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Comment Re:Seems like a magnet for terrorists... (Score 1) 218

Contrary to the scaremongering we hear, the world is not full of terrorists. They exist, don't get me wrong, but the reason we're so afraid of them is that our fear of them is incredibly useful for people who want to control us.

And also, the ones who do exist aren't engineers. So a shooting, or a stabbing, that's pretty easy to figure out how to do. Derailing a train? That's physics. Physics is much harder than pointing a gun and pulling the trigger.

Comment Re:Doesn't matter (Score 1) 36

Exactly ... I don't want my fuckin' email client "putting words in my mouth." Literally makes me want to put my hand through the screen. Same with the naggitty-nag-na-nag-na-nagging to turn on x feature. If I wanted to have a clanker finish my sentences, stink my photos with the clown, etc, I'd turn on those features myself. Please stop with the picking at users.

Comment Re:What they didn't say (Score 3, Insightful) 36

They've always been open about doing that for unpaid consumer accounts, it's how they can provide the service for free.

An everybody else who provides a similar service for free does the same thing, only with worse spam filters (say what you want, Gmail has the best spam filters in the business - they don't want the competition).

Comment Re:Buggy (Score 2) 85

They could have just kept it as part of Windows ... no cost to them to "ship" an existing .exe file.

Nope, they killed it because it's adequate for word processing for a lot of non-technical people, but they wanted to nudge and nag people into paying them $100/yr for an Orifice 365 subscription. Got to keep milking the sheep.

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