Every year or so I wipe the drive with a fresh XP-CD install, and need to reinstall my favorite programs, but that would be true of any OS, whether it's Mac, Lubuntu, or Chrome. Otherwise WinXP just works. Like my car. Or my microwave*. Or my stereo.
You don't have to take the engine out of your car and rebuild it every year. There are few user serviceable parts in any modern microwave.
I haven't done major surgery on my XP box in at least 2 years. I haven't done a ground up install on my Linux box in 5+ years. My wifes Mac hasn't needed anything major in 3 years. Each one gets regular updates from its OS vendor, an occasional health/malware check, and thats about it.
If you're reimaging your Windows PC that often, you should at least be restoring it to an image rather than wasting half a day on a fresh install of the OS and applications.
It wouldn't be probable cause for a warrantless search, but it would be enough for a bench warrant or enough to justify further actions. Perhaps something as complicated as stopping near the residence and checking to see if they have an open wireless AP.
I'll bite. If you're doing something that bad, as in 'criminal trial' bad the police are involved. They can get warrants, do observation, and build a case on more than an IP. It won't stop them, if anything it forces them to build a stronger case that will lead to a guilty verdict or to the target never being indicted in the first place.
But even on the marketing side, isn't it still more complexity and more work? You're going from selling one product with a fixed set of features to a product with a variable set of features.
Hell - simply allowing users to stick with old versions of the service for a year after new changes launch would garner a lot of attention. How many silly "Bring back the old Facebook!!!" groups exist?
I'm not defending Facebook here, but I'm currently working on software projects where we have to keep old crufty features around for ONE customer. Its not necessarily easy to support and manage these things. To do it right entails a detailed configuration page to set the various feature options, to half-ass it means managing some magic strings in a configuration file. Support becomes harder because you have to determine what options the customer has set before you can assist them and sort out the issue. Testing takes longer because you have to test both old and new features in conjunction.
That would be worse. With private arbiters there are records and standards of conduct and a very obvious financial link between the arbiter and one of the parties in the case.
With a board appointed by the state you'd either have another minor election the voters don't understand or a backdoor system of favor and connections to be appointed to it. It would also eliminate a very obvious link and replace it with one of political donations and favor that makes it easier to obscure the source of money.
Furthermore, when you think of state boards do you think of sources of fairness and efficiency?
Finally, arbiters are usually paid either 50/50 by both parties or by the 'loser' of a decision rather than 100% by one party.
This is what 8 years of Bush bought us folks, a Supreme Court on the take (look it up, it's a fact that Clarance Thomas took bribes). Hopefully a few of 'em 'll retire while the Dems are in and Obama'll man up and put some liberals in.
Which will go stunningly well I'm sure. The courts will run like a well oiled machine then.
Call me jaded, but when I choose between modern liberals and modern conservatives I'm really choosing which set of rights I want them to try and take.
Seriously, they need to start dismembering lawyers who repeatedly bring these meritless lawsuits to court. That's the only thing that's going to stop them from continuing to use the legal system as their own personal slot machine.
They'd actually be happier if it were $500 a plug. That way when the second owner has to replace them he can indirectly brag to his friends by complaining about having to pay $4000 for plugs while secretly proving that he can just burn $4000 at once.
Because when you're on unemployment your full time job is looking for another full time job. Being unemployed, in prison, or on welfare does not make you a slave of the state.
You should have a link to your site in this post then.
Have you considered sites that boost search rankings by reposting your content? Note that this is different from a content scraper, you gotta submit an article to them first they don't just go and scrape it.
I think ArticleSnatch does something like this. Basically you post an article there, take advantage of AS's search ranking so your content shows up in searches, but then AS links to your original site/blog so you still get traffic driven to your site. AS wins because they get ad impressions and content, you win because it drives traffic to your site.
Slashdot Mirror
It gets them your phone number.
Every year or so I wipe the drive with a fresh XP-CD install, and need to reinstall my favorite programs, but that would be true of any OS, whether it's Mac, Lubuntu, or Chrome. Otherwise WinXP just works. Like my car. Or my microwave*. Or my stereo.
You don't have to take the engine out of your car and rebuild it every year. There are few user serviceable parts in any modern microwave.
I haven't done major surgery on my XP box in at least 2 years. I haven't done a ground up install on my Linux box in 5+ years. My wifes Mac hasn't needed anything major in 3 years. Each one gets regular updates from its OS vendor, an occasional health/malware check, and thats about it.
If you're reimaging your Windows PC that often, you should at least be restoring it to an image rather than wasting half a day on a fresh install of the OS and applications.
No thats not a shame at all. Here in the US we still have most of our freedoms. On the island where Great Britain used to be, you have a nanny state.
Why? Germany has a lot of websites for some reason?
Kinky porn and David Hasselhoff.
It wouldn't be probable cause for a warrantless search, but it would be enough for a bench warrant or enough to justify further actions. Perhaps something as complicated as stopping near the residence and checking to see if they have an open wireless AP.
I'll bite. If you're doing something that bad, as in 'criminal trial' bad the police are involved. They can get warrants, do observation, and build a case on more than an IP. It won't stop them, if anything it forces them to build a stronger case that will lead to a guilty verdict or to the target never being indicted in the first place.
Even have some with hairy ankles for the fetishists.
, and I have to assume this is hurting their stock price. Once is a shame, twice (so close together) is a disaster.
http://www.google.com/finance?q=Sony - Not sure which Sony to look at, but it seems that it is.
But even on the marketing side, isn't it still more complexity and more work? You're going from selling one product with a fixed set of features to a product with a variable set of features.
Hell - simply allowing users to stick with old versions of the service for a year after new changes launch would garner a lot of attention. How many silly "Bring back the old Facebook!!!" groups exist?
I'm not defending Facebook here, but I'm currently working on software projects where we have to keep old crufty features around for ONE customer. Its not necessarily easy to support and manage these things. To do it right entails a detailed configuration page to set the various feature options, to half-ass it means managing some magic strings in a configuration file. Support becomes harder because you have to determine what options the customer has set before you can assist them and sort out the issue. Testing takes longer because you have to test both old and new features in conjunction.
That would be worse. With private arbiters there are records and standards of conduct and a very obvious financial link between the arbiter and one of the parties in the case.
With a board appointed by the state you'd either have another minor election the voters don't understand or a backdoor system of favor and connections to be appointed to it. It would also eliminate a very obvious link and replace it with one of political donations and favor that makes it easier to obscure the source of money.
Furthermore, when you think of state boards do you think of sources of fairness and efficiency?
Finally, arbiters are usually paid either 50/50 by both parties or by the 'loser' of a decision rather than 100% by one party.
This is what 8 years of Bush bought us folks, a Supreme Court on the take (look it up, it's a fact that Clarance Thomas took bribes). Hopefully a few of 'em 'll retire while the Dems are in and Obama'll man up and put some liberals in.
Which will go stunningly well I'm sure. The courts will run like a well oiled machine then.
Call me jaded, but when I choose between modern liberals and modern conservatives I'm really choosing which set of rights I want them to try and take.
I would also highly suggest the service company be run like the post office.
By the government, at a loss, slowly, heavily unionized, and prone to losing/breaking the things it is entrusted to move about?
Lets just implement directive 10-289 while we're at it.
Think of it as 1-way encryption.
Except completely different from a hash.
I'll participate in that study. Free backrubs FTW.
...math skills.
Quick! Calculate how much the cost per ounce is on a 2L of cola that costs $1.47.
Having to do frequent unit conversions to interact in the mixed system strengthens our ability to do basic maths in our heads.
Seriously, they need to start dismembering lawyers who repeatedly bring these meritless lawsuits to court. That's the only thing that's going to stop them from continuing to use the legal system as their own personal slot machine.
Hahah. None of that for me thanks. I've got an '85 Mercedes Benz 300TDT. I can't afford one of them fancy new VW's. :D
They'd actually be happier if it were $500 a plug. That way when the second owner has to replace them he can indirectly brag to his friends by complaining about having to pay $4000 for plugs while secretly proving that he can just burn $4000 at once.
Are you compensating for something?...oh, right you drive a diesel~
Yep. We don't need to compensate for anything, we have strong, reliable, fuel efficient motors.
Because when you're on unemployment your full time job is looking for another full time job. Being unemployed, in prison, or on welfare does not make you a slave of the state.
Which has a handy link to get the source and see what it does to be sure that its not doing anything fishy.
...not spending so much time staring at a screen and exercising a bit?
You should have a link to your site in this post then.
Have you considered sites that boost search rankings by reposting your content? Note that this is different from a content scraper, you gotta submit an article to them first they don't just go and scrape it.
I think ArticleSnatch does something like this. Basically you post an article there, take advantage of AS's search ranking so your content shows up in searches, but then AS links to your original site/blog so you still get traffic driven to your site. AS wins because they get ad impressions and content, you win because it drives traffic to your site.