i had a car that was very unreliable. i relied on my insticts when the car broke down. sometimes i had to walk a little ways to get a pay phone, but i used it. i always kept change in my car for this purpose. one of the rules of going out was to keep a few quarters on me in case i needed a pay phone. it's called responsibility. never spend your emergency quarter on a can of coke. and when i had to call collect, i did.
i was on a sports team in high school. i went to high school 45 min from my home. i relied on carpooling with friends and their parents when i needed a ride. occasionally, i couldn't get one. i had to call mom or dad to pick me up. i'd use the pay phone in the school to call them collect. when it asked for my name (since by then they used an automated system with a recording), i just said "mom i need a ride" and she knew. we had codes. dial, hang up after 2 rings. dial again, hang up after 3 rings. that was the code that i needed a ride. things like that. there are pay phones everywhere people gather or people might be waiting.
my car broke down down the street from a movie theatre. i walked there, called mom, and walked back to my car. it broke down on an exit ramp (of course this was the middle of nowhere), so i walked down the exit ramp, saw a commuter lot, called from the pay phone there (which wasn't working properly). then i took a ride with a nice guy who offered me a lift to a gas station down the street (where there was civilization) and he left me there so i could use the pay phone there. got picked up by a parent there.
now-a-days, you almost never have to worry. there are people all over the place with cell phones. i can't tell you how many people stopped and offered help when my car broke down, or offered their cell phones... the only time it sucks is when you're really in the middle of nowhere, but then you probably don't have cell reception anyways, so it won't do any good.
kids don't need cell phones. my rule for them will be that they need to be able to pay for it themselves and if they can prove that they can, i'll let them get one. and if they show they can be responsible and might need help every now and then (didn't get enough hours at work one week), i'll help them out, but not if they prove they aren't responsible enough to pay it themselves. hell, i'll buy my teenager one of those kids phones that can only dial certain numbers.
true... i've seen too many cases where the uninstall doesn't work and you have to use their manual removal tool, which used to be a great standalone exe, but now it's a crappy activex webpage that takes even longer.
norton is a bigger joke than the others though. i do tech support for students for a living (ok, more than just students, but i am more hands on with them). i have found in my experience that norton misses a lot of viruses mcafee picks up and mcafee tends to do the better job of the 2. mcafee also seems a bit lighter on resources and doesn't stick its nose everywhere. i can't tell you how many mucked up network stacks i've seen because of norton's personal firewall program. once it's uninstalled the networking magically works. go figure. even disabling it does nothing.
so yes, norton is a joke and i would not recommend anyone purchase anything from symantec until they get their act together.
that being said, this is simply a mistake. it happens. mcafee had one that detected excel.exe as a virus.
does it matter if the human race lives another hundred years? nature has a plan and that plan is unknown to any of us. it is possible that our species will be extinct in a hundred years and i don't see a problem with that.
i'd go with stupid people... i had someone call saying her computer wouldn't turn on... she had the same problem before. so instinctively, i looked it up in our trouble ticket system. sure enough, there it was with a solution written in it (which was amazing since our techs usually just write "done" in the solution). solution said "turned on power strip". so i told her to switch on the power strip and it worked. i then proceded to tell her to move it as far into the corner as possible so she didn't step on it again. she obliged.
got this call one day... i have students who answer our calls, one got really confused and transferred the call to me...
caller: the wireless is down me: where? caller: in my dorm room me: there's no wireless in the dorms caller: there has been until this point me: it's not supported by the college, it must have been another resident's that was shut off caller: no, it was the college's me (after noticing it was an off-campus call on our caller id): what dorm? caller: [INSERT UNKNOWN DORM NAME HERE] me: what college are you at? caller: brown me: sorry, you called the wrong school's helpdesk
i got a great laugh after that call... to think you have to be smart to get into an ivy league school...
does the mac allow blank passwords or are you required to have one? my guess is that the more people with blank passwords, the more likely it'll be they'll have problems.
the funny thing is, i've been running windows for years and the only time i got a virus was in 97 or 98 when anti-virus software use wasn't as widespread (i had it, but they didn't update defs as often then). i got the elvira virus, it was pretty neat, but luckily, it wasn't the bad version where it wiped your C drive. a floppy disk i used in a computer lab or borrowed from a group member must have been infected. since then, i have never had a virus or spyware infection. it's called smart computing. the more lusers start using macs, the more problems we'll see with them. just like with firefox/IE. the more people use firefox, the more vulnerabilities will be exploited.
where i come from (the northeast), if there's a cop on the road, he's doing 80 and his lights are usually off, meaning it's against the law for him to do that... the highest speed limits up here are 65, but still 55 in many places and they still do 80.
a dirty cop is one who does not follow the law word for word. meaning a cop who drives 80 in a 55 knowing he won't get pulled over by one of his "brothers" on the force. that's dirty behavior in my opinion. a cop who bullies people to get the information he needs out of them even though he's over-stepping his boundaries. that's dirty.
not all cops are like this. i have met some nice ones. but the minute a cop over-steps the law and makes himself above it, he's no better than one of the typical corrupt dirty cops. the cops in the article had no right to do what they did. they came to search the home without a warrant and they were asked to leave. by law, they are required to leave or it becomes harrassment. it was private property, the guy had every right to have security cameras installed. he did not commit a felony, but the dirty cops in the story were pissed that he recorded them over-stepping their boundaries and didn't want to face disciplinary action. it's coming though.
there is no advantage, but parents whine that schools are mean to their kids (taxpayers speak loud) and teachers don't want to do more than the minimum (unions speak louder).
i was not counting their festivals in that... since that's obviously something no other bands really do (at least not the bands that most people would know and understand). they did sell out coventry...
teenie boppers don't shell out $500 for front row tickets. their yuppie parents do.
and it is not bullshit to assume that this will cause all concerts to be that expensive. who's to say that they won't be successful with this method and then all of a sudden they decide to auction off every seat in the house? almost all concerts are popular to someone. and what difference does it make if they auction off all the tickets to an unpopular concert with the starting bid being the original face value? at the worst, they get face value for all tickets, which is what they'd make if they didn't auction. at best, they'd get a whole lot more.
and this doesn't put that money into the artists hands. ticketmaster is auctioning them off, not the artist. some artists simply do not want their fans to have to pay top dollar to see them. in fact, many of the more popular touring groups charge a flat rate for tickets, front row being the same price as the worst seats in the house (phish, used to be this way when they existed, selling out every concert they put on from 1995 through their breakup in 2004).
what use is an anti-virus program that doesn't do real-time scanning? while it might be great if there is a virus infection, you should be proactive and not get it to begin with... which clam cannot do.
you can't depend on one program to deal with spyware anyways. i suggest using AVG free only if necessary and would never use it in a business environment.
i use mcafee enterprise and it's a great program and much less intrusive than norton in my opinion. the home editions of mcafee and norton are just pieces of crap though. if i was given the choice between those or AVG free, AVG free wins.
i've see norton miss many viruses as well, even with updated def's.
that sounds like the politically correct way to say "i want to censor google". if people looking for their product in good faith are suggested search terms that allude to a crack, they most likely aren't going to try those search terms. if they're given results for a pirated version only, then there's an issue.
this guy sounds like he's taking it a little overboard. but you are correct, google made a mistake saying they couldn't filter them out when they do regularly filter results anyways (china's google for instance?)
prove that the 9/11 attacks were planned by the government... please. i'm sick of hearing all this crap about how the government is covering up some big plan they had that would allow them to enact martial law. i have yet to see any sort of concrete evidence or proof or even reason that they would do this without having anyone come out beforehand...
i'm not saying i trust the government 100%, but i trust conspiracy theorists, like yourself, about 1%. guess who wins my trust? the burden of proof is in your hands, not the government. they've given enough proof and reason that this was caused by terrorists.
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i had a car that was very unreliable. i relied on my insticts when the car broke down. sometimes i had to walk a little ways to get a pay phone, but i used it. i always kept change in my car for this purpose. one of the rules of going out was to keep a few quarters on me in case i needed a pay phone. it's called responsibility. never spend your emergency quarter on a can of coke. and when i had to call collect, i did.
i was on a sports team in high school. i went to high school 45 min from my home. i relied on carpooling with friends and their parents when i needed a ride. occasionally, i couldn't get one. i had to call mom or dad to pick me up. i'd use the pay phone in the school to call them collect. when it asked for my name (since by then they used an automated system with a recording), i just said "mom i need a ride" and she knew. we had codes. dial, hang up after 2 rings. dial again, hang up after 3 rings. that was the code that i needed a ride. things like that. there are pay phones everywhere people gather or people might be waiting.
my car broke down down the street from a movie theatre. i walked there, called mom, and walked back to my car. it broke down on an exit ramp (of course this was the middle of nowhere), so i walked down the exit ramp, saw a commuter lot, called from the pay phone there (which wasn't working properly). then i took a ride with a nice guy who offered me a lift to a gas station down the street (where there was civilization) and he left me there so i could use the pay phone there. got picked up by a parent there.
now-a-days, you almost never have to worry. there are people all over the place with cell phones. i can't tell you how many people stopped and offered help when my car broke down, or offered their cell phones... the only time it sucks is when you're really in the middle of nowhere, but then you probably don't have cell reception anyways, so it won't do any good.
kids don't need cell phones. my rule for them will be that they need to be able to pay for it themselves and if they can prove that they can, i'll let them get one. and if they show they can be responsible and might need help every now and then (didn't get enough hours at work one week), i'll help them out, but not if they prove they aren't responsible enough to pay it themselves. hell, i'll buy my teenager one of those kids phones that can only dial certain numbers.
the home versions of all of them suck royally. mcafee's enterprise edition is really nice.
true... i've seen too many cases where the uninstall doesn't work and you have to use their manual removal tool, which used to be a great standalone exe, but now it's a crappy activex webpage that takes even longer.
norton is a bigger joke than the others though. i do tech support for students for a living (ok, more than just students, but i am more hands on with them). i have found in my experience that norton misses a lot of viruses mcafee picks up and mcafee tends to do the better job of the 2. mcafee also seems a bit lighter on resources and doesn't stick its nose everywhere. i can't tell you how many mucked up network stacks i've seen because of norton's personal firewall program. once it's uninstalled the networking magically works. go figure. even disabling it does nothing.
so yes, norton is a joke and i would not recommend anyone purchase anything from symantec until they get their act together.
that being said, this is simply a mistake. it happens. mcafee had one that detected excel.exe as a virus.
even if he did download it... he owns a copy of it. therefore, i think that would fall into fair use.
does it matter if the human race lives another hundred years? nature has a plan and that plan is unknown to any of us. it is possible that our species will be extinct in a hundred years and i don't see a problem with that.
i'd go with stupid people... i had someone call saying her computer wouldn't turn on... she had the same problem before. so instinctively, i looked it up in our trouble ticket system. sure enough, there it was with a solution written in it (which was amazing since our techs usually just write "done" in the solution). solution said "turned on power strip". so i told her to switch on the power strip and it worked. i then proceded to tell her to move it as far into the corner as possible so she didn't step on it again. she obliged.
got this call one day... i have students who answer our calls, one got really confused and transferred the call to me...
caller: the wireless is down
me: where?
caller: in my dorm room
me: there's no wireless in the dorms
caller: there has been until this point
me: it's not supported by the college, it must have been another resident's that was shut off
caller: no, it was the college's
me (after noticing it was an off-campus call on our caller id): what dorm?
caller: [INSERT UNKNOWN DORM NAME HERE]
me: what college are you at?
caller: brown
me: sorry, you called the wrong school's helpdesk
i got a great laugh after that call... to think you have to be smart to get into an ivy league school...
does the mac allow blank passwords or are you required to have one? my guess is that the more people with blank passwords, the more likely it'll be they'll have problems.
the funny thing is, i've been running windows for years and the only time i got a virus was in 97 or 98 when anti-virus software use wasn't as widespread (i had it, but they didn't update defs as often then). i got the elvira virus, it was pretty neat, but luckily, it wasn't the bad version where it wiped your C drive. a floppy disk i used in a computer lab or borrowed from a group member must have been infected. since then, i have never had a virus or spyware infection. it's called smart computing. the more lusers start using macs, the more problems we'll see with them. just like with firefox/IE. the more people use firefox, the more vulnerabilities will be exploited.
where i come from (the northeast), if there's a cop on the road, he's doing 80 and his lights are usually off, meaning it's against the law for him to do that... the highest speed limits up here are 65, but still 55 in many places and they still do 80.
a dirty cop is one who does not follow the law word for word. meaning a cop who drives 80 in a 55 knowing he won't get pulled over by one of his "brothers" on the force. that's dirty behavior in my opinion. a cop who bullies people to get the information he needs out of them even though he's over-stepping his boundaries. that's dirty.
not all cops are like this. i have met some nice ones. but the minute a cop over-steps the law and makes himself above it, he's no better than one of the typical corrupt dirty cops. the cops in the article had no right to do what they did. they came to search the home without a warrant and they were asked to leave. by law, they are required to leave or it becomes harrassment. it was private property, the guy had every right to have security cameras installed. he did not commit a felony, but the dirty cops in the story were pissed that he recorded them over-stepping their boundaries and didn't want to face disciplinary action. it's coming though.
there is no advantage, but parents whine that schools are mean to their kids (taxpayers speak loud) and teachers don't want to do more than the minimum (unions speak louder).
yelling fire isn't the crime... inciting a riot and causing panic for no apparent reason is.
if that was a private high school, they have every right to do so. public schools, however, do not.
i was not counting their festivals in that... since that's obviously something no other bands really do (at least not the bands that most people would know and understand). they did sell out coventry...
teenie boppers don't shell out $500 for front row tickets. their yuppie parents do.
and it is not bullshit to assume that this will cause all concerts to be that expensive. who's to say that they won't be successful with this method and then all of a sudden they decide to auction off every seat in the house? almost all concerts are popular to someone. and what difference does it make if they auction off all the tickets to an unpopular concert with the starting bid being the original face value? at the worst, they get face value for all tickets, which is what they'd make if they didn't auction. at best, they'd get a whole lot more.
and this doesn't put that money into the artists hands. ticketmaster is auctioning them off, not the artist. some artists simply do not want their fans to have to pay top dollar to see them. in fact, many of the more popular touring groups charge a flat rate for tickets, front row being the same price as the worst seats in the house (phish, used to be this way when they existed, selling out every concert they put on from 1995 through their breakup in 2004).
penguins are not furry. in fact, they have absolutely no fur. they're birds, they have feathers like all other birds.
what use is an anti-virus program that doesn't do real-time scanning? while it might be great if there is a virus infection, you should be proactive and not get it to begin with... which clam cannot do.
you can't depend on one program to deal with spyware anyways. i suggest using AVG free only if necessary and would never use it in a business environment.
i use mcafee enterprise and it's a great program and much less intrusive than norton in my opinion. the home editions of mcafee and norton are just pieces of crap though. if i was given the choice between those or AVG free, AVG free wins.
i've see norton miss many viruses as well, even with updated def's.
that sounds like the politically correct way to say "i want to censor google". if people looking for their product in good faith are suggested search terms that allude to a crack, they most likely aren't going to try those search terms. if they're given results for a pirated version only, then there's an issue.
this guy sounds like he's taking it a little overboard. but you are correct, google made a mistake saying they couldn't filter them out when they do regularly filter results anyways (china's google for instance?)
so where are the passengers?
i read this one
eye witness accounts don't do anything for you, huh?
i've seen all the conspiracy theory stuff...
how about you re-watch that video and read this while watching
prove that the 9/11 attacks were planned by the government... please. i'm sick of hearing all this crap about how the government is covering up some big plan they had that would allow them to enact martial law. i have yet to see any sort of concrete evidence or proof or even reason that they would do this without having anyone come out beforehand...
i'm not saying i trust the government 100%, but i trust conspiracy theorists, like yourself, about 1%. guess who wins my trust? the burden of proof is in your hands, not the government. they've given enough proof and reason that this was caused by terrorists.