I agree. He is a moron.
It is time to change the oil in my car and I hate waiting an hour so I
think I shall just get another one.
You also have to wonder how he has been getting all this spyware. I am
on the Internet a lot and I hardly ever have more then a tracking
cookie. Nothing that will take me 2 hours to clean up that's for sure.
I can't believe they even put crap like this in the paper.
Rob
Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 12:43 PM 17/07/2005, Robert Turnbull wrote:
Mr. Tucker, an Internet industry executive who holds a Ph.D. in
computer science, decided that rather than take the time to remove the
offending software, he would spend $400 on a new machine.
He's a moron. It would take a couple of hours to clean this up. Heck,
even backing up data and reinstalling Windows wouldn't take any real
time compared to getting a new machine. It'll take the same amount of
time to install, configure and transfer data to a new machine as it
would to the old one, so the only extra time is the Windows install.
What's that? An hour? So his time is worth more than $400 an hour? I
doubt it.
If he lived near me, I could have cleaned it up, most likely, for $32.
I'm guessing he wanted a new computer and is using spyware as an excuse
to get it.
And next week, when he's infected the new computer, is he going to throw
that one out too?
T
