Ed Leafe wrote: > On Aug 26, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Stephen the Cook wrote: > >> Have you ever been a victim of a crime Ted? Someone break into >> your car, >> home, apt, business, or your identity? When it happens to you >> don't think >> that "It's alright." Sorry but you feel the opposite, or at least I >> did. > > Funny that you're using the 'crime' argument while talking about a > company that has single-handedly had to pay more in settlements for > them breaking intellectual property laws than all other companies > combined. > > A better analogy would be a thief who uses his knowledge of crime to > protect his stolen goods from being re-stolen. > > -- Ed Leafe > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com >
I have nothing against WGA in concept, but I have a couple of problems with it in implementation. I posted this a couple of months ago. I access a customer through Citrix and my customer does a check of my computer to make sure I have all of the updates, a firewall running, etc. One Wednesday they detected that I had not run a critical update from Microsoft even though I had automatic updates turned on; not to run, but download and notify me that they need installing. So I went to manually install the updates and it turned out to be WGA. They marked the WGA check as a critical update! Guess what else? My MDSN copy of XP was identified as "Not Genuine". I ran WGA three times and on the third time it identified my copy as genuine. After over an hour of working on this update, I finally got in to resolve my customer's payroll issue. If they're going to do WGA, they should at least make sure it works correctly. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
