"Fortunately a version of OpenSSL (0.9.8l) is available which disables renegotiation, which is appropriate for most applications. According to Mr. Kurmu, Twitter seems to have already applied it. Have you?"
Unless I'm missing something, I need not worry about the wife, or myself. We both have OpenSSL 0.9.8 but I ain't sure WHAT my sons are using. Windows XP probably doesn't use SSL.
Oh well - I'll just warn them one more time NOT to do internet banking on their Windows machines, and warn as well that their SSL connections may be vulnerable.
Dorm room? Oh please, can I have one? Look, youngster, at my name. See the 1956? That was the year of my birth. Don't even try to talk down to me, it makes you sound stupid.
As for those revenue streams - so fucking WHAT? Again - 5 or 10 years is long enough for copyrighted material to be monopolized by ANYONE. Music written and performed in 1999 should now be in the public domain. You want 15 years? Convince me - I might agree.
Copyright law is an abortion, no matter how many ways you have of making money from the copyright.
Well - if you changed your "OpenBSD" to "OpenSource", I could agree with you wholeheartedly. Seriously - BSD looks as good as anything on the market, but I've not found a compelling reason to use BSD instead of the more mainstream Linuxes.
Because you limit your comment to one specific Unix-like, you just come across as a fanboi. Next time, try highlighting the merits of unix-like OS's, then compare how one or another stacks up to each other. You might find a convert - or not. But, at least you won't be an obvious fanboi!
Yeah, yeah, whatever. The central issue is copyright law. Historically, whatever an individual or corporation creates is eventually coopted into the public domain. The central question is, when should that happen? Should copyright entitle someone to a monopoly on his idea for five years, ten years, 15 years, or 20 years? Bear in mind - NO SANE COPYRIGHT was ever intended to entitle an author to a steady income for generations to come. Only since corporations came into the picture have copyrights been extended again and again. Corporations have no "life expectancy" comparable to an individual. In effect, the entire reasoning for a copyright has been preempted by the corporations. The goal is to have a copyright continue into perpetuity, so that those corporate fatcats can continue cashing checks forever.
Rant on corporate America? I didn't - yet. Would you really like me to get started on one? Perhaps you are completely unaware of the recent financial meltdown, due to unbridled greed? Maybe you're not up to date on banking schemes that are raising the interest rates on loans that have been outstanding for years? Oh man, you really don't want to get me started on a real rant.
But, back to those artists. Yes, they work for people. No matter whether the money is channeled through a corporation or not, the PEOPLE who like their music pay them. What the people don't like, they don't pay for, and what the people like, they will pay for. It's really that simple. And all of those creative works are supposed to belong to the people, eventually.
Musician work for the people who enjoy music. They shouldn't be whoring themselves to corporate America, which only rapes the musicians AND the music lovers.
"Well, setting up your own is the same as using the one that's set up for you in the box, wouldn't you say?"
There is the GP's question that I responded to. In fact, the DNS server in my router is no different than the DNS server on my gateway machine - except for configuration. The major reason I disabled the server on the router, was so that I could more easily update the server, and so that I could more easily configure it.
If I saw a reason, I could configure my firewall to allow queries to come in from the outside, in which case, my server would respond. What you really mean to say is, the server on the router is misconfigured if it responds to outside requests - and I would tend to agree with that.
I don't know if you're male or female so - let's suppose that science identifies a gene, or even a pair of genes, that make you susceptible to either prostate cancer, or breast cancer. Take your pick - it doesn't matter which.
Your DNA profile shows you to be susceptible to whichever. Let's say that you're 50 times more likely to develop that cancer, than the "average" person. You are now uninsurable, unless you accept a "prior condition" waiver.
You better hope that "socialized health care" is made real.
It's alright for the insurance companies to stack the deck so that they win most of the time, but there comes a point where hedging their bets is outright unethical.
Heh. I've probably got a decade or more on you. No audio books for me. I vaguely remember those little spinning things, pull a string, and it meowed or whatever. I'm not sure they were out when I was that age, or my youngest brother got it when it was new.
I WISH my parents had read something like Asimov to me!! I'm jealous now!! I didn't discover Asimov and company until 5th or 6th grade. Maybe even later - 5th grade is when I discovered Tolkein.
Those authors and others deserve all the credit for my staying in school. Without them to destract me from the mind numbing idiocy of the system, I'd have dropped out around 9th grade. With them, I actually got some education during school hours. Joe Average only saw a book meant for entertainment. To me, the Sci-Fi greats suggested things to study - "what is light speed", "why can't you exceed the speed of light?", "What is a black hole?" "What is a tachyon?" and thousands more. Grandma bought me an Encylopeadia Brittanica, so save on trips to the library!;^)
Very very much the same. Of course, I can't customize the server on the box that's set up for me as easily as I can customize my own DNS server - but the results are about the same.
GP should be aware that a variety of ills with internet connectivity are cured by having your own server - starting with the serious lag experienced when the ISP's server is screwed up somehow. I can send DNS queries halfway around the world, and get a response, faster than I can get answers from my local ISP's DNS server. I've often wondered if they have their server set up on a satellite - halfway to the moon.
1) it treats all children the same. You should learn this, because you are 7 years old. Nothing else matters. You could be a grand master in chess, but you're not allowed to write cursive yet! You have been reading since you were 3? Well, forget it, you're going to learn it all over again!
It's pretty much the same all over the US, and it has been true for at least 40 years. The child who is permitted to skip a grade, or gets into a "gifted" program is a rare creature indeed. I spent most of twelve years bored out of my skull, and two of my three sons did the same. (we won't discuss the third - he's a special case) I didn't know my wife when we were in school, but she and her sisters say the same.
I've seen no public schools in America that actually push kids to perform, then rewards them for doing so.
There are MILLIONS of students in this country who can read a textbook, discuss it for a week or two, then take the "semester finals". I was one.
The public education system in America is broken, because the entire system is geared to serve people with high-average to low-average intelligence and learning skills. This is just great for the "average" - but it hinders both the genius AND the idiot. Neither is going to learn in the manner dictated by all those averages.
Agreed. I'm not even a Republican, but I'd love to see the neocons put to shovelling shit in the stables. Neos aren't conservatives at all, they are ultra capitalists and adventurers.
A little capitalism is all very well and good, but unrestrained capitalism is nothing but bad.
I call bullshit. People need to finance a home, and many people need to finance a decent car. Beyond that - almost anything that a person "needs" can wait til he has cash money. I'm all for cutting up every credit card in the country, and SEVERELY limiting credit on everyday toys. A computer, worth less than a thousand dollars? No freaking way. Save the money, and buy it. If you can't afford it today, you CERTAINLY can't afford it next year, with interest tacked on.
It's been said a million times: A con artists gets rich on his "victim's" greed. As far as I'm concerned, all the credit card companies are con artists, and an outfit like BlueHippo is merely one of the bottom feeders of the con artists. But, every one of the con artists are enabled by fools.
I can't decide if you're trolling, or naive. Microsoft needs no permission to use GPL'd stuff. Neither does anyone else. It's a copy left. EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO USE IT!! There are a few restrictions on giving credit to the owners, releasing source, etc - but they are ALLOWED TO USE IT.
I can't imagine any individual, corporation, group, or consortium who might be denied the right to use GPL code, AS LONG AS they abide by the terms of the license.
By releasing (or making available) the source code, and giving proper credit to the authors, MS complies with the terms of the GPL license.
"Endless copyright may be wrong but that will change eventually."
I beg to differ. History as well as current trends show that copyright law is getting more and more restrictive, less and less fair, and will continue to do so, UNLESS the people stand up and say, "Enough is ENOUGH!"
That ACTA treaty that is secretly being worked out scares me. The "IP Holders" seem to have all the say on it. As an international treaty, it will trump national law once a nation signs on to it. It seems that "3 strikes and you're out" will be an integral part of the treaty. But, NO ONE KNOWS anything for sure, because the *IAA's of the world are in, and the public is out of any discussion.
Copyright law could conceivably be as bad as anything Orwelle envisioned. It could even require police ware on your computer, which will report anything you do. Insane.
I spent a couple hours at the shrine to the Thresher and the Scorpion in Groton. Any loss at sea is - awe inspiring? But, the loss of a sub is somehow a little bit more than the loss of a surface ship. I got to tour one of the last diesel boats in San Diego, soon after I joined the Navy. A 3rd class petty officer spotted me wandering up and down the pier, examining every detail of the boats, and invited me aboard for a guided tour. Simply awesome.
Uncle Sam wouldn't allow me to serve aboard boats, for the same reason he wouldn't let me around his aircraft. Poor color vision kept me out of anything interesting. *sigh*
In '74 and '75, there was a captured WW2 U-boat at the Great Lakes training center as well. That was god-awful small and cramped, even compared to the boat I toured in San Diego.
Never did tour the Nautilus. I can't even remember why I missed it - it was certainly on my list of "things to do". It probably had something to do with chasing women.....
I've been waiting for Reiser to go mainstream. Whatever happened to that? Huh? Oh, you say Reiser went to prison? DA-YUM!! They won't give him access to the intartubez, or what?
This is just the schitz.
Ext4? Hmmmm. We're not being set up for ANOTHER murder mystery, are we?
I can't think of any "compelling reasons" to switch distros. Suse is nice, it gave me my "entry" into Linux because it worked on hardware that everything else balked at. But - I've actually moved away from Suse to Deb derivatives - mostly Ubuntu.
As for testing everything - I've encouraged many Windows users to download and run LiveCD's. That advice might apply to seasoned *nix users as well. Curious, but not willing to go to all the work of installing? Test drive those LiveCD's!!!
Oh yeah - I made a convert last evening. He brought me an e-Machine with Vista. Totally Fubar'd. I sat him down, demonstrated E-live and Ubuntu, and he demanded that I install Ubuntu for him. I'll be getting some support calls from him, but I won't be cleaning any virus off of Ubuntu!
Suse 9.something worked out of the box for me, when Windows wouldn't. I installed a half dozen different distros, before I found a 64 bit OS that "just worked". In fact, that was the straw that broke the camel's back. I disowned Microsoft within days after purchasing my first 64 bit Opteron.
I've actually convinced a few people to GOOGLE the app, BEFORE installing. Many people can't be bothered, but there are a few who have been bitten enough times, they are willing to take three minutes to research an app before committing to it. Some of those fraudulent "spyware remover" apps, for instance, give multiple hits with terms like "spyware", "Trojan", or "How to get rid of" guides, usually among the top ten results.
It never hurts to look for independent reviews of anything - software included. Never trust the "reviews" on the download page, and you'll be a whole lot safer.
Without the theatrics, I'm way ahead of you. I haven't been in a theatre in ages, and I don't buy the crap that Hollywood produces. I've voluntarily watched 3 movies in about 18 months. (as opposed to listening to the crud the wife rents, and blares out of the living room) I grabbed all three movies from the internet. Support the "celebrities"? Support RIAA, MPAA, or any of the other mafiaa? Me? No way in hell.
I'm not the martyr type, really. If I felt that strongly, I'd take other routes - which we won't discuss while I'm logged in and traceable LOL
"Also, a psychology study found that following celebrities (or other public figures) and relating to them and their everyday situations, playing through the scenarios and solutions, is almost required for psychological balance."
Wow. That's some really weird crap. You're saying that all those unhinged people who faithfully record 6 hours of soaps, so they can watch them after work, are more BALANCED than I am?
You'll forgive me if I just don't believe the articles?
Ditto what Mage Powers said. There's zero information in TFA, and little more in PDF. FUD, for certain.
If the talking chimps care to publish meaningful information, I'll be happy to read it. At this point in time, there is nothing to agree or to disagree with.
Sensationalist headlines, nothing more, and nothing less. Wonder how much Microsoft paid them for this "story"?
6% doesn't sound like much. But, this is for virtual machines. By definition, a VM is already handicapped. Take away 6% of the performance of Windows 7 inside my existing VM's, and they aren't worth having. An XP machine may still work alright, but that isn't certain.
Maybe I just need faster, more powerful hardware, then I won't notice another 6% decrease.
Meanwhile, various problems with Windows updates are conveniently forgotten. Of about 7 machines that I updated to XP SP3, one was a "Gotcha" from Microsoft. The eternal reboot thing. That didn't bother me terribly - it was a minor inconvenience to wipe and reinstall. But, what about the non-technical great-grandma who had no backups? All her pictures of grandchildren and great grandchildren were probably lost when her dorky grandson started muddling with her old, outdated system. How much you want to bet that auto-update was disabled after that? Not just on HER machine, but her kids, the grandkids, the great grandkids, and everyone who would listen to the old biddy complaining?
Microsoft's problems are Microsoft's problems, period. The pirates didn't create a single one of them.
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"Fortunately a version of OpenSSL (0.9.8l) is available which disables renegotiation, which is appropriate for most applications. According to Mr. Kurmu, Twitter seems to have already applied it. Have you?"
http://blogs.iss.net/archive/stealingcookieswiths.html
Unless I'm missing something, I need not worry about the wife, or myself. We both have OpenSSL 0.9.8 but I ain't sure WHAT my sons are using. Windows XP probably doesn't use SSL.
Oh well - I'll just warn them one more time NOT to do internet banking on their Windows machines, and warn as well that their SSL connections may be vulnerable.
Dorm room? Oh please, can I have one? Look, youngster, at my name. See the 1956? That was the year of my birth. Don't even try to talk down to me, it makes you sound stupid.
As for those revenue streams - so fucking WHAT? Again - 5 or 10 years is long enough for copyrighted material to be monopolized by ANYONE. Music written and performed in 1999 should now be in the public domain. You want 15 years? Convince me - I might agree.
Copyright law is an abortion, no matter how many ways you have of making money from the copyright.
Well - if you changed your "OpenBSD" to "OpenSource", I could agree with you wholeheartedly. Seriously - BSD looks as good as anything on the market, but I've not found a compelling reason to use BSD instead of the more mainstream Linuxes.
Because you limit your comment to one specific Unix-like, you just come across as a fanboi. Next time, try highlighting the merits of unix-like OS's, then compare how one or another stacks up to each other. You might find a convert - or not. But, at least you won't be an obvious fanboi!
Yeah, yeah, whatever. The central issue is copyright law. Historically, whatever an individual or corporation creates is eventually coopted into the public domain. The central question is, when should that happen? Should copyright entitle someone to a monopoly on his idea for five years, ten years, 15 years, or 20 years? Bear in mind - NO SANE COPYRIGHT was ever intended to entitle an author to a steady income for generations to come. Only since corporations came into the picture have copyrights been extended again and again. Corporations have no "life expectancy" comparable to an individual. In effect, the entire reasoning for a copyright has been preempted by the corporations. The goal is to have a copyright continue into perpetuity, so that those corporate fatcats can continue cashing checks forever.
Rant on corporate America? I didn't - yet. Would you really like me to get started on one? Perhaps you are completely unaware of the recent financial meltdown, due to unbridled greed? Maybe you're not up to date on banking schemes that are raising the interest rates on loans that have been outstanding for years? Oh man, you really don't want to get me started on a real rant.
But, back to those artists. Yes, they work for people. No matter whether the money is channeled through a corporation or not, the PEOPLE who like their music pay them. What the people don't like, they don't pay for, and what the people like, they will pay for. It's really that simple. And all of those creative works are supposed to belong to the people, eventually.
Musician work for the people who enjoy music. They shouldn't be whoring themselves to corporate America, which only rapes the musicians AND the music lovers.
"Well, setting up your own is the same as using the one that's set up for you in the box, wouldn't you say?"
There is the GP's question that I responded to. In fact, the DNS server in my router is no different than the DNS server on my gateway machine - except for configuration. The major reason I disabled the server on the router, was so that I could more easily update the server, and so that I could more easily configure it.
If I saw a reason, I could configure my firewall to allow queries to come in from the outside, in which case, my server would respond. What you really mean to say is, the server on the router is misconfigured if it responds to outside requests - and I would tend to agree with that.
I don't know if you're male or female so - let's suppose that science identifies a gene, or even a pair of genes, that make you susceptible to either prostate cancer, or breast cancer. Take your pick - it doesn't matter which.
Your DNA profile shows you to be susceptible to whichever. Let's say that you're 50 times more likely to develop that cancer, than the "average" person. You are now uninsurable, unless you accept a "prior condition" waiver.
You better hope that "socialized health care" is made real.
It's alright for the insurance companies to stack the deck so that they win most of the time, but there comes a point where hedging their bets is outright unethical.
Heh. I've probably got a decade or more on you. No audio books for me. I vaguely remember those little spinning things, pull a string, and it meowed or whatever. I'm not sure they were out when I was that age, or my youngest brother got it when it was new.
I WISH my parents had read something like Asimov to me!! I'm jealous now!! I didn't discover Asimov and company until 5th or 6th grade. Maybe even later - 5th grade is when I discovered Tolkein.
Those authors and others deserve all the credit for my staying in school. Without them to destract me from the mind numbing idiocy of the system, I'd have dropped out around 9th grade. With them, I actually got some education during school hours. Joe Average only saw a book meant for entertainment. To me, the Sci-Fi greats suggested things to study - "what is light speed", "why can't you exceed the speed of light?", "What is a black hole?" "What is a tachyon?" and thousands more. Grandma bought me an Encylopeadia Brittanica, so save on trips to the library! ;^)
Very very much the same. Of course, I can't customize the server on the box that's set up for me as easily as I can customize my own DNS server - but the results are about the same.
GP should be aware that a variety of ills with internet connectivity are cured by having your own server - starting with the serious lag experienced when the ISP's server is screwed up somehow. I can send DNS queries halfway around the world, and get a response, faster than I can get answers from my local ISP's DNS server. I've often wondered if they have their server set up on a satellite - halfway to the moon.
1) it treats all children the same. You should learn this, because you are 7 years old. Nothing else matters. You could be a grand master in chess, but you're not allowed to write cursive yet! You have been reading since you were 3? Well, forget it, you're going to learn it all over again!
It's pretty much the same all over the US, and it has been true for at least 40 years. The child who is permitted to skip a grade, or gets into a "gifted" program is a rare creature indeed. I spent most of twelve years bored out of my skull, and two of my three sons did the same. (we won't discuss the third - he's a special case) I didn't know my wife when we were in school, but she and her sisters say the same.
I've seen no public schools in America that actually push kids to perform, then rewards them for doing so.
There are MILLIONS of students in this country who can read a textbook, discuss it for a week or two, then take the "semester finals". I was one.
The public education system in America is broken, because the entire system is geared to serve people with high-average to low-average intelligence and learning skills. This is just great for the "average" - but it hinders both the genius AND the idiot. Neither is going to learn in the manner dictated by all those averages.
Agreed. I'm not even a Republican, but I'd love to see the neocons put to shovelling shit in the stables. Neos aren't conservatives at all, they are ultra capitalists and adventurers.
A little capitalism is all very well and good, but unrestrained capitalism is nothing but bad.
I call bullshit. People need to finance a home, and many people need to finance a decent car. Beyond that - almost anything that a person "needs" can wait til he has cash money. I'm all for cutting up every credit card in the country, and SEVERELY limiting credit on everyday toys. A computer, worth less than a thousand dollars? No freaking way. Save the money, and buy it. If you can't afford it today, you CERTAINLY can't afford it next year, with interest tacked on.
It's been said a million times: A con artists gets rich on his "victim's" greed. As far as I'm concerned, all the credit card companies are con artists, and an outfit like BlueHippo is merely one of the bottom feeders of the con artists. But, every one of the con artists are enabled by fools.
I can't decide if you're trolling, or naive. Microsoft needs no permission to use GPL'd stuff. Neither does anyone else. It's a copy left. EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO USE IT!! There are a few restrictions on giving credit to the owners, releasing source, etc - but they are ALLOWED TO USE IT.
I can't imagine any individual, corporation, group, or consortium who might be denied the right to use GPL code, AS LONG AS they abide by the terms of the license.
By releasing (or making available) the source code, and giving proper credit to the authors, MS complies with the terms of the GPL license.
It's really not that hard to understand, is it?
"Endless copyright may be wrong but that will change eventually."
I beg to differ. History as well as current trends show that copyright law is getting more and more restrictive, less and less fair, and will continue to do so, UNLESS the people stand up and say, "Enough is ENOUGH!"
That ACTA treaty that is secretly being worked out scares me. The "IP Holders" seem to have all the say on it. As an international treaty, it will trump national law once a nation signs on to it. It seems that "3 strikes and you're out" will be an integral part of the treaty. But, NO ONE KNOWS anything for sure, because the *IAA's of the world are in, and the public is out of any discussion.
Copyright law could conceivably be as bad as anything Orwelle envisioned. It could even require police ware on your computer, which will report anything you do. Insane.
I spent a couple hours at the shrine to the Thresher and the Scorpion in Groton. Any loss at sea is - awe inspiring? But, the loss of a sub is somehow a little bit more than the loss of a surface ship. I got to tour one of the last diesel boats in San Diego, soon after I joined the Navy. A 3rd class petty officer spotted me wandering up and down the pier, examining every detail of the boats, and invited me aboard for a guided tour. Simply awesome.
Uncle Sam wouldn't allow me to serve aboard boats, for the same reason he wouldn't let me around his aircraft. Poor color vision kept me out of anything interesting. *sigh*
In '74 and '75, there was a captured WW2 U-boat at the Great Lakes training center as well. That was god-awful small and cramped, even compared to the boat I toured in San Diego.
Never did tour the Nautilus. I can't even remember why I missed it - it was certainly on my list of "things to do". It probably had something to do with chasing women.....
I can see that this would be useful for a person with only one finger......
I've been waiting for Reiser to go mainstream. Whatever happened to that? Huh? Oh, you say Reiser went to prison? DA-YUM!! They won't give him access to the intartubez, or what?
This is just the schitz.
Ext4? Hmmmm. We're not being set up for ANOTHER murder mystery, are we?
I can't think of any "compelling reasons" to switch distros. Suse is nice, it gave me my "entry" into Linux because it worked on hardware that everything else balked at. But - I've actually moved away from Suse to Deb derivatives - mostly Ubuntu.
As for testing everything - I've encouraged many Windows users to download and run LiveCD's. That advice might apply to seasoned *nix users as well. Curious, but not willing to go to all the work of installing? Test drive those LiveCD's!!!
Oh yeah - I made a convert last evening. He brought me an e-Machine with Vista. Totally Fubar'd. I sat him down, demonstrated E-live and Ubuntu, and he demanded that I install Ubuntu for him. I'll be getting some support calls from him, but I won't be cleaning any virus off of Ubuntu!
Suse 9.something worked out of the box for me, when Windows wouldn't. I installed a half dozen different distros, before I found a 64 bit OS that "just worked". In fact, that was the straw that broke the camel's back. I disowned Microsoft within days after purchasing my first 64 bit Opteron.
I've actually convinced a few people to GOOGLE the app, BEFORE installing. Many people can't be bothered, but there are a few who have been bitten enough times, they are willing to take three minutes to research an app before committing to it. Some of those fraudulent "spyware remover" apps, for instance, give multiple hits with terms like "spyware", "Trojan", or "How to get rid of" guides, usually among the top ten results.
It never hurts to look for independent reviews of anything - software included. Never trust the "reviews" on the download page, and you'll be a whole lot safer.
Without the theatrics, I'm way ahead of you. I haven't been in a theatre in ages, and I don't buy the crap that Hollywood produces. I've voluntarily watched 3 movies in about 18 months. (as opposed to listening to the crud the wife rents, and blares out of the living room) I grabbed all three movies from the internet. Support the "celebrities"? Support RIAA, MPAA, or any of the other mafiaa? Me? No way in hell.
I'm not the martyr type, really. If I felt that strongly, I'd take other routes - which we won't discuss while I'm logged in and traceable LOL
"Also, a psychology study found that following celebrities (or other public figures) and relating to them and their everyday situations, playing through the scenarios and solutions, is almost required for psychological balance."
Wow. That's some really weird crap. You're saying that all those unhinged people who faithfully record 6 hours of soaps, so they can watch them after work, are more BALANCED than I am?
You'll forgive me if I just don't believe the articles?
Ditto what Mage Powers said. There's zero information in TFA, and little more in PDF. FUD, for certain.
If the talking chimps care to publish meaningful information, I'll be happy to read it. At this point in time, there is nothing to agree or to disagree with.
Sensationalist headlines, nothing more, and nothing less. Wonder how much Microsoft paid them for this "story"?
6% doesn't sound like much. But, this is for virtual machines. By definition, a VM is already handicapped. Take away 6% of the performance of Windows 7 inside my existing VM's, and they aren't worth having. An XP machine may still work alright, but that isn't certain.
Maybe I just need faster, more powerful hardware, then I won't notice another 6% decrease.
Meanwhile, various problems with Windows updates are conveniently forgotten. Of about 7 machines that I updated to XP SP3, one was a "Gotcha" from Microsoft. The eternal reboot thing. That didn't bother me terribly - it was a minor inconvenience to wipe and reinstall. But, what about the non-technical great-grandma who had no backups? All her pictures of grandchildren and great grandchildren were probably lost when her dorky grandson started muddling with her old, outdated system. How much you want to bet that auto-update was disabled after that? Not just on HER machine, but her kids, the grandkids, the great grandkids, and everyone who would listen to the old biddy complaining?
Microsoft's problems are Microsoft's problems, period. The pirates didn't create a single one of them.