"Alexander lived only five months after being diagnosed and yet his medical bill totaled nearly $250,000," Horwin said. "If you take even one-half of $250,000 and multiply it by 1.3 million people, the dollars are staggering."

Posted by GeeTee at October 17, 2002 07:02 PM | TrackBack 0

In some instances at least, the very act of explaining what has been fixed by a security patch could be construed as explaining how the security of a product could be breached, and hence could be viewed as a breach of the DMCA.
This is of course ridiculous.

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The ad, printed in black lettering on an all-white background starts out with: "Boo Hoo, People like my music--this sucks."

Posted by GeeTee at October 17, 2002 01:24 PM | TrackBack 0

``Because the pressure is off to deal with this, they've kind of done this hatchet job on their Web sites and are making no real effort to repair them,'' said Sean Moulton, a policy analyst for the group.

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"The doctor who did my scan said they'd seen some research where mice that had been scanned ran around wildly in circles counterclockwise for 10 minutes after the procedure, so I was kind of relieved that I didn't do that," the volunteer said.

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Although the ad appears to be from a "real person," similar to the Apple campaign, Microsoft said it commissioned the posting from a freelance writer who was paid for her work, although the company claims her experience was genuine. Microsoft also said that the photograph of the "convert" was actually a stock photograph.

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