If your Etch-A-Sketch is shared between 2 or more kids, you can bet that viruses will be shared among them. There's nothing more infested than a toddler.
Perhaps I'm just isolated from the sort of users who are so stupid as to get viruses on their PCs...but are there any left?
Teenagers. My 14 year old infected her computer the other day when she received a copy of a IM worm that disguised itself as a.zip file and said "here are my new pics". Since the message was from one of her friends, obviously she opened it. Now she has learned to be careful, but there's always someone around the house who will screw up.
Sorry but how do you know, if you haven't used anti-virus software in years? Do you expect a little flag to come up saying "help help I'm infected, get an anti-virus program!"? You could be infected and not even know it.
Almost every morning after I switch on my computer at work it's unusable for about half an hour because it has to check for viruses. Why does it have to be like that?
Because either you have a crappy anti-virus program (I'm looking at you, Norton) that needlessly hogs system resources, or perhaps it's time to upgrade your computer...
Your belief that everything should be free is what is putting many artists out of business.
Please name a few.
I will counter that those "artists" are "out of business" because THEY SUCK.
At your job, do you work for free?
No one is saying the artists shouldn't be paid. We're talking about the middleman here. There is no more room for the middleman, he has been made obsolete. Nice switch of the argument. EMI is not an "artist" as far as I know.
Now how hard would it be for a band to set up their own "store" on the internet and sell their tracks directly? Not very. I think the technological advances of the past 10 years have gone right over your head. Wake up, the world has changed.
The old model had the record industry going out to "scout" new bands to find a sound that they thought hopefully would sell. Now the bands just have to make themselves available electronically, and the people will decide what sells.
Flash ROM? Lol. When I was a kid I used to think that ROM meant "Read Only Memory". But does ROM still apply if you can write to it? Flash ROM is an oxymoron if I ever saw one.
Of course it is, and if you say different then you're not a patriot. When you download music you are downloading terrorism and Harming Our Troops. See you in Gitmo.
I have news for you. Wal Mart doesn't do "long term" supply planning. That's what the software and the distribution network is about. Wal Mart orders another widget from the manufacturer the minute your widget gets scanned at the cash register. Management knows instantly what's selling and what's not, at any given time. Inventory is kept to the bare minimum.
Although I agree with your general point, even a 5% failure rate is way too high.
you will never be able to do business with [redacted] again.
Why are you protecting these assholes? If your story is true, you have nothing to fear by smearing their name. Personally I'd like to know who these thieves are so that I can be sure never to buy one of their books.
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you have to contect your elected representatives
I have no idea how to contect them, but hopefully it's a process that involves a lot of pain on their part.
Why would I need to enter the product key? After all, it comes in a .txt file called "serial" on the installation CD...oops
can it really be called a virus any more?
:)
If it's sending v14gR4 emails on the sly, sure it can!
My wife's computer at work has a secretary account and an administrator account.
So tell, me what will happen the day you catch the secretary account in bed with the administrator account??? This sounds better than a soap opera!
Etch-A-Sketch doesn't actually need anti-virus.
If your Etch-A-Sketch is shared between 2 or more kids, you can bet that viruses will be shared among them. There's nothing more infested than a toddler.
Perhaps I'm just isolated from the sort of users who are so stupid as to get viruses on their PCs...but are there any left?
.zip file and said "here are my new pics". Since the message was from one of her friends, obviously she opened it. Now she has learned to be careful, but there's always someone around the house who will screw up.
Teenagers. My 14 year old infected her computer the other day when she received a copy of a IM worm that disguised itself as a
But I've never gotten a virus, not once.
Sorry but how do you know, if you haven't used anti-virus software in years? Do you expect a little flag to come up saying "help help I'm infected, get an anti-virus program!"? You could be infected and not even know it.
Solution #1: Linux.
I have news for you...
Almost every morning after I switch on my computer at work it's unusable for about half an hour because it has to check for viruses. Why does it have to be like that?
Because either you have a crappy anti-virus program (I'm looking at you, Norton) that needlessly hogs system resources, or perhaps it's time to upgrade your computer...
Your belief that everything should be free is what is putting many artists out of business.
Please name a few.
I will counter that those "artists" are "out of business" because THEY SUCK.
At your job, do you work for free?
No one is saying the artists shouldn't be paid. We're talking about the middleman here. There is no more room for the middleman, he has been made obsolete. Nice switch of the argument. EMI is not an "artist" as far as I know.
Now how hard would it be for a band to set up their own "store" on the internet and sell their tracks directly? Not very. I think the technological advances of the past 10 years have gone right over your head. Wake up, the world has changed.
The old model had the record industry going out to "scout" new bands to find a sound that they thought hopefully would sell. Now the bands just have to make themselves available electronically, and the people will decide what sells.
slashdot has been in the toilet for years. Yet we floaters don't mind.
flash rom
Flash ROM? Lol. When I was a kid I used to think that ROM meant "Read Only Memory". But does ROM still apply if you can write to it? Flash ROM is an oxymoron if I ever saw one.
a thin client PC from Dell which includes a nice warranty when any of those on-board features fail.
There, I fixed it for you.
Sadly, you will have to be running Windows if you want to update the internal environment.
(Hunts around for his Windows "live CD"...)
Lol! Any post which deviates from the political "status quo" is now modded "Troll".
hey mods - FUCK YOU!
Of course it is, and if you say different then you're not a patriot. When you download music you are downloading terrorism and Harming Our Troops. See you in Gitmo.
the Bush administration has an effective system for preventing that their friends are prosecuted.
Of course they do. The kids' iPod contents are a state secret.
Real slashdotters read at -1 anyway, so mod me down all you want.
Verteiron actually gets it, without being all "offended" and reactionary like you are being.
Oh crap, I won't be able to play anything made in the past few years.
The words "Microsoft" and "secure" are in the same sentence. Heaven forbid!
long term supply planning
I have news for you. Wal Mart doesn't do "long term" supply planning. That's what the software and the distribution network is about. Wal Mart orders another widget from the manufacturer the minute your widget gets scanned at the cash register. Management knows instantly what's selling and what's not, at any given time. Inventory is kept to the bare minimum.
Although I agree with your general point, even a 5% failure rate is way too high.
this will cause a fault to spread across the hemisphere and cause a major part of the planet to fly away.
Hopefully the United States.
Please tell me, troll, what does an organization like the RIAA actually contribute to the economy?
you will never be able to do business with [redacted] again.
Why are you protecting these assholes? If your story is true, you have nothing to fear by smearing their name. Personally I'd like to know who these thieves are so that I can be sure never to buy one of their books.
I challenge Slashdot to boycott the US recording and movie industry... either that or stop whining...
I did that a long time ago.