You missed the point there. Every single Microsoft employee is spied on through the OS no matter where they are located. That's what telemetry does.

It was meant to mirror advertising guidelines for airline tickets

Considering airlines are suing the administration for having to disclose all their add-on fees becasue, and I quote, it would confuse customers, end quote, we'll see how far this gets.

One can only imagine the uproar from TicketMaster at having to disclose all its usuriuos fees to make a sale. Think of all the mayhem which would ensue if a grocer had to list every single item and its cost on a bill it gives to you. It boggles the mind how this proposed law can be done.

I use my credit card for so little it would be a true miracle if any advertiser wanted to contact me.

Whenever I hear the average credit card debt is X, I have to think there's at least one person out there who has double that amount to make up for my zero balance.

It's Microsoft. Their OS is spyware. Mission accomplished.

Try a law library next time.

"A common carrier is a person or a commercial enterprise that transports passengers or goods for a fee and establishes that their service is open to the general public."

Facebook (for example) is a private service. You have to have a membership and it can be terminated at any time and for any reason.

Facebook is NOT a "telecommunications company" — your ISP is, and whoever they get internet access from is, and whoever Faceboot gets it from is. Facebook's job is not carrying your packets.

Common carriers are also liable for the content they carry except for damage caused by an act of nature, an act of public enemies, fault or fraud by the shipper, or an inherent defect in the goods. Facebook has no legal obligation to you to deliver your content.

Facebook did offer a VPN service called Onavo (which was spyware) and THAT was a common carrier, EXCEPT that it was inspecting packages for non-legal reasons. Common carriers are supposed to deliver packages without inspection unless it is required.

Social media meets literally none of the elements of the definition of a common carrier.

Greed, stupidity and a fundamental non-understanding of security. All things MS is great at.

We were discussing 3d graphics for Windows guests on Linux hosts, which under Virtualbox was always bad and is still bad.

You are thinking amplifiers for conventional optical links. On quantum-level, they actually copy. Optical impulses have large numbers of photons in every pulse, so it makes sense modelling them as amplifiers. But they are actually not when you get down to quantum-level. Which you have to do for quantum signals.

The thing is that conventional optical "amplifiers" do not work for quantum signals at all, since they do not copy polarization. Incidentally, if they worked, quantum-links would not be secure. So what you would need to do on quantum-level, is to do a quantum handshake in both directions and recover a conventional signal in between. That means you lose end-to-end security. Hence you _cannot_ add repeaters/amplifiers in a quantum link. The original photons have to make it though all to the other side or security is lost. That should make it amply clear this is not an "Internet" technology and can at most be used for specific dedicated links.

Actually, they do.

Indeed. Hence you need to do a whole, second network that works _without_ repeaters! This is just a bad idea that needs to die.

The whole thing is neither "near" nor useful in any way. Ans since you need to actually encrypt conventionally after exchanging a key with quantum technology, it does not even boost security.

Sadly, Brother is now dabbling in toner DRM, so they may also have a dark future. Do extra homework... Sigh.

There is really no question whether you are making things up while accusing me of same. If you had been paying attention to discussions here on this subject you might be up to speed, though you probably wouldn't. Read the sibling to this comment for concrete supporting examples you seem to be ignorant of.

I'm all for that, but that's not what's going to happen. Or if it does, it will only be because it is being superseded by something worse.