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A PCWorld article analyzes commercial anti-spyware applications and the results are simply stunning. Of the seven applications that actually cost money, two added spyware to the computer in question, and one mistook a Windows signed driver directory as spyware and deleted it. None of them worked as well as Spybot Search & Destroy, which is free, but SS&D still works best in concert with Ad-Aware, also free. You get an inverse of what you pay for.
This week's issue brings the brilliance. Highlights:
Iraq Adopts Terror Alert System (with must-see graphic)
The Iraqi Department of Homeland Security recently released a 10-level, color-coded homeland security advisory system that will alert citizens to the risk of a terrorist attack within Iraq's borders. The country's current threat level is elevated, or Code Yellow-Orange. Citizens living in towns with populations of 1,500 or more should prepare for the smoke of burning vehicles to obscure the sun and expect hostages to be tortured for several days before being killed. Should the terror risk level rise to Code Orange-Yellow, it is likely that hostages will be left alive only long enough to dig their own graves.
What Do You Think? Kids Using Drugs to Study:
"Taking Ritalin to study is very dangerous. If you let your focus drift, you'll spend the night scrubbing your telephone."
Fighting Insomnia
If you are going to take pills to help you sleep, be sure you take enough to knock yourself out. Watching Good Morning America while sleep-deprived and tranquilized is a hellish experience.
Minimize noise, light, excessive temperature—all factors that could potentially disrupt rest—by sleeping indoors.
Remember: Insomnia is only a problem if you are employed or have a reason to live. (Ouch.)
Libra: (Sept. 23—Oct. 23)
No, baboons do not understand human speech. You just happened to run across an angry one who could read your snotty body language.
Gemini: (May 21—June 21)
There's nothing wrong with putting women on a pedestal, but fastening them there with nails, adhesives, and bulky straps tends to ruin the look.
Iraq Adopts Terror Alert System (with must-see graphic)
The Iraqi Department of Homeland Security recently released a 10-level, color-coded homeland security advisory system that will alert citizens to the risk of a terrorist attack within Iraq's borders. The country's current threat level is elevated, or Code Yellow-Orange. Citizens living in towns with populations of 1,500 or more should prepare for the smoke of burning vehicles to obscure the sun and expect hostages to be tortured for several days before being killed. Should the terror risk level rise to Code Orange-Yellow, it is likely that hostages will be left alive only long enough to dig their own graves.
What Do You Think? Kids Using Drugs to Study:
"Taking Ritalin to study is very dangerous. If you let your focus drift, you'll spend the night scrubbing your telephone."
Fighting Insomnia
If you are going to take pills to help you sleep, be sure you take enough to knock yourself out. Watching Good Morning America while sleep-deprived and tranquilized is a hellish experience.
Minimize noise, light, excessive temperature—all factors that could potentially disrupt rest—by sleeping indoors.
Remember: Insomnia is only a problem if you are employed or have a reason to live. (Ouch.)
Libra: (Sept. 23—Oct. 23)
No, baboons do not understand human speech. You just happened to run across an angry one who could read your snotty body language.
Gemini: (May 21—June 21)
There's nothing wrong with putting women on a pedestal, but fastening them there with nails, adhesives, and bulky straps tends to ruin the look.
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