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    February 28

    Automated killer robots 'threat to humanity'

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    Increasingly autonomous, gun-totting robots developed for warfare could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and may one day unleash a robot arms race, a top expert on artificial intelligence told AFP.
    "They pose a threat to humanity," said University of Sheffield professor Noel Sharkey ahead of a keynote address Wednesday before Britain's Royal United Services Institute.
    Intelligent machines deployed on battlefields around the world -- from mobile grenade launchers to rocket-firing drones -- can already identify and lock onto targets without human help.
    There are more than 4,000 US military robots on the ground in Iraq, as well as unmanned aircraft that have clocked hundreds of thousands of flight hours.
    The first three armed combat robots fitted with large-caliber machine guns deployed to Iraq last summer, manufactured by US arms maker Foster-Miller, proved so successful that 80 more are on order, said Sharkey.
    But up to now, a human hand has always been required to push the button or pull the trigger.
    It we are not careful, he said, that could change.
    Military leaders "are quite clear that they want autonomous robots as soon as possible, because they are more cost-effective and give a risk-free war," he said.
    Several countries, led by the United States, have already invested heavily in robot warriors developed for use on the battlefield.
    South Korea and Israel both deploy armed robot border guards, while China, India, Russia and Britain have all increased the use of military robots.
    Washington plans to spend four billion US dollars by 2010 on unmanned technology systems, with total spending expected rise to 24 billion, according to the Department of Defense's Unmanned Systems Roadmap 2007-2032, released in December.
    James Canton, an expert on technology innovation and CEO of the Institute for Global Futures, predicts that deployment within a decade of detachments that will include 150 soldiers and 2,000 robots.
    The use of such devices by terrorists should be a serious concern, said Sharkey.
    Captured robots would not be difficult to reverse engineer, and could easily replace suicide bombers as the weapon-of-choice. "I don't know why that has not happened already," he said.
    But even more worrisome, he continued, is the subtle progression from the semi-autonomous military robots deployed today to fully independent killing machines.
    "I have worked in artificial intelligence for decades, and the idea of a robot making decisions about human termination terrifies me," Sharkey said.
    Ronald Arkin of Georgia Institute of Technology, who has worked closely with the US military on robotics, agrees that the shift towards autonomy will be gradual.
    But he is not convinced that robots don't have a place on the front line.
    "Robotics systems may have the potential to out-perform humans from a perspective of the laws of war and the rules of engagement," he told a conference on technology in warfare at Stanford University last month.
    The sensors of intelligent machines, he argued, may ultimately be better equipped to understand an environment and to process information. "And there are no emotions that can cloud judgement, such as anger," he added.
    Nor is there any inherent right to self-defence.
    For now, however, there remain several barriers to the creation and deployment of Terminator-like killing machines.
    Some are technical. Teaching a computer-driven machine -- even an intelligent one -- how to distinguish between civilians and combatants, or how to gauge a proportional response as mandated by the Geneva Conventions, is simply beyond the reach of artificial intelligence today.
    But even if technical barriers are overcome, the prospect of armies increasingly dependent on remotely-controlled or autonomous robots raises a host of ethical issues that have barely been addressed.
    Arkin points out that the US Department of Defense's 230 billion dollar Future Combat Systems programme -- the largest military contract in US history -- provides for three classes of aerial and three land-based robotics systems.
    "But nowhere is there any consideration of the ethical implications of the weaponisation of these systems," he said.
    For Sharkey, the best solution may be an outright ban on autonomous weapons systems. "We have to say where we want to draw the line and what we want to do -- and then get an international agreement," he said.Automated killer robots 'threat to humanity'
     

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    Artificial Intelligence

    Processing 30 images per second to recognize a person’s facial expressions in real time. The software then categorises the expressions as either anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise. According to Science Daily the system analyses the face of a person sitting in front of a camera which looks at different parts of the person's face. So far it can tell what you feel 89 per cent of the time even when there is bad lighting or camera shake can identify the facial expression of a person seated in front of a computer screen. Although still only a prototype, the software is capable of working on a desktop computer or even on a laptop.This software can enrich advanced human-computer interfaces because it would enable the construction of avatars that really do simulate a person’s facial expression. This is a really exciting prospect for sectors like the video games industry.Electronic commerce could also benefit from this technology. During the e-commerce buying process, the computer would be able to identify potential buyers’ gestures, determine whether or not they intend to make a purchase and even gauge how satisfied they are with a product or service by helping to reduce the ambiguities of spoken or written language
    Computer Vision Study Links How Brain Recognizes Faces, Moods
    The human brain combines motion and shape information to recognize faces and facial expressions, a new study suggests.
    That new finding, part of an engineer's quest to design computers that "see" faces the way humans do, provides more evidence concerning a controversy in cognitive psychology. Were computers to become adept at recognizing faces and moods, they would be more user-friendly, said Aleix Martinez, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Ohio State University. They could also support intelligent video security systems and provide potentially hack-proof computer identification. Martinez developed a model of how the brain recognizes the faces of people we've seen before, and how we discern facial expressions. These two activities take place in different areas of the brain, and some scientists believe that the mental processes involved are completely separate as well; others believe that the two processes are closely linked.
    In a recent issue of the journal Vision Research, Martinez reported that the two processes are indeed linked -- indirectly, through the part of the brain that helps us understand motion. We use our knowledge of how facial muscles move when we recognize a smile, for instance, or when we recognize a familiar face regardless of what kind of facial expression he or she has.
    Martinez and his colleagues want to use this information to design a computer that recognizes people based on input from a video camera. Most such "computer vision" systems on the market today require many pictures of a person before they can make an identification, and even then the computers can be fooled if the person looks slightly different than in the pictures.
    "Ideally, we want a computer that can recognize someone, even though there is only one picture of that person on file, and it was taken at a different angle, in different lighting, or theywere wearing sunglasses," Martinez said.
    It's a tall order, but then again, the goal isn't 100 percent accuracy.
    "When it comes to recognizing faces, people aren't perfect, but computers are even worse," said Martinez. "For a computer to interact well with humans and identify people the way we want it to, it would have to make the same errors that humans make."
    Martinez has shown that his model of this brain function -- that we use our knowledge of motion and shape combine together to recognize faces and facial expressions -- closely matches the test results of people he studied while he was at Purdue University.
    Martinez photographed the faces of 126 volunteers to create a face database. Each volunteer was photographed with four different facial expressions -- happy, angry, screaming, and neutral -- with different lighting, and with and without different accessories including sunglasses.
    For the work just published in Vision Research, Martinez showed photos from the database to two groups of volunteers. The first group was tested to see how fast they could decide if two faces -- one with a neutral expression and one happy, angry, or screaming -- belonged to the same person.
    The second group of volunteers was tested to see how fast they could identify the facial expression -- either happy, angry, screaming, or neutral -- shown in a series of photos.
    Martinez timed their responses, and compared the results to his computer model. Though the model depicted a much-simplified version of human visual processing, it was unique because it included a module for calculating how much the facial muscles had moved between the different expressions.
    If the human brain takes the time to "calculate" movement of the face, he reasoned, then the humans and the computer model would experience similar delays when identifying faces.
    Just like the computer model, the human volunteers were quicker to recognize faces and facial expressions that involved little movement, and slower to recognize expressions that involved a lot of movement.
    In the first experimental group -- the one that had to decide if two faces belonged to the same person -- volunteers most quickly matched neutral faces to neutral faces (0.8 seconds), followed by neutral to angry (just under 0.9 seconds), neutral to smiling (0.9 seconds), and neutral to screaming faces (just over 1 second).
    In the second group -- the one that had to identify which of the four expressions they were looking at -- they most quickly picked out happy faces (1.3 seconds), then neutral (1.5 seconds), angry (1.9 seconds), and screaming faces (barely under 2 seconds).
    Although the computer model's "reaction time" was measured in computer cycles and iterations rather than seconds, it identified faces and expressions in the same order as the human volunteers for both tests.
    Martinez model also explained why the human volunteers were able to match angry faces faster in the first test, but identify happy faces faster in the second test.
    Except for very subtle features -- such as a furrowed brow, pursed lips, or squinting eyes -- most angry faces aren't that different from neutral faces. So matching a neutral face to an angry face is easier.
    But when the only task is to identify an expression, identifying happiness is easier because in general we need only examine whether one feature -- the mouth -- is smiling.
    Ultimately, this work could lead to computers that recognize the faces of authorized users -- eliminating the need for passwords, which sometimes be guessed or obtained by unauthorized users. Computers could also take cues from a user's emotional state.
    "You can imagine a computer saying, 'you seem upset, what can I do to help?'" Martinez said.
    It could improve age-progression software, which is often used by law enforcement to find missing children. Computers would also be able to identify criminals who wear common disguises such as glasses or scarves.

     

     

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    Vista bashers really hate it when you point out that the same criticisms being leveled at Vista today were commonly aimed at XP after its launch. Fortunately, I’ve found a near-perfect example of this trend. It’s illuminating, and ironically, it comes from InfoWorld blogger Randall Kennedy, who has been bashing Vista and hyping the “Save XP” campaign relentlessly on his Enterprise Desktop blog. His latest entry dismisses any comparison between Vista now and XP then:

    One of the arguments I hear in defense of Windows Vista’s bloated footprint is that it’s simply a repeat of the situation faced by users when Windows XP first shipped. Back then, the logic goes, users were complaining about Windows XP’s
    CPU and memory requirements, with many resisting the upgrade push because they simply didn’t want to make the necessary hardware commitment. …

    However, the truth is that “Windows 6.0? [Vista] is really only the second mainstream iteration of the current Windows platform (Windows 2000 doesn’t count since it was never a mainstream product). As such, there simply is no real precedent from which to draw such conclusions.

    In the same post, Kennedy goes on to rhapsodize over Windows XP:

    As those of us who remember can attest, the jump from DOS/Windows to
    Windows XP was a quantum leap forward in Microsoft’s OS architecture. …

    The introduction of Windows XP was a watershed moment for the PC industry, one that firmly cemented Microsoft’s role as the pace-setter for the desktop.

    Yes, XP was totally awesome when it was officially released on October 25, 2001. A quantum leap forward. A watershed moment for the PC.

    Or not. Thankfully, Google is here to step in and help out some of us old fogies who’ve been in the industry for 20 years or so and can’t quite remember things as clearly as we used to.

    Those of us who are willing to supplement our memories with some help from Google can attest that XP was not welcomed with open arms. In fact, it was slammed by magazines like InfoWorld, where P. J. Connolly and the very same Randall C. Kennedy published this not-so-glowing review in the October 26, 2001 issue:

    Hopeless optimism must be a fundamental part of human nature, because we want to believe that new operating systems truly represent an improvement on their predecessors. It’s easy to point to certain features in a new OS as examples of progress, but end-users often find that a new OS performs like molasses compared to the version they were using. As a result, CTOs wanting to capitalize on the benefits of a new OS may find that new hardware investments are necessary — and expensive — requirements.

    Unfortunately, Microsoft’s
    Windows XP appears to be maintaining that tradition …

    Windows 2000 significantly outperformed Windows XP. In the most extreme scenario, our Windows XP system took nearly twice as long to complete a workload as did the Windows 2000 client. Our testing also suggests that companies determined to deploy Windows XP should consider ordering desktop systems with dual CPUs to get the most out of the new OS. …

    Sound familiar?

    Let’s compare and contrast those 2007 statements with their 2001 counterparts. Remember, this is the same publication, with the same author’s name in the by-line.

    On Windows 2000:

    2001: “IT departments should take advantage of license downgrade provisions and continue to press forward with Windows 2000 deployments until the installed hardware base catches up with XP.”

    2007: “Windows 2000 doesn’t count since it was never a mainstream product.”

    On why your old OS was better:

    2001: “Windows XP increasingly ate the dust of Windows 2000 as load ramped up, regardless of machine specs or Office version.”

    2007: “[E]xhaustive testing confirms that Windows Vista is at least twice as slow as
    Windows XP when running on the same hardware.”

    On hardware:

    2001: “[U]ntil 2GHz desktop PCs become commonplace, we have a hard time recommending widespread adoption of Windows XP at all.”

    2007: “Windows XP SP3 … absolutely screams on today’s high-end, multi-core desktops.”I am amused by the current lovefest going on with
    Windows XP. It’s the greatest operating system ever, in the minds of some, especially compared to the allegedly bloated, slow Windows Vista. In fact, InfoWorld has gone so far as to kick off a “Save XP” petition drive.

    YOUR Comments

    If it ain't broke why fix it ?

    By DCRJ on 26.02.2008 - 02:02

    if windows xp sp3 absolutely screams on today's high-end, multi-core desktops then why would we be needing vista whereas we're already loving xp.

    CRAP!

    By Mao on 26.02.2008 - 02:02

    98% products with tag name "made in china" which is great. where's all "made in usa" go?

    CRAP?

    By whozzit on 26.02.2008 - 03:02

    where the heck did you and roberto come from? don't tell me about the made in china tags. there used to be some pretty good stuff to buy around here. no longer. it's all made in china and covered in poison paint!

    if it ain't broke...

    By whozzit on 26.02.2008 - 03:02

    that's what ms is afraid of. xp sp3 works like a dream and the 'end computer user' is starting to realize things like that. we thank ms for xp sp3. and it works just fine the way that it is. if ms doesn't have anything that works as well or better, i would say that they're finished now...

    Spammers: please die!!!

    By Ericko on 26.02.2008 - 03:02

    spammers: please die!!!

    i like vista, i know it is a little slower, but i like it.

    XP vs Vista at the beginning

    By Angelina on 26.02.2008 - 04:02

    yeah, right... sure xp had it's problems at the beginning, problem is they weren't even close to as big as the ones vista is having at it's beginning, period.

    2 Reasons Vista even Exists

    By Gamer on 26.02.2008 - 05:02

    you gotta do what you gotta do. heres my perspective from someone who alpha / beta tested longhorn/vista.
    1. drm. microsoft cut a deal to stamp out movie piracy. the infection is totally baked deep into vista,
    aero is typically blamed, but drm queries the os every 30 seconds to make sure you aren't doing anything ilegal. running vista is like wearing an ankle bracelet. this os assumes you're a criminal out of the box! microsoft and their hollywood friends call it 'trusted computing'.

    2. traditionally the pc, unlike the mac has always been
    open source. everyone could contribute to the development. pretty cool huh? microsoft hopes to create a monopoly with their version of drm and then write their own ticket in hollywood. its like, 'look, we got rid of piracy with our drm, now we demand this and that. hollywood, to protect their so-called premium content (blu-ray dvd, games etc) would have no choice but to partner with microsoft. kinda like their recent hostile takeover attemtp recently.

    the bottom line is anything vista can do xp can do better. i have found my games run better under direct x 9. with vista they freeze and glitch. my pc is a quad core with 4 gigs of
    ram, fairly new, so i know it must be the os.

    who cares

    By sirmille on 26.02.2008 - 05:02

    vista works fine for the average user and i couldn't tell any difference performance wise with either os. vista just seems to make more sense to me, i like the interface over xp and ubuntu, both those os's i have abandoned for vista. i think vista is here to stay so get used to it, of course i know some people who're still using 98, not 98se but 98, go figure.

    Sorry

    By Scorpion2084 on 26.02.2008 - 07:02

    sorry, but vista just doesn't perform that well with games. i'm an avid gamer and the performance drops due to vista's bloated system is unacceptable. i would rather have an os that gives you the options to get rid of some of the bloat. but, vista just hides it in there along with it's drm. sorry, but it's not for me. i alpha and beta tested longhorn/vista. i know that the nsa (the american national security agency) was called in to help work on the security. that, in itself bothers me. i'll stick with xp, an os that i can change and alter to fit my needs, not the needs of some big brother agency.



    Windows 98 and Xp?

    By Alien on 26.02.2008 - 07:02

    say what? windows 98 was a piece of ka ka! xp is stable and solid platform tried and true! why would you want vista with all that drm infection corrupting your pc? i just dl sp3 build 3311 and it just smokes. i'm lovin it! my dual xeons with 4 gigs ram really moves! when i had vista ultimate everything was like moving underwater. just cause vista's the latest sh.it don't mean its worth having, don't lie to yourself. remember windows me? what a joke.

    windows 7

    By minwin on 26.02.2008 - 09:02

    i dont think windows 7 will be called windows 7 when it's released, now back to your regular scheduled program

    Article is Crap

    By Old Skool on 26.02.2008 - 10:02

    what exactly are the similarities of win2k (a non mainstream os) vs winxp and nowadays win vista vs winxp? i tell you none.winxp came to save us from the horrible win98.difference is you can have winxp as long as you want, a solid and tested and widely accepted platform, compared to vista where, underground processes, packets that travel secretly to ms, content protection policies, non-gamers friendly performance, etc exist.the choice is yours.

    Yeah, right

    By Skully on 26.02.2008 - 10:02

    the douches commenting here were either not around for win98 and winxp launches or have a severe case of memory lapse.
    same stories different year.
    people cried about 98 being eye-candy, bloatware, and a hardware killer. xp rolls out, and 98sp2 is the end all, be all.....the perfect os ! why do we need xp? it's slow, eye-candy that forces you to upgrade! 98 runs fine on 64mb of
    ram, xp takes 512 to run decently! it's crap!
    now the same thing over once again....
    face it. vista runs great on a well equiped new machine. it's called progress. games no longer fit on floppy discs. 10 gig hd's are no longer "more space than you will ever use". 48bit mp3's are no longer concidered awesome sound quality.
    you want to stick with your 1ghz celeron? go for it. run xp on it till 2021. just shut your mouths while doing it. you look plain stupid to many now, and will to everyone a couple years from now.

    To Old Skool

    By Pinche on 26.02.2008 - 10:02

    non gamers friendly performance??? what planet you live on? have you played crisis, or bioshock on full out directx10/vista? evidently not.... makes xp era games look like super nes. and for your info......xp has plenty of "secret packets to ms" itself.
    content protection is made to protect idiots from trashing their machines on a weekly basis (i know, i repair a lot of them)and can be turned off quite easily. enjoy your emachine! lol

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    Microsoft will feed Windows Vista users an update in the next week to finger illegal copies installed with cracks that the company will bust when it rolls out Service Pack 1 (SP1) in mid-March. The just-announced update, which will go out via Windows Update (WU) and install automatically on most Vista machines, will detect two cracks commonly used to activate pirated copies of the operating system. The cracks evade Vista's built-in counterfeit-detection technology by sidestepping product activation and spoofing a legitimate installation. One of the cracks, "Grace Timer," extends Vista's activation grace period, which is normally 30 days, until the year 2099. The other, called OEM BIOS, modifies system files and the PC's BIOS to mimic the product activation done by computer-makers at the factory.

    Both will be blocked by Vista SP1, the major update that will hit WU as an optional download in mid-March and automatically download and install the next month.

    February's Vista update, however, will only detect cracks, notify the user and offer up a solution, said Alex Kochis, senior product manager for Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage program, in a post to the team's blog. It will not disable, block or cripple the cracks.

    "It's important to note that this update does not disable the exploits it finds," said Kochis. "It simply alerts customers that exploits exist." At the same time it rolls out the crack-detection update, Microsoft will also post a separate removal tool for download, Kochis added. "In the future, we will integrate the removal of the exploits with the detection," he said.
    Your Comments

    stop wasting your time m$

    By esc0 on 23.02.2008 - 02:02
    sure it might affect many out there with cracks, but it will be a matter of time before someone has a solution for sp1.

    SP1 already cracked

    By Mr. Q on 23.02.2008 - 02:02
    eh, sp1 doesn't detect the oem bios crack. many people are already enjoying sp1 activated. bunch of non-sense.
     

    Cracks

    By blizz26 on 23.02.2008 - 03:02
    lets see how many oem pc's microsoft screws up. could be interesting to watch. this mimcrosoft bs doesnt mean much anyways. microsoft just released the code to the world a few days ago to keep them out of hot water. patches will be a dime a dozen as the code tells how everything work.this is why they arent wacking people for running the patches.they are spending more money on software security for vista than what they lose on pirated software. doesnt make sense.......

    so is it ok

    By doggy on 23.02.2008 - 03:02
    so how much trouble could u get in to that microsoft says wen u get that auto update thing installed like they say on ur pc huh

    Waste of time IMO...

    By Loan Gunman on 23.02.2008 - 06:02
    i can see this update identifying legal oem copies of vista as pirate and i am just waiting to see how microsoft deals with the backlash. if you have an oem machine (with oem bios) there is nothing they can do to stop you sp1 will work.

    Blarney

    By hackman on 23.02.2008 - 07:02
    this is old news - everyone has been forewarned and has switched off the simpler oem hacks. my sp1 works great with the new hack. ms can k*ss my you know what.

    ms can't do jack

    By Dan on 23.02.2008 - 07:02
    while sp1 kills the timerstop crack it can't kill boot loader and bios cracks. that's why microsoft says it won't disable those cracks because it can't. just admit it microsoft you can't stop those cracks. identifying them won't do s h i t and someone will come up with something to deal with their annoying little pirate messages.

    they knew it since long time

    By bleh on 23.02.2008 - 07:02
    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948253&sd=rss&spid=11707

    but what if you paid full price for vista

    By bill on 23.02.2008 - 07:02
    and find out you have been riped off like that.



    Microsoft to crack down on Vista cracks

    By luvs_footie on 23.02.2008 - 07:02
    this article is just bs.....i have vista ultimate with sp1 and it's running even better. vistaloader is a ok

    Vista NOPE

    By Zane on 23.02.2008 - 08:02
    and what abaut vista nope? i think it will be the last one standing

    Ha Ha Ha...

    By sidewinder310 on 23.02.2008 - 13:02
    oh my god i'll just have to resort to
    xp sp3!!
    lol

    Not SP1 Stopped the Crack... new WGA Tool, make this...

    By Germanboy on 23.02.2008 - 16:02
    hi... the sp1 runs with the bios crack, because it wasn't fixxed this methode... the new wga-tool make this... exacly as with xp...

    sry, my english isn't perfekly, but i hope you know what i wanted to say

    Vista Cracks

    By blizz26 on 23.02.2008 - 16:02
    someone just make a patch to get rid of the nag screens. the cracks will still work.microsoft stated that those who run the patches will get a nag screen telling you to fix it. they arent disabling the patches.

    Microsoft WGA: 64 bit, 128 bit, 1024 bit-xbox, 2048 bit-xbox 360

    By Love on 23.02.2008 - 16:02
    they're all cracked and run well. what's next bill? allah is great!

    Good to go

    By Lone Gunman on 23.02.2008 - 17:02
    i ran threw microsoft's article for detecting oem bios cracks and none of what they have in that article applies to my vista installation. as i said before they cannot stop someone who has a oem computer and has a oem bios, sp1 will work.

    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....3096 bit, 4098 bit,......what else?

    By Mao on 23.02.2008 - 18:02
    bill: over 1.3 billions chinese hackers and the world! i felt i'm a serious sloppy ass now

    allah is WHAT? Give me a break!

    By Yeshuahava on 23.02.2008 - 19:02
    jesus is the king of the universe, read your bible, gospel of john.

    stop!

    By Hoss on 23.02.2008 - 20:02
    stop the god talk, this isn't the place for that type of shit

    re: but what if you paid full price for vista

    By launcher on 23.02.2008 - 20:02
    quote: "and find out you have been riped off like that. "

    hey bill, legally speaking, if you got rip off by some black market people who sell you vista telling you is legal version and you paid for it. well, where did the money go? to the black market and not microsoft. you're the one being rip off, so microsoft is not responsible. so, if you're going to buy the product, get it at a safe place. a place you're sure it will not be a rip off. the safest probably places like best buy, etc. but it will cost you a fortune.

    I Think it's Bull

    By Millertimece on 23.02.2008 - 21:02
    i've got sp1 installed with an oem crack and it's done nothing but congradulate me

    Vista my ass..

    By Oh Dear Billy Boy.. on 23.02.2008 - 22:02
    i am using xp on my main machine but the other is running vista sp1 just fine and it's about as legal as bottling babies ;)

    Vista rip off

    By Vultron on 23.02.2008 - 22:02
    i bought an oem vista comp and just downloading all the shit micro has thats legit stopped my comp in its tracks and thats why people are going to cracked versions i cant even take the disk back cause it was past 30 days you shits at ms.

    god talk? Stop the Islam-o-fascists!

    By Yeshuahava on 24.02.2008 - 03:02
    that's what i hate about the so called freedom of speech thing, it only applies to the islam-o-fascists now-a-days.

    Be polite to others Yeshuahava!

    By Alfa on 24.02.2008 - 11:02
    to yeshuahava, have u not learned forom u parents to be respect others? then u may expext disrespect, be polite boy!
    to others, please talk about the subject: vista sp1 and not religens (islam, christian,...)
    thnx in advanced

    be ploite yeshuahava

    By harv on 24.02.2008 - 12:02
    yeshuava seems like someone who is glued to fox news and the rest of the neo "fascshit" media outlets

    Microsoft haven't learned yet

    By tantan on 24.02.2008 - 12:02
    as long as hackers are alive like a bacteria which will always exist at no cost, microsoft doesn't have a powerful antibiotic to disinfect them.


    Don't Praise a-l-l-a-h IN THIS PLACE,,,,,PLEASE!!!!!!!

    By yeshuahava on 24.02.2008 - 19:02
    don't praise a-l-l-a-h in this place,,,,,please!!!!!!! so i don't have to
    defend the western world against that blood thirsty religion of mohamed and his children. polite??? pull your heads out of the sand. is this sharia creep? the frog in the pan? wake up people before your heads are removed by their swords. fight the good fight of love, but beware of the enemy, and tell the truth when he raises his ugly head.

    Yeshuahava is right!!!!

    By LOVE on 24.02.2008 - 19:02
    the "boys" are the one who are afraid of the truth, and the men tell the truth. allah really isn't anything, i was just kidding. thanks yeshuahava for straightening me out.

    They behead people for allah

    By Frank on 24.02.2008 - 19:02
    i saw about two hundred videos of mohammedans cutting off heads with smiles on there faces, yuk! how can anyone follow that crap?

    I THINK YESHUAHAVA AND LOVE ARE PLAYING GAME HERE

    By DAVID on 25.02.2008 - 00:02
    get out of here punks! stop attacking other peoples' beliefs and respect them. otherwise others will also swear to your sacreds. i believe that you do this on purpose. first the with the nickname love said 'allah is great' and then the guy with the nickname 'yeshuahava' attacked islam. what are you punks trying to do? do you think this forum is palestine and you can bomb peoples' beliefs here as well like you have long been doing in palestine? what you are trying to do is bullshit and you don't deserve to be here. if there is a moderator or something like that in this forum, please don't let such insulting messages appear here. for other people: first research the subject before making any comments on them. if you wanna make any comments about islam, then read the holy qoran.

    i agree with david

    By james on 25.02.2008 - 00:02
    get back to the topic people.. and stop attacking on each others' religion.. this is no synagog or something of that sort.. i also agree with harv.. yeshuahava and love are from this neo-fashist group who only watch obsessed tv shows and brainwash themselves 10 times a day.

    off topic!!!

    By ppggpig on 25.02.2008 - 01:02
    hey u people, you totally got off topic!!

    I AGREE WITH EVERYBODY!!!!

    By agreeable one on 25.02.2008 - 02:02
    i think that everyone is right! love and yeshuahava are right and so is everyone who disagrees with them. i don't like bombs either. bombs are bad. philistinis shouldn't blow-up, that's not healthy. let's all just be healthy and agreeable. how can we steal mo m$ stuff?

    What is a philistinis?

    By BILLYBOB on 25.02.2008 - 02:02
    what does a philistinis have to do with stealing stuff from m$ ???

    Respect religions even if there bad?

    By Johnny apple seed on 25.02.2008 - 02:02
    i thought this was a forum on vista crack and now i read this stuff that is about cutting off heads by the peaceful religion of islam......can we get back on target....is this a religion class? i can't believe you guys! who would ever want to talk about that crap anyway?

    i agree with david

    By ppggpig on 25.02.2008 - 02:02
    hey u people, you totally got off topic!!

    WE AREN'T STEALING ARE WE?

    By Truth or dare on 25.02.2008 - 02:02
    we are just using bills stuff. i cracked it to with vista loader, and it's going strong

    not news

    By JJPDEF on 25.02.2008 - 03:02
    cbs abc nbc cnn fox msnbc it's all the same. it's not news at all they don't tell you much. like the talk about pop tarts like britney spears.

    fRANK WHERE DID YOU SEE THE VIDEOS

    By LOVE on 25.02.2008 - 03:02
    frank where did you see the videos?

    SP1 is Cracked

    By Crack monster on 25.02.2008 - 03:02
    sp1 is cracked with vista loader

    It's all the same right?

    By FRANK on 25.02.2008 - 03:02
    isn't all the religions the same anyways? christians and muslims, there all religions of peace. but cutting off heads, i don't know, that's pretty brutal. "kill the infidels" that's the peace of the grave man.

    What's with the religion

    By Crack monster on 25.02.2008 - 03:02
    is there a religion virus in here?

    Yeshuahava Bombed us with religion

    By Mr. Q on 25.02.2008 - 03:02
    hey frank, is that in the holly coran?

    Yes, and it works to crack vista

    By FRANK on 25.02.2008 - 03:02
    yes,the coran works to crack vista and skulls. alla hates bill i think

    vista and skulls

    By Mr. Q on 25.02.2008 - 03:02
    alla hates everyone unless you blow-up. but you have to blow-up a jew or a christian, i think........? think of the virgins.....it's really like they say a religion of "a piece of 70 virgins" yah! how do i join?

    Join the religion of piece? that is funny! LOL

    By FRANK on 25.02.2008 - 03:02
    i think you have to blow-up to get the guaranty of the 70 houses with the 70 rooms with the seventy virgins.

    Allah

    By Mohammed on 25.02.2008 - 03:02
    allah bleeds when i leed, allah is good phuck. ;)

    Try random act of kindness

    By LOVEYOURENEMIES on 25.02.2008 - 03:02
    since we're on the subject, jesus said to love your enemies.

    shame on you Mohammed

    By frank on 25.02.2008 - 04:02
    that's going to far!!!!

    love your enemies----that's pretty cool

    By Johnny apple seed on 25.02.2008 - 04:02
    ok i love even my enemies now!

    lets keep it to cracking da vista

    By craig on 25.02.2008 - 04:02
    so i think patches in march are going to stop vistaloader...what do you think?

    NoPE will be the last that stands

    By whocares on 25.02.2008 - 13:02
    atleast, nope will be the last that won´t get killed by m§!
     
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