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So far, Crystal has racked up two epic fails in a row.
And the show is only about a minute into it already.
So, how are you doing today, Crystal?
Other than losing my brain for a minute right there, I'm good.
All right.
Yeah.
So, for those of you who have listened often, it's a little bit of a, there's a pattern going on here.
So, Crystal, epic fails at the beginning of the show the last three weeks in a row.
So, it's awesome.
So, if you want to be part of the show, 751-1041, we'd love to talk with you and talk about any technology issues you might be having.
And it'll be nice.
I'll even try to resolve it without calling you any names or anything.
Because I normally don't call people names anyway.
Randall is out today because he has got some family emergencies that he's dealing with.
So, best of luck to Randall's family and hope everything's going well for him.
There's all kinds of stuff.
To go back to my failing really quick, since I was on the phone a second ago, at least I've gotten all the fails out of the way at the beginning of the show.
We'll see.
Well, no, I'm just saying, like, the past couple weeks, it was all at the beginning.
Yes, yes, all right.
And that was good for the rest of the show.
So, now you're doing great.
Yeah.
Do you know that one of the things that you can find on Google Street View is dead people?
No.
Apparently.
Are people looking for dead people?
No, they just happen to be just laying on the side of the road and the Google truck drives by and takes pictures.
And does nothing about it.
I don't.
Well, it was in Brazil.
And apparently, from the other pictures I saw that they took, there's people laying all over on the streets anyway.
Those just happen to be less alive than the other ones.
So, in Brazil, people just lay around on the street.
Is that what you're trying to say?
I think there's a lot of that, according to the pictures I saw.
Wow.
So, it's unknown whether or not the driver of the Google vehicle actually even noticed.
Yeah, because they're just driving around doing their thing.
So, I don't know.
I don't know.
If I saw somebody lying down by the side of the street.
I would automatically think there's something wrong with them.
But either maybe the streets are really clean in Brazil and people take naps on them a lot.
Oh, no, no, no.
Or they're just, you know, really drunk and passing out.
It certainly did not look clean.
Wow.
Who knows?
It's, what can I say?
If you, never mind.
Google, Google's taking pictures of dead people, which is awesome.
Now, there was somebody last year, actually, some kid who was faking it, laying on the ground and got all kinds of attention about it.
Because he was faking being dead?
Yeah.
And, you know, they got Google all up in arms about it.
You know, people were all upset that, you know, they were filming dead children on the street.
And it turns out the kid was faking it.
These guys are not faking, apparently.
I wonder how they verified that.
Maybe they went back later.
Yeah.
Did they?
Yeah, exactly.
Was somebody like, hey, that person's dead?
Or was it really obvious once you could actually see, like, look at it?
It was fairly obvious.
Fairly obvious.
So, are you irritated by commercials being louder than they should be?
You've probably heard about this in the news.
The CALM Act is when Congress is passing a law that says that commercials cannot be louder than the show, when you're watching TV.
Right.
Oh, that happens all the time.
You have to play with the volume?
Yeah.
I always thought it was a rule, by the way.
I always thought, wow, it should be a rule already.
I don't think there needs to be a law about it.
Here's the bigger issue of it for me, though.
I mean, the bigger problem for me is that there are certain salesmen, in order to sell their product,
think that the only way to sell that product is to scream really loud at you.
That's true.
Rather than have a product that's worth paying attention to,
they think that they have to amp up the volume on your commercial, you know, to get your attention.
And it's just like websites with music, by the way, for me.
Immediately, if I go to a website and it starts playing music of any kind, I am immediately off that page.
I don't even read it.
I just close it because it's, don't do that to me.
Yeah, that is pretty annoying.
I mean, I don't have that issue a lot because I don't have speakers on.
Well, I mean, okay, that sounds weird.
You don't have that issue at all if you don't have speakers.
Yeah, well, okay, because usually when I'm, I don't know, usually when I'm on the computer, it's here,
and unless I'm doing something involving audio, the speakers are turned off.
Yeah, that's true.
So sometimes I'll be looking something up or, you know, doing stuff that needs to be done,
and it'll be playing stuff, but I won't even know it.
You know what the point is for me?
Yeah.
a commercial you should you should be selling a product that's worth selling rather what that can
get people's attention on its own merits rather than just screaming at them and even making it
quieter might make get your attention just because you're so used to being loud right because you
if you can't go any louder try quieter maybe that'll make people go hey what's going on
um the louder thing is very irritating though especially like if you've got
in certain channels you know the regular programming is fairly quiet so you can't
turn it way up to hear it in the first place and then you have this commercial that's running at
you know 900 decibels and and blows your windows out that's a little irritating it bothers me
so i'm glad that they're putting some sort of rule in there but i don't think it should come
down from congress i think it should be more like a the network is more of an fcc thing well the
networks should say hey if you want to run commercials on our network or the individual
stations who say that then they have to you know to fall in line with with these particular volume
levels
um i i don't like the idea of government being involved in in anything as far as rules are
concerned when it comes to free speech so uh because somebody's going to make the argument
that it's a free speech thing you know they're going to say well i have the right to say it
louder than anybody else um i think that the the network should set some sort of rules up that say
these are the volume levels you have to hit or we'll auto level it for you and it seems to me
that technology exists i mean right here on this board there's volume leveling information
right here in front of me no there's not so there is it's all a thing of your imagination
oh crystal um it's it bothers me that that there's rules being put in place that are
that it should be first of all common sense and then secondly the network should control it or
the individual stations i don't think it should come down to the federal government telling us
to do or not do anything because that's just how i am it's just the way i operate it does seem like
what you're talking about it could become kind of a slippery slope where it's like okay well we find
this way and then we're going to do it the other way around and then we're going to do it the other way around
part of commercial is annoying too so let's just say you can't do that right right can't have any
flashy lights or anything like that yeah it seems like if they start doing that they could you know
keep doing more stuff yeah let's go ahead and take a call shall we let's see we're gonna pick
up the line here hello you're on the air computer guru yeah this is mike and crystal it is this is
randy i've been i have a two thing that happened on thursday night with your lights and okay i
don't know if you got in on that but the news i guess it was flash 10 one something like that 10.
right and then i watched this video um it's anti-climatic now uh ever since if i click on
internet explorer windows comes on and tells me awesome sorry on the wrong thing well i don't
you probably didn't click on the wrong thing probably what happened is you had sort of a
dormant infection that required a newer flash player to actually uh to take place which happens
every so often um and unfortunately without knowing exactly which infection you have it's
gonna be hard for me to tell you how to resolve that however there are some tools can you i mean
is the machine functional at all can you get around on it right now i can read exactly what
the message says it says that this is the microsoft security's essential alert this big red x program
attacker and that being part of the call c is the awesome isn't that great do you have another
browser installed on the machine expect on firefox fire okay so you've got a you've got a rogue
it's not by yourself uh unless uh if you can get to get to my website there's a tools section or
like a links and free stuff yeah i have uh run a vast my boot didn't find anything and malware
bites i didn't find anything you're in trouble then it probably actually is microsoft security
all right the anti uh my brain is not working hold let me drink caffeine here yeah get some coffee
um microsoft security essentials okay uh chances are those what's happened is security essentials
is confuzzled
it thinks that everything that's an executable is an infection and and that's possible i haven't
seen it with security essentials i've actually seen it with other antiviruses before and i'm
on windows x i can't believe i can get something that dangerous on a dial-up but no you can still
get it just slower so um you should probably bring it down let me look at it okay and uh
what can get you straightened up and cleaned up and i'm still running the antivirus special by
the way it's it's cheaper than normal cheaper than for the formal lights out there i would say
be cautious yeah well the the difference is
that when when i say it's cheaper than normal it doesn't mean that it's it's uh just some airplane
flying low yeah there should be some better picture than that i was really i sacrificed my
whole computer for watching an airplane land this airplane's landing at davis
that's not a ufo there goes my computer yeah well thanks for the call bring it on by let me look at
it and one more quick thing is that the button that will will try to for commercials well that's
pretty interesting oh yeah and i think
magnivox does that as well the older magnivox yeah you have to take two that comes with the tv
and there's a certain setting that you use that will make all yeah well i know that they used to
offer that with some tvs but my tv doesn't do it i'll tell you that much okay thanks for the call
if you want to be part of the show 751-1041 we'd love to talk with you about whatever technology
issues you might be having we're going to talk about some tv act here actually google tv and uh
apple tv and other tv anyway stick around we'll be right back welcome back to computer guru show
my name's mike here to deal with your technology needs and treat you like a real person in the
process give us a call 751-1041 if you'd like to be part of the show and we can see what you do to
answer any of your issues we'll un-issue-fy you because uh so many people have issues including
you uh yeah well right now i'm having issues with the the kqth network as far as getting online um
i'm not having any issues like that yeah yeah yeah i don't want to hear it so here's the deal
is that at the old studio before we moved into the studio we were at the old studio and we were at the
new fancy state-of-the-art awesome looking studio um i could get online pretty easy
not so much anymore and the old studio is much more cave-like yeah there are no windows no
windows i actually you know i miss the old studio i like the i kind of do too especially since it's
a lot closer to my house yeah well yeah i'm all irritated now because uh i use an instant messenger
to communicate with crystal as far as who's calling and a brief description of their problem
and at the moment uh it isn't working well it is now but it has been not working the entire show
so far so i've just been guessing on who i'm talking to interestingly enough there they sort
of have a corporate policy to lock me out of here which is probably why it wasn't working but never
stops me from getting online so let's take another call here we're going to talk to joe hello joe how
you doing hi thank you how are you i'm i'm wonderful how may i help you great um i was
i just actually had this problem um fix itself but i'm wondering if it's a problem even though
it's fixed um i have a gmail account and i have a university account i have my university email
going into the gmail account and um i just i was wondering what was going on because i i usually
get a lot of email haven't been receiving anything and about five minutes ago i received 30 emails
um and some as far back as the
yeah well that's interesting yeah yeah i thought but i would get like one or two here or there
and but i mean nothing and all of a sudden these 30 emails came up and i'm wondering is it i mean
is that normal all right so how are you checking your email um i go to my gmail and it also syncs
up to my blackberry so that i can when something comes in it comes up on the blackberry okay so
you have a university account
that you're checking with the gmail account yeah and you suddenly got a whole bunch of messages
all at once in your gmail account even if you go to my university account it actually forwards
everything over automatically so none of them appear in my inbox at all anyways so if i were
to go there i wouldn't see anything anyways right everything goes right over but i was wondering
because i i get quite a few emails and nothing happened and all of a sudden well i'm just going
to have to take a guess on this and
because i i don't know exactly how it's set up and all of that so i will give you uh let's just say
an educated guess we'll eliminate some some possibilities based off of what we know in the
world i would suggest that it's way more likely that there was some sort of a transfer agent
problem or a mail server problem on the university side than there is that google suddenly stopped
working for you for a couple of days okay uh so i imagine that maybe there was some type of an
issue where mail got hung up in the queue
on the university side then finally just went through but i i mean i really can't imagine that
there is some issue large enough to cause a google server to misbehave for longer than a minute or two
oh okay and you know what i mean i i will probably confirm that then on monday i'll just ask a few
other people and see if they have the same problem then if they have sort of the same setup as i do
well i would like to know that but um you know it just seems to me that that's the most likely
explanation for what's going on there okay good
gosh all right well that's really good to me well thank you very much oh you're quite welcome
have yourself a wonderful day you do the same all right bye oh what a day i'm drinking my caffeine
so it's all good you're awfully cheery and it kind of scares me i know i've been in i've been
in a really good mood the last couple of days which is really weird i agree yeah because normally i'm
i'm a little weirded out right now a little cranky yeah sometimes sometimes sometimes and when you're
not cranky you're not usually like a little bit cranky you're not usually like a little bit cranky
as cheerful as you are right now really i mean it's not that you're like you know you're just like
mellow i guess yeah i'm usually pretty calm and what's funny is that it's similarly to the people
saying that you know i'm just pretty chilled you know and and patient usually um it's amazing i get
like three people a week that come into the shop and they'll be like oh are you the one on the
radio and i'll be like yeah and they'll be like you're way younger than i thought you'd be do i
sound that old i don't think so
but oh man i mean it's i don't know people people think i'm like 50 or something i don't think you
sound that old i don't know what the deal is but apparently i sound old on the radio
well maybe that or you just look young except that if they're thinking that you're 50 that is
i don't know they never give an age they just say you know i'm younger than i thought so maybe they
just think you look younger that could be it that could be a couple might just be a young looking
guy so i can either take it or i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know
i can either take it as a compliment that i look younger than i sound or i can take it as a as a
compliment that i sound older than i or an insult as i sound older than i am yeah or maybe it's not
an insult i don't know uh but it's it's the same reaction from everybody it's not like there's a
different reaction it's if i if they come in the shop and they ask oh are you the one on the radio
and i say yes i know exactly the words they're going to come out of their mouth next you look
younger yeah i thought you'd be older you know at least they're not saying that you're uglier than
that would be a real insult well i do have a face for radio so oh my god so i sound old apparently
is really what it is now there's some somebody's making a big deal about this did you hear about
the shooting in texas that somebody went all crazy with an ak-47 in texas um did it happen
this week i believe so then no all right so apparently at the university of texas in austin
somebody decided to go to school with an ak-47 and start shooting people
and then shot him
himself you would think that the news would be about him going in there and shooting people
yeah right but there's a certain spinoff of the news that's saying you know how we could tell
he was going to shoot somebody he didn't have a facebook account what yes so people are drawing
the correlation between not having a facebook account and being a killer because obviously
you must be evil obviously he was anti-social he was a loner you could tell that he had like
no notes by his non-facebook page yeah because you know nobody nobody that is ever going to do a
bad thing is ever going to have a facebook facebook should not be this intertwined with the
the fabric of society it should not be that involved where you would be like if you know
what if you don't have a face count a facebook account i can't trust you because you might be a
killer you might i can't go look up all your personal information on facebook if if you don't
have a facebook account you obviously like to be a killer you might be a killer you might be a killer
social skills oh my gosh rather than you know rather than the people that would just talk to
each other in person stick around we'll be right back after the news welcome back to the computer
guru show my name is mike here to do what your technology needs and treat you like a real person
in the process give us a call 751-1041 if you would like to be part of the show crystal brought
up a good point during the break that uh maybe he was a the shooter who wasn't on facebook was
really upset because nobody was going to his his myspace page anymore that's what you get for not
checking my myspace
yeah myspace is you know it was it was huge it's still fairly big and it's in its own right
but yeah it is so dated it is so like last year you know i liked i liked how you could do your
whole profile thing on myspace though i did like that where you could you know have the background
and have a theme that was actually the biggest problem with myspace actually really yeah because
people would in a part people would embed malicious code oh viruses into their profiles and they didn't
like it was the tools that they've you know the pimp my myspace page yeah utilities they would
inject bad stuff into everybody's pages and then infect everybody that's no good i went there is
this page that helped you to create like your own thing like profile right that's the one i would
usually use so i'd get to i don't know i hope i didn't you were part of the problem yes you were
part of the problem now i know why you don't have a computer no oh i didn't have a computer way
before my space because you were
you were the killer of machines all right so do you have one of those android phones
no if you do fellow listeners if you do then uh you might be interested to know what's happening
with your data now you notice when you install an app on one of these phones it says hey
this application will have access to all of these types of data that available to it you know like
some of them say they'll have address to you or access to your uh the call state so it knows
whether or not you're in a phone call or you know you're in a phone call or you know you're in a phone call
gps locations stuff like that well it turns out that somebody built this really nifty utility
it's called taint droid and uh you can install it and it'll tell you what the applications are
doing with your data not necessarily here's the problem is that you you install the application
and it says hey this application has access to look at this information on your phone which is
fine if it's just looking but the point is is that they found that some applications are not
only just looking at the app but they're also looking at the app and they're looking at the
data but taking that data and sending it off to advertisers so for instance if you're um as an
example and a fake example by the way um you have like some rinky dink twitter app on your phone
not the real twitter one not the uh the official twitter application but one of the other ones that
came out earlier that particular application knows where you're at knows your gps location
has access to like where
you're at and all that stuff and they could be sending that to advertisers to say you're at this
location at this time now under normal circumstances that's probably not necessarily a bad thing or you
know it's not great but it's nothing harmful um and the reason i'm saying that is because we're
going to get to something that google's doing in a little bit um but there are other applications
that have access to more sensitive information like your address book or other files that are
stored on there or passwords that are saved for your gps location and they're going to be sending
that to your uh websites so these are are things where the developers need to be a little more
cautious and and google i think needs to do a better screening process as far as what applications
are doing with your data now google hasn't had a chance to really address this yet just because it
came out a couple days ago and it's being released the info their study is being released soon um i
suspect that google will probably address this in such a way that they will disallow access
to send data out to advertisers and they're going to be sending that to advertisers and they're going
to be sending that out uh of the phone to certain advertisers or they'll make it harder for the
applications to actually collect data from the phone like for instance there's a video game that
i installed on there you know because i was bored and sitting on the couch one night i'm just like
hey i'm going to install this app and play a video game and i noticed in the during the install
process it said this particular you know game is going to have access to my address book to my
phone book and i'm like well why why does it need that it's just this
little game and uh so i didn't install that one and and i think you should be more uh careful about
the applications that you install on your phone whether or not it's an iphone or an android phone
or blackberry you should be careful with that because people use their phones for everything
you know phones have lots of data in them now yeah and if that game is going to go in and get
your address book what is it going to do with all that information that's a great question and that's
where this this application the the taint droid will will let you know because it'll give you
real-time access so it'll show you
exactly what's happening with the data on your phone so you can check it out it's available on
the market if you have an android phone um i'm going to run it on mine later just to see what
what data is going where on my phone i'm really curious about that now google's actually got a
plan that they're going to do something that's both interesting and frightening at the same time
the plan that google has is to be able to answer your question before you ask it are they going to
put microchips in our minds no it turns out something's going to happen so i'm going to
tell you what it's going to be based on patterns and other things um for instance most people have
smartphones these days which have gps locations in them right yes okay and gps you know the phone
knows where you're at all the time right it says you are here you know turn left if you want to go
somewhere else it knows where you're at so if if google can find a way to safely without violating
too many privacy laws to say okay we know where you're at and we know about you know about your
history and your patterns like say for instance you go to lunch between 11 and 11 30 you leave for
lunch almost every day right let's just say that it knows that okay how does it know that well it
knows where you're at with your phone oh because it's tracking me it's tracking you all right so
it knows that you leave where you are most of the time at 11 to 11 30 and you show up at a restaurant
somewhere in the vicinity at a certain time and it knows what types of restaurants those are of
course of course
so what's not to stop it from being getting to the point where you could just be going somewhere
and you look at your phone somewhere around 11 30 or so and your phone says you're probably hungry
right now and we know what types of food you like here's what's nearby i would be totally creeped out
so apparently the goal is is that google says they want to be able to answer your
your search request before you even ask it that's that i think it's cool technologically
straightforwardly
that is really cool i really don't like the fact that they're tracking my every move though they're
already tracking your every move i don't like that though i don't think my phone has a gps so i think
all cell phones have gps you know what well i guess this was a few years ago but my phone got stolen
and i asked them if they could like track it and they told me no no they won't turn it on for you
unless they did all nine oh no i was trying to get them to turn it off because i didn't want them to
bring up charges but i was like can you find out where it is what i'm saying is that they won't
they won't turn on the location server and they're not going to be able to turn it on for you
they don't care they want you to buy another one that's just mean i loved that phone and they
weren't selling it anymore now if you had a droid phone there's a a location service an application
you can install on your droid by the way if you have a droid phone and you want to locate your
phone there's a droid locator app where you can just send it a text message either from the google
voice page or from another cell phone and it'll do all kinds of cool things like depending on
which code you send you can have it wipe all the data and it'll do all kinds of cool things
on the phone you can have it turn on the gps and show you a map of where that phone is
or you can just have it be irritating or lock the phone yeah so it's cool service and you know
so how do you do you just go onto a computer to access it you can go onto a computer or another
cell phone okay and and locate your phone and issue commands to it now all of the smartphones
have some type of feature like this blackberries have a built-in service for this and iphones at
the mobile me stuff will allow you to do something similar where you'll
be able to either wipe the phone remotely or it'll just clear all the data off of it so that
even if they do have your phone they can't get any of your encrypting or incriminating information
the other option is that you can just have it lock the phone let's say for instance you don't
have a password on your phone you can set one remotely so that the phone will lock itself and
unless they enter the right code they can't get into the phone or the other option is that you
can geolocate the phone and say i want to know where you're at on this map right now which could
be dangerous but but the only thing like if your phone went missing or stolen or whatever i think
the geolocating one would be the more because otherwise i mean you can still just get it to
be shut off yeah you know because you can you can just make a phone call and get it shut off
but if you can locate where it is especially how expensive phones are now it depends on what you're
interested in most people are just interested in keeping their private data private so they
could just wipe the phone they don't care about that they pay fifty dollars for their deductible
not on an iphone and they get a replacement phone because i guess with smartphones you have a lot of
personal info on there yes i mean i use mine it's a regular computer it's got all kinds of stuff on
it and you know customer data stuff like that that you know i want to keep safe so keep a password on
it and i have the the the wipe service on it if i need it you know if i lose the phone which i don't
do very often normally i break them but if i lose the phone then i can wipe it out remotely let's
talk to jason hey jason how you doing oh pretty good mike how are you i'm doing great i got a
question for you um i had a virus like a month ago and uh and i got it removed by using malware
bites and then last week uh the computer shut down on me and when i restarted back up it would
just go like into where safe mode's at it's a black screen and just start counting and it won't
go any further than that it kind of loops back and forth right so then i tried doing a system
restore on it i did the recovery desk and everything right and then i
tried loading the recovery disk it starts for me in the hard drive and then the error message
pops up and that's as far as i get i can't get what's the error message uh it's a bunch of
numbers it's uh zero x 200 1100 and then 100 is the code number and i looked on google and i
really can't find any thing that refers to that error message so i thought i'd call you and see
if maybe you have run into that before is there any like plain english stuff next to that zero x
something um i think it's a failure to i don't remember what it says in english though i have
to double check that i'm not in front of right now to bring it up okay get me an error message
an exact error message okay and you can email it to me radio at azcomputerguru.com okay and i will
email you back the solution or at least what the problem is so then we know how to move forward
most often when we see these types of problems where you end up with a cycling machine on xp
and then it doesn't install is usually a failing hard drive
but depending on what the error code is it could be a memory chip now if it says something like you
know failed to read in-page data or uh something like uh kernel fault and non-paged area then
that's memory now if it says something like unmountable boot device or unable to write to
the hard drive then of course it's a hard drive issue so give me some error messages and and i
will help you out with that i appreciate it what was that email your address again radio at azcomputerguru.com
got it or you can send a message on twitter because i'm an az computer guru on twitter you can you can
do it any way you want now is that the only computer you have no i have another one okay
because if you if you that's the only computer you have you would send any emails um but you
can also call down to the shop 304-8300 we'll help you out okay i appreciate it all right thank
you very much for the call if you want to be part of the show 751-1041 we would love to help you
out with whatever technology issues you might be having once again 751-1041
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having unfortunately randall is not here today he's home dealing with stuff home stuff home issues
home issues they suck yeah they're never really good don't like the home issues so i got an email
that asked about unlimited data plans for cell phone carriers because they're like is there
really something that i can do to help you out with your technology needs and treat you like a
any such thing is an unlimited data plan through your cell phone provider and it's sort of a yes
and no answer for instance if you happen to have like a droid x through verizon the answer is yes
on that device it is totally unlimited you could download a terabyte of information which is a lot
by the way if you don't know what that is that's 1024 gigabytes is a terabyte it's a lot of data
now most of the most of the providers set at five
gigabyte cap on your data usage now that's particularly when you're using like a laptop to
connect to a cellular network so if you have like a little air card in there or you're tethering off
of your device you have a five gigabyte limit now and once you hit that limit that's where things
get different depending on the carrier for instance if you have a regular broadband account
through verizon and you hit five gigs and you go over then you are charged an overage amount
so you get charged extra money now if you have a month-to-month or a prepaid wireless account
same card same laptop and you and you hit your five gig limit suddenly the internet just stops
so they just cut you off once you hit your five gig limit now if you're tethering through a droid
phone right using the official verizon tethering application then your phone will still get data
at five gig but your laptop if you go over will get your data at five gig so it's not like you're
will incur an additional fee so you got to be a little careful about that if you're using let's
say you have a rooted phone and you're using a let's just say a not official tethering application
then your phone actually doesn't know the difference between its own data and the laptop
data and thus you were not charged for an overage pretty interesting stuff now if you have at&t
or uh i'll say at&t at&t does tiers right so their highest one they offer is five gigabits
or five gigabyte five gigabits five gigabyte you thought i said something else uh five if you hit
the five gigabyte limit then you're going to be charged additional fee with the at&t plan now
that's if you can afford the five gigabyte plan because it's it's kind of expensive
um if you have cricket or
one of the other things that you can afford is the at&t plan so if you have a at&t plan
one of the other cricket like providers then what they do is once you hit your five gigabyte
limit they just throttle you meaning that you're it slows down to a crawl it still works but once
you hit that limit it makes it very very slow for you to do anything but you can still function if
you need to for at least crucial items so the truth is is that they're if you're using a laptop
and you're trying to connect to the internet through a cell phone network you can pretty
much count on five gigabytes being your limit now a lot of people think well that's a huge amount of
information and it is so normally the people that would complain about this are those that are
downloading movies or doing some type of torrenting or other not necessarily legal
activities on their computer so they're using more bandwidth than the average user most often
we see people that are are using about a gigabyte a month or so and that's just for normal usage
checking your email getting online looking stuff up just normal everyday stuff once you start
into streaming video and all this other stuff then your data usage goes way up so if you're
watching let's say netflix on your ipad tethered to your iphone then you can you can pretty much
count on a whole bunch of data and you're going to watch a few movies and then you're going to be
out of bandwidth for the month and either pay extra or be cut off depending on which plan you
have so hopefully that answers the question uh if unlimited data plans are are hard to come by
and especially in the cell phone world now if you're wired yeah
go nuts do anything you want unless you live on the east coast that's you know that's just how
that works you know east coast they tend to uh they tend to cap you a lot which is kind of
interesting and it's and it's probably because verizon owns all of the wired networks out on
the east coast so don't be downloading movies getting yourself in trouble yeah you know i'm
looking at you yeah you're just i'm a big movie downloader on my non-computer yeah yeah on your
phone my non-smartphone
smartphone all it downloads is dumb movies like dumb and dumber
all right so microsoft marks the anniversary of security essentials by the way with some
statistics they they decided to release some data and it turns out that uh they have detected
400 million threats since uh security essentials has been released how long has that been it's
been a year that's a lot of threats in a year yeah at least in the latest version of it
yeah that's that's a whole lot of infections 400 million the scary statistic is is that they said
that only 366 million of those threats did the users opt to get rid of why wouldn't you get rid
of a threat that's a really good question i would want to get rid of it they don't say why they just
say that they detected 400 million threats and the users decided to get rid of 366 million
so that means that there's like 33 million infections out there that were intentionally
left wow for some reason or another now it could have been false positives on some of those where
the the antivirus says hey this is a problem and the user says oh i know better that's not a problem
but chances are that a majority of those were just people being like yeah whatever
i'm clicking yes anyway you know i'm going to click around this so i can continue to do what
you're telling me not to do is that kind of like when it says you're about to go over a secure
connection kind of thing or is it but it would say there's something like
it might be a problem but it's not a problem it's not a problem it's not a problem
we've detected the threat would you like to deal with it now and they were like no i'm trying to
work right now i'm trying to do this so just no leave it alone um and that's part of the problem
with with older versions of windows especially in xp where you were bombarded and vista was
really really bad about this is where you were bombarded with messages you know all day long
it was telling you hey this is happening this is happening and click yes or no or whatever
trying to get you to to be involved in the process
it turns out that involving the user i mean no offense to the users but involving the user to
the degree that that vista was trying to do and xp to a certain extent um is bad because what it's
just like you get desensitized to it you no longer pay attention something pops up on the screen you
click what you would normally click to get it to go away you don't even know what it was you're not
even reading you don't read it all the time we get people to bring machines in and they say and
this error popped up on the screen and they're like oh my god i'm not even reading what it says
on the screen and everything fell apart okay what was the error message i don't know i just
clicked past it that doesn't help the reason it doesn't help is because that error is telling you
what's wrong and once you move past that chances are you're not going to reproduce it that error
isn't going to occur the same way again at least not the one that caused the problem in the first
place because then it's going to cause new errors because you have different errors after that
right and sometimes you don't get errors at all it's just the machine's non-functional at that
point so you should read what what's on front of you and you're going to get errors after that
on the screen in front of you if something pops up and especially if it's like red now in in seven
they change the color codes for errors right so if you kind of like teachers grading papers
kind of because red is bad all the errors in xp and vista look the same right if it was either
if it was informational or if it was a an alert that said oh my goodness something bad is happening
or if it was something as simple as hey uh would you like to set your home page all of them look
the same all right and it's very
you get used to it it's the same error message doesn't matter you don't know what how severe it
is based off of the error message and then you just get used to it and click past them and you
get yourself infected or you kill the machine in some way or you don't notice something that's
important now in seven they change that by making it so that if it's a severe thing it's like bright
red and it gets your attention and and less severe things are a different color and some of them are
blue some of them are green and some of them are just gray you know depending on how
you're using it and you're using it in a different way so you can use it in a different way and you
don't know how bad it is how important it is that you answer this question properly so it's important
to read the messages that are in front of you don't get over you know just don't get
desensitized and not pay attention now luckily in seven they don't bother you as much you know
it doesn't pop up as many messages in order that you have to respond to so it helps out quite a bit
now so there's lots of infections out there and you know there's people saying well
that just goes to show how vulnerable microsoft systems are yeah not really the the issue is is
that there's so many windows machines out there that that's the only place you're going to attack
and it's just the way it works it totally makes sense stick around for more of the computer guru
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