your lack of knowledge about this doesn't mean you're right. It's easy to automate. You dont need third party software, microsoft includes it out of the box. Money should be spent on knowledge not tools.

These pranks of blackpaper, or endless loops worked wonders "back in the day", but by now most large companies have automated faxes. Inbound faxes are delivered to your corporate work email as a nicely readable PDF file. With the rise of VOIP, a lot of companies have phased out fax machines on the recieving end. Most PBX system natively accept faxing even. Even a small business can save money by using an old pc and a modem for receiving, nobody likes the flimsy and expensive fax paper. This would cause more problems for tying up their fax lines than on their fax equipment themselves I'd imagine.

So you want me to have to carry around a second device because some dev is too lazy to isolate the e-mail stored on my phone from everything else?

when you save an attachment, you can save it to other areas of your phone than the default. otherwise you wouldnt be able to do anything with the data itself on your phone. There is no "work only" section of your phone, hence the entire phone has to treated as potentially storing data

Wow. Everything is about media companies? do they meet in underground parking lots at 3am in the shadows?

While I agree that that wga is stupid and annoying, it takes less than 5 mins to solve over the phone.
- call them
- type in the authorization id on keypad
- answer their question that it's installed on only 1 pc
- type in key they give you

yeah its a pain once, but pretty sure that 5 mins is less than the time it takes to even find a wga crack and ensure it stays working.

the real problem is that the mfg of notebook customized the windows install and locked it to the bios. the key on the bottom of the notebook is actaully a dummy key,its called SLP keys.

The culprit wasn't microsoft. The motherboard manufacturer took an off the shelf network card (vendor x), modified it slightly and used it on the motherboard (vendor y). When you use the customized motherboard drivers from the cd or their website it works great. The problem is, microsoft's windows update does a search and says hey that looks like vendor x card, hmmm they have sent us version 2.0 and your drivers say they're version 1.0... do you want to do the update?

Microsoft only organizes drivers that vendors gives them, they dont make any of them. To repeat, Microsoft has NOTHING to do with the drivers listed on Windows Update.

You really should blame either vendor x for giving microsoft crap drivers or vendor y for customizing the drivers.

Also to note, this is a feature that can be disabled entirely or for a specific driver.
As well, there is a VERY easy method to roll back a driver install. I've had drivers do this before (even from the manufacturer) and you can simply rollback to the previous driver (stored on your computer), reboot and problem solved.

youch, which ISPs are these? I hope not any I use. Is there a list of what ISPs do this, they should be shamed. I know some will cut you off if you use waaay too much bandwidth but didn't think they cut you off if you used BT!

Technology is a moving target. You did your clients a huge disservice by advising them without knowing what you were talking about fully. Regardless of your personal tastes or your biases you should always advise clients the best course of action for THEM. If you can't, then say it. You also might want to keep yourself upto date on current technology - powershell has been been out since 2006 and created quite a buzz by both windows and *nix people. I feel this is one of the main issues with people in the computer industry charging money for their services.....

citation needed. i say that in half jest, but i'm actually curious, do you know more about this?

As the viewer, it restricts you in ways you listed. But devil's advocate - I would also say it protects content authenticity....and prevents the ability for it to ensure it's legit from the distributors point of view. Right now this is all about the viewers ability to manipulate the data into other forms. but pretend you authored a bluray disk.... This encryption ensured that what you created is properly attached to you and hasnt been changed/edited.

Internet Explorer uses msn.com as the default page.... you'd be surprised at how many people dont change it, especially those who would install the alex toolbar (where the generate the stats)

It's not Microsoft that did that. it's the OEM manufacturer themselves. (hp/dell/toshiba/acer etc etc). They usually use a generic product key that's bios locked to a set of hardware. that's all oem vendor, not microsoft. Blame the right company :P

I'll be the guy who says $368,640/TB/YR :)