Wow, well, guess I know how to really kill a thread, eh...
*Goes to get coat*
Of course, all this is for nothing unless you consult the Federal European Legislation About Tongues In Orifices (FELATIO) & Council of Universal Non Negotiable International Lobbyists Investigating Naughty Girls Using Swinging. (CUNNILINGUS)
And the solution to this, is to switch browsers.
I use Mozilla Firefox for the vast majority of my browsing. Mainly because there is a plug-in available for it called Adblock that, not surprisingly, lets you selectively block images from being rendered in the browser window. It's also more secure than IE, loads pages much faster, supports tabbed browsing, etc, etc...
so it is, I always get those two mixed up, lol...
*bows down to one more worthy of the title of geek*
<geek mode>
POP3 (or Post Office Protocol 3) is the protocol used on email servers (such as the one your ISP uses) to send emails between servers. When you send an email, you use the POP3 protocol.
SMTP (or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is the protocol used by your machine at home to retrieve mail from a server.
</geek mode>
:smug: too. Did something similar to this on a course induction once. Rather amusing to sit and watch everyone else in the room go through everey single step and make complete prats of themselves when you read through it all first...
And of course, if you're Jeff Goldblum, you can in one night, whilst drunk, use an Apple computer to create a virus that can disable the defenses of an entire alien invasion fleet, despite having no prior knowledge of the computer hardware the aliens use, or the operating system running on said hardware. Wow, I really want Jeff Goldblum around next time we're invaded by aliens
# Good guys use Apple computers, bad guys use PCs
# Word processors never display a cursor.
# You never have to use the space-bar when typing long sentences.
# All monitors display inch-high letters.
# High-tech computers, such as those used by NASA, the CIA, or some such governmental institution, will have easy to understand graphical interfaces. Those that don't, have incredibly powerful text-based command shells that can correctly understand and execute commands typed in plain English.
# Corollary: you can gain access to any information you want by simply typing "ACCESS ALL OF THE SECRET FILES" on any keyboard.
# Likewise, you can infect a computer with a destructive virus by simply typing "UPLOAD VIRUS" (see "Fortress")
# All computers are connected. You can access the information on the villain's desktop computer, even if it's turned off.
# Powerful computers beep whenever you press a key or whenever the screen changes. Some computers also slow down the output on the screen so that it doesn't go faster than you can read. The *really* advanced ones also emulate the sound of a dot-matrix printer.
# All computer panels have thousands of volts and flash pots just underneath the surface. Malfunctions are indicated by a bright flash, a puff of smoke, a shower of sparks, and an explosion that forces you backwards.
# People typing away on a computer will turn it off without saving the data.
# A hacker can get into the most sensitive computer in the world before intermission and guess the secret password in two tries.
# Any PERMISSION DENIED has an OVERRIDE function (see "Demolition Man" and countless others).
# Complex calculations and loading of huge amounts of data will be accomplished in under three seconds. Movie modems usually appear to transmit data at the speed of two gigabytes per second.
# When the power plant/missile site/whatever overheats, all the control panels will explode, as will the entire building.
# If a disk has got encrypted files, you are automatically asked for a password when you try to access it.
# No matter what kind of computer disk it is, it'll be readable by any system you put it into. All application software is usable by all computer platforms The more high-tech the equipment, the more buttons it has (Aliens). However, everyone must have been highly trained, because the buttons aren't labelled.
# Most computers, no matter how small, have reality-defying three-dimensional, active animation, photo-realistic graphics capability.
# Laptops, for some strange reason, always seem to have amazing real-time video phone capabilities and the performance of a CRAY Supercomputer.
# Whenever a character looks at a VDU, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto his/her face (see "Alien", "2001")
When hit by a shotgun blast in a drive-by shooting, the hero will be magically attracted to the closest shop window, which will conveniently be made from safety glass and thus will not break into lethal shards that turn said hero into human sushi. The hero will of course have been wwearing his trusty bullet-proof vest and will be miraculously unharmed...
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