oh bullshit. they pay out the nose on these no-bid cost-plus contracts and get served crap by greedy evil assholes who run these bloated leach like "defense contractors" all of which need to be seized and run scientifically and provide their services at cost. you're lucky the clowns at haliburton didn't electrocute your ass in the shower.

it's not their place to police how it's used. nor is it possible to do so.

OMG I'm quiffing in anticipation!?!?!111!

six of the most retarded science fiction films of all time.

yep. no alternative. but - patents are 20 years. shouldn't these old unix patents be expired by now or nearly so?

give me a fucking break, I'm so sick of hearing about this bullshit. There was no REASON for an investigation in the first place. You broadcast your shit in clear, it's fair game.

HTML + javascript he means. oh, and silverwhat? does he mean that thing I uninstall from every PC I go near? I've never seen or heard of anything that uses silverlight. microsoft is crazy to spend one dime on this crap. idiots abound, like all the damn fools who built web apps based on IE6 instead of real standards based solutions. those people should never be permitted to work in IT again. Also the executives and managers who greenlighted or demanded such development. Fire them all.

he can just fuck the hell off.

1. what the heck makes you think the infection IS removable? A complete format and reinstall may be needed. Most end-users (90% or more) can't do this and or can't afford to pay to have it done easily. 2. how would the ISP verify that anything had been removed if there's no network connection? I'm certainly not letting the ISP scan my boot drive. 3. There is no good solution, "computer security" when applied to clueless home users is an oxymoron, and we may be permanently fuched as far as having an open secure and private internet goes, primarily due to government's unwillingness to actually go after the perps. because it's "hard" and YET - we're spoon fed stories that IF true, would lead one to expect that their capabilities would make it relatively easy for them to locate bot-net operators.

So now WE WANT ISPs to be snooping on packets leaving your computer, determining what they are, and acting based on that? It's Catch-22 what I'd like to see is the full weight of government going after bot net authors and controllers as if it were a real threat to national security, because for fuchs sake, IT IS.

how does this man think they'd have shipped windows 7 without having spent the time to develop vista.