-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Interesting Articles

I am already paying those  taxes on some purchases from some of the 
biggies.... have been all along.
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From: "Bashfulbob" <bashfulbob@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Interesting Articles


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20050613-1712-ca-borders-internettaxes.html
SAN FRANCISCO - A little-noticed appellate court ruling against Borders 
Group Inc. sets a precedent that could enable California to force some major 
Internet retailers to start paying state sales tax for books, music and 
other goods sold online to state residents, analysts said Monday.
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http://www.assetmetrix.com/forms/index.asp?template_id=13&intNew=79

OTTAWA, Canada, June 14, 2005 - AssetMetrix, the leading provider of 
on-demand business intelligence for IT, today announced the findings of the 
most recent report from its research division, AssetMetrix Research Labs. 
The report findings indicate Microsoft Windows 2000 remains a widely 
deployed operating system in corporate IT environments, losing only four 
percentage points in popularity from 52% in Q4-2003 to 48% in Q1-2005, while 
Windows XP rose in popularity from 6.6% to 38%. Mainstream support for 
Windows 2000 is set to expire on June 30, 2005.

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http://news.com.com/The+slow+road+to+Windows+XP/2100-1016_3-5746046.html?part=rss&tag=5746046&subj=news



Use of Microsoft Windows XP has grown inside corporations, but a new study 
shows that nearly half of business PC's are still running the older Windows 
2000.



The study, released Tuesday by AssetMetrix underscores a recurring problem 
for Microsoft: While the company spends billions of dollars developing new 
versions of Windows and its Office desktop software, many customers are slow 
to give up older versions of software that's paid for and works just fine.

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http://whurleyvision.blogspot.com/2005/06/self-defending-networks-aggressive.html



Self Defending Networks, Aggressive Network Self-Defense, and Vigilantes on 
the net



Today is the one-year anniversary of my interview with NewScientist magazine 
on what, at the time, was the highly controversial subject of 
"countermeasures" technologies. The interview was one of many I did with 
Symbiot in response to the March 2004 release of the company's iSIMS 
(intelligent Security Infrastructure Management Software) technology.

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http://www.lifehack.org/



There is a good online book available for reverse engineering software: 
'This book is an attempt to provide an introduction to reverse engineering 
software under both Linux and Microsoft Windows. Since reverse engineering 
is under legal fire, the authors figure the best response is to make the 
knowledge widespread...'"



http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigmil/RevEng/



Abstract



This book is an attempt to provide an introduction to reverse engineering 
software under both Linux and Microsoft Windows©. Since reverse engineering 
is under legal fire, the authors figure the best response is to make the 
knowledge widespread. The idea is that since discussing specific reverse 
engineering feats is now illegal in many cases, we should then discuss 
general approaches, so that it is within every motivated user's ability to 
obtain information locked inside the black box. Furthermore, 
interoperability issues with closed-source proprietary systems are just 
plain annoying, and something needs to be done to educate more open source 
developers as to how to implement this functionality in their software.



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