Rick Engebretson <eng at pinenet.com> wrote: > > They are getting to be some nasty cowboys at MS. The writer of the > article suggested the new MS browser could edit another's web page ?? > But it seemed more like the browser just kept trying to redirect the > user ?? Yeah, to me, it looks a lot like MSNBC's thing where you can ``click on a word -- any word -- and get the definition.'' I know that software was widely touted as spyware (I think Newsweek even had an article on it). This stuff is probably the same. I guess the C|Net article on the same subject said that Microsoft was not the only organization that could do this. Supposedly, you can do the same thing on your intranet, though I don't think I know of many organizations that would have much use for it. I wonder what sort of a link Microsoft makes for `Linux' ;-) Still, this does have echoes of `1984,' and they did manage to piss off The Journal, so who knows what the future holds for MS. I've haven't been in an active Linux Advocate mode for some time, mostly due to concerns about how most distributions leave far too many services open. I installed RedHat 7.1 on a system today and was happy to see that it included some pretty good firewalling rules (though it still turned on a lot of services, but they were only available to localhost). If I hear more strange noises coming from that corner of the continent, I think I'm going to become much more active about getting Linux going wherever possible. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ General Failure reading / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ John Dvorak \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010607/1a7aef67/attachment.pgp