Understand that before anyone had HEARD "AIG" there were problems. The Fed made deals with AIG, who, like a lot of people, pays their high-fliers with bonuses at the end of the year, rather than weekly.
Imagine that. Getting paid ONLY once a year. Once a month is hard enough. But this kinda of thing is required, due to congressional interferance. (The kind that makes Conservatives' blood boil, btw).
They make a deal with AIG, basically gutting them for profits, putting controls on them, and then recently the media gets ahold of it. OOH! What a great time to foster hatred of the rich (From whom we get jobs, btw). The state-run media comes in and calls them names, puffs up the hate, and soon the SEIU, an Obama-buddy union organization, is scheduling bus trips to show people where "the evil money people live" and perhaps throw some rocks.
So these people who've been working all year for a single paycheck, give that paycheck back.
What about this seems fair to you? We 'own' them, yeah. But isn't THAT even the wrong thing to do?
Why is money evil? No one ever demonstrates outside Democratic National Headquarters, George Soros' home, or the homes of dirty congressmen, ALL OF WHICH MAKE LARGE MULTIPLES OF WHAT WE DO. THEY ARE "RICH" TOO.
So what makes them right, and non-supporters of congressmen wrong?
AH! That's it.
[Guys, this is the way people have been played in every nation that's ever been taken down. Name your dictator. Stalin demonized the farmers until he had them killed. Then new people came to be farmers, who knew nothing, and almost everyone starved to death. Oh! Except for those who supported the government. WE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION HERE: WE'RE BEING PLAYED.]
Yeah, I was gonna say....will Slashdot TIP OVER and crash if we all rush to the keyboards to say "AW, dem dam pirates! They're makin' the movie guys just waste away!"
Well, there's ONE lie they can't make anymore, now, isn't it?
I've been computing since 1978. I remember CP/M. I might even have some source code. Ya know why CP/M worked? It made important parts of the computer *THE*SAME* as other manufacturers. Nowdays, that's called "The BIOS".
So each of these classically-trained business-school types will go out and make completely-different versions of the "less" command with different bells and whistles so THEY will be the "next IBM".
They're not idiots; they're mired in group-think. Isn't it time to upgrade the school curriculum again?
In 1929, we had a stock market crash, causing the Great Depression. It was huge, miserable, and something no one wants again. THOSE PEOPLE who were guiding the market were trained closer to the turn of the century with this idea:
"Any time you create a product, you immediately create the demand."
Brainless, huh? I 'create a product' every time I go to the bathroom. That doesn't mean anyone actually wants it.
Had you taken a few more minutes, you might consider something rather....game-changing.
This is one of a handful of attempts, easily and quickly fixed by the same people who brought you the OS in the first place. It's source code is open for all to see. This makes 5-6 attempts I remember since about 1995, and I've yet to see one in the wild.
Meanwhile Windows, WITHOUT SOURCE CODE still manages to add another 100,000 new viruses to the circus every month. Last I looked, 2,000,000 viruses were kept in the stable, Microsoft made billions because of the harsh environment, and so many people went to places OTHER than Microsoft for viral care, it is it's own industry.
Keep dreaming that only 12 people on the planet run Linux. You do that. Just because you only hang out with people who run Windows doesn't mean the tens-of-millions don't exist.
But DO notice that, as threats come up, fixes....not bandaids are provided for the people who were hurt. Not promises. Enjoy that circus, willya? The rest of us have work to do.
Ya know, I've seen A LOT of announcements here, like the ever-popular flexible displays that are always "just around the corner" since about 1996, but there's a reality about things like this.
1. It's not a guaranteed arrival. Nothing in here says you get, for example, to keep the use of your penis, or that you'll be able to take the medicine AND sleep at night.
2. This won't likely start a new race of uber-supermen as one might guess. What it *will* do is complicate Oylmpic candidates and other sport.
I hate to be Slashdot's wet blanket, but I'm an old man, and I've seen a LOT of these things come to nothing.
Typically one makes 2-3 satellites at a time; all are meant to be identical in case it's necessary to compare the two for repair. But completely forgetting the invention of interchangable parts, satellites seem to be *very* proprietary.
Ya think computers are bad about that? I'd rather have computers- at least they have PCI/AGP/PCI-Express busses, where satellites tend to be very unique, I'm told.
What processes *doesn't* improve when you make units from similar, interchangable parts? Would we have computers on so many desks if they weren't at least a little interchangable?
There's never been a time where something was so clear, but those of a mindset couldn't see it. It's brainwashing, but with a visual component.
Obama's clearly on the take (as if there was any question) since he's still headed to Copenhagen. I fear for the inhabitants of costal areas, since the last time a president didn't sign Kyoto, for example it "caused hurricane Katrina" (though Clinton didn't, either)
"ClimateGate" is something not uttered on several TV "News" channels; I think we're at day 14, now....still not breaking news. Strangely? Fox News, "Not a real news service" has been carrying it from day 1.
It's so telling; ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM) was just a ruse to get us to lay down our freedoms and empty our pockets to people who don't deserve it. If a political figure you love, still hasn't got it, it's easy to tell he, too, is on the take!
I'm Conservative, and I really like Newt, but I'll never cast a vote for'im, because he was a believer. It's just not about the parties anymore- it's about where a politician wants freedom to be: with the people or the state.
In Huntsville, Alabama we were building systems from the ground up, creating communication structures and protocols to add to SCADA monitoring by Vaxen. These boards and sub-boards would one day regulate the flow of natural gas in pipelines all around Chicago. That was computer work.
In Chicago, I was the 'goto guy' for a five-branch lumber yard. Sure, much of it was Windows hand-holding, but the viruses weren't engaged, yet. We were just getting on the net, and most of the work was still looked at, long-term.
My side job was creating and maintaining a supercomputer. Somewhere between Beowulf and completely-custom, our machine was to read all the nine-track tapes of every assembly-line's crash, and while watching the current run of the same line, inform people of possible crashes BEFORE it crashed, saving millions. My boss was told, "Bring this in, under-budget and under-shedule, and you'll get one of any car you like." He supposed a Testerosa. His boss says, "What color?"
Then I get called back to Evansville to care for Mom. (now 79). Computer work here is *only* work that involves cleaning viruses from Windows boxes. With a couple of exceptions, like setting up a communal web site or a couple of LEGAL spam-cannons, all the work is waste-work.
For those first two types, there's GOT to be a different parlance than the third type. The work's just so different it's not funny.
And why would I go buy one, if Google isn't listing them anymore? Are they going to be able to de-list ALL news stories, planet-wide?
Weren't those newspaper-guys the ones that used to complain how "we don't get it" and "our subscribers are too urbane to understand our coverage" and all that?
The herd's probably moving on because so many people have learned that Wikipedia can be forged in political situations. It's a herd, probably because the people that politically donate all leave at the same time.
This is consumption: you can only pull from this well so long before it's dry.
The latest incident where Wikipedia had something Limbaugh didn't say, and the 'dinosaur media', with their competence of rubber-stamping and never an investigation just ran with the story, never looking back. And, like all liberal/leftist/progressive media, the echo-chamber kicked in and it was world news.
So once again everyone trying to 'jimmy' the system left them with egg on their face. And now that Wikipedia has been granted universal "not for publishing" title, we'll have a smaller, more honest team of contributors, now that the 'journalist' schlubs are gone.
If Google no longer lists the news, I'm gonna go out and buy a newspaper? BULLSHIT!
Newspapers are soon to be rooming with the Steam Engine people and the buggy whip manufacturers. Once they (in large quantity) started telling the customers they thought wrongly, it was on the way over the hill.
And to think anything done on the internet will bring them back is LUDICROUS! Should I believe the world is flat, or Obama is crashing the economy for my benefit?
It's Linux! Why do you need to work on Mom/Dad's computer? Did they try to compile and a semicolon got in the way?
NO!
It's the crap that is the circus of Windows. Phishing, viruses, bugs they won't fix. Time to re-think.
Get them onto OpenOffice and Firefox. Let'em get used to that a couple of months. Then when you're there, put'em onto Ubuntu Linux. You and them will love it!
I support two houses here, three miles apart. I'm the only tech in either place. I've *never* had to clean out viruses, reload machines, or get to a point where "I don't know why it's doing that.". It's been at least 8 years.
They can't use Gator. They're not able to "speed their computer up where it used to be!" it never got slower. In short, all that crap out there doesn't matter.
Now, at some distant point you still WANT to remote-control the PCs, install Webmin; it's safe, secure, and very effective. And all this stuff is just simple.
Did ya really think Windows would always be the answer to every computing question? Why then, are there still viruses after 20 years?!?! Why do you still go buy something from someone else, just so you make it through the day?
I'm tellin' ya man, it's time to think about it. There's never been a better time. http://ubuntu.com/
All the current purveyors are now interested in the world's largest prime number and whether there's water on a planet four generations away. Meanwhile the religion of ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM) has them all a-twitter.
Yeah, it's dead. Science killed it. There are no futures we perceive, that we want.
Not only has he started-n-maintained something with a positive, useful effect on the global society, all he'd have to do is hate George Bush and he's IN.
Go ahead! Second his nomination! Lesser people have been given more!
This isn't Conservatism. Conservatism would never tell you what kind of: light bulb, toilet, or refrigerant you use, food-related fat you eat, or car you drive. All of these things were brought to you by Democrats, who were first to be seduced by the money of Progressives.
Losing freedoms like this isn't "progressive". It's tyranny.
Now they're talking about choosing your payscale (Barney Frank, the guy who was unable to discern the gay brother in his own home) wants to set these numbers.
Is anyone under the illusion that your pay would go UP? Spread the misery.
Time to be a citizen! Pay attention! Learn who the Conservatives are; they're neither Republican nor Democrat.
The failure of the California government and this goofball idea of yankin' people's flat-screens is a Progressive, not Conservative. Progressives aren't your friends; they just own the TV.
No, I don't think you understand; this project *is* in fact, more powerful than anything on the Mac right now. It suffers from one other problem: six months to get it to do as much as *anything* the Mac can do in one setting.
The Gimp's a good piece of software, and they've TRIED to arrange the menus to make it easier for casual users to use....but they can only go so far.
I'm not at all bothered by it's removal- it's so easy to install software now (it takes a password and mouse-clicks) that it's not really any problem!
Before I'm modded down for being Christian or thinking that science goes along with that, I have just one question to ask.
If the Mayans were such brilliant astronomers, and we should heed their warning, where was THEIR warning that their civilization would all-but-end? Why should we listen to a source that has already proven they didn't see a disaster coming?
Instead, we have lots of hoaxes of our own: PolulationBomb(TM) GlobalWarming(TM) OzoneHole(TM)...you get the idea. It's never a good idea to let people just LIVE; we have to scare them, too! Thanks liberals!
Murders happen all the time. They've even been outlawed: still happen: nefarious.
Baby ducks are born all the time: no laws about it: still happens: non-nefarious.
What's fun, though, is how, in the midst of "a Republican-caused hurricane Katrina" that a Democrat pulling National Guardsmen to help him save his $90,000 in cash DOES NOT happen all the time [sometimes it's worse!] and that's nefarious.
So nefarious, after all these years, and not getting re-elected, he finally goes to jail!
I was plucked from my career in Chicago to become Mom's caregiver, a little over 8 years ago. I'm tech support for two houses, separated by 3 miles. But in that time I've never removed a single virus, an errant program, much less malware, and when things get weird, it's because the underlying hardware is failing.
Linux. There's GOT to be a reason I keep talking about it.
Go get a copy of Ubuntu's "Karmic Koala" version of their desktop software. Install it and get used to OpenOffice instead of MS Office, Firefox instead of InternetExploder, and learn what it's like to have no unsafe places on the net. To enjoy downloaded TV at your leisure, without being denied by your OS.
Seriously: it's SO simple. It's solid. Heck, wouldn't it be cool to check out how the other folks live?
CNN routinely gets trashed by The Daily Show and John Stewart; their DECADES of siding with the democrats are very, very, very well known. Much like ABC is known for putting C4 into pickup trucks to suggest they'd blow up. These are hacks, not journalists!
I just got back from Washington DC at a huge protest. NOT ONE of these lame media outlets even reported that it happened, CNN was no different. People are raging at the takeover of liberty and these news organizations have their noses planted deeply up the DNC's ass.
The lone dissenter to these guys is Fox News; funny how 'the fringe' has a typical FOUR TIMES the ratings of this and other, lesser outlets. Can't you guys allow yourselves to see what's going on, here?
You guys learned to code! You learned to wire! You learned to internet, Python, find larger prime numbers and turn DNA into music....but you can't see the huge push to stamp out freedom? Wake up, guys!
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You'd think that's right...problem is, it's not.
Understand that before anyone had HEARD "AIG" there were problems. The Fed made deals with AIG, who, like a lot of people, pays their high-fliers with bonuses at the end of the year, rather than weekly.
Imagine that. Getting paid ONLY once a year. Once a month is hard enough. But this kinda of thing is required, due to congressional interferance. (The kind that makes Conservatives' blood boil, btw).
They make a deal with AIG, basically gutting them for profits, putting controls on them, and then recently the media gets ahold of it. OOH! What a great time to foster hatred of the rich (From whom we get jobs, btw). The state-run media comes in and calls them names, puffs up the hate, and soon the SEIU, an Obama-buddy union organization, is scheduling bus trips to show people where "the evil money people live" and perhaps throw some rocks.
So these people who've been working all year for a single paycheck, give that paycheck back.
What about this seems fair to you? We 'own' them, yeah. But isn't THAT even the wrong thing to do?
Why is money evil? No one ever demonstrates outside Democratic National Headquarters, George Soros' home, or the homes of dirty congressmen, ALL OF WHICH MAKE LARGE MULTIPLES OF WHAT WE DO. THEY ARE "RICH" TOO.
So what makes them right, and non-supporters of congressmen wrong?
AH! That's it.
[Guys, this is the way people have been played in every nation that's ever been taken down. Name your dictator. Stalin demonized the farmers until he had them killed. Then new people came to be farmers, who knew nothing, and almost everyone starved to death. Oh! Except for those who supported the government. WE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION HERE: WE'RE BEING PLAYED.]
Compared to that, the Starbucks in Mississippi is "nearby" if you walk. I mean REALLY nearby.
I'm kinda tired of the "like Earth" suggestions with 15G gravity, or oxygen with sulfuric acid or something.
Guys...really...no place close. No place suitable. Space exploration is dead only on TV.
Yeah, I was gonna say....will Slashdot TIP OVER and crash if we all rush to the keyboards to say "AW, dem dam pirates! They're makin' the movie guys just waste away!"
Well, there's ONE lie they can't make anymore, now, isn't it?
I've been computing since 1978. I remember CP/M. I might even have some source code. Ya know why CP/M worked? It made important parts of the computer *THE*SAME* as other manufacturers. Nowdays, that's called "The BIOS".
So each of these classically-trained business-school types will go out and make completely-different versions of the "less" command with different bells and whistles so THEY will be the "next IBM".
They're not idiots; they're mired in group-think. Isn't it time to upgrade the school curriculum again?
In 1929, we had a stock market crash, causing the Great Depression. It was huge, miserable, and something no one wants again. THOSE PEOPLE who were guiding the market were trained closer to the turn of the century with this idea:
"Any time you create a product, you immediately create the demand."
Brainless, huh? I 'create a product' every time I go to the bathroom. That doesn't mean anyone actually wants it.
Please, guys- Learn?
Had you taken a few more minutes, you might consider something rather....game-changing.
This is one of a handful of attempts, easily and quickly fixed by the same people who brought you the OS in the first place. It's source code is open for all to see. This makes 5-6 attempts I remember since about 1995, and I've yet to see one in the wild.
Meanwhile Windows, WITHOUT SOURCE CODE still manages to add another 100,000 new viruses to the circus every month. Last I looked, 2,000,000 viruses were kept in the stable, Microsoft made billions because of the harsh environment, and so many people went to places OTHER than Microsoft for viral care, it is it's own industry.
Keep dreaming that only 12 people on the planet run Linux. You do that. Just because you only hang out with people who run Windows doesn't mean the tens-of-millions don't exist.
But DO notice that, as threats come up, fixes....not bandaids are provided for the people who were hurt. Not promises. Enjoy that circus, willya? The rest of us have work to do.
Ya know, I've seen A LOT of announcements here, like the ever-popular flexible displays that are always "just around the corner" since about 1996, but there's a reality about things like this.
1. It's not a guaranteed arrival. Nothing in here says you get, for example, to keep the use of your penis, or that you'll be able to take the medicine AND sleep at night.
2. This won't likely start a new race of uber-supermen as one might guess. What it *will* do is complicate Oylmpic candidates and other sport.
I hate to be Slashdot's wet blanket, but I'm an old man, and I've seen a LOT of these things come to nothing.
Typically one makes 2-3 satellites at a time; all are meant to be identical in case it's necessary to compare the two for repair. But completely forgetting the invention of interchangable parts, satellites seem to be *very* proprietary.
Ya think computers are bad about that? I'd rather have computers- at least they have PCI/AGP/PCI-Express busses, where satellites tend to be very unique, I'm told.
What processes *doesn't* improve when you make units from similar, interchangable parts? Would we have computers on so many desks if they weren't at least a little interchangable?
There's never been a time where something was so clear, but those of a mindset couldn't see it. It's brainwashing, but with a visual component.
Obama's clearly on the take (as if there was any question) since he's still headed to Copenhagen. I fear for the inhabitants of costal areas, since the last time a president didn't sign Kyoto, for example it "caused hurricane Katrina" (though Clinton didn't, either)
"ClimateGate" is something not uttered on several TV "News" channels; I think we're at day 14, now....still not breaking news. Strangely? Fox News, "Not a real news service" has been carrying it from day 1.
It's so telling; ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM) was just a ruse to get us to lay down our freedoms and empty our pockets to people who don't deserve it. If a political figure you love, still hasn't got it, it's easy to tell he, too, is on the take!
I'm Conservative, and I really like Newt, but I'll never cast a vote for'im, because he was a believer. It's just not about the parties anymore- it's about where a politician wants freedom to be: with the people or the state.
Well, there are a lot of computers in Bangalore...India. Most of them seem to be starving, but they compute. :>
In Huntsville, Alabama we were building systems from the ground up, creating communication structures and protocols to add to SCADA monitoring by Vaxen. These boards and sub-boards would one day regulate the flow of natural gas in pipelines all around Chicago. That was computer work.
In Chicago, I was the 'goto guy' for a five-branch lumber yard. Sure, much of it was Windows hand-holding, but the viruses weren't engaged, yet. We were just getting on the net, and most of the work was still looked at, long-term.
My side job was creating and maintaining a supercomputer. Somewhere between Beowulf and completely-custom, our machine was to read all the nine-track tapes of every assembly-line's crash, and while watching the current run of the same line, inform people of possible crashes BEFORE it crashed, saving millions. My boss was told, "Bring this in, under-budget and under-shedule, and you'll get one of any car you like." He supposed a Testerosa. His boss says, "What color?"
Then I get called back to Evansville to care for Mom. (now 79). Computer work here is *only* work that involves cleaning viruses from Windows boxes. With a couple of exceptions, like setting up a communal web site or a couple of LEGAL spam-cannons, all the work is waste-work.
For those first two types, there's GOT to be a different parlance than the third type. The work's just so different it's not funny.
And why would I go buy one, if Google isn't listing them anymore? Are they going to be able to de-list ALL news stories, planet-wide?
Weren't those newspaper-guys the ones that used to complain how "we don't get it" and "our subscribers are too urbane to understand our coverage" and all that?
Let'em burn.
The herd's probably moving on because so many people have learned that Wikipedia can be forged in political situations. It's a herd, probably because the people that politically donate all leave at the same time.
This is consumption: you can only pull from this well so long before it's dry.
The latest incident where Wikipedia had something Limbaugh didn't say, and the 'dinosaur media', with their competence of rubber-stamping and never an investigation just ran with the story, never looking back. And, like all liberal/leftist/progressive media, the echo-chamber kicked in and it was world news.
So once again everyone trying to 'jimmy' the system left them with egg on their face. And now that Wikipedia has been granted universal "not for publishing" title, we'll have a smaller, more honest team of contributors, now that the 'journalist' schlubs are gone.
Friday the New York Times quit calling Glenn Beck a psycho and actually printed something with one of his concerns.
Today it's clear what I was saying about the ManMadeGlobalWarning(TM) hoax.
So NOW they're just realizing that overly-sheltered kids get all the allergies?
Thanks, science, for catching up...
If Google no longer lists the news, I'm gonna go out and buy a newspaper? BULLSHIT!
Newspapers are soon to be rooming with the Steam Engine people and the buggy whip manufacturers. Once they (in large quantity) started telling the customers they thought wrongly, it was on the way over the hill.
And to think anything done on the internet will bring them back is LUDICROUS! Should I believe the world is flat, or Obama is crashing the economy for my benefit?
Bah!
It's Linux! Why do you need to work on Mom/Dad's computer? Did they try to compile and a semicolon got in the way?
NO!
It's the crap that is the circus of Windows. Phishing, viruses, bugs they won't fix. Time to re-think.
Get them onto OpenOffice and Firefox. Let'em get used to that a couple of months. Then when you're there, put'em onto Ubuntu Linux. You and them will love it!
I support two houses here, three miles apart. I'm the only tech in either place. I've *never* had to clean out viruses, reload machines, or get to a point where "I don't know why it's doing that.". It's been at least 8 years.
They can't use Gator. They're not able to "speed their computer up where it used to be!" it never got slower. In short, all that crap out there doesn't matter.
Now, at some distant point you still WANT to remote-control the PCs, install Webmin; it's safe, secure, and very effective. And all this stuff is just simple.
Did ya really think Windows would always be the answer to every computing question? Why then, are there still viruses after 20 years?!?! Why do you still go buy something from someone else, just so you make it through the day?
I'm tellin' ya man, it's time to think about it. There's never been a better time. http://ubuntu.com/
All the current purveyors are now interested in the world's largest prime number and whether there's water on a planet four generations away. Meanwhile the religion of ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM) has them all a-twitter.
Yeah, it's dead. Science killed it. There are no futures we perceive, that we want.
Not only has he started-n-maintained something with a positive, useful effect on the global society, all he'd have to do is hate George Bush and he's IN.
Go ahead! Second his nomination! Lesser people have been given more!
This isn't Conservatism. Conservatism would never tell you what kind of: light bulb, toilet, or refrigerant you use, food-related fat you eat, or car you drive. All of these things were brought to you by Democrats, who were first to be seduced by the money of Progressives.
Losing freedoms like this isn't "progressive". It's tyranny.
Now they're talking about choosing your payscale (Barney Frank, the guy who was unable to discern the gay brother in his own home) wants to set these numbers.
Is anyone under the illusion that your pay would go UP? Spread the misery.
Time to be a citizen! Pay attention! Learn who the Conservatives are; they're neither Republican nor Democrat.
The failure of the California government and this goofball idea of yankin' people's flat-screens is a Progressive, not Conservative. Progressives aren't your friends; they just own the TV.
No, I don't think you understand; this project *is* in fact, more powerful than anything on the Mac right now. It suffers from one other problem: six months to get it to do as much as *anything* the Mac can do in one setting.
The Gimp's a good piece of software, and they've TRIED to arrange the menus to make it easier for casual users to use....but they can only go so far.
I'm not at all bothered by it's removal- it's so easy to install software now (it takes a password and mouse-clicks) that it's not really any problem!
Before I'm modded down for being Christian or thinking that science goes along with that, I have just one question to ask.
If the Mayans were such brilliant astronomers, and we should heed their warning, where was THEIR warning that their civilization would all-but-end? Why should we listen to a source that has already proven they didn't see a disaster coming?
Instead, we have lots of hoaxes of our own: ...you get the idea. It's never a good idea to let people just LIVE; we have to scare them, too! Thanks liberals!
PolulationBomb(TM)
GlobalWarming(TM)
OzoneHole(TM)
Actually, it's not...not for anything more than paying a waiter to find you a good table, versus one next to the kitchen.
But considering the pirate-in-chief, I can see how you'd make that mistake. :)
Murders happen all the time. They've even been outlawed: still happen: nefarious.
Baby ducks are born all the time: no laws about it: still happens: non-nefarious.
What's fun, though, is how, in the midst of "a Republican-caused hurricane Katrina" that a Democrat pulling National Guardsmen to help him save his $90,000 in cash DOES NOT happen all the time [sometimes it's worse!] and that's nefarious.
So nefarious, after all these years, and not getting re-elected, he finally goes to jail!
I was plucked from my career in Chicago to become Mom's caregiver, a little over 8 years ago. I'm tech support for two houses, separated by 3 miles. But in that time I've never removed a single virus, an errant program, much less malware, and when things get weird, it's because the underlying hardware is failing.
Linux. There's GOT to be a reason I keep talking about it.
Go get a copy of Ubuntu's "Karmic Koala" version of their desktop software. Install it and get used to OpenOffice instead of MS Office, Firefox instead of InternetExploder, and learn what it's like to have no unsafe places on the net. To enjoy downloaded TV at your leisure, without being denied by your OS.
Seriously: it's SO simple. It's solid. Heck, wouldn't it be cool to check out how the other folks live?
http://ubuntu.com/
Enjoy!
CNN routinely gets trashed by The Daily Show and John Stewart; their DECADES of siding with the democrats are very, very, very well known. Much like ABC is known for putting C4 into pickup trucks to suggest they'd blow up. These are hacks, not journalists!
I just got back from Washington DC at a huge protest. NOT ONE of these lame media outlets even reported that it happened, CNN was no different. People are raging at the takeover of liberty and these news organizations have their noses planted deeply up the DNC's ass.
The lone dissenter to these guys is Fox News; funny how 'the fringe' has a typical FOUR TIMES the ratings of this and other, lesser outlets. Can't you guys allow yourselves to see what's going on, here?
You guys learned to code! You learned to wire! You learned to internet, Python, find larger prime numbers and turn DNA into music....but you can't see the huge push to stamp out freedom? Wake up, guys!
It's now NEWS when Microsoft does it's JOB. Hmm.