Doesn't make it any less sleazy for them to do it.

Or it's a way to associate your real life identity for advertisers. That way the information they can take the data from your grocery rewards card and push targeted advertising on your inbox to help you change soap brands.

Or you know, follow up on offers to placed Content Distribution equipment at ISP sites. Just like they have at others, which would then allow just for delivering the bandwidth that the customers already bought and paid for. If the edge connections weren't just a manufactured issue to squeeze money out of the other side of the equation.

If you can't deliver what you promised when you sold your service to your customers, don't sell it.

By it's very nature the changes to the kernel will be small and incremental. As to not break everything. So if all of the changes are small it's unlikely that you would ever reach definitive threshold for a major version. This is compared to other project that do major upgrades, feature additions, or complete rewrites.

Every version system is arbitrary. The entire point is utilitarian and supposed to be helpful in keeping track of which version you are using.

The relevance completely depends on if you are a prescriptivist or a descriptivist.

Yes, but no one can actually read that tripe. Anyone who clicked on that just wanted to get to the comment section to read all the responses pleading for the crappy blog posts to stop.

Even more so, it's not just at school where infection can be spread. There is no reasonable way to keep someone out of all areas of public life.

Always stuck me as silly that your SSN was supposed to be secret and is used as a password. But you can never change it and you have to give to everyone including companies like this that lose it. Seems like the SSA should also give you a password that you can update that places could authenticate against. That way if you suspect a breach and you could update that number. Something like they you come in verify your identity and give you a new PIN.

They are upfront about this and right when you install it they give you the link to uncheck to block unobtrusive advertising. The fact that people pay to be on the "unobtrusive" list isn't exactly surprising. Nonstory.

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Might want to call a plumber.

For Pedantry sake, if you are going by kernels OP should have only included the NT's, since the Win 9X product line was discontinued after WinMe. But if you are talking consumer OS's then the OP didn't miss anything.