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  1. Re:Enough is enough on Why Microsoft's EU Ballot Screen Doesn't Measure Up · · Score: 1

    Without regulation to prevent it, why wouldn't the monopolist start a new company of it's own to undercut the competitor until it runs out of money and then wind down it's new company returning everyone to the monopoly, or keep it running with slightly lower prices to make it look like there's competition where none exists.

  2. Re:Yeah, right on Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP · · Score: 1

    Really?

    The Windows XP support policy was detailed on the all display stands and web pages where WinXP has been sold on a Netbook in the past year?

    This isn't just about people who read tech websites, Microsoft have sold plenty of WinXP licences in the last year to people who won't have had a clue about Microsoft's support policies.

  3. Re:Physical = digital? on UK Court Rejects Encryption Key Disclosure Defense · · Score: 1

    It's not so much refusing to reveal the location of something hidden because if you're being asked for the encryption key, the police know that there is something there. They just don't know how to access it.

    If you'd booby trapped your treasure, could you be compelled to reveal the mechanisms to allow the authorities to access it?

  4. Re:Physical = digital? on UK Court Rejects Encryption Key Disclosure Defense · · Score: 1

    Luckily the UK Government is going to be monitoring all email sent Every Email In UK To Be Monitored in the UK, so you could easily prove that you have not previously received any such emails or had prior contact with said pornographer.
    Job done.

  5. Re:I'm on such a job currently... on Crazy Non-Compete Contracts? · · Score: 1

    The non-compete clauses in the case of a company with wide ranging business will be written to cover all work an employee might do, but should only cover work that an employee was actually involved with.
    That is what the 1 in my contract says.

  6. Re:It's not paranoia on Beware Your Online Presence · · Score: 1

    Welcome to google101:

    Searching for Joe AND Zbiciak, google tells me:
    "The "AND" operator is unnecessary -- we include all search terms by default."

    Without the AND I get a similar number of results (~ 9000)

    Searching for all results is the google default, OR must be specified if that is your requirement.

    Searching for "Joe Zbiciak" requires (as stated by Joe in his reply to you) that the search terms are found in that exact order, that's why it's known as "find results with the exact phrase" on google's advanced search page.

  7. Re:This bears repeating - on Phishing Site Using Valid SSL Certificates · · Score: 1

    Does Amazon do this on the login page?

    It asks for username and password on an unencrypted page, I usually just hit enter so that it fails and brings up an encrypted page.

  8. Re:CCR5 mutation on Man Cures Himself of HIV? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Initial positive tests indicate the presence of antibodies to the virus which only requires HIV to be present in the system, not necessarily infecting it, his boyfriend was HIV positive so repeated exposure could have kept the viral load high enough to show up in subsequent DNA amplification tests?

    Not likely but...

  9. Re:Hmmm... on Man Cures Himself of HIV? · · Score: 1

    Not yet...

  10. Re:Alarmist on Mom Makes Website, Gets Sued for $2 Million · · Score: 2, Informative

    "she falsely states that pressure treated wood is not safe since it is treated with, among other things, arsenic. Such wood is safe if handled properly."

    Did you read your link?

    Use-Site Precautions:

    * All sawdust and construction debris should be cleaned up and disposed of after construction.
    She has suggested that debris was left lying in puddles that children were playing in
    from dangerous chemicals - "I have seen kids playing in a stagnant pond of water that was 4ft deep. It was filled with building debris including paint cans, fiberglass insulation, pressure treated wood, oil residue and tadpoles." "Parents should be aware that Pressure Treated wood is not safe. It contains many chemicals including arsenic and it's a known carcinogen."


    * Treated wood should not be used where it may come into direct or indirect contact with drinking water, except for uses involving incidental contact such as docks and bridges.
    From the website being sued
    Contamination of groundwater - "Our moraine provides 300,000 people with ground source drinking water. We're the largest region in North America dependant on ground water. This moraine is one of the major sources for the Grand River and that is the only source of drinking water for Brantford, Brent County and Six Nations."

  11. Re:Steal the bandwidth, or steal the work? on Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking · · Score: 1

    But they were _hotlinking_, which causes the content from the original site to appear on the new site without hosting it (or acknowledging it's source).

    Stealing both the content and the bandwidth!

  12. Re:Wrong focus - who cares about laptops on Flash EULA Doesn't Fit the Times · · Score: 1

    Those terms relating to auditing have been in there for over a year, if you have Flash installed (and kept up to date) you've probably already agreed to auditing your use of the software and covering macromedia's costs.

    Newsforge article from a year ago
    http://business.newsforge.com/business/04/06/04/16 43234.shtml

  13. Re:So why is this being called nanotech? on Nanotech Coating Prevents Fogging · · Score: 2, Interesting

    something one micron across would be microtech by definition

    Not if the components used to construct it were nanoscale.

    This would, in my opinion, be a better use of the term nanotech - technology consisting of nanoscale components. Nanoscale coatings for various things have probably been available for some time.

  14. Re:That's cool but on Pentium 4 Overclocked to 7.1GHz, Sets World Record · · Score: 5, Funny

    About 18.516 seconds by the looks of things