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In a reversal of its earlier stance, Microsoft officials confirmed that customers will be able to downgrade from Windows 7 to Windows XP for a year and a half after the new system ships, or until the first Service Pack drops — whichever comes first.
While some industry observers the modified downgrade policy is a change for the better, at least one analyst says Microsoft still hasn’t enough to provide options for enterprises.
This industry observer says Microsoft simply hasn’t a clue!
The downgrade option is also not available to all Windows 7 users: Downgrade rights apply to purchasers of Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate, so the option isn’t available to customers who buy Windows 7 Home Premium.
Additionally, customers who have either Software Assurance subscriptions or Enterprise Agreements with Microsoft can continue to get the downgrade as long as they want.
Confused, yet?
“Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate customers will have the option to downgrade to Windows XP Professional from PCs that ship within 18 months following the general availability of Windows 7 or until the release of a Windows 7 service pack (SP), whichever is sooner and if an SP is developed,” a Microsoft spokesperson told InternetNews.com in an e-mail.
Understand that, OK?
 Guys like this will be the next target. Then fishing itself will be attacked by these idiots. |
Local News | Peta vs. Pike Place fish-throwers | Seattle Times Newspaper — What is wrong with these people? We first discussed this here.
In an odd dispute between animal-rights activists and — of all people — veterinarians, “It’s “gloves off,” says PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk. Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plan to protest a fish-throwing demonstration from the employees of Pike Place Fish at the opening ceremony of The American Veterinary Medical Association’s annual convention, to be held July 11-14 in Seattle.
Here are the basics: PETA objected to the use of “their corpses used as toys” in a statement about the fish, and offered to send rubber replacements to the convention. Newkirk says PETA will “identify every vet who participates and carry the objection back to his/her hometown practice.”
This whole thing is beginning to sound like an extortion scheme.
Many people in the UK are unable to identify the location of their major organs, a study suggests.
A team at King’s College London found public understanding of basic anatomy has not improved since a similar survey was conducted 40 years ago.
Less than 50% of the more than 700 people surveyed could correctly place the heart, BMC Family Practice says.
Under one-third could place the lungs in their correct location, but more than 85% got the intestines right.
There are concerns that a poor grasp of anatomy could potentially compromise patient care.
The researchers asked more than 700 people to look at outlines of both a male and female body and identify which of several shaded areas was a particular organ.
Those asked included apparently healthy members of the public and then people undergoing treatment for a problem that affected specific organs.
Even those for whom the organ was particularly relevant often performed poorly – more than half of those with renal problems did not correctly identify the kidneys.
Fewer than 30% of the general population were able to do so.
A Brooklyn man who police said dressed in drag to impersonate his dead mother and collect $115,000 in Social Security check and rent subsidies has been indicted on 47 counts of grand larceny, forgery and conspiracy.
Thomas Prusik-Parkin’s alleged accomplice, Mhilton Rimolo, was also indicted and both men face up to 25 years in prison if they’re convicted…
Prusik-Parkin’s six-year scam came to a crashing end on Monday when the 49-year-old from Park Slope was arrested…
Prusik-Parkin’s alleged scam began in 2003 when his mother, Irene Prusik, died at age 73.
Her son allegedly gave the funeral director the wrong Social Security number and date of birth for his mother so that her death would not be registered in government databases.
He began collecting $700 a month in Social Security in her name, in addition to his own disability checks, sources said.
Authorities said Prusik-Parkin also posed as his mother to file for bankruptcy so “she” would be eligible for $39,000 in city subsidies to help pay rent on a Park Slope apartment.
RTFA. He worked so hard at being a crook he probably would have expended less energy being an honest man.
Former Roman Catholic priest Alberto Cutié married Ruhama Buni Canellis in a courthouse. The couple will also have a church wedding…
But Cutié, who left the Catholic church to become an Episcopalian in late May, will have to wait more than a week before his new church recognizes the marriage in a religious ceremony. That will take place in an unnamed church under Rt. Rev. Leo Frade, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida.
Cutié, 40, and his wife, 35-year-old Ruhama Buni Canellis, quietly slipped into the Coral Gables Branch Court at 3100 Ponce de Leon Blvd. through a gated back entrance around noon Tuesday, avoiding a growing group of news crews.
The couple presented identification and proof of premarital counseling to a clerk as they filled out a marriage license application. Then, they joined Miami-Dade County Judge Jacqueline Schwartz in her chambers for a quick ceremony, according to a court employee…
He and Canellis left the Catholic church just days prior during a private ceremony at Miami’s Trinity Cathedral, where Cutié also announced that he was starting a year-long process to become an Episcopal priest.
Cutié left his position at St. Francis de Sales Catholic church in Miami Beach when photographs showing him nuzzling Canellis on a Florida beach — a violation of his vow of celibacy — were published in a celebrity magazine in early May.
Good for you, dude. The Catholic Church will probably catch up with reality in another century or two.
Video features an interview with Yuri Alexandrovic Bezmenov, a KGB defector, who talks about techniques to weaken countries to come under the control of communism.
In an related item:
The man who leaked the real election results from the Interior Ministry – the ones showing Ahmadinejad coming third – was killed in a suspicious car accident, according to unconfirmed reports, writes Saeed Kamali Dehghan in Tehran.
Mohammad Asgari, who was responsible for the security of the IT network in Iran’s interior ministry, was killed yesterday in Tehran. Asgari had reportedly leaked results that showed the elections were rigged by government use of new software to alter the votes from the provinces. Asgari was said to have leaked information that showed Mousavi had won almost 19 million votes, and should therefore be president. We will try to get more details later.
Sometimes an accident is just an accident, and sometimes an accident is an assassination.
One of Fidel Castro’s sons carried on an eight-month flirtation over the Internet with a person he believed was a Colombian woman. Surprise! The woman was actually a Miami man.
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”Guess where I am and I will make love to you without stopping,” Antonio Castro Soto del Valle, Fidel’s son and physician for the Cuban national baseball team, reportedly wrote ”Claudia” during a January trip to Russia with his uncle Raúl.But ”Claudia” turned out to be Luis Domínguez, a Cuban-born Miamian who unveiled the sting on Americateve TV Channel 41 in Miami, saying it was designed to ”shatter the myth of an impenetrable” security system.
”Claudia’s” cyber-boyfriend never revealed any state secrets and made no mention of Fidel during their more than 20 Internet chats. But he sent her what he said were his phone number and home address in Havana, wrote that he had no bodyguards and gave advance notice of a trip to Mexico — all breaches of the tight secrecy that has always surrounded Fidel Castro’s family life.
And when rumors swept Miami in mid-January that Fidel Castro had died, Domínguez said, he assured Americateve that the rumors were likely false because Antonio was keeping up his regular chats with his cyber-girlfriend.
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”While everyday Cubans were banned from using the Internet cafes in Havana hotels, this guy had a BlackBerry and unlimited access to the Web,” said Domínguez, 46, a security company employee.
Ah, sex. The oldest trick in a spy’s playbook. Gets ’em every time in the movies.
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General Motors has reached a tentative agreement to sell Saab to the Swedish sports car manufacturer Koenigsegg.
GM said that as part of the deal there would be $600m (£367m) of funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB), guaranteed by the Swedish government.
It is the latest part of GM’s reorganisation, which is also set to see the Opel and Vauxhall brands going to Canada’s Magna…
Koenigsegg produces 18 cars a year and employs 45 people, and there has been some doubt as to whether it has the expertise to run Saab, which sold 93,000 cars in 2008.
Saab employs about 3,400 people in Sweden and about 12,000 other jobs in the country are dependent on Saab and its suppliers.
But GM Europe’s president Carl-Peter Forster said: “Koenigsegg Group’s unique combination of innovation, entrepreneurial spirit and financial strength… made it the right choice for Saab as well as for General Motors”.
The Swedish government has been keen to avoid bailing out its carmakers as long as they are owned by US parent companies.
That’s no surprise is it?
I haven’t posted earlier on the rumors because I didn’t think Koenigsegg could pull it off. Their core investor is an industrial design firm, Baard Eker, also talented and stylish.
 Don’t even THINK of parking here, scumbag! |
Who says government doesn’t always know best? And if government says you can’t legally park in your driveway, they must be right. What business do you have parking your car in your own driveway anyway?
Sure, this makes sense to all of us. But people in Toledo, on the other hand, are all upset because they’re receiving parking tickets for doing the unheard of. The criminal act of parking their cars in front of their house.
Crime wave
And the acts of criminality have become so rampant that the Mayor has deputized city workers (instead of police officers and the parking division of the city) to roam the hardscrabble streets to issue $25 parking citations to individuals who have committed this heinous crime.
Not every citizen is getting a ticket. Only those who don’t have their driveways paved. Gravel isn’t good enough for the Mayor. It’s gotta be paved. If not, you’re a criminal.
Dag-gone it!
Mayor Carty Finkbeiner, who surprisingly is facing a recall, says he stands by
a bureaucrat’sthe Acting Commissioner of Streets, Bridges and Harbor’s decision to ticket citizens who park in their driveways.“Every law in the city should be enforced and I will defer to the director over the media, that’s for dag-gone sure,” Mayor Finkbeiner said in a press conference last night. “I will not second guess her because more times then not she’s right and the citizens that are criticizing her are not right.”
Mayor Carty Finkbeiner is providing the kind of get tough, no nonsense, those-who-elected-me-are-ignorant-idiots law enforcement that we see too little of these days, especially now that all other problems in his city have been solved. That’s for dag-gone sure!
Please pay attention to the fact that this is catalogued as ‘Breaking News’. Oh Brother.
A Baltimore circuit judge, who has three times been the subject of judicial disciplinary investigations, ordered a spectator to jail for 10 days for crying out “love you” to her handcuffed brother in the courtroom – and then reversed himself after a public defender spoke up on her behalf.
As Tamika Clevenger left a Baltimore courtroom Friday, she shouted, “Love you, Nick,” which set off Judge Alfred Nance. He ordered a sheriff to pull Clevenger from the hallway and found the 24-year-old in contempt.
Nance undid the sentence about a half-hour later at the request of Jill Trivas, a public defender who was in court for a different case but told Nance she felt that he had been too harsh…
Nance asked Clevenger her name and age, and then swiftly pronounced the punishment: “Ten days, Baltimore City Detention Center.”
“I didn’t do nothing,” a shocked Clevenger said…
Worried about her child at home, Clevenger began to cry.
“Your baby will be there” when you get out, Nance said. “You want me to send him to social services? I’ll send him [to jail] too.”
Maybe he doesn’t need judge-lessons; but, he certainly needs human being-lessons.
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