Will WGA Force People to Buy Another Copy of XP?

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Callmark1 said:
Those embedded security chips in newer cars are actually connected to the
NSA's brainwave transducer located in a basement in Crawford, TX. They
can
be defeated by wrapping your car in tin foil which has the added benefit
of
keeping you safer on the highway since you are so visible.
http://www.raptureme.com/photo/tulsa2/z56.jpg
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Uhm... These days, aren't most cars made of tin foil already.
 
Drew said:
Jeff,

I disapprove of WGA just like the next person, but I also have to
register my car every year to New Jersey Motor Vehicles at $45 a pop
so I think you should maybe look for another analogy. But I do agree
with what you're saying.
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Did the State of New Jersey sell you the car? Nope. Is Microsoft a
sovereign government? Nope. It is your analogy that is flawed.

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Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
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"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."
 
kurttrail said:
Drew Tognola wrote:
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Did the State of New Jersey sell you the car? Nope. Is Microsoft a
sovereign government? Nope. It is your analogy that is flawed.
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Good grief, Kurt! Don't give Microsoft any ideas.

;)
--
Rhonda Lea Kirk

Insisting on perfect safety is for people
without the balls to live in the real world.
Mary Shafer Iliff
 
| Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
| > Most new vehicles now have an embedded security code
| > installed in the ignition key.
| >
|
| But you don't have to change the key five times and counting! Are you
| saying that this is the last of the WGAs?
|
| Alias

Anybody watch "Numbers" last night? A remote control for a car became evidence
and they had to find which car it belonged to (out of millions). So they
deciphered the encrypted code that the remote emitted. Turns out, the code is
different each time. There was a string of 32 hex numbers emitted from the unit.
The code would change everytime it was used. There was an algorithm whereby the
car and the remote would advance the code after each use, so that if anybody
intercepted the code, they wouldn't be able to use that same code unless they
had the built-in advancing algorithm to work with. See, right now, on old cars,
one key can open 1 out of 1000 cars; but with these new remotes the odds of one
remote beeping two cars simultaneously are near nil.
 
| Those embedded security chips in newer cars are actually connected to the
| NSA's brainwave transducer located in a basement in Crawford, TX. They can
| be defeated by wrapping your car in tin foil which has the added benefit of
| keeping you safer on the highway since you are so visible.
| http://www.raptureme.com/photo/tulsa2/z56.jpg
|
| "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

That explains why all of the streetlights on that 2 mile bridge went out 15
seconds after I got on the bridge and I was the only car ON the bridge! I betcha
they woulda went out if I was just a pedestrian.
 
Alias said:
Being as the WGA spyware sends the BIOS information and the hard drive
serial number to MS, does this mean that if one changes one's hard
drive, motherboard or flashes the BIOS that the hapless PAYING customer
will have to buy another copy of XP?

Alias
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I'm almost positive that it does mean that, Alias. Talk about abuse of
customers.
 
Alias said:
Being as the WGA spyware sends the BIOS information and the hard drive
serial number to MS, does this mean that if one changes one's hard
drive, motherboard or flashes the BIOS that the hapless PAYING customer
will have to buy another copy of XP?

Alias
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I'm positive that it does mean that, Alias. Talk about abuse of customers.
 
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