Not really. Genocide is genocide. We don't pretend we're better, we just don't support the US on every stupid, pointless foreign adventure and if your administration had actually listened to the EU instead of throwing your toys out of the pram, US soldiers would not be dying today and you could be concentrating on catching Bin Laden and his henchmen.
Britain is the most privatised of countries in Europe and yet somehow manages to have far worse public services than those evil government monopolies in the rest of the EU. Something to do with putting profit before customers. It's not just government monopolies that are shitty and at least you can vote out the minister for telecoms/electricity/water, you can't remove anybody from the board of a largely unaccountable private monopoly unless you happen to have a majority shareholding (i.e. not Joe Public).
You can't do that on Windows XP Home. However if a system file gets deleted XP puts it back on again. I don't know what happens if a trojan hijacks it though. It would be nice if I could just ban everything without admin rights from accessing certain folders but I guess you need Windows XP 'Professional' for that.
Exactly. How dare people be computer-illiterate. They should be born knowing how to secure that worthless swiss cheese. Of course Internet Explorer allowing dodgy websites to download any old crap is the fault of the user not the software company.
And has nothing to do with years of oppression from the US and its allies? It's the attempt to impose western values that is being resisted, not the values themselves. If your government used its influence with Israel and the vicious Saudi dictatorship to effect positive change rather than giving them money to continue the oppression, you might get better results.
Hard to be arrogant when you've got competitors nipping at your heels. The x86 market has 2 major players and a few minor ones. AMD become complacent, any of those could kick their ass, as has happened to Intel.
Thing is that griefers are a tiny minority, if people start leaving due to them, the game isn't going to last much longer. Most griefers are too stupid to realise this, being focusing on dealing with their inadequacies by annoying people who can't punch them.
Since people tend to buy new PCs every 3 years or so and if an OS that runs all their favourite apps is available on a PC that is $100 cheaper because it doesn't have Windows XP on it, they might very well buy that.
So school should be only about educating the top 5%? Should a child's formative years be spent being told how stupid they are because they're not in that top 5%? I'd love to be a shrink in your world, I'd be one of the richest men in the world.
A society where both parents have to work at least 1 job each creates a society of kids lacking the attention they need to grow as human beings. Pure economic theory is no more a good way to run the world than pure marxism.
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Not really. Genocide is genocide. We don't pretend we're better, we just don't support the US on every stupid, pointless foreign adventure and if your administration had actually listened to the EU instead of throwing your toys out of the pram, US soldiers would not be dying today and you could be concentrating on catching Bin Laden and his henchmen.
That's what courts do. Perhaps if Microsoft obeyed the law they wouldn't have been in court.
So that makes it ok then. People in glass houses and all that.
I think the Native Americans would beg to differ.
Being a long, long way from your enemies also helps.
Mahatma Gandhi didn't seem to have any trouble. Neither did Martin Luther King for that matter.
Stupid courts for applying the laws to a criminal. What were they thinking?
Britain is the most privatised of countries in Europe and yet somehow manages to have far worse public services than those evil government monopolies in the rest of the EU.
Something to do with putting profit before customers. It's not just government monopolies that are shitty and at least you can vote out the minister for telecoms/electricity/water, you can't remove anybody from the board of a largely unaccountable private monopoly unless you happen to have a majority shareholding (i.e. not Joe Public).
Yeh because Joe Average is gonna do that *sigh*
XP Pro is fine, XP Home has no ACLs or much else in the way of security and it's the home users that this vulnerability will target.
You can't do that on Windows XP Home. However if a system file gets deleted XP puts it back on again. I don't know what happens if a trojan hijacks it though. It would be nice if I could just ban everything without admin rights from accessing certain folders but I guess you need Windows XP 'Professional' for that.
Exactly. How dare people be computer-illiterate. They should be born knowing how to secure that worthless swiss cheese. Of course Internet Explorer allowing dodgy websites to download any old crap is the fault of the user not the software company.
And has nothing to do with years of oppression from the US and its allies? It's the attempt to impose western values that is being resisted, not the values themselves. If your government used its influence with Israel and the vicious Saudi dictatorship to effect positive change rather than giving them money to continue the oppression, you might get better results.
Or any US media outlet.
We know the only way we win with customers is by having a much better solution to offer our customers.
Hahahahahahahahaha
Hard to be arrogant when you've got competitors nipping at your heels. The x86 market has 2 major players and a few minor ones. AMD become complacent, any of those could kick their ass, as has happened to Intel.
Thing is that griefers are a tiny minority, if people start leaving due to them, the game isn't going to last much longer. Most griefers are too stupid to realise this, being focusing on dealing with their inadequacies by annoying people who can't punch them.
Because that is a wholly unbiased source of course....
No they just don't understand PCs that well. How good are you at brain surgery, contract law or accountancy for example?
Since people tend to buy new PCs every 3 years or so and if an OS that runs all their favourite apps is available on a PC that is $100 cheaper because it doesn't have Windows XP on it, they might very well buy that.
Stable maybe, but Word and Access don't invisibly download spyware et al.
So school should be only about educating the top 5%? Should a child's formative years be spent being told how stupid they are because they're not in that top 5%? I'd love to be a shrink in your world, I'd be one of the richest men in the world.
And what makes you think that? Perhaps you're thinking of North Korea.
A society where both parents have to work at least 1 job each creates a society of kids lacking the attention they need to grow as human beings. Pure economic theory is no more a good way to run the world than pure marxism.
Yeh that mainframe hardware really sucks, that's why large organisations are always suffering catastrophic losses of vital data. Oh wait.....