I think the best way to tell if you are infected is to monitor your network traffic. Ideally, from an independent machine watching the traffic. (Not that I have ever done this, but it seems like the most fool-proof method.)
I am up to date with everything (AV, FW, Widows Patches)
What are you up to? Dating patches of women who lost their husband? Yeah, that might infect you!;)
My opinion about tags (based on how they are used on other sites) is to link like objects. For instance, if I wanted to read all the articles that were about "slashdot", I could use the "slashdot" tag as a way to find them.
Using the tag "yes" and "no" is pretty worthless in my book. Those tags just allow me to search for articles that had yes or no questions in them. And often, the article is tagged with both "yes" and "no" (and sometimes "maybe"). Worthless!
Funny thing, I read that stupid parent post (my grandparent post), and thought "What sort of idiot would mod this as informative? It was a congratulations, and an obvious attempt to be first post, by putting some nonsense in quickly."
Then I see your Subject "Idiot with mod points" and think, "oh good, I'm not alone." Then I read your message and totally disagree with you!
OK, maybe it shouldn't have been marked as Troll. Maybe Off Topic or Overrated. But certainly not informative. Definitely Modded DOWN (in my humble opinion).
I'm not trying to start an argument, but in both cases (language and bio-diversity), are they decreasing? Just because some (languages / species) are becoming extinct, does this mean that there are less? Surely new species and new languages are being created REGULARLY.
I am far from an expert on Myspace. I've only used it to research job candidates. My only MySpace accounts are courtesy of bugmenot.com. So don't interpret what I say as researched opinions.
I was more just stunned that she sat on that kiosk and "worked" away on facebook and myspace.
Maybe LinkedIn or some other "more trustworthy" business-oriented social network site will help address the spam problem, by only letting you communicate with people who are in your "circle of trust".
Not a perfect solution (and I HATE LinkedIn* and will resist using it every step of the way), but it's coming, and according to this young woman, the time has arrived, and these sites have replaced email for the up and coming business woman.
* the reason I hate LinkedIn is because it's often listed among a set of sites that can expose too much information. Once, I witnessed someone researching their competitor's "network" of contacts using a site like this. This person was able to gather far too much information, for free, about the people that his competitor was calling on.
The spam problems of email are causing people to migrate to trusted systems.
As I stood at a kiosk at a trade show this week, and waded through my spam-filled email on a few services (work email, hotmail, and gmail), the young woman at the kiosk next to me accessed her myspace and facebook accounts and responded to friends only.
She turned and said that only old people use email. And she was a VENDOR at the conference.... Things that make you go hmmmmmmmm......
Moderators, the author of the parent message appears to work for the company, and his messages ought to be given consideration for mod points. See the messages from 'voidspace' for moderation consideration.
Marketing puke: "Mr Gates, I have the Vista sales projections right here. I've straight-lined growth over the months, starting at 13,107 (thousands of units) in month 1, and each month, increasing steadily. Month 2, 26,214. Month 3, 39,221. Month 4, 52,328. Amazingly, no matter how many times I crunch the numbers, Month 5 jumps up to 100,000 thousand units!"
The same types of questions could have been asked through the centuries of discoveries in physics. Example: We know about the theory of electrons. Why measure it? Why worry about it? Answer: Because if we can understand it, while we may not be able to "control it" (as in change its behavior), we can utilize it to our advantage.
Same thing for Newtonian physics. And Astronomy, and physics of planets. (Why worry about what the sun or moon is going to do? You can't change it! - YEAH, but you CAN learn, and then launch a satellite or two thousand, and change our very communications infrastructure.
If you want to see something fun try to figure what that becomes with compound interest instead.
I like the "Millionaire's Estimation". With compounding, when the rate times the number of payments = 72, you end up with a 50% gain on your money. Aim for saving a nice round $720K, and the 50% gain puts you over a million.
Set aside $80K per year for 9 years at 8%, and you're a millionaire. Or 90K/yr for 8 years at 9%.
Even more realistic: 30K/yr for 16 years at 9%. Or 8K/year for 24 years at 12%.
Use time and aggressive investments to your advantage! It's not that hard.
While paying cash often ends up being to your advantage, I disagree with the statement "Always pay cash" (for a new vehicle). The correct statement should read "Do the math, and choose the best alternative."
Here are several scenarios where I, personally, have found it better to NOT Pay cash:
The car dealership actually took a credit card. I negotiated my best deal, and then pulled out my credit card, which pays me 1% back. I "charged" a $25K car (using two cash-back cards), and got $250 back from the credit card companies, and had 30 days to pay it off, interest free.
The dealership had a "special" financing deal which was well below market rates. I took the 2% financing, and did better by putting my money into a CD.
I once evaluated my alternative uses for the cash, and found an investment that paid a higher rate than my credit union's new car loan rate. Yes, there was a little risk involved, but it ended up being well worth it.
Once I decided that I wanted to maintain a little liquidity due to some outstanding business transactions, so decided not to tie up $30K of cash in a vehicle, and instead paid the interest for a couple of months until there was more certainty in the other transactions. (I wanted to be sure to "make payroll" in my business, and I needed the van as part of the business. Finance the van, make payroll, collect the outstanding receivables, pay off the van.)
You don't do anyone any favors by making blanket statements like "always pay cash". The right answer is for people to think for themselves.
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Macs Rule and Kevin Rose is cool!!!!!11!1eleven
Usenet is a protocol. Usenet.com is a company. (Not that I agree with this strategy. just explaining...!)
Yes $2.46 per bit, but given that roughly half the bits were zero, and half were ones, she was charged $111K per digit.
I fixed your fix for ya.
I should add, #7 for MIT, #21 for UC-Berkeley, but #21 was the highest public school, so that would confirm part of your comment.
Got any sources to cite, on your claims for number 1? US News puts your choices at #7 and #21.
Using the tag "yes" and "no" is pretty worthless in my book. Those tags just allow me to search for articles that had yes or no questions in them. And often, the article is tagged with both "yes" and "no" (and sometimes "maybe"). Worthless!
Then I see your Subject "Idiot with mod points" and think, "oh good, I'm not alone." Then I read your message and totally disagree with you!
OK, maybe it shouldn't have been marked as Troll. Maybe Off Topic or Overrated. But certainly not informative. Definitely Modded DOWN (in my humble opinion).
Clearly bad lawyers! And don't use the same name on Kazaa as match.com!
I wish I had mod points! Those three links are classics! I could waste HOURS On this!
I'm not trying to start an argument, but in both cases (language and bio-diversity), are they decreasing? Just because some (languages / species) are becoming extinct, does this mean that there are less? Surely new species and new languages are being created REGULARLY.
I was more just stunned that she sat on that kiosk and "worked" away on facebook and myspace.
Maybe LinkedIn or some other "more trustworthy" business-oriented social network site will help address the spam problem, by only letting you communicate with people who are in your "circle of trust".
Not a perfect solution (and I HATE LinkedIn* and will resist using it every step of the way), but it's coming, and according to this young woman, the time has arrived, and these sites have replaced email for the up and coming business woman.
* the reason I hate LinkedIn is because it's often listed among a set of sites that can expose too much information. Once, I witnessed someone researching their competitor's "network" of contacts using a site like this. This person was able to gather far too much information, for free, about the people that his competitor was calling on.
As I stood at a kiosk at a trade show this week, and waded through my spam-filled email on a few services (work email, hotmail, and gmail), the young woman at the kiosk next to me accessed her myspace and facebook accounts and responded to friends only.
She turned and said that only old people use email. And she was a VENDOR at the conference.... Things that make you go hmmmmmmmm......
No need to duck - it went that far over your head.
Of course it's a Contact reference,
Moderators, the author of the parent message appears to work for the company, and his messages ought to be given consideration for mod points. See the messages from 'voidspace' for moderation consideration.
Bill: "Roll it out!"
It doesn't take a math guru to know that - just a first year Computer Science student.
Same thing for Newtonian physics. And Astronomy, and physics of planets. (Why worry about what the sun or moon is going to do? You can't change it! - YEAH, but you CAN learn, and then launch a satellite or two thousand, and change our very communications infrastructure.
Set aside $80K per year for 9 years at 8%, and you're a millionaire. Or 90K/yr for 8 years at 9%.
Even more realistic: 30K/yr for 16 years at 9%. Or 8K/year for 24 years at 12%.
Use time and aggressive investments to your advantage! It's not that hard.
Here are several scenarios where I, personally, have found it better to NOT Pay cash:
- The car dealership actually took a credit card. I negotiated my best deal, and then pulled out my credit card, which pays me 1% back. I "charged" a $25K car (using two cash-back cards), and got $250 back from the credit card companies, and had 30 days to pay it off, interest free.
- The dealership had a "special" financing deal which was well below market rates. I took the 2% financing, and did better by putting my money into a CD.
- I once evaluated my alternative uses for the cash, and found an investment that paid a higher rate than my credit union's new car loan rate. Yes, there was a little risk involved, but it ended up being well worth it.
- Once I decided that I wanted to maintain a little liquidity due to some outstanding business transactions, so decided not to tie up $30K of cash in a vehicle, and instead paid the interest for a couple of months until there was more certainty in the other transactions. (I wanted to be sure to "make payroll" in my business, and I needed the van as part of the business. Finance the van, make payroll, collect the outstanding receivables, pay off the van.)
You don't do anyone any favors by making blanket statements like "always pay cash". The right answer is for people to think for themselves.