This and that.....
*Movie stars from the 30's are now almost gone. Now, in very sad news Blondie, Penny Singleton, has also passed away at the age of 95. If you read the CNN headline on the link herein, you'd think that her biggest accomplishment was as the voice of Mother Jetson on the 60's TV show "The Jetsons". I suppose that CNN had to pander to the younger crowd that remembers the Jetsons to get a bigger market kick out of their story. That's balderdash. The Blondie movies were tremendously successful in the 1930's and 40's. I still get a kick out of watching them both for the corny situations that Dagwood put the Bumsteads in, but equally important, for the historical peek that movies of this time give us into ordinary life during that time period. Personally, and on a more prurient note, I always thought that Blondie was kind of a babe. I have to note that I'm soon to be married to my own Blondie....and I think she's a real babe too!
*As soon as I make my second 50 million dollars, I'm going to hire a full time staff of attorneys, net gurus and sleuths to go after all the slimeballs that backdoor adware/spyware onto peoples personal computers. For neopytes, these are the little programs that cause pop-up ads to appear on your screen and also secretly transmit your surfing habits back to the sender. Your permission to add these to your computer is not asked. Who puts these there? Morons.
My partner Del noticed a problem with his laptop this week. Actually more than a problem, the havoc caused resulted in his machine being rendered useless with the internet connection application popping up every 30 seconds and occasionally an undending stream of miniature pop up windows appearing. Luckily while I was trying to determine the source of the problem, a perfectly timed error box appeared....!!Bargainz.exe fault error!!. Aha....the source of the problem. Googling up Bargainz, I quickly learned that this is in fact adware. Which in Del's case had run amok.
That's why these criminals are morons. Who in their right mind buys anything marketed on unwanted pop-ups? The only buying behavior generated is to quickly purchase a Colt .45 to blow these scum away. To make matters worse, their little adware program is obviously poorly written. I too found this culprit on my machine at home and the only thing it did was to slow my computer down and occasionally bring up the internet connect screen. No ads ever appeared.
Yes, with the second 50 million, I'm starting a "Suing Company". Money is no object....find these scum, initiate lawsuits, and even if we don't win a dime in recompense, just make their stinkin' lives miserable.
*Movie stars from the 30's are now almost gone. Now, in very sad news Blondie, Penny Singleton, has also passed away at the age of 95. If you read the CNN headline on the link herein, you'd think that her biggest accomplishment was as the voice of Mother Jetson on the 60's TV show "The Jetsons". I suppose that CNN had to pander to the younger crowd that remembers the Jetsons to get a bigger market kick out of their story. That's balderdash. The Blondie movies were tremendously successful in the 1930's and 40's. I still get a kick out of watching them both for the corny situations that Dagwood put the Bumsteads in, but equally important, for the historical peek that movies of this time give us into ordinary life during that time period. Personally, and on a more prurient note, I always thought that Blondie was kind of a babe. I have to note that I'm soon to be married to my own Blondie....and I think she's a real babe too!
*As soon as I make my second 50 million dollars, I'm going to hire a full time staff of attorneys, net gurus and sleuths to go after all the slimeballs that backdoor adware/spyware onto peoples personal computers. For neopytes, these are the little programs that cause pop-up ads to appear on your screen and also secretly transmit your surfing habits back to the sender. Your permission to add these to your computer is not asked. Who puts these there? Morons.
My partner Del noticed a problem with his laptop this week. Actually more than a problem, the havoc caused resulted in his machine being rendered useless with the internet connection application popping up every 30 seconds and occasionally an undending stream of miniature pop up windows appearing. Luckily while I was trying to determine the source of the problem, a perfectly timed error box appeared....!!Bargainz.exe fault error!!. Aha....the source of the problem. Googling up Bargainz, I quickly learned that this is in fact adware. Which in Del's case had run amok.
That's why these criminals are morons. Who in their right mind buys anything marketed on unwanted pop-ups? The only buying behavior generated is to quickly purchase a Colt .45 to blow these scum away. To make matters worse, their little adware program is obviously poorly written. I too found this culprit on my machine at home and the only thing it did was to slow my computer down and occasionally bring up the internet connect screen. No ads ever appeared.
Yes, with the second 50 million, I'm starting a "Suing Company". Money is no object....find these scum, initiate lawsuits, and even if we don't win a dime in recompense, just make their stinkin' lives miserable.
