Dream Job at Microsoft Too Good to Be True? Yep.
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| Microsoft's brand has also been misused by typo-squatters and in an ongoing
| lottery scam, in which victims are told they have won a cash prize for using
| Microsoft's products. In the lottery scam, victims are told they must pay tax
| charges or handling fees before they can claim their prize. The prize money
| never comes, but the thieves abscond with their phony fees, Kornblum said.
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| This is the first conviction Microsoft has seen in a fake job scam, Kornblum
| said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145308/dream_job_at_microsoft_too_good_to_be_true_yep.html
Wackypedia blocks US Department of Justice IP for "vandalism"
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| WIKIPEDIA HAS BLOCKED an IP address which purportedly belongs to the US
| Department of Justice, after at least two attempts to edit an article were
| deemed “vandalism”.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/29/wackypedia-blocks-department
Related:
Microsoft, The European Union, and the United States: A Statement by the AAI
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| The AAI comments on the European Court of First Instance's upholding of the
| EC's Microsoft decision, taking the USDOJ to task for poor diplomacy and
| mistaken policy in its criticism of the EC.
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http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/Archives/miceu3.ashx
Microsoft Finds Legal Defender in Justice Dept.
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| Nearly a decade after the government began its landmark effort to break
| up Microsoft, the Bush administration has sharply changed course by
| repeatedly defending the company both in the United States and abroad
| against accusations of anticompetitive conduct, including the recent
| rejection of a complaint by Google.
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| In the most striking recent example of the policy shift, the top
| antitrust official at the Justice Department last month urged state
| prosecutors to reject a confidential antitrust complaint filed by
| Google that is tied to a consent decree that monitors Microsoft's
| behavior. Google has accused Microsoft of designing its latest
| operating system, Vista, to discourage the use of Google's desktop
| search program, lawyers involved in the case said.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/business/10microsoft.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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