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From: jmfbahciv on 19 Nov 2006 09:36 In article <phineaspuddleduck-BD8418.14315919112006(a)free.teranews.com>, Phineas T Puddleduck <phineaspuddleduck(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >In article <ejpou2$8qk_023(a)s1014.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Anti-viral is always in catch-up mode. It is impossible for >> this code to protect from new kinds of attacks. The only >> reliable way to protect from infection is never let it near >> the gear. > >Which means never connecting your machine to another. The only true >secure computer is one that has been disassembled, locked in a box and >dumped in the Marianas Trench. Once upon a time, it was never running a wire outside the computer room, and all doors were one-way (What went in never came out.). > >Security is a relative, not an absolute concept... We were experts at the time and learning fast. There was another OS whose _primary_ goal was security. Ours wasn't. /BAH
From: Eeyore on 19 Nov 2006 09:56 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >Avoiding viruses and worms and the like is trivially simple and free. AVG > >anti-virus does the job nicely at no cost. > > Anti-viral is always in catch-up mode. It is impossible for > this code to protect from new kinds of attacks. The only > reliable way to protect from infection is never let it near > the gear. Whilst this is true in the final analysis, I fear you're fretting overly. My own PC auto-downloads the new virus definitions daily ( for this free A-V ). Graham
From: unsettled on 19 Nov 2006 09:56 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > In article <455F631B.49B507AF(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> >>> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>It seems to have begun with some terminals which labelled >>>>their RS232 ports with the logo "com". >>> >>>Oh, I see. I never considered series nor parallel ports as >>>"comm ports". >> >>A parallel port isn't a COM port though. Just the serial ones. > > > Unless you get a modem that can deal with parallel ports. I have a numeric keyboard and software that uses the parallel port to key data into a PC.
From: T Wake on 19 Nov 2006 10:25 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:ejplia$8qk_008(a)s1014.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <455F6418.128EDEFE(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>> >> > >>> >> >> My folks didn't ask those questions. When we were sick we >>> >> >> went to the doctor. The Doc would take payment in chickens >>> >> >> or produce or something. >>> >> > >>> >> >I don't think they take chickens anymore ! >>> >> >>> >> That's because doctoring is no longer a small business. >>> > >>> >I don't think anyone takes payment in chickens these days. Not just > doctors. >>> >>> Mom used eggs. She didn't kill the chickens who laid them. >> >>How many eggs would it take for a visit to the doctor ? >> > > I don't know. It depended on what the nurse (also the doctor's > wife) was going to cook that week. > > One of my siblings' birth was paid for with a furnace installment. > When Dad was still on the farm, Doc would get a butchered pig or > cow for extra treatments. > > Mom was paying cukes for her hair permanents. I bet the advent of money really annoys you.
From: T Wake on 19 Nov 2006 10:30
<jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:ejpkke$8qk_002(a)s1014.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <455F6110.D7D37531(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>> Don Bowey <dbowey(a)comcast.net> wrote: >>> ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: >>> > >>> >> How would a person find out about drugs? The naming is bad >>> >> enough. Trying to find out all the side effects, efficacies, >>> >> etc. is very diffitult to do. The existence of the net is helping. >>> >> >>> >> /BAH >>> > >>> >Finding the side effects of every drug is SO SIMPLE anyone with a >>> >computer >>> >could do it. Further, in the US most pharmacies provide a sheet of >>> >such >>> >info with each prescription drug they provide. >>> > >>> >Get Real! >>> > >>> You have just made my point. It is the patient who has to do all >>> this learning and analyzing and work. >> >>It shouldn't be. This doesn't happen here. > > Of course it shouldn't happen. But this is what does happen > when everybody is a specialist and not a general practitioner. > Nobody knows how to do general diagnases. And all problems > are to be solved with a pill. Which, at the risk of repeating myself, is why if the US introduced a healthcare model along the lines of the NHS most, if not all, of your complaints would be addressed. I am not saying single payer insurance is the solution. A national health service is a very different beast. And, before you say it, the NHS is not a "small business" and it is not run along "small business lines." The US is capable of having an organisation which can provide services across the entire country (FBI, DHL, FedEx etc) therefore an NHS would be feasible. Americans are no more, or less, corrupt than any other nation so there is no reason to think an NHS would collapse under corruption. The only stumbling block I can see, is the attitude and general ignorance of the American population. Shame it is a big block. |