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Catching up on old business....

Gotta laugh:

"I don't think that I can summarize those," Allchin said. "I'm not an attorney."


That's Jim Allchin, Microsoft vice president and the man in charge of their Windows section, admitting that Microsoft broke laws. He just wouldn't specify which laws, which is fair since it's not his job to point out to anyone what MS did or might have done. Still, it's amusing, almost as amusing as....

"I couldn't do what you've got here [remove Internet Explorer from the Windows operating system]," said Allchin, suffering from a severe cold. "Forget about any business thing. Technically I just couldn't do it."


And in the next sentence of the story, Allchin admits that the company "has done no studies to see if it could be done." He also conveniently forgets that the DOJ demonstrated that IE can successfully be removed from Windows.



Good grief!

A 5ft 1in firewoman who is too short to carry out some of her duties yesterday claimed sex discrimination after she was taken off active duty.


The story recounts how she can't handle much of the fire equipment, and that the East Sussex Fire Authority "failed to accomodate her height when designing equipment in the operation of fire appliances." Some of the "equipment" includes the emergency keys in lifts (elevators, that is), which meant she was unable to respond to any emergencies involving lifts.



Sorry, but the physical inability to do somethings does not constitute discrimination, period. And if you can't work the key and can't handle a standard emergency, you can't do the job.

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