Filed under: Security, Windows, Microsoft
Microsoft to introduce Windows "kill switch"?
by Jordan Running Jun 27th 2006
Remember when Windows Genuine Advantage became nagware, notifying you over and over again when it thought your copy of Windows wasn't legitimate? And remember when it started "checking in" with Microsoft every day? All's fair in the name of anti-piracy, Microsoft seems to be saying, and the latest rumor is that this fall Microsoft will make WGA mandatory on all Windows PCs, and what's more, will introduce a "kill switch" for Windows that will cause the operating system to stop working if the currently optional anti-piracy 'feature" isn't installed. Sounds peachy, huh? ZDNet blogger Ed Bott has more details. (P.S. If you're currently in WGA notification hell, My Digital Life has 15 ways to kill the WGA nag screen.)
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
