of the purpose of WGA is fraudulent - not doubt; German XP versions, not sure if all (?) are forced to install WGA or no further system patches can be installed: Coercion: install WGA or run the risk of a compromised system.
But - let's be clear: There are plenty of other installed programs calling home and why is the Windows firewall so lousy to fail identifying, showing and logging any program trying to get out from the machine? Self-protection, Corporate cover up or plain stupidity of developers?
On other ends: Patents should only be valid as long as the original inventor (no corp legal entities!) is alive and then become public property.
get somewhere outside (your non-college home?) a Linux box hooked up to the internet, then use putty to create a secure tunnel, proxy a browser through it and the only thing they see outside is ssh traffic.
If that is creating a fuss, just say you were trying something out to see if it works, educating yourself, learning.....
offer free download - install - run - shows you a gazillion of "red" things - wants you to "register" with email address, do so - click next uups - asks to pay up $ 40 (- $ 0.05) plus
Yes, Include Active Protection for Only ($9.95) Recommended Yes, Include ErrorSmart($39.95 Only $9.95) Recommended
- remove software
- install again & run comes up immediately with... you still have a gazillion of "red" things on your computer
Result:
- not a clean uninstall - no clear disclosure of service terms up front (payment required)
ergo: as much a sucker as so many there are out there... not a trace of decency
"Saving" $300 Mio or $80 billion/year would also make other entities "loose" at least the same amount looking at all the printing industry and supporting businesses and where does that lead to?
Is there any modeling/simulaton of necessary resources to "run" a human population in a country in a sustainable fashion and what products/services are required and how would in this context such an e-book prioritized?
Sure ain't - it's total chaos, will lead to more chaos and that ship is gonna tank big time!
I love it! Replaced my wireless router with Gbit wiring in the house; works much better. Will put up a sleeping pyramid and several orgon collectors as well to compensate for the remaining waves.
I mean - where is all the crap on the planet coming from?
Nobody gives a shit about it any more. Gotta start somewhere cleaning up.
If one had XP before, just reinstall it and if it needs re-certifying, just say it's the only computer used, which it is since you got the new machine.
Why anyone would pay > $ 100 for an OS is beyond me - it is a service program!
They may be pushing Vista right now to have another cut on charging for upgrading to the next version - Windows, what is it - 7?
The financial system (and industry for that matter) is set up to keep growing every year by a certain percentage - even if small, it will have a long term effect since the growth is geometric.
For continuous growth and expansion, more capital is needed.
And what we are seeing now is that the system crashes - Foreclosures on houses (78,000+ in Sept) create reduction of money volume and banks cannot give more loans.
Giving up the money making machine driven by loans with exponential growth will not be easy, if not impossible and nobody is really talking about it openly.
That's the real pretenders - looking away from the real cause of the problem, pretending it does not even exist.
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Paranoid?
Hardly - greedy, most likely..
Hey - wanna buy a DVD with 2000 folk's heart rate records over 3 years, names with addresses and all?
of the purpose of WGA is fraudulent - not doubt; German XP versions, not sure if all (?) are forced to install WGA or no further system patches can be installed: Coercion: install WGA or run the risk of a compromised system.
But - let's be clear: There are plenty of other installed programs calling home and why is the Windows firewall so lousy to fail identifying, showing and logging any program trying to get out from the machine? Self-protection, Corporate cover up or plain stupidity of developers?
On other ends: Patents should only be valid as long as the original inventor (no corp legal entities!) is alive and then become public property.
get somewhere outside (your non-college home?) a Linux box hooked up to the internet, then use putty to create a secure tunnel, proxy a browser through it and the only thing they see outside is ssh traffic.
If that is creating a fuss, just say you were trying something out to see if it works, educating yourself, learning.....
what a crook! Not paying taxes - how unpatriotic - or is it the rats leaving a sinking ship?
those police folks - aren't they?
One has to wonder how they react in a real emergency situation. One can feel very protected by this kind of police....
It's an old story - 20 year or older - correlation between air pollution and life expectancy - Riversite CA is one of the worst on the West Coast.
Why is it still happening, who benefits and who looses if it stays that way?
smells like a lawsuit coming soon....
decent?
offer free download
- install
- run - shows you a gazillion of "red" things
- wants you to "register" with email address, do so
- click next
uups - asks to pay up $ 40 (- $ 0.05) plus
Yes, Include Active Protection for Only ($9.95) Recommended
Yes, Include ErrorSmart($39.95 Only $9.95) Recommended
- remove software
- install again & run ... you still have a gazillion of "red" things on your computer
comes up immediately with
Result:
- not a clean uninstall
- no clear disclosure of service terms up front (payment required)
ergo: as much a sucker as so many there are out there... not a trace of decency
"Saving" $300 Mio or $80 billion/year would also make other entities "loose" at least the same amount looking at all the printing industry and supporting businesses and where does that lead to?
Is there any modeling/simulaton of necessary resources to "run" a human population in a country in a sustainable fashion and what products/services are required and how would in this context such an e-book prioritized?
Sure ain't - it's total chaos, will lead to more chaos and that ship is gonna tank big time!
Enjoy the trip!
now duct tape will be illegal as well, great going!
is that "Satyam" is truth in Sanskrit - or even more, something like ultimate truth...
Are you playing too many video games mixing up reality with fiction?
What kind of reality do you have stored in your brain - playing music as result of destroying another human - howsoever you are trying to justify it?
Yes - this is a flame!
I can't believe this kind of crap is going on on /. - maybe it's time to move on or start filtering...
Yucc!
as in Germany - trade in your older clunker - 9 years or older - and get a better car for Eur 2,500.
Only problem is that many 9 year or older cars sell on the market for more than Eur 2,500, so - who wants the bonus if you can sell it for more?
Maybe older cars are cheaper in US?
Download a free XP vmware image from the ususal places and run it on Vbox http://www.virtualbox.org/ under Linux - should work...
Aren't they (M$oft) asking for it?
Try to understand: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cynical
If you would, your post would have been superfluous.
Right - different OS _is_ a different configuration, with that logic all OS benchmarks are invalid.
That Windoze's TCP/IP stack is inefficient compared to Linux has come up before, so - yawn!
goofed - could be done it seems....
seems they want to own your computer outright - no multiboot (MS world foreign concept) visible on first glance...
What time period are you talking about?
5 - 6 on the east coast is 1 to 2 on the west coast,
5 - 6 on the west coast is 9 - 10 on the east coast and when and where is the congestion????
I love it! Replaced my wireless router with Gbit wiring in the house; works much better.
Will put up a sleeping pyramid and several orgon collectors as well to compensate for the remaining waves.
I mean - where is all the crap on the planet coming from?
Nobody gives a shit about it any more. Gotta start somewhere cleaning up.
What's it to you, pal?
Almost - more correct Answer:
Q: How many New Yorkers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None 'o yo' fuckin' business!
With LED's, nowadays - it would be something like that:
A: None - all got fuckin' stolen
many NewYorkers does it take now to change a light bulb?
If one had XP before, just reinstall it and if it needs re-certifying, just say it's the only computer used, which it is since you got the new machine.
Why anyone would pay > $ 100 for an OS is beyond me - it is a service program!
They may be pushing Vista right now to have another cut on charging for upgrading to the next version - Windows, what is it - 7?
It's all about Money - isn't it?
&& rootkit preinstalled
probably a rootkit cleaner would fix that but the site to download it is blocked by the "Great Wall of China" - dang!
There is another aspect to this.
The financial system (and industry for that matter) is set up to keep growing every year by a certain percentage - even if small, it will have a long term effect since the growth is geometric.
For continuous growth and expansion, more capital is needed.
Money is created through debt (loans).
see there: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279
also documented there: http://landru.i-link-2.net/monques/mmm2.html
And what we are seeing now is that the system crashes - Foreclosures on houses (78,000+ in Sept) create reduction of money volume and banks cannot give more loans.
Giving up the money making machine driven by loans with exponential growth will not be easy, if not impossible and nobody is really talking about it openly.
That's the real pretenders - looking away from the real cause of the problem, pretending it does not even exist.