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• With physical media, there are manufacturing costs, distribution costs, and profit margins for the retailer through whom you're buying the software.
  
  MS is just trying to cut out the middlemen, and pass on the savings to you. In reply to: "Microsoft sets Office 2010 pricing"

  January 5, 2010

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• Just joining the train of people approving of OneNote -- the first time I tried it, I didn't know how I lived without it.
  
  For all OneNote users above -- you know what can make it really really powerful? If you use multiple computers and a mobile phone, you can use Live Sync to sync your OneNote folders (just add a 'library' called OneNote, and point it to the top level folder on each machine). Syncing your mobile notes need only happen with any one computer. Automatically, your OneNote files will be consistent across all your machines. You can use the same thing for browser bookmarks too. There are other personal-p2p style sync tools that will achieve the same result if you prefer them over Live Sync. In reply to: "Microsoft sets Office 2010 pricing"

  January 5, 2010

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• I think the analyst probably missed the most important point -- how much longer will the x86 architecture stay relevant?
  
  imho, the ARM architecture is nipping at it's heels right now, and I think that within the next 2 years it's quite likely that we'll see netbooks being based on ARM chips instead of Atoms (due to the excellent low-power / performance advantage that ARM chips have over x86 chips).
  
  Now, Nvidia is actually in the business of making ARM chips (see Tegra). And since they're used in mobile devices, dvd players, TVs etc. as well, their numbers are only likely to continue trending upwards. In reply to: "Big hurdles for rumored Nvidia x86 technology"

  January 4, 2010

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• Chris dude -- give the kid a break will ya? He's just excited that he got a 360..
  
  He'll go to school, hit on girls, play sports, get a job, etc. like the rest of us -- don't worry.. In reply to: "Kid gets Xbox 360, loses mind"

  December 30, 2009

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• Well, honestly, an added module on metasploit, and brining attention to the issue does help -- he's just wrong in making it look like an IIS bug.
  
  Basically, if 50% or 70% (whatever it was) of IIS servers out there have been missonfigured to allow this attack vector, then someone testing their security using readily available tools would find out about it and make the change. Just brining awareness to it means that more admins will know better. Dialogue is good -- the propensity to portray things as "MS sucks -- I found a security bug in their stuff" is the attention-seeking part. In reply to: "Microsoft rebuts IIS vulnerability claims"

  December 30, 2009

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• pretty much says it all.. In reply to: "Apple wins appeal in earbud hearing-loss lawsuit"

  December 30, 2009

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• The 'vulnerability' requires Write and Execute permissions in the same directory.
  
  From MS: "This is not the default configuration for IIS and is contrary to all of our published best practices." In reply to: "Microsoft rebuts IIS vulnerability claims"

  December 30, 2009

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• @ mattumanu -- I agree with you -- revenue sharing with sites like Muziik is a good idea for the record labels. But how can the record labels know about each such site that springs up, offering their content? Is it not incumbent on the site owner to take permission before realizing commercial gain using content they don't own?
  
  @ timetogetill7 -- what's your point?
  
  @ Sausagebiscuit -- you're justified in having your preferences. The content owners are similarly justified in picking the terms under which they sell/license their content. Just as they cannot force you to buy under unacceptable terms, you cannot force them to sell under terms they don't agree to. This content wasn't licensed to be used this way. If there was any ambiguity, the letter from the record labels would have cleared it up. After that, the kid is in the wrong. In reply to: "Teen Muziic founder chastised by Vevo"

  December 29, 2009

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• You don't think content owners should get paid for their content? In reply to: "Teen Muziic founder chastised by Vevo"

  December 29, 2009

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• You can always complain about the ones you think are bad. This would be bad law -- the govt. or the courts shouldn't be able to tell you that you can't watch porn. Worse -- the way it is phrased it too vague and open to interpretation. In reply to: "Microsoft, Yahoo help keep India away from porn?"

  December 29, 2009

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