Takes a while to learn, but once you get it it is entirely repeatable. Get a small nib size.

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I cannot understand why people are listening to a company who sends out untested updates that disconnect tens of thousands of home customers and then has to backtrack and cost other companies and people a lot of money to fix McAfee's broken software. These are the same people who crashed millions of their business customers' computers with another untested update. You really want to get in bed with such a poorly managed company?

we license drivers of cars on public roads so we can have a basic level of competance on the roads we all use and need. we demand cars are smogged and registered so we can all breathe and don't have unsafe clunkers on those same public roads. why isn't there a demand for a basic level of competance for the user of a system that is connected to our public Internet? why isn't there a test to ascertain if it is safe to connect a system to the public Internet? I clean malware-riddled systems for a living, and the worst offenders are the computer-illiterate users who will click on ANY link put in front of them. if we had some kind of mandatory public education and testing for these people BEFORE they connect to the public resource we now need, there would be a drop in malware prolifertion of an order so far unseen. at the risk of losing my current livelihood, i say "Trust but Verify".

bullshit. i see totally clean systems that use IE all the time. quit hatin' and try looking at facts. you really think Mozilla browsers somehow magically stop malware from entering a system? education is the biggest threat to malware, not browsers.

Really? McAfee researchers? This is the company that crashed millions of their business customers' systems with an untested update. As I write this there are 1000s of home McAfee customers who have lost Internet connectivity because of another untested update. These are the people you want to listen to when it comes to security? Oh Pulease!

Harlan Ellison's "A Boy and His Dog" never seems to have been lauded, but I think it is one of the best stories around, specially for it's time.

Do it! But keep something to make you happy nearby. It can get very thick...

John Brunner's "The Sheep Look Up". Keep that old penicillin cold, folks. You may need it.

braiiiiins!

With all the ridiculous rendering bugs in Thunderbird, and the complete lack of response from anyone who may be "developing" it, how can they claim they are now ending development. TBird dev stopped years ago. And yes, it would be nice if Firefox actually stabilized for more than a few months. I just love all the "This addon is incompatible..." messages.

Sounds like a good reason for the existence of Napalm to me. I wonder how their browser exploits would work against that?

My thought, too. You'd think that after the Y2K madness coders would have learned to adopt more robust calendar implementations.

So lets take an analogy for this one step further: Should Mercedes Benz and BMW offer a "personal tech" for their Yuppie clients to find out that maybe they should check the air in the tires now and then? Or come to a full stop at that red light ahead of you? Just how far do we go with this kind of "coddling the monied incompetent" do we go? If you want to operate a car you have get training and demonstrate some basic level of competence. Why doesn't the same hold true for the ubiquitous machine? More 1% elitism.

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