I want to switch, but I am too busy to monkey around with my computer anymore... win2k works, (NT didn't) and I'd like to have a reason to never upgrade again, but I can't be tweaking settings and hunting for drivers...
Unfortunately, it's not a "3 button" mouse. It's a _one_ button mouse with a couple of extra _keys_ on it. I need my 8 button mouse... poor macs... they are still in the mouse dark ages...
MAC USER 1: Remember the good ole' days when Mac shipped a one button mouse with every computer... oh wait.
MAC USER 2: [convert from Linux] The mouse is for pixel pushers anyways...
Get a regular class room if you can... a bunch of internet connected computers for a _freshman_ english class with their screens all pointed away from you spells D I S T R A C T I O N. My computer classes had machines connected, that was hard enough keeping some people focused... oh, well, it's college, they have to learn responsibility sometime...
Honestly, a "Freshman English class" does not need computers or internet... the amount of time spent on the technical issues with the computers or any asignments related to them (besides word processing), especially during class, will be wasted time...
The thing I hated most in college was when a teacher had a "cool idea" that had nothing to do with specific course. No, offense, just a word to the wise. When I went to college I actually wanted to learn...
Your idea of peer review sounds cool, use forum software for it, but make it optional, certainly not during class though...
If you really want to teach them something, have everyone turn off their computers and pull out some paper, and say "today we are going to learn about English"
If need be, add a foot note "And fortunately, computers aren't needed to learn about English"
And if you really need to drill it in, "And in fact every minute spent messing with computers is a minute not spent on the English lessons in your book, which is why you are here."
Yes, but what lock was put on things to help people avoid the desire to steal?
Human behaviour 101, path a least resistance.
If strictures and rules were all it took, there would be need for a mandate for a "filter". Simply saying "don't surf porn or we'll revoke your internet use privelege" would have been adequate.
But doing this then puts the librarians into a "police" position, something that 1. Doesn't work well for anyone, 2. Librarians won't be able to do, cause they actually have other work todo. Hence the need for a filter. It's no different than the filter on the cable box outside your house. People are mad over nothing. Want total and free access, get the net at your house. Need help finding something? Ask for it. It's so simple.
Weakened how?
The same way when a kid finds a cigarette, temptation, taboos, all intriguing, regardless if they even understand it...
their response is usually "eewe" or "gross" or "yuck"
I live on earth, 5 year old boys like seeing naked ladies... Besides, public viewing with a group is not the same as the single kid sitting there. Basic group behaviour...
What do you think would happen if everyone in the young woman's high school (or maybe Junior High) new she had V.D.?
I didn't say "blab to the world" I said, "admit your mistakes". My idiology on this regard will never happen, people don't care about being trustworthy anymore. But ultimatly she should be able to talk to her parents. Going off on tirades of different scenarios will go no where, I lived on the streets and even kids there had someone to talk to, so no balogna about nobody to talk to...
This again sounds like speculation. Was this fact brought up in the court case? It would have crushed the ALA's case.
I know this from personal experience, and from many of the children I met on the streets. 11 year olds and 15 year olds with abusive parents. If you think porn has nothing to do with abuse, then you really have no experience to talk from. Not to mention my mom's a therapist (don't give me any grief on this) and she liked to talk about her patients, until I said I didn't want to hear anymore... stuff like that doesn't end up in court discussions...
My friend's sister, dropped her kid of at their house and left him there for 6 months. He'd wipe his shit on the walls, and try and burn the house down, swear and fight constintantly, and cry.
I really don't want to go into details, but if you are so ignorant as much of the shouting fanatatics out there that porn has nothing to do with this kind of stuff, then perhaps you need a good shitty situtation to smack you in the face, and then see loved ones torn apart from it...
I think kids are generally uninterested by porn and given the choice would just ignore it.
What planet are you from? That's like saying "given the choice, kids would choose to eat vegetables over candy." ya, right. If you had kids maybe you would see that kids are naturally selfish, mean and nasty and actually have to be taught to be nice, not the other way around. Porn is a degrading display of a beautiful act, and mostly destructive in the view of the value of women, which is what a young boy will get out of it...
This concept of "we're okay with a little censorship because it serves the greater good" is a dangerous slippery slope.
This is where you are 180 degrees backwards. There is a decline in the amount of censorship, not a growth. Maybe if are old enough, you would remember what TV was like in the 80's. They bleeped out "damn" and "shit" on TV then, now there is all kinds of crap on TV, censorship, thanks to people like you, is almost a thing of the past... The whole point of censorship was to maintain a high sta
It seems rather judgemental of you to decide what lessons she learns and when. Modesty? Embarrassment? Too bad!
If her last resort in a possibly life threatening situtation is internet access at a library then either your scenario is absurd or just around the corner this girl will hit another terrible situation that something as small as internet filters will destroy her life.
Yes, there is a benefit of putting basic plastic locks on the internet. Just like for kids, you put the little levers on the doors so they don't get chemicals, untensils or trash.
In regular life my child will never run into the perversion and dangers that are online, but at the library they could accidently bump into it simplly because people like you don't think _my_ children, my children's friends, my neighbor's kids, the kids at school deserve to be protected from this stuff.
You are missing the larger picture, like locks, they keep honest people honest, it just helps. Believe or not everyone has thought of stealing at some point in their life, but they didn't because society setup strucutres and rules that helped them mentally overcome that desire.
A child that had no desire nor intention of looking up smut online that accidently bumps into for whatever reasons then becomes weakened and since the child didn't make the choice purposely to be where they are at now have no choice, they've been thrown into the mire of adult perversion simply by accident.
Are filters the best way? Maybe not, really there should be a Library net portal like AOL, a library channel so to speak. Yes there's info on the computer, but we don't have cable TV's setup in Libraries allowing people to just sit and watch TV, the internet is a privledge paid for by tax dollars, not a right, just like TV.
the internet can provide superior privacy and anonymity
This is a common illusion in our society that keeping things secret is somehow better for the girl. This is propogated by people who want to hide what they do, if people would come out, admit their mistakes and move on, then perhaps children would have better roll models to follow and this would be non-issue entirely.
I don't believe either system is targeting mental health,
Healthy kindergartners with knowledge of adult perversion makes it harder for them to act normal in school. Constant subjection to this kind of thing can lead to suicides, depression and numerous other mentally debilitating states. If you really think porn is good for kids, this discussion is pointless...
Are you seriously trying to make the argument that internet filters will cause a girl to be permenantly disabled by an STD? What would she have done 3 years ago when her library didn't even have internet... sounds stupid to blame a small limitation on very new point of information access as the cause of _any_ social problems.
I have 3 kids, I don't want them going to the library and seeing some pervert surfing porn.
This is similar to second hand smoke. Things that are illegal in public like indecent exposure should be illegal in _public_ libraries. The simple fact that certain channels can be turned off on the internet is just how it has to be done.
If there was a TV going in the library I'd doubt you'd yell and scream how unconstitutional it is to block a porn channel... even if a few channels were accidently turned off at the same time... who cares? If you want to surf porn, do it at home.
Here's one for you, look at the libraries with no computers, they don't get any internet at all. So why all the complaints about a system that at it's core is targeting the future mental health of our entire country?
So what if it's not perfect, nothing is, but at least they are trying to do something good for kids... adults have ways of dealing with their problems, the internet won't fix _anything_ for an adult, it's just another avenue for information, period.
Besides, I bet their's dozens of _books_ on STD's... Also if her embarassement supercedes her ability to care for her health, then she will have a very difficult life lesson to learn regardless of her information resources... Even if she finds out she has an STD from her boyfriend, she still has to tell someone.... Is she going to go to the doctor by her self? Then what difference would it make if she read about the STD from a book or on the net?
No matter what happens, she has access to the information, or at least to people that do, regardless of net access...
Then how come they had to take the screen shots down? This is the current text on their site...
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2. If your cell phone is a computer without a firewall then they can access your phone without permission via a handy EULA.
3. Via the latest tech (DVD/PC/Phone connections) They just hop to your DVD player, check your playlist, check your computer (as WinXP has been building a nice little "possible copyright infringement list" of items played.) get the list..
4. Send the list back to MS, SONY, Intel (got an overclocked CPU?), MPAA, RIAA, [Insert any software company here that wants to know if you have copied software on your machine], etc...
5. Sell this service to the BSA or whomever wants to dig around in your computer...
It's just another way for them to collect this info for lawsuits later...
hehe, good to see there's some people in the know at Charter. I don't mean to sound down on Charter, I have been extremely pleased with the service, the terms and the support, all excellent.:)
Of coures when my connection goes down because some lunk heads at construction sites cut the fiber optics, not much Charter can do...:P
Alright then, your reply beg's the question, "how do you know it was that particular spyware, and there isn't a problem inside of Charter?"
I am using Mozilla, hehe, thanks. It's good to know one decision covers me on so many bases. (No viruses in 5 years thanks to Mozilla/Netscape...)
I called Charter upon seeing this article and the support guy got all annoyed. "Those guys at slashdot are just tech geeks, and they probably don't even have an proof that we got hacked...blah, blah, blah" and
"If we got hacked, _I_ would know about it..."
uh-huh...
I had to practically badger the guy into sending me an email when the corporate office made an "official reply" to the abuse claim...*sigh*
Now what? How do I know when I am at risk? What does the normal schmo do in a situtation like this?
Should I stop accessing any financial websites that I use?
This is the one thing that's always made me paranoid, so what if I have a firewall, if my ISP is hijacked, then what do you do? It's not like I have options out here, Charter is it, unless I want to bend over for Sprint's DSL (which they charge you tons of cash to cancel your account among other nefarious things...) or satelite (ugh)
My concern is not with the hardware upgrade, but with software. Will MS purposely refuse to upgrade win 2000 to support the new PCI bus? Is this even an issue?
The last thing I want to do is have to learn linux sooner than I was planning...:P
Caffine is being used now as an industrial bug killer, so it seems that caffine in plants tastes bad to the animals that eat them and also makes them sick (like in a caffine overdose. Take that versus the frankenfood theory already posted here, and I will just have to say "no thanks" to coffee in general...
I know I already replied to this post but there is one really stupid thing to note here.... you have to have outlook express installed on your system before you can install outlook... (as at one point I uninstalled Express and later installed Office 2000 and it wouldn't install Outlook because Express wasn't installed... I doubt I did something wrong...
So is there really a seperation of Express and regular Outlook?
You see this is the benefit of not having any dollars to vote with in the first place, every dollar I don't have is an automatic vote against the evil corporations...
How about this then, they could include a link to their website with an application you can download to verify that the virus they are indeed clicking "yes" to is the real thing...:)
(a side note, the "good" virus would have to be sent to all their friends... otherwise how else would it spread? Eventually it would close up enough insecure systems that it couldn't spread anymore... that's was my initial idea anyways... the reality may be somewhat different...)
I understand, I also have a family and so far the worst that has happened with these viruses isn't so bad.... I personally would not stick my neck out for something like this.
Let's just hope the grey hats stay ahead of the black hats then.:)
Perhaps the latest Outlook is fine, but it seems there are still people running windows 95, 98, Me, etc, out there... I am not sure about which versions are actually insecure but this article from MSN
In an attempt to avoid detection, BugBear attempts to turn off all antivirus programs, and it shuts down other security software. In addition, it uses a particularly nasty flaw in Microsoftâ(TM)s Internet Explorer program and its implementation by Microsoftâ(TM)s Outlook e-mail reader that allows the virus to infect machines whenever a victim simply previews an e-mail message loaded with the program.
It seems that it's not just Outlook but IE as well, and just "previewing" the email, not even opening the attachement, is causing problems... This is very recent...only 1 week ago, so even though the newest versions are patched, it seems to matter very little cause most of the outlook apps out there are not patched....
Like a kickstand, rollbar and maybe the all to elusive 3rd wheel so you _can't_ fall over... are they so cheap that they can't afford the 3rd wheel or so idealistic that they don't want it... reminds me of what Steve Jobs said about the first Mac...
"Who wants a color monitor anyways?"
Who doesn't enjoy falling on their face anyways?
Here's the idea, if it starts to fall over, it stops on a protruding _anything_.... *sigh* even a 5 year could figure out how to stop the impending storm of lawsuits from flat faces of drunk segway cruisers...
Hey, when is someone going to be nice enough to the world to make a purty li'l worm that actually shuts off all the security features that are exploited in Outlook...
I am sure there are plenty of reasons not to do this, but if you asked the person politely like.
"Hello, this is your friendly internet virus fighter coming to say hello and give you a hand! Would you like to turn off the features now that allowed me to hack into your computer? | Yes | No |"
*click*
"Thank you and have a nice day! If I come back again that means a new hole/exploit was found in Outlook and I can give you another helping hand!"
Slashdot Mirror
I want to switch, but I am too busy to monkey around with my computer anymore... win2k works, (NT didn't) and I'd like to have a reason to never upgrade again, but I can't be tweaking settings and hunting for drivers...
Unfortunately, it's not a "3 button" mouse. It's a _one_ button mouse with a couple of extra _keys_ on it. I need my 8 button mouse... poor macs... they are still in the mouse dark ages...
MAC USER 1: Remember the good ole' days when Mac shipped a one button mouse with every computer... oh wait.
MAC USER 2: [convert from Linux] The mouse is for pixel pushers anyways...
Get a regular class room if you can... a bunch of internet connected computers for a _freshman_ english class with their screens all pointed away from you spells D I S T R A C T I O N. My computer classes had machines connected, that was hard enough keeping some people focused... oh, well, it's college, they have to learn responsibility sometime...
Honestly, a "Freshman English class" does not need computers or internet... the amount of time spent on the technical issues with the computers or any asignments related to them (besides word processing), especially during class, will be wasted time...
The thing I hated most in college was when a teacher had a "cool idea" that had nothing to do with specific course. No, offense, just a word to the wise. When I went to college I actually wanted to learn...
Your idea of peer review sounds cool, use forum software for it, but make it optional, certainly not during class though...
If you really want to teach them something, have everyone turn off their computers and pull out some paper, and say "today we are going to learn about English"
If need be, add a foot note "And fortunately, computers aren't needed to learn about English"
And if you really need to drill it in, "And in fact every minute spent messing with computers is a minute not spent on the English lessons in your book, which is why you are here."
Human behaviour 101, path a least resistance.
If strictures and rules were all it took, there would be need for a mandate for a "filter". Simply saying "don't surf porn or we'll revoke your internet use privelege" would have been adequate.
But doing this then puts the librarians into a "police" position, something that 1. Doesn't work well for anyone, 2. Librarians won't be able to do, cause they actually have other work todo. Hence the need for a filter. It's no different than the filter on the cable box outside your house. People are mad over nothing. Want total and free access, get the net at your house. Need help finding something? Ask for it. It's so simple.
Weakened how?
The same way when a kid finds a cigarette, temptation, taboos, all intriguing, regardless if they even understand it...
their response is usually "eewe" or "gross" or "yuck"
I live on earth, 5 year old boys like seeing naked ladies... Besides, public viewing with a group is not the same as the single kid sitting there. Basic group behaviour...
What do you think would happen if everyone in the young woman's high school (or maybe Junior High) new she had V.D.?
I didn't say "blab to the world" I said, "admit your mistakes". My idiology on this regard will never happen, people don't care about being trustworthy anymore. But ultimatly she should be able to talk to her parents. Going off on tirades of different scenarios will go no where, I lived on the streets and even kids there had someone to talk to, so no balogna about nobody to talk to...
This again sounds like speculation. Was this fact brought up in the court case? It would have crushed the ALA's case.
I know this from personal experience, and from many of the children I met on the streets. 11 year olds and 15 year olds with abusive parents. If you think porn has nothing to do with abuse, then you really have no experience to talk from. Not to mention my mom's a therapist (don't give me any grief on this) and she liked to talk about her patients, until I said I didn't want to hear anymore... stuff like that doesn't end up in court discussions...
My friend's sister, dropped her kid of at their house and left him there for 6 months. He'd wipe his shit on the walls, and try and burn the house down, swear and fight constintantly, and cry.
I really don't want to go into details, but if you are so ignorant as much of the shouting fanatatics out there that porn has nothing to do with this kind of stuff, then perhaps you need a good shitty situtation to smack you in the face, and then see loved ones torn apart from it...
Here's an extreme example if you really need one-
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/06/20/porn.t hreat.ap/index.html
That's just one story out of millions...
I think kids are generally uninterested by porn and given the choice would just ignore it.
What planet are you from? That's like saying "given the choice, kids would choose to eat vegetables over candy." ya, right. If you had kids maybe you would see that kids are naturally selfish, mean and nasty and actually have to be taught to be nice, not the other way around. Porn is a degrading display of a beautiful act, and mostly destructive in the view of the value of women, which is what a young boy will get out of it...
This concept of "we're okay with a little censorship because it serves the greater good" is a dangerous slippery slope.
This is where you are 180 degrees backwards. There is a decline in the amount of censorship, not a growth. Maybe if are old enough, you would remember what TV was like in the 80's. They bleeped out "damn" and "shit" on TV then, now there is all kinds of crap on TV, censorship, thanks to people like you, is almost a thing of the past... The whole point of censorship was to maintain a high sta
If her last resort in a possibly life threatening situtation is internet access at a library then either your scenario is absurd or just around the corner this girl will hit another terrible situation that something as small as internet filters will destroy her life.
Yes, there is a benefit of putting basic plastic locks on the internet. Just like for kids, you put the little levers on the doors so they don't get chemicals, untensils or trash.
In regular life my child will never run into the perversion and dangers that are online, but at the library they could accidently bump into it simplly because people like you don't think _my_ children, my children's friends, my neighbor's kids, the kids at school deserve to be protected from this stuff.
You are missing the larger picture, like locks, they keep honest people honest, it just helps. Believe or not everyone has thought of stealing at some point in their life, but they didn't because society setup strucutres and rules that helped them mentally overcome that desire.
A child that had no desire nor intention of looking up smut online that accidently bumps into for whatever reasons then becomes weakened and since the child didn't make the choice purposely to be where they are at now have no choice, they've been thrown into the mire of adult perversion simply by accident.
Are filters the best way? Maybe not, really there should be a Library net portal like AOL, a library channel so to speak. Yes there's info on the computer, but we don't have cable TV's setup in Libraries allowing people to just sit and watch TV, the internet is a privledge paid for by tax dollars, not a right, just like TV.
the internet can provide superior privacy and anonymity
This is a common illusion in our society that keeping things secret is somehow better for the girl. This is propogated by people who want to hide what they do, if people would come out, admit their mistakes and move on, then perhaps children would have better roll models to follow and this would be non-issue entirely.
I don't believe either system is targeting mental health,
Healthy kindergartners with knowledge of adult perversion makes it harder for them to act normal in school. Constant subjection to this kind of thing can lead to suicides, depression and numerous other mentally debilitating states. If you really think porn is good for kids, this discussion is pointless...
Are you seriously trying to make the argument that internet filters will cause a girl to be permenantly disabled by an STD? What would she have done 3 years ago when her library didn't even have internet... sounds stupid to blame a small limitation on very new point of information access as the cause of _any_ social problems.
I have 3 kids, I don't want them going to the library and seeing some pervert surfing porn.
This is similar to second hand smoke. Things that are illegal in public like indecent exposure should be illegal in _public_ libraries. The simple fact that certain channels can be turned off on the internet is just how it has to be done.
If there was a TV going in the library I'd doubt you'd yell and scream how unconstitutional it is to block a porn channel... even if a few channels were accidently turned off at the same time... who cares? If you want to surf porn, do it at home.
Here's one for you, look at the libraries with no computers, they don't get any internet at all. So why all the complaints about a system that at it's core is targeting the future mental health of our entire country?
So what if it's not perfect, nothing is, but at least they are trying to do something good for kids... adults have ways of dealing with their problems, the internet won't fix _anything_ for an adult, it's just another avenue for information, period.
Besides, I bet their's dozens of _books_ on STD's... Also if her embarassement supercedes her ability to care for her health, then she will have a very difficult life lesson to learn regardless of her information resources... Even if she finds out she has an STD from her boyfriend, she still has to tell someone.... Is she going to go to the doctor by her self? Then what difference would it make if she read about the STD from a book or on the net?
No matter what happens, she has access to the information, or at least to people that do, regardless of net access...
You live in California right? Try that in Minnesota...
I think of a gas station that sells "Motion Fuel", which is obviously better than gasoline...
perhaps, but the FBI just got powers to hack P2P, why would this be any different?
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You should buy a ram jet powered locomotive... never a problem with speed or overloading your hauling capacity... be sure to lease it.
I think you may be missing a big link here.
1. Anyone can call your cell phone.
2. If your cell phone is a computer without a firewall then they can access your phone without permission via a handy EULA.
3. Via the latest tech (DVD/PC/Phone connections) They just hop to your DVD player, check your playlist, check your computer (as WinXP has been building a nice little "possible copyright infringement list" of items played.) get the list..
4. Send the list back to MS, SONY, Intel (got an overclocked CPU?), MPAA, RIAA, [Insert any software company here that wants to know if you have copied software on your machine], etc...
5. Sell this service to the BSA or whomever wants to dig around in your computer...
It's just another way for them to collect this info for lawsuits later...
hehe, good to see there's some people in the know at Charter. I don't mean to sound down on Charter, I have been extremely pleased with the service, the terms and the support, all excellent. :)
:P
Of coures when my connection goes down because some lunk heads at construction sites cut the fiber optics, not much Charter can do...
Alright then, your reply beg's the question, "how do you know it was that particular spyware, and there isn't a problem inside of Charter?"
I am using Mozilla, hehe, thanks. It's good to know one decision covers me on so many bases. (No viruses in 5 years thanks to Mozilla/Netscape...)
I called Charter upon seeing this article and the support guy got all annoyed. "Those guys at slashdot are just tech geeks, and they probably don't even have an proof that we got hacked...blah, blah, blah" and
"If we got hacked, _I_ would know about it..."
uh-huh...
I had to practically badger the guy into sending me an email when the corporate office made an "official reply" to the abuse claim...*sigh*
Again, thanks...
Now what? How do I know when I am at risk? What does the normal schmo do in a situtation like this?
Should I stop accessing any financial websites that I use?
This is the one thing that's always made me paranoid, so what if I have a firewall, if my ISP is hijacked, then what do you do? It's not like I have options out here, Charter is it, unless I want to bend over for Sprint's DSL (which they charge you tons of cash to cancel your account among other nefarious things...) or satelite (ugh)
Thanks :) *sigh* I have more time... :)
My concern is not with the hardware upgrade, but with software. Will MS purposely refuse to upgrade win 2000 to support the new PCI bus? Is this even an issue?
:P
The last thing I want to do is have to learn linux sooner than I was planning...
Caffine is being used now as an industrial bug killer, so it seems that caffine in plants tastes bad to the animals that eat them and also makes them sick (like in a caffine overdose. Take that versus the frankenfood theory already posted here, and I will just have to say "no thanks" to coffee in general...
I know I already replied to this post but there is one really stupid thing to note here.... you have to have outlook express installed on your system before you can install outlook... (as at one point I uninstalled Express and later installed Office 2000 and it wouldn't install Outlook because Express wasn't installed... I doubt I did something wrong...
So is there really a seperation of Express and regular Outlook?
You see this is the benefit of not having any dollars to vote with in the first place, every dollar I don't have is an automatic vote against the evil corporations...
How about this then, they could include a link to their website with an application you can download to verify that the virus they are indeed clicking "yes" to is the real thing... :)
(a side note, the "good" virus would have to be sent to all their friends... otherwise how else would it spread? Eventually it would close up enough insecure systems that it couldn't spread anymore... that's was my initial idea anyways... the reality may be somewhat different...)
I understand, I also have a family and so far the worst that has happened with these viruses isn't so bad.... I personally would not stick my neck out for something like this.
:)
Let's just hope the grey hats stay ahead of the black hats then.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/922529.asp?0cv=CB10&cp1= 1
In an attempt to avoid detection, BugBear attempts to turn off all antivirus programs, and it shuts down other security software. In addition, it uses a particularly nasty flaw in Microsoftâ(TM)s Internet Explorer program and its implementation by Microsoftâ(TM)s Outlook e-mail reader that allows the virus to infect machines whenever a victim simply previews an e-mail message loaded with the program.
It seems that it's not just Outlook but IE as well, and just "previewing" the email, not even opening the attachement, is causing problems... This is very recent...only 1 week ago, so even though the newest versions are patched, it seems to matter very little cause most of the outlook apps out there are not patched....
Like a kickstand, rollbar and maybe the all to elusive 3rd wheel so you _can't_ fall over... are they so cheap that they can't afford the 3rd wheel or so idealistic that they don't want it... reminds me of what Steve Jobs said about the first Mac...
"Who wants a color monitor anyways?"
Who doesn't enjoy falling on their face anyways?
Here's the idea, if it starts to fall over, it stops on a protruding _anything_.... *sigh* even a 5 year could figure out how to stop the impending storm of lawsuits from flat faces of drunk segway cruisers...
Hey, when is someone going to be nice enough to the world to make a purty li'l worm that actually shuts off all the security features that are exploited in Outlook...
I am sure there are plenty of reasons not to do this, but if you asked the person politely like.
"Hello, this is your friendly internet virus fighter coming to say hello and give you a hand! Would you like to turn off the features now that allowed me to hack into your computer?
| Yes | No |"
*click*
"Thank you and have a nice day! If I come back again that means a new hole/exploit was found in Outlook and I can give you another helping hand!"