Windows 10 Warning: Anger At Microsoft Rises With Serious New Failure

Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Paul wrote:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/5657...-amazon-button


"When you perform any search in Unity’s dash, your
search terms will be sent to Canonical. Canonical
forwards these search terms to third parties, such as Amazon,
on your behalf"

"We picked Amazon as a first place to start because
most of our users are also regular users of Amazon,
and it *pays us* to make your Amazon journey get off
to a faster start"

The comments in the thread, are strangely, "normalizing corruption".

Your religion doesn't have "Holiness", it's just
waiting for "opportunity" to knock at the door.

All the same kinds of personalities are involved.

And when Canonical made that decision, it was as much
about "advertising to random bags of money", that
"we're corruptible, come on down".

Been able to disable it the day it was introduced. It was a mistake, and
the real mistake was at first it was ENABLED BY DEFAULT, counter to all
that Linux stands for...however it is nowhere near what MS does. Classic
whataboutism.

The point is, the scruples of businessmen does not change
with the business. If I was a businessman, I'd do the
same thing if I was selling pineapples as if I was
delivering computer OSes.

If you pay me enough money, I'll be scraping your computer,
it's as simple as that. Anyone in a dominant position
is going to try that.

Let's take another example. A few years ago here, the
grocery stores here decided to price fix the price of bread!

Now, how quaint is that ?

Price fixing bread was a "thang" a hundred years ago. Yet,
the grocery stores here thought it would be cool to repeat
this exercise. And, they still haven't been punished
(their fines haven't been delivered yet). I
don't know what's happened to the court case.

Much of the computer industry is "monkey see monkey do".
Tireless copying of exploits and business plans.
"I want some of what he's having" is how you define
your scruples.

Look at Avast. "Me wants moar pie". Will Avast be punished
by the public ? That remains to be seen.

This is why we can't have nice things.

My point is, it's human nature, Ten Commandments and
goin to church on Sundays and so on be damned. This is why
I'm never surprised when this stuff happens, as I
have very low expectations of humans.

When I first started at work, I thought there might
be something "better than average" about the population
there. But I was disappointed enough times (someone was
murdered there) to realize it's really no different
than the general population, and that I'd been
delusional :-/ The only good thing I can say is
"the angry guy with the gun collection never went nuts".
That's the pinnacle of my workplace. But the great
god of statistics was still flippin his coin
every morning.

Paul

Melzzzzz wrote:

some troll calling itself Allen Touring wrote:

Don't take this the wrong way but when someone named Joel Crump tells me
one thing about Linux and Linus Torvalds tells me the opposite I tend to
believe Linus over Joel.

Well, you've got a point, there... 8)

Maybe someday you will be able to afford that $6.99 cup of java.
I don't really believe that but I'm remaining positive in light of the
pathetic Linux users that seem to be infesting the *.windows-10 groups.

You mean pathetic Windows users that infest Linux groups...

Trolls view freedom through ****-colored glasses.

Check-out the below idiocy from -highhorse. He thinks that every
"tweak" to a UI should have "objective studies" done before
implementation. *That* would be "efficient", eh?

--
"have there actually been any objective studies done to show that
tweak A is better with B than having C, and by how much?" - lying
asshole "-hh", spewing anti-choice idiocy

chrisv wrote:
some troll calling itself Allen Touring wrote:

Don't take this the wrong way but when someone named Joel Crump tells me
one thing about Linux and Linus Torvalds tells me the opposite I tend to
believe Linus over Joel.

Well, you've got a point, there... 8)


No, he does not. Linus was talking about a different aspect of the
issue than I was. The person you yourself are labeling a troll
(correctly) is using Linus' comments to, well, troll COLA and the
Win10 group. It's a bunch of nonsense, and you should be ashamed of
yourself for as usual hating on me just because I'm not one of the
assholes who try to bully Snit. I know in your heart you aren't that
bad of a guy, but it'd be nice if you'd act like it publicly.

--
Joel Crump