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to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: Geo
date: 2006-06-28 18:32:00
subject: Re: 1 For Rich (A WGA Notifications Tool Remover)

From: "Geo" 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:44a2c8b8$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> Congress doesn't have to get involved, because no
> business/organization/whatever can use software like that in any critical
> system. I for sure wouldn't (and won't) run a company database server on a
> system that has a disable-switch built in like that. Or a webserver.
Traffic
> control, bank systems, you name it - anything that has to simply work,
> cannot accept any shit like that.

I really hate to point this out but the power company who caused that huge
blackout for the northeast US blamed it on a Windows NT computer. Today the
news is that they just went live with a new $20million control center and
all new computers running XP..

Geo.

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