Eddy

Yup, I realize. But the anonymizer option is there should I want to take it.


"**__MIke__**" <Mike@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
news:FvSdnccYb-pBOqvYnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d@comcast.com...
> 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?
>>
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