i don't always play video games

from here

... because it's what i do. of course, if i were a serious gamer i'd have a dedicated computer just for gaming, but that's just as much a form of isolation as using a VM - you just get better performance.

let cooler heads prevail

found on failblog

this illustrates the problem with taking matters into our own hands. not only may our efforts be badly misdirected, but they can backfire too.

thorough knowledge

from here (original image found in gwenethf's photobucket account)

it's really not enough to know that there's something nasty on your computer. you need to know what it did, too, otherwise you'll never know what you need to recover beyond the computer itself.

until it goes away

from memebase

computer viruses: they don't just go away. you need to find out what you have and what it can do, and then you have to try to undo what it did.

Y U NO USE SPECIAL PC

from here

using a dedicated PC or even booting an ordinary PC from a LiveCD just for the purposes of doing online banking is one of the best defenses against banking trojans there is right now. if you don't want to have your accounts drained because you did your banking from a compromised system, this is something you should probably look into.

airport security

from very demotivational

the way airport security has been heading, this seems like a reasonably plausible future.

U mad, cybercrooks?

from here

true story.

think of the children

from very demotivational

protecting the children is a common refrain from policy makers looking to push through liberty-busting legislation. often that legislation has so little to do with protecting children that this would probably be a better alternative.

DO NOT WANT

from here (photo originally from here)

just a little lesson folks. when you click on the play button and get a download instead, something is just not right.

stealth fail

from failblog

yeah, the cops won't notice that at all. i can just imagine the driver pretending this SUV is some sort of spy car with license plates that flip around.