[ale] weird mouse problem

[Jim Kinney]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com>wrote:

> On Thu September 9 2010, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> > Eventually, though, $WORK wanted her to take a training class that only
> > worked on Windows.  Next, they sent home training cd's that only ran
> under
> > windows.  (or Mac, but they didn't know that).  Ultimately, if mom was
> > retired, we wouldn't have had that situation, but as long as "Mom" has
> > other influences like $WORK or $STORE offering all manner of things that
> > take tech-nerds like ourselves to be present to run (or are not able to
> run
> > at all), Linux is not the superior OS for the situation at hand for $USER
> > who is in that situation.
>
> yes. I belong to this thing called Mypoint/bonusmail. Every so often then
> send
> out an email with coupons that you can print/redeem.. Well guess what, they
> don't support Linux, so I can't print any coupons.
>

So an _email_ is sent that can't be printed except from a windows machine.
What kind of mcnasty is embedded in that email besides a gazillion tracking
cookies, and your SSN and shoe size...

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