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TurboTax DRM Writes to Your Boot Sector?!
ltwally writes "As reported on Slashdot (amongst other sites) recently, the latest version of TurboTax is laden with DRM software. Even worse, however, is that it apparently writes to your hard drive's boot-sector , as reported at Extreme Tech here. As I'm sure most Slashdotters already know, the boot-sector is often times used for silly things like boot-loaders and such. "
Maybe your wife is just dumb.
--that ain't my point and you know it, just posting a smarmy reply. Hope ya got a chubby from it. Personal tax software is a scam, it's always been buggy, but people got sucked into using it, now they are "lost" without it.
Several years ago I did a test, ran all my stuff through several different flavors of the stuff, both at home and actually paid to have tax preparers do it with their software. None of it matched, yet all the input was the same, and I got the best deal the way I did it for decades, just keep records and sit down and do it. Sometimes looking for that elusive extra 5$ deduction you miss huge other things that negate that savings and will get ya a better deal. So, if you REALLY want to find out how to do taxes, RTFM, and you don't know how long I waited to be able to say that on this forum, NOOBIE. HAHAHAH! I've gotten that SO MUCH because I'm a linux noob, it's a PLEASURE to watch the tables turned! whine whine my TAX software is not playing nice with me! boo hoo hoo, some one SAVE ME! whine snivel, and etc. Get a grip lad! My post STANDS, you DON'T need it, it's LAMER, and now you can see yet ANOTHER reason why it's bogus. You want more clues, use google.
Suit yourself, I won't use the stuff, hence, no drm issues. Gee, saved money too, what a concept! I don't use anything like that anyway. I learned to "just say no" to stupid software, or software that costs too much for what it does, or for software that thinks it owns me. Sometimes a higher tech way is the correct and intelligent way to do something, and other times it's just stupid. Really, suit yourself! I could care naught, keep complaining about "the bad man's software wrote where it wasn't supposed to, WHAT WILL I DO!" it's funny! Step back, laugh at it man, because it's true! This is one of those fun to play with non issues, unless you go way out of your way to make it an issue, and if you are that serious about it, oh well! buh bye 74x n00b! hahahahahahaha!
They didn't even know about viruses, so how could they freakin' have a word for them?!!! Let alone a proper plural form!
Stop trying to appear all erudite and shit and speak teh proper modern Engl ^H^H^H^H American as it is spoken on the internet!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Also gotta love the new congestion tax they implemented in London.