I have a small cluster (10 Windows machines) in my 3-room apartment, nearly all of whom are multi-boot - even ME can be *enjoyed*. Guests and visitors are welcome to login, check email, view apps, game, watch cable, shop... whatever. I catch immeasurable *7734* from innumerable doubters for inestimable reasons, not the least of which would be EM irradiation and massive power requirements -- but I know my PC farm, and I feel obligated to give /. the low-down on the low-down:

A) They're computers, and they're connected. They've experienced issues all along, so I was actually looking forward to this so-called "fix";
2) Multi-booting exposes all kinds of issues, from small to the complete opposite of small, in which case Windo7s makes no secret it is in many ways *WVII,* a narcissistic second version of Windows: V; and

first of all, 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' does not change my need to reinstall and adapt 3-4 OSes, 32 and 64-bit configurations, drivers, applications and settings, all on 10 machines, copy and wipe mass storage drives ...yet not perceive recent developments as a problem?

"I don't care who started it. Knock it off."

lower your firewalls and power-down your preferences; twitting and booking face are the collective versions of email; your financial and technological distinctiveness will be adapted to suit our own; you will be assimilated; individuality is futile...

Maybe, what you're thinking of is quilts, not patches.

and "...you can't help those who don't want to be helped."

Approve or Decline

Weeee Dogies! Y'all're gonna have ta excuse mah cogitations, Mister Drysdale, but Ah figgers this's one thread just about the perfect Phishin' hole fer them there squattin' folk. Ahmah gonna has ta asks y'al tah not pay no never-mind t'mah sig. Yore Friend, Jed Clampett

Au, contraire. By definition, HIV, as a retrovirus, says you are wrong about that; lemme guess, you can't get pregnant the first time, either?

More likely, it has less to do with size, and more to do with the motions and noises.

Dog-saves-owner's-family-by-chewing-apart-phone; owner then buys groceries for hungry family of 3.14. Dog found still chasing tail with owner.

Ha, ha, ha! Mp3re: X-Files.

...remember when we could, without delay, without an account, a
background check, or an extra 20 dollars or so every month for service...

listen to popular music of the day...

...view a program in video with sound, without a network logo
and ticker feed blocking "certain" portions of it...

Computers are not very good radios, and
they are even crappier televisions.

Internet technology hasn't been much help, either; It
looks to me like a pack of youngbloods have their horse pushing the cart.

(Let us assume, for example, the sender uses software or a mass-email account with a company:)

Suppose an email Recipient receives ve$0.02 credit for every message reported as spam, debited against the Sender's account and payable to the Recipient's email account, in increments of ve$10;

Further suppose, the otherwise legitimate source of said software or mass-email account must by regulatory restrictions through CAN-SPAM register for the purposes suggested herein; and

(among other things,) pay the Recipient, as the Service is commercially benefiting, and/or restrict the Sender'(s) account - bear in mind, no one wants to set up or install commercial email routines every 100 messages while racking up $50 expenses, but it takes money to make money, and customer satisfaction...

Although the following is very much the clear and present reality, Heaven forbid even one person, objecting to spam, should receive the following notification-

"You have received a collect spam from [nobody]; do you accept the charge(s)?

Painfully, this indeed is what is currently going on, but to put it in those precise words, well, you get the idea.




What ever happened to the thing about, "...it takes money to make money..." anyhow? The internet gives only spam the right to negate that? Yeah, right... get a life, you lawbot.

And why, for goodness' sake, hasn't it been the case, all along.


Anything else is simply a case of WHOIS harrassment through a third party.



A no brainer, out-of-place, casts a lot of pennies the wrong direction, and were talkin' a lot of pennies, here.

...being that it has long been the case that, it takes money to make money, the idea is not only good practice, but sound business.

...I didn't get 5 feet from my terminal before I thought I heard Charleton Heston exclaiming, "They finally did it... Those S.O.B's..."

If it were an oil field, Wall Street, Detroit or Silicone Valley, you could count on something being done about it right away. NSLIG (no such luck, I guess.)