There are households, that do not own a big screen television, that already have trouble paying utilities. Tax credits and discount programs don't usually get the job done.

I'm so out of touch with Windows, it's either Ubuntu support, or wipe and reinstall, and I prefer the former.

to programming. I started and learned it on my own, in my spare time, while working retail, manual labor, or whatever other crap job was available. Now I have a family, a house, a full time job coding, a part time business coding, and I *still* love coding in my spare time, what little there is.

I don't see how hiring someone who loves what they do is a bad thing, even if they love it enough to do it in their spare time.

I use BFD and CPanel enforced strong passwords. I don't know how well BFD would do against distributed attacks though. I also don't allow SSH access to just anyone, and if I do, it's using public key authentication, but they have to have a very good reason. SSH is also listening on a non-standard port. Really, the vast majority of clients will never *need* SSH.

I read up on the syndrome you described because I had never heard of it. It's Guillain-Barré (pronounced ghee-YAN bah-RAY) syndrome (GBS) and seems to manifest after a bacterial or viral infection, which can include a flu shot. Other than that, there's not much else known of the syndrome. For what it's worth, the CDC reports only one of many studies found that around one in one million vaccinated persons may be at risk for developing the syndrome.

Still very interesting. Thanks for pointing this out.

Yes. But that doesn't stop internal attacks.

Correct me if I'm wrong. Microsoft is saying that because, by default, Windows firewall does not allow any listening services, the client is safe?

So anyone running Windows XP should not have any listening services. I just realized that, by default in our enterprise environment, the Windows firewall on our desktops are shut off (not my decision). This probably isn't a good thing.