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• I think Ask would say
  the toolbars are Helpware ;--)

  May 5, 2008

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• a few problems to note
  Standards are great IF people use them. Adopting a standard that few to nobody uses will not get you far no matter how good your intentions are.
  On investment in Microsoft. Well you have a point many people have HUGE investments in MS. Be it good or be it bad it exist and is widely adopted. If you currently have millions tied up in MS Office simply dumping the product in favor of a standard isn't good business sense. And since we are talking tax dollars in this case most taxpayers aren't going to be real happy that all that money has been wasted and more will be wasted in an effort to be on an open standard that few people have ever heard of. What we have hear is a collision with standards vs common sense.

  April 24, 2008

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• Nonsense
  When Apples will stop DRM'ing the entire operating system so I can run it on the hardware of my choice. Then we can go back to opening iPods to other music services OR open iTunes to all MP3 players and then there the iPhone thingy.
  Until these major DRM issues have been solved then there may be a grain of truth to what you speak until then your just misinformed.

  September 28, 2007

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• Sounds good BUT
  Government does few things well. One thing they do well is loose information you want them to keep private like your medical records from the VA hospital or your SS# at the IRS. The other thing they do well is find information by ways of passing laws in their favor (patriot act) so you can?t just get rid of records so easily even if the company would be doing the right thing to protect the consumers privacy.
  I understand the lure, fairness, cost benefits and objective of the product and I doubt your company has any wrongful intentions BUT the government is the government and this product simply enables them. As much as I would like to, I cannot wish your companies product well. In reply to: "The toll road returns"

  September 15, 2007

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• Not so
  How many institutions get viruses through P2P versus e-mail? Should we cut e-mail for the sake of security? What about those free screen savers folks bring in to the institutions loaded with spyware? I can go on and on but to single out P2P as the problem clearly displays you lack of knowledge regarding intrusion in the workplace. That said OU is a University and not a business. Students pay for these services through their tuition, the customer is the student and if you stop providing your customers the services they wish the customer will go to someone who will. Which also begs the question of why the student network would be connect to OU business network? Sounds like a poorly run IT shop to me.

  May 7, 2007

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• That?s nonsense
  How many institutions get viruses through P2P versus e-mail? Should we cut e-mail for the sake of security? What about those free screen savers folks bring in to the institutions loaded with spyware? I can go on and on but to single out P2P as the problem clearly displays you lack of knowledge regarding intrusion in the workplace. That said OU is a University and not a business. Students pay for these services through their tuition, the customer is the student and if you stop providing your customers the services they wish the customer will go to someone who will. Which also begs the question of why the student network would be connect to OU business network? Sounds like a poorly run IT shop to me.

  May 7, 2007

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• That's a poor defense
  I can?t tell you how many legal uses I use Bittorrent for. As I type I am using Bitorrent to pull down Ubuntu Feisty Fawn legal and at work for work. If OU has a slow network then they need to address the network. The argument that P2P facilitates a lot of piracy might have held water a few years ago but no longer. Heck with unlimited e-mail space and storage sending an e-mail with MP3 or video can facilitate illegal transfers so should OU block e-mail as well? What I suggest to OU is first to incorporate some sort of bandwidth metering and throttling until they can resolve network speed and reliability. Banning P2P will only stifle the legitimate user while the pirates will find very simple methods to go around any ban OU can think of.

  May 7, 2007

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• but your wrong on bottom feeders
  Is that Mac Core 2 Duo somehow better than a counterpart from Dell or HP? How about the Nvidia vidoe cards? or maybe your talking about the USB ports? Or the plastic case? Or maybe the hard drive? Sound card? Just exactly what hardware part of the Mac is better? It certainly used to be prior to the Intel days but thats another topic.

  April 18, 2007

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• Boeing is the only one to blame
  Because Boeing allowed the situation to happen if Boeing had simply followed some simple solutions. All hard disk should be fully encrypted using many free or retail packages available. Enforce policies to block USB drives, removable media etc. For a small or perhaps no fee at all Boeing could have saved itself money, attention, the employee (who by the way needs to know less about encryption and more about what they are paid to do) and last but not least peoples personal information. If I were the man atop Boeing the first person fired would have been the CTO.

  December 18, 2006

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• As I understand it
  The same license transfer applied to Windows XP and is just clarified in the Vista EULA. That said I think piracy is a poor excuse to punish legitimate customers. Items I pay a lot more for I do not constantly prove that I did purchase. Product Activation, WGA etc etc is simply over the top. It only punishes the legitimate user while the pirates keep on their merry way. What if your car or home constantly required that you own it. Maybe your car won?t start until you authorize with On Star at GM or you can?t unlock your front door until you verify with the state or locality that it is in fact your home. I am a techie and constantly change and manipulate hardware coupled with the fact I build my own PC?s. I can say I have no intentions of buying a second copy of Vista or anything else unless I plan to put it on two separate computers. Guess I will simply adopt pirate techniques to be a legitimate user. If on Ubuntu or SUSE handled games a little better??.

  October 18, 2006

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