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And yet Google, Yahoo and all other internet indexing services are somehow magically exempt from "encourages, promotes or solicits, or knowingly facilitates, enables or assists, copyright infringement," ... ? In reply to: "Studios win $111 million judgment against TorrentSpy"

May 7, 2008

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So M$oft admits Office 2007 sucks & broken
"Search Commands, also known by the code name "Scout," has been popular inside Redmond for some time"

Oh, I'm laughing so hard it hurts...

So with this Microsoft admits that Office 2007 is such a total failure that even their own people have to resort to creating an elaborate 'search' tool just to find the old commands.

What a wonderfully horrific example of the utter failure of software dynasty. The Office 2007 & Vista fiasco will be the subject of much study at the Harvard School of Business for decades to come... In reply to: "Searching for ways to improve Office"

April 29, 2008

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They also demanded, and got, the IP# of all visitors as part of the court order. In reply to: "Court orders Wikileaks be taken offline"

February 18, 2008

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SEC Sarbanes-Oxley violation
How is this not a clear Sarbanes-Oxley violation? The FCC filing clearly contradicts executives' previous comments. In reply to: "Comcast to FCC: We block only 'excessive' traffic"

February 13, 2008

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Never, ever defrauded by eBay again
This is a long-overdue change by eBay. I had a highly distateful and frustrating experience several years ago - so bad that I have never even considered being ripped off by eBay again.

The short story:
1. Classic scam of seller never shipping my purchase.
2. Wasted TONS of time following eBay's complaint process, only resulting in automated e-mail replys.
3. Contacted several people who posted negative comments about seller and confirmed seller had a pattern of scams.
4. Posted my own negative feedback about seller, recounting the basic facts.
5. The seller then posted feedback about me saying that I was a homosexual, etc, etc.

I am continuously amazed that eBay was even stay in business by actively supporting such blatent fraud and doing nothing tangible to protect buyers (except subject complaining buyers to extensive, pointless "processes")

Once again big business wins and consumers lose; eBay has built a very profitable business model on, in effect, being active partners in defrauding the public.

This common-sense change in their policy is far too little, far too late for me. In reply to: "eBay sellers to be banned from criticizing buyers"

February 7, 2008

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I want to like Palm, but...
their technology is so klunky & out-of-date that they seem hopelessly behind the curve.

Why can't they simply combine the best features of their competitors into a radical new product line instead of making these tentative, baby steps ("ooooh look, they're offering a NEW COLOR...!")

A sad demise of a true icon... In reply to: "Palm closing retail stores, paying out Treo owners"

January 28, 2008

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cool, now challenge embedded code & chips also
The right to review software for bugs seems reasonable to me, especially with all the publicity around errors in other "magical black boxes" like voting machines, etc.

But the review shouldn't stop there, and should dig deeper into the rest of the technology as well. For example, there are well documented cases of Intel's CPUs doing math wrong. No big deal for a computer game, but when your life is at stake you should have to right to challenge and review every aspect of the technology that threatens to take away your freedom.

And no, we can't trust the cops to do competent reviews either. Beside the fact that most cops can't even comprehend basic high school physics, there have also been well documented cases of such venerable instutions as the FBI Crime Lab of FAKING test result when the real results proved inconvient enough not to support prosecuters...

Just wait for the new Homeland Security "terrorism suspect breathalyzer" that magically detects terrorists (or just disloyal citizens). I bet a lot of the people aguing against this decision would change their minds then...
January 28, 2008

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All Gizmodo should be banned for life
The entire Gizmodo team should be banned for life from the event, not just one retard for next year.

CES is a make-or-break event for many companies who make a massive (for them) investment in the show.

If the show organizers won't take serious steps to protect their customer's investments, they will end up encouraging ever escalating disruptions from these kinds of infantile "pranks". In reply to: "CEA's take on CES Gizmodo prank: Banned!"

January 12, 2008

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warning - Dell HD encryption back door
There has recently been a lot of hype for Dell offering new Hitachi/etc drives that provide whole-disk "bulk encryption".

But a word of warning: the BIOS in Dell's machines only allows people to set the "user" password while Dell keeps control of the "system admin" password.

This is a huge security risk because it means that Dell can give ANYONE the sys admin password to bypass the encryption and access your HD - in other words complete "back door" access.

There has been lots of speculation regarding if Microsoft put a back door in Vista's encryption feature, but it's amazing how little attention is being paid to the confirmed back door in Dell machines. It's even more amazing that businesses, with todays more strict data privacy & protection policies, allow Dell machines to be purchased.

See for yourself - just Google "Dell encryption back door" and you'll see TONS of confirmation.
December 8, 2007

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