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Oh and when they say that less that .05% of documents are affected think of it this way.
Worldwide how many users do you think there are of the free google document stuff, 1 million, 5 million? 10 Million? More?
Lets say each of those people have 50-100 documents. that is between 50 million and one billion documents. That works out to between 25 thousand and half a million documents. A mere pittance!
The BBC reports that pc sales are down:
The PC industry will see a decline of nearly 12% in 2009, analysts predict.
It would be only the second period of negative growth in the industry, after a slump of 3.2% in 2002.
With the economy tanking and windows 7 coming why buy now? The BBC also states a relevent fact:
“The PC market is much more mature [as compared to 2002], and the PC is relatively more important to consumers,” Mr Atwal said.
“But nevertheless, it’s still a luxury item, it hasn’t gone all the way that it’s a necessity.
“That means if your PC slows down, doesn’t work well, doesn’t do what you think it should do, you’ll live with it.”
Or you contact DaTechguy to help you out.
Now that I have your attention…
I was thinking of this post concerning file sharing and how it has been a pain to persuade people off of these sites. Mostly due to free music and porn.
I can’t tell you how many systems I’ve worked on that were loaded with porn or with explicit icons on the desktop. I’ve actually had to tell explain the risk difference between stuff you will download with limewire or torrents and “good” porn sites that have subscription walls and do not want to infect you because they want you to be paying your $10 or $20 or whatever a month to keep looking.
These are tough economic times as my own job search has shown. With this in mind consider old but very relevant article:
“The contributors, or amateur porn models, they target are between the age of 18 and 24.
“Often struggling students, young single mothers, or just underpaid young women.
“So they come to a site that seemingly offers them an opportunity to make money while expressing themselves as sexual beings in an environment they are told is pro-female and that their creations will be viewed exclusively by members.
Now many of those sites do have subscription walls for their material just like many songs have copy protection and we all know how that works out. Once that file is downloaded by a member and put on a torrent or on a system with any file sharing poof the wall is gone.
Do you remember this exchange from the Magnificent Seven:
Chris: Harry tells me you faced bigger odds during the Travis County war.
O’Reilly: Well, they paid me six hundred dollars for that one.
Vin: He said you got that Selena thing cleared up in less than a month.
O’Reilly: Paid me eight hundred dollars for that one.
Vin: You cost a lot.
O’Reilly: Yeah. That’s right, I cost a lot.
Chris: The offer is twenty dollars.
[O’Reilly keeps chopping wood. Chris and Vin turn to leave.]
O’Reilly: Twenty dollars? Right now, that’s a lot.
Consider this for a moment (content warning):
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Slashdot reports that our modern blackberry president has the same issues that a lot of other p2p users do:
A company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks has discovered a potentially serious security breach involving President Barack Obama’s helicopter, NBC affiliate WPXI in Pittsburgh reported Saturday.
Employees of Tiversa, a Cranberry Township, Pa.-based security company that specializes in peer-to-peer technology, reportedly found engineering and communications information about Marine One at an IP address in Tehran, Iran.
Bob Boback, CEO of Tiversa, told WPXI-TV: “We found a file containing entire blueprints and avionics package for Marine One, which is the president’s helicopter.”
And how did they manage to get it? One guess:
Someone from the company most likely downloaded a file-sharing program, typically used to exchange music, not realizing the potential problems, Boback said.
“When downloading one of these file-sharing programs, you are effectively allowing others around the world to access your hard drive,” Boback said.
I’ve been arguing for years that saving .99 cents on a song is a lot less expensive than the risks you take.
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