I had the same call come to me twice. The second time I took a little more time and here's how it went: They usually ask you to open up the event viewer to show you all the "malware" on your system. After booting up my windows XP VM, he opened up a command prompt window to one of the Windows folders. Then he ran the command "attrib". at the end I got a similar the command prompt back:

with the written text about the firewall being typed MUCH slower than my 8 year old son types. Eventually I told the guy he was doing all of this in a VM, and he didn't think I was as smart as I said, so he asked a couple of obscure computer questions (about msconfig and northbridge/southbridge)... I then asked him if I could ask him a question... I asked, "Will you take me off of your call list?" I tried to guilt him out of doing what he was doing, but I figured I'd wasted enough time, so I hung up. I haven't had another call since then.

In leap years, my wife is 11 days older than me rather than just 10 days older than me.

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This is Japan... you need to watch out for the 4th ride:

1. 1 = ichi
2. 2 = ni
3. 3 = san
4. 4 = shi == death

Therefore in apartment buildings the numbers are 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, ... 201, 202, 203, 205, 206...

Of course.. they're call "Defense Contractors"... and they get all of their funding through the DoD.

You already HAVE donated to it... when was the last time you checked your credit card balances?

Ironically, when I started reading people's comments, my driver failed and had to be reloaded in Windows 7 for my year old NVidia card.

I thought it was asking about which side of my brain I use more... my left, more analytical side, or my right, more artistic side... I thought what a pointless question to put to the completely left-brained slashdotters. I guess this line of reasoning was generated by my right side and didn't occur to anyone else.

I'd much rather lose the dog... I can't stand it anyway.

That's been my experience with my kids & my brother's kids as well. In general, young kids would much rather play with something where they control the story via their own imaginations. I'm all for it, and you can see a difference in kids who know how to invent a game / imagine a scenario, and the kids who only know how to push buttons for results. (Pushing buttons for results should be reserved for nerds who get paid to do so & activists who don't)

When I trip you.

Right-click somewhere in the blank area by the address bar, hit customize, then simply drag the home button to wherever you'd like it.