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In <402k4r$brh@sundog.tiac.net> Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> writes:
>billman@centcon.com (William Rini) wrote:
>>Do you feel unable to answer "No" when the registration wizard asks if
>>you would like to register online?  That's all you have to do people,
>>just answer "No"  But it sounds as if people claiming to be everything
>>from super hackers to system administrators haven't figured out how to
>>use that button.
>>

>I know that I could very easily write a dialog with "yes" and "no"
>buttons and then do whatever I please based upon which button was
>pressed.  Maybe when you press YES it sends the data right away, but
>when you press NO it waits and dribbles the data back over time.

>Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean that Microsoft isn't out to
>get me.  That data would be extremely usefull to have, and I wouldn't
>put it past Microsoft to try to get it.

Consider the fact that there are people like you in existence (paranoid).
Consider that some of these people will inevitably reverse engineer the
package to see what is going on.

Now consider MS' position. Feel the heavy breathing of the whining, whingeing
competition.

Would you 
a) Not send the information if they pressed 'no'.
b) Send the information anyway.

Do you really think MS are *that* stupid?

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