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A few points for you to ponder: Suppose this is strictly for non-nefarious reasons (which i do believe this is, just in case you are wondering). Who's to say they don't get hacked? nVidia is big enough to be a target. AFAIK GFE is not open source, so it's really, *really* hard to tell what data exactly they collect or if the protocols it uses are safe. So i'm gonna have to take their word for it, well gee, that's a load off my mind. Not. If you think that there's no harm, you should spend an hour on youtube and do a little research what any script kiddie with half a brain and some knowledge of data science can do. I promise you'll be surprised.

Trying to shoot a plane with a SAM (i only tried a few russian ones but it happened every time, so it's probably a generic issue) when target range is bigger than 16000 metres breaks the lock on the target. Subsequently, the target can no longer be locked at all, even when well within locking range. See attached track. Edit: This in the latest 1.5 beta. SAM-Test.trk

How come they did just fine until now? If they want my data, they should ask.

No, but nice strawman. :thumbup: Case in point, i guess.

Because it's not ok to demand usage data from me in return for up to date drivers. I pay for the hardware. Contrary to the bonkers TOS that corporations like facebook sport, that makes me a customer and not a product. It starts with people being ok with stuff like this or the steam EULA and through those peoples sheer ignorance of data security and what can be accomplished with the data they so readily give away we end up with some governments not seeing any harm in successively undermining or even outlawing PGP, the TOR network, etc. You see why i don't want to discuss this here? :P

You're right, that's why i won't support it. :) And you are making this more of a problem than it really is. It is not that hard to stay away from all this BS if you want to. I've resorted to use Windows exclusively for Gaming and Audio, the rest i can do on Linux. If i had a Smartphone, i'd jailbreak it and use a clean distro and services that communicate with my own server, not Google. You can set that up out of the box in maybe a few hours, much less if you've done it before. I get the convenience aspect, i really do. I just think that staying in control of what data i produce as much as possible within the constraints of a few hours of work is worth it. More people should, for reasons that can not be discussed on these boards. ;) Convenience is not a good substitute for freedom.

Speak for yourself. If anything, this bloatware should be opt-in, not the other way around. I was thinking about getting a 970 myself as a follow up to my aging 7870, simply because it is such a competitive piece of hardware ATM, but i won't be a part of such nonsense.

No.

When you proceeed past the checkout page to where you can choose the payment system, there's a checkout box that says something along the lines of "pay with internal account".

Weird, doesn't work for me.

I always preferred its arcade successor.

It doesn't. That would carry the whole point of the open beta ad absurdum.

Du darfst keinesfalls vom Verhalten deines Fahrzeugs in CA auf die AI schließen.

Woher habt ihr diesen Blödsinn? :) Es stimmt zwar, dass einzelne Systeme nicht komplett ausfallen können, um bspw. einen Mission Kill zu simulieren, es sinkt jedoch sehrwohl die Kampfeffektivität der jeweiligen Einheit.

How does that not have an impact on the end user? Explain.

Did he nail them while taxiing on the ground? :P

For starters, the Ka-50 is not an A2A platform. :)

Realität ist das, was nicht weggeht, auch wenn man aufhört daran zu glauben. ;)

You IP has been banned from where?

Could you post a track please?

Are flat terrain shadows off or on?

Turn off depth of field.

No. :P;) Please state an intended username that is not yet taken.

Has official support still not answered your ticket?

This is one of the telltale signs that your household is infested with Gremlins. :P Have you checked your browser and operating system for any PUP?