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UK Greens Declare Vista Bad For Environment

schwaang writes "The UK Green Party says that Vista's DRM requirements will force many unnecessary hardware upgrades. Quoting: 'There will be thousands of tonnes of dumped monitors, video cards, and whole computers that are perfectly capable of running Vista — except for the fact they lack the paranoid lock down mechanisms Vista forces you to use. That's an offensive cost to the environment. Future archaeologists will be able to identify a "Vista Upgrade Layer" when they go through our landfill sites.'"

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  1. A dupe? by BA_Draku · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wasn't this story posted here before?

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    1. Re:A dupe? by niconorsk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Ah, but one should know that one can measure the value of a story by how often it has been Slashdot. If it has only been posted once, clearly it can not be of much note.

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    2. Re:A dupe? by RDW · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      It's a story about the Green Party. OF COURSE it has to be re-cycled!

  2. full bore into the (billy) gates of hell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    'course heis not the only gates advocating for debt&disruption nowadaze? greed/fear/ego have been shown to be the DOWnfall of more than a few 'civil'izations.

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  3. Re:Kittens by ettlz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, no, upgrading to Vista is not masturbation!

  4. Re:Kittens by Anonymous+Know-It-Al · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    No, no, upgrading to Vista is not masturbation!

    Phew... My computer is not good enough for an upgrade so I was worried I would have to stop mast... Ehh... nevermind.

  5. Re:Sure by Drakin020 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I love your sig. Linux haters unite! There needs to be some diversity in Slashdot...However because we are different we will get modded down.

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  6. Re:it might be microsofts fall.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    my first post by the way.. And a load of unrelated rubbish it was.