This is the same crap that malware distributors use to trick you into installing garbage on your system, displaying fake windows with fake widgets.
Why not just force the install without any user interaction at all? That would be more honest. This aren't getting consent, they aren't allowing user choice, so why the trickery to somehow involve the user in a process you're going to do with or without them?
The only think I can think is that it is a victim-blaming manipulation strategy. Most people will try to close the window, see that the install launched, assume they made a mistake (that they can't verify because now the window has vanished), then after the panic subsides, sigh and resign themselves to their fate. So they'll blame themselves instead of blaming Microsoft.
I already knew I didn't trust them. It's nice to be vindicated, I guess. It certainly pours gasoline on my cynicism and paranoia regarding humanity.
>But what fraction of PC gamers are likely to actually own an Xbox 360 controller? I'm told many only have the mouse and keyboard, and I'm told PC gamers on the whole tend to be uninterested in games that work better on a joystick than on a keyboard. Am I wrong?
Not from where I sit. I hate controllers. I only play games that are playable with keyboard and mouse. Nobody I know uses controllers unless they are required to by the lack of options on a console. One has a PC joystick and uses it occasionally but nobody uses a console style controller.
P.S. Climate changes. It does change. It changes all the times. All it does it changes.
Tell me about it, I live in Oregon:
Fri: Rain
Sat: Cold Rain
Sun: Drizzle
Mon: Dry... no, haha punk'd you. Rain.
Tue: Thundery rain
Wed: Drizzle. Hey it stopped.... (opens sunroof)
Thu: I left my *(&^# sun roof open all night!!! (bails out an inch of water)
Fri: Condensation inside my car, but I can't air it out because its raining again.
Sat: The car is starting to smell sour. Drive around in the drizzle and try to dry it out.
Sun: Now the car smells like sour milk. Ugh. Intermittent rain.
Mon: Dry but threatening. Can't leave the windows open. Complain about it on Slashdot.
The coastal plains of southern Italy fell from international prominence when malaria expanded in the sixteenth century. At roughly the same time, in the coastal marshes of England, mortality from "marsh fever" or "tertian ague" (ague: via French from medieval Latin acuta (febris), acute fever) was comparable to that in sub-Saharan Africa today. William Shakespeare was born at the start of the especially cold period that climatologists call the "Little Ice Age", yet he was aware enough of the ravages of the disease to mention it in eight of his plays.
In 1717, epidemiologist Giovanni Maria Lancisi related the prevalence of malaria in swampy areas to the presence of flies and recommended swamp drainage to prevent it.
In the United States, the National Malaria Eradication Program (NMEP) was launched on 1 July 1947. This federal program — with state and local participation — had succeeded in eradicating malaria in the United States by 1951. Prior to the establishment of the NMEP, malaria had been endemic across much of the United States. By the 1930s, it had become concentrated in 13 southeastern states. (For example, in the Tennessee River Valley it had a prevalence of about 30% in 1933.)
Malaria elimination has already been achieved in most of Europe, North America, Australia, North Africa and the Caribbean, and parts of South America, Asia and Southern Africa, according to the Malaria Elimination Group at UCSF.
Besides after the gubbermint takes it, it belongs to them to do with as they wish. Not defending their choices, just saying it doesn't belong to us anymore.
The treaties WE sign? You think we actually approve of what our overlords do, ostensibly in our name? You think we can do anything to stop it? The ass has the bit in its teeth, it does what it wants and serves only itself.
The overlords don't read their own laws before signing, so why should we read them? That is assuming we manage to find out about the laws (which they are often trying to hide) and manage to get our hands on the text (which they often refuse to allow). And even if we do read it, the words don't really mean what they seem to mean, they are just putty for the lawyers to play with. And then they have secret courts to top it off.
The naivete of your statement would be laughable if it weren't so tragic.
It doesn't matter now. They'll store it until they have the capability and need to mine it properly. Data never really goes away, it will all come back to bite us later.... and if they do dump something, it's because its worthless and they probably have something juicier to replace it with. Then again, I'd be surprised if there isn't a backup somewhere. These things have a way of popping back up, long after you had forgotten about it.
It also wouldn't surprise me if this is disinformation designed to put everyone at ease. "Don't worry, the government is too incompetent to do anything with the data. So it doesn't matter if they collect it."
Never attribute to incompetence what can be explained by malice. We are told to believe the opposite, and it strokes the ego to point and laugh, but it may be foolish to do so. Be skeptical, assume the worst, and hope to be pleasantly surprised.
Complete agreement. The platform does not support meaningful dialog or depth, so it just ends up being a soapbox for narcissists and contributing to the atrophication of this generation's attention span.
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That is an interesting article.
>It's described about line 39885 of the manpage.
So close, and yet so far... 3985
databases of beard hairs on your neck
Nifty. Download link?
or as parent said: "fuck you, developers."
To paraphrase seven-of-nine: they will fail.
They still give out mod points around here?
This is the same crap that malware distributors use to trick you into installing garbage on your system, displaying fake windows with fake widgets.
Why not just force the install without any user interaction at all? That would be more honest. This aren't getting consent, they aren't allowing user choice, so why the trickery to somehow involve the user in a process you're going to do with or without them?
The only think I can think is that it is a victim-blaming manipulation strategy. Most people will try to close the window, see that the install launched, assume they made a mistake (that they can't verify because now the window has vanished), then after the panic subsides, sigh and resign themselves to their fate. So they'll blame themselves instead of blaming Microsoft.
I already knew I didn't trust them. It's nice to be vindicated, I guess. It certainly pours gasoline on my cynicism and paranoia regarding humanity.
That's my thought: They don't want us to know how much they know, what they are storing, because it would be alarming or unacceptable.
Now that's what I call breakfast!
I'm all for it, if having a low battery means I get gouged, but a full battery means they'll entice me with competitive pricing. Easy discount.
Yes just like we harvest them for their skin to make plastic wrap.
"Not a crime" doesn't make censorship acceptable. It's not a crime to produce shoddy merchandise or to be a patent troll either.
>But what fraction of PC gamers are likely to actually own an Xbox 360 controller? I'm told many only have the mouse and keyboard, and I'm told PC gamers on the whole tend to be uninterested in games that work better on a joystick than on a keyboard. Am I wrong?
Not from where I sit. I hate controllers. I only play games that are playable with keyboard and mouse. Nobody I know uses controllers unless they are required to by the lack of options on a console. One has a PC joystick and uses it occasionally but nobody uses a console style controller.
P.S. Climate changes. It does change. It changes all the times. All it does it changes.
Tell me about it, I live in Oregon:
Fri: Rain
Sat: Cold Rain
Sun: Drizzle
Mon: Dry... no, haha punk'd you. Rain.
Tue: Thundery rain
Wed: Drizzle. Hey it stopped.... (opens sunroof)
Thu: I left my *(&^# sun roof open all night!!! (bails out an inch of water)
Fri: Condensation inside my car, but I can't air it out because its raining again.
Sat: The car is starting to smell sour. Drive around in the drizzle and try to dry it out.
Sun: Now the car smells like sour milk. Ugh. Intermittent rain.
Mon: Dry but threatening. Can't leave the windows open. Complain about it on Slashdot.
For those interested in learning more:
A widespread and potentially lethal human infectious disease, at its peak malaria infested every continent, except Antarctica.
The coastal plains of southern Italy fell from international prominence when malaria expanded in the sixteenth century. At roughly the same time, in the coastal marshes of England, mortality from "marsh fever" or "tertian ague" (ague: via French from medieval Latin acuta (febris), acute fever) was comparable to that in sub-Saharan Africa today. William Shakespeare was born at the start of the especially cold period that climatologists call the "Little Ice Age", yet he was aware enough of the ravages of the disease to mention it in eight of his plays.
Malaria was not referenced in the "medical books" of the Mayans or Aztecs. European settlers and their West African slaves likely brought malaria to the Americas in the 16th century.
In 1717, epidemiologist Giovanni Maria Lancisi related the prevalence of malaria in swampy areas to the presence of flies and recommended swamp drainage to prevent it.
Map of Malaria deaths in the USA in 1880: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_malaria#/media/File:AL1887_pg190_Map_Death_from_Malaria_(US,_1880_Census).jpg
In the United States, the National Malaria Eradication Program (NMEP) was launched on 1 July 1947. This federal program — with state and local participation — had succeeded in eradicating malaria in the United States by 1951. Prior to the establishment of the NMEP, malaria had been endemic across much of the United States. By the 1930s, it had become concentrated in 13 southeastern states. (For example, in the Tennessee River Valley it had a prevalence of about 30% in 1933.)
Malaria elimination has already been achieved in most of Europe, North America, Australia, North Africa and the Caribbean, and parts of South America, Asia and Southern Africa, according to the Malaria Elimination Group at UCSF.
^Insightful
Besides after the gubbermint takes it, it belongs to them to do with as they wish. Not defending their choices, just saying it doesn't belong to us anymore.
The treaties WE sign? You think we actually approve of what our overlords do, ostensibly in our name? You think we can do anything to stop it? The ass has the bit in its teeth, it does what it wants and serves only itself.
The overlords don't read their own laws before signing, so why should we read them? That is assuming we manage to find out about the laws (which they are often trying to hide) and manage to get our hands on the text (which they often refuse to allow). And even if we do read it, the words don't really mean what they seem to mean, they are just putty for the lawyers to play with. And then they have secret courts to top it off.
The naivete of your statement would be laughable if it weren't so tragic.
Hey paladin... squirrel!
It doesn't matter now. They'll store it until they have the capability and need to mine it properly. Data never really goes away, it will all come back to bite us later.... and if they do dump something, it's because its worthless and they probably have something juicier to replace it with. Then again, I'd be surprised if there isn't a backup somewhere. These things have a way of popping back up, long after you had forgotten about it.
It also wouldn't surprise me if this is disinformation designed to put everyone at ease. "Don't worry, the government is too incompetent to do anything with the data. So it doesn't matter if they collect it."
Never attribute to incompetence what can be explained by malice. We are told to believe the opposite, and it strokes the ego to point and laugh, but it may be foolish to do so. Be skeptical, assume the worst, and hope to be pleasantly surprised.
Stripe the data on the servers. Put two bits in Germany, two in Russia, two in China, and two in Taiwan.
Nobody has access to all the data, and they're never going to cooperate to get the missing pieces.
Wake me when they add a removable battery AND a microSD slot...
Especially after the pressure builds because you forgot and left it "closed"...
Complete agreement. The platform does not support meaningful dialog or depth, so it just ends up being a soapbox for narcissists and contributing to the atrophication of this generation's attention span.
140 characters ought to be enough for anybody