Comments on: Pop-up hell http://omegamom.com/2007/02/05/pop-up-hell/ A "good enough" mom muses about alpha moms, adoption, computers, the State Of The World, Internet quirkiness, and the Kosmik All Tue, 22 May 2012 09:56:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: OmegaMom http://omegamom.com/2007/02/05/pop-up-hell/#comment-2498 OmegaMom Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:20:21 +0000 http://omegamom.com/?p=456#comment-2498 [...] wrote about Julie Amero’s case before, in Pop-Up Hell.  The gist:  a substitute school teacher clicks on an innocent link during before-class [...] [...] wrote about Julie Amero’s case before, in Pop-Up Hell.  The gist:  a substitute school teacher clicks on an innocent link during before-class [...]

]]> By: SBird http://omegamom.com/2007/02/05/pop-up-hell/#comment-1458 SBird Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:07:00 +0000 http://omegamom.com/?p=456#comment-1458 I had not heard about this case. Wow. I'm stunned. Maybe I'm crazy, but this story dovetails for me with the whole controversy over vaccinating our 11-year-old daughters for HPV. We have such a weird relationship to sexuality in this country that we end up reacting when instead we should be THINKING more carefully. BTW, this describes me to a tee: "There are people all across campus who are whizzes with Word, but when told to change their password haven't got the vaguest idea of how to do it." Heh. I had not heard about this case. Wow. I’m stunned. Maybe I’m crazy, but this story dovetails for me with the whole controversy over vaccinating our 11-year-old daughters for HPV. We have such a weird relationship to sexuality in this country that we end up reacting when instead we should be THINKING more carefully.

BTW, this describes me to a tee:

“There are people all across campus who are whizzes with Word, but when told to change their password haven’t got the vaguest idea of how to do it.”

Heh.

]]> By: MomEtc. http://omegamom.com/2007/02/05/pop-up-hell/#comment-1457 MomEtc. Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:41:00 +0000 http://omegamom.com/?p=456#comment-1457 Thank god I don't work with kids because I might have been telling the same story. I'm one of those people in pop-up hell. I can get rid of some but I cannot get rid of them all. They reproduce when I'm not looking! They hide for a while, I think they are gone, and then they sleak back! I have a pop-up blocker which doesn't fully do the job. I have pop-ups shut off on my computer. I have cookies off. I don't know what else to do. Adnet and firstgoodsearch are the worst offenders. I continually ban them and they sneak back in! I know I don't have any viruses. BTW, I had a funny incident when I was seeing my shrink. She sits with her back to her computer and I face the screen. Po*rno pops up one day! She just laughed it off! Thank god I don’t work with kids because I might have been telling the same story. I’m one of those people in pop-up hell. I can get rid of some but I cannot get rid of them all. They reproduce when I’m not looking! They hide for a while, I think they are gone, and then they sleak back! I have a pop-up blocker which doesn’t fully do the job. I have pop-ups shut off on my computer. I have cookies off. I don’t know what else to do. Adnet and firstgoodsearch are the worst offenders. I continually ban them and they sneak back in! I know I don’t have any viruses.

BTW, I had a funny incident when I was seeing my shrink. She sits with her back to her computer and I face the screen. Po*rno pops up one day! She just laughed it off!

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