You're abso right about online scammers. Maybe 60% of the online vendors are dishonest. The biggest vultures are the Anti-Virus vendors for PCs. Microsoft Windows comes with the best protection and its 100% free. Nonetheless dozens of companies compete to steal money from you for services they provide that derive from Microsoft itself.
# I've made several reports to the RIPOFF webpage. Most recently today. CourseHero(dot)COM is an outrageous scam. I think they supply term papers for students to copy, so the kids don't have to do their own dirty work. Ah ha!
# Trouble is Course Hero has a habit of skimming articles and essays that have been posted online. For example, I use my blog as a kind of scratch paper. After which the documents are edited and then posted at AuthorsDen(dot)COM or AcademicEdu(dot)COM or Internet-Archive(dot)NET. These sites are part of the public domain.
# Yesterday, I searched the NET for "J. O. Quantaman" to see how my public exposure is doing. (Before you can sell books you hafta become a minor celebrity i.e. media monkey.)
# My search (the major engines are at least six months outta date) found an essay I wrote entitled "Voodoo Economics." I clicked on the link. It showed the abstract pretty much as I wrote it. Then I clicked on the SEE FULL ARTICLE button. Oh, oh! Another webpage appeared asking me to contribute $39.95 for a six-month trial. So this lummox (Mr. Andrew Bauer) wants to charge me for my own scribbles. Who the fuck does he think he is? He swiped my essay (which was meant to be posted in the commons) and now he's charging unscrupulous students a fee to use my essay for their course assignments.
# This is one time I wish I had a-thousand hacker buddies on the Dark Net. Guys who'd make life hell for Mr. Bauer and his greedy minions.
# The Internet today is like the WILD WEST was to Easterners back in the 1870s. (Government regulators are always a half-step behind the entrepreneurs.) Sure, you can hang tough and stay with your office job in Boston. Or you can take the train WEST, brave wild Injuns, six-shooting cowboys, fight cattlemen & sheep herders, survive the OK Corral and maybe make your fortune (if they don't bury you on Boot Hill).
# I hate the changes and constant upgrades. Many times wish I was back using Windows 3.1 and surfing a DOS Internet which was 95% text.
# We're the last interim generation. Everyone born before us is Computer-phobic. Everyone born after us is an IT Natural. They can reset their watches for Daylight Saving Time in less than two hours. Like it or not... In 20 years, paper books will be going extinct. Everyone will have a Petabyte of literature, science & info stored on a mobile TABLET or facsimile. The data will be text, pictorials, video and audio. Users can index their info stash so that frequent data is nearest at hand.
# I've made several reports to the RIPOFF webpage. Most recently today. CourseHero(dot)COM is an outrageous scam. I think they supply term papers for students to copy, so the kids don't have to do their own dirty work. Ah ha!
# Trouble is Course Hero has a habit of skimming articles and essays that have been posted online. For example, I use my blog as a kind of scratch paper. After which the documents are edited and then posted at AuthorsDen(dot)COM or AcademicEdu(dot)COM or Internet-Archive(dot)NET. These sites are part of the public domain.
# Yesterday, I searched the NET for "J. O. Quantaman" to see how my public exposure is doing. (Before you can sell books you hafta become a minor celebrity i.e. media monkey.)
# My search (the major engines are at least six months outta date) found an essay I wrote entitled "Voodoo Economics." I clicked on the link. It showed the abstract pretty much as I wrote it. Then I clicked on the SEE FULL ARTICLE button. Oh, oh! Another webpage appeared asking me to contribute $39.95 for a six-month trial. So this lummox (Mr. Andrew Bauer) wants to charge me for my own scribbles. Who the fuck does he think he is? He swiped my essay (which was meant to be posted in the commons) and now he's charging unscrupulous students a fee to use my essay for their course assignments.
# This is one time I wish I had a-thousand hacker buddies on the Dark Net. Guys who'd make life hell for Mr. Bauer and his greedy minions.
# The Internet today is like the WILD WEST was to Easterners back in the 1870s. (Government regulators are always a half-step behind the entrepreneurs.) Sure, you can hang tough and stay with your office job in Boston. Or you can take the train WEST, brave wild Injuns, six-shooting cowboys, fight cattlemen & sheep herders, survive the OK Corral and maybe make your fortune (if they don't bury you on Boot Hill).
# I hate the changes and constant upgrades. Many times wish I was back using Windows 3.1 and surfing a DOS Internet which was 95% text.
# We're the last interim generation. Everyone born before us is Computer-phobic. Everyone born after us is an IT Natural. They can reset their watches for Daylight Saving Time in less than two hours. Like it or not... In 20 years, paper books will be going extinct. Everyone will have a Petabyte of literature, science & info stored on a mobile TABLET or facsimile. The data will be text, pictorials, video and audio. Users can index their info stash so that frequent data is nearest at hand.
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