Which by the way, might be able to fail itself, and keep the pilot from unlocking the tail section when it needs to be unlocked. Killing the pilot and co-pilot.Hellova world, eh?

Grandpa! Good to hear from you! Still have your AOL account and your 386 running Windows 3.1?

Despite what the guys at the bar down at the Legion say, there are actual stores run by actual business professionals on ebay. They've got their system pretty well honed to expose anyone who is a scammer. People and businesses I've bought from bend over backwards to keep you happy.

You insensitive fucking clod, my wife read that, got all excited, and left me. Said something about wanting to have your babies. You must get that a lot though.

Slashdot kooks are getting like that crazy uncle who brags about not having email. Or a computer.

I think the wireless charging will be as important as curved televisions a big meh. Some folks will buy a charger, then discover they need a number more. We'll not always going to be in the same room with the phone, and instead of the crimes upon humanity horror of actually having to plug something in, you'll have an invisible tether to a nice big monitor.So you get a wireless charger for other rooms. Then they'll need their regular charger, unless they want to lug around the wireless one.

A serious amount of trouble just to avoid plugging in a wire.

Yeah, it'll probably be big hit.

Well done!

You are oh so damn right, the Southern Democrats, or th Dixiecrats, used the federal coffers like sailors in a whorehouse bar.

!00 percent, not a possibility of being wrong, and very glad you admit it. They were racist as hell, very conservative, Many were in the KKK. All Democrats.

One small issue.......

http://cjonline.com/blog-post/...

During the "Civil Rights" era when the liberals in Washington were trying to ram their agenda down the South's throat. The Dixicrats became Republicans. This is the problem when trying to force-fit the Democrat and Republican labels to all times. The DIxiecrats eventually became what is now the ideological core of the Republican party.

So yes, I agree, the Southern Democrats were a nasty racist, pseudo-states rights group who opposed the federal Government except when they could extract money from it. Not a whole lot unlike today's Republicans. Not surprising - because they are today's Republicans.

Great to find common ground, eh?

Not sure if sarcasm, or insightful.

Assuming the bitched up computers can be booted.

Anyone remember the Vista "eternal reboot" update? I had one of those. Not even safe mode helped. Took a complete reinstall. Must have been my fault, becase as we all know, Windows can never fail, only we can fail Windows.

Actually, the pro version only grants you a little more time before you update or are shut off.

If you want the good old days, ya gotta go to the Enterprise version.

Well Thank God!

There's some more info in that EULA too:

Updates. The software periodically checks for system and app updates, and downloads and installs them for you. You may obtain updates only from Microsoft or authorized sources, and Microsoft may need to update your system to provide you with those updates. By accepting this agreement, you agree to receive these types of automatic updates without any additional notice. I added the emphasis - interesting stuff this. Are they saying that unless they are authorized, you can't update your programs? I have a lot of programs that are updated on a weekly basis - sounds like a problem in the making.

BUt back to the problem at hand.

Note that Windows Pro does not escape unscathed:

Windows 10 Pro users will have a little flexibility; they'll be able to switch from the mainstream release to the Current Branch for Business (CBB). This will give some control over when updates are deployed. While the CBB will essentially track the consumer release, it will allow feature updates to be held back for some amount of time; Anderson quotes a Microsoft executive saying that companies will have around eight months to prepare for each new feature update. Delay the feature update any further and they'll also be prevented from receiving security updates.

Windows enterprise is the only version that approaches the present situation.

If someone wants to pretend that the vast majority of users are just going to sit back and cheer when their computers quit working, or that nothing else exists outside the enterprise, well, okay, but that's still just pretending.

And if Enterprise can still operate the same way as before, isn't that just saying the other systems are working on a pre-broken paradigm?

I suspect the future will look like some of the Windows 7 updates in the past year or so that bitched up people's computers, than the patch had to be patched, and fun fun fun.

There are still some Windows 7 patches that have to be blocked from many computers. Is Microsoft Windows 10 so stable now that this sitution will no longer exist? That after every update/patch, everyone's computers will work 100 percent? A complete turnaround, I'd say.

Which is why I say grab the popcorn and Good 'n Plenty's folks, this is gonna be a fun movie. The Blockbuster of 2015.

Get the popcorn and Good and Plentys in hand, This is going to be fscking awesome! Stuff quits working, people gnashing teeth and tearning clothes, and the Shills going shrill blaming it on the victims.........

Dammit man! You're really harshing his truthiness!

They surely can. But it isn't all just "affording"

Some of it is people putting their money where their mouth is

Some of it is a sort of poll regarding people's interests

In some respects, it reminds me a bit of Newt Gingrich's "Contract on America", and his approach to Public Radio. He really wanted to kill off that liberal bastion, so gutted funds with the excuse that it would succeed or fail on it's own merits.

Fully expecting Public Radio would soon be a part of America's past.

Then came the fundraising. It was an annoyance, for certain, but a lot of people gave a lot of money. And today, Public radio is bigger and a whole hell of a lot better than it was in the bad old days.

Now that sort of thing will simply not work for everything. They obviously had the vehicle for reaching out and asking for money, and a nationwide organization that could coordinate it. But it was a pre-www version of crowdsourcing.