There haven't been any lawsuits because getting the information from ISPs and getting law enforcement to do their work isn't happening against individuals. It has nothing to do with your take on things that have already been discussed.
Your post is full of shit. The college grad is going to hate his job and hate you even more because he's still working his garbage coffee shop job after adding tens of thousands in debt to his life. Who do you think is going to give you better service? The college grad who took a useless degree, didn't actually learn anything because he's very likely an addict and wasted his time smoking weed and getting drunk with his friends, and is still working there with all of that debt piling up, hating every minute of his life, or the high school dropout who is happy with his life and is working this coffee shop job part time until the construction season starts up again and he can get back to doing real work?
I've been building computers since I was three years old, using hardware from brands well known and completely unknown, and I've had essentially the same failure rate regardless of the brand. Bugs have generally been limited to quality of post-purchase support, such as the availability of new drivers and firmware. Maybe you're just mentally challenged.
Nobody* is burning music to disc any longer. I'm not sure if they still have a levy on music players, but that's where all* of the tracks are going. Either way, the levy makes it legal* to download copyrighted music without paying for it. Let's hope it stays that way (legal*).
No, Canadians are not, and never have been, legally protected to download anything they want. Canadians are protected in downloading any copyrighted music for personal use and, even then, only in limited ways (some could interpret the law to mean that saving it to your internal HDD wouldn't fall into that protection).
The only reason there haven't been any lawsuits is due to the police not giving a shit *right now*. That can change at any time.
It's also extremely ridiculous that her budget is more than $800. I can guarantee she'd be fine, for many years, with a laptop that's under $800 total.
Pretty much any third party report (third party = not paid for by anyone related to the reported) ranks MSE higher overall. Sure, Norton can catch them, but it kills your system doing so, even now. There are at least 5 other AV software (including MSE) that are better than Norton.
Windows 7 doesn't use a browser for updates. Vista probably doesn't use a browser for updates, either. For many years now, there has been a site that gives you Windows updates with Firefox.
Oops, missed that you didn't want an external. Ignore the previous post and this one, except for the part after this. How about you go to the store and look at the laptops?
Did you miss the part about this being done with mice? You do realize that, for a mouse, 5 weeks of growth is equivalent to about 20-25 human years, right?
If AV vendors really want to stop this from happening again and again, all they need to do is give premium users (paying customers) an USB dongle that has some sort of encrypted something that disables the software when it's read. The software just has to check for this dongle every time the computer reboots/the software starts. How do you keep viruses from using this killswitch to disable the AV software? I don't know, but I'm assuming some sort of encrypted something that's decoded using something that has to do with the customer's serial (or whatever the vendor uses) would work. In fact, the same dongle might be useful to activate the software, and even perform other functions, as well. It's not like it would cost much to implement this, either.
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There haven't been any lawsuits because getting the information from ISPs and getting law enforcement to do their work isn't happening against individuals. It has nothing to do with your take on things that have already been discussed.
Stop spreading your idiocy.
Your point is? Not much more than 100 years ago most adults couldn't read.
Your post is full of shit. The college grad is going to hate his job and hate you even more because he's still working his garbage coffee shop job after adding tens of thousands in debt to his life. Who do you think is going to give you better service? The college grad who took a useless degree, didn't actually learn anything because he's very likely an addict and wasted his time smoking weed and getting drunk with his friends, and is still working there with all of that debt piling up, hating every minute of his life, or the high school dropout who is happy with his life and is working this coffee shop job part time until the construction season starts up again and he can get back to doing real work?
I've been building computers since I was three years old, using hardware from brands well known and completely unknown, and I've had essentially the same failure rate regardless of the brand. Bugs have generally been limited to quality of post-purchase support, such as the availability of new drivers and firmware. Maybe you're just mentally challenged.
Nobody* is burning music to disc any longer. I'm not sure if they still have a levy on music players, but that's where all* of the tracks are going. Either way, the levy makes it legal* to download copyrighted music without paying for it. Let's hope it stays that way (legal*).
No, Canadians are not, and never have been, legally protected to download anything they want. Canadians are protected in downloading any copyrighted music for personal use and, even then, only in limited ways (some could interpret the law to mean that saving it to your internal HDD wouldn't fall into that protection).
The only reason there haven't been any lawsuits is due to the police not giving a shit *right now*. That can change at any time.
Do not spread idiocy.
Get a better ISP. I have not heard of any ISP in Ontario doing this.
I'm going to giggle a bit when they shut down their servers.
It's also extremely ridiculous that her budget is more than $800. I can guarantee she'd be fine, for many years, with a laptop that's under $800 total.
If Best Buy was actually the best buy, they wouldn't have a problem at all.
Now, I want you to imagine that you are a programmer born with lady bits who is reading this thread. How exactly do you feel right now?
Very happy about my pink laptop.
Yes, I can.
I'll go back to IE.
Pretty much any third party report (third party = not paid for by anyone related to the reported) ranks MSE higher overall. Sure, Norton can catch them, but it kills your system doing so, even now. There are at least 5 other AV software (including MSE) that are better than Norton.
Aww shit, above was a reply to: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2869437&cid=40088329
I'm not sure what you're saying here. I code my sites to be 100% XHTML/CSS3 compliant. IE(9) renders the pages just as well as any other browser.
IE(9) is currently better than Firefox. Opera is still the best out of all of them. Chrome might be somewhere in the middle.
Windows 7 doesn't use a browser for updates. Vista probably doesn't use a browser for updates, either. For many years now, there has been a site that gives you Windows updates with Firefox.
Whereas the saturation of MSIE is totally organic, right?
Other than the possibility that some small amount of spam bots might be hitting some sites and identifying as IE, yes, it is organic.
Oops, missed that you didn't want an external. Ignore the previous post and this one, except for the part after this. How about you go to the store and look at the laptops?
A $10 Logitech will have a proper keymap. As will most $10 keyboards. How about you go to the store and look at them?
It's no different in the US, when it comes to a wiretap warrant. They are big stacks of paper.
Did you miss the part about this being done with mice? You do realize that, for a mouse, 5 weeks of growth is equivalent to about 20-25 human years, right?
If AV vendors really want to stop this from happening again and again, all they need to do is give premium users (paying customers) an USB dongle that has some sort of encrypted something that disables the software when it's read. The software just has to check for this dongle every time the computer reboots/the software starts. How do you keep viruses from using this killswitch to disable the AV software? I don't know, but I'm assuming some sort of encrypted something that's decoded using something that has to do with the customer's serial (or whatever the vendor uses) would work. In fact, the same dongle might be useful to activate the software, and even perform other functions, as well. It's not like it would cost much to implement this, either.
You aren't too current on the last 20 years of RAM prices, are you? LPDDR costs a lot of money compared to DDR.