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Submission + - SPAM: Guide to Vacuum Cleaner Repair

lovely care writes: "n most areas, there is a person nearby who can fix your broken vacuum cleaner. Whether they specialize in vacuum cleaner repairs only or if they do repairs on a wide variety of motor driven home appliances, they should be able to easily fix your broken machine."
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Hasbro Using DMCA on Facebook Game Apps 210

Boggle Addict writes "Rather than participating in the online gaming market, Hasbro is suppressing it with litigation. Scrabulous, a Scrabble imitation, is already fighting to prevent being shut down. Today, Hasbro sent out DMCA notices to other apps on Facebook, including Bogglific, a Boggle imitation. Copyright law has has always held very limited protections for games. This may be opening a can of worms for Hasbro.

Comment Installed (shipped) or in use? (Score 0) 365

We've heard this song and dance before and smacks of special accounting practices. It is true that Corporate entities will have thousands of "installs," but it is also true that they did not pay full price for all those licenses. I am not inclined to call those captive users a fully functional Windows user base. I suppose if one counts every Windows version installed since Windows 286....

[Nearly] every PC shipped has an OS installed but does that mean all of those OS are in use? How many get stripped off and replaced? Upgraded?

I suppose if one counts every Windows version installed since Windows 286....

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