Yes they are. But most likely from nicotinoids, not glycophosphate GM crops.
The roundup resistant crops are not causing other crops to die in Argentina?
No, the herbicides used on the crops are.
You've got your cause and effect all mixed up. Roundup ready crops are indeed a bad idea, but because they have the problem of resistance more than anything else. So the concept of using a food product engineered to resist one herbicide, just means you are buying time.
But if you like the idea of falsifying data to suit your viewpoint, it says more about you than it does about whatever the fraudulent data is trying to condemn.
It's like I always say to the Anti-Vaxxers - wouldn't you like to know what the real reasons for the problem are, not decide something was the problem and declare the job finished?
If I had billions to lose, I would also cast doubt upon the scientific claims.
2 Insightful?
Excellent we need an insightful person to tell us why it wasn't out and out fraud to manipulate teh images they manipulated to get the results that they wanted.
If you have to lie to make your stupid ideas "the truth" You are still lying, and your stupid ideas aren't the truth.
Isn't there an anti-vaccine protest you're missing out on somewhere?
Apple Princess In Charge can't create, and now it appears can't count. Maybe Princess should take his crap somewhere else, more rewarding like Sri Lanka?
You seem to be fixated on thinking about him as a Disney Princess, eh?
No one cares about that shit any more. 'cept you and Kim Davis.
Actually, there is a push to get more men involved in early education. Boys, and especially black boys, tend to do significantly better if their teachers are male, and girls do no worse. Female teachers are four times as likely to refer boys to be medically evaluated for HDD. Males teachers are more likely to make the kid run some laps around the playground.
Of course young students need a male influence. It's a little difficult to imagine that the male is needed only for insemination purposes.
But you see, a male in a field like teaching is automatically assumed to be a pedophile, and in secondary education, considered a sure bet to be into underage girls.
Of course this is not true, and there are female pedophiles as well, but as a wise man once told me, Perception is indistinguishable from truth if everyone hold that perception.
If ladies think that seeing a photo of a playboy model's face or a dongle joke keeps them out of a field, they need to try the experience all of the mothers telling everyone that "There's something a little odd about that Mr Smith don't you think? I mean why would a grown man want to teach first graders?" And so it starts. It will take a societal change that isn't going to happen any time soon. There is no amount of money that they could pay me to be in a field where the "customers, and probably half the co-workers would assume I was using the classroom as a sexual partner procurement venue.
Don't pooh-pooh IQ results just because they might make you uncomfortable. If you believe IQ is an "inexact" measurement, I suggest educating yourself. Go google "Raven's progressive matrices" or hit up Amazon for "Race Differences in Intelligence." Or, you know, simply avoid making such statements without citations.
I refer more to Stephen Jay Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man" . Racial intelligence and those who seek to apply it, also apply their metrics to individual countries, and groups. And I've met to many stupis "white" people to give the idea that we are the superior race much credence.
What is more ironically amusing is that people who use irrelevant statistics to determine something as personal as individual traits such as intelligence are ironically showing a bit of stupidity themselves.
It's something that a particular set of racists do whenever they are faced with a brilliant person of a different race. The only way they can make themselves feel better under those circumstances is to point to some discredited "scientific study" that demonstrates their intellectual superiority as a group..
But they conveniently forget that "whites" were not at the top of that list. So not only are some white people stupid enough to believe that some long discredited pseudoscicen can tell them how to instantly determind an individual's intelligence, they manage to ignore that their studies show that caucasions should not be the leaders.
An interesting link I found about Jay Gould's 1981 book, "The Mismeasure of Man" is interesting reading.
Perhaps some of the material can be of further use to these racists:
German brains weigh on average 100 grams more than French brains - as "found by a German scientist.
Early 20th Century H.H. Goddard gave intelligence tests to immigrants, and "found out" that 83% of the Jews, 80% of the Hungarians, 79% of the Italians, and 87% of the Russians were "feeble minded".
Robert Yerkes tested Military recruits and "showed" that the average American had a mental age of 13 years.. He also "showed" that 37 percent of whites and 89% of negros had a mental aage of less than 13 years.
This kind of bullshit was used to justify segregation laws, most in the south.
And it has all been discredited. At very best, it is pointless, at worst, it starts to resemble eugenics.
(Of course, none of this accounts for aspects of intelligence not considered by IQ, like social ability.)
And despite a post that sounds pretty good, you fall right into the same trap.
Exactly what is "social ability" as defined by race?
And how does any of this stuff apply to the individual? I'd suggest a better approach is noting that taking a very inexact system like measuring IQ, then applying exacting statistics to it, and using it as an approach to an entire race is proof of the applier's stupidity, and disproves the theory.
It puts 'em into a circular logic loop, and they freak out like a TV show's 1960's computer burning up because it was asked to divide by zero.
Africans are widely accepted to have superior social ability. That is a form of intelligence not accounted for by IQ. Your implication that Africans are dumber on the basis of IQ conveniently ignores that fact. But then, bigots and creationists are really good at paying attention only to whatever skewed interpretation of the facts supports their case
Averaging intelligence by race means:
Not one goddamned thing. Why some people take a metric, one of the most personal ones at that, and try to apply it to an entire race or gender is amazing. And remarkably stupid.
Does average intelligence by race make Bill O'Reilly more intelligent than Neil DeGrasse Tyson? Does the average age of Eskimos in Alaska mean that all Eskimos in Alaska are that age?
So while I'm not completely convinced of the veracity of the IQ by race statistics in the first place, even if true, it doesn't tell me one thing about the person of a particular race I might meet, so it's like the fact that "It's warmer down South than it is in the winter".
What is more ironically amusing is that people who use irrelevant statistics to determine something as personal as individual traits such as intelligence are ironically showing a bit of stupidity themselves.
"Are Some Things About the Universe Fundamentally Unknowable?"
No.
Thanks for playing.
Good luck in the next PowerBall.
And don't forget to watch "Ancient Aliens" on the History Channel folks. They'll tell you about how humans are too stupid to do anything and how everything on earth is rbecause of ancient aliens.
It's like the answer channel for Intelligent design creationists and general dumbasses.
Looks like second burn went well and payload was successfully deployed. Maybe the OP was just from the (very near) future?
Calling the landing a "partial success" is probably a very optimistic way of putting it, as I imagine it likely hit the platform too hard (due to the waves?), broke one of the legs, and fell over, possibly with a big boom. Still, it's difficult to say without at least a video.
This is why I think that barge landing is pointless, unless it is on a nice still lake, or the barge is 100 percent stabilized. If teh barge is lifting, it can land too hard. If sinking it might be a little better. Just seems like an un-needed complication
Just did some youtube browsing on Lubuntu. Looks pretty nice. Menu is a bit bare-bones. I might try it on my Asus eee netbooks since they're never going to be able to do anything splashier anyway.
I would. Mine is dual booting between XP and Ubuntu. I have an RF location system on the Windows side, or else I'd go with Lubuntu full time. As long as you have internet access during the install, the install should be easy.
I've been hearing a lot of about LXDE but have not tried it. My main concerns about it would be:
- Which distros are properly bundled with it?
That part I'm not so certain about.
- Does it have eye candy for more powerful machines (a la compix/emerald)
It's fairly spartan. I'd compare it to XP. The interface is designed to run on older machines, so while it looks okay, there aren't animations or flying windows. Certainly my netbook handled it just fine, It does have a slimmed down Office suite on it - Abiword, IIRC I decieded to try Apache Office on te netbook since I use AO for my PC's and Macs, and have finally achieved true compatibility, which Microsoft Office never had between Mac and PC. The netbook runs AO just fine.
- How friendly is it for windows users?
I think it would be considered pretty friendly. It doesn't have any of the normal Ubuntu Cruft, so there isn't a big learning curve. Maybe even easier than Mint? NOt as modern I suppose, but completely adequate.
I have also seen a lot of improvements. Multiple monitor support is almost trouble free, for example.
Which reminds me. In one of my more derpy moments, I was having a heck of a time getting a multiple monitor setup running. The laptop became horribly sluggish, screen updates were taking forever.
Then I figured out that the multiple monitor setup was thinking completely differently than Windows. I had the second monitor sitting to the right of the primary monitor So the laptop was thinking it had to provide an extremely wide and skinny monitor.
I didn't figure it out until I tried stacking the monitors vertically on the setup screen, after which it worked perfectly.
And that's when I figured out that some people - and me in that case, try to enforce Windows on a Linux machine
My next derpy moment was soon after, when my computer mentor told me to think of OSX as the slickest version of Linux. At that point it all clicked. Yeah, there are differences, but underlying it all, many similarities.
I usually stick with the main versions. Ubuntu, Mint lately. Life is too short. The craziest thing I did recently was try Bodhi linux for a media center. I actually liked it for that use except it is rough around the edges, and I had the video tearing. I have not tried Lubuntu.. what desktop manager does that come bundled with?
LXDE. The only roughness I've found was trying to turn off the screen saver. Otherwise it makes the old eePC it is on sing.
Having all the keystrokes sent is another myth. Windows can send some typing and inking samples to improve recognition. It's not a full keylogger.
Your pants are deflagrating as we speak!
Get ready, I have my W10 computer and we'll give you a little eddy cation.
I went to my Windows 10 computer Settings/general/ then clicked on the privacy statement. It's long, so I'm mostly just using your myth stuff. Some stuff makes some sense - you have to give up some info to simply use teh internet.
Name and contact data. We collect your first and last name, email address, postal address, phone number, and other similar contact data.
Credentials. We collect passwords, password hints, and similar security information used for authentication and account access.
Yikes! (my yikes added) Back to their myth
Demographic data. We collect data about you such as your age, gender, country and preferred language.
Interests and favorites. We collect data about your interests and favorites, such as the teams you follow in a sports app, the stocks you track in a finance app, or the favorite cities you add to a weather app. In addition to those you explicitly provide, your interests and favorites may also be inferred or derived from other data we collect.
Contacts and relationships. We collect data about your contacts and relationships if you use a Microsoft service to manage contacts, or to communicate or interact with other people or organizations.
Location data. We collect data about your location, which can be either precise or imprecise. Precise location data can be Global Position System (GPS) data, as well as data identifying nearby cell towers and Wi-Fi hotspots, we collect when you enable location-based services or features. Imprecise location data includes, for example, a location derived from your IP address or data that indicates where you are located with less precision, such as at a city or postal code level.
Content. We collect content of your files and communications when necessary to provide you with the services you use. For example, if you receive an email using Outlook.com, we need to collect the content of that email in order to deliver it to your inbox, display it to you, enable you to reply to it, and store it for you until you choose to delete it. Examples of this data include: the content of your documents, photos, music or video you upload to a Microsoft service such as OneDrive, as well as the content of your communications sent or received using Microsoft services such Outlook.com or Skype, including the:
subject line and body of an email,
text or other content of an instant message,
audio and video recording of a video message, and
audio recording and transcript of a voice message you receive or a text message you dictate.
You have choices about the data we collect. When you are asked to provide personal data, you may decline. But if you choose not to provide data that is necessary to provide a service, you may not be able to use some features or services.
Microsoft collects and uses data about your speech, inking (handwriting), and typing on Windows devices to help improve and personalize our ability to correctly recognize your input.
For example, to provide personalized speech recognition, we collect your voice input, as well your name and nickname, your recent calendar events and the names of the people in your appointments, and information about your contacts including names and nicknames. This additional data enables us to better recognize people and events when you dictate messages or documents.
Additionally, your typed and handwritten words are collected to provide you a personalized user dictionary, help you type and write on your device with better character recognition, and provide you
> I'm still waiting for actual evidence that what is collected and sent is somehow nefarious.
Why?
The last few years have seen the justification of several things that were considered "tin foil hat" before.
"Trust now, hope we didn't fuck up" is a terrible strategy. Most importantly, having all your keystrokes, contacts, emails, envelope information about contacts, etc., pushed up for ANY reason is a bad idea.
As has been pointed out from security experts to the outfits that want all of this surveillence of plain old citizens, the folks who don't want encryption but want the backdoors, is that if Microsoft can pull everything you do via their acknowledged frontdoor backdoors, its only a matter of time before other people get it as well.
As they tell us, they scrub the data they collect, which means they have it all, and it's been sent out to them.
It takes an alomst pathological level of fanboyism to stand up for that. MAybe they should think of it this way - How are they going to watch their shemale midget scat porn videos when Microsoft is clogging their internet with spying on them? At least have teh dignity to put some tape over the camera, Microsoft lubbers!
Facepalm. That's just overblown trash-talk. Microsoft collects basic telemetry like system uptime, installed updates, and how many times you have used UWP apps. They don't touch your personal files and they don't know what you do inside apps.
It takes a special kind of fanboy to deny what Microsoft tells you in their documentation. Go read it.
If this is the reason why you want to move to Linux, then good luck. There are plenty of reasons to choose to use Linux, but support of new architectures without being forced to upgrade the OS isn't one.
Which ones? I've been installing Linux on new and almost new computers with no issues for years now. Last time I had an issue was with a soundcard driver on a brand new release some years ago. The next day, the driver was ready.
I can't be arsed to spend hours or days dicking about with something that should just work.
And you honestly think Windows "just work"(s) ?
When I got a new machine, and it came with Windows 8.1, I spent hours d---ing around just trying to FIND things. I installed Linux, and it worked with just a single video card tweak, which took me less than five minutes to find on-line and then apply. Sure, maybe not something for the "average" user, but neither is a Windows install.
Pretty much this! On Windows 8, I had to go to the web to figure out how to do things I could do in my sleep since forever. Which is why I eventually refused to support W8, and started a total move to Linux and OS X. Now I have returned to helping support W10 computers, since there was a program only on Windows that I needed. It's much better to maintain, but updates are breaking a lot of things. Every BOHICA update has resulted in frantic cries for help, with biggies being sound cards, virtual sound cards, virtual serial ports, device manager issues. Programs that need to communicate with each other stopping and needing a Revo uninstaller type uninstall, then a total reinstallation of all programs. No-choice restarts in the middle of critical work. Graphics card problems - fine one day, then gone wonky after an update. Parallels VM problems, Changing power management problems after an update that knock people LANs off line.
And I stopped because I got tired of typing, not run out of W10 problems.
To think that these jokers are trying to say that Windows is the stable one. I'll trade a problem like 1 video card driver needing updated to what is rapidly becoming a completely unreliable platform.
Windows has always broken systems when it updates. But the new BOHICA style updates just make it an ongoing issue. Oh - I forgot, some of the updates have reset the update options, so even in Winodws Pro, where you used to be able to delay the pain, you now get it fresh off the griddle at the shithouse fire.
You must be pretty thick if it took you two days to do that. It's a piece of piss. Linux could've taken Microsoft to the cleaners had the holy warriors been prepared to work together but instead we have fragmentation, drivers that break from version to version and now systemd. I used to love using Linux but I got sick of trying to get it to do what I want. I probably could figure out but I can't be arsed to spend hours or days dicking about with something that should just work.
Yeah, When I tried Linux mint, My truck engine blew up, My dog ran away, my wife left me for the neighbor's son, the bank repossessed my house, the south 40 caught fire, and all my milch cows went dry. And systemd ate my balls.
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So butteflys didn't actually die fro BT crops?
No
Bees are not sick?
Yes they are. But most likely from nicotinoids, not glycophosphate GM crops.
The roundup resistant crops are not causing other crops to die in Argentina?
No, the herbicides used on the crops are.
You've got your cause and effect all mixed up. Roundup ready crops are indeed a bad idea, but because they have the problem of resistance more than anything else. So the concept of using a food product engineered to resist one herbicide, just means you are buying time.
But if you like the idea of falsifying data to suit your viewpoint, it says more about you than it does about whatever the fraudulent data is trying to condemn.
It's like I always say to the Anti-Vaxxers - wouldn't you like to know what the real reasons for the problem are, not decide something was the problem and declare the job finished?
No Way!!!!!
No, Science found out that fraud was fraud. Science was just doing it's job.
If I had billions to lose, I would also cast doubt upon the scientific claims.
2 Insightful?
Excellent we need an insightful person to tell us why it wasn't out and out fraud to manipulate teh images they manipulated to get the results that they wanted.
If you have to lie to make your stupid ideas "the truth" You are still lying, and your stupid ideas aren't the truth.
Isn't there an anti-vaccine protest you're missing out on somewhere?
Apple Princess In Charge can't create, and now it appears can't count. Maybe Princess should take his crap somewhere else, more rewarding like Sri Lanka?
You seem to be fixated on thinking about him as a Disney Princess, eh?
No one cares about that shit any more. 'cept you and Kim Davis.
Actually, there is a push to get more men involved in early education. Boys, and especially black boys, tend to do significantly better if their teachers are male, and girls do no worse. Female teachers are four times as likely to refer boys to be medically evaluated for HDD. Males teachers are more likely to make the kid run some laps around the playground.
Of course young students need a male influence. It's a little difficult to imagine that the male is needed only for insemination purposes.
But you see, a male in a field like teaching is automatically assumed to be a pedophile, and in secondary education, considered a sure bet to be into underage girls.
Of course this is not true, and there are female pedophiles as well, but as a wise man once told me, Perception is indistinguishable from truth if everyone hold that perception.
If ladies think that seeing a photo of a playboy model's face or a dongle joke keeps them out of a field, they need to try the experience all of the mothers telling everyone that "There's something a little odd about that Mr Smith don't you think? I mean why would a grown man want to teach first graders?" And so it starts. It will take a societal change that isn't going to happen any time soon. There is no amount of money that they could pay me to be in a field where the "customers, and probably half the co-workers would assume I was using the classroom as a sexual partner procurement venue.
Don't pooh-pooh IQ results just because they might make you uncomfortable. If you believe IQ is an "inexact" measurement, I suggest educating yourself. Go google "Raven's progressive matrices" or hit up Amazon for "Race Differences in Intelligence." Or, you know, simply avoid making such statements without citations.
I refer more to Stephen Jay Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man" . Racial intelligence and those who seek to apply it, also apply their metrics to individual countries, and groups. And I've met to many stupis "white" people to give the idea that we are the superior race much credence.
It's something that a particular set of racists do whenever they are faced with a brilliant person of a different race. The only way they can make themselves feel better under those circumstances is to point to some discredited "scientific study" that demonstrates their intellectual superiority as a group..
But they conveniently forget that "whites" were not at the top of that list. So not only are some white people stupid enough to believe that some long discredited pseudoscicen can tell them how to instantly determind an individual's intelligence, they manage to ignore that their studies show that caucasions should not be the leaders.
An interesting link I found about Jay Gould's 1981 book, "The Mismeasure of Man" is interesting reading.
Perhaps some of the material can be of further use to these racists:
German brains weigh on average 100 grams more than French brains - as "found by a German scientist.
Early 20th Century H.H. Goddard gave intelligence tests to immigrants, and "found out" that 83% of the Jews, 80% of the Hungarians, 79% of the Italians, and 87% of the Russians were "feeble minded".
Robert Yerkes tested Military recruits and "showed" that the average American had a mental age of 13 years.. He also "showed" that 37 percent of whites and 89% of negros had a mental aage of less than 13 years.
This kind of bullshit was used to justify segregation laws, most in the south.
And it has all been discredited. At very best, it is pointless, at worst, it starts to resemble eugenics.
(Of course, none of this accounts for aspects of intelligence not considered by IQ, like social ability.)
And despite a post that sounds pretty good, you fall right into the same trap.
Exactly what is "social ability" as defined by race?
And how does any of this stuff apply to the individual? I'd suggest a better approach is noting that taking a very inexact system like measuring IQ, then applying exacting statistics to it, and using it as an approach to an entire race is proof of the applier's stupidity, and disproves the theory.
It puts 'em into a circular logic loop, and they freak out like a TV show's 1960's computer burning up because it was asked to divide by zero.
Africans are widely accepted to have superior social ability. That is a form of intelligence not accounted for by IQ. Your implication that Africans are dumber on the basis of IQ conveniently ignores that fact. But then, bigots and creationists are really good at paying attention only to whatever skewed interpretation of the facts supports their case
Averaging intelligence by race means:
Not one goddamned thing. Why some people take a metric, one of the most personal ones at that, and try to apply it to an entire race or gender is amazing. And remarkably stupid.
Does average intelligence by race make Bill O'Reilly more intelligent than Neil DeGrasse Tyson? Does the average age of Eskimos in Alaska mean that all Eskimos in Alaska are that age?
So while I'm not completely convinced of the veracity of the IQ by race statistics in the first place, even if true, it doesn't tell me one thing about the person of a particular race I might meet, so it's like the fact that "It's warmer down South than it is in the winter".
What is more ironically amusing is that people who use irrelevant statistics to determine something as personal as individual traits such as intelligence are ironically showing a bit of stupidity themselves.
Any wagers on how this will turn out?
Forbes had been blocked having become increasingly annoying over period of years until recently reaching the height of becoming perilous to visit.
While there might be information contained within Forbes I remain doubtful I will ever be able to discover it.
Go fuck themselves, forbes can.
"Are Some Things About the Universe Fundamentally Unknowable?"
No.
Thanks for playing.
Good luck in the next PowerBall.
And don't forget to watch "Ancient Aliens" on the History Channel folks. They'll tell you about how humans are too stupid to do anything and how everything on earth is rbecause of ancient aliens. It's like the answer channel for Intelligent design creationists and general dumbasses.
First, there was everything. Then it changed.
That begs the question, then, of what caused it to change?
Ancient Aliens.
Looks like second burn went well and payload was successfully deployed. Maybe the OP was just from the (very near) future?
Calling the landing a "partial success" is probably a very optimistic way of putting it, as I imagine it likely hit the platform too hard (due to the waves?), broke one of the legs, and fell over, possibly with a big boom. Still, it's difficult to say without at least a video.
This is why I think that barge landing is pointless, unless it is on a nice still lake, or the barge is 100 percent stabilized. If teh barge is lifting, it can land too hard. If sinking it might be a little better. Just seems like an un-needed complication
Just did some youtube browsing on Lubuntu. Looks pretty nice. Menu is a bit bare-bones. I might try it on my Asus eee netbooks since they're never going to be able to do anything splashier anyway.
I would. Mine is dual booting between XP and Ubuntu. I have an RF location system on the Windows side, or else I'd go with Lubuntu full time. As long as you have internet access during the install, the install should be easy.
I've been hearing a lot of about LXDE but have not tried it. My main concerns about it would be: - Which distros are properly bundled with it?
That part I'm not so certain about.
- Does it have eye candy for more powerful machines (a la compix/emerald)
It's fairly spartan. I'd compare it to XP. The interface is designed to run on older machines, so while it looks okay, there aren't animations or flying windows. Certainly my netbook handled it just fine, It does have a slimmed down Office suite on it - Abiword, IIRC I decieded to try Apache Office on te netbook since I use AO for my PC's and Macs, and have finally achieved true compatibility, which Microsoft Office never had between Mac and PC. The netbook runs AO just fine.
- How friendly is it for windows users?
I think it would be considered pretty friendly. It doesn't have any of the normal Ubuntu Cruft, so there isn't a big learning curve. Maybe even easier than Mint? NOt as modern I suppose, but completely adequate.
I have also seen a lot of improvements. Multiple monitor support is almost trouble free, for example.
Which reminds me. In one of my more derpy moments, I was having a heck of a time getting a multiple monitor setup running. The laptop became horribly sluggish, screen updates were taking forever.
Then I figured out that the multiple monitor setup was thinking completely differently than Windows. I had the second monitor sitting to the right of the primary monitor So the laptop was thinking it had to provide an extremely wide and skinny monitor.
I didn't figure it out until I tried stacking the monitors vertically on the setup screen, after which it worked perfectly.
And that's when I figured out that some people - and me in that case, try to enforce Windows on a Linux machine
My next derpy moment was soon after, when my computer mentor told me to think of OSX as the slickest version of Linux. At that point it all clicked. Yeah, there are differences, but underlying it all, many similarities.
I usually stick with the main versions. Ubuntu, Mint lately. Life is too short. The craziest thing I did recently was try Bodhi linux for a media center. I actually liked it for that use except it is rough around the edges, and I had the video tearing. I have not tried Lubuntu.. what desktop manager does that come bundled with?
LXDE. The only roughness I've found was trying to turn off the screen saver. Otherwise it makes the old eePC it is on sing.
Most importantly, having all your keystrokes
More trash-talk.
Having all the keystrokes sent is another myth. Windows can send some typing and inking samples to improve recognition. It's not a full keylogger.
Your pants are deflagrating as we speak!
Get ready, I have my W10 computer and we'll give you a little eddy cation.
I went to my Windows 10 computer Settings/general/ then clicked on the privacy statement. It's long, so I'm mostly just using your myth stuff. Some stuff makes some sense - you have to give up some info to simply use teh internet.
Name and contact data. We collect your first and last name, email address, postal address, phone number, and other similar contact data.
Credentials. We collect passwords, password hints, and similar security information used for authentication and account access.
Yikes! (my yikes added) Back to their myth
Demographic data. We collect data about you such as your age, gender, country and preferred language.
Interests and favorites. We collect data about your interests and favorites, such as the teams you follow in a sports app, the stocks you track in a finance app, or the favorite cities you add to a weather app. In addition to those you explicitly provide, your interests and favorites may also be inferred or derived from other data we collect.
Contacts and relationships. We collect data about your contacts and relationships if you use a Microsoft service to manage contacts, or to communicate or interact with other people or organizations. Location data. We collect data about your location, which can be either precise or imprecise. Precise location data can be Global Position System (GPS) data, as well as data identifying nearby cell towers and Wi-Fi hotspots, we collect when you enable location-based services or features. Imprecise location data includes, for example, a location derived from your IP address or data that indicates where you are located with less precision, such as at a city or postal code level.
Content. We collect content of your files and communications when necessary to provide you with the services you use. For example, if you receive an email using Outlook.com, we need to collect the content of that email in order to deliver it to your inbox, display it to you, enable you to reply to it, and store it for you until you choose to delete it. Examples of this data include: the content of your documents, photos, music or video you upload to a Microsoft service such as OneDrive, as well as the content of your communications sent or received using Microsoft services such Outlook.com or Skype, including the: subject line and body of an email, text or other content of an instant message, audio and video recording of a video message, and audio recording and transcript of a voice message you receive or a text message you dictate.
You have choices about the data we collect. When you are asked to provide personal data, you may decline. But if you choose not to provide data that is necessary to provide a service, you may not be able to use some features or services.
Microsoft collects and uses data about your speech, inking (handwriting), and typing on Windows devices to help improve and personalize our ability to correctly recognize your input.
For example, to provide personalized speech recognition, we collect your voice input, as well your name and nickname, your recent calendar events and the names of the people in your appointments, and information about your contacts including names and nicknames. This additional data enables us to better recognize people and events when you dictate messages or documents.
Additionally, your typed and handwritten words are collected to provide you a personalized user dictionary, help you type and write on your device with better character recognition, and provide you
> I'm still waiting for actual evidence that what is collected and sent is somehow nefarious.
Why?
The last few years have seen the justification of several things that were considered "tin foil hat" before.
"Trust now, hope we didn't fuck up" is a terrible strategy. Most importantly, having all your keystrokes, contacts, emails, envelope information about contacts, etc., pushed up for ANY reason is a bad idea.
As has been pointed out from security experts to the outfits that want all of this surveillence of plain old citizens, the folks who don't want encryption but want the backdoors, is that if Microsoft can pull everything you do via their acknowledged frontdoor backdoors, its only a matter of time before other people get it as well. As they tell us, they scrub the data they collect, which means they have it all, and it's been sent out to them.
It takes an alomst pathological level of fanboyism to stand up for that. MAybe they should think of it this way - How are they going to watch their shemale midget scat porn videos when Microsoft is clogging their internet with spying on them? At least have teh dignity to put some tape over the camera, Microsoft lubbers!
Facepalm. That's just overblown trash-talk. Microsoft collects basic telemetry like system uptime, installed updates, and how many times you have used UWP apps. They don't touch your personal files and they don't know what you do inside apps.
It takes a special kind of fanboy to deny what Microsoft tells you in their documentation. Go read it.
Seriously, how much longer are you Microsoft holdouts going to put up with this imperialistic, authoritarian bullshit from Microsoft?
I think its called Stockholm syndrome. http://medical-dictionary.thef...
You have to admit - it fits.
If this is the reason why you want to move to Linux, then good luck. There are plenty of reasons to choose to use Linux, but support of new architectures without being forced to upgrade the OS isn't one.
Which ones? I've been installing Linux on new and almost new computers with no issues for years now. Last time I had an issue was with a soundcard driver on a brand new release some years ago. The next day, the driver was ready.
I can't be arsed to spend hours or days dicking about with something that should just work.
And you honestly think Windows "just work"(s) ?
When I got a new machine, and it came with Windows 8.1, I spent hours d---ing around just trying to FIND things. I installed Linux, and it worked with just a single video card tweak, which took me less than five minutes to find on-line and then apply. Sure, maybe not something for the "average" user, but neither is a Windows install.
Pretty much this! On Windows 8, I had to go to the web to figure out how to do things I could do in my sleep since forever. Which is why I eventually refused to support W8, and started a total move to Linux and OS X. Now I have returned to helping support W10 computers, since there was a program only on Windows that I needed. It's much better to maintain, but updates are breaking a lot of things. Every BOHICA update has resulted in frantic cries for help, with biggies being sound cards, virtual sound cards, virtual serial ports, device manager issues. Programs that need to communicate with each other stopping and needing a Revo uninstaller type uninstall, then a total reinstallation of all programs. No-choice restarts in the middle of critical work. Graphics card problems - fine one day, then gone wonky after an update. Parallels VM problems, Changing power management problems after an update that knock people LANs off line.
And I stopped because I got tired of typing, not run out of W10 problems.
To think that these jokers are trying to say that Windows is the stable one. I'll trade a problem like 1 video card driver needing updated to what is rapidly becoming a completely unreliable platform.
Windows has always broken systems when it updates. But the new BOHICA style updates just make it an ongoing issue. Oh - I forgot, some of the updates have reset the update options, so even in Winodws Pro, where you used to be able to delay the pain, you now get it fresh off the griddle at the shithouse fire.
My Linux systems? hardly a glitch. Same with OSX.
You must be pretty thick if it took you two days to do that. It's a piece of piss. Linux could've taken Microsoft to the cleaners had the holy warriors been prepared to work together but instead we have fragmentation, drivers that break from version to version and now systemd. I used to love using Linux but I got sick of trying to get it to do what I want. I probably could figure out but I can't be arsed to spend hours or days dicking about with something that should just work.
Yeah, When I tried Linux mint, My truck engine blew up, My dog ran away, my wife left me for the neighbor's son, the bank repossessed my house, the south 40 caught fire, and all my milch cows went dry. And systemd ate my balls.