You just showed that you know nothing about modern versions of Windows. DOS is long gone (the command prompt is not DOS) as are some of the old Windows APIs. In fact XP Mode is free for the Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise versions so that businesses can run legacy apps.
Obviously, you are not familiar with sarcasm. You must be new here?
Or the sarcasm wasn't very funny or poignant.
No, it was only meant to be obvious to anyone with an IQ over potato. And I suggest you look up the meaning of the word "poignant;" I do not think it means what you think it means.
Windows 7 (especially the 64-bit versions) is very secure. I haven't had a virus at all under Windows 7 and only got infected once when I was running Vista, and that was because I let someone borrow my laptop without making them a limited account, recreated my account, scanned the drive and it was gone.
"For Windows 8, Microsoft is replacing the Start button and Start menu with a Start screen based on the Windows Phone 7 Metro interface. Microsoft made this change because the Metro interface is very touch-friendly, and Windows 8 is going to appear on touch-screen tablets. Unfortunately, it isn't as friendly for people using a keyboard and mouse. It's not likely Microsoft will bring back the Start button. Fortunately, other companies are doing it for them. Longtime Windows customizer Stardock has released Start8. This free tweak re-adds the Start button and makes the Start screen more mouse friendly."
If you are worried about losing it you should have those items insured. On top of that keep your data encrypted and make regular backups (I would avoid Dropbox while you're at it, there are better services).
Dirty bombs aren't much of a threat, the only reason you've ever heard that term was so that it would instill fear in you. A little potassium iodide is all most people in the area would need. About the worst thing a dirty bomb will do is cause an area to be closed off until it can be cleaned up, we're talking single digit casualties.
Reasonable suspicion is a legal standard of proof in United States law that is less than probable cause, the legal standard for arrests and warrants, but more than an "inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or 'hunch'";[1] it must be based on "specific and articulable facts", "taken together with rational inferences from those facts".[2] Police may briefly detain a person if they have reasonable suspicion that the person has been, is, or is about to be engaged in criminal activity; such a detention is known as a Terry stop. If police additionally have reasonable suspicion that a person so detained may be armed, they may "frisk" the person for weapons, but not for contraband like drugs. Reasonable suspicion is evaluated using the "reasonable person" or "reasonable officer" standard,[3] in which said person in the same circumstances could reasonably believe a person has been, is, or is about to be engaged in criminal activity; it depends upon the totality of circumstances, and can result from a combination of particular facts, even if each is individually innocuous.
"Probable cause" is a stronger standard of evidence than a reasonable suspicion, but weaker than what is required to secure a criminal conviction. Even hearsay can supply probable cause if it is from a reliable source or supported by other evidence, according to the Aguilar–Spinelli test.
Airplane pilots are required to be up-to-date on their celestial navigation. The same applies to most maritime officers. In fact you never rely on just navigation system.
GPS includes a (currently disabled) feature called Selective Availability (SA) that adds intentional, time varying errors of up to 100 meters (328 ft) to the publicly available navigation signals. This was intended to deny an enemy the use of civilian GPS receivers for precision weapon guidance. SA errors are actually pseudorandom, generated by a cryptographic algorithm from a classified seed key available only to authorized users (the U.S. military, its allies and a few other users, mostly government) with a special military GPS receiver. Mere possession of the receiver is insufficient; it still needs the tightly controlled daily key. Before it was turned off on May 2, 2000, typical SA errors were about 50 m (164 ft) horizontally and about 100 m (328 ft) vertically.[5] Because SA affects every GPS receiver in a given area almost equally, a fixed station with an accurately known position can measure the SA error values and transmit them to the local GPS receivers so they may correct their position fixes. This is called Differential GPS or DGPS. DGPS also corrects for several other important sources of GPS errors, particularly ionospheric delay, so it continues to be widely used even though SA has been turned off. The ineffectiveness of SA in the face of widely available DGPS was a common argument for turning off SA, and this was finally done by order of President Clinton in 2000.
Wrong you are. Pretty much the only prohibited questions are ones that could lead to a person being discriminated against. A prospective employer cannot ask for any of the following information BEFORE hiring you. After you have been hired you will have to provide some of this information for payroll/tax purposes.
Race Color Sex Sexual Orientation Religion National origin Birthplace Age Disability Marital/family status
Because pretty much every one in the US who uses Facebook does not live in the same state the servers are located in, and even if they do it is still very possible that the connection crosses state lines before getting back to the server. That means that this is more of an interstate commerce issue. This also isn't a "States Rights" issue, hence the 10th Amendment does not apply.
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You just showed that you know nothing about modern versions of Windows. DOS is long gone (the command prompt is not DOS) as are some of the old Windows APIs. In fact XP Mode is free for the Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise versions so that businesses can run legacy apps.
Obviously, you are not familiar with sarcasm. You must be new here?
Or the sarcasm wasn't very funny or poignant.
No, it was only meant to be obvious to anyone with an IQ over potato. And I suggest you look up the meaning of the word "poignant;" I do not think it means what you think it means.
Fixed that for you.
Windows 7 (especially the 64-bit versions) is very secure. I haven't had a virus at all under Windows 7 and only got infected once when I was running Vista, and that was because I let someone borrow my laptop without making them a limited account, recreated my account, scanned the drive and it was gone.
It is not a "memory and resource hog", it's footprint is smaller than Windows 7. But yes, Metro is an awful interface to have on a desktop OS.
Really, and how do you do this without having to use a 3rd party paid app? The classic desktop is an app now and the start menu is gone.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kimkomando/story/2012-03-30/windows-8-questions/53861344/1
"For Windows 8, Microsoft is replacing the Start button and Start menu with a Start screen based on the Windows Phone 7 Metro interface. Microsoft made this change because the Metro interface is very touch-friendly, and Windows 8 is going to appear on touch-screen tablets. Unfortunately, it isn't as friendly for people using a keyboard and mouse. It's not likely Microsoft will bring back the Start button. Fortunately, other companies are doing it for them. Longtime Windows customizer Stardock has released Start8. This free tweak re-adds the Start button and makes the Start screen more mouse friendly."
You need glasses.
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If you are worried about losing it you should have those items insured. On top of that keep your data encrypted and make regular backups (I would avoid Dropbox while you're at it, there are better services).
Are you saying you were dead?
Do you realize that everything is radioactive enough to be detected?
Dirty bombs aren't much of a threat, the only reason you've ever heard that term was so that it would instill fear in you. A little potassium iodide is all most people in the area would need. About the worst thing a dirty bomb will do is cause an area to be closed off until it can be cleaned up, we're talking single digit casualties.
You need more than just reasonable suspicion to get probable cause for a search. They are not the same thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_suspicion
Reasonable suspicion is a legal standard of proof in United States law that is less than probable cause, the legal standard for arrests and warrants, but more than an "inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or 'hunch'";[1] it must be based on "specific and articulable facts", "taken together with rational inferences from those facts".[2] Police may briefly detain a person if they have reasonable suspicion that the person has been, is, or is about to be engaged in criminal activity; such a detention is known as a Terry stop. If police additionally have reasonable suspicion that a person so detained may be armed, they may "frisk" the person for weapons, but not for contraband like drugs. Reasonable suspicion is evaluated using the "reasonable person" or "reasonable officer" standard,[3] in which said person in the same circumstances could reasonably believe a person has been, is, or is about to be engaged in criminal activity; it depends upon the totality of circumstances, and can result from a combination of particular facts, even if each is individually innocuous.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probable_cause
"Probable cause" is a stronger standard of evidence than a reasonable suspicion, but weaker than what is required to secure a criminal conviction. Even hearsay can supply probable cause if it is from a reliable source or supported by other evidence, according to the Aguilar–Spinelli test.
Airplane pilots are required to be up-to-date on their celestial navigation. The same applies to most maritime officers. In fact you never rely on just navigation system.
The US does not jam GPS signals, you're thinking of Selective Availiability which is currently disabled.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Availability#Selective_availability
GPS includes a (currently disabled) feature called Selective Availability (SA) that adds intentional, time varying errors of up to 100 meters (328 ft) to the publicly available navigation signals. This was intended to deny an enemy the use of civilian GPS receivers for precision weapon guidance.
SA errors are actually pseudorandom, generated by a cryptographic algorithm from a classified seed key available only to authorized users (the U.S. military, its allies and a few other users, mostly government) with a special military GPS receiver. Mere possession of the receiver is insufficient; it still needs the tightly controlled daily key.
Before it was turned off on May 2, 2000, typical SA errors were about 50 m (164 ft) horizontally and about 100 m (328 ft) vertically.[5] Because SA affects every GPS receiver in a given area almost equally, a fixed station with an accurately known position can measure the SA error values and transmit them to the local GPS receivers so they may correct their position fixes. This is called Differential GPS or DGPS. DGPS also corrects for several other important sources of GPS errors, particularly ionospheric delay, so it continues to be widely used even though SA has been turned off. The ineffectiveness of SA in the face of widely available DGPS was a common argument for turning off SA, and this was finally done by order of President Clinton in 2000.
The Korean War never ended.
Wrong you are. Pretty much the only prohibited questions are ones that could lead to a person being discriminated against. A prospective employer cannot ask for any of the following information BEFORE hiring you. After you have been hired you will have to provide some of this information for payroll/tax purposes.
Race
Color
Sex
Sexual Orientation
Religion
National origin
Birthplace
Age
Disability
Marital/family status
Because pretty much every one in the US who uses Facebook does not live in the same state the servers are located in, and even if they do it is still very possible that the connection crosses state lines before getting back to the server. That means that this is more of an interstate commerce issue. This also isn't a "States Rights" issue, hence the 10th Amendment does not apply.
That Apple has yet to be brought up on charges of anti-trust and extortion?
28 years later than he predicted.
Apps that require it tell you that before you can enable them. And you get what you deserve if you install Facebook apps.
$1,000,000,000 for a company that has yet to turn a profit cannot be considered "shafted", unless you're the idiot who buys it.
Timeline has not been forced on anyone yet that I know of. You have to click the "Get Timeline Now" button to enable it.
SCOTUS has ruled nudity to be a form of free speech when used in this manor. The charges will most likely be dropped.
which brings us back to the problem of making violations of a licensing agreement a crime.
EULA's are for the most part unenforceable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement#Enforceability_of_EULAs_in_the_United_States
You do not have to disclose that you have cancer and it is illegal for an employer to ask.
The US Government never proved that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and never said so.
Except for the fact that WMDs were found in Iraq and it is common knowledge. But don't let facts get in the way of your ignorance.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081300530.html
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/us_did_find_iraq_wmd_AYiLgNbw7pDf7AZ3RO9qnM