Because the law just changed to allow it.
"The lawsuits were enabled by a broadening of Washington's Computer Spyware Act, which was amended earlier this year to outlaw misrepresentation of the source of a message to a computer user in order to scare the person into installing software."
In reply to: "Microsoft, Washington state sue over 'scareware' pop-up ads"
September 29, 2008
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Early security bugs like this is one of the reasons why I have not upgraded yet. The other being I'm waiting for add-on's to update to 3 from 2. In reply to: "Firefox 3 suffers its first vulnerability"
June 18, 2008
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For anyone who remembers, Microsoft Space Simulator had a part that let you be a ground based observer in addition to the normal flying space ships part. They really should make a new version of that game. In reply to: "Featured Freeware: WorldWide Telescope"
May 27, 2008
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USB too slow
I've transfered video on my Dish Network HD DVR to an external HDD and movies like Full Metal Jacket are around 8.6 GB when in HD. That would take at least 15 minutes to transfer on USB 2. A better choice would be eSATA with it's 3 Gigabit/sec transfer rate.
April 13, 2008
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Wrong
If you cover about 10% of the state of Navada with solar panels. You would have enough energy to power the entire country. That is becouse enough energy from the sun hits the earth every hour that it takes us a year to match. Don't beleve me? Watch the Renewable Energy episode of Modern Marvels on the History Channel.
October 4, 2006
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