[NBLUG/talk] memory leaks

[Christopher Wagner]

David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> Christopher Wagner wrote:
>   
>> David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>>     
>>> William Tracy wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> On 8/30/07, calvin166 at pseudoweb.net <calvin166 at pseudoweb.net> wrote:
>>>> Well, how many people do you see actually taking action against the
>>>> bugs in Windows? Microsoft even provides a helpful automatic crash
>>>> report tool ... and over half the people I've seen click cancel every
>>>> time.
>>>>
>>>> Conclusion: People just don't care.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I disagree there.  IMO the correct conclusions are: 1) people who are 
>>> not tech-savvy don't understand what the feature is and fear it and so 
>>> choose to not send the bug reports, and 2) people who are tech-savvy 
>>> don't trust Microsoft enough to press a "send all kinds of private info 
>>> and we're not even going to disclose what" button.
>>>   
>>>       
>> To be fair, the bug reporting tool that Microsoft uses does offer to the
>> user the option to see precisely what is sent to Microsoft.
>>     
>
> Really?  Where?  All I see is a dialog box with "Send" and "Do not send" 
> buttons.
>
> DR
>   
If memory serves, there's a hypertext link which says to click on "Click
here" to view the details of the report.

- Chris