I looked down on WU with scorn from day one! I used it...what else did I have? It was a bad situation, to say the least!
Since then I have discovered the joys of RedHat 8.0 and I steer well clear of all this.
HOWEVER...
Why would Microsoft need this data? There is nothing they can physically do with what I have installed. It can't help piracy by any means...no illegal programs are stupid enough to be shoved into the A/RP menus. Name and address...possibly. Marketing love addresses, possibly email ones (MSN Hotmail spam....?). But then, what can we expect? We naturally hold a deep mistrust of big corps, and a behemoth like MS will arouse suspicion...and this is a goldmine for those that hold such a mistrust.
My school uses nothing but Win2K. It takes 5 minutes to log in, and all is disjointed. The sad thing is that they have just lost their last Linux server, which says a lot.
Well yeah, fine, you do get complete assholes posting random fsck to their sites, but some of the personal sites are pure gold. RealBastard is a fantastic example of how great blogging can be. It's when people just post crappy Lord of The Rings pics and pictures of various housebroken animals, and a running commentary of how they got drunk/stoned off their ass, "W00t!!!1"s and all, that it gets irritating.
Blogs can be good for many things. Exposing corporate shams, for instance. If you say what the fsckwad in a certain CompUSA store said/did to you, you are helping people make an informed decision.
This should work well for Google. (Says the person who asked if google.com free email would be available soon!) =)
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It was all so damn obvious!!!
I looked down on WU with scorn from day one! I used it...what else did I have? It was a bad situation, to say the least!
Since then I have discovered the joys of RedHat 8.0 and I steer well clear of all this.
HOWEVER...
Why would Microsoft need this data? There is nothing they can physically do with what I have installed. It can't help piracy by any means...no illegal programs are stupid enough to be shoved into the A/RP menus. Name and address...possibly. Marketing love addresses, possibly email ones (MSN Hotmail spam....?). But then, what can we expect? We naturally hold a deep mistrust of big corps, and a behemoth like MS will arouse suspicion...and this is a goldmine for those that hold such a mistrust.
On a lighter note, SUE EM!!!!! =D
My school uses nothing but Win2K. It takes 5 minutes to log in, and all is disjointed. The sad thing is that they have just lost their last Linux server, which says a lot.
Well yeah, fine, you do get complete assholes posting random fsck to their sites, but some of the personal sites are pure gold. RealBastard is a fantastic example of how great blogging can be. It's when people just post crappy Lord of The Rings pics and pictures of various housebroken animals, and a running commentary of how they got drunk/stoned off their ass, "W00t!!!1"s and all, that it gets irritating.
Blogs can be good for many things. Exposing corporate shams, for instance. If you say what the fsckwad in a certain CompUSA store said/did to you, you are helping people make an informed decision.
This should work well for Google. (Says the person who asked if google.com free email would be available soon!) =)
AOL did something good!
Now, all we have to do is rid them of all their evilness, the moneychasing and all and we'll be happy! Yay!