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Comment A lot of folks are missing the real story (Score 1) 1165

There are almost 250 million firearms in the USA currently. New firearms are currently sold at a rate of about 4 million per year. Since this law would only apply to new firearms the folks who passed this legislation will likely be dead before even half of the firearms in the US had the microstamped firing pin. This is a great example of a law that will have no practical applications except to bolster the anti-gun resumes of some legislators.

Comment Re:Who's being "forced" to do anything?! (Score 4, Insightful) 579

The way that you have setup Windows update is different than most large corporate environments. YOU have configured the update service to prompt you when updates are available and allow you to choose which to install. In most multi thousand PC Windows networks you do not want to give users that power, you configure the service to install patches for security issues and ONLY those applications already installed. The ONLY those applications currently installed part is the problem. MS is forcing the installation of a NEW program which WAS NOT already installed. They are ignoring the choice made by the sys admins and installing the search application whether they wanted it or not.

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