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Big Brother Lifetime Award Goes To Microsoft
D4C5CE writes "Microsoft's ceaseless "success" in bringing instability, insecurity and
breaches of privacy as well as a deplorable lack of open standards to
almost Every Desktop on Earth has now earned them an "Oscar" for Data
Leeches, the Lifetime Award for
"outstanding mis-achievement" from the BigBrotherAwards 2002
in Germany. Microsoft's
Data Protection Officer actually attended the ceremony to collect the
prize (probably delighted that unlike the "laureates"
of last year's event in Austria, at least he would not receive live
cockroaches), and this unlucky winner took the opportunity to make some critical
remarks on the company's communications regarding the Windows
Media Player and Digital Restrictions (or, euphemistically, in his words: Rights) Management technologies which he deemed crucial for modern
business models, rather than acknowledging that it's in fact not just the advertising but the approach itself which is fundamentally flawed."
can you say troll?
news for trolls, flamebait that matters. this article is nothing more than a well-crafted troll
Get out the tin-foil, it's getting deep around here.
"That's why I have to reboot my Win2K workstation every week to keep the performance up to an acceptible level"
Probably because you run shit-faced programs?
My uptime right now is 112 hours which includes playing MP3s, using my tv tuner, developing some genetic simulators, playing 1942 battlefield and reading my email/browsing the web.
According to taskman I have the same # of ram used now as I did over four days ago.
And unlike the typical *nix box I am not just running a httpd server [I'm running IIS btw...]
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.