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Comment Re:Sweden deny they'll be sending JA to the US... (Score 1) 847

Swedish government ministers are not allowed to comment on these matters or promise anything like that in a specific case. There's an article in English Wikipedia about it: Ministerstyre, Minister rule. The police and lawyers can comment on it, though. So when you say "Sweden", you are talking about different authorities in Sweden.

Comment Re:Wonderful? At What Cost? (Score 1) 330

The OEM version is sold without support. That's the main difference compared to the retail version (in Sweden, at least).

I paid $140 for it. I would probably never have bought the full version at $240. (These are prices in Sweden, Swedish taxes included.) If I remember correctly, the box doesn't say anything about me having to sell the computer and not use it myself. It does say that I have to put the OEM license sticker on the computer that I install the software on. I guess Microsoft realise that they can't enforce such a contract here.

Comment Re:Yay , bring on the spam (Score 1) 346

I think you're confusing personal name and public username. There are probably a hundred thousand people named "John Jackson", but only one with the public username "john.jackson". If you search for "John Jackson", you will get a list of people named "John Jackson", and each entry will be linked to facebook.com/publicusername (if they've picked one). That public username can be used for email.

Comment Re:Yay , bring on the spam (Score 4, Insightful) 346

Your Facebook email is based on your public username.

What this also means is that if you have someone's "public username", you don't need to see their profile to learn their email address. You can get the public username from any search or friend list, concatenate "@facebook.com" to it and start spamming.

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