Nothing has been free from MS. 10 is the slurpiest thief they have made. They are starting a campaign now to steal more of past customers' future days with this harassment of the most definite NOs they have yet to receive.

With this move, the last VMs of mine will be deleted, as even my coding for a MS Shop is completely done from linux now. No more MS, not for work, nor games. Even their domains fail to translate on my net.

All I see is a corporation continuing the practice of stealing from those that supply it's money, while paying others that cannot see what is in front of themselves. Wanna work for MS, and help put their products together? Get a salaried job with them. Stop paying them for product and working for free, answering their unneeded questions.

If their employee selection system is not working right, they need to work on HR, not continue begging their customers for clues.

You have no re-course against the spying. Re-course is not inter-course. Being screwed does not help, aid, or fight anything.

Did you just lose the main issue of MS shift to Win 10? They run it. They decide. Why would you think the "cryptic error message" needs to be understood by the user of someone else's OS?

What is cryptic here, is the reason you think you deserve to understand something you pay other people to manage for you. You may have paid, but is has only started to cost you. There was no purchase.

It is not up to the type of business, to mandate privacy. The laws that still exist right now, for the most part, were made when you would only be seen by having a human paid to be stationed, or follow. Thinking that modern cameras allow for constant and full time logging as appropriate in any way, for any reason, in any place open for the use of the public, is an attack on everyone around. Entitlement is more prevalent now then when those laws were made, too. Neither is a good thing.

People used to ask permission for everything. Now, it is take without asking. Stating the camera is a weapon of defense, still shows you are using a weapon against those around you. Privacy is deserved by the living.

And do not be lazy. Pay a living wage to a real person with a gun to sit there and watch your goods. We have an economy to keep running.

You are not saying anything different. You want to invade privacy of others to build an evidence haystack to search for modern-wrongs, or even the not-yet-wrongs to which I alluded. The same customers mess up the bathrooms as always, and you want to put cameras inside to prosecute vandals.

Now that not-quite-AI is learning to make anything into a video, those cameras will not even help with what you are wanting. Video will be changed to believable, but still false images.

You want to see what I am doing, you come to me. You want to log the entire lives of others, to keep them accountable to things not yet defined? You will need to change the laws to ensure the percentage of people being locked up stays where it is now, or lowers. Otherwise you will end up locking up. or removing/disabling more people then your already faltering economy is capable of losing. You will wind up losing your government entirely, which allows the control you seek. You cannot survive without those currently free people. You say, "I need to spy, to save my wealth." But you want to take actions that costs even more than you are spending now.

As for choices, those are fewer and fewer each day. You and others seem to think lack of choice will allow you to do awful things without so much as a whimper. That never lasts. First you start getting less and less interaction from them, slowing any economic flows for everyone. Then you get a fight, when they tire of being trampled.

You poor little thing. Are you one of those young'uns whose parents put your whole embarrassing childhood on-line, causing you end-less embarrassment from every new contact you had growing up? "Spread the sour tummy!" is your goal now? Make the others feel as bad as you do, attempting to convince everyone to fail the same way you or yours did?

Grow up. Privacy is there because you and others will make something common in the past and present illegal/immoral/non-politically-correct in the future. Those who did not attempt to retain privacy in their lives will be punished for these things, by the companies, states, neighbors, peers, or just more downers like you. Are you not seeing what is going on around you?

Privacy is not something others give or allow you. It is something you yourself fight for, to acceptable levels, at all times possible. Once you "I don`t care", and give up the information or item to anyone, you give up your own privacy. No one else did.

You mean you have never searched behind your cable box IR filtered face using a digital camera? You know, to see the board mounted camera modules facing you TV consumers, that report which family members were watching the garbage on the screen? Like an IR snapshot every time the IR remote button is pressed, to log the one that did not like what was on, and what they changed it to? Why would they not be tracking how much income they are getting for the ads they see noone is watching, to determine the ratio of the swindle's profit from the ad buyers?

This built-in mike thing is only audio. Well, the sonar images of the room, and people within, are useful. Also the intel of whether or not competing voice assistants are being used, that can aid plans as well.

That is no way to talk. We totally need Alternative Intelligence to be a priority right now.

All you said was "I have a worthless product. All of it's current consumers define it as such. So, I whine that it is worthless, providing yet more worthless content."

You are as bad as the advertisers targeted by this article.

If I had an AI that could determine, or at least guess well, at the reaction to any number of messages from friends, family, co-workers, or even complete strangers, being given thousands of examples every minute as an example pool, would it help to have a little extra lighting on the user?

What better way to determine the reception to their allowed ad mail? Giving feedback can enhance any ad-based revenue stream on both sides.

Additional revenue from a location determining AI being fed images while viewing email could not hurt either.

This is the affirmative response to "Your face is too dim in the front facing camera when the screen is dark."

The lighter the screen/alternative-lighting, the better the image of you and the room you are in.

This is not a surprise. Just because you were not using the front camera does not mean it has to go to waste.

I am so happy to see you confirmed you see those that oppose your comments as other than sheep, unlike yourself.

Very brave to admit such at the same time you are making as ridiculous statements they were.

Bigotry was not new to him at election time, but you seem to have only started paying attention to him after that point. A lot must seem new to you these days.

Corporate policy is all "salesmen" speak. Corporate deserves nothing from me. Telcos deserve nothing, but owe me. not the other way around.