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When I installed Chrome it did not pop up a window and offer me a choice of which search engine to use. How many people bother to click their way into the settings menu and pick a search engine other than Google whey they set up Chrome?

Conversely, how many people install Chrome and reasonably expect some other search engine to be the default? I mean, If you're downloading the Google Chrome web browser, it would seem kinda obvious to me that the default search engine would be Google.

The real question is; how many people would bother to change it even if it was a big pop-up window when you first ran the browser? I literally do not know anybody that does not solely use Google as their search engine. Of course that's not to say that those people don't exist, obviously, but I'd really doubt it's a sizable percentage based on my own personal observations. I mean, not sure if this is still true, but Bing was using Google's search results. Why fuck around with a middle-man?

I'm no Googlebot, and I understand the privacy concerns that stem from the fact that they've got their fingers in literally every damn pie out there, but I think that there are some silly scenarios that come out of these complaints. Like the arguments against Google just returning the answer to a query at the top of a search rather than serving up a bunch of websites related to it if it can do so. Most people, when they search a question, are looking for a fucking answer, not 1,000 websites talking about the answer. If I type in "How tall is Tom Cruise?", I'm not wondering how tall IMDB specifically thinks he is, or Wikipedia, I just want to know how freaking tall he is...but there are people arguing that is an abuse of their position and should deliberately obfuscate the information to drive hits to competitor sites? Come on. Not saying this particular AC is saying that (before someone starts screaming Straw Man) just saying I've heard that argument before and it's always seemed weird to me.

For the record, I never really agreed with the Microsoft anti-trust shit, either. I know it was fashionable to hate on them back then in "You Will Be Assimilated" era, but that was one thing that I felt Microsoft was totally within it's rights to do. If they prevented you from installing a rival browser, fine, or if they deliberately made a rival browser perform worse than their own, fine...but simply including it's own by default was fine with me. Apple includes Safari with OSX, you can't remove it...does Apple need an anti-trust suit?

Especially since it is the first hit on Bing, too

Not suprising, as Bing basically regurgitates Google results

...which he says have a lot to do with the fact that there is lack of awareness about security in India, and that the majority of such events held there are mostly vendor-driven and free for visitors...

I find this statement dubious given that it is in this US of A where a hospital was forcced to turn away patients because of a [simple] virus.

Lets remember that out beloved Google has also stored "sensitive" data in plain text. In fact there was a submission here at Slashdot....and... this site lists a litany of security breaches all of which happened in (you guessed it)..the USA.

So this guy wasn't charged with a felony for accessing his wife's email account? Or is Clara Walker a member of the "ruling class"?

Because Adobe keeps threatening to sue Microsoft if that feature is added.

That was my first thought..No accelerated anything, crappy performance on anything more than rendering a basic webpage, totally lame. I also wonder if they could have picked WORSE timing with the FTC investigating and EU already fining them.

I mean first the have to cut a 1.25 billion dollar check to AMD for rigging the game with OEMs through bribes and threats, they shut out Nvidia from the newer chipsets leaving them to rot on LGA775 and making themselves the only game in town for the new sockets, and now integrating their shitty GPU, which of course will make it even easier to cut Nvidia's ION out of that market as well. WTF Intel? Do you really want a MSFT antitrust bust added to your company?

This seems to me to be the absolute WORST timing they could have come up with for this release. They should have waited until AMD came out with Bulldozer (which doesn't compete in the same market as Atom) and then popped out the new chips, so they could say "see? We are just doing what the other guys are doing!" but instead this looks more like trying to drive another nail into the independent chipset market, at least to me, and I wouldn't doubt the FTC and EU takes a close look as well. Stupid move Intel, stupid move.

"putting vital systems on the Internet (Score:5, Funny)"

"The reality is that several million computers have reported infections of the Conficker.C virus"

Hospital Equipment Infected with Conficker

Royal Navy warships lose email in virus infection
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he he .. he he hee ... heeee ... fucking nymshifting mod trolling moron

He also said that Mac was just as insecure as Windows and that Windows gets attacked mainly because of the number of people using it.

I tried to find some sort of source for this, but instead found this:

Windows 7 PC Outlasts Mac In Security Test, at PWN2OWN.

Maybe people interested in the Verizon Hub but want one that actually does something and doesn't cost a gazillion dollars?

Full story http://www.infopackets.com/news/business/microsoft/2009/20090223_microsoft_unveils_its_own_economic_stimulus_plan.htm

Associated Press

Thanks for reading TRFA -- looks like you're almost right. It wasn't just GTA, either:

The boy told police he learned to drive playing Grand Theft Auto and Monster Truck Jam video games.

Ironically, on the directly linked TFA:

Here's hoping that the parents who allowed a child to see (let alone play) Grand Theft Auto will attract more attention that the award-winning video game (which anyone will admit, should only be played by adults).

Yeah, good job. Your pre-emptive, kneejerk, anti-Jack-Thompson interpretation has already drawn more attention to both Jack and GTA than the original article did.

For a period of time Nvidia and ATI agreed to boost the market value of GPU's by arranging for similarly powered products to be sold at the same price.

The following PDF document describes the entire case: GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS
ANTITRUST LITIGATION

Copies of the E-mails are here E-mail evidence of price fixing

Both of us have spent the last three years trying to bring the perceived value of our products up to the level of Intel. The "GPU" category is clean and has served us well that way. We both have increased the price of our high end product several fold over the last 4 years while Intel's high end prices have more than halved. Creating another category serves to work contradictory to that. How does one cleanly position it versus a GPU and a CPU?? It will tear down what we have both built.

There are now at least 51 different anti-trust lawsuits in the pipeline

The usual punishment will be a large fine - maybe a donation to charity - donating money to a charity allowing poor families to buy GPU pc's for Christmas or education.

the second link: http://apcmag.com/xp_still_killing_vista_in_sales_volume_hp.htm

the third link: http://www.infopackets.com/news/business/microsoft/2008/20080801_windows_xp_still_outselling_windows_vista.htm

these two stories are word for word, character for character, 50-70% identical. Yet authorship is claimed by two completely different sources.
 
This would suggest to me that _somebody_ is a shitty squat blog, plagiarising for page hits.

http://www.infopackets.com/news/security/2008/20080417_vista_security_update_bricks_usb_devices.htm

Lots! Automatically downloading and installing code from an untrusted party is pretty much the only way to make sure your software continues working as expected.

I'm pretty partial to their, there, and they're myself.

You, of course, assume that gamers actually are people. 24 hour Starcraft sessions? Playing games until all energy is depleted and the host shuts down? I present you with this. Halo 2 Legendary in an afternoon?! Humans do not do this. Call them meat bags, if you must, but I doubt that they are people.