stevev6 wrote: Yeah, that's true, but they are trying to monetize this by selling to enterprises. I doubt it. Such terms are necessary to allow them to actually perform the service that they do without someone suing them for that very implementation. stevev6 wrote: It is my belief that if you discussed a patent using that technology, it immediately becomes public domain. Perhaps you meant something like a trade secret. A patent is already in the public domain and exposure of such means nothing. But the it is pointless anyways. If you want security then your choices are to provide your own security or rely on the security of someone else. There is no other choice.

Pete O'Hanlon wrote: I hung my yup, very narrowly Hi Pete, Would that I had the intelligence, and intuition, to understand the nuances of how you hang your yup :) best, Bill It keeps me humble to think there's more bacteria in my gut than neurons in my brain, and that twenty trillion neutrinos pass through one hand a second, and that the average mattress contains 20 million bedbugs each of whom shits once per hour.

I can't reproduce this problem. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP