**__MIke__**

The crappy new EULA aside, you *are* aware that your IP address *is*
included in *every* internet transmission made by your computer in any
operating system, right?

That incldues several requests for every single web page and every time you
send an email or post/receive messages to/from a newsgroup.

-Mike

P.S. Your IP is 70.25.71.196, you are using Rogers cable internet and are
located somewhere in the vicinity of ottawa in Canada. Everyone having your
IP address and related information has been a fact of life since Windows 95
and is not likely to change anytime soon. You can check everyone's ip
address by viewing the properties of their messages and determine ther basic
location by any number of free tools on the web. Mine is 24.4.175.239, I use
Comcast and am located somewhere in the vincinty of San Rafael in the U.S..

-Mike


"Jeff" <S.Cerevesiae@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:%23I9165v8GHA.1252@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> LOL
> Yup; every single boot-up-phonin home.
> Ahh; and correct again; most people don't care.
> Bubbles are nice though
>
> Jeff
>
> "Eddy" <_blank_@ddress.internet.net> wrote in message
> news:%23H7Nz2v8GHA.2120@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> If the screws keep getting tighter, does that mean I'm getting screwed?
>>
>> I've read the new EULA. It's very vague. How does one "assign to a
>> device". Write the device a love note? Holler the devices' name from a
>> roof-top. Have one's secretary point? It doesn't make any sense.
>>
>> And while the EULA say I can "reassign" [how's that done?] "one time". It
>> doen't say I can do it more than once. It says I can do it one time. The
>> EULA doesn't cover if I should do it two times. It doesn't say either
>> way.
>>
>> It's a crazy unworkable EULA that probably should be ignored. Buy your
>> copy, use it on one computer at a time and ignore the rest. Be
>> circumscript should you have to phone in.
>>
>> And how can the report of an IP address not be "personal information"? To
>> all intents and purposes, the IP address does ID a person. Sheesh.
>>
>> Do you realize how many times in a week your Windows Vista will check on
>> you and even report on you? Every time you boot and maybe then some.
>> Everytime you update and maybe then some. Every time WGA Notifications
>> decides and it *will* be including a personally identifiable IP address.
>> And with a new restriction per every few months, who knows what is coming
>> down the Microsoft pipe? Forced upgrades? Lock you out from your private
>> files? (whoops .. they already will do that) What else do you have
>> planned for your customers, Microsoft? Why not just give us all the
>> possible restrictions you have planned right now and so we can decide if
>> we even want to stay on the Microsoft train?
>>
>> Most of us, like me, are little froggies in a slowly heating pot of
>> water. It's beginning to steam now, but we don't want to get out 'cause
>> the dancing bunnies are so pretty.
>>
>> We're all so apathetic. Lame easy pushovers who accept everything that is
>> shoved at them. 'Especially me.
>>
>> Microsoft, do want me to spit or swallow?
>