Well, hmmm. I did mention I worked for an ISP. This means that for the most part we have little or no direct access to the infected machines. Most of our subscribers are college age kids with a shockingly low understanding of networking, viruses and spy/adware. We have kids infected with spam relay bots bombing our mail servers, flood bots bombing everything, and most of our contracts are through realtors and property management companies which don't always allow us to disconnect users at will. So we can call them and ask them to bring in their pcs, and offer cds with virus solutions, but mostly its cross fingers and pray to whomever that the brats come in, pick up their discs and also ran them (all they required was insertion into a handy cdrom drive).
Thanks for letting me rant. I was a bit incensed at the allegations of ineptitude. Obviously (to me at least) if we were discussing an internal network of 300 machines...well, we wouldn't have been infected, our firewalls are mostly impermiable to most viral threats.
Once upon a time (August-ish of 2003) there was a duo of worm/viruses that only affected windows 2k and xp machines. This terrible two-some pretty much shut down the internet internationally for days/weeks. The ISP i work for is still trying to eradicate Blaster. Welchia, of course, doesn't exist in quite the same way anymore.
It seems to me the thing that rock-the-vote zealots do most is overestimate the power of the vote. Now I'm not going to say that one shouldn't vote, attempting to have a meaningful say in the way ones local, state and federal governments function is uberimportant and every methodology should be pursued...
That having been said, I think that one realm within the personal politic that gets severely overlooked is the power of the lobby. Lobbying is so incredibly easy, all you have to do is find the number of your Senators' staff offices in both DC and your state capitol. It's easy; they post their numbers on their websites. Take these numbers and put them in your cellphone speeddial. Whenever anything big comes up in DC just give them a call. Kindly explain to whoever answers that you are a constituent of senator so-and-so and would they please pass the senator a message for you that blah-blah-blah, filibuster-filibuster-filibuster, impeach-impeach-...you get the idea.
The public doesn't do this because they think it's too difficult. So do it in front of them. Do it at work, on the bus, before class, wherever. A few people will think yr weird at first, then they'll realize yr doing so much more than rocking the vote.
Oops, maybe that wound up being more offtopic than I intended. My bad...
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All we need is www.bugzilla.gov.
Well, hmmm. I did mention I worked for an ISP. This means that for the most part we have little or no direct access to the infected machines. Most of our subscribers are college age kids with a shockingly low understanding of networking, viruses and spy/adware. We have kids infected with spam relay bots bombing our mail servers, flood bots bombing everything, and most of our contracts are through realtors and property management companies which don't always allow us to disconnect users at will. So we can call them and ask them to bring in their pcs, and offer cds with virus solutions, but mostly its cross fingers and pray to whomever that the brats come in, pick up their discs and also ran them (all they required was insertion into a handy cdrom drive).
Thanks for letting me rant. I was a bit incensed at the allegations of ineptitude. Obviously (to me at least) if we were discussing an internal network of 300 machines...well, we wouldn't have been infected, our firewalls are mostly impermiable to most viral threats.
Once upon a time (August-ish of 2003) there was a duo of worm/viruses that only affected windows 2k and xp machines. This terrible two-some pretty much shut down the internet internationally for days/weeks. The ISP i work for is still trying to eradicate Blaster. Welchia, of course, doesn't exist in quite the same way anymore.
How does this affect the TCO of Windows?
It seems to me the thing that rock-the-vote zealots do most is overestimate the power of the vote. Now I'm not going to say that one shouldn't vote, attempting to have a meaningful say in the way ones local, state and federal governments function is uberimportant and every methodology should be pursued...
That having been said, I think that one realm within the personal politic that gets severely overlooked is the power of the lobby. Lobbying is so incredibly easy, all you have to do is find the number of your Senators' staff offices in both DC and your state capitol. It's easy; they post their numbers on their websites. Take these numbers and put them in your cellphone speeddial. Whenever anything big comes up in DC just give them a call. Kindly explain to whoever answers that you are a constituent of senator so-and-so and would they please pass the senator a message for you that blah-blah-blah, filibuster-filibuster-filibuster, impeach-impeach-...you get the idea.
The public doesn't do this because they think it's too difficult. So do it in front of them. Do it at work, on the bus, before class, wherever. A few people will think yr weird at first, then they'll realize yr doing so much more than rocking the vote.
Oops, maybe that wound up being more offtopic than I intended. My bad...