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Comment Re:No (Score 1) 671

The problem with trying to boot to an image or live CD is that where I used to work all computers were set to boot to the hard drive first and had a long and non simple BIOS password so that users couldn't change any settings.
I'd agree with you that he should get his own machine.

Comment Re:Personal Hotmail test (Score 1) 182

Even if you had started receiving spam it wouldn't have proved MS had sold your address. Spammers also send to random names at a domain and may have just chanced on yours. Obviously the chances of that would be less if your email is fdhdf73gdfj932as@hotmail.com (apologies if that is your address and you start getting spam)

Ah but since I didn't start receiving Spam it pretty well probes that MS doesn't sell addresses, which I never really believed any way.

Comment Personal Hotmail test (Score 1) 182

I've been running a test of the Hotmail system for about the last ten years. Not of their Spam detection, when it started even Spam Assassin was a baby, but of an assertion I saw on an online forum that MS sold email addresses to spammers.
I am happy to say that I have never gotten any junk mail at all in that inbox.
I have used the account to send test messages to a malfunctioning mail server and to register MS products but that's really all. The only mail I get there now is from MS itself, which could be considered Spam but that would be stretching things a bit.

Comment Personal experience (Score 1) 467

As a sometime composer and arranger I was faced with an overly broad IP policy at a previous employer.
The way it was written they could have claimed just about anything that I did including recordings. I asked for a clarification of that clause in my contract and they admitted that it wasn't even legal in my state. It might be worth checking with a lawyer.

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