during the installation phase of do you want to send information back to Canonical or Fedora or whatever distribution you're using. And what they're talking about there is information to help the development of the operating system. But it sounds like those folks at Microsoft are collecting more information than that. Let me just give you an example because I like examples. It tracks how many times you've plugged the USB into your machine, what type of USB it was. It also can tell, according to the license agreement, you can only have 12 USB devices plugged into your computer at one time. That's crazy. I've never had more than three, but it's still able to see that you've plugged the USB into your computer. Let's see, hang on a second. So you may have a USB mouse, a USB keyboard, USB display. Joystick? Yeah, joystick. You may have a USB stick for storing stuff and maybe a USB external hard drive. How many is that? That's five or six already. Yeah, and then if you got a printer. Yeah, I (19/49)
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