My big question is why is Norton and McAfee still so popular in the corporate world?
I understand that the OEM's preload McAfee or Norton because they are paid to, but the corporate world is paying big money for these out-dated anti-virus programs.
There are much better anti-virus providers out there such as Avast, Kaspersky, Nod32 and others.
Pay more for a better CPU, or pay more for a better motherboard so that you can buy a not as good CPU and hopefully have the functionality of the better CPU.
So you are saying that it can be dumbed down more?
Your comment actually makes no sense. It's only been since Firefox* came out that there has been any innovation in browsers. Before Firefox became popular the web browser was as dumbed down as it gets. Forward, back, home, and a place to enter in a url. Now we have tabs, we have ad blockers, we have good functional add-ons.
The browser has been getting more complex with new functionality and Joe Sixpack has been loving it.
* I'm sure someone will point out the innovation came out in other browsers and Firefox was just the first one that got wide appeal**. ** As in you would recommend it to even your non-technical friends.
You can't just say, oh oops, we are no longer at war with you. Well you can, but that doesn't mean they won't continue the war you just started.
Troops should only be removed if that is the best course of action to take based on the well being of those the troops are protecting.
If the US had pulled out of Iraq after the invasion then its possible that Iraq could have fallen into a Somali type situation without a central government.
You break it, you fix it.
I would say that the only reason we are still in Iraq is because we are obliged to see them get back on their feet before we pull out because we were wrong.
If a law is built on incorrect information it should be automatically repealed. After it is repealed it can have another go at becoming law with the correct information.
I still blame Metallica. When Load didn't sell jack because it was the worst album they ever put out they started screaming that the reason that Load of crap did not sell was due to piracy.
They are Janet Jackson's nipple of the piracy world.
It was funny in typing class I got into the teachers account by typing (name of vice-principle)isanasshole. Like which student isn't going to randomly type that in?
Another rational explanation was that those requesting the surveillance didn't think to stop it once they got the information they needed.
Now if you add in the emails about the surveillance yes it is obviously voyeurism, but continuing automated surveillance doesn't default to voyeurism since it could also just be procrastination.
You think China would put out a press release stating that they are having internal issues with hackers?
Actually now that I think about it there was some internal hacking in China that made the news, that dulon fu or whomever they are hacked a news broadcast. Hacking the news is a pretty large chunk of iceberg poking out of the water.
If you can't keep the hydrogen and oxygen separated they will just reform as water again perhaps killing the virus in the process.
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Many games have what amounts to a command line. I would say that a good amount of people would have no problem using a command line interface IF they knew its uses.
If an object such as this drifted into our solar system it could very possibly be the end of us all.
It could come into contact with the Earth or one of the other planets in the solar system knocking planets out of orbit. It doesn't even need to actually make contact to toss a planet out of its orbit even.
If an object such as this drifted into our solar system we might as well party till we die cause there won't be much that we could do to prevent our demise.
Image the Earth drifting out beyond the Oort Cloud, frozen and dark with the sun nothing more than another star in the sky.
I've found Windows Live Mail to be a very good mail client. How exactly has it failed? Its light years better than the old Outlook Express it replaced.
So basically the management of the company you work at sold 80% of how the business is run to another company that will eventually make the company you work for obsolete for short term gain.
And that is why management makes the big bucks...for now, then like others the management when out of a job will bemoan the outsourcing movement.
Outsourcing to the extent that you say your company has outsourced is a bad idea in my opinion.
So by your logic unless we have our own IT 100% in the US then we will not be the leaders in IT? So even having.00something% not in the US we will not be the leaders in IT?
How about if we outsource the bottom of the barrel tech support but keep the more advanced stuff here in the US? I'm pretty sure that describes the current situation of outsourcing better.
We have lots of biological and chemical warfare agents.
Besides if you use a nuke, you can't occupy the area you just de-populated.
Nukes aren't used because they are too powerful, they are not used because they are too dirty, expensive, and political suicide.
We have conventional explosives that can do the job better, cheaper, cleaner, and more precise.
I would think that the only time the US would nuke another country* is if the resulting radio-active fallout didn't matter in the long run. IE: we were already nuked.
*Yes I know we nuked Japan at the end of WWII, we aren't talking about that.
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My big question is why is Norton and McAfee still so popular in the corporate world?
I understand that the OEM's preload McAfee or Norton because they are paid to, but the corporate world is paying big money for these out-dated anti-virus programs.
There are much better anti-virus providers out there such as Avast, Kaspersky, Nod32 and others.
Or even cost effective.
Pay more for a better CPU, or pay more for a better motherboard so that you can buy a not as good CPU and hopefully have the functionality of the better CPU.
Wouldn't it be the hooks into the operating system that would expose the rest of your computer to risk.
I may be missing something, how would hardware hooks expose a computer to more risk?
So you are saying that it can be dumbed down more?
Your comment actually makes no sense. It's only been since Firefox* came out that there has been any innovation in browsers. Before Firefox became popular the web browser was as dumbed down as it gets. Forward, back, home, and a place to enter in a url. Now we have tabs, we have ad blockers, we have good functional add-ons.
The browser has been getting more complex with new functionality and Joe Sixpack has been loving it.
* I'm sure someone will point out the innovation came out in other browsers and Firefox was just the first one that got wide appeal**.
** As in you would recommend it to even your non-technical friends.
Thank god that the US is not as bad as Rome then.
You can't just say, oh oops, we are no longer at war with you. Well you can, but that doesn't mean they won't continue the war you just started.
Troops should only be removed if that is the best course of action to take based on the well being of those the troops are protecting.
If the US had pulled out of Iraq after the invasion then its possible that Iraq could have fallen into a Somali type situation without a central government.
You break it, you fix it.
I would say that the only reason we are still in Iraq is because we are obliged to see them get back on their feet before we pull out because we were wrong.
Avast Anti-virus = free
Spybot Search & Destroy = Free
I'm sure you were making a joke, but on the off chance, those two things should save you from having to re-format as often.
That should be law.
If a law is built on incorrect information it should be automatically repealed. After it is repealed it can have another go at becoming law with the correct information.
I still blame Metallica. When Load didn't sell jack because it was the worst album they ever put out they started screaming that the reason that Load of crap did not sell was due to piracy.
They are Janet Jackson's nipple of the piracy world.
Or an easy to guess password.
It was funny in typing class I got into the teachers account by typing (name of vice-principle)isanasshole. Like which student isn't going to randomly type that in?
Another rational explanation was that those requesting the surveillance didn't think to stop it once they got the information they needed.
Now if you add in the emails about the surveillance yes it is obviously voyeurism, but continuing automated surveillance doesn't default to voyeurism since it could also just be procrastination.
And we assume they are not doing so?
You think China would put out a press release stating that they are having internal issues with hackers?
Actually now that I think about it there was some internal hacking in China that made the news, that dulon fu or whomever they are hacked a news broadcast. Hacking the news is a pretty large chunk of iceberg poking out of the water.
Could the reason that China has so many cyber-criminals be a side-effect of the Great Firewall of China?
It is self limiting.
If you can't keep the hydrogen and oxygen separated they will just reform as water again perhaps killing the virus in the process.
Many games have what amounts to a command line. I would say that a good amount of people would have no problem using a command line interface IF they knew its uses.
Don't feel too bad for the test subjects, they were just future PHB's going after their MBA.
Most probably the person who devised the test was in IT.
I must be new here.
You did just respond to an AC making a joke about an out of work actor.
So I guess Jules Verne never did write science fiction since just about everything he wrote about was being worked on by the scientific community?
The same reason that idiots thought that the world would end in the year 2000.
Or why some kids think they won't live past their 21st birthday.
It is just easier for some people to believe that the day after tomorrow will never exist, it just puts some people at ease.
If an object such as this drifted into our solar system it could very possibly be the end of us all.
It could come into contact with the Earth or one of the other planets in the solar system knocking planets out of orbit. It doesn't even need to actually make contact to toss a planet out of its orbit even.
If an object such as this drifted into our solar system we might as well party till we die cause there won't be much that we could do to prevent our demise.
Image the Earth drifting out beyond the Oort Cloud, frozen and dark with the sun nothing more than another star in the sky.
I've found Windows Live Mail to be a very good mail client. How exactly has it failed? Its light years better than the old Outlook Express it replaced.
Right now its still in the lab, along with everything else you mentioned.
I would say that it is still science fiction today.
So basically the management of the company you work at sold 80% of how the business is run to another company that will eventually make the company you work for obsolete for short term gain.
And that is why management makes the big bucks...for now, then like others the management when out of a job will bemoan the outsourcing movement.
Outsourcing to the extent that you say your company has outsourced is a bad idea in my opinion.
Outsourcing first level tech support not so bad.
So by your logic unless we have our own IT 100% in the US then we will not be the leaders in IT? So even having .00something% not in the US we will not be the leaders in IT?
How about if we outsource the bottom of the barrel tech support but keep the more advanced stuff here in the US? I'm pretty sure that describes the current situation of outsourcing better.
We have lots of biological and chemical warfare agents.
Besides if you use a nuke, you can't occupy the area you just de-populated.
Nukes aren't used because they are too powerful, they are not used because they are too dirty, expensive, and political suicide.
We have conventional explosives that can do the job better, cheaper, cleaner, and more precise.
I would think that the only time the US would nuke another country* is if the resulting radio-active fallout didn't matter in the long run. IE: we were already nuked.
*Yes I know we nuked Japan at the end of WWII, we aren't talking about that.