Monday, January 10, 2011

COMPUTER VIRUSES:

  • OPRAH WINFREY VIRUS: Your 200MB hard drive suddenly shrinks to 80MB, and then slowly expands back to 200MB.
  • AT&T VIRUS: Every three minutes it tells you what great service you are getting.
  • MCI VIRUS: Every three minutes it reminds you that you're paying too much for the AT&T virus.
  • PAUL REVERE VIRUS: This revolutionary virus does not horse around. It warns you of impending hard disk attack---once if by LAN, twice if by C:>.
  • POLITICALLY CORRECT VIRUS: Never calls itself a "virus", but instead refers to itself as an "electronic microorganism."
  • RIGHT TO LIFE VIRUS: Won't allow you to delete a file, regardless of how old it is. If you attempt to erase a file, it requires you to first see a counselor about possible alternatives.
  • ROSS PEROT VIRUS: Activates every component in your system, just before the whole darn thing quits.
  • MARIO CUOMO VIRUS: It would be a great virus, but it refuses to run.
  • TED TURNER VIRUS: Colorizes your monochrome monitor.
  • ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER VIRUS: Terminates and stays resident. It'll be back.
  • DAN QUAYLE VIRUS #2: Their is sumthing rong wit your komputer, ewe jsut cant figyour out watt!
  • GOVERNMENT ECONOMIST VIRUS: Nothing works, but all your diagnostic software says everything is fine.
  • NEW WORLD ORDER VIRUS: Probably harmless, but it makes a lot of people really mad just thinking about it.
  • FEDERAL BUREAUCRAT VIRUS: Divides your hard disk into hundreds of little units, each of which does practically nothing, but all of which claim to be the most important part of your computer.
  • GALLUP VIRUS: Sixty percent of the PCs infected will lose 38 percent of their data 14 percent of the time. (plus or minus a 3.5 percent margin of error.)
  • TERRY RANDALL VIRUS: Prints "Oh no you don't" whenever you choose "Abort" from the "Abort" "Retry" "Fail" message.
  • TEXAS VIRUS: Makes sure that it's bigger than any other file.
  • ADAM AND EVE VIRUS: Takes a couple of bytes out of your Apple.
  • CONGRESSIONAL VIRUS: The computer locks up, screen splits erratically with a message appearing on each half blaming the other side for the problem.
  • AIRLINE VIRUS: You're in Dallas, but your data is in Singapore.
  • FREUDIAN VIRUS: Your computer becomes obsessed with marrying its own motherboard.
  • PBS VIRUS: Your programs stop every few minutes to ask for money.
  • ELVIS VIRUS: Your computer gets fat, slow and lazy, then self destructs; only to resurface at shopping malls and service stations across rural America.
  • OLLIE NORTH VIRUS: Causes your printer to become a paper shredder.
  • NIKE VIRUS: Just does it.
  • SEARS VIRUS: Your data won't appear unless you buy new cables, power supply and a set of shocks.
  • JIMMY HOFFA VIRUS: Your programs can never be found again.
  • CONGRESSIONAL VIRUS #2: Runs every program on the hard drive simultaneously, but doesn't allow the user to accomplish anything.
  • KEVORKIAN VIRUS: Helps your computer shut down as an act of mercy.
  • IMELDA MARCOS VIRUS: Sings you a song (slightly off key) on boot up, then subtracts money from your Quicken account and spends it all on expensive shoes it purchases through Prodigy.
  • STAR TREK VIRUS: Invades your system in places where no virus has gone before.
  • HEALTH CARE VIRUS: Tests your system for a day, finds nothing wrong, and sends you a bill for $4,500.
  • GEORGE BUSH VIRUS: It starts by boldly stating, "Read my docs....No new files!" on the screen. It proceeds to fill up all the free space on your hard drive with new files, then blames it on the Congressional Virus.
  • CLEVELAND INDIANS VIRUS: Makes your 486/50 machine perform like a 286/AT.
  • LAPD VIRUS: It claims it feels threatened by the other files on your PC and erases them in "self defense".
  • CHICAGO CUBS VIRUS: Your PC makes frequent mistakes and comes in last in the reviews, but you still love it.
  • ORAL ROBERTS VIRUS: Claims that if you don't send it a million dollars, it's programmer will take it back. >>

Human Development Index (HDI) - 2010 Rankings


Very High Human Development
  1. Norway
  2. Australia
  3. New Zealand
  4. United States
  5. Ireland
  6. Liechtenstein
  7. Netherlands
  8. Canada
  9. Sweden
  10. Germany
  11. Japan
  12. Korea (Republic of)
  13. Switzerland
  14. France
  15. Israel
  16. Finland
  17. Iceland
  18. Belgium
  19. Denmark
  20. Spain
  21. Hong Kong, China (SAR)
  22. Greece
  23. Italy
  24. Luxembourg
  25. Austria
  26. United Kingdom
  27. Singapore
  28. Czech Republic
  29. Slovenia
  30. Andorra
  31. Slovakia
  32. United Arab Emirates
  33. Malta
  34. Estonia
  35. Cyprus
  36. Hungary
  37. Brunei Darussalam
  38. Qatar
  39. Bahrain
  40. Portugal
  41. Poland
  42. Barbados


High Human Development
  1. Bahamas
  2. Lithuania
  3. Chile
  4. Argentina
  5. Kuwait
  6. Latvia
  7. Montenegro
  8. Romania
  9. Croatia
  10. Uruguay
  11. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
  12. Panama
  13. Saudi Arabia
  14. Mexico
  15. Malaysia
  16. Bulgaria
  17. Trinidad and Tobago
  18. Serbia
  19. Belarus
  20. Costa Rica
  21. Peru
  22. Albania
  23. Russian Federation
  24. Kazakhstan
  25. Azerbaijan
  26. Bosnia and Herzegovina
  27. Ukraine
  28. Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  29. The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
  30. Mauritius
  31. Brazil
  32. Georgia
  33. Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  34. Armenia
  35. Ecuador
  36. Belize
  37. Colombia
  38. Jamaica
  39. Tunisia
  40. Jordan
  41. Turkey
  42. Algeria
  43. Tonga


Medium Human Development
  1. Fiji
  2. Turkmenistan
  3. Dominican Republic
  4. China
  5. El Salvador
  6. Sri Lanka
  7. Thailand
  8. Gabon
  9. Suriname
  10. Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
  11. Paraguay
  12. Philippines
  13. Botswana
  14. Moldova (Republic of) 
  15. Mongolia
  1. Egypt
  2. Uzbekistan
  3. Micronesia (Federated States of)
  4. Guyana
  5. Namibia
  6. Honduras
  7. Maldives
  8. Indonesia
  9. Kyrgyzstan
  10. South Africa
  11. Syrian Arab Republic
  12. Tajikistan
  13. Viet Nam
  14. Morocco
  15. Nicaragua
  16. Guatemala
  17. Equatorial Guinea
  18. Cape Verde
  19. India
  20. Timor-Leste
  21. Swaziland
  22. Lao People's Democratic Republic
  23. Solomon Islands
  24. Cambodia
  25. Pakistan
  26. Congo
  27. São Tomé and Príncipe


Low Human Development
  1. Kenya
  2. Bangladesh
  3. Ghana
  4. Cameroon
  5. Myanmar
  6. Yemen
  7. Benin
  8. Madagascar
  9. Mauritania
  10. Papua New Guinea
  11. Nepal
  12. Togo
  13. Comoros
  14. Lesotho
  15. Nigeria
  16. Uganda
  17. Senegal
  18. Haiti
  19. Angola
  20. Djibouti
  21. Tanzania (United Republic of)
  22. Côte d'Ivoire
  23. Zambia
  24. Gambia
  25. Rwanda
  26. Malawi
  27. Sudan
  28. Afghanistan
  29. Guinea
  30. Ethiopia
  31. Sierra Leone
  32. Central African Republic
  33. Mali
  34. Burkina Faso
  35. Liberia
  36. Chad
  37. Guinea-Bissau
  38. Mozambique
  39. Burundi
  40. Niger
  41. Congo (Democratic Republic of the)
  42. Zimbabwe