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   Review - Norton AntiVirus

   2008 (15.5.0.23) (Mar 23, 2008)

   This is the worst program in the world for home use. It loads way too many processes, slows any system down to a crawl and does not play nice wit a lot of other programs. One in particular are any Webroot products, which actually make your system unusable.
   
   As an IT administrator I tell any client that has it installed to remove it and use something else like AVG. Add an antispyware program and you are all set and you can do it all for free for good products.

2. 
   Review - Sysinternals Suite

   Build 02/26/08 (Feb 27, 2008)

   The best utilities for Administrators. I've been using them for years. DatabaseBen is a non factor, doesn't know what he is doing end user.

3. 
   Review - NOD32 for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP (32-bit)

   3.0.621 (Feb 15, 2008)

   I've been using NOD32 for 5 years and love it. I've not had any of the problems that have been mentioned. The new version is much more focused and polished. It does a very good job of catching anything that could be remotely thought to be a virus.

4. 
   Review - SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition

   4.0.1106 Pre-Release (Jan 20, 2008)

   As an IT professional and a private consultant, I find that this product is one of the best. It finds and kills just about everything. Something I can't say about Spybot S&D or any of the others.
   
   As for SmithFraud, I have a special program that works with just that. No one program gets everything, which is why you use more than one.

5. Comment - Mozilla issues Firefox 3.0 RC3 bug fix for Mac

   4.0.1106 Pre-Release (Jun 12, 2008 - 6:55 PM)

   I'm not seeing any rendering issues. I even loaded the sites you listed with no problems.

6. Comment - Not so fast: Latest Firefox beta posted, then un-posted

   4.0.1106 Pre-Release (Mar 7, 2008 - 1:24 PM)

   I've installed and uninstalled FF3 betas a few times because it just isn't ready for primetime. It messed up my bookmarks and the bookmark toolbar, while it doesn't like the chrome hacks for a two line bookmarks toolbard and a few others that I have.
   
   I don't worry about the extensions, I use nightly tester to get around incompatibilities.

7. Comment - Best Buy Sued Over Dual Web Sites

   4.0.1106 Pre-Release (May 28, 2007 - 11:30 PM)

   "As I've seen mentioned elsewhere in the comments, there is no guarantee that in-store prices will/must match online prices."
   
   That's not the problem, try reading the article please.
   
   The problem is that the online site via the internet stated one price. When quoted the online price by the customer, the employee pulled up a Best Buy site that they said was the online store, but was not. It was a special site that the employee misrepresented as the one the customer had been on at home. That is bait and switch. It had nothing to do with price online versus the store price.
   
   Also, as the article states Best Buys policy is "to offer the lowest price unless it is specifically noted as an online special."

8. Comment - Firefox Continues to Gain Market Share

   4.0.1106 Pre-Release (Dec 19, 2006 - 12:51 AM)

   I would like to see where these companies come up with their figures. My stats from my multiple web sites, Education to sports to technology show Firefox with 31%, 23 & 6 browser share. IE with 66%, 52 & 92 browser share. All other browsers being negligible.
   
   On an interesting note, a Linux browser, Konqueror got 13% on my education blog, along with 10 percent for Safari.
   
   On all my sites, Opera, for all the fanatical users that rant and flame in posts never has more than 1 percent of the share.
   
   I've used them all, have installed and uninstalled IE7 and only use IE6 for my banking because thats the only browser supported by most financial institutions. Firefox is my browser of choice because of the extensions, not because of the base browser engine.

9. Comment - Groups Sue for New Florida Congressional Vote

   4.0.1106 Pre-Release (Nov 22, 2006 - 10:43 PM)

   Okay, get a grip please. I live in Sarasota and have watched this all play out. It was nasty all the way up to the day of the election. The voting problems of the votes for this race not registering were pointed out to the Supervisor of Elections, Kathy Dent, during early voting and she (a Republican) blamed the voters for not being able to read a ballot correctly. When it happened during the election she again said there was nothing wrong with the ballot or machines.
   
   Of course 18,000 people undervoted and many had problems with the machines not registering a vote. After the election Ms. Dent said that she told her poll workers to warn voters about the election so that they see it on the ballot. I wasn't warned about the ballot by the poll worker that took me to the touch screen. This was a reported problem after the election, so were her workers doing their job?
   
   Lastly if you look at a statistical analysis of the undervotes versus previous undervotes in this race in previous years here is how it plays out:
   
   1.Total ballots with 13th district on them: 94931
   2. Undervotes: 18,382
   3. Buchanan percent in Sarasota County: 46
   4. Jennings percent in Sarasota County: 54
   5. Typical undervote percent: 4.42 - (This number based on figures from the Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections for the 13th District for the years 1996 to 2004. 1996: 4.78, 1998: no data available, 2000: 15.47 percent, 2002: 2.22 percent, 2004: 6.26 percent. I've left out the 2000 results because as stated in the Sarasota Herald Tribune several experts believe that because the 13th was below the Presidential race on the ballot which most people turn out for and only vote in and that a Republican incumbent seeking a 5th term was running against an inexperienced Democrat that it is an anomaly.)
   
   6. Total undervote percent all years 1996 - 2004: 7.18
   7. Undervote percent 2006: 12.92
   
   My upper range statistics which have no compensation for typical statistical undervotes:
   
   18382 * .54 = 9926 Jennings
   18382 * .46 = 8456 Buchanan
   1470 - 400 vote lead for Buchanan = 1070 vote victory for Jennings
   
   My mid range based on dropping an anomaly undervote year:
   
   94931 * .0442 = 4192 ( undervote percent from #5 above)
   18382 - 4192 = 14190 (actual undervote minus typical undervote to remove true undervotes)
   14190 * .54 = 7663 Jennings
   14190 * .46 = 6527 Buchanan
   7663 - 6527 = 1136 - 400 vote lead for Buchanan = 736 vote victory for Jennings
   
   My worst case based on all years undervote percent:
   
   94931 * .0718 = 6816 ( undervote percent from #6 above)
   18382 - 6816 = 11566 (actual undervote minus typical undervote to remove true undervotes)
   11566 * .54 = 6246 Jennings
   11566 * .46 = 5320 Buchanan
   6246 - 5320 = 926 - 400 vote lead for Buchanan = 526 vote victory for Jennings
   
   All of which points to a different outcome based on all undervote scenarios.