You should know, that once your Microsoft Windows machine is infected, the health of your machine has been compromised.  Although you may be fortunate in successfully removing the infections, this invading software was designed with a specific intent and that is to modify your machine’s behavior in one way or another.  

These changes can be mild to wild.  Regardless of how mild the alteration of your operating system, something has been permanently changed.  Over time, and with enough small changes, you will find you machine behaving differently in a possible variety of ways.

Consider the idea of someone being able to re-wire your brain, just a little bit each time, every now and again.  Your own behavior and/or performance may suffer.  You might think, walk or talk slower, or exhibit peculiar behaviors or maybe just shut down altogether.  Your Windows machine is not much different in that respect.

Ideally, every end-user wants it to be easy and simple to use their machine without all the worry and frustration of infections.  Wouldn’t that be a perfect world?  And shouldn’t it be that way?  Where you are free to go wherever, do whatever, download whatever, all without a single concern and at zero cost.  This would be an Internet-computing Nirvana!

Eventually, when Windows fails you for the last time (and it will) and you’ve grown tired of all the time, cost and frustrations it inherently breeds, you may turn your attention to Linux; Ubuntu Linux, to be exact.  And once you go Ubuntu, you will be asking yourself, “Microsoft who?”

Ubuntu is Nirvana!  Taste it!  Eat it up!  Breathe it in!  Love it up!  Every day, every day, every day and forever!  How many Windows’ users can boast of such warm regards for their operating system?

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Compared with the god-like Google Mail, what does a progressively failing Yahoo email account still have to offer all those poor lost souls out there?  Very very little, I proclaim.  Yahoo is a mere fading memory of yesteryear, dying on the Internet vine ever more every day.  It’s hey day is long over.  In fact, Yahoo so closely resembles AOL email that it frightens me to picture my poor wayward brother, madly tapping away on his keyboard with his two index fingers, using the likes of an AOL-esqe email interface.  I feel nauseated at the very thought.

Sadly official email interventions have failed; email rehab too.  As much as this pains me, I only have one recourse left, to protest my dear brother’s defiant Yahoo use… by easily and effortlessly implementing my handy dandy GMail filters, setting it to detect all incoming Yahoo mail and have the fruits of his addiction swiftly destroyed straight to the trash!  Pa-tooey!  <— That’s me turning my head and spitting!  Damnit brother!  <— That’s me cursing my brother’s wicked ways.

Worst of all, he recently acquired an Android smart phone and set it up with a new GMail account.  Initially learning of this, I was ecstatic and very pleased that he saw the glorious Google light.  But later, to my grave disappointment, I learned he doesn’t use it for anything more than mobile chat and continues to send me his dirty deprecating Yahoo email.  I hereby protest publicly!  My only hope is that dear mother and father will never learn of brother’s horribly irresponsible behavior.  =)

The Protect IP Act (PIPA) is a U.S. Senate bill introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy. Along with its House counterpart Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the bills are designed to provide the government and copyright holders with powers to block access to “rogue websites dedicated to infringing or counterfeit goods,” especially those registered outside the United States. Since its introduction on May 11th, 2011, the proposed bill has been met by opposition from various digital rights activists and bloggers for its encroachment in online activities protected under the first amendment of free speech. Congressional hearings for both bills began on November 16th.

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