"WGA also advertises the latest service pack for Windows XP, which requires manual intervention to disable. Previously voluntary, it became mandatory for use of these services in July 2005."
Three words: False Positive Lottery. As a legit customer who has already been stung by WGA during a hardware upgrade, I don't want to even think of it being an every 3 month thing.
I was considering upgrading to Win7 to get DirectX 11 & be able to allocate all of the RAM in Windows. Guess I will just get WinXP 64 Pro instead & do without DirectX 11.
WGA doesn't call home repeatedly which means that MS isn't tracking my hardware changes constantly & isn't giving me multiple tickets to the false positive lottery.
That is a lot of cost. And even if you figure the initial cost is gone after the first year, you still have the cost of paying 1,000 people to watch cameras in order to solve 10 crimes. That is still a lot of cost. 1000 x annual wages or salary, to solve 10 crimes.
The same holds true here. Generally when shortening is discovered, it is rectified & generally costs the city a good hunk of change.
Also, many cities are removing traffic cameras now, because people are driving safer which has led to a loss of revenue for the police dept. Which I think is hilarious, personally.
"The treaty power as expressed in the Constitution, is in terms unlimited except by those restraints which are found in that instrument against the action of the government or of its departments and those arising from the nature of the government itself and of that of the States. It would not be contended that it extends so far as to authorize what the Constitution forbids, or a change in the character of the government, or a change in the character of the States, or a cession of any portion of the territory of the latter without its consent."
"This [Supreme] Court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the Constitution over a treaty." - Reid v. Covert, October 1956, 354 U.S. 1, at pg 17.
Nice post, other than the fact that this treaty still has to be ratified by the Congress before it becomes the law of the land. And then it can still be found unconstitutional.
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Yeah, but he's still the crappiest president of my lifetime.
This "update" ate my boss' laptop & killed at least two of the workstations at the office.
Ah, I take that back in that case.
Yay, pirating.
BTW, it's niche, not nitch.
Well, I guess the Windows install will be CAD & (some) games only then. Ah well.
From Wikipedia:
"WGA also advertises the latest service pack for Windows XP, which requires manual intervention to disable. Previously voluntary, it became mandatory for use of these services in July 2005."
I'm pretty sure WGA was optional at first too.
Three words: False Positive Lottery. As a legit customer who has already been stung by WGA during a hardware upgrade, I don't want to even think of it being an every 3 month thing.
I was considering upgrading to Win7 to get DirectX 11 & be able to allocate all of the RAM in Windows. Guess I will just get WinXP 64 Pro instead & do without DirectX 11.
WGA doesn't call home repeatedly which means that MS isn't tracking my hardware changes constantly & isn't giving me multiple tickets to the false positive lottery.
Yeah, it only phones home on install. Not every 90 days.
Looks like the Win7 upgrade is off the table for me. Dual-booting XP & Kubuntu for the foreseeable future!
Brilliant :D
That is a lot of cost. And even if you figure the initial cost is gone after the first year, you still have the cost of paying 1,000 people to watch cameras in order to solve 10 crimes. That is still a lot of cost. 1000 x annual wages or salary, to solve 10 crimes.
The same holds true here. Generally when shortening is discovered, it is rectified & generally costs the city a good hunk of change.
http://blog.motorists.org/6-cities-that-were-caught-shortening-yellow-light-times-for-profit/
Also, many cities are removing traffic cameras now, because people are driving safer which has led to a loss of revenue for the police dept. Which I think is hilarious, personally.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-redlights_15met.ART.North.Edition1.468120d.html
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/03/cities-removing/
I'd rather use a concrete truck.
Holes in a screen. Think screen door.
WinXP had multiple desktops if you just installed one of the free PowerToys.
Why is this modded troll? Wake up mods!
Freedom of Association, maybe?
Me either. With Bookr installed, a cracked PSP works just fine for me.
Turbine's games use BitTorrent as well.
"The treaty power as expressed in the Constitution, is in terms unlimited except by those restraints which are found in that instrument against the action of the government or of its departments and those arising from the nature of the government itself and of that of the States. It would not be contended that it extends so far as to authorize what the Constitution forbids, or a change in the character of the government, or a change in the character of the States, or a cession of any portion of the territory of the latter without its consent."
Geofroy v. Riggs, 133 U.S. 258 at pg. 267
Thanks for pointing that out. I fail at reading comprehension sometimes. :D
"This [Supreme] Court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the Constitution over a treaty." - Reid v. Covert, October 1956, 354 U.S. 1, at pg 17.
Nice post, other than the fact that this treaty still has to be ratified by the Congress before it becomes the law of the land. And then it can still be found unconstitutional.
Here is a little info on treaties for you:
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/staterights/treaties.htm
All that being said, call / write your congresscritters folks. We can kill this fucker in it's crib.