In those days most people had completely standalone computers, without even a modem or network card, so realistically the only way they'd get an infection is by sharing floppies, ergo slower spread and geographically contained.
In most places you'd have to dial long distance to get to any such thing, and in those days long distance was ruinously expensive. Not to mention most people didn't have computers yet, let alone modems.
I cannot remember which brand of anti-virus it was, but the box clearly referenced Michelangelo and the date & was obviously done to scare people into buying it.
Almost worked for me, but the store clerk explained that since I was still using my parents' Apple//c the program wouldn't work on it, and I probably didn't have anything to worry about anyway.
I think you're viewing the past with rose-colored glasses, bub. You haven't addressed/why/ the voters (and the state legislatures!) all thought it was a bad idea for those same legislatures to appoint senators.
Grass is greener on the other side of the fence, but that's 'cause of how rich the fertilizer is over there.
This will sound like No True Scotsman, but Athens wasn't much of a democracy. It was limited to wealthy male citizens, much as America was in the days of the founders (peace be upon them).
Still, it was freer in that regard than anything before or contemporary.
or if not a Macbook Air, then something else equally small and portable. I'm a big fan of my wife's two-year-old 11.6" Acer Aspire - it's nearly as small as a netbook but much faster with a better keyboard and display. It's possible to replace the hard drive with an SSD, too.
DSL is obsolete; the project's been dead for at least a couple years because of infighting. Better to go with something else, and unless the issued laptop is woefully underpowered there's no reason to not use something more modern anyway, like Puppy or Mint.
It was a good decision, though; MacPPC plugins aren't getting updated anymore, and Flash in particular has many security holes that will never be patched.
I don't know if Gnash is available on PPC OSX, but IIRC the Linux version has a standalone player, so possibly this is an option. It doesn't support many newer features, though.
At one point he was invited to sit on the committee that chose which textbooks to use for the California school system. He was unhappy with every single book he reviewed and made copious notes that he brought to the committee meeting.
It turned out that basically nobody else on the committee bothered doing more than skimming through the books, and in one case a book that hadn't even been written yet got a good score, something like 7 out of ten -- it was part of a 3-book series and it got slightly better scores than the two that were actually available to review!
PS: It's not "most teachers". Most teachers don't get any input into which books their district (hell, their state[1]) uses. That was a cheap dig, and politically motivated; OP is contemptible.
[1] Lots of states will just use whatever California uses, or whatever Texas uses.
This is what some Linux distros are doing, actually. Debian's still maintaining 3.5 and Ubuntu LTS has 3.6; both of these will be kept up for a few more years.
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It's a leading question in a Slashdot summary. It's hardly meant to be intelligent; I think the purpose is to drive discussion.
You see that somewhat often on news stories elsewhere, probably more at lower-quality establishments whose MO is to drum up controversy.
/facepalm
If you can't receive a call on account of the jammer, your ringtone won't play.
In those days most people had completely standalone computers, without even a modem or network card, so realistically the only way they'd get an infection is by sharing floppies, ergo slower spread and geographically contained.
In most places you'd have to dial long distance to get to any such thing, and in those days long distance was ruinously expensive. Not to mention most people didn't have computers yet, let alone modems.
This is for the USA, YMMV for other countries.
Ringtones. Streaming music. Those will be dealt with by a jammer.
Was panicking about those earlier viruses as widespread amongst the Great Unwashed (by 1st-world standards) as with Michelangelo?
No? Back to your nap, Gramps.
I cannot remember which brand of anti-virus it was, but the box clearly referenced Michelangelo and the date & was obviously done to scare people into buying it.
Almost worked for me, but the store clerk explained that since I was still using my parents' Apple //c the program wouldn't work on it, and I probably didn't have anything to worry about anyway.
Jefferson didn't write the constitution, idiot.
Hitler wouldn't have been a Linux user because he detested communists. :P
Old meme is old, but credit for the creative twist. I chuckled.
The carpet does not necessarily match the drapes even on people who don't dye their hair.
Get off my lawn, sonny.
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You must be new here.
I think you're viewing the past with rose-colored glasses, bub. You haven't addressed /why/ the voters (and the state legislatures!) all thought it was a bad idea for those same legislatures to appoint senators.
Grass is greener on the other side of the fence, but that's 'cause of how rich the fertilizer is over there.
This will sound like No True Scotsman, but Athens wasn't much of a democracy. It was limited to wealthy male citizens, much as America was in the days of the founders (peace be upon them).
Still, it was freer in that regard than anything before or contemporary.
You know, if the state legislatures selecting their senators worked so well, we'd still be doing it that way.
As it turned out, the 17th Amendment was so popular that it passed very quickly. This should tell you something.
He also said that the best argument against democracy is a 15-minute conversation with the average voter.
As long as you don't mind your kids getting indoctrinated with the social-conservative party line, anyway.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html?_r=1
or if not a Macbook Air, then something else equally small and portable. I'm a big fan of my wife's two-year-old 11.6" Acer Aspire - it's nearly as small as a netbook but much faster with a better keyboard and display. It's possible to replace the hard drive with an SSD, too.
DSL is obsolete; the project's been dead for at least a couple years because of infighting. Better to go with something else, and unless the issued laptop is woefully underpowered there's no reason to not use something more modern anyway, like Puppy or Mint.
Running a free Unix-alike on your Mac hardware is still an option.
It was a good decision, though; MacPPC plugins aren't getting updated anymore, and Flash in particular has many security holes that will never be patched.
I don't know if Gnash is available on PPC OSX, but IIRC the Linux version has a standalone player, so possibly this is an option. It doesn't support many newer features, though.
At one point he was invited to sit on the committee that chose which textbooks to use for the California school system. He was unhappy with every single book he reviewed and made copious notes that he brought to the committee meeting.
It turned out that basically nobody else on the committee bothered doing more than skimming through the books, and in one case a book that hadn't even been written yet got a good score, something like 7 out of ten -- it was part of a 3-book series and it got slightly better scores than the two that were actually available to review!
PS: It's not "most teachers". Most teachers don't get any input into which books their district (hell, their state[1]) uses. That was a cheap dig, and politically motivated; OP is contemptible.
[1] Lots of states will just use whatever California uses, or whatever Texas uses.
You older-Mac weenies can look into TenFourFox.
This is what some Linux distros are doing, actually. Debian's still maintaining 3.5 and Ubuntu LTS has 3.6; both of these will be kept up for a few more years.
OP probably is running Windows, though.
portableapps is what you want.
They'll stop providing security updates in a month, though, so it's certainly obsolescent and will be obsolete shortly.