I think that's something that will require social change, not technological. Unless they can use plastic wrap over the entire interior and change it in between uses, technology wont ever meet up with ignorant people.
I recently purchased a Vista PC from Circuit City. The first thing I did when I got home was reboot with the XP install CD, formated and did a clean install. I booted up for the first time and had no internet. My network card wasn't detected by XP...
Now I haven't tried to fix it yet. I will soon, I'm sure it wont be too hard to download the drivers and load them under XP. I'm amazed that they would cripple the computer like that though. To my knowledge, network cards haven't improved much since XP.
So I tried Vista for a while. I didn't mind it, except that it was slower than my 5-year-old PC despite having twice the specs (or more... jesus).
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I think that's something that will require social change, not technological. Unless they can use plastic wrap over the entire interior and change it in between uses, technology wont ever meet up with ignorant people.
That change can't be far off though.
I recently purchased a Vista PC from Circuit City. The first thing I did when I got home was reboot with the XP install CD, formated and did a clean install. I booted up for the first time and had no internet. My network card wasn't detected by XP...
Now I haven't tried to fix it yet. I will soon, I'm sure it wont be too hard to download the drivers and load them under XP. I'm amazed that they would cripple the computer like that though. To my knowledge, network cards haven't improved much since XP.
So I tried Vista for a while. I didn't mind it, except that it was slower than my 5-year-old PC despite having twice the specs (or more... jesus).
Will a bill being passed in the US even make a difference? Who is to stop someone from using a server based outside the United States to send spam?