Infoworld is about par for the course. I remember an article I wrote for Handheld Computing that was published, but the editor never paid me ;) All the tech media is about the same to me.
Or don’t, because we are all part of this community of windows 10 users, and want a system that works better. Shit that affects your computer might eventual affect mine and vice versa. So, do your part and give them telemetry data. It’s not like anyone actually care at MS about you to actually spy on you.
stusser
1663
No thanks.
If my turning off telemetry caused a stranger’s computer to melt into a puddle of goo, I wouldn’t even think twice. If my turning off telemetry caused a laptop to explode while on a stranger’s lap, causing second degree burns to his legs, thighs, and testicles, I wouldn’t blink. It would take a stranger actually dying for me to even consider turning on telemetry. So, is anyone gonna die?
That’s your burden of proof. I would need to be directly culpable in another human’s death. That’s what it would take.
I care about my privacy. I don’t compromise it when not absolutely necessary.
And I am mega-pissed that MS chose to RE-enable telemetry that I had previously disabled. That is a giant fuck you from MS. If games ran on OSX, I would not be running windows at all. As is, I plan to use windows only for gaming.
I see. Good luck with that.
Personally, I look forward to the day that ads will actually be things that I want, and that new technologies and services will be geared towards my needs. I embrace Google Now and the world of big data. I don’t think the future will be particular great for you though, Stusser.
And, if collecting the data that isn’t valuable to me will help someone else’s computer (maybe even yours) than have at it. It costs me nothing.
stusser
1665
If you believe your privacy has no value, that is correct.
I believe that I’m one person on a planet of 7 billion. I believe that provides me with more privacy than any firewalls or cloaks. I’m not so Narcissistic to think others actually care about me or my thoughts. If hundreds of thousands of people shouting ‘look at me’ on youtube can’t get noticed, than I’m confident that sitting behind a computer, communicating on a tiny forum won’t get me noticed either.
In the end of the day, outside of friends and family, nobody cares. We want people to care (hence all the pictures or posts on Facebook) but people don’t. So, no, I don’t value my privacy in the same way you do. My privacy will be just fine, and the future looks bright.
wumpus
1667
THEYRE TEKIN OUR JERRRRRBS
then our privacy
Let’s just say MS was bought out by Russia (or China if you prefer). Would you still feel exactly the same about the OS? If not why? You can then do a thought exercise exploring the comparisons of those reasons vs the current field of play in the west in terms of corporate corruption, the likely future political landscape and all that.
Because ultimately this is always about that kind of thing, it’s why your personal rights as a human matter, it’s why we are not all today indentured slaves in poor houses working for a tiny ultra-rich Elite 24 hours a day until we die young (our ancestors lived that life for us, and decided it was shit, quite rightly!).
Oh, but what if the Dutch bought them out instead? How would you feel about that?
I expect aliens will buy up all the hoarded data, as they prepare for their revenge.
sevagon
1671
First update finished with BSOD ,then second one finished with no errors .Less memory usage for system process is good.
mono
1672
A nail that sticks out will be hammered.
You may not be remarkable in any way, but do you want the few people striving to make a difference exposed to oppressive surveillance?
Yes. Sunlight is the best disinfectant and its why why live in Republic with elected officials. The problem is that most business hidden from sight is business done to circumvent our system for wrong or selfish ends. Be they the Koch brothers funneling money to special interests, terrorists plots or shady banks buying off officials or other forms of corruption. Let it all out in the open and let the public decide.
lol i’m not sure when you last looked, but ‘the public’ never actually get to decide anything these days, in part because big data is keeping the powerful in place (which is what it is all about…duh!)
HRose
1675
So now we have to essentially reinstall and reconfigure Window for every medium-size update? Huh?
What the hell is big data? Is it Google? Or Microsoft or the US Government? Is it black helicopter and SUVs? Is it GMO and big pharma? Is it everyone in the entire world?
Data is data. Big data is looking at trends and organizing information? Its science and advertising and the human condition.
rei
1678
Ugh Windows 10, I hate how all the more-than-minor updates are full-blown “in-place upgrades” now that creates a Windows.old folder and keep taking up more space in the form of “previous version system files” and where more can go wrong/hang-loop-during-update since it goes through a few full reboot cycles. It’s doing it now for small updates compared to when it would only do it for major service pack level patches
rei
1679
With the major service pack upgrades you were prepared to do disable all the esoteric drivers and startup programs to ensure the upgrade went smoothly and if you were paranoid you’d make a backup snapshot or image to revert to if it went badly. You don’t expect a monthly or weekly “regular” update to brick your system.
Thats one big tinfoil hat you got on.
