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Microsoft Allows Pirates to Install XP SP2
mkraft writes "On the tail of the previously asked question on whether Microsoft should support pirated copies of XP, comes the answer.
According to Computer Times, Microsoft will allow SP2 to be installed on any copy of Windows XP including copies with invalid license keys.
Microsoft decided "that even if someone has pirated copy of Windows, it is more important to keep him safe than it is to be concerned about the revenue issue."
There is no news of whether or not pirated copies will be allowed access to the Windows Update site afterwards or just allowed to install SP2."
HEY! YANKEES!!! HEY! YOU UHHH-MEHR-UH-CAAAHNS! IT'S ME AGAIN!!
CAN YOU STILL NOT SAY VIETNAM?? CAN YOU STILL NOT SAY VIETNAM??
I shouldn't make the fun of your latest military misadventure, but when everyone shouts "LOOK OUT FOR THE CLIFF" and Yankees shout "WHAT CLIFF?" as they run off the edge, it is like the funny Marx brothers or something. I never realised all the Peewee Herman films were serious documentaries of the top American Military Commander.
It is clear none of you can say "Vietnam" as in all posts to my previous comments not one of them was from the slimy Republican ammoral pitiless shark eyed gobshites saying Vietnam. IT'S BECAUSE THEY CAN'T!! THEY HAVE BLOTTED IT OUT OF THE MEMORIES SO THEY HAVE GONE AND GOT ANOTHER OF THE VIETNAMS ON THEIR HANDS. What is the Vietnam again? They asks themselves. Is that the Hiroshima place we bombed the shit out of in WW2? Didn't we win that one 2-0??
WHAT HAS THE ISLAM EVER DONE FOR US?? Hey!! WHAT HAS THE ISLAMS EVER DONE FOR US GUYS???
I find it the very amusing, yes, when the Yankees start with the backward culture slur on the Islamics. THIS FROM A COUNTRY WHOSE PRIMARY CULTURAL EXPORT IS THE FUNNY YELLOW HEADS TALKING CARTOON SHOW!!! Can we have back all the brain drain peoples now, yes? "Oh, but look at all the great stuff Americans have invented recently like...the...Sedgeway" YES MY FRIEND!! AMERICA LEADS THE WORLD IN THE CREATION OF MOVEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR THE MORBIDLY OBESE, IN CASE THE EXERCISE FROM WALKING SHOULD STAVE OFF THEIR INEVITABLE HEART FAILURE BY A FEW DAYS!!!
SCIENCE UPDATE:
The PNAAS has reported that it has finally perfected the technology to completely isolate the US from the rests of the worlds. Yes "Television News" is expected to be a hugely wide success at preventing any American from learning a damn jot about what the elected leaders are up to. Well done Professor Goebbels. In other news, Rupert Murdoch seizes East Coast.
BRING BACK THE DRAFT FOR SOCCER MOMS AND TOP RAP STARS
This makes the perfect sense. It's the SOCCER MOMS who are the main consumer of all the oil in their huge big jeepmachines which MUST be needed to deliver the kids safely and comfortably to the Columbine High School, so THEY should fight for it. It's the RAP STARS that claim to be the big badasses, slapping round their BITCHES and POPPING A CAP IN THE ASS of the other gang like in West Side Stories. SEND THEM WHERE THEY WILL DO THE MOST GOOD- IRAQ!
ALL SURVEYS SHOW THAT IRAQIS ARE THE VERY HAPPY NOW MADMAN HUSSEIN HAS GONE
Gosh - all recent surveys of the middle class overfed ex Saddam regime seem to approve of the American actions!! This is frequently pointed to as being the important fact to anti war types!! WOO! Did they do a seance or something to ask all the dead Iraqi casualties how happy they were now Saddam has gone?? "I'm channelling an Iraqi casualty spirit through my spirit medium Big Chief Noble Coyote", yelled the physically excited John Negroponte. "Iraqi man says he Um very happy Um with coalition overthrow of madman with Um firesticks, Chief. HOW! Put him down as Um 100% positive Happy Iraqi, in our latest surveys!!"
EXCLUSIVE TO ANONYMOUS COWARD YANK FLAMES(c): AN INTERVIEW WITH BOMB VICTIM, ALI ISMAEEL ABBAS
ALI(through coalition interpreter): "Hello everyone. I am doing very fine. I love my lack of arms. If you are doing any public opinion surveys, I would like John Negroponte to fill it out on my behalf. I just want to tell you North American Yankees, we people in Iraq are sorry to hear of your terrible plight through Slashdot online bookmark. It
What a fucking troll.
yeah seriously. That is the one problem with slashdot.. I love slashdot but it gets old every time a post about ms is made everyone must try to turn it into a damn ms bashing fest...yet I am sure most of the people who visit this site run windows. I personally run OSX so i'm on higher ground.
If you buy something that has licensing restrictions, then there is no *should*. There's either "I agree to the licensing restrictions and buy the product", or I tell (whoever) that their bargain is insufficient for me and I tell them to fuck off and dont give them any money for the good/service they are offering.
Think about buying an airline ticket--if I buy an airline ticket from new york to london for $256, then I accept the fact that the dates and times are non-changeable and that the ticket is non-refundible. I understand and accept that this is true even though the guy sitting next to me on the same plane and eating the same airline meal and watching the same movie COULD HAVE changed his dates and times or could have gotten 100% of his money back. Of course, he paid $1900 for his ticket.
MOD PARENT DOWN
You weren't forced to buy anything; you chose to buy a laptop with such restrictions and now are bitching about it.
I've been reading this site for YEARS ... before they had registration even. It used to be interesting and I would check it every day. Today I have realized that it's not worth it. The stories are SO predictably it's not even funny. Slashdot has become Microsoft PR mirror. All of SCO stuff gets annoying. Science/Tech news are usually just rehashes from NYTimes science/circuits section. Perphaps once a week you get to see some interesting tidbit that is truely news for nerds, stuff that matters. I don't know, maybe I expect too much. Ask Slashdot posts are getting even sillier. I know this is off topic and it won't get moderated up but today I have decided to move on. There has got to be more interesting news sites on the web than this. I think just looking at the posts says it all. You hardly ever see any low slashdot ID users posting. Oh well. Have fun people. I don't think whoever runs this site, gives a shit anymore. And neither do I.
Yes, and don't forget the tinfoil hat, too.
Ah, the self-masturbatory myth that bedroom-dwelling "experts" so love to repeat - people don't use Open Source because they're not clever like we are!
Here's some news for you, Mr. Oh-so-wise, people use Windows because it works. They also use it because their boss says they have to. And they use it because it's usable - you and your little buddies are too busy jerking off over how brilliant you are that you forgot to worry about writing directions or caring about UI.
You make it hard for people to use OSS because you like it that way. Then you have an exclusive little club and you can write posts like yours - "verge of tears" my arse - and feel a little better about your sad life. Unless it's tears of laughter, at the disgustng geek ranting about some shitty almost-ran OS that they should waste time considering when what they have already is just fine, thanks very much.