France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN
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@Luhmann said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
@boomzilla
I saw people walking on the street with a baguette, everyone seems to be drinking wine, I'm only waiting for the mime playerI know...that was on the MS website just a bit ago.
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@asdf said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
Imagine @boomzilla actually was my dad. The family gatherings would be absolutely hilarious.
@asdf … I am your father… NOOOOOOOOOO
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@boomzilla said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
@asdf said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
Didn't you have a daughter who's in her twenties
Nope.
You are perhaps thinking of me.
@asdf said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
You might still become my stepdad!
I think you're thinking of father-in-law; stepdad would mean marrying your mom. If so, it's unlikely; she already has a serious boyfriend. (My daughter, that is; your mom has insert "your mom" joke here.) But if it were to happen, it could be worse. At least you like trains; that's a strong point in your favor.
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@blakeyrat said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
@asdf said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
Didn't you have a daughter who's in her twenties, @boomzilla?
You misunderstood. He has a daughter who was born in the 1920s.
...I thought it was the 2020s!
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@masonwheeler said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
@blakeyrat said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
@asdf said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
Didn't you have a daughter who's in her twenties, @boomzilla?
You misunderstood. He has a daughter who was born in the 1920s.
...I thought it was the 2020s!
Man, -6 year olds are the worst
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@FrostCat said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
@kt_ said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
because you're SOOOO much better.
I thought we were done other-side-of-pond bashing, you honorary cheese-eating surrender monkey[1].
[1] or whatever insult is more appropriate for your nationality.
Heh, sorry, I tend to get all pissy and whiny when tired, lately :/
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@FrostCat said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
@kt_ said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
it's good you've read the article.
Why bother? I didn't need to for what I originally said.
Beside, the article's wrong, or the government's lying, because when you install it clearly asks you the things the article says it doesn't ask.
It's not only about that and I'm not sure it does. Read the excerpt again. And then again.
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@coldandtired said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
@blakeyrat said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
Why bother?Microsoft vice president and deputy general counsel David Heiner said that the company will work with CNIL to develop "solutions that it will find acceptable."
Big fukkin whoop. Even if that "solution" is put into place TODAY (instead of the 2+ years it'll actually take), the fact remains that they've already collected a year's worth of data from the entire userbase. The majority of people who ARE going to install W10 HAVE installed it. And the majority of the "useful" data BS will get (demographics, initial browsing habits, etc) has already been gathered.
It's a barn door / horse thing.
All what's going to happen is:
- MS will release a half-assed patch that meets the letter of the law. Eventually.
- It'll be opt-in. Or opt-out. Whichever is least convenient and whichever is picked by the fewest people
- It'll take so long to release that W10 will effectively be out of cycle, and W11 will be launching anyways
- Some politician who lead this Brave Patriotic Fight Against American Devils will get a PR boost for "doing something"
- The NEXT politician will get a healthy campaign contribution from Microsoft, and will do nothing
I swear to fuck, if I had a dead trans hooker for every time "some government agency" did "something" about "whatever corporation's data gathering", I'd-- well, I'd have exactly as many dead trans hookers as I have now. Which is a lot. My point is, fuck this noise. If "some government agency" actually wanted to "do something about this", they'd have hit Microsoft with hundreds of billions in fines in July 2015 when W10 first launched-- bankrupted them, and stuck their metaphoric head on a pike as a warning for the corp who wants to invade privacy for profit.
Everything else is posturing. Fuck off.
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@HardwareGeek said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
I think you're thinking of father-in-law; stepdad would mean marrying your mom.
Oops. Seems like my English language module shut down early yesterday. But he could also still become my stepdad, that's technically true as well.
@HardwareGeek said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
You are perhaps thinking of me.
Yeah, I must have confused @boomzilla with someone else.
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@Lorne-Kates said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
If "some government agency" actually wanted to "do something about this"
What difference, do you suppose, doing anything would make? What if they had never collected anything to begin with? Would anyone notice?
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@AyGeePlus said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
Cartman's from Moonland.
Hey! HEY! That's Eastern Moonland! See, it's an important distinction, because next time mine and his folks have a spat it'll be a proper war instead of one of those pansy "civil" ones.
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@Onyx said in France gets all pissy at Microsoft, AGAIN:
Maybe the Turks attack again? That'd be fun!
Finally a reason to invade Turkey and get rid of Erdogan and the nationalist mafia there.
Am I doing this right, @boomzilla?
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@FrostCat I'm sure it's right there in the build system - they just don't know what objectionable features they'll have to turn off.