SONY Music CD's
UPDATE: Sony has issued a full list of CD's containing XP protection.

Check out the link above for a story on how SONY is secretly installing virus like programs on your computer to control what you do with the audio CD's you play there.

No more SONY CD's for us.

Here's another story at the Seattle Times

Detailed info at Security Mentor Site
- posted by Bill @ 8:11 PM

 
More better grammar
The TV news had a brief article on grammar. At the end of the show they highlighted that they had just then made a mistake between fewer and less. I won't admit I didn't know the difference but a quick search on Google gave this at EDUFIND.COM:

To show difference: more, less, fewer + than

Examples:

With countable nouns: more / fewer

• Eloise has more children than Chantal.
• Chantal has fewer children than Eloise.
• There are fewer dogs in Cardiff than in Bristol
• I have visited fewer countries than my friend has.
• He has read fewer books than she has.

With uncountable nouns: more / less

• Eloise has more money than Chantal.
• Chantal has less money than Eloise.
• I spend less time on homework than you do.
• Cats drink less water than dogs.
• This new dictionary gives more information than the old one.

So, the rule is:

MORE + nouns that are countable or uncountable
FEWER + countable nouns
LESS + uncountable nouns

Lots of pages on the web with grammer information, tests and tutorials...

Also see English4Today.

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I work better with crutches. The old brain cells have had too much Morse Code and they don't lock in pure facts anymore. Probably never did but that's beside the point. It was a good day when I learned the sweet stuff crutch for separating dessert (two s'es - like sweet stuff) from desert. Now I see a crutch for fewer and less Fewer is closer to countable and less is closer to uncountable. What ever works...
- posted by Bill @ 12:43 PM