Windows 10 Spyware Backported to Win 7 and 8

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adware, privacy, spyware, windows

If you’re a Windows user, and I feel sorry for those trapped on Windows, you likely have heard that the upcoming Windows 10 is free and is loaded with Microsoft spyware and adware. Now it turns out that Microsoft is adding this spyware and adware into Win 7 and Win 8 via software updates, a processes called backporting. To make matters even worse, this spyware communicates with Microsoft’s servers through nonstandard channels within the OS, so the only currently known way to circumvent is with a customizable router firewall.

Here’s the link: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/213183-once-more-with-tracking-microsoft-backports-privacy-invading-windows-10-features-to-windows-7-8

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Az Monsoon Storm Clouds

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az monsoon, prescott az

7 image vertical panorama of Az monsoon clouds over the LDS church on Scott Drive in Prescott, Az. There was some thunder in the distance, and rain started to fall about a half hour after this was taken.

Garden Snake

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garden snake

I was laying down on our patio face to face with this harmless snake. It was about 14 inches long. Several of these, including a much larger one who has avoided my camera, live near our home. in Prescott. They eat insects, they are welcome here.

Fire in the Tunnel

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A group of us went to shoot fire, in an abandoned road or railway tunnel south of Prescott, Az. Here T. uses an air powered sprayer to simulate a flame thrower. This is a 5 image composite, each shot at ISO 400 f/8 1/90 in a Nikon D600. I combined the layers in Photoshop using the lighten blend mode, and masked out T. to eliminate ghosting.

A leak inside a wall

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air conditioner, home repairs, plumbing, water leak

While doing some touch up painting on the exterior of our house, step son Taylor found a small water leak. The plumbing inside the wall in that spot is a pressurized water line to the frost free faucet for the garden hose at the rear of the house, and the drain for the air conditioning evaporator. When the a/c removes humidity from the air, that condensed water drains through the white pvc pipe you see in this photo. Thankfully this was discovered before it became an ugly, moldy mess.

Next, we’ll repair the drain line. The after the area dries, we will repair and paint the drywall.

With houses as with cars, there’s always something going wrong, something to be fixed.