[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Evil Joe" Schmuckatelli) writes:
>On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 01:17:18 UTC, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mikus Grinbergs) wrote:
>> I do not use pirated software.
>> Also, I do not intend to amass, from the net, music
>> whose copyright is held by "large businesses".
>>
>> Looking at my profile directory, I found a "new-to-me"
>> file called 'downloads.rdf'.
>I'm not seeing that file. However, I did notice a file in the bin directory
>called "timebombgen.exe"...
That file has been there for many man version... since at least .9.4
I belive it is there to remind you that you are running a beta and
that a new release is probably out. Haven't you had that happen?
It takes you to the mozilla site when you start it.
>> It seems to me this file
>> would be __IDEAL__ to "forward" to software publishers
>> and/or music publishers, so they could check up on
>> whether I had failed to pay them for downloading any
>> 'Intellectual Property' whose copyright they claim.
I believe it is there to mirror hte behavior of internet explorer.
Charles
>So zero out the file and write-protect it.
> "Of course not! Listen, Zip -- EVIL spelled backwards
> is LIVE -- and we all want to do that!"
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Charles R. Hunter
Director, Physics Computer Network
Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED]
