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Re: [News] UK Businesses Use Windows, Get Spied On

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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Peter Hayes ] on Friday 06 October 2006 17:41 \__
> 
>> In <87k63dbuvx.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxx> Hadron Quark  wrote:
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> 
>>>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 06 October 2006 08:29 \__
>>>>
>>>>> begin  oe_protect.scr
>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>> Spyware threat is growing claims PCWB
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>| One in two UK businesses have been affected by spyware while 14
>>>>>>| per cent admitted they were unaware of spyware and its effects,
>>>>>>| according to research published today by PC World Business (PCWB).
>>>>>>| 
>>>>>>| [...]
>>>>>>| 
>>>>>>| "We're more worried about the 54 per cent of businesses that
>>>>>>| report no affect." "The nature of spyware is that it is mostly
>>>>>>| invisible and it
>>>>> 
>>>>> effect, not affect ... don't these folk have an editor?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, a second pair of eyes could easily overlook this. And
>>>> spellchecker won;t help. To be fair, all those isolated typos are no
>>>> big deal and I have
>>> 
>>> BWahahahahahahha.
>>> 
>>> A spell checker won't help? How the hell would you know? You haven't
>>> figured out how to use one yourself.
>>> 
>>> That's going straight into my fortune files!
>> 
>> I don't understand. A spellchecker isn't a grammar checker or a context
>> checker. The misuse of "affect" and "effect" is very common but wouldn't
>> occur if we had a decent education system that taught the basics.
> 
> In that one circumstances I must have been typing with my mind focused on
> something else. 

Ah - my apologies.  I thought it was killed & yanked directly from the
other text, not copy-typed.  I withdraw my remark, as its clearly silly.

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| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
Q:	Heard about the <ethnic> who couldn't spell?
A:	He spent the night in a warehouse.

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