Now that my computer has been rendered useless due to a virus, I am writing this post on Matt Baker's computer. But he needs to update his virus protection as well. This being said, I'm NOT going to download any pictures or anything until he can get this done. It's just too risky...
That brings me to the subject of computers (well, PC's in this case) in general as a medium. Except for Mac's (from what I understand), computers are just too susceptable to these "outside influences". As if computers aren't expensive enough, we also have to worry about getting and keeping updates on Anti-Virus and Anti-Spy Ware software. WHEW!!! That can be a big expense every time we turn around and there is some new virus, etc. made by some asshole that has nothing better to do than wreck other people's computers. I mean, WHAT THE HELL?!?!?!?
I hear that now there are even viruses that one can get just simply by being online at all. Now it doesn't even matter if you have dubious file-sharing software or not--or even if you go to "unknown websites". I've heard that some websites (often "naughty ones" that I won't name) are renouned for having viruses lurking in there. So--it looks like to me that the "trash" on the Information Super Highway is often "septic" and can make your computer "sick". And to add insult to injury, just getting on this Highway at all might make you run the risk of infection. How does this apply to what we have learned in class?! Well, for one, it certainly "inhibits" the Uses and Gratification Model we learned about in class! I have a "paranoid theory" on the whole infection scenario, but I think I'm too "self-concious" to go into that for the time being...
Allan Zane
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online condoms..?, there must be a program that can protect and still give you that same intimate feeling... the information superhighway has so many carjackers and dirty prostitutes and potholes... but yes the uses and gratifications of the travel through that realm is a wild one,,, you seek, you find, you absorb, and then bam, your computer is down,,, people trying to disrupt the surveillance of society, the online socializing, the entertainment to be had... dirty bastards...
hell yeah!!!!! ENOUGH SAID!!!!
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