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by jevgeni 7y ago
Which makes the hypocrisy even more blatant.
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How is that different from any OEM bundling then? And also, how would a link to the store track and analyse you?
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by jevgeni 7y ago
In my years on HN I have never seen it on the front page. Ever.
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The whataboutism defense is absolutely failing at this point. If there was material criticism on HN of say Ubuntu or other providers for the same stuff Microsoft gets criticized your words might've been credible. But there isn't a
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by jevgeni 7y ago
I also have Win 10 Pro and the maximum I had was, I think, "Install Minecraft" link or something. This is not like Win 10 Home where they tried to keep the ads coming. Which also makes sense, since you are getting a discounted OS.
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In no version do you have a "keylogger".
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by jevgeni 7y ago
The fact that you have to actively and deliberately fork over cash for Windows, but not for Android, where it's hidden -- that really seems to trip people up.
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by jevgeni 7y ago
Well, if the software is paid in full, there are no ads.
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by jevgeni 7y ago
A bit of off-topic, but I love the elegance of gravitational energy storage, like what the Swiss are doing: https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris...
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by jevgeni 7y ago
I think it's mostly due to the structure of the market: you can't sensibly reduce supply of power when demand drops like with commodities like oil. So the price is the only free variable left.
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by jevgeni 7y ago
I know of some numerical instability and a faulty or inefficient implementation of the normal distribution formulas (NORM.INV, I believe). Was a while back when I ran into this, so can't give more details. That being said, basic financ
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by jevgeni 7y ago
One example is facial recognition. From what I gather, there is a growing consensus that unrestrained facial recognition might be either in conflict, or pose a potential threat to certain legal rights of European citizens. In Germany, for e
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by jevgeni 7y ago
Catalina bricked my iMac, so I'm not surprised. Thinking of salvaging what I can and getting a beefy Lenovo after like 20 years of using a Mac.
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by jevgeni 7y ago
I think it's called "comparative advertising". It is legal in the U.S. but definitely illegal in Germany and I bet in other European countries.
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Totally agree.
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It is not, because they are not a monopoly.
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This is not news, if people here are collectively OK with such behavior if it is done by a company they haven’t been trained to hate.
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It’s not illegal in the U.S.
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Key point: at that time . It’s not an absolute.
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And probably due to that GOOG’s tracking is way more intrusive. But yeah, the bandwagon isn’t going to jump on itself.
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by jevgeni 7y ago
> What the law currently happens to be is irrelevant to the question what it should be. I advise you to take a civics course. This is literally not true. > Please tell me how those pop-ups reflect a design flaw in the GDPR. In short:
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by jevgeni 7y ago
Mate, you are hilarious! From the Wikipedia article you cited : “ The issue central to the case was whether Microsoft was allowed to bundle its flagship Internet Explorer (IE) web browser software with its Windows operating system.” So y
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https://www.justice.gov/atr/case-document/file/504251/downlo... Those devious Microsoft PR execs at the Justice Department...
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> What is this, a court of law? You're talking about legislature (i.e. state stepping in). What did you think this was about? Crossfit? > You don't get to blame the GDPR Of course I do. Badly designed laws need to be blamed.
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Holy hell.. Can you imagine the complexity of such a legislation?
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You are talking again in technical terms. Legally this is all irrelevant.
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> Chrome is not part of the OS. Legally irrelevant. If that was relevant, Microsoft wouldn't be attacked for bundling IE. > It's not only possible but easy... Please tell us how, then. Preferably in a way unlike the whole GD
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by jevgeni 7y ago
What I was saying is that the whole point of an installation is to modify the user's system. It is pretty unlikely that legally it would be possible to have such fine grained differentiation between replacing and appending. And I'
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So, any modification of the OS environment would be illegal. Like, say, updating the PATH.
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We need the same but for newsletter modal ads on websites. And newsletters themselves.

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