Yay for sexual innuendo!
To be a little more serious, Microsoft has finally given up on the Yahoo! deal. Of course, this isn’t a total loss, especially for Microsoft. You see, the next time stock plunges at Y! there will be a bigger step to have a MS+Y! deal and the next time, it actually might go through.
As usual, Balmer made the letter public and wow, these people can really write some good letters!
Read it here.
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Hopefully this is something Microsoft will not continue to update and release. The idea seems good, but it is really just bad news for pirates everywhere.
The small plug-in basically is able to bypass your normal MS security techniques (password decrypting, etc.) and sends information straight to the F.B.I. so you can get V& faster.
This is also able to set a scary precedent. Say you’re suspected for terrorism or something and the partyvan breaks down your door, takes your box, plugs in their flash drive and discovers that you aren’t running Windows! Only a terrorist would keep their information in a format that doesn’t let Microsoft give data to the law, right? So as much as I dislike *nix, I’m going to have to go with them on this one.
Please, MS, don’t continue this *puppy eyes*
We’ve all seen them, those sites that make you wonder what the hell people were thinking when the made it. Of course, it’s not always the webmaster’s fault but the user base of that website that makes you want to eat your keyboard and throw it up on them. So now, without further delay and in no particular order, I give you those websites:
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