I completely agree with you. One big reason why people I know pay someone to do the taxes is it is a pain in the butt to list every single stock trade you made during the last year.
I am alarmed by this article, but slightly comforted by the fact that he still needed his Social Security number to complete the app. Though I guess that can eventually be gotten by grabbing someone else's mail enough times.
Not when it's still under warranty, silly. Plus what would a customer think if they took the PC out of the box and it wouldn't boot at all? I'd never buy from them again.
I see plenty of Norton demo expiration alerts appear on computers I fix. I think it's misleading and annoying to have virus protection expire after 90 days of use. I've seen plenty of people who see that Norton or McAfee is still on their system so they think they're protected. Of course, the responsibility of wise computer use should be that of the user, but let's face it, most users don't know much anyway and having their anti virus expire on them just confuses them more.
Your personal freedom stops where your actions begin to infringe on the rights of others. Selling munitions plans to Iran would greatly jeopardize the right to life that Americans enjoy.
The banks won't be doing this to protect their end of things, they're doing it to protect the virus from capturing your login stuff and sending it to someone. That's my guess anyway.
http://www.ingdirect.com/ does something similar. You type in your account number, the answer to a question about you, and then click buttons 1-9 in order to enter your PIN. This foils the keystroke logging spybots.
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I completely agree with you. One big reason why people I know pay someone to do the taxes is it is a pain in the butt to list every single stock trade you made during the last year.
No matter how much you increase the resolution, it still won't make people appear on the screen in a movie they weren't in ;-)
I am alarmed by this article, but slightly comforted by the fact that he still needed his Social Security number to complete the app. Though I guess that can eventually be gotten by grabbing someone else's mail enough times.
I NEVER sign my checks before depositing them in the PNC Bank ATMs. There's no need to sign them. No one from the bank ever complains.
I their estimates will be about as reliable as Windows vs. Linux TCO studies I read about in computer magazines.
Tell 'em to get off the computer so you can work...
I was born in the US. If I move to Africa and become a citizen, can I check the "American-African" box on forms that I fill out there? :-)
Not when it's still under warranty, silly. Plus what would a customer think if they took the PC out of the box and it wouldn't boot at all? I'd never buy from them again.
Example: If your printer isn't printing, STOP HITTING THE PRINT BUTTON!!!
Just think, people like him could be contributing stuff to Wikipedia *this very moment*.
I see plenty of Norton demo expiration alerts appear on computers I fix. I think it's misleading and annoying to have virus protection expire after 90 days of use. I've seen plenty of people who see that Norton or McAfee is still on their system so they think they're protected. Of course, the responsibility of wise computer use should be that of the user, but let's face it, most users don't know much anyway and having their anti virus expire on them just confuses them more.
I subscribe to Yahoo! Music service for $5 a month for unlimited listening. I listen to it at work on my PC. Not everyone needs an iPod to hear music.
Urge? and Vista? Where do they get these ridiculous names?
Kind of like LAMP where P = PHP and PHP = PHP Hypertext Preprocessor :)
NH has no sales tax :-)
E-commerce sales take away from brick-and-mortar sales, which are taxed. The gov't feels they are losing money.
Remember 9/11, dada? Ordinary people can attack us any day of the week. It doesn't need to be the country of Iran formally declaring war on us.
I'm guessing you have a cruel murderer in the family, maybe one stationed in Iraq, eh? Huuuuh? No.
Your personal freedom stops where your actions begin to infringe on the rights of others. Selling munitions plans to Iran would greatly jeopardize the right to life that Americans enjoy.
Problem In Chair, Not In Computer :-)
The banks won't be doing this to protect their end of things, they're doing it to protect the virus from capturing your login stuff and sending it to someone. That's my guess anyway.
Our company's main system is written in FoxPro for DOS 2.6. The FP programmers here seem to have guaranteed lifetime employment :-)
I'd better get the IP address and shut mine down before Gary Winston can get to it!
http://www.ingdirect.com/ does something similar. You type in your account number, the answer to a question about you, and then click buttons 1-9 in order to enter your PIN. This foils the keystroke logging spybots.
That, and they compress the heck out of your messages.