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Microsoft Changes Tune Again On SP2 Installs

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the small-time-pirates-get-away-with-upgrading dept.

KidHash writes "Following on from last months Slashdot story, it appears Microsoft has changed its tune with the BBC reporting that SP2 will not install on XP installations using the '20 most pirated product IDs.'"

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  1. Quarantine by Colin+Smith · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Standard practice in medical circles. We're not talking fatal diseases here. Kick them off the net.

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  2. Re:Pfffff.... by 13Echo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Please mod these down. They are links that support pracy.

  3. Re:Locate foot. Aim. FIRE! by It'sYerMam · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is what Michael Moore reckons is "the" problem with America.
    Sensationalist crap from TV that implies that you're about to have someone break into you home and shoot you all is obviously going to give people an incentive to buy guns. It is also possible that this, rather than video games, is the cause of excessive violence - most people can tell the difference between reality and fantasy, and therefore can tell that just because you shot an alien in a game doesn't mean you can shoot someone in the street.
    However, if you're bombarded with images of people getting shot in the street (or whatever) then that is real - surely a different matter?

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  4. Re:Locate foot. Aim. FIRE! by It'sYerMam · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    From the point of view of an Englishman, pretty much.
    You're not a member of the NRA, are you? ;-)

    Of course, many people in America are damn funky, but some are downright stupid. I've seen news broadcasts from America, and it they were mostly filled with "Oh my God, Oh my God - Oh the humanity" type stuff.
    Compared to over here where (at least as far as I can see), newsreaders are pretty much emotionless, whatever the catastrophe. (Except on Dead Ringers!)

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  5. Re:Locate foot. Aim. FIRE! by It'sYerMam · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    "My friends with guns don't have them, because they're worried they might get attacked/mugged/robbed"

    Well... what's the need? It's widely known that guns are... well, dangerous. And if there is no need such as self protection, then why run the risk?
    The fact that guns are eas[y|ier] to get hold of obviously increases the risk of gun crime, and looking at the statistics, gun crime is far more common in the US than in places without legalised gun ownership for the general populace, taking population into account.

    Naturally, it's very difficult to outlaw something which has been inlaw for so long, with such a large culture thing. However, even so, surely it would be a "Good Thing TM."

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