I think this purchase of McAfee *is* their "security" department.... Now if we could just get Adobe Reader to stop pushing that McAfee "security scanner" that is checked by default and 95% of everybody who downloads/installs Reader installs AND which totally fucks up the machine and is a MAJOR pain to get off.. I've made a fair amount of $$$ removing that crap from neighbors machines, not to mention weaning them off of Adobe Reader..

Don't you mean Krakatoa? I think that eruption makes Pinatubo look like a firecracker...

They're using the government playbook.. Completely disrupt the best medical system on the planet, shove a brain-dead replacement thru in the dead of night THAT nobody (nobody who doesn't drink the left's koolaide, that is) wants, in the end fucking up everybody in the process.. Even a lot of the "koolaide-drinkers" are beginning to see the writing on the wall... Good job, Microsoft, maybe you can get a job with the government, as your software stinks.. (Linux user since 1995)..

Yeah.. I picture it like this.. America got kicked in the shins by a punk on 9/11/01, but since then she's shot herself in both feet, come close to severing both hands, given herself a good concussion,stabbed herself in several places, and put herself on lifesupport. That punk on 9/11 could not have done as much damage to America as she's done to herself in the 12 years since 9/11. DOES ANYONE DOUBT AMERICA IS NOW ESSENTIALLY A POLICE STATE?? (sorry about the caps, but wanted to emphasize that.. There is absolutely NO doubt in my mind..). I once was a republican, but after about 1/2 of BushJrs second term, I'd had enough and reregistered as Independent. It was a good move on my part after seeing how the republican party is trying (abeit unsuccessfully) to destroy the Teaparty, which is precisely what the republican party *should* be.. Nowadays, the (R)'s are just (D)-lite... Makes this 63 year old America VERY sick to his stomach...

Ever since Dice got their dick in Slashdot, its gone down the crapper.. I keep asking myself why I still come back here.. Force of habit I guess..

OR do what I did on the new laptop I got for Christmas.. Booted the thing up to make sure it worked, then pulled the original drive out, and slapped a spare drive in and installed Debian Linux.. If perchance the machine gives me the finger some time during the warrantee period, I can pull the Linux drive out and avoid all the "We don't support Linux" crap from support... Actually beginning to like Gnome3 on Debian 7.. Since the machine has 8GB of ram, I went with 64 bit (why would ANYone in 2013 still use a 32 bit OS???), but, unbeknownst to me, the old way of running 32bit apps (ia32-libs) on a 64 bit OS has been replaced on the newer distros with multiarch.. Alas some 32bit apps are not multiarch-aware and makes for a really fun bit of work to get them to play nicely.. Takes me back to the mid 90s with Linux and Xfree86...

I believe if you think of the mainstream media as a defacto US Department of Propaganda, you'll begin to clearly understand how far America has gone down the drain.. The government desparately wants to contain/control/destroy talk radio and any alternate source of information, and they won't give up till they silence anyTHING that doesn't toe the "party-line"... It is VERY ironic that the remanants of the old USSR Pravda has been running editorials warning Americans about where we're headed.. I watch the RT network often and have heard several of these editorials and it really brings it all home...

The king of "spokesweasels".. the one, the only, secretary of the US Department of Propaganda, none othen than little Jay Carney... Do you get the idea he took lessons from Bagdad Bob?? They both have a really firm grip on reality...

Whats even more astounding than this iconic photo is the tiny pinpoint of light that is Earth seen in pictures from the Mars rovers, or how about the picture from one of the deep space probes looking back at the the Earth-Moon system (was it NewHorizons, I forget).. THOSE picture blow my mind even more than this one..

Or more likely, the US Department of Propaganda... Doesn't it seem that little Jay Carney, being the White House Press Secretary, wouldn't also be the
Secretary of that "Department of Propaganda"??

He's got lying down to a science, almost as good as his boss. Every time I see him speaking, I picture ole "Bagdad Bob", who, as I recall, was Sadam's Propaganda minister... Everytime either he or his boss open their mouth, I hear another lie...

You don't want to know just how stupid *they* think we are.. And the really sad part?? *They* are absolutely right on a large percentage of the American people.. The ones who drink the koolaide that comes from BOTH parties.. Its becoming apparent that none of the media, better known now as the defacto US Department of Propaganda, is telling the truth.. oh sure, they tell *their* "version" of the "truth", but not the TRUTH.. We are well and truly screwed...

Well, Win7 may not have the XP update problem, but it sure the HELL has another one that is beyond annoying.. When you, the computer owner, decide *you* want to shutdown *your* computer, and you issue the shutdown command, and Windows, in its infinite wisdom says "Installing updates.. please do not turn off or unplug your computer"... So, you have to sit there and *wait* for the abysmally ssslllooowww update process to complete before you can turn *your* computer OFF.. I had that crap happen to me the other day.. I usually just hibernate the laptop at the end of my lunch break, but for some unknown reason, I decided to shutdown that time... BAD DECISION!! 40 updates and about 15 minutes of *waiting* for MY COMPUTER to turn off...I came soooooo close to saying FU MS, pushing the power button, and taking the Win7 disk out of the laptop and putting the Linux disk in, and then DBAN'ing the flippin' Windows disk... This kind of crap does NOT happen on Linux...

As far as I'm concerned "we as a nation" ARE ALREADY fucked... When both parties shit on the Constitution, and any amount of truth from the government is non-existant, we are swirling down the toilet... I'm a Army vet, and love this country and the Constitution, and before anybody decides to label me, I AM NOT A REPUBLICAN, NOT A DEMOCRAT, NOT A LIBERTARIAN, I AM AN AMERICAN!!. What is happening to the country I love makes me absolutely sick... Frankly, I'm glad I'm in my 60s, and not a young'un anymore, as I don't want to see where this country will be in 10-20 years.....

You think *she* was bad?? Her successor, John Donahoe is MUCH MUCH worse.. I'd sold on eBay since around 1998, and Meg's tenure was positively refreshing compared to Donahoes.. Her mantra was "eBay is just a venue", and pretty much stuck to it.. With Donahoe, its ALL about the buyers now, they can do no wrong.. He seems to convieniently forget that it is the SELLERS who pay the ever-growing fees that keep eBay running. The sellers, who stick around, now have a not-so-silent partner in their business, butting in with endless new rules and requirements, where he has NO business.. He seems to be trying to rid eBay of all small sellers, such that unless you peddle millions of $$ of cheap Chinese crap each month, eBay doesn't want you.. From about 1998 to 2008, I sold probably 2-3K/mo, as a nice sideline business.. Since 2008, I no longer sell there, and if you read the eBay forums, you'll see I sure *aint* the only one...

Sounds like the AirCanada 767 pilot who landed the "Gimli Glider" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider back in 1983 might have those credentials...