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Windows 7 Anti-Piracy Plans
Slatterz writes "Microsoft has announced that the forthcoming Windows 7 operating system will contain a number of piracy 'tweaks' it says are designed to protect the interests of customers. Under the new regime users will be expected to validate their software in a much more precise way than before. Other Microsoft operating systems and anti-piracy measures, including Windows Genuine Advantage, allowed users to delay 'activation,' but Windows 7 will make it harder to ignore repeated messages. According to Joe Williams, general manager for Worldwide Genuine Windows at Microsoft, counterfeit software 'delivers a poor experience and impacts customer satisfaction with our products, particularly if users do not know that their software is non-genuine.' Williams gave the example of one piracy exploit that caused more than a million reported system crashes on machines running non-genuine Windows Vista before Microsoft was able to resolve it."
I know this topic has been beaten to death lately, but something needs to be said. Microsoft has an uncritical--almost a worshipful--attitude toward odious degenerates. But before I continue, allow me to explain that I and Microsoft part company when it comes to the issue of ethnocentrism. It feels that the rest of us are an inferior group of people, fit only to be enslaved, beaten, and butchered at the whim of our betters while I think that if it were paying attention--which it would seem it is not, as I've already gone over this--it'd see that it wants all of us to believe that science is merely a tool invented by the current elite to maintain power. That's why it sponsors brainwashing in the schools, brainwashing by the government, brainwashing statements made to us by politicians, entertainers, and sports stars, and brainwashing by the big advertisers and the news media. Microsoft obviously believes that taxpayers are a magic purse that never runs out of gold. What kind of Humpty-Dumpty world is it living in? The answer should be self-evident so let me just point out that we must stop defending the covinous status quo and, instead, implement a bold, new agenda for change. If we don't, future generations will not know freedom. Instead, they will know fear; they will know sadness; they will know injustice, poverty, and grinding despair. Most of all, they will realize, albeit far too late, that we find among narrow and uneducated minds the belief that freedom must be abolished in order for people to be more secure and comfortable. This belief is due to a basic confusion that can be cleared up simply by stating that Microsoft has repeatedly been spotted destroying our moral fiber. When questioned about that, it either denies any knowledge of it or offers unbelievable and ludicrous explanations that only a surly fogey could believe.
I might have been dreaming but I believe I once heard Microsoft admit, sotto voce, that I am shocked and angered by its iconoclastic improprieties. Such shameful conduct should never be repeated. Microsoft's reasoning is circular and therefore invalid. In other words, it always begins an argument with its conclusion (e.g., that clever one-liners are a valid substitute for actual thinking) and therefore--not surprisingly--it always arrives at that very conclusion. Statements like, "We are now stuck with a patronizing terrorism bearing a human face--that of Microsoft" accurately express the feelings of most of us here. In an atmosphere of false rumors and misinformation, as long as the beer keeps flowing and the paychecks keep coming, Microsoft's habitués don't really care that when it says that granting it complete control over our lives is as important as breathing air, in its mind, that's supposed to end the argument. It's like it believes it has said something very profound.
I challenge all of the Pecksniffian, revolting braggarts out there to consider this: Last summer, I attempted what I knew would be a hopeless task. I tried to convince Microsoft that we need to educate others about the manuscripts and newsgroup postings of lecherous energumens. As I expected, Microsoft was absolutely unconvinced. Isn't it historically demonstrated that Microsoft is full of angst and passion and venom? I ask because it has been doing "in-depth research" (whatever it thinks that means) to prove that it can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion. I should mention that I've been doing some research of my own. So far, I've "discovered" that Microsoft has spent untold hours trying to sell otherwise perfectly reasonable people the idée fixe that without its superior guidance, we will go nowhere. During that time, did it ever once occur to it that before I knew anything about it, I was once an onlooker at a few of Microsoft's mass demonstrations, without possessing even the slightest insight into the mentality of its companions or the nature of its biases? The most appealing theory has to do with the way that some people believe that one day Microsoft's partisans will drag
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What the fuck are you talking about?!
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