Fight cyber bullies, schools told

This was an interesting article from the BBC.
Cyber bullies
It said that “More than a third of 12 to 15-year-olds have faced some kind of cyberbullying, according to a BBC government study.” “Schools have been told they can confiscate mobile phones and how to get hurtful material pulled from websites.” There is something called ‘Happy slapping’ I am certainly glad my name is not the name of the person in the article. “Schools Secretary Ed Balls said cyber bullying was “insidious” and had grown with technology and changes in society.” “Schools needed to get to grips with newer forms of bullying, he said. “
Mr. Balls said this to a BBC writer maybe he needs to get a better grip on things also. The writer made this article funny by the persons name not me, I just found how it was written was amusing from the name context. I hope that no one was offended by this material and keep a sense of humor of the naming convention

How many plug-ins can there be?

I started to write Assignment 1 and came across this interesting website or should I call it a plugin repository. I hope none are spyware, because you never really know what happens when you download one of these browser components.
This site don’t like Linux because it has a R.I.P. Linux in an graphic. It seems to be rather old and this site was last updated February 25, 2005. The other site BartPE seems to be that they gave up on both of them.
Plug-ins It’s interesting of how many plugins there really are. This site covers many of them also. But most of the links seem to be broken. More Plug-ins
This is for the Mozilla Firefox browser. There is a link to search for plugins also.
Even More Plug-ins The Mycroft development project provides a collection of Sherlock & OpenSearch Search Engine Plugins at 12774. Mycroft This site tells how to get started to develop a plug in. Click Me

Did you lose or miss place that CD with the driver on it for a hardware device??
Here is where you will hopefully will find it by searching for it. Drivers
I always lose the hard drive diagnostic disk when it is in need, it never fails!
I’m lucky that Western Digital or Maxtor have downloads on their sites, and many more manufacturers. If you ever purchase a hard drive from newegg they don’t send the disk with the hard drive and never do. Unlike when you purchase a hard drive from Best buy in the box. I would guess most people know how to format their drives, etc. who get them for their system who order from new egg. XP-Drivers Driver zone has a driver update scanner, they say it is safe and contains no malware or spyware? Driverzone
Mr. Driver
Driverguide

DISCLAIMER:

Most of all beware of what you download from unauthenicated manufacturer sites. There may be malware, spyware or anything
else. You do so at your own risk like anything else in this world.

Does size really matter??

I know the title of this has some laughing, but I was more of thinking of the size of the PC hard drives. Size does matter if you want more storage space. How many remember the small 300MB Hard Drives? I can remember when Windows 3.1 had that size hard drive!
I was thinking of getting a new hard drive and remember when they used to be 300MB and how much times have changed. We have software or files that keep taking up more space on the hard drive. Maybe it is the files we store, and never get rid of? I get into saving wave files and creating music. I don’t know how many people are into collecting royalty free loops, but they add up. I have an old version of Acid Pro 4.0 and a Pro Tools module with software also that have editing features on them to mix tracks with.
Just look at the prices for a 500GB for over a hundred dollars.

Newegg Hard Drives

So for a terabyte which was over a couple of thousand dollars at some time is $200-400 dollars which is more affordable. Soon within the next couple years it looks like a terabyte
might be the size of the common hard drive? I would envision the future of hard drives to be more of a flash drive for the pc in the future. It seems smaller and electronically can fit more digital on them.

The Flash Readers has at no point yet got to a terabyte and wonder if it ever will?
I would guess if the market demand was there one day perhaps it would have more size.
What about the other part of this, small hard drive for operating system and everything else on the net? I don’t have a crystal ball to predict the future, but what if all we needed was a operating system or a login and have the web as a giant mainframe and a hard drive would exist more to be online? We already can play games online? But there would be no privacy then if everything went to online storage. At one point some part of the technology market will change with something being more smaller. It seems at the moment they are trying to sell more mini desktops on newegg or they are trying to get rid of stock because they don’t sell? The cell phone as small as it is has an operating system in it, but it is the software components inside that make it interact with the integrated circuits.

iPhone buyers get discount.

I guess it is a supply and demand sort of thing. Or Apple thought they charged too much for their product to their customers. IPhone
I myself do not have an iPhone or “idiotphone” and prefer to live in the caveman era when it comes to cell phones. I’m really not into cell phones since a person pulled out in front of me when I was driving. That person was talking on the cell phone and not paying attention to the road. I find all cell phones as dangerous when some idiot talks and drives and is not paying attention to the road. My thoughts and idea for having a cell phone is when your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you need to call AAA or a friend or relative to help you in that emergency.

A friend told me that the iPhone was to remain at the original price for five years and not lose it’s value. It seems when a new technology or anything comes out they try
to charge as much as they can if the demand is present. Apple tested the market and found quite a demand for their iPhone. In economics as more buy or demand a product the price comes down. Some people are angry on how much they paid for the phone and get only $100 back in credit, others don’t really care. In my own opinion they should get a $200 credit and not $100. I read a comment by someone they thought after being a loyal Apple customer they should have more of a refund. Another comment the person was going to take the iPhone back to the place of purchase and get a full refund for it. In another article: Price Cut for iPhone Linked to Slow Sales. Maybe this was a way for Apple to stimulate the sell of the iPhone?
Then I found out in an article that it has been hacked already by a 17 year old kid which I find amusing. iPhone hacker Did not Apple make this iPhone tamper resistant? I guess not unless they put a patch on their device.