Check the coverage maps, then get an MVNO that operates off the towers of whoever has the best coverage. Straight Talk offers phones on all 4 major networks, for significantly lower monthly costs and no contracts. Boost and Cricket have pretty good prices too. In my area, the only national carrier with decent coverage is Verizon, but I'm sure that changes for the Eastern Seaboard.

It was actually a million years. But who's counting.

...did they really need to point that out? It has no bearing on the story whatsoever.

All I can find is a single company that makes roll cages for Porsche 997/996s -- so it's undoubtedly available somewhere, but I got the impression it was being custom made. Roll cage and a picture.

My cousin got one made for his sandrail, but for the life of me, I can't seem to find any reference to such an animal. This was about a decade ago, and I've since lost touch with him -- now you've gotten me seriously curious. I have a few family members that have been competing for years to have 'the best', and last I'd heard, he was winning, but since I've moved elsewhere in the country, I'm not in contact with it much. At the time, I (being poor) was more of a Jeep guy, while most of the family focused on sandrails. I'm going to have to get in touch with him and find out how that turned out & where he got it. I got the impression from talking with him (a.k.a. listening to him brag), that it was similar to a steel sandrail tube frame, except with a lot more 'lattice work'.

I'm not very familiar with Nascar, etc., but in the off-road race truck world, there's nothing more popular than a carbon fibre tube frame. Since that's my area of interest, that's what I'm familiar with; but I'm surprised other racers don't use it as well. It seems like what's good for the goose would be good for the gander.

One of the biggest problems with building a race car/truck is often the cost of the materials. The stiffer frames built from carbon fiber are insanely expensive. Imagine if we could build a frame out of this for around the cost of steel --the technology could then be used in ordinary cars, with a huge weight savings, and a safer, stronger frame. It could revolutionize the automotive design industry.

I second that recommendation. It's kinda the goooooooogle effect, but it's awesomely funny, and also practical. The best part is that nobody could claim it was just a copy of Windows or MacOS.

But it'll still be in beta.

Umm that's why I don't play games. Nothing says 'failure' like getting killed repeatedly in quick succession.

This. There's no need to give up all hope on the computer, just do some intensive scrubbing.

I've yet to see anything like this. I call shenanigans. I think there was an executable placed in his network share, and he ran it out of curiosity.

A clean install for ransomware isn't necessary. Boot into safe mode w/ net (safe mode with command prompt, if necessary), and scan with the latest version of Malware Bytes. If that doesn't get it, use the MS Security Essentials offline disk to boot off of and scan. Then run Malware Bytes in safe mode again. Then boot normally, uninstall everything that's even vaguely suspicious (toolbars, coupon/rebate printers, etc), and run it again. That'll take care of 95% of the scum out there, and it only takes about 2 hours, tops. That's a lot faster than reinstalling Windows, then trying to find all the drivers and applications they used.

They call that 'the Walmart Syndrome'.