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Comment Early reporting skews voting (Score 1) 174

Any reporting of voting results should be withheld until all districts, including Hawaii and Alaska, have closed their polls.Early reporting in the east coast states can effect the later closing polls to the west.We just have to get over being an instant gratification society when it comes to elections. Stay up and wait for the results or wait for the morning news.Let the media use exit polls to gain insight into the results.

Comment I love Windows Defender and MSSE (Score 1) 467

I love end users that choose to go with free AV. They get infected and I make money. I am a self employed network engineer / admin. I do not support home users. I have over 30 businesses I support in my area and have had a few try and go the free route. It is like the old Fram oil filter ads; "Pay me now or pay me later". I recommend Vipre Business Premium to all of the clients I support. For the companies without a server I recommend Vipre Internet Security. The pricing is very reasonable and it doesn't take over your PC like Norton / Symantec and others. They have great English speaking customer service, free version updates as long as your license is up to date, and have reduced my documented virus removal time by over 90%. Yes, this reduces my billable time for the clients, but the confidence they find in the service I provide far out weighs the loss of revenue. I get to keep them as a client, make a small % off the sale of the AV and have maintained a 99% customer retention rate. You get what you pay for. Vipre consistently tests at he top of all AV solutions for response time to zero day infections and over all effectiveness. I am not an employee of Vipre or ThreatTrack, just love their product and the management console for server based networks.

Comment Reading while driving (Score 1) 367

I was alongside a woman reading a novel propped on her steering wheel at 50 MPH on the on the interstate today. I thought about taking a picture, but didn't want to use my phone while driving. I will bet there is a much higher accident rate among women drivers reading Harlequin romances while driving than there is taking pictures while driving!

Comment So much for this working too (Score 1) 499

I just tried the healthsherpa.com site and put in the applicant at 46 years old and the second at 42 smoker area code 23454 Income at $28000.No plans found. I tried multiple incomes all with the same result. Obviously as broken as the gov site. I have tried numerous different applicant ages and incomes and area codes in Virginia all with the same result.

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