Even though i've been told by at least 4 people from Verizon that my modem DOES NOT HAVE A FIREWALL, well I stumbled onto it just the other day, I typed in the IP address of my modem, and there it was.... and it was set to HIGH. I turned it off, and BOOM, everything works great. I even spoke to a Verizon after this, and they denied there was a Firewall, And I tell them It is there, or was, and they talk to me like i'm a nutjob!!! So much for their tech support team...

Verizon's pervasive single-ended Ad concept; implicating you'll get a team of technical experts behind every cellular call,- sorta like the politician who promises lower taxes?

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Another reason I historically liked macs. PCs were always the #1 choice of haters who wanted to mess with other people's computers for fun. Now that the code is merging, I don't know how much longer that will be true. My husband's best friend has a graphic design company and most of the computers are PCs, because the Adobe versions of Photoshop and Illustrator and 3D design programs for Windows are so much cheaper than the mac versions. He had to get tough about employees downloading emails and stuff on work computers because it was, like, new viruses, all the time. They weren't using the anti-virus software they had.

Most of what I want to watch is stuff like animation-- Naruto shippuden and the not that old CATSCRATCH cartoons on Nick that Viacom has never released on DVD. I go to TurboNICK, but the buffering takes FOREVER, and anything copyrighted is being taken of YOUTUBE. Why can't this stuff just be available for download at iTunes?

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