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lol I second that motion, or Justin Bieber even

I guess so, for the average business, or someone only starting out, looking for a cheaper alternative might be good. But, is that what a customer's safety online costs? I'd never really think you could put a price tag to it. I never guessed that one day people would need something like this to feel safe online. Thing is, even willingly, I add my name to a mailing list, and then every day I get emails from people I've never known, from websites I've never heard of, all sprouting the same nonsense, buy this and get this free.

lol won't comment on Katy Perry , but it is annoying yes, waiting for the little pop up to say you can skip this ad in 5,4,3,2,1 ....

A lot of companies have gotten into trouble, and Google has had their fare share, from what I read online. I still find it hard to believe that Google would do this though, but I guess I can understand from a business point of view. They should just have handled it better perhaps.

my earliest DOS experience was a commodore 64. Don't really think it was real dos though, but I had fun writing little programs in it. I have an old PC in my lab, that I wanted to set up running 3.1 and the like, but my floppy's are gone , was to experiment on how it would have worked etc. as its the only one I haven't dabbled with (besides 8). Ah well, time came and went, and I got my cert. so lol don't need it now I guess.

Computers were fun back then, playing with LOGO and getting bored making the turtle move forwards and backwards lol. But I guess I wouldn't swap them for the world. Good or bad, its an experience I'm glad I got hooked on

I can understand why people use proxies now TBH. I'm seriously thinking about another browser for my iPhone though.

They way I see things, its not a bad thing to collect all this data, but they should let you know about it and allow a person to participate willingly (maybe?) Its just giving the web an even worse outlook when you're scared your logins/email addresses are going to be leaked/sold all over the net, or you're going to be stalked with adverts because of where you visit online with a few overzealous moneymakers sitting behind it all.

Not too sure about 7 atm either lol. spent about ten minutes arguing with it about which of my adsl accounts to connect to. I have a back up in place when my bandwidth runs out, and today it just blatantly refused. It listened to reason in the end though.

Workstation..... manually searching for peripherals to add them to the OS. Although, XP was also built on NT though, was just a lot more plug and play than the original NT, with a much better GUI, so I can understand where some of XP's stability came from. I can remember formatting hard drives using the NTFS system. Until I stopped using XP. Haven't had to format a harddrive yet. lol.

Even in my training, The furthest they went back was 95, and they only touched on it. They focussed mainly on Vista and XP, seeing it was the most used at the time. (Vista was still in its infancy though).

With all the online scams and what not, people are already skittish about giving out information etc. Now to find out that companies we're supposed to "trust" do this? I mean, I'm almost pretty sure the info is used for company gain (why else do it), but what do you think prompts companies to do something like that? Especially the all powerful Google. It makes no sense trying to gain a person's trust, only to exploit them in another way without them knowing about it.

They're coolermasters. Whisper quiet to be honest. If I didn't see them spinning in their blue lights, I'd think they weren't working. I'm thinking of getting someone to make me a side cover out of perspex.

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit, and a lot of my other software works best with dual cores etc. But I haven't decided on how many cores I want yet, so tis still single core for now. Still, in 64 bit, the PC is astonishingly fast.

NT.... Pretty much my mortal enemy, that OS lol. Everytime I find a PC using it, it gets a different windows OS. Usually XP. It's not one of my favorite OS's lol. 2000 was ok, but I literally jumped from 5 to 98 and to XP Pro, so Unless I was fixing someone else's rig, I hardly touched those OS's.

This should be in the business section, but thought it might be safer adding it here. The title of the post claims that ten million Britons could actually have grounds to sue Google. Apparently they have been bypassing privacy settings in Safari to track what people do online.