Mark_Wallace wrote:

bullsh1t... hype...

Thanks for making it crystal clear there's zero point continuing this line of.. whatever.

That's not how it works This is how it works

I spent well over a decade being the go to computer guy in my circle of family and friends until I finally had enough and just flat out refused requests for help, instead providing guidance for obtaining help from professional services. Too much of my personal time spent without anything in return, but frankly that was mostly because I'm a very self-sufficient person, whether it's computer repairs, home repairs, car repairs, even just cooking. I do all that and more myself. More than a decade later, I don't regret that decision one bit.

I'd much rather see all that effort go into improving security against hacking, or minimizing the damage caused by successful hacks.

Obama does NOT have the power to make anything illegal. That is exclusively the power of the Judicial branch. He has some influence on that realm via nominating individuals for the Supreme and District courts, but those all have to be approved by the Senate, and the President has no direct influence on any judicial decisions made. There are checks and balances in every branch, and at all levels of the governments specifically to prevent any one individual from having too much power, including the President.

You miss my point. there is NO guarantee of absolute security. To think otherwise is either hubris or folly (or more likely both). If you access the Internet, you are at risk. The goal should be to strike a balance of minimizing that risk while also being prepared to deal with the very real potential scenario of your computer being compromised. And to answer your question, I use Webroot, primarily because it has the smallest impact on my system usage though. But it's just one piece of my overall personal security package/plan.

Brent Jenkins wrote:

Show me someone who claims they aren't behind the curve and I'll show you an up and coming victim.. :laugh:

I show you Norton Security.

Brent Jenkins wrote:

People seem to prefer bickering over nothing on Facebook than trying to do something nobody has done before.

That's what Facebook is for. If you expect anything productive to come out of Facebook, then your expectations of Facebook are several orders of magnitude higher than they should be. The people in this world actually trying to accomplish something don't waste their time of Facebook.

Best thing to do here before spending any money; find a local astronomy club and attend one or more of their skywatches, or stargazing evenings. Something similar to this is ideal: http://nhastro.com/skywatch.php[^] This accomplishes several things, all without spending lots of money on equipment. 1. it gives you exposure to astronomy as a hobby. 2. It gives you a better idea of whether there is a true long term interest in astronomy. 3. You get to sample a variety of telescopes and their usage. 4. You meet a bunch of hobby astronomers that really know their stuff. A good telescope is going to be fairly expensive. A cheap telescope is much more likely to turn the budding astronomer away from the hobby than anything else.

Daniel Pfeffer wrote:

1. The advertisment displays a printer, but it's not listed in the specification.

Not sure what spec you're referring to, but there is a 132-column dot-matrix printer in the specs listed in that advertisement.

Cycling does very little to work your back muscles, or any of your core muscles at all. Great for the legs and cardio in general, but a more comprehensive workout routine will go much farther in strengthening your core and addressing back problems.

Have you tried? You'll never know for sure unless you try.

I don't need my government to protect me. I'm doing that just fine all on my own.

Kids are often like recorders with replay buttons that you have no control over. They don't need to understand what they've recorded and replay. My BIL and I, along with a couple of our friends, have gotten his 8 year old son into the habit of saying, "That's what she said." It wasn't entirely intentional, it's just something we say to each other often. The vast majority of the time he doesn't say it at... let's say an appropriately inappropriate time, but every once in a while he nails it, and we find it hysterical. He has no idea why it's so funny, but he likes the attention nonetheless. I'm just waiting for the day he gets in trouble at school. My sister is, needless to say, rather annoyed with all of us.