Posted on 10/24/2012 10:50:47 AM PDT by OneVike
Ever wonder what happens to the internet after you log off? I bet it never crossed your mind that even though you logged off the internet, your computer is still vulnerable. Yes, if you fail to actually turn the internet off first before you log off, you are leaving your pc's hard drive vulnerable to being hacked. It doesn't happen to everyone, but it does happen enough. Imagine all the vital information you have on your computer that someone could steal.
Well, very few people know about this, but there is an OFF button (off button below) that needs to be clicked or else your computer will still be logged onto the web. In order to protect your hard drive from being accessed while you are away, you should always turn off the internet before you log off. So the next time you are finished surfing the web, make sure you stop by to turn off the internet. After all, it is the responsible thing to do.
Just click on the button in the image below and you will turn off the internet. Then you can assured that after you have log off, no one will be hacking into your computer, and all your information will be safe. Please be a good citizen and share this information with everyone you know.
Just imagine all those people in Mountain and Pacific time that you pissed off.
Yea, sure it may be bedtime for you, but it's only 8:00 in California.
Now that you shut down the internet, they are all forced to either watch television or talk to their family member for a change.
ODAMM--I was just about to get on it.
If you saved a hardcopy before you shut it down, would you mind sharing it with me?
Ohhhh....I didn’t NOTICE the “years” left. LOL!!!
*rubs evil hands together in glee*
How would one stick that on someone else’s desktop so that’s ALL they see....w/o messing up the whole enchilada?
You do mean just the animated downloading gif right? Not the whole end of the internet information right?
If so, then I am thinking you will need to Left click on the image and save it to your file.
It will be saved as a gif. (animated image)
Then I believe you will have to open it up as your desktop image.
I imagine it should still work, but I am not sure.
Unless the desktop image program only allows a jpg image.
I will try it on my computer and see if it works.
Check back frequently as I try it out.
It’s not MY computer who I want to stick it on...and said computer has a LOT of desktop shortcuts on it.
I’m leaning towards I shouldn’t do this.........
Well it seems like the desktop image will only allow a jpg image. You can use a gif, but it will not animate. So what you get is a still image of the gif as a picture only.
Wonderful....FAR better than an internet joke. ;)
The Horror!! ;-D
Alas, I dropped it and it shattered into a trillion bytes!
No, this is not satire. This is the real off-button for the internet. IF YOU PRESS IT, YOU WILL SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING, so do not press it.
In your cmos setup routine there is a “startup on com 1 ring” setting that can turn your computer back on if enabled.
LOL.... I love it. :>)
I believe that you ment BITS and not BYTES since each BYTE which represents one character (letter, digit, or binary number) consists of 8 BITS to form the character plus 1 or more additional PARITY BIT(s) to help protect the individual BYTE from corruption.
It wasn’t that it was hard; it was that it was very brittle.
Ok, 8 trillion bits then. Thanks!
I’m always glad to help.
Actually it would be 64,000.000,000,000 bits if using one parity bit.
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