I work for a McD's franchisee as the technical person. We moved to chip and pin this year, even in our drive thrus. Processing time is less than 4 seconds for chip and pin. Chipolte was way stupid for doing this. They are responsible for all these fraudulent charges because of the liability changes last year.

Seeing as I've made maybe 3 or 4 post in my entire time here, I'm not sure what "available evidence" you're referring to. There isn't any, or very little. Since I wasn't addressing you anyway, and there was no reason for you to come on here and say that to me, go fuck yourself.

You come bouncing back on here to insult me directly, but you failed completely to answer my point. If ISPs can save money by cutting liability insurance, this is NOT going to lead to lower prices for you, me, or anyone else. This is a flat out lie. And you KNOW it. Your entire post is just a smokescreen to try and bury the issue at hand. All this is trying to do is loosen regulation on personal information so when the ISP inevitably mishandles it, there's no recourse or punishment. This has no benefit to me and I do NOT support it. This is a giveaway to business, and the customers of said business will not benefit in any way. Recent history is filled with these examples. Talk about unbelievably dumb and uneducated, and lacking manners or class. I've read your other posts. Look in the mirror lately?

What a load of rubbish this is. These companies aren't going to cut prices if they get cheaper insurance. They're going to pocket the money and stiff their customers by mishandling their information. How fucking stupid do you think we are, anyway?

There is another barge in the harbor in Portland, Maine http://www.pressherald.com/news/Myserty_Portland_barge_and_San_Francisco_barge_appear_linked_.html

Local media reported here that the ship was in for service at Boothbay, Maine before this occured. The captain was informed that the ship's framing timbers were rotted and needed replacement. They opted to not have the repairs performed and sailed off into a hurricaine.

I have seen Microsoft Security Essentials listed in my WSUS server for a couple of months now. I also have been installing it in place of whatever free AV was in place on systems I work on for friends and family. The software is lightweight and works well, and I have no problem with Microsoft doing this. The mess that is the Internet is partially thier fault, it's fair they should help clean it up.

Or is it that non-commercial violations of copyrights aren't that upsetting, but commercial violations are?

I don't remember a great many people rushing to the defense of the guy trying to sell Beatle's music by violating copyrights, even though he was going against a big label.

The UNIX systems are being replaced (yes, I admit I work at one of the new stores in the US). The new system is NewPOS. http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/02/14/229409/mcdonalds-takes-epos-system-in-house.htm It's a Windows Server 2003 environment with Windows XP embedded workstations. So I doubt they'd be interested in SCO.

Subscription music DRM.

...until you consider the security ramifications.