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by caskance 11y ago
I'm talking about MSDN, not their privacy policy.
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by caskance 11y ago
Anyone who cares to look it up knows. Of course, there's always the chance that Microsoft is lying in their documentation, but if you mistrust them that much, you probably shouldn't use their software even if they claim to not col
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by caskance 11y ago
They do offer those options. People would just rather complain that the free upgrade they got doesn't have features they want - but apparently not enough to actually pay for them.
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by caskance 11y ago
Complain about the feature all you want, but pretending that it's not well documented or configurable is just silly. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt577208(v=vs.85...
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by caskance 11y ago
It would still be a preposterous mischaracterization of what happened.
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by caskance 11y ago
This is an insanely stupid title for an article that is essentially blogspam.
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by caskance 11y ago
Because the figures are from a PR fluff piece about how much everyone is using the new features in windows 10.
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by caskance 11y ago
It's not a zero sum game. Good companies use information they collect to provide better services. Bad companies use it to rip people off. The problem of bad companies doing bad things is independent of companies having information abou
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by caskance 11y ago
I know exactly how much "crap" customers are willing to deal with. The difference is that unlike you, I don't take it as a given that they are wrong to do so. Is your computer crap because it's not a blue gene? Are you d
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by caskance 11y ago
If that is the decision they face, that means customers did not want the thing that was sacrificed, and leaving it out is an improvement. The danger most people worry about is when the customers are getting a better experience at the expens
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by caskance 11y ago
And thanks to this technology, people can understand themselves better, if they choose to. It's truly bizzare that some people instead take away that the right way to "correct" this discrepancy is for companies to know less.
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by caskance 11y ago
Some people will never admit they are wrong...
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by caskance 11y ago
Historically, true. But we are rapidly approaching the point where there will be no privacy available to buy.
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by caskance 11y ago
Reading the description of Memebox after it caught my eye while scrolling was by far the largest disappointment I've had today.
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by caskance 11y ago
You've described a problem privacy only exacerbates. Complete enforcement is the best way to get bad laws adjusted or removed. Privacy makes that harder.
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by caskance 11y ago
Then fix the real problem of the bad law. Deflection only makes things worse.
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by caskance 11y ago
Since when do you need qualifications to blog about something?
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by caskance 11y ago
That's overly pessimistic. In many heavily regulated industries, businesses run internal audits that are not officially mandated because they realize that changing things at your own pace for your own reasons is a lot easier and looks
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by caskance 11y ago
If you assigned engineers to disassemble your competitor's product to figure out how it worked, you would put yourself at grave risk of patent suits if you let them use that knowledge in any way in developing your own products. There&#
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by caskance 11y ago
Marketing only manufactures desire if you interpret desire in the most narrow possible sense as desire for a specific product. What marketing actually does is make desires concrete and suggest to the audience how that desire can be fulfille
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by caskance 11y ago
And some people are "pretty sure" the hyper advanced alien Xenu used hydrogen bombs to detonate all volcanoes on earth simultaneously and capture everyone's thetans. Unless you have any evidence, you're just going to hav
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by caskance 11y ago
Privacy is a poor angle to pursue. It's old, and so we know, as you said, that people don't care. They have a real chance if they ride the social justice and progressivism train, though. It's hot and unlike privacy, people ca
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by caskance 11y ago
They will be reading memes and copypastas. Drink verification can will be to our children as 1984 was to us. Honestly, I envy them.
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by caskance 11y ago
It's also full of Japanese imperialist apologism. As you might expect from such a source.
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by caskance 11y ago
Contrary to your first comment, it sounds like you know very well which comments could affect your career.
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by caskance 11y ago
If he were living in Vancouver, the Chinese government would likely have not been able to execute him. And not everyone gets capital punishment.
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by caskance 11y ago
If you reasonably expect to lose your job for expressing the opinion, you're not free to express that opinion in any meaningful way.
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by caskance 11y ago
They think they will be charged with corruption and they'd like to own homes and assets in other countries that won't be seized when that happens.
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by caskance 11y ago
It depends on whether you don't take that idea seriously because you have thought seriously about whether women should stay in the kitchen and have concluded that they shouldn't, or whether it's just because that's what
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by caskance 11y ago
It's just as reasonable as defending someone who says "I don't like pumpkin pie", "I don't like racists" or "I don't like project managers". Nobody's obligated to like anyone or anythin

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