OT: Bill Gates without XP SP2???

[DalePres]

I know this is off topic but I had to say it out loud to someone... I just
saw Bill Gates on CNN where he said that his 8 year old daughter suffers
from the same problems on the PC as the rest of us. "Just the other day,"
he said, "She was browsing the internet, got a pop-up, and thought she had
won a contest. I had to explain to her that they were just trying to get
her to click on it."

Hmmmm... Makes you wonder. No SP2, huh?

DalePres

 

[Michael C#]

Oh like he can't *afford* to get scammed once or twice...

Besides, he probably heard horror stories about SP2 installations

 

[MuZZy]

Or probably he meant to say "my 8 years old daughter suffers from the same problems on the PC as
YOU, 20/30/40/etc year old's... Damn, she's smart!"

 

[John]

well she's Bill Gates daughter

Or probably he meant to say "my 8 years old daughter suffers from the
same problems on the PC as YOU, 20/30/40/etc year old's... Damn, she's
smart!"

 

[James Curran]

Two possibilities:

1) He used "pop-up" as a generic term of any form of web page banner ad.
No uncommon, though he's usually more careful about tech terminology.

2) She hit upon one of those new fangled pop-up which figured out how to
get around blockers.

 

[Michael C#]

Yah maybe one of those over-the-page Flash animations with a Close button so
small, odds are you won't be able to see it, much less click it... so you
just wait for it to eventually shut itself down...

I wish Bill Gates would adopt me and put me in the will...

 

[SB]

Or maybe HE simply disabled the IE popup blocker so he could visit
warez/porn pages and forgot to turn it back on.

-sb

 

[Alvin Bruney [ASP.NET MVP]]

bill? porn? noooooo

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[Michael C#]

Yeah I'm sure he needs cracked versions of SQL Server 2005 for at the
house...

 

[SB]

Or possibly Oracle @ $49k per license!

-sb

Yeah I'm sure he needs cracked versions of SQL Server 2005 for at the
house...

 

[Michael C#]

I'm sure he could find $49K in his piggy bank if he was really pressed...