Because a computer is too complex for these people. Cripes they have to put a warning label on a curling iron to NOT stick it into any bodily orifices.

if our consumers are stupid enogh to stick a hot curling iron in their ass, ear,mouth, nose ,etcc... then they certianly are not smart enough to be near a computer.

People expect computers to be toasters. They are not, they are highly complex devices.

It does not stop me from collecting all the malware infected dells that are 1yr to 6 months old. I sell them a new dell for $299.00 less than the cost of my cleaning the pc. and I get thier old infected pc for free. every 2 of them get combined to make 1 good one and then after an ubuntu install they get donated to a local school. I lock the boot sector and bios so the part time handy with computers guy at the school can not install winders on them. almost every 6 months I donate 40 hours of time to these schools and reinstall ubuntu on many machines as the moron physed teacher keeps installing his pirate copy of XP that comes with 3 trojans in it. Opening up the school to a huge liability. They wont buy a site license.. not in the budget.

Dumb people infect pc, they call me after calling geek squad and being quoted $300+ to fix it I take their pc, give them a NEW ONE and a school get's free goodies and I get a giant tax deduction.

All around win.

Just wait, soon the following will be on their malware list.

anydvd
dvd decryptor
dvd shrink
ISObuster

Those programs have no legitimate purpose and only C R I M I N A L S would have them. you'll be lucky that they only delete it and all *.mp3 and *.mkv files it finds.

rename the spybot exe name. you can do the same with hijack this.

That way you can eradicate the registry entries, then DO NOT REBOOT but yank the power cord.

Most ickies will rewrite their registry entries when they see a shutdown started.

Avast! free home edition has protected against that nasty ever cince they updated the name from 2008 to 2009.

Offline, we have to deal with caged monkeys throwing feces all the time. From political organizations of all ideologies to middle management, groups of people get angry or power-hungry or self-righteous and do things they shouldn't. Sometimes it is someone in power like police officer or a doctor, other times it is a group of teenagers who are just hellbent on stirring things up. But regardless, it is a fact of life that troublemakers exist in numbers and screw things up. We don't always win against those who we perceive as jerks in the wrong, but we don't expect to.

People talk about their experiences with Wikipedia and treat it as if it were somehow different from every other institution on the planet. They expect some utopian harmony where people are calmly and coolly working together for a common goal. And most of the time, it is like that. Yet like everything else, it isn't perfect, people break rules, there are jerks, bad things happen to good people, and so on. What gets me is that for some reason, people just give up on Wikipedia when they would normally defend any their involvement in other civic, non-profit, for-profit, governmental, or educational organization.

Yup! at a closeout store. I got them to help with the linux hack and saw that it was taking turns that were probably not going to go down the path of success I gave up and let them sit.

I got the turd brown ones for $45.00 each NIB at a closeout supersotre. they had a pallet full of them.

I do nither.

I dont pay for TV and I dont watch the Adverts. Granted I built a device that does it for me (mythtv) and it records OTA FREE channels nicely.

Same as reading slashdot. I have not seen ads on slashdot for well over 3 years thanks to privoxy. anyone with a desire to filter out advertising from their life AND has a modicum of skills can easily do it.

Problem is that most americans lack both and therefore simply glaze over at the advertisements instead of actively removing them from their life.

What..

This article about global warming brought to you by Enron.

why does that bother you?

I have 2 of them. 1 for hacking the other for my daughter. Her zune locked up, I went downstairs and dug out of the box the old zune that has never been updated. Yes date and time are pretty close to accurate.

MSFT drones mucked up the clock ocde in the firmware over the past year.

http://www.bosworthinstrument.com/lightmeters.html

We used one of these to measure and calculate the lumens output of the different devices.

  when you measure it does not compensate for the other directions of light. a point source LED that produces the same reading as a regular lamp is NOT putting out the same amount of light. far FAR more photons are being produced by the incandescent.

They do better if they are not half assed. A cheap PAR60 LED flood should cost you about $45.00 anything less than that is trash and will die. problem is Americans in general are really cheap bastards and flip out when they see a $45.00 light bulb.

So what you can buy are really really low grade crap that has not been tested and probably are full of cold solder joints. your municipality is also being cheap bastards and buying the cheapies instead of the $225.00 lamps they SHOULD be buying for those stoplights.

They last when built right. you cant get them built right unless you pay for it.

Why do they require AC->Dc conversion?

The PAR60 floods I designed and are still being tested 4 years later in my basement dont have any converter. I used a full wave rectifier, the led's blink, but at 60hz which nobody notices.

you dont need AC->DC conversion unless you are using the luxeon and even then you can feed them AC just fine.

Stop buying the el-cheapo crap.

I used to buy the $3.29 CFL's they die, slow warm up, fell like they are on fire.

I switched to buying $8.99-$12.99 Sylvania CFL's and they are instant on even in 21degF temperatures in the garage feel cool to the touch even after running for 4 hours. and they dont change color like the crappy ones do after the first 50 hours.

If you buy the junk, you get junk.