You are correct that anyone can fib and get Windows 10 upgrades for free.
Fib? Only if you insist on upgrading via the "Assistive Technologies" option - the Win 7/8/8.1 Product Key method involves no trickery, you simply go to the Microsoft website, download the upgrade image, and supply the Win 7/8/8.1 product activation key when asked.
Kristin Junco, a 34-year-old auditor for the state Education Department, said she had not used cash for about a week and much prefers a cashless establishment to its opposite. "We travel a lot for work," she said, gesturing to a colleague, "and if they don't take credit cards that makes things difficult." [...] Not surprisingly, the credit card companies, who make a commission on every credit card purchase, applaud the trend. Visa recently offered select merchants a $10,000 reward for depriving customers of their right to pay by the method of their choice.
So, despite just quoting Kristin Junco that paying via credit card is her preferred method of payment, the "reporter" than writes of credit card companies "depriving customers of their right to pay by the method of their choice" (the reporter assumes everyone prefers to pay in cash)?
When did a desire to pay a debt in a certain manner (cash, credit card, debit card, personal check, bitcoin, third-person check, loose coins, beaver pelts, etc.) obligate a retailer to accept your form of payment?
"There are indications that telecommunications operators and traditional ISPs in the country are frustrating adoption of Internet Protocol version six (IPv6) by other networks," reports Nigeria's Guardian newspaper, citing Nigeria CommunicationsWeek. The magazine found 32 networks with IPv6 addresses -- but only three which are using them. And the newspaper cites "a network engineer with a university who does not want to be named" frustrated that their ISP's network isn't IPv6-compatible, so the university can't use its own IPv6 address. "Mohammed Rudman, chairman, IPv6 Council Nigeria, said that most telecommunications
NIGERIA, not America, but hey, cool you were able to work Trump AND Linux into your contribution, we all got just a little bit dumber after reading your comment.
The US government should facilitate the move from IPv4 to IPv6 by starting to tax or apply a fee for each IPv4 (with no IPv6 address) address in usage -- and increase that fee each year until it encourages the movement off of IPv4.
That is among the dumber things I've read today, but granted I haven't spent that much time on-line today.
The tax code shouldn't be used as a cudgel to control behavior, it is a tool designed to fund the operation of the [Federal|State|Local] government. To what purpose would the proceeds of this tax be applied? Buying IPv6-complaint routers for public K-12 schools? Subsidize Internet connections for low-income/inner-city residents? What?
Installing windows 10 on a desktop is trivial, and free, if your desktop is already running Windows 7 or 8/8.1 - google it, it's quite easy, simply download an ISO file burn it to DVD or USB flash drive, and boot from it.
Now, ask grandma to install Ubuntu on that same PC, but be prepared to field questions about 'keyboard detection', LVM, GRUB, etc.
I think grandma will do much better with Win10 than Ubuntu.
See windows 10s which only allows installs from the windows store? Thats the future microsoft wants.
BS.
You can download an ISO file from MS website and install Windows 10 on any computer with a retail (not volume license) copy of Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 by simply entering the product activation key from your installed OS.
i lost count of how many non-technical friends bought cheap ($100-150) linux-based netbooks and then quickly stuffed them in their closets when when the novelty of 'cheap' failed to overcome the paucity of applications they were familiar with.
What killed the Linux netbook was Microsoft making windows (eventually) free for netbook hardware (based on screen size, included memory, etc).
Nowadays, Windows 10 is free (as in beer) for any computer user with a valid windows 7 or greater license, I find it very hard to imagine less-useful Linux hitting even the seemingly easily-achieved level of 10% desktop market share.
Meaning that in the copper case, as soon as you're trying to transmit a signal 50 miles, space is the faster router. In the case of fibre connections, as soon as you're trying to transmit more than 400 miles, space is faster.
There are some tasks better-suited to mainframe platforms, some better-suited to a stack of identical commodity x86 boxes.
Your tax returns and paychecks are most likely processed on mainframes. Credit card transactions and airline reservations are most likely processed on mainframes. The list goes on and on.
Then again, I'm watching everyone get all excited about virtual machines running on large servers accessed over a network - an idea that appeared on mainframes back in the 70's.
Meaning that in the copper case, as soon as you're trying to transmit a signal 50 miles, space is the faster router. In the case of fibre connections, as soon as you're trying to transmit more than 400 miles, space is faster.
It's less than 400 miles to my nearest caching CDN node, helpfully co-located at my ISP's regional central office. My Netflix, iCloud, google content doesn't all come from CA server farms in Silicon Valkey...
WTFis the "Administrative Branch" - all there is are the Legislative (Congress, both House & Senate), Judicial (Court - SCOTUS & other courts), and Executive (President)... The FCC is part of the EXECUTIVE Branch.
A bill, passed by Congress and signed by the President is *exactly* how Net Neutrality should have been implemented. If you remember at the time, the FCC Chairman said at the time the FCC was acting because Congress hadn't/wouldn't.
Every subsidy Obama had in place when he walked out of office last January remains in-place after the current administration repealed the Individual mandate...
People that want insurance and can afford it will still get coverage on exchange, and they will still get any subsidies they are entitled to, that hasn't changed. What has changed is that people that don't want coverage don't have to buy it, and people without compliant coverage won't be paying a fine to subsidise the premiums paid by those with compliant coverage.
Allowing consumers the ability to choose to enroll in coverage or not is how you get to 13 Million that will CHOOSE to forgo coverage.
If premiums go up it will be because the monies that were collected in fines from the uninsured AND the loss of the premiums from all those healthy, young people that feel they don't need coverage.
Repealing the individual mandates gives consumers the ability to opt-out and not be forced to subsidize everyone else's premiums.
Although niacin, a type of vitamin B3, is available in over-the-counter forms for less than $5 per 100 tablets, some doctors still prefer to use the version approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat high cholesterol.
The issue isn't that the FDA-approved drug, which went thru a series of clinical drug trial to prove efficacy of the treatment increased in price, it's that doctors continue to write prescriptions for this approved brand-name treatment, and that insurance companies are still paying for it.
It makes sense that an infrequently-prescribed treatment would go up in price as fewer and fewer prescriptions are written for it (dwindling sales force prices up to pay for recouping treatment approval costs.
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The summary describes the question, then provides the answer!
You are correct that anyone can fib and get Windows 10 upgrades for free.
Fib? Only if you insist on upgrading via the "Assistive Technologies" option - the Win 7/8/8.1 Product Key method involves no trickery, you simply go to the Microsoft website, download the upgrade image, and supply the Win 7/8/8.1 product activation key when asked.
No fibbing required - https://www.techspot.com/downl...
Kristin Junco, a 34-year-old auditor for the state Education Department, said she had not used cash for about a week and much prefers a cashless establishment to its opposite. "We travel a lot for work," she said, gesturing to a colleague, "and if they don't take credit cards that makes things difficult." [...] Not surprisingly, the credit card companies, who make a commission on every credit card purchase, applaud the trend. Visa recently offered select merchants a $10,000 reward for depriving customers of their right to pay by the method of their choice.
So, despite just quoting Kristin Junco that paying via credit card is her preferred method of payment, the "reporter" than writes of credit card companies "depriving customers of their right to pay by the method of their choice" (the reporter assumes everyone prefers to pay in cash)?
When did a desire to pay a debt in a certain manner (cash, credit card, debit card, personal check, bitcoin, third-person check, loose coins, beaver pelts, etc.) obligate a retailer to accept your form of payment?
"There are indications that telecommunications operators and traditional ISPs in the country are frustrating adoption of Internet Protocol version six (IPv6) by other networks," reports Nigeria's Guardian newspaper, citing Nigeria CommunicationsWeek. The magazine found 32 networks with IPv6 addresses -- but only three which are using them. And the newspaper cites "a network engineer with a university who does not want to be named" frustrated that their ISP's network isn't IPv6-compatible, so the university can't use its own IPv6 address. "Mohammed Rudman, chairman, IPv6 Council Nigeria, said that most telecommunications
NIGERIA, not America, but hey, cool you were able to work Trump AND Linux into your contribution, we all got just a little bit dumber after reading your comment.
The US government should facilitate the move from IPv4 to IPv6 by starting to tax or apply a fee for each IPv4 (with no IPv6 address) address in usage -- and increase that fee each year until it encourages the movement off of IPv4.
That is among the dumber things I've read today, but granted I haven't spent that much time on-line today.
The tax code shouldn't be used as a cudgel to control behavior, it is a tool designed to fund the operation of the [Federal|State|Local] government. To what purpose would the proceeds of this tax be applied? Buying IPv6-complaint routers for public K-12 schools? Subsidize Internet connections for low-income/inner-city residents? What?
Agreed, too many/most Slashdot readers simply read the headline and then try and blame some combination of the following:
a) Ajit Pai
b) Donald Trump
c) Republicans
d) Comcast, Verizon, etc
e) Windows/Microsoft
Please turn off "Smart Punctuation" on your iPhone. Google it. It's Slashdot, I shouldn't have to spoon-feed you a URL, should I?
Oh wait, I forgot, I DO need to spoon-feed you a URL - well, here you go: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=disable+smart+punctuation+ios
Please take a moment and disable smart punctuation - http://lmgtfy.com/?q=disable+s...
Please, turn off smart punctuation - http://lmgtfy.com/?q=disable+s...
How will the Nigerian economy keep up with the western world without a timely shift to IPv6! /sarcasm
Seriously, it's Nigeria...
Installing windows 10 on a desktop is trivial, and free, if your desktop is already running Windows 7 or 8/8.1 - google it, it's quite easy, simply download an ISO file burn it to DVD or USB flash drive, and boot from it.
Now, ask grandma to install Ubuntu on that same PC, but be prepared to field questions about 'keyboard detection', LVM, GRUB, etc.
I think grandma will do much better with Win10 than Ubuntu.
"For fucks sake", please turn off 'smart punctuation' on your iPhone.
See windows 10s which only allows installs from the windows store? Thats the future microsoft wants.
BS.
You can download an ISO file from MS website and install Windows 10 on any computer with a retail (not volume license) copy of Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 by simply entering the product activation key from your installed OS.
If you use assistive technologies or are just a regular user, these are the links for more infomation.
i lost count of how many non-technical friends bought cheap ($100-150) linux-based netbooks and then quickly stuffed them in their closets when when the novelty of 'cheap' failed to overcome the paucity of applications they were familiar with.
What killed the Linux netbook was Microsoft making windows (eventually) free for netbook hardware (based on screen size, included memory, etc).
Nowadays, Windows 10 is free (as in beer) for any computer user with a valid windows 7 or greater license, I find it very hard to imagine less-useful Linux hitting even the seemingly easily-achieved level of 10% desktop market share.
Meaning that in the copper case, as soon as you're trying to transmit a signal 50 miles, space is the faster router. In the case of fibre connections, as soon as you're trying to transmit more than 400 miles, space is faster.
There are some tasks better-suited to mainframe platforms, some better-suited to a stack of identical commodity x86 boxes.
Your tax returns and paychecks are most likely processed on mainframes. Credit card transactions and airline reservations are most likely processed on mainframes. The list goes on and on.
Then again, I'm watching everyone get all excited about virtual machines running on large servers accessed over a network - an idea that appeared on mainframes back in the 70's.
"Anything plus internet is a winning combination" said every pets.com investor...
Meaning that in the copper case, as soon as you're trying to transmit a signal 50 miles, space is the faster router. In the case of fibre connections, as soon as you're trying to transmit more than 400 miles, space is faster.
It's less than 400 miles to my nearest caching CDN node, helpfully co-located at my ISP's regional central office. My Netflix, iCloud, google content doesn't all come from CA server farms in Silicon Valkey...
Getting a two-way connection from a moving satellite
You may want to look up the definition of geosynchronous...
But the Potus can choose to not enforce the rules and laws that Congress ratifies.
Just because previous administration did it doesn't mean it is legal, proper.
WTFis the "Administrative Branch" - all there is are the Legislative (Congress, both House & Senate), Judicial (Court - SCOTUS & other courts), and Executive (President)... The FCC is part of the EXECUTIVE Branch.
A bill, passed by Congress and signed by the President is *exactly* how Net Neutrality should have been implemented. If you remember at the time, the FCC Chairman said at the time the FCC was acting because Congress hadn't/wouldn't.
BS.
Every subsidy Obama had in place when he walked out of office last January remains in-place after the current administration repealed the Individual mandate...
People that want insurance and can afford it will still get coverage on exchange, and they will still get any subsidies they are entitled to, that hasn't changed. What has changed is that people that don't want coverage don't have to buy it, and people without compliant coverage won't be paying a fine to subsidise the premiums paid by those with compliant coverage.
Allowing consumers the ability to choose to enroll in coverage or not is how you get to 13 Million that will CHOOSE to forgo coverage.
If premiums go up it will be because the monies that were collected in fines from the uninsured AND the loss of the premiums from all those healthy, young people that feel they don't need coverage.
Repealing the individual mandates gives consumers the ability to opt-out and not be forced to subsidize everyone else's premiums.
THe FDA does not set drug prices.
Although niacin, a type of vitamin B3, is available in over-the-counter forms for less than $5 per 100 tablets, some doctors still prefer to use the version approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat high cholesterol.
The issue isn't that the FDA-approved drug, which went thru a series of clinical drug trial to prove efficacy of the treatment increased in price, it's that doctors continue to write prescriptions for this approved brand-name treatment, and that insurance companies are still paying for it.
It makes sense that an infrequently-prescribed treatment would go up in price as fewer and fewer prescriptions are written for it (dwindling sales force prices up to pay for recouping treatment approval costs.