That's actually a good point (DOA). I forgot to mention that in my post below. It's weird your store did that for free, we charged $29 for ours, but this was late 2005-2007.

I realize this is an old article, but at my store (and others in the area) this was $29 service that you would have to pay for, not something they just did. It sounds like this store was just throwing it in for their customers. We would create the restore disks and run an optimization. We would also (at least I would when I was moved up to GS) clean up all the crap that was preloaded on the machine. If the customer purchased AV/AM protection, we would load that too, update it and setup a scan schedule. Of course most of this was automated :-).

Except you are forgetting about the part where you are supposed to turn it in to the police.

Except, legally he was supposed to hand it over to the Police. I don't get why this is so hard for people to understand.

Thank you! Everyone seems to be missing this point.

It basically said the food/beverages served there (Chilli's) are known to the state of CA to contain things that cause cancer. Yet, I still eat there anyway. Weird.

From the only comment in the article: "Ron said on Wednesday, 30 September 2009 Of course no one responded to your request for comments, this was decided over a year ago http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/05/court-smacks-autodesk-affirms-right-to-sell-used-software.ars So much for breaking news."

I think the best thing was seeing it at Chillis. I don't think it's a joke: http://tiny.cc/CXTOa

You might also want to try SuperAntiSpyware!. It catches a lot of things MalwareBytes doesn't.

I'm not sure what the issue is. When I opened Digsby today, it updated and with in a few mins it displayed a message directing me to a FAQ. It clearly tells you how to disable the feature if you don't want it.

I was looking into using my phone wire as pull for Cat-5 and wondered about this too. I wasn't able to see about the in wall stuff, but in the attic, they used very few staples, mostly at the point before it heads down the wall. I remember I was able to pull on the one for my room and it seemed to be free in the wall. If he's serious about this, he should at least investigate.

I see what you did there...