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Giving Microsoft Root

It’s been widely reported that Windows Media Player has some important bugs that need to be addressed urgently. Fair enough. There’s already an exasperated acknowledgement that MS software is bug-ridden and needs regular updates.
But this time it’s different.
If you install the latest patches, you’ll be faced with a new, Orwellian EULA.
“This means MS [...]

Thews has been doing the rounds for a little while now - I hesitated on reporting it because I was hoping it couldn’t be true.
First noted on The Register, here and here was an article on Newsweek about Palladium, it was then followed up with a Robert X. Cringley column at the pbs.org site.
It really [...]

Another Political Quiz

Another interesting political quiz. I once again show up as a “Libertarian”.
NW-You would feel most at home in the Northwest region. You advocate a large degree of economic and personal freedom. Your neighbors include folks like Ayn Rand, Jesse Ventura, Milton Friedman, and Drew Carey, and may refer to themselves as “classical [...]


Mapping Spammers

From Boing Boing… Someone has far, far too much time on his hands.
They’ve put a huge effort into mapping known and speculated relationships between spammers and associated bulk emailers and marketeers.
Well worth a look.

Click for Spam Map

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