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Windows 7 RCs Shut Down To Force Updates
nk497 writes "The release candidate for Microsoft Windows 7 will expire June 2010, and the software giant will let users know they need to pay to upgrade by shutting down the system every two hours for three months. According to Microsoft: "The RC will expire on June 1, 2010. Starting on March 1, 2010, your PC will begin shutting down every two hours. Windows will notify you two weeks before the bi-hourly shutdowns start. To avoid interruption, you'll need to install a non-expired version of Windows before March 1, 2010. You'll also need to install the programs and data that you want to use.""
Hardly surprising, and Windows 7 is just slightly better than Vista, but I'm not able to get that spartan (relatively) look and feel of Windows 2000 to get the job done instead of suffering from Microsoft trying to make me feel Awesome and Impressed by their way of overcooking a GUI.
And Windows Vista and Windows 7 are both not very friendly for advanced users.
Sure - mod me troll, but that's my opinion!
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
"If I gave you a house on a rent-free 12 month lease would you piss and whine about how inconvenient moving out would be?"
Not if you pay for naked odalisques to carry me out on a sedan chair.
Otherwise, yes.
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What part of "Without Permission" do you not understand. I tell it when to turn my computer off. It does not arbitrarily decide to do without *MY EXPLICIT PERMISSION*
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/1030_new.html
Read the thing in it's entirety. Let's go to terms, here, just the specific ones that would apply in my case.
(2) the term "protected computer" means a computer (B) which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or communications. impairment to the integrity or availability of data, a program, a system, or information; Key word IMPAIRMENT.
(11) the term 'loss' includes any reasonable cost to any victim, including the cost of responding to an offense, conducting a damage assessment, and restoring the data, program, system, or information to its condition prior to the offense, and any revenue lost, cost incurred, or other consequential damages incurred because of interruption of service; and
(12) the term 'person' means any individual, firm, corporation, educational institution, financial institution, governmental entity, or legal or other entity.
There are the parts that absolutely apply.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.