Posts by Karthik

Science-boosting thickie questionnaire backfires

Maybe they read The Reg?

It looks like they have "updated" their answer. It now says the answer is 71%!!

Also, they have updated their choice ranges as well:

0-25%

26-50%

51-65%

66-75%

76-85%

86-100%

Not sure

But their phone survey results should still earn a big FAIL.

They are still touting their phone survey!

Although they have corrected their answer from 70% to 71% and changed their choice ranges, they are still touting their phone survey results...

"71% of the Earth surface is covered by water. Only 47% of U.S. adults surveyed could roughly approximate this answer."

MS DNS patch snuffs net connection for ZoneAlarm users

Had this last night...

I saw it happen right in front of my eyes. Patches got applied, and on reboot, no internet. I could easily ensure that external internet access was available (via my router diags) and soon found out that ZoneAlarm was the problem. I uninstalled that and switched to Comodo, and all is well. BTW, I also found that the Windows Fire curtain (cannot really call it a Wall, can I?) was turned on -- I don't know whether by this update or something earlier. Anyway, I of course turned that off.