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Yes, it should. That's what my entire comment says.

Each kind of contract is used in different kinds of situations. That doesn't mean it makes sense to be that way. Much of that is antiquated tradition. The kind of thinking that gave rise to Uber in the first place.

Or the reality, which is neither of those: people don't become properly informed when you present them with unprompted information. They ignore your pitch and move on with their life. You never reach the state where there are "properly informed" people deciding not to buy your product.

A lot. A simple google search for "engineer terrorist" without the quotes turns up plenty of references if you want to learn more.

Why would they lack those professions? Aren't those some of the most likely groups to become terrorists?

If those rights were really so important, why shouldn't independent contractors have them too? If the rights are not important when dealing with an interchangeable service provider like a driving contractor, then Uber is right not to grant them.

If information by itself worked, I can guarantee you nobody would waste time using all these other techniques.

Brand awareness is the most important part of apple's product. "Better hardware"? Nobody cares.

How is that bizarre? When your livelihood is totally dependent on the platform owner, it's a bad idea to piss them off too much.

Their wording implies that they are encouraging people to use the Notes app as a password manager. That's super weird.

My "constant defense of Microsoft" is correcting a single way in which people are misinformed. I have never taken the stance that this is or isn't the correct decision for them. Just explaining what the factors are and what the decision actually did because so many people can't be bothered to look it up themselves.

But apparently not interested enough to actually search for it or realize that I've already posted the link multiple times in this thread?

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt577208(v=vs.85...

I'm talking about what the penalties are based on, since you implied it was arbitrary moral judgment.

A 15 minute call could save you 15% or more on car insurance by switching to Geico.

You say that like 3-5 wouldn't already be insanely good. Even 1.1 would be a huge decrease in pollution. 0.4 and it might still be worth it due to fewer casualties and the ability to safely multitask.

It is much better, that's why insurers try their best to do so. The more data is available, the more feasible that is.

They charge the 16 year old more today. Better data collection would lower his rates.

Yes, because there are many people with 20 years of experience with no tickets nor accidents, and they are not all equally likely to file a claim next year. It's not proof or assumption. It's actuarial science.

And that argument by itself is not enough to restrict anything. Less hats floating around, less potential for abuse. Less televisions floating around, less potential for abuse.

For an stupid, arbitrarily chosen definition of consumer. Microsoft primary business is selling enterprise licenses.

Complaining that the professional license doesn't have all features available in response to my own analogy with VS makes me think you have no interest in the actual truth and just want to argue for its own sake. Is that accurate?

In the official documentation for the feature that critics never want to read.

Bizspark or dreamspark.

They already made that trade by allowing enterprise customers to turn it off.

They also tell you exactly what types of data they collect, along with where and how. That's not consistent with wanting to hide the extent of their telemetry.

It also makes it clear that they do have quite a few options and the reason they don't have the rest is because they don't pay for them.

You can "configure how the software works" to some extent even if you only get the free version. As a rule, more expensive licenses give you more features. If you don't think windows 10 pro is a good enough value, that's fine. But characterizing it as some kind of immoral violation of your rights makes me not take you seriously.

I use VS Pro and wish it had the testing tools that Enterprise did. Not enough to pay that much, though. Should I be mad about a violation of my right to IDE test suite integration?

If you're going to bring up Stallman, it's very disingenuous to talk like Windows was ever at any point "your software" by his or the FSF's criteria.

Thanks, I don't actually know whether that's a subset but it's certainly more specific.

I think the fact that they call it "basic" rather than "none" makes it abundantly clear that some basic data is still being collected, and you're not completely opting out. Surely there's a limit on how stupid a user can be before you're allowed to stop designing for them.

I'm objecting to the claim that users are "powerless to stop this [data collection] even if they knew what was happening, and they don't." To the contrary, it's very clear what is being collected and how to turn it off. As well as what you can't disable in cheaper versions, and which versions you need to buy in order to get that option.

Obviously consumers would like Microsoft to sell them a product with more features for cheaper. But that's no different from any business ever, yet people are throwing a shitfit all over the internet based primarily on misinformation.

Both the enterprise and educational versions offer you full control. Consumer versions offer what I consider to be enough control, but obviously that's subjective.

If you offer the option to disable telemetry, some people will disable it. If there is any pattern to which people do this, and we all know there is, it introduces sampling bias and casts aspersions on any conclusions you draw from that data.