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(...) Apologies for repetition, here are my views: - There is no such thing as a natural monopoly. All true monopolies are a result of government interference that raise barriers to entry. Get rid of barriers to entry and you won't have monopolies. (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Thanks for the note. (...) I agree that the government's bizarre inaction is a cause for concern, but I don't see the link between that occurance ~15 years ago and the current over-representation in the media. (...) And they did a good job of (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) oh! OK. I totally totally totally agree with that! --Todd (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) (1) is certainly true, (2) is mostly true (there are many ATMs, including ones in stores which can not eat cards, and probably don't alert the cashier to take the card [possibly dangerous if the person using the card is a real criminal]). (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Me too. There's a good treatment of the larger subject (including the above) in Evan I. Schwartz's book _Webonomics_. --Todd (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) For the average person or script kiddle to crack a 4-digit PIN via brute force, they'd have to: (1) first actually get someone's card; and then (2) manually try out up to 10,000 combinations, and IIRC, ATM's are programmed to eat cards after a (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I like this idea. I really hope the marketting world starts to realize the value of targetted advertising. I would happily fill out a fairly detailed survey if I felt that it's use would be to make sure I received only mail I am interested in. (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Perhaps part of the problem is the relative weights attached to various elements of strength of passwords. I would generally agree that a 4 character password should not be accepted (of course I suspect most of us have a significant amount of (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Investors (...) behave (...) just (...) Two wrongs make a right? And I see lots of systems at my job that have unix, not windows. (...) I really don't want to sit and enumerate all of Microsoft's trangressions. It's a big, sprawling, complex (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) While MS may have had some anti-competitive practices, I haven't seen anything which justifies a breakup. Some thoughts of mine on some of the issues which have been raised: - MS billing vendors for a copy of Windows for every machine sold: Do (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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