Don't use IE, and whichever browser to do use, install Flashblock.

Also, get an installer from ninite.com for Flash, Reader, and Java. Set it to run every day.

The separation of church and state is the best way to protect people of all beliefs, and none, yet it is often misunderstood or even vilified.

How can we best work to promote the separation of church and state without being misinterpreted as an attack on faith?

Not entirely fair. It's certainly a terrible attempt at a Starship Troopers movie, however when I mentally rename it to "Bugs From Space" and ignore the sound of Heinlein spinning in his grave, it becomes a lot more enjoyable. The effects are decent, it has a good sense of humor, a lovely redhead, and Neil Patrick Harris

None of this should be needed.

Microsoft should just allow third party critical updates through Windows Update. Flash, Reader, and Java flaws account for most of the malware installs, and most users are bad at keeping these things up to date. Running a stack of update utilities is irritating to advanced users and confusing to novice users. All this does is make the malware industry happy.

The methods the malware industry commonly use. If you can't run the patched version of Flash, you can visit a legitimate website and get attacked by an infected advertising server. Easily.

These kind of thoughts make the Google glass project fascinating and terrifying. Street View the world. Capture all the print material. How much more?

What is their goal in this? What to they gain from having MSE installed on systems?

I'm having Blade Runner flashbacks.

Flashbacks to the future are strange.

I don't mind them telling me how to use their software. I do mind them telling me I don't have all of my legal rights if they should be irresponsible. Important difference.

Now that Steam insists I must sign some of my rights away, it doesn't really matter what platform it runs on anymore.

If the problem with space exploration is the politics of paying the bill, why can't we point some significant portion of the military industrial complex at the problem? We can have all the pork-barrel juicy government contracts and create jobs, and be working towards improving mankind instead of mass murder.

If you can't wipe it, do this.

1) Create a new user account with Administrator privileges.
2) Log in to the new account
3) Delete the old account
4) Review the laptop for remaining personal information and delete it. Check the public folders, and program files directories, particularly if you used financial software.
5) Use a program to wipe the free space on the drive. Single pass is sufficient. Here is an open source utility to do it pretty easily: http://eraser.heidi.ie/

Lets say for a moment that gun control laws would have kept this individual from acquiring them. Waiting for the movie to let out and then driving a vehicle at high speed into the crowd would likely kill and injure as many or more people. If someone loses their mind and wants to kill people, there is little we can do to stop them. It's tragic, but it's part of the price of a free country.

excellence! for the Amiga had spell check as you type in 1991, as well as a grammar checker. Microsoft did not innovate those.

iThink iWill iGouge MiSelf.