Puh-leeze! Pretty please, big brother, regulate my life so I can feel all comfy-cozy and enjoy my ultimately illusory security from the predators who also know more than I do about everything? Big brother, please protect me and keep me safe from the ones you call bad, those who aren't mostly good, defined as blindly following rules?
Lessee - Microsoft makes OS and software for profit with known holes in them that anyone can exploit, uses their massive monopolistic market share to gobble up small companies and deign to give a slight nod to a very few "security providers" until MS can gobble *them* up, and now we're supposed to jump up and down cheering madly because in addition to making yet *more* money (awards for damages), MS might, in having invested a miniscule fraction of its financial strength, actually provide some incidental benefit to email users??? Oh, joy.
Getting errors on credit reports fixed usually requires a brinksmanship formerly only seen during the height of the cold war: We've had to *threaten* litigation on 3 separate occasions to have mistaken items removed.
These threats were next-to-last resorts after multiple snail-mails (phone calls don't exist unless you record them, and if you're legal, i.e. inform the other party you're recording, they hang up).
By the time one factors in one's time, stress, and postage, it's almost enough to warrant small claims court just for the incidental charges - and I personally despise the idea that that contributes to our "litigious society" image...
Granted that Outlook Express is lame to most "power-users", I submit that not many have really used their filtering fully - with a home-made set of whitelist filter rules put in place before a catch-all "suspect" filter, I get less than one false positive per week and ZERO false negatives. In my Outlook Express client.
"Always with you it cannot be done." -Yoda
To bring snail mail offers to a screeching halt: Use their convenient reply post-paid envelope to send them your business card, a diatribe against the debt-drug, anything that will fit - as they learn what it costs to send you things, the offers will slow, then cease. If you simply toss the thing, they don't get charged for the postage on the return envelope.
There is a great niche between the local Sylvan store and students' equally-struggling friends - not great $$$, but it is rewarding to know that one is helping stem the growing flood of illiteracy, innumeracy, and apathy in education.
It is amazing that anybody is naive enough to believe that any computer connected to the internet has any privacy at all. The only question is one of "Big Brother"'s resources and priorities...
Wait - *I* want what you're describing: a No-brainer Linux install disk (or two, if needed) that will bring up a gui desktop with browser, email client and office applications on reboot after install.
With that and the right hardware...
Besides yours truly a raving Spider Robinson fan? Stardance, Starseed, Starmind... In space, nationality ceases to matter, and there's a *lot* more room out there than there is down here. I want to be a space colonist, and don't care what flag (if any) is painted on the ride that gets me there.
Earning those burnout level wages for a year plus... How much of of that money went into savings/investments? If I earned $100k+ for a year's efforts, I'd be well on my way to being able to retire - 2 years, and I might - 3 years? all done. Union might be a good idea - a solid financial plan would be a better one.
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"Former CIA *Head*..." Strange, I always thought the CIA refused to hire "Heads" (those who used lysergic acid diethylamide)...
Puh-leeze! Pretty please, big brother, regulate my life so I can feel all comfy-cozy and enjoy my ultimately illusory security from the predators who also know more than I do about everything? Big brother, please protect me and keep me safe from the ones you call bad, those who aren't mostly good, defined as blindly following rules?
Lessee - Microsoft makes OS and software for profit with known holes in them that anyone can exploit, uses their massive monopolistic market share to gobble up small companies and deign to give a slight nod to a very few "security providers" until MS can gobble *them* up, and now we're supposed to jump up and down cheering madly because in addition to making yet *more* money (awards for damages), MS might, in having invested a miniscule fraction of its financial strength, actually provide some incidental benefit to email users??? Oh, joy.
Getting errors on credit reports fixed usually requires a brinksmanship formerly only seen during the height of the cold war: We've had to *threaten* litigation on 3 separate occasions to have mistaken items removed. These threats were next-to-last resorts after multiple snail-mails (phone calls don't exist unless you record them, and if you're legal, i.e. inform the other party you're recording, they hang up). By the time one factors in one's time, stress, and postage, it's almost enough to warrant small claims court just for the incidental charges - and I personally despise the idea that that contributes to our "litigious society" image...
A "cleaver" person sounds just like the ticket for some of the more egregious offenders - your Freudian slip is showing...
Granted that Outlook Express is lame to most "power-users", I submit that not many have really used their filtering fully - with a home-made set of whitelist filter rules put in place before a catch-all "suspect" filter, I get less than one false positive per week and ZERO false negatives. In my Outlook Express client. "Always with you it cannot be done." -Yoda
To bring snail mail offers to a screeching halt: Use their convenient reply post-paid envelope to send them your business card, a diatribe against the debt-drug, anything that will fit - as they learn what it costs to send you things, the offers will slow, then cease. If you simply toss the thing, they don't get charged for the postage on the return envelope.
There is a great niche between the local Sylvan store and students' equally-struggling friends - not great $$$, but it is rewarding to know that one is helping stem the growing flood of illiteracy, innumeracy, and apathy in education.
It is amazing that anybody is naive enough to believe that any computer connected to the internet has any privacy at all. The only question is one of "Big Brother"'s resources and priorities...
Okay - this helmet actually exists already? LS machines are so last century...
Wait - *I* want what you're describing: a No-brainer Linux install disk (or two, if needed) that will bring up a gui desktop with browser, email client and office applications on reboot after install. With that and the right hardware...
Besides yours truly a raving Spider Robinson fan? Stardance, Starseed, Starmind... In space, nationality ceases to matter, and there's a *lot* more room out there than there is down here. I want to be a space colonist, and don't care what flag (if any) is painted on the ride that gets me there.
zwallet? I welcome UCE - I get paid to open and delete it.
Earning those burnout level wages for a year plus... How much of of that money went into savings/investments? If I earned $100k+ for a year's efforts, I'd be well on my way to being able to retire - 2 years, and I might - 3 years? all done. Union might be a good idea - a solid financial plan would be a better one.