Possible Flash Vulnerability! (PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT)

[Sam DeathWalker]

"Never argue with someone who took logic in college." SDW '08





I kinda think that Yahoo/ATT is filtering big time spammers even before it gets to me.

[mikekim]

so... DO NOT USE anything called Antivirus 2009

if you get infected with Av2009 the easiest way i have found to clear it is to download and run Malware Bytes - Anti Malware. ( i had a couple of users machines infected with this little gem a couple of months ago - PITA to remove without MB-AM)

[Thulos]

My email is so old that its on every list anyways. I used to get a email every 3 minutes (really) before they closed down the big spammers, now its like one an hour.

lucky you - thats nothing ! I'm getting about 3000 emails every 24h 2990 of which are spam; about 2800 of which my spam filter does catch but sadly I end up with still hundreds of spam to swift through resulting in me not reading my home email anymore because it's so painful ... I need to find a better solution

This is why last year I finally abandoned my email address from 1995. It was on every verified list in the world. Just get a new email address and start from scratch. You will be happier in the end.

[Hor]

I'm with Thulos on this one, I went from Hotmaill, to Yahoo, and then to Gmail. Worst thing that happened, my ex girlfriend saw a "Win a new Alienware PC" ad on some website, so she entered my info thinking "Oh it'd be so awesome if he won!" The next day I have 3 pages of unsolicited spam. She meant well, but ... she was not the most computer savy chicca in the world. That resulted in my change to gmail.

[Stabface]

God free but closed source software IS evil... what was I thinking...

Everything Google creates

Eh ? There are tons of open source Google code. Most of their public facing stuff is either open source or has an API. Chromium, Gears, V8 are all open source, as well as the APIs to hook into stuff like Google Maps/Earth/Docs/YouTube etc.

http://code.google.com/more/

[keyclone]

P.S. Nobody argues against logic and MSPaint.

yea... i starred at your pic for a while, and it made no sense (what was the unshaded area??)... so i made my own:

you can assume that all users want free software at all times, therefore it would encompass the entire application area

some corporations provide free software in an effort to keep competition down (like IBM sticking their thumb in the eye of Microsoft by backing Linux)

other corporations/individuals will put out free software in the hopes of crushing commercial companies/competition due to lack of revenues and unsustainable overhead

and of course, there are hackers. some employed by corporations to attack competition (industrial espionage) and others do it for kicks.

[Caspian]

I like http://www.comodo.com/ on my PC.

I also only surf the web on a mac, makes life easier.

[keyclone]

FYI - The sky is falling and the world is out to get you.

this would be true... if the IRS knocks on your door during a snow storm



just because your paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't /following you

[Vyndree]

By saying "Some software that is free is not bad" they are not saying "All software that is free is good."


How about a Venn diagram to show you why your deduction is illogical?

Sorry, I should've labeled this. The green circle is "things that are good" and the red circle is "things that are bad".
Basically, the "partway shaded" area is "Something exists here" and the "solid shaded" area is "All things exist here"

You argued that they said "All things exist in the circle that NOT bad"
They actually said "Some things exist in the circle that is good."

So if we assume that something cannot be both good and bad (and I'd argue it can, because the same program can be "good" for one person is "bad" for another) and the two circles didn't intersect at all, then it STILL wouldn't match because one argument is existential and one argument is total.

I never actually stated an personal opinion, so whose opinion is "wrong" or "right" is a seperate topic altogether. I'm just saying, you inferred that they said "all software that is free is good" (bottom figure) whereas the truth is, they didn't -- they said "SOME software that is free is NOT bad".

I'm not sayind anything about whether their opinion is right or wrong -- I'm saying your DEDUCTION about what they said is logically unsound -- they never said the words you're putting into their mouth. And it's no fun arguing with someone when you say "The sky is green!" and they argue back "So, you think the sky is purple!". It doesn't matter if the fact that I said "The sky is green" is wrong or right, nor does it matter if you prove that "The sky is purple" is wrong or right. The point is, you're using the weight of an argument that's completely irrelevant to what was actually said -- it's CLOSE, and it's easy to make that kind of mistake, but they really didn't say anything of the sort.

(P.S. I'm using the word "I" here simply because "They" makes things sound more complicated)

You can't have a fair and resonable argument with people who make no sense.


Basically, I can't have an argument with you if you put words into my mouth that I didn't say. So I'm not going to have one, but I will point the inconsistency out to you so that we can have a sound argument in the future.