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This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm John Dankosky. It sounds like something from a science fiction movie, researchers using cutting-edge biotech methods to bring an extinct species back to life. As a matter of fact, I think I saw that one. It was called "Jurassic Park."
At a recent symposium in Washington, one team of researchers reported that they'd partial success resurrecting the genome of an extinct species of frog, last seen in Australia in the mid-1980s. Joining me now to talk about the frog effort, called the Lazarus Project, is the head of the team. Michael Archer is professor in the Evolution of Earth and Life Systems Research Group, part of the School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He joins me by phone, where it's very early Saturday morning there. So welcome, and thanks for joining us on SCIENCE FRIDAY.
MICHAEL ARCHER: Good morning, John. I should say good afternoon to you.
DANKOSKY: Thank you. So how far have you gotten on this project? Do you have a frog yet?
ARCHER: You know, we're much further than we ever thought we would be, and I think probably we're much further than we ever had a right to expect to be. But we don't have the frog yet. What we have is the DNA back and reproducing, and we have it building cells, and it's building even embryos. Now, this is being - it's been a long project, partly because we've been dependent on a host frog, you know, for eggs, and this thing only reproduces over a short period once a year. So we get one little crack at it, and then we have to go cool our heels for a while, and this has been going on. We've only spent about a month and a half. But at this point, this embryo is our next challenge, is to get this embryo to continue to go one to develop a tadpole. So it's one little speed bump after another, but we're knocking them over as we come to them.
DANKOSKY: So why this particular frog?
ARCHER: Yeah, that's a very good question. Well, two good reasons - well, maybe even three. The first one is it represents a whole family of frogs that's gone from the world, and we're all interested in trying to conserve as much of the global genome as we can. That gives the world resilience. That secures even ourselves. So we'd love to have this frog back if we could, because it's so distinctive.
Second reason is, well, it's - medically - a fascinating frog. It's not a normal frog. A normal frog lays its eggs in the water and, you know, they get fertilized, and it wishes them well and then goes off and eats bugs for the rest of its year. This frog didn't do that. This frog was very maternally focused. It swallowed, curiously, the fertilized eggs, and then took them into the stomach.
Now, normally, that's where the food's going to be digested, but somehow this frog shut down all the normal processes that a stomach goes through and turn the stomach, in effect, into a uterus. And there, these fertilized eggs went on to turn into tadpoles in the stomach, and then the tadpoles metamorphosed and became frogs in the stomach. And as they did this, they were getting bigger and bigger, and the poor old female frog is sort of swelling up like a blown-up balloon, eventually can't stand it anymore, has a big hiccup, and out comes a huge spray of little frogs.
ARCHER: And the first biologist who saw this, of course, were just agog. They've never seen any frog - they've never seen any animal, let alone any frog, ever change its bodily organs like this.
So there are all kinds of reasons why we'd love to have this frog back, but that third one that was going to mention is that it's extinct because of us. And I think this goes to this heart of a moral obligation issue. If we're the reason that this big chunk of the global genome and this interesting animal is gone, then I think we've got a moral responsibility, if not a moral imperative to see what we can do to bring it back.
DANKOSKY: Well, and look, we'll get into the morality of all this in just a moment. But as you describe this unusual frog, I guess part of me is wondering, maybe it's just a very inefficient frog. I mean, a frog that lays its babies through its mouth, is it all our fault that this frog went extinct in the first place?
ARCHER: We think it is. One of the things that's been knocking frogs all around the world and has amphibian biologists and everybody else who loves frogs scared to death is something called the chytrid fungus. This fungus is a very nasty bit of work. It is responsible for taking out huge number of species on all the different continents. The problem is it appears it's likely humans are spreading this fungus. We're walking and intruding into pristine environments everywhere around the world and on our clothes, on our boots are probably coming spores of this fungus being shifted around, using us like taxis to find new victims everywhere.
So we're complicit. If this is - and it probably is this because many of the frogs around the world that are disappearing are disappearing from pristine environments. There's no other explanation for why they're going. So we're pretty sure that's what nailed this frog as well. So yeah, we feel a bit guilty about this.
DANKOSKY: So what do you think about re-introducing an extinct species? You can call us: 1-800-989-TALK. That's 1-800-989-8255. I'm sure some of our listeners are probably thinking, is this a really good idea? They did see "Jurassic Park." They wonder, you know, if something's extinct, maybe there's a reason why. Should we really be getting this frog back into the population here?
ARCHER: Yeah, I can understand that view. "Jurassic Park" has had that impact. And, in fact, when you think about that book, Michael Crichton wrote that book specifically to scare people to death about never trying this. I think it was a dismal failure 'cause every kid I know was really excited by that movie and would love to see it happen. But it's not a Velociraptor we're trying to bring back, although remember, of course, dinosaurs are not extinct. We don't have to bring them back. We live with them. There are birds.
Some people have budgie-saurs(ph) as pets, and others go out and gobble up a Kentucky Fried Chicken for lunch. We have dinosaurs all around us. So it's really a different kind of an animal and it's not - we're not reaching that far back. Most of these projects that the Revive and Restore group and National Geographic had been focused on in this event are species that have been recently extinct, and many of these are species that we drove extinct.
My - one of my other interests is trying to get the Australian Thylacine back. That was our continent's king of beasts, and we shot every one of those things to death. So we have a big scorecard here to settle on, I'm afraid.
DANKOSKY: But as you re-introduce species that have been gone for some time, even 30 years, what does it do to the rest of the ecosystem? As we've talked about elsewhere in our program, you know, an awful lot can change evolutionarily in just a few years. So what's the, you know, the downstream consequence here if you put this frog back into the world?
ARCHER: Yeah, that is such an important question, and every one of us involved in projects of this kind around the world have that question right up in our mind. In fact, it often influences your choice about which animal you're going to try to see if you can rescue. And in the case of, for example, the Thylacine, it's an interesting challenge. The Thylacine is an animal we exterminated from Tasmania, that little island south of Australia. I think because that happened, it's possibly going to cause the extinction of one of our other precious animals, the Tasmanian devil.
This is an animal that has a communicable cancer. Dogs have something like that as well. The devil is the only other one. So if devil can meet devil, they can pass this wretched disease on. Now, the Thylacine, when it was in Tasmania, competed with the devil, and you had a balanced system. And if that disease ever popped up in the devil populations, it burned itself out because not all of those devils could come - could contact each other.
If we could get the Thylacine back, put that king of beasts back in the throne, which is still warm and waiting, it would suppress the number of devils, keep them at a manageable level and the disease would burn itself out wherever it started. So getting these ecosystems back by putting in key species can be critical to maintaining the stability of them. You think about Yellowstone National Park. We're all aware of the fact that things started to go terribly wrong when wolves were destroyed from Yellowstone.
The herbivores, the plant eaters began to increase in numbers. They overrate the plants. Their river systems began to degrade 'cause there weren't trees along the edge to protect them. When they get the wolves back, the whole thing starts to fall back into a natural rhythm. So this is driving us, importantly. We do need to know that we could put these animals back and that it would improve the world, not in any way diminish it.
DANKOSKY: Let's go to the phones. Nathan is in San Francisco. Hi, Nathan.
NATHAN: Hi there. Thanks so much for taking my call.
DANKOSKY: Yeah.
NATHAN: My question is around why we sort of feel a moral obligation to bring species back when species go extinct all the time at the hands of other species. So I guess it's sort why we feel the moral obligation as opposed to seeing it as a sort of natural part of evolution.
ARCHER: I think the answer, Nathan, is pretty simple. You're right, of course. There's nothing immoral or dreadful intrinsically about extinction. In fact, if extinction didn't occur, life wouldn't be able to change in the way that it needs to to adapt to a changing world. It's been going on for three and a half billion years. The problem is, you need new species to originate at about the same rate to offset the ones that are going extinct so that you maintain a balance of the amount of biological diversity in the world.
And that's what's not happening now. You'll hear people talk about the fact that we seem to be now launching into the world's sixth great extinction or mass extinction event where the number of things going extinct is vastly exceeding the number that are appearing. So we're losing - we're net losing species in the world. And as life plunges off this cliff, we have to say, are we the reason that this whole massive global imbalance is starting to happen? And if so, do we want to live with the consequences?
In the previous five mass extinctions on Earth, it took about 10 million years for ecosystems to be balanced again after those dreadful events. Like the meteor when it came at the end of the Cretaceous and took out the dinosaurs. We're kind of doing the same thing now. So the view I have that this is a moral obligation to try to stop this if we can is based on the fact that I want to live in a world that basically has its biological components collapsing. We need those things in the world.
DANKOSKY: So working through your method there, how many different attempts would you need to be successful to really actually rebuild a species? 'Cause if you just have a bunch of frogs that are cloned off of the same frogs, you don't have a whole lot of diversity within the species. It's not like frogs really were back before they were - became extinct in the first place, if you get my meaning.
ARCHER: Yeah, I do. And fortunately, when I went to the chap who had last kept these frogs - this is Professor Mike Tyler at the University of Adelaide - he had not just kept tissues of one frog, he had a whole bucket full of tissues of many frogs, so we know we've got, you know, male, female tissue. But technology is getting so good now. Many of these questions that we have presumed to be important - i.e., we have to have hundreds of different kinds of, or different individuals to have a viable population, it's not clearly the case that that's necessary anymore.
Sometimes genetic variation could be engineered. Sometimes it will pop up itself even in a population that is very little. The cheetah, for example, really every cheetah is a clone of every other cheetah and yet they're doing fine. There's not much genetic variation there at all.
And we do know that you can, in fact, do letter by letter gene replacement therapies now - these are all new - where you can introduce variation into populations that wasn't there. You can swap one little piece of DNA for another. This is a new world and it's so exciting because it offers the potential to increase the viability of the natural world in a way that we've never been able to do before.
DANKOSKY: I'm John Dankosky, and this is SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR.
So what about some of the species that are icons of modern extinctions, things like the passenger pigeon? Could you bring that back?
ARCHER: Yeah. It's very interesting to see that, revive and restore. And Ben Novak are working very hard on that. George Church is working as well. One of the good things, you know, that happened in this meeting were all of us came out of our closets and admitted what we were trying to do, was that we met each other. And as a result of this meeting organized by these organizations, a lot of new collaborations developed. So I already know that there are three or four different groups combining their efforts together to try to get that passenger pigeon back. The same thing is happening with the mammoth.
In the case of our gastric-brooding frog, we've teamed up with Advanced Cell Technology, Bob Lancer. who's a brilliant cloner of mammals. So I think we're going to suddenly see an acceleration in these projects. Many interesting animals that have been the target of de-extinction events are going to accelerate their path back into the world. That's what I hope, anyway.
DANKOSKY: Shannon is on the phone in Haymarket, Virginia. Hi there, Shannon.
SHANNON: Hello. How are you?
DANKOSKY: Doing well. What's on your mind?
SHANNON: I'm curious - you brought up the morality issue, and I'm curious if you're getting any kind of pushback from either the scientific community or anywhere else, and to see whether or not this is wise and what will happen if people who don't necessarily have the appropriate tools to do the right kind of research - or maybe even just the appropriate intentions in mind get a hold of this kind of technology. And is anyone worried that you're going to take it too far?
ARCHER: Yeah. Shannon, that's very interesting and a very good question, and it is something we're all thinking about. But the first answer to your question, are we getting pushback? Not a lot. We're getting exactly the kind of question you've asked, which is informed concern about - everybody wants to know that these issues are being talk about.
But in this particular case, one of the most curious objections or concerns I heard expressed comes from conservationists themselves. They're little worried that we actually may succeed. And they're worried because if we do, they're going to say, well, why are people going to bother to do standard conservation projects anymore? If you can haul an animal back up the cliff after it's fallen off and gone extinct, why waste all this energy trying to conserve them now?
And there are lot of reasons why this is - while a good worry, not one that we really do have to worry about. In the first place, we haven't done it yet, so, you know, we all have our fingers crossed and we're working hard.
Second place, it's actually cheaper and easier to look after endangered species today than to try to pull them back up the cliff again afterwards. The third reason, which I think is most important, is the technology that we're developing to try to bring an extinct animal back always involves trying to take your DNA from the extinct animal and put it into the cell of a completely different species because the species you want isn't here any more.
So this is very different than Dolly cloning, when they took the nucleus from a live sheep body cell and put it into the egg of a live sheep. This is a much more challenging issue. But if we succeed, then those endangered animals that we're all concerned about seeing disappear off that cliff and their numbers are reducing, we can use that technology if we can refine it to take the endangered species DNA, put it into the egg of a common species - a different one - and use the common species to increase the numbers of the endangered species.
DANKOSKY: Actually build up a population that's in decline.
ARCHER: Exactly. So I see this as another tool that conservationist actually need and will probably embrace to assist all of the projects, all of the efforts globally to keep as many species in the world as we can.
DANKOSKY: Well, thank you very much for getting up early to talk about this bizarre and interesting experiment. Thank you so much, Michael Archer.
ARCHER: It was a pleasure, John, and thank you to your listeners for asking those very intelligent questions.
DANKOSKY: Michael Archer is a professor in the Evolution of Earth and Life Systems Research Group, part of the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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Windows 10
This article is designed to collect together identified issues with Microsoft's Windows 10 from experts and the tech media, so that NCF members can make informed decisions as to whether they wish to use this operating system, or install an alternative one on their computer hardware instead.
All new versions of Windows meet some user resistance, although some have genuine concerns that users need to know about before they choose to install it or use it. Vista and Windows 8 did not win widespread support from Windows fans, but all indications are that Windows 10 has some much more serious issues for users to consider prior to installing it than any previous Windows version.
By the end of 2015 issues with Windows 10 encountered by NCF members were causing increased staff and volunteer workload trying to solve them. It is hoped this article will reduce those problems and allow NCF staff and volunteers to concentrate on getting members on-line rather than dealing with the problems generated by members' choice of operating systems.
Windows 10 is the follow-on operating system to Windows 8 that was released to the public on 29 July 2015.
There was no Windows 9, as CBC explains, "The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant earned scathing reviews for its previous OS, the buggy and awkward Windows 8 (yes, they're skipping version 9)."
Identified Issues
Privacy and Security
In November 2015 Microsoft Corporate Vice President Joe Belfiore confirmed that Windows 10 collects a large amount of data on its users and that most of these features cannot be turned off. Gordon Kelly of Forbes said, "so how concerned should users be about Windows 10's default data collection policies? I would say very. By default Windows 10 Home is allowed to control your bandwidth usage, install any software it wants whenever it wants (without providing detailed information on what these updates do), display ads in the Start Menu (currently it has been limited to app advertisements), send your hardware details and any changes you make to Microsoft and even log your browser history and keystrokes which the Windows End User Licence Agreement (EULA) states you allow Microsoft to use for analysis."
Keystroke loggers are a common feature in viruses and other malware, but Microsoft includes one in Windows 10. This means that Microsoft has every bit of data you type in your computer, including your credit card numbers, all your sign-ins and passwords, your bank accounts, your love letters, email, everything. Because of its policy of cooperating fully with the US National Security Agency (NSA) this means the US government likely has all your data as well. The keystroke logger cannot be turned off. In the EULA the user agrees that Microsoft can share this information with third parties like advertisers and law enforcement.
During the installation process the user agrees to have their contacts, calender events, speech and handwriting patterns and typing history all recorded by Microsoft, along with your web browsing history, too.
By default when it was first released Windows 10 automatically connected you with any wifi network that it could detect and automatically shared the passwords with your Facebook friends, Skype contacts and Outlook.com contacts, although this could be selected off. This Wifi Sense features also shared your location. In May 2016 this privacy issue was fixed as the feature was "discontinued".
By default Windows 10 secures your hard drive data with a disk encryption key, but as noted Microsoft has the encryption key as it is transmitted to them. Micah Lee wrote "As soon as your recovery key leaves your computer, you have no way of knowing its fate. A hacker could have already hacked your Microsoft account and can make a copy of your recovery key before you have time to delete it. Or Microsoft itself could get hacked, or could have hired a rogue employee with access to user data. Or a law enforcement or spy agency could send Microsoft a request for all data in your account, which would legally compel it to hand over your recovery key, which it could do even if the first thing you do after setting up your computer is delete it."
Windows 10 generates a unique advertising ID for each user on each computer. The ID is used by developers and advertising networks to create and maintain a profile about each user. You can turn this off, but you need to know where to look to do that in the settings.
Although it can be turned off the Cortana voice activated assistant sends everything you say, that is picked up by the computer's microphone, to Microsoft for analysis. Mic Wright of The Next Web says: "because Cortana analyzes speech data, Microsoft collects "your voice input, as well as your name and nickname, your recent calendar events and the names of people in your appointments, and information about your contacts including names and nicknames."
Mic Wright of The Next Web says: "This is the part you should be most concerned about: Microsoft's new privacy policy is very loose when it comes to when it will or won't access and disclose your personal data:
- 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 protect our customers or enforce the terms governing the use of the services.
I'm not suggesting Microsoft and its lawyers are alone in making provision for such sweeping power over your data, but we should all be very careful about relying on the "good faith" of corporations. I'm not even sure such a thing exists."
C. Mitchell Shaw of The New American says "When Microsoft announced the "free" upgrade, many were left wondering why the Redmond giant would give away licenses to use the new operating system. Now it appears that the reason is simple: greater data-mining opportunities. Windows operating systems have long included security weaknesses that leave users vulnerable to spying and data-mining from others. What is different with the newest iteration of Windows is that Microsoft is directly involved in that spying and data-mining and has built the entire operating system in such a way as to allow it."
Dan Gillmor of Medium.com said "Microsoft's Windows 10 ... looks more and more like spyware masquerading as an operating system (a characterization that may be unfair, but not by much). Yes, the upgrade from widely installed earlier versions is "free" (as in beer), but it takes some amazing liberties with users' data and control, according to people who've analyzed its inner workings."
An update to Windows 10 in November 2015 returned user's privacy settings to the default without their knowledge. Darren Allan of TechRadar reported "The bug apparently caused Windows 10 to reset four settings to default values. These were privacy settings, which explains why Microsoft was so sensitive about the affair, and they included options to let apps make use of the user's advertising ID, and to let apps run in the background, as well as turning the SmartScreen web filter on." Microsofts' initial communication about the problem seemed to be designed to dismiss the issue, but a later press release admitted the mistake. Darren Allan of TechRadar said "In the future, hopefully Microsoft will come clean on any issues in a swifter manner, and not trot out meaningless statements like the first one the company issued on this matter – frankly, radio silence would have been more palatable than that initial communication."
In late December 2015 Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President, Windows and Devices Group indicated that Windows 10 had passed the milestone of 200 million computers running the operating system. While attempting to show its popularity he raised more privacy concerns, stating "Windows 10 users have spent over 44.5 billion minutes using the Microsoft Edge browser that debuted with the new operating system, asked 2.5 billion questions using Cortana, viewed 82 billion photos in the Windows 10 Photo app, spent over 4 billion hours playing PC games on Windows 10 and streamed more than 6.6 million hours of Xbox One games to Windows 10 PCs." This is all data that Windows 10 devices reported on their users. Darren Allan of TechRadar noted, "the real issue here is the uncertainty over what data is being recorded, and the fact that the user has no control or real say in the process". Martin Brinkmann of GHacks noted of this, "The statistics indicate that Microsoft may be collecting more data than initially thought. While it is unclear what data is exactly collected, it is clear that the company is collecting information about the use of individual applications and programs on Windows at the very least. The real question is how fine grained the data collecting actually is. For instance, is Windows 10 recording what users do in Edge or the actual questions that individual users ask Cortana?"
There is now a whole industry showing users how to reduce the invasive privacy problems in Windows 10, like this article by Ian Paul of PCWorld.
Canada's federal privacy commissioner is concerned about Windows 10 privacy issues and has launched an investigation into it.
Russian government members are also concerned about Windows 10 passing information to the US government and have proposed banning it for Russian government use. Adarsh Verma writing on Foss Bytes says "Russian lawyers have filed a complaint with the Prosecutor General's Office, demanding strict actions against the OS and consider the option of Windows 10 ban in Russia. They have claimed that Windows 10 is being used to collect user information and it infringes the local Russian laws."
In July 2016 the French National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) cited Microsoft for multiple issues with Windows 10 and gave the company three months to fix the issues or face large fines. The areas of violation of French law identified included: Irrelevant or excessive data collected, lack of security, lack of individual consent and that data still being transferred outside EU on a "safe harbour" basis, even after that was ruled by courts as illegal.
In February 2017 the European Union data protection watchdogs (Article 29 Working Party) still had concerns about privacy settings in Windows 10 and how data being collected from user's computers was being stored and used. The group said "Microsoft should clearly explain what kinds of personal data are processed for what purposes. Without such information, consent cannot be informed, and therefore, not valid." Microsoft has not responded to inquiries on this subject.
In July 2016 it came to light that Windows 10 will include a US$7 per month subscription fee, starting with enterprise users. It is expected that this fee will eventually be extended to all users, including consumers.
Microsoft indicated from the introduction of Windows 10 that it would be the last version of Windows and would be just continuously updated, rather than replaced by future versions. The company also indicated that it was moving to a "software-as-a-service" model, which usually involves subscription fees for users.
Windows Defender
If you turn this off for any reason, such as a malfunction in it or it gives a false positive, it will turn itself back on.
Browser choices
Windows 10, when installed as an upgrade, will change your browser to Microsoft Edge, even if you had another browser installed, like Firefox or Chrome.
Mozilla chief executive Chris Beard said that Microsoft is using the upgrade process to "throw away the choice your customers have made about the Internet experience they want, and replace it with the Internet experience Microsoft wants them to have."
Forced updates
Making all updates automatic and mandatory has some benefits in that it reduces vulnerabilities in the system that have been identified and patches issued for, but many experts have problems with what goes along with this.
Computer book author Adrian Kingsley-Hughes notes that in the past Microsoft has tried to force unwanted "junkware", as he terms it, on users through updates, including the Bing toolbar and Skype, both of which are owned by Microsoft.
As part of the update process the computer will automatically reboot itself.
Updates are delivered via a sharing process like bit torrent and are all cached on your computer. This means that you not only download the updates, but you are sharing them with other Windows users, as well, which may use up a lot of your monthly bandwidth cap, depending on the size of the updates. This can be disabled, but the default is "on".
Another issue with forced updates is that in the past Microsoft has sent out updates that disable the operating system or cause other problems. This includes updates for Windows 10.
Joel Hruska of Extreme Tech said, "for decades, one of the anchor points in the Apple vs. Microsoft debate was that Microsoft gave you more control over your OS than Apple did, even if it layered that control in obtuse menus and difficult-to-parse options. With Windows 10, the balance of power has clearly shifted. The company that brought us the "Scroogled" campaign now hoovers up your data in ways that would make Google jealous. It selects defaults that allow it to use your bandwidth to distribute its own software without any exposed option for how and when that sharing takes place."
In March 2016 it was identified that Microsoft has included several non-security updates within a single critical security update for Internet Explorer 11 (KB3139929). Most of these bundled updates seem reasonable but hiding them inside a security updated is deceptive. The update to be wary of is "Updated Internet Explorer 11 capabilities to upgrade Windows 8.1 and Windows 7" (KB3146449). As described in the update article: "This update adds functionality to Internet Explorer 11 on some computers that lets users learn about Windows 10 or start an upgrade to Windows 10". Users need to be aware that this may lead to an unintentional upgrade to Windows 10, whether you use IE11 or an alternate browser, as IE is integrated into the operating system.
Hardware Issues
Microsoft has announced that new computers with Intel's Kaby Lake processor, Qualcomm's 8996 processor, or AMD's Bristol Ridge processor will not support earlier versions of Windows and must use Windows 10.
Also the Windows 10 installer often does not find Intel chipset drivers resulting in some motherboard devices not functioning properly or that they may not be detected under Windows without the correct chipset drivers being present.
Furthermore the default Windows 10 driver for Broadcom Ethernet does not work properly at all.
Windows 10 was free if you upgraded from Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8.1 home or professional editions prior to 29 July 2016. If your earlier version was a non-genuine version (ie: pirated) then your version of Windows 10 will also be non-genuine. Enterprise editions are not eligible for the free upgrade.
Solitaire isn't exactly free
The long-packaged solitaire card game that has always come with Windows is still included, but it includes lots of advertising. If you want to get rid of the ads it will cost you US$1.49 per month or US$9.99 per year.
Mark Hachman, Senior Editor at PC World said "it does seem a bit odd that Microsoft can make Windows 10—an entire operating system, mind you—a free upgrade, while asking you to pay to remove ads. If this is the future of Windows as a service, count me out."
Dual booting
If you have a dual boot computer with one partition running Windows and another running a Linux distribution you may lose the ability to boot to the Linux distribution after upgrading to Windows 10 as it seems to disable GRUB, the Linux bootloader.
External dial-up modems
The US Robotics model 5637 has been recommended as a good external modem for Linux, Mac and Windows versions except Windows 10. US Robotics has indicated that there is an issue with Windows 10 that prevents it from working with this modem. As of 10 November 2017, the modem will work with Windows 10, but there may be some initial problems.
Driver issues
To run some applications, like the Audacity free software audio editor Windows 10 may require new audio drivers, since with upgrades to Windows 10 from earlier versions of Windows not all hardware may be properly supported.
Broken internet connection
In early December 2016 Microsoft issued an update to Windows 10 that in some cases has broken its connection to the DSL modem and hence to the internet. Windows 10 seems to assign the computer a DHCP address of 169.254.157.29 instead of a modem-assigned network DHCP address, such as 192.168.1.101.
This can be confirmed by using another device or operating system on the same device to connect to the modem. If an internet connection still works then Windows 10 settings are most likely the issue.
To fix this go to "Network Settings" in the Windows 10 computer and see if the IP address is marked as "DHCP" or "Fixed" and switch them from the one to the other. Changing to static IP will automatically toggle the DNS check box and you will then have to return both manually to the automatic setting.
This Microsoft help article How to reset TCP/IP by using the NetShell utility may be of use in solving this issue as well.
Preventing a Windows 10 Upgrade to Windows 7 & 8
If you are running Windows 7 or 8 Microsoft will try to upgrade it to Windows 10. You can prevent this using the GWX Control Panel tool from Ultimate Outsider or Never Ten from Gibson Research Associates.
Another method is editing the registry values to prevent upgrades and the "nag" notices.
See also Microsoft Strikes Again – How to NOT Upgrade to Windows 10
By May 2016 Microsoft had made it easier to refuse an upgrade to Windows 10, providing a dialogue box option that says, "Click here to change the upgrade schedule or cancel the scheduled update." Then in late May 2016 they changed how the upgrade screen worked in a seeming bid to fool users into upgrading. Make Use of writer Dave Parrack described it, "Microsoft is getting increasingly desperate in its bid to persuade us all to upgrade to Windows 10. And its latest effort employs dirty tactics, essentially fooling people into upgrading to Windows 10 by changing how the nagscreen works. Up to now, users who don't want to upgrade to Windows 10 could just keep Microsoft happy by closing the nagscreen whenever it popped up. But that's no longer the case. Now, closing the nagscreen means you're giving Microsoft permission to upgrade your computer to Windows 10."
If you do get tricked into installing Windows 10 it can be easily reverted if done within a month.
Preventing Windows 10-style Tracking in Windows 7 & 8
Microsoft also tries to add the user tracking from Windows 10 to users of Windows 7 and 8. This can be fixed as explained at Stop Windows Telemetry/Tracking/Upgrading to Win10. That article advises "The advice from many experts now is to not go near Windows 10. Do not install it. Retain your privacy and control over your systems."
Installing Windows 10 with a Windows 7 or 8 product key
For the time being, you can still install Windows 10 if you have a valid copy of Windows 7 or 8 You have to download the Microsoft installer for the same version (Home or Professional) as the version of Windows you already have.
If you don't know your product key, you can get it form your current version (7 or 8) of Windows by using the Magical Jelly Bean Product Key Finder.
You download download the installer, in USB or DVD format, put it on a USB or DVD, boot from it, and give the product key when requested.
If you have reviewed the information on Windows 10 and decided that you do not want to use it, then there are many alternatives available.
If you are already running Windows 7 or 8 and wish to keep using it then just avoid upgrading or having the Windows 10 privacy-violating software installed in your Windows 7 or 8 software, as described above.
If you have hardware already running Windows 10 then you can replace the software with another operating system instead. There are hundreds of Linux distributions available for free that will run on Windows 10 hardware and that provide good privacy, stability and functionality. The NCF office has stocks of free Linux DVDs for installation.
Available at the office are DVDs for:
- Ubuntu
- Lubuntu
- Xubuntu
- Puppy Linux
- plus the All in One - System Rescue Toolkit for Windows
External links
- Windows 10 on Wikipedia
- Windows 10 concerns graphic
- Windows users should be really worried about the latest NSA leak
Reviews and tips
- Review: Windows 10 is the best version yet—once the bugs get fixed by Peter Bright on Ars Technica
- Windows 10 doesn't offer much privacy by default: Here's how to fix it by Sebastian Anthony on Ars Technica
- Windows: it's always the next version by Thom Holwerda on OS News
- The Windows 10 Review: The Old & New Face of Windows by Brett Howse on Anandtech
- The truth about Windows 10 spying on almost everything you do on Emisoft Blog
- Windows 10: A SYSADMIN speaks his brains – and says MEH - Average Joe will be happy with it. So long as he hasn't used Windows 7 by Trevor Pott on The Register
- How to reclaim your privacy in Windows 10, piece by piece, by Ian Paul, PCWorld
- Stop Windows 10 From Spying On You? 36 DNS Addresses to host file on DSL Reports
- 7 Things That Really Annoy Us About Windows 10 by Bryan Wolfe, Make Use Of
- 7 Best & Worst Windows 10 Features by Bryan Wolfe, Make Use Of
- 7 Features I Wish Windows 10 Had (Done Right) by Joe Keeley, Make Use Of
- Windows 10 is for suckers - Windows 10 is new, shiny and best avoided - for now by Michael Horowitz, ComputerWorld
- Windows 10 telemetry secrets: Where, when, and why Microsoft collects your data by Ed Bott, ZDNet
- 10 Tools to tweak Privacy settings in Windows 10 and fix privacy issues by Anand Khanse, The Windows Club
- This Is Why Windows 10 Mobile Was a Tech Launch Failure by Matthew Hughes, Make Use Of
- 8 Annoying Windows 10 Issues & How to Fix Them, by Joe Keeley, Make Use Of
- Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Windows 10 by Artem S. Tashkinov, ITvision
- How to Ban App Suggestions From Windows 10's Start Menu by Joel Lee, Make Use Of
- Windows 10 interrupts a live TV broadcast with an unwanted upgrade, by Wayne Williams, Beta News
- "Windows 10 – Upgrade Now!" – How to avoid embarrassing popups in presentations by Paul Duklin, Naked Security
- 6 Tools to Tweak the Windows 10 Start Menu, by Dan Price, Make Use Of
- How to Block the Windows 10 Upgrade, Everything We Know, by Tina Sieber, Make Use Of
- Microsoft pays woman $10K after 'unauthorized' Windows 10 update, by Lisa Vaas, Naked Security
- 9 Windows 10 Features You Can Safely Disable, by Ben Stegner, Make Use Of
- Some Users Say Windows 10 Anniversary Update Hosed Their Partitions by Joey-Elijah Sneddon, OMG Ubuntu
- Windows 10 Has Numerous Privacy Shortcomings, by Dick Eastman, Privacy Blog
- Has Microsoft "broken" millions of webcams? (And how to fix yours.) by Paul Ducklin, Naked Security
- Does Windows 10 Freeze Your Computer? Try This!, by Joe Keeley, Make Use Of
- With Windows 10, Microsoft Blatantly Disregards User Choice and Privacy: A Deep Dive By Amul Kalia, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- The Complete Guide to Windows 10 Privacy Settings (after the Anniversary Update) by Gavin Phillips, Make Use Of
- 10 More Windows 10 Features You Can Turn Off, by Dan Price, Make Use Of
- Microsoft defends Windows 10 against ASLR criticism, by John E Dunn, Naked Security
- How to Protect Your Privacy on Windows 10, from DuckDuckGo, 2017
Free Software
- Sick of Windows spying on you? Go Linux by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ZDNet
- How To Install Lubuntu 16.04 Alongside Windows 10 by Gary Newell, About Tech
- Windows 8.x and 10: how to prepare it for dual boot with Ubuntu or Linux Mint, by the Easy Linux tips project
- Get GNU/Linux
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The liberal watchdog group Center for Media and Democracy says Fix the Debt — a key unit in philanthropist Pete Peterson's corps of organizations to battle the national debt — is a pro-business effort masquerading as a grassroots movement.
In a conference call with reporters Friday, CMD director Lisa Graves called Fix the Debt "an Astroturf supergroup that is exceedingly well funded." The term "Astroturf" refers to groups that appear to be citizen-organized but actually have their roots at consultants' offices inside the Capital Beltway.
A spokesman for Fix the Debt hotly denies the charge. Jon Romano said the center got some of its facts wrong, adding, "It is unfortunate that some would rather cast aspersions and misrepresent this view than engage in a constructive conversation about tackling this very real problem. Demagoguing does nothing to protect the most vulnerable."
Fix the Debt is promoting a citizens' petition, with 346,000 names. CMD, which last year used leaked documents to report on the secretive American Legislative Exchange Council, traced the corporate ties and lobbying records of Fix the Debt leaders.
Among the co-founders, co-chairs and steering committee — 13 people in all — it found six who sit on corporate boards, including GE, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley; advisers to Goldman Sachs and the private equity firm KKR; and lobbyists for KKR, the Private Equity Growth Capital Council and U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Fix the Debt also has two well-populated advisory groups: a CEO council with about 90 members, and a Business Leaders Council of about 40.
"They really are posturing as a grassroots movement," says Graves. "They are putting forward this notion of these business leaders not as job creators, but as problem solvers on the economy — when in fact the record shows that a lot of these companies are actively lobbying to keep tax loopholes open" and to promote other corporation-friendly policies.
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Welcome to Children's Playground Surface, we are specialists in designing the perfect outdoor playground surface which will provide extra playground safety qualities as well as fun games and activities in a range of bright colours. Do you need an experienced children's playground surface contractor in Achnasheen/Achadh na Sine? Then you have come to the right place.
There is a lot of children's playground surfacing options in Achnasheen/Achadh na Sine IV22 2 and many places in the UK like schools, nurseries and parks have them installed which is specially designed as an impact absorbing surface and make the play areas safe for the kids to play on.
For each different project, the type of surfacing which is installed can vary depending on how much use the facility will get and the desired appearance.
As we are industry specialists, we have carried out a range of projects all across the UK and this has given us lots of experience which we can take to other jobs. If you need any advice about the best type of flooring for you, the different kinds available as well as the costs for a project, get in touch and we will be able to take to you about these questions in detail.
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Having play safety surfacing in place for playgrounds closest to you in Achnasheen/Achadh na Sine IV22 2 is crucial for a child's wellbeing. There is a range of surfacing options for you to choose from which can all have the benefit of protecting a child from serious injuries.
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Play area surfaces are installed in facilities which are going to be used by a community and the public. They have to be safe as young children will utilise them. There are different safety surface types which include wet pour, rubber-mulch, rubberised bark and grass mats.
Wetpour rubber safety flooring is a popular choice for an outdoor play area surface as it has different design options with lots of different colours and graphics. However there may be other children's playground surface specifications which give the play area flooring a more natural-looking finish, these can include:
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Suppose you'd like a more colourful appearance for your nearby outdoor play area flooring in Achnasheen/Achadh na Sine IV22 2 you could choose to install wet pour playground surfacing instead. This is commonly known as rubberised tarmac or bouncy playground surface as it's made using EPDM rubber so it absorbs impact and provides a more child-friendly playground flooring. You can add playground markings or number grids to make it even more exciting for the children.
To find out more about wet pour surfaces, please click here http://www.playgroundflooring.org.uk/wet-pour/highland/achnasheen-achadh-na-sine/ When building a playground floor at a nursery or primary school, the wet pour EPDM specification comes in two layers a base layer and a wearing course which can then be altered to meet the requirements of each play area.
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The wearing course of wet pour playground safety surfacing is made of EPDM granules which get mixed together with a binder; this mixture is then laid out in liquid form and left to cure. Graphic designs and activity markings can also be applied within the kids' wet pour playground surfacing to create a fun and educational environment.
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What if Michael Jackson was still alive?
If Michael Jackson were still alive today, he would have just celebrated his 55th birthday and the world would know the outcome of his comeback efforts.
He might be embarking on a new career in filmmaking and probably would be nudging his eldest son in the same direction.
As a trial pursued by the singer's mother against the promoters of Jackson's planned comeback concerts draws to a close, jurors may soon be considering intriguing what-ifs had the King of Pop lived.
Throughout the trial, which has spanned 21 weeks and more than 50 witnesses, the panel of six men and six women has heard evidence about Jackson's ambitions and his undisputed devotion for his three children and mother.
If jurors determine that AEG Live LLC is liable for Jackson's death, the group will then have to decide how much to compensate the singer's three children and his mother for the loss of a loving father and an entertainer potentially capable of earning tens of millions of dollars a year.
In order to award Jackson's family any money, the panel would have to determine that AEG Live hired the doctor convicted of administering an overdose of the anesthetic propofol in June 2009.
AEG denies it hired former cardiologist Conrad Murray or bears any responsibility for Jackson's death.
The company's lawyers point to evidence that Murray treated Jackson for years before preparations for the "This Is It" shows began and testimony that the singer was secretive about his medical care.
Yet whether or not the jury will need to determine compensation for Jackson's family, the trial has revealed new details about the superstar's post-tour plans.
Witnesses have described the entertainer's interest in another career as a filmmaker after wrapping up his "This Is It" shows, which were slated to begin in July 2009.
The singer's contract included provisions for a worldwide tour after the singer completed a run of 50 shows planned at London's O2 Arena, but AEG executives say the global shows weren't a certainty.
Experts hired by Jackson's mother have testified Jackson could have earned a billion dollars or more on a worldwide tour, a figure that defense experts have attacked as speculative and far in excess of earnings from the singer's previous tours.
Jackson's success or failure during the "This Is It" shows would have determined his future course.
By many witnesses' accounts, including his son Prince and a trusted nephew, Jackson was eyeing a second career as a filmmaker.
He considered his long-form music videos such as "Thriller" and "Remember the Time" as films, but was eyeing even bigger projects on Egypt's King Tut and a Chicago gangster film
Prince Jackson, 16, recalled during the trial that his father would often show him films twice - the first time with the sound off so that they could analyze shots together.
The teenager still has aspirations in show business and told jurors he is considering film school, a decision his father might have steered him toward if he was alive.
The singer suggested to his nephew Taj that he study filmmaking as well, urging him to focus on 3-D technologies that hadn't yet become mainstream in 2009.
"He just loved the technology and he wanted to do something groundbreaking with it," Taj said.
He said his uncle talked about working with famous directors and about doing movies based on some of his hits, including "Smooth Criminal."
Jackson's devotion to his three children has been a major focus of the trial. The entertainer closely guarded their privacy and often had them wear masks while in public.
Since their father's death, Prince, Paris and Blanket have become household names and their faces are now well-known.
The children now live with Katherine Jackson and are supported by their father's estate, which has successfully erased the singer's sizable debts and have kept interest for his music high.
But their father's death has taken away the children's primary caregiver and a father who by all accounts during the trial sought to bring his children happiness and instill in them a sense that they should help others.
The family's attorneys haven't told the jury how much they're asking for the loss of Michael Jackson, yet they could reveal a suggested amount during closing arguments, set to begin Tuesday.
Attorneys and experts hired by AEG Live have presented a different version of Jackson's long-term prospects throughout the trial, showing evidence that the singer was deep in debt and sought out the anesthetic that eventually killed him in the months before his death.
Jackson was on the brink of losing his signature asset, his stake in the Sony-ATV music catalog that includes songs by The Beatles and other top acts, the company's experts told the jury.
The singer's medical care has also been thoroughly detailed throughout the trial and it has revealed new information about Jackson's relationship with Murray.
The former cardiologist accompanied Jackson to a 2007 medical appointment in Las Vegas and paid for the cosmetic procedure, a doctor who treated Jackson recalled in testimony.
AEG's attorneys have argued that Murray was Jackson's personal doctor and the company was merely advancing the physician's $150,000 a month fee to work on the "This Is It" shows.
It will take at least nine jurors to agree that AEG indeed hired Murray if the panel is to then consider the what-ifs of Michael Jackson's ambitions.


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This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction or copy.
Source: Atlas of Bacteriology published in 1901.
Condition: Excellent, no visible markings or discolouration.
This print comes mounted, matted in antique white or black and is also available framed. We use archival matting methods so your print will be held in place with photo corners and will not be fixed to either the mat or the backing board.
The information page is for reference only and will not be included with your order.
Measurements including the mat are 8 x 10 inches. The mat window size is 4.5 x 6.5 inches.
Choose from 9 beautiful wooden frame options. All of our frames are made in the UK from solid wood (usually pine) and have a varnish or paint finish. See listing photos for details of frame options and an example of how your print would look framed.
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Cross-Brushed effect finish - Gold & Champagne Silver - 22mm wide and 13mm deep
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Thank you for visiting our locksmith services in Bangor, PA: 18013. If you need a locksmith in Bangor PA, right now, you've just arrived to the right place.
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Aylesford is said to be the oldest village in England. The name 'Aylesford' comes from 'Angles' Ford' - the place where the Angles crossed the river Medway. The brothers Hengist and Horsa, leaders of the first Anglo-Saxon invasion, landed in Aylesford in 449 A.D., where they set themselves up as the first Kings of Kent. Horsa was killed in 455, so he wasn't such a cute Angle. His obtuse brother, Hengist, lived another thirty-three years.
After a peaceful four hundred years, Alfred the Great beat the Danes (the score is not recorded) and some four hundred years later the Carmelite order founded the Aylesford Friary in 1240 or 1283, (depending on which book you read.)
In 1954, mendicancy not being what it was, David Leach set up the Aylesford Priory Pottery for the White Friars. He stayed for a year, teaching pottery to the monks, and then handed over managership to Colin Pearson.
The pottery is still in production, making the stoneware goods that have made it famous for over half a century.


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The t-shirt is made of premium quality ring spun cotton for a great quality soft feel, and comfortable retail fit. Our soft textile flex print gives a really high end finish to any striking design. This high quality print will not crack or fade which ensures your garment stays looking fantastic.
Brand - Bella Canvas
Sizes Available - XS, S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL
XS - Body Width is 16 ½ " and length is 27"
S - Body Width is 18 " and length is 28"
M - Body Width is 20 " and length is 29"
L - Body Width is 22 " and length is 30"
XL - Body Width is 24 " and length is 31"
2XL - Body Width is 26 " and length is 32"
3XL - Body Width is 28 " and length is 33"