[ale] your new administrator, bill gates

[Geoffrey]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25956.html

If you caught our recent coverage  of the Windows Media Player trio of 
security holes you may have followed a link to the TechNet download site 
for a patch, or you might have activated Windows Update. If you did the 
former (though, oddly, not if you did the latter), you would have been 
confronted with an End User License Agreement (EULA) stating, most 
ominously, that:

"You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and 
software protected by digital rights management ('Secure Content'), 
Microsoft may provide security related updates to the OS Components that 
will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These security 
related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure 
Content and use other software on your computer. If we provide such a 
security update, we will use reasonable efforts to post notices on a web 
site explaining the update."

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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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