"This is the vital point: Bell Labs was the pure-research division of AT&T, which as a regulated utility gave its computer researchers free rein out of fears about regulators looking askance at a telecommunications firm dabbling in other areas."
But what does turning it off DO? "I can't crash in an airplane if I don't fly" ??? All the steps you take are fine. I take them, too. But I leave the computer on continuously, (with monitor set to go into power-saving mode or turned off), because I figure if it's vulnerable when I'm NOT looking at it, it's just as vulnerable when I AM looking.
What difference does it make whether you're in bed or sitting at the computer? Are you usually detecting access to open ports (in OR out) while you're surfing, etc? No. If you think that by "turn[ing] the net off at night" you are safer...
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I am old enough to know the history. My problem was that I had to read that sentence five times to get what he was trying to say.
Still trying to parse this line of code:
"This is the vital point: Bell Labs was the pure-research division of AT&T, which as a regulated utility gave its computer researchers free rein out of fears about regulators looking askance at a telecommunications firm dabbling in other areas."
Avast antivirus caught it for me (using Firefox)
A friend also had a particularly stubborn version. I replaced her AVG antivirus with Avast, ran a scan & it fixed it.
And trying to call that T.W. number results in nothing but busy-signals.
...you Crazy Mexicans
...that wasn't his toothpick.
Even better is the story about Roseanne's va-junior.
Noun: Disease 1. An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning.
I think (true) depression would qualify, being a chemical imbalance.
I think he means that *I* could claim that all that goat porn I downloaded was 'inserted' by my ISP, that I am not a pervert.
it's not trolling, he was making irrelevant statement in order to impress and you called him on an error which showed just how much he really knows.
But what does turning it off DO?
"I can't crash in an airplane if I don't fly" ???
All the steps you take are fine. I take them, too. But I leave the computer on continuously, (with monitor set to go into power-saving mode or turned off), because I figure if it's vulnerable when I'm NOT looking at it, it's just as vulnerable when I AM looking.
What difference does it make whether you're in bed or sitting at the computer? Are you usually detecting access to open ports (in OR out) while you're surfing, etc? No. If you think that by "turn[ing] the net off at night" you are safer...
Tried BOINK, hated it, restored SETI.
Now I guess I'll use that "Raunchy Teens Doing Your Dad" screensaver that porn4putzs.com graciously uploaded to my computer the other day.
How about a drop of water? A ball of mercury?
Then there are a few companies (Symantec/Norton being the best example) who don't allow them to play that shit.
> Oh, by the way, the whole "pagan" movement > mostly has to do with trying to justify orgies So who's the Geek now?
Makes things much simpler. Easier to parse.