The long and short of it is probably yes. The Windows Installer runs in the system context and not the user context when the client is a part of an AD domain.
Running the Windows Installer in the system context is the only way that the directory can manage software on the client.
I would look FTC for help. You obviously do not agree to the EULA because Blizzard will not honor your right to use the software.
FTC Complaint Form This may help you getting a legal investigation started.
I do not think that first sale doctrine applies because the software isn't purchased it is licensed. I do however think that you have a breach of contract claim. Reference the folliwing article Having said that first sale doesn't apply, I have not been able to find an example where this has been tried in a court.
IANAL. This is not legal advice. In face it isn't even supposed to look like legal advice or in any way seem like it might be seeming to be posing as legal advice. Heck for the price of a used video game you can purchase.053 minutes of a good lawyers time:-)
Actually this kind of reminded me of another song by Styx...
"Too much time on my hands, it's ticking away with my sanity
I've got too much time on my hands, it's hard to believe such a calamity
I've got too much time on my hands and it's ticking away from me
Too much time on my hands, too much time on my hands
Too much time on my hands"
I'm a high school teacher, and for the most part school districts in the state of Kentucky are required to help individual students that have disabilities in reading etc.
Read and Write Gold is the app that is used most often to help students with reading disabilities.
From my point of view though, I've seen the use of this technology actually lower testing scores when tests are given and the technology isn't used. This is compared to how the student would have done after several weeks of non-use.
Software, and computers in general tend to cause mental dependency on the part of the learner. I have actually seen something that looks like withdrawl symptoms when the software isn't available to the student. It's scary. I used to spell words very well, but these days I find that I have to keep OpenOffice open all the time just for a real quick spell check! I'm thoroughly dependent on the technology.
I whole heartedly agree with most of the closed captioning posts. Whatever you do please make sure that most of the work is done by your "student" and not technology. People are A LOT like pop corn, the only way to get the good stuff out of a kernel of corn is to apply heat, steam, and pressure.
You know. I honestly believe that if Microsoft released it's own MS branded virus that some enterprising coder from the eastern area of Europe would write an anti-virus virus that exploited some unbelievably obscure buffer overflow vulnerability and Slashdot would pick up the story.
It wouldn't end there because the anti-virus virus writer would complain to his ISP which happens to be hosting his website where he geefully took responsibility for the anti-virus virus and chastised Microsoft for their inability to code a secure, virus. The anti-virus virus writer would also praise the extreme security of Linux by hypothesizing that if it had been a Linux virus he couldn't have destroyed it the way he had the MS one.
As the webserver that hosted the site of the anti-virus virus begins it's thermal meltdown, the ISP calls Cowboy Neal to ask him to PLEASE cache the site for their customer. Cowboy Neal (being the astute person he is) notes the anti-virus virus writers name and writes it down. Cowboy Neal then realizes that Microsoft has posted a $134 Gazillion dollar reward for the capture and mutilation of the anti-virus virus writer and quickly shoots off an email to Bill.
Bill calls the BSA Death Squad and they march on St. Petersburg, finding the anti-virus virus writer sitting at a local Burger King with a laptop. They drag him outside and mercilessly beat him with rubber hoses until, lying in a pool of his own blood the anti-virus writer dies.
Bill, in his infinite gratitude sends Cowboy Neal a check for $134 Gazillion dollars which Cowboy Neal uses to flee the country with his mistress.
Despite all of the drama here a couple of lessons will be learned.
1. Slashdot STILL doesn't cache sites.
2. Microsoft isn't the target because it's big. It's the target because it's EASY!
3. Cowboy Neal can not be trusted with large amounts of cash.
1. It will NOT have Windows (tm) anywhere on the vehicle.
2. The hood ornament will be a cute penguin.
3. The first bumper sticker reads "In Soviet Russia..."
4. The second bumper sticker reads "Yes this car is part of a beowulf cluster!"
5. The engine will be listed as a 886 or 986 model, and you'll have a lot of dependencies like fuel versions and so on.
If it were an HP printer when the seaweed part of the cartridge expired youd have to replace the WHOLE cartridge and it would cost $5000 dollars, and expire when there is still 15% sushi left!
You hit the nail RIGHT on the head. The teacher doesn't care. The first thing I did when I took over this program is drop the Cisco Network Academy. I do care and my engineers do listen. You sound to me like you WANT your teacher to make some changes. Stick it out though, I know you'll be successful!
I'm a highschool teacher. I teach IT and I can absolutely say that, for the most part, the more CBT that is integrated into the class the lower the level of performance by the students as a whole. I'm not saying all of them suffer, but enough do that I try to limit the contact with the machines to that of the task to be done instead of the task to be learned.
I strongly suspect that the only thing that most people learn from machines is how to be lonely..... of couse I'm sitting at one... in a room... alone...scratching.....hmmmmmm.
At any rate, the more time I spend with the students in conversation over the hum of a projector the more the students seem likely to absorb things like IRQ tables and subnetting. The kids really do seem to be more inclined to actively particpate if there is a person leading them.
"The US Army in combined operations with the Los Alamos National Lab, and the National Security Agency have developed a centralized robot control command center. U.S. Army spokesperson, John Conner is quoted as saying, 'SkyNet will be put into operation to save many soldiers lives'. Formal testing will being in 2008"
I'm a high school teacher and the FASTEST way to initiate a deep, quasi permanent sleep in another person is to turn on a projector of some sort while also telling them to follow along in a text book. I have one student in a class that is now 45 years old and I still can't wake him up!
With all due respect that's inane. You should study the thuggery that went on in electoral politics not 70 years ago! And more than once only ONE vote settled an election in a presidential race.
Is it me or does anyone else find it hard to believe that all of the so called voting irregularities suddenly started in 2000?
I realize that it's popular these days to point out that these irregularities contributed to the last election outcome, but isn't also somewhat obvious that those same irregularities (or similar ones) have existed since the dawn of voting itself, I mean those punch machines of yore were around quite a while before 2000.
If we are complaining about them now, mabye we should have started when Jimmy Carter was elected. When are we going to stop the madness and realize that the only ones profiting here are lawyers not people. There isn't and will never be a perfect system for everyone.
Science were presented by big busted women in bikinis dangling precariously from a bridge by a single strand of dental floss.
Outside of that I really can't see the American Consumer going for this one. Remember these are the SAME people that bought "Pet Rocks" and Brittany Spears albums!
Curiously it's the government that also squandered hard earned tax dollars for the rural telephone systems that were formed as co-ops. Rural and quasi-rural governments would be well advised to find ways to attract affluent residents, tourists and others that would spend in the local economy. If setting up a few wifi points elevates the quality of life, increases tax revenues without increasing taxes then isn't in fact a good idea to do?
Sir,
Marx was correct only on the basest level. Not all members of an economic society will contribute even to their own potential, and as for class warfare... what exactly is UNJUST about someone taking the initiative to be successful, and then reaping the rewards of that success?
Communism isn't possible in an environment where human beings must facilitate it. Mr. Marx was naive, and ill informed about the human condition. My children (I have three) aren't cannon fodder at all. They are intelligent young people that will make the best decisions for the lives when they are adults, and until then I will make those decisions. If you would like to complain about the rich, then I would like to propose that the reason you are prone to complaining is that you do not yet have the skills to raise yourself out of your curre nt economic strata. Skills + Great Attitude = Success. Simple formula. Adam Smith far better understood not only economics, but the human condition, and the successes of Mr. Smiths hypothesis, and the utter failures of all attempts at Mr. Marx's Great Society are all the evidence that one needs.
Yes, and my computer tends to run faster when I'm wearing a blue shirt too. Our "war" didn't do one thing either for or against our allies economies... they were tanking right along with ours because of a certain.com bubble a few years back. Oh and the oil prices? Speculators in the American market bid up the oil when it looked as though the S. Arabian monarchy was in political trouble. It was AMERICAN investors that caused our oil spike by creating an artificial demand for crude, by speculating on further price increases (which didn't happen). There isn't and hasn't been a decrease in world oil supplies, just an increase in those wishing to purchase some of it. If you want to have a political agenda please do so, but do not disguise your feelings about the war in Iraq by complaining about oil prices. They aren't connected.
Slashdot Mirror
The best security exists in a world where nobody understands how it works or knows it exists.
Every time I listen to my wife talk to one of her friends I'm reminded of just how true this is.
Microsoft invents the self destructing OS... Oh wait...
The long and short of it is probably yes. The Windows Installer runs in the system context and not the user context when the client is a part of an AD domain.
Running the Windows Installer in the system context is the only way that the directory can manage software on the client.
Kudos to MS for another brilliant design!
I have tweaked Gnome to look like OSX, and I installed wine to make it act a little like Windows.
The only conclusion I can draw from this is that all operating systems suck... Linux just sucks less.
Microsoft has a new Update site for us to use.
I would look FTC for help. You obviously do not agree to the EULA because Blizzard will not honor your right to use the software.
.053 minutes of a good lawyers time :-)
FTC Complaint Form This may help you getting a legal investigation started.
I do not think that first sale doctrine applies because the software isn't purchased it is licensed. I do however think that you have a breach of contract claim. Reference the folliwing article Having said that first sale doesn't apply, I have not been able to find an example where this has been tried in a court.
IANAL. This is not legal advice. In face it isn't even supposed to look like legal advice or in any way seem like it might be seeming to be posing as legal advice. Heck for the price of a used video game you can purchase
Actually this kind of reminded me of another song by Styx...
"Too much time on my hands, it's ticking away with my sanity
I've got too much time on my hands, it's hard to believe such a calamity
I've got too much time on my hands and it's ticking away from me
Too much time on my hands, too much time on my hands Too much time on my hands"
I'm a high school teacher, and for the most part school districts in the state of Kentucky are required to help individual students that have disabilities in reading etc.
Read and Write Gold is the app that is used most often to help students with reading disabilities.
From my point of view though, I've seen the use of this technology actually lower testing scores when tests are given and the technology isn't used. This is compared to how the student would have done after several weeks of non-use.
Software, and computers in general tend to cause mental dependency on the part of the learner. I have actually seen something that looks like withdrawl symptoms when the software isn't available to the student. It's scary. I used to spell words very well, but these days I find that I have to keep OpenOffice open all the time just for a real quick spell check! I'm thoroughly dependent on the technology.
I whole heartedly agree with most of the closed captioning posts. Whatever you do please make sure that most of the work is done by your "student" and not technology. People are A LOT like pop corn, the only way to get the good stuff out of a kernel of corn is to apply heat, steam, and pressure.
You know. I honestly believe that if Microsoft released it's own MS branded virus that some enterprising coder from the eastern area of Europe would write an anti-virus virus that exploited some unbelievably obscure buffer overflow vulnerability and Slashdot would pick up the story.
It wouldn't end there because the anti-virus virus writer would complain to his ISP which happens to be hosting his website where he geefully took responsibility for the anti-virus virus and chastised Microsoft for their inability to code a secure, virus. The anti-virus virus writer would also praise the extreme security of Linux by hypothesizing that if it had been a Linux virus he couldn't have destroyed it the way he had the MS one.
As the webserver that hosted the site of the anti-virus virus begins it's thermal meltdown, the ISP calls Cowboy Neal to ask him to PLEASE cache the site for their customer. Cowboy Neal (being the astute person he is) notes the anti-virus virus writers name and writes it down. Cowboy Neal then realizes that Microsoft has posted a $134 Gazillion dollar reward for the capture and mutilation of the anti-virus virus writer and quickly shoots off an email to Bill.
Bill calls the BSA Death Squad and they march on St. Petersburg, finding the anti-virus virus writer sitting at a local Burger King with a laptop. They drag him outside and mercilessly beat him with rubber hoses until, lying in a pool of his own blood the anti-virus writer dies.
Bill, in his infinite gratitude sends Cowboy Neal a check for $134 Gazillion dollars which Cowboy Neal uses to flee the country with his mistress.
Despite all of the drama here a couple of lessons will be learned.
1. Slashdot STILL doesn't cache sites.
2. Microsoft isn't the target because it's big. It's the target because it's EASY!
3. Cowboy Neal can not be trusted with large amounts of cash.
4. I haven't seen my wife since he got paid.....
1. It will NOT have Windows (tm) anywhere on the vehicle.
2. The hood ornament will be a cute penguin.
3. The first bumper sticker reads "In Soviet Russia..."
4. The second bumper sticker reads "Yes this car is part of a beowulf cluster!"
5. The engine will be listed as a 886 or 986 model, and you'll have a lot of dependencies like fuel versions and so on.
If it were an HP printer when the seaweed part of the cartridge expired youd have to replace the WHOLE cartridge and it would cost $5000 dollars, and expire when there is still 15% sushi left!
You hit the nail RIGHT on the head. The teacher doesn't care. The first thing I did when I took over this program is drop the Cisco Network Academy. I do care and my engineers do listen. You sound to me like you WANT your teacher to make some changes. Stick it out though, I know you'll be successful!
I'm a highschool teacher. I teach IT and I can absolutely say that, for the most part, the more CBT that is integrated into the class the lower the level of performance by the students as a whole. I'm not saying all of them suffer, but enough do that I try to limit the contact with the machines to that of the task to be done instead of the task to be learned.
I strongly suspect that the only thing that most people learn from machines is how to be lonely..... of couse I'm sitting at one... in a room... alone...scratching.....hmmmmmm.
At any rate, the more time I spend with the students in conversation over the hum of a projector the more the students seem likely to absorb things like IRQ tables and subnetting. The kids really do seem to be more inclined to actively particpate if there is a person leading them.
"The US Army in combined operations with the Los Alamos National Lab, and the National Security Agency have developed a centralized robot control command center. U.S. Army spokesperson, John Conner is quoted as saying, 'SkyNet will be put into operation to save many soldiers lives'. Formal testing will being in 2008"
Villain Supply
This is where I personally find all of my super evil genius supplies!
I'm a high school teacher and the FASTEST way to initiate a deep, quasi permanent sleep in another person is to turn on a projector of some sort while also telling them to follow along in a text book. I have one student in a class that is now 45 years old and I still can't wake him up!
I'll buy into this when they come up with a cash-allergic woman!
With all due respect that's inane. You should study the thuggery that went on in electoral politics not 70 years ago! And more than once only ONE vote settled an election in a presidential race.
Is it me or does anyone else find it hard to believe that all of the so called voting irregularities suddenly started in 2000?
I realize that it's popular these days to point out that these irregularities contributed to the last election outcome, but isn't also somewhat obvious that those same irregularities (or similar ones) have existed since the dawn of voting itself, I mean those punch machines of yore were around quite a while before 2000.
If we are complaining about them now, mabye we should have started when Jimmy Carter was elected. When are we going to stop the madness and realize that the only ones profiting here are lawyers not people. There isn't and will never be a perfect system for everyone.
Science were presented by big busted women in bikinis dangling precariously from a bridge by a single strand of dental floss.
Outside of that I really can't see the American Consumer going for this one. Remember these are the SAME people that bought "Pet Rocks" and Brittany Spears albums!
Curiously it's the government that also squandered hard earned tax dollars for the rural telephone systems that were formed as co-ops. Rural and quasi-rural governments would be well advised to find ways to attract affluent residents, tourists and others that would spend in the local economy. If setting up a few wifi points elevates the quality of life, increases tax revenues without increasing taxes then isn't in fact a good idea to do?
Sir, Marx was correct only on the basest level. Not all members of an economic society will contribute even to their own potential, and as for class warfare... what exactly is UNJUST about someone taking the initiative to be successful, and then reaping the rewards of that success?
Communism isn't possible in an environment where human beings must facilitate it. Mr. Marx was naive, and ill informed about the human condition. My children (I have three) aren't cannon fodder at all. They are intelligent young people that will make the best decisions for the lives when they are adults, and until then I will make those decisions. If you would like to complain about the rich, then I would like to propose that the reason you are prone to complaining is that you do not yet have the skills to raise yourself out of your curre nt economic strata. Skills + Great Attitude = Success. Simple formula. Adam Smith far better understood not only economics, but the human condition, and the successes of Mr. Smiths hypothesis, and the utter failures of all attempts at Mr. Marx's Great Society are all the evidence that one needs.
Yes, and my computer tends to run faster when I'm wearing a blue shirt too. Our "war" didn't do one thing either for or against our allies economies... they were tanking right along with ours because of a certain .com bubble a few years back. Oh and the oil prices? Speculators in the American market bid up the oil when it looked as though the S. Arabian monarchy was in political trouble. It was AMERICAN investors that caused our oil spike by creating an artificial demand for crude, by speculating on further price increases (which didn't happen). There isn't and hasn't been a decrease in world oil supplies, just an increase in those wishing to purchase some of it. If you want to have a political agenda please do so, but do not disguise your feelings about the war in Iraq by complaining about oil prices. They aren't connected.
Requires lots of money? Needs flowers, gifts, and jewelry constantly? Doesn't give you sex, companionship or a nurturing steak dinner?
For the love of God these guys have just digitized my wife!
Sounds like your are a victim of Vogon poetry spam!!!!!