to personalize advertising and content.

Captain Marvel has solved the problem!

Mind the Captain marvel and tory party are in a time warp!

while the uk is offering free b&b and stays in luxury hotels plus pocket money to the migrants they will never stop coming

and what is that idiot cameron doing turning to the eu for help on the calais problem - eu caused the problem

and what happened to the migrants 'should stay in the first country they arrive at' rule!? italy and others just turn a blind eye and let them through

so the brits pick up these people from boats saving their lives - then they all head here - wonder why?!

and why has everyone forgotten that these boat people have chucked overboard so called christians to their deaths? why is this forgotten

we know nothing about these people - they could be isis, murderers, rapist et cetera - they all arrive without papers with some sob story a do gooder believes and we cant even prove what country they come from let alone their criminal records or even the state of their health - mind boggling stupidity

and dont send sniffer dogs!! send guard dogs! i have seen these people in london scared of dogs - some because of their religion others because they are just cowards - time to get tough

britain is finished if this does not stop quickly

and stop all foreign aid! we need it here to deal with our own mess

look after your own - once that is sorted then we can look to help other countries - not the other way round - having said that the majority of the aid never gets to what it is meant for anyhow.....................

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Delt,

and why has everyone forgotten that these boat people have chucked overboard so called christians to their deaths? why is this forgotten

we know nothing about these people - they could be isis, murderers, rapist et cetera - they all arrive without papers with some sob story a do gooder believes and we cant even prove what country they come from let alone their criminal records or even the state of their health - mind boggling stupidity

and dont send sniffer dogs!! send guard dogs! i have seen these people in london scared of dogs - some because of their religion others because they are just cowards - time to get tough



I doubt that all have forgotten, but think many would put you in the same category of humanity as the ones you condemn.

so fred, are you advocating total open-door policy?

Maybe Fred's door is open. He may have some empty beds that could be occupied by some immigrants.

fred - no just being realistic as other countries have also said about them: 'we do not want them to die but equally we do not want them over here' do you get it

britain has become the worlds dustbin - those who add value are leaving britain - those who add nothing are filling the country up - worse they have never paid any taxes or anything and yet they arrive and immediately take scarce housing and get paid for breaking the law - we do not know anything about these people and some have already murdered on the way over throwing whom they consider to be christians over board to their deaths
the uk is a small over populated island - we can not take anymore simple - and when you read the immigration figures that does not include all the children they bring with them
the uk infrastructure cannot take it and this is the reason why hospitals, nhs, housing and others are not coping

do your do gooding when they start living near you............

and i dont condemn them - just being honest and applying common sense something our leaders are too scared to do

or is being honest not a PC thing to do in your mind! not liberal are we...............

Something you might like to try in between your LLOY trades. Namely, making a hologram with your smart phone:

so fred, are you advocating total open-door policy?

It's ok, Fred has it all under control..



Kent pays migrant kids' £150 Dover-to-London cab fare due to lack of local foster homes

Local council struggling to cope with huge surge in young asylum seekers, as Calais chaos deepens




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11779325/Kent-Council-pays-150-taxis-to-get-young-asylum-seekers-out-of-county-amid-foster-care-crisis.html