Posted 07/30/2009 at 01:27:20am

You're assuming Microsoft can code it right, the 1st time, for all possible configurations and events and make it work 100% of the time, like it was intented too, obviously you haven't use Windows before, else you won't of even thought of such an idea. Let alone, the fact that you're probably not a IT personnel in charge of part or the whole of a company's PC systems else that idiotic thought would of also never of crossed your mind of "some people wont mind the occasional reinstall". Let me try to put in a way you can understand, when your internet connection dies and you have time sensitive documents that you need to send off by email or a conference call online to attend or you were pwning newbs on Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare and heading towards a record when suddenly you got disconnected and when you call your ISP after the the connection not returning after a few hours and they tell you "some people wont mind the occasional internet outage"I bet it would be so ironic wouldnt it.

Posted 07/30/2009 at 01:14:33am

Reasons why what you proposed is a suicide attack and will likely kill Microsoft and Windows somewhere down the road.

1. If the crackers are smart enough to crack the DRM on the Windows O/S, what makes you think they can't find your little surprise before it goes off and then repurpose it to take down or hijack a multi-national conglomerate Windows 7 based pcs and use it to do 4chan level shenanigans, like the recent AT&T vs 4chan conflict.

2. Even if Microsoft was wasted and high enough on marihuana to do what you sugguested, they'd probably get sued faster than they can get to white castle.

3. That's why the people running Microsoft are running Microsoft  and you're here posting on Maximumpc.com about how to run Microsoft.

Posted 04/22/2009 at 11:57:12pm

Never make a matyr out of anyone if you can help, it only makes things worst, oh oh someone just started the church of the pirate bay. It Doesn't matter that China is the biggest pirate in the world, no one is gonna say "where's my money from all those pirated products u stole from me" to China because they own you, your house, your car, and your country so u better not piss them off, they've got an itchy trigger finger. It's ironic that people will spend millions of dollars to stop a group of people running a site called the pirate bay, but won't do anything about the real pirate bay in east Africa.

Posted 08/21/2008 at 03:55:17pm

Right after the whole comcast got caught throttling case came out, I suddenly started to loss sync with the comcast side of my comcast hsci, around "congested" times of the day. I'm sitting there humming along, online gaming, surfing, whatever, then wham, I just lost my connection with comcast's local CO, my modem resynchronizes sometimes on it's own, but mostly I have to power cycle or unplug the cable line for a sec and replug it in and it's gold again, until I get "managed" again, and I repeat. I've noticed that I usually get very low ping times, under 50ms until "Randomly" my ping just jumps up into the 300ms range around the congested times of the day and that's when I lost my connection, I shared it with a few people so I guess we are in the "heavy" usage range. I've had those typical comcast outages, you know those outages due to unannounced "network maintenance" that even the customer rep's seem to know nothing about, until a few days later, when it's included in the robotic thank you for calling comcast here's what's going on in your area message as you dial in to their 1-800 number after entering your information. The main reason I think it's their new scheme, is that, my area has never been congested, never experienced a slow down, hell I get 20mb down and 1.1mb up at most of the times, so I guess I use too much of the supposed high speed 24/7 Internet I'm paying for for their comfort so now I'm getting "managed" now.