Monday, July 1, 2002

REMAINING U.S. CEOs MAKE A BREAK FOR IT Band of Roving Chief Executives Spotted Miles from Mexican Border Unwilling to wait for their eventual indictments, the 10,000 remaining CEOs of public U.S. companies made a break for it yesterday, heading for the Mexican border, plundering towns and villages along the way, and writing the entire rampage off as a marketing expense. [SatireWire.com] Very funny and all too true, in a twisted sort of way...mj 4:06:15 PM

EULA gives (MS) admin privileges ...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." ...Instead, Microsoft has just assumed the right to attack your computer and surreptitiously install code of its choosing. You will not be warned; you will not be offered an opportunity examine the download or refuse it. MS will simply connect remotely and install what it will, or install it secretly when you contact them. This means MS will have administrator privileges on your personal computer... [The Reg US] The ELUA, a documnet prone to abuse, and in the hands of MS a tool for extending the embrace. What I object to is the idea that software companies are not responsible for their screwups. For too long we have tolerated too many mistakes. Quality needs to be a concern again. MS simply wants to control your computer, and they want the right to anything you might have on the machine. In their case, the RIAA efforts to destroy 'fair use' fits the MS desire to extend control over your computer. It's a marrige made in hell....mj 3:06:59 PM

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