Actually you pointed out that people who think they can't avoid accidents shouldn't be allowed to drive. Once again you are a fucking moron. Accidents will happen. When they do, some people would like to have a large amount of steel around them.
Bikes can stop much more quickly than a car, make tighter turns etc. You were sitting at a light and got nailed, how could you have avoided the accident? Your point was nonsensical. I also think most of the problems with rollovers come from the smaller SUVs based on car bodies, not the larger truck based ones. Smaller SUVs are really just a tall car and anyone who buys one to be "safer" hasn't done the correct research.
You were lucky with your accident. I can't count the number of accidents I've seen where the rear passengers did not survive in a small car. I changed my driving route to avoid an intersection that had at least a fatality every couple of weeks, plus a serious accident almost daily. Usually a small car and a construction vehicle or truck. Rear passengers were the most common deaths. Down here, many of the trucks use custom bumpers welded to the frame. In an accident with a small car they penetrate through the crumple zones. Look up RanchHand bumpers. They look great, are functional, and will drive a truck through a Jetta.
Pop-Ups are camping in South Texas when it's 95 degrees until after midnight. Or really anything with an AC. Canoe? You should waterproof your backpack and float on it. That's camping.
You are a fucking moron. No car on the market can stop as quickly or maneuver as well as a motorcycle and riders get killed all the time. Ever hear of "Ben Roethlisberger"? Oh wait, you're just a typical opinionated Slashdot poser/poster.
Here is a question for your stupid ass, ever seen the rear of a small car after a crash? Fucking crumple zone pushes the rear bumper almost to the rear seat. Needless to say it doesn't leave much room for the any kids to survive.
Accidents happen and they are unavoidable, hence being called an accident. It's not a question of if; it's a question of when.
Some people like to have metal around them when they do have an accident. My wife hit a deer while driving 70mph in a rural area. 4k worth of damage to an Expedition, no injuries. Try that in a compact car. Or try getting through two miles of mud to get to pavement. Or going camping with a troop of girl scouts. Or camping (towing a pop-up). Hell, camping period with kids, especially if there is swimming involved.
Jackasses like you dump dogs in the country all the time. Try going to the vet with 5 fucking stray dogs in a compact.
Not everyone is a loser who sits at home and pretends to have a life while going on a virtual date with a guy who's screen name is Sally. Until you actually have kids, and DO things with them, don't judge others.
How about instead of whining about people who try to buy a safer vehicle for their families you whine about the shitty drivers on the road. Fuckers going ten miles under the speed limit in the left lane. Going too fast, weaving in and out of traffic - usually smaller cars BTW. Old people who can't drive for shit anymore. Young people who haven't learned how to drive yet and think they can.
You hate seeing people who drive 60 miles so they can "keep their kids in a good school district"? Well here is a big hearty FUCK YOU for you. News flash, once you move out of your parents home and actually have to pay bills and MAYBE even buy your own home, you might not want to move every time you switch jobs. Now since you are obviously a complete ass monkey who would never leave mommies house, that won't be an issue for you. Some of us don't want to disrupt our kids lives every time we switch companies and move 15 miles.
Out here in the Mid-West, (Texas), land is cheap and cities are sprawling. There are companies that don't have a desirable school district within 20 miles of their location. I drive 50 miles to work, and would love to find something closer. There is a problem, I make a shit load of $$ and gigs like that are difficult to find down here. Unless you enjoy wearing a tie, suit, arriving exactly at 0730 hours, taking exactly a 30 minute lunch etc etc. Fuck that, and to reiterate, FUCK YOU.
I have been reading Slashdot for a long time. I must have missed your being a troll...
You sound like someone who has never made it in the IT world, and yet wants to be accepted. You should just be a man and admit that you made a completely asinine post and be done with it.
If you install spybot from the beginning, you don't have to run msconfig.
Life is much easier with the correct tools already on the machine.
I just got done doing what the parent suggested a couple of days ago. It took about 5 hours, since spybot and adaware were not installed and we had a dialup computer.
In addition to the above, I also had to:
Manage all the IE add-ons and removed most of them.
I also had to do a search on the c: drive for all executables, I deleted everything from when the machine started having problems, forward.
You don't run and you are not behind a firewall, you don't us AV and you don't use any spyware software. You download shareware/freeware/warez.
You have NEVER gotten spyware or a virus.
I cry bullshit.
You MIGHT be able to get away with that kind of system administration with WinXP SP2. If you hang an unprotected windows box onto an external (read, outside the firewalls) 100 meg network, you will be scanned within 30 seconds to a minute and compromised within an hour. Possibly longer, if you have really tweaked the machine. That would go against your premise though, if you spent any time securing your machine, then you probably needed a firewall.
There are trojaned machines constantly scanning for machines, like yours, in the wild. Microsoft patches have been too late to stop an infection more times than I can count.
I am a sysadmin and security engineer. I could secure a box, without third party apps, so that I could surf the web, download software (AND INSTALL IT) etc. It takes time and effort that I am not willing to spend. It also assumes that there is nothing on that workstation that I don't mind sharing with the world, since I am not perfect and any machine can be hacked/cracked if you put it on the Internet.
I use winxp sp2, firefox, proxomitron, adaware, symantec AV, spybot, sygate firewall and a couple of homerolled apps. Between my wife and my kids, we still get adware/spyware, we have not had a virus in years. A large percentage of the shareware out there has some kind of spyware. Many websites get you when you register. Etc etc etc
"So I have to ask myself, what to do all these people do to get their computers so messed up? Why isn't it happening to me, when I run the same Windows without any protection? Is it really Windows fault? "
Sorry, your post just doesn't ring true for a workstation that is actually used for daily, office automation type work and play. Microsoft doesn't even try to claim that you don't need a firewall or other protection. They don't hang windows boxes on the net unprotected.
http://www.lstar.com/alacarte.htm and http://www.amersatt.com/Pick-a-Pak.htm are two of the companies that google turned up. I have dish network and it looks like my current plan is cheaper than if I got the same stations that I watch via ala carte. Of course, with kids I get a slew of childrens stations that add up, plus we get local channels.
I used to work for an outsourced Telemarketing company. (Not that I am proud of it)
DNC lists are just another list of numbers that you scrub against. Most clients have HUGE lists of numbers and don't want all of them called on a particular campaign. You also have to scrub continously based on timezone, regional activities (I.E. calling during a hurricane is usually not appreciated), local, state and now the federal DNC lists.
They are NOT difficult to manage. What is difficult is finding enough good numbers to call during a shift. That is a different matter, and one that I have no sympathy for.
I believe the telemarketing companies have to download the latest greatest list every 90 days. It would be a softcopy, not a hardcopy list.
I used to work for a large telemarketing firm, loading lists of names into the calling database. There are several "scrubs" that are done on a list of names including the customers DNC list, the states and the national DNC. (There was a national DNC list prior to the federal one).
Telemarketing companies use an automated dialing system. That system will also "scrub" or filter the numbers being called based on the national DNC list, the time of day, geography, etc etc.
The implementation of the DNC list is trivial, the fact that it would eliminate most of their potential calls, isn't.
Linux Administration Handbook by Evi Nemoth of the Unix System Administration Handbook fame is an excellent book for system administrators and users. I have both books and use them all of the time.
Of course most of the O'Reilly & Associates books are excellent.
I started with an old Convex OS Man Pages book years ago and having a printed copy of the Man pages was pretty helpful.
The old Slackware Linux Unleashed book was one of my favorites a few years ago also.
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Actually you pointed out that people who think they can't avoid accidents shouldn't be allowed to drive. Once again you are a fucking moron. Accidents will happen. When they do, some people would like to have a large amount of steel around them.
Bikes can stop much more quickly than a car, make tighter turns etc. You were sitting at a light and got nailed, how could you have avoided the accident? Your point was nonsensical. I also think most of the problems with rollovers come from the smaller SUVs based on car bodies, not the larger truck based ones. Smaller SUVs are really just a tall car and anyone who buys one to be "safer" hasn't done the correct research.
You were lucky with your accident. I can't count the number of accidents I've seen where the rear passengers did not survive in a small car. I changed my driving route to avoid an intersection that had at least a fatality every couple of weeks, plus a serious accident almost daily. Usually a small car and a construction vehicle or truck. Rear passengers were the most common deaths. Down here, many of the trucks use custom bumpers welded to the frame. In an accident with a small car they penetrate through the crumple zones. Look up RanchHand bumpers. They look great, are functional, and will drive a truck through a Jetta.
Pop-Ups are camping in South Texas when it's 95 degrees until after midnight. Or really anything with an AC. Canoe? You should waterproof your backpack and float on it. That's camping.
You are a fucking moron. No car on the market can stop as quickly or maneuver as well as a motorcycle and riders get killed all the time. Ever hear of "Ben Roethlisberger"? Oh wait, you're just a typical opinionated Slashdot poser/poster.
Here is a question for your stupid ass, ever seen the rear of a small car after a crash? Fucking crumple zone pushes the rear bumper almost to the rear seat. Needless to say it doesn't leave much room for the any kids to survive.
Accidents happen and they are unavoidable, hence being called an accident. It's not a question of if; it's a question of when.
Some people like to have metal around them when they do have an accident. My wife hit a deer while driving 70mph in a rural area. 4k worth of damage to an Expedition, no injuries. Try that in a compact car. Or try getting through two miles of mud to get to pavement. Or going camping with a troop of girl scouts. Or camping (towing a pop-up). Hell, camping period with kids, especially if there is swimming involved.
Jackasses like you dump dogs in the country all the time. Try going to the vet with 5 fucking stray dogs in a compact.
Not everyone is a loser who sits at home and pretends to have a life while going on a virtual date with a guy who's screen name is Sally. Until you actually have kids, and DO things with them, don't judge others.
How about instead of whining about people who try to buy a safer vehicle for their families you whine about the shitty drivers on the road. Fuckers going ten miles under the speed limit in the left lane. Going too fast, weaving in and out of traffic - usually smaller cars BTW. Old people who can't drive for shit anymore. Young people who haven't learned how to drive yet and think they can.
You hate seeing people who drive 60 miles so they can "keep their kids in a good school district"? Well here is a big hearty FUCK YOU for you. News flash, once you move out of your parents home and actually have to pay bills and MAYBE even buy your own home, you might not want to move every time you switch jobs. Now since you are obviously a complete ass monkey who would never leave mommies house, that won't be an issue for you. Some of us don't want to disrupt our kids lives every time we switch companies and move 15 miles.
Out here in the Mid-West, (Texas), land is cheap and cities are sprawling. There are companies that don't have a desirable school district within 20 miles of their location. I drive 50 miles to work, and would love to find something closer. There is a problem, I make a shit load of $$ and gigs like that are difficult to find down here. Unless you enjoy wearing a tie, suit, arriving exactly at 0730 hours, taking exactly a 30 minute lunch etc etc. Fuck that, and to reiterate, FUCK YOU.
I have been reading Slashdot for a long time. I must have missed your being a troll...
You sound like someone who has never made it in the IT world, and yet wants to be accepted. You should just be a man and admit that you made a completely asinine post and be done with it.
If you install spybot from the beginning, you don't have to run msconfig.
Life is much easier with the correct tools already on the machine.
I just got done doing what the parent suggested a couple of days ago. It took about 5 hours, since spybot and adaware were not installed and we had a dialup computer.
In addition to the above, I also had to:
Manage all the IE add-ons and removed most of them.
I also had to do a search on the c: drive for all executables, I deleted everything from when the machine started having problems, forward.
Then I could download spybot etc.
Kind of a pain.
You don't run and you are not behind a firewall, you don't us AV and you don't use any spyware software. You download shareware/freeware/warez.
You have NEVER gotten spyware or a virus.
I cry bullshit.
You MIGHT be able to get away with that kind of system administration with WinXP SP2. If you hang an unprotected windows box onto an external (read, outside the firewalls) 100 meg network, you will be scanned within 30 seconds to a minute and compromised within an hour. Possibly longer, if you have really tweaked the machine. That would go against your premise though, if you spent any time securing your machine, then you probably needed a firewall.
There are trojaned machines constantly scanning for machines, like yours, in the wild. Microsoft patches have been too late to stop an infection more times than I can count.
I am a sysadmin and security engineer. I could secure a box, without third party apps, so that I could surf the web, download software (AND INSTALL IT) etc. It takes time and effort that I am not willing to spend. It also assumes that there is nothing on that workstation that I don't mind sharing with the world, since I am not perfect and any machine can be hacked/cracked if you put it on the Internet.
I use winxp sp2, firefox, proxomitron, adaware, symantec AV, spybot, sygate firewall and a couple of homerolled apps. Between my wife and my kids, we still get adware/spyware, we have not had a virus in years. A large percentage of the shareware out there has some kind of spyware. Many websites get you when you register. Etc etc etc
"So I have to ask myself, what to do all these people do to get their computers so messed up? Why isn't it happening to me, when I run the same Windows without any protection? Is it really Windows fault? "
Sorry, your post just doesn't ring true for a workstation that is actually used for daily, office automation type work and play. Microsoft doesn't even try to claim that you don't need a firewall or other protection. They don't hang windows boxes on the net unprotected.
http://www.lstar.com/alacarte.htm and http://www.amersatt.com/Pick-a-Pak.htm are two of the companies that google turned up. I have dish network and it looks like my current plan is cheaper than if I got the same stations that I watch via ala carte. Of course, with kids I get a slew of childrens stations that add up, plus we get local channels.
I used to work for an outsourced Telemarketing company. (Not that I am proud of it)
DNC lists are just another list of numbers that you scrub against. Most clients have HUGE lists of numbers and don't want all of them called on a particular campaign. You also have to scrub continously based on timezone, regional activities (I.E. calling during a hurricane is usually not appreciated), local, state and now the federal DNC lists.
They are NOT difficult to manage. What is difficult is finding enough good numbers to call during a shift. That is a different matter, and one that I have no sympathy for.
I believe the telemarketing companies have to download the latest greatest list every 90 days. It would be a softcopy, not a hardcopy list.
I used to work for a large telemarketing firm, loading lists of names into the calling database. There are several "scrubs" that are done on a list of names including the customers DNC list, the states and the national DNC. (There was a national DNC list prior to the federal one).
Telemarketing companies use an automated dialing system. That system will also "scrub" or filter the numbers being called based on the national DNC list, the time of day, geography, etc etc.
The implementation of the DNC list is trivial, the fact that it would eliminate most of their potential calls, isn't.
Linux Administration Handbook by Evi Nemoth of the Unix System Administration Handbook fame is an excellent book for system administrators and users. I have both books and use them all of the time.
Of course most of the O'Reilly & Associates books are excellent.
I started with an old Convex OS Man Pages book years ago and having a printed copy of the Man pages was pretty helpful.
The old Slackware Linux Unleashed book was one of my favorites a few years ago also.
-mike