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Title : *WHITELIST NOISE*

Date : 01/15/05

Thank you very much for tuning into the show. I appreciate it very much. Again my name is David Lawrence, the name of the show is Online Tonight. Let me give you the toll free telephone number. You should get in early to get on the air and ask your questions about technology and pop culture and computers and the Internet and whatnot. Here*s the toll free telephone number 180039 online that*s 18003966546. It*s easy to remember because it rhymes, 180039 online. There you go and you can leave off the final *e* that*s the *e* for savings lest you get confused because there is 8 digits there. Yeah don*t worry about it. We talk about everything having to do with the Internet, with your Windows machine, your Macintosh machine, the cell phone, the PDAs that you carry around with you, the portable mp3 players, pieces of software like Word and Excel and iTunes and your browsers, whatever browsers you use, E-mail. We talk about Spyware and Adware and Popup Ads and Spam and we cover waterfront, that*s the point. And you can pick up the phone and call now at 180039 online. Usually, the lines filled up pretty quickly so if you have a question and we really do appreciate the simpler questions. Feel free if you have got a question you think yourself, well there is no way that they had want to answer that question I mean its so simple I mean my friends I am embarrassed to even ask my friends who know about computers. Well don*t be embarrassed to ask me. I will be more than happy to and the cool thing is that those questions, those very general basic questions are the ones that help the most number of people. I mean sure I am you know like any geek I am happy to take calls from people who have very specific, very esoteric questions. But the ones that come from people who are new to technology, are a personal satisfaction to me that is incomparable because to help somebody, get involved in using computers is just a real joy.

And the basic questions are the ones that everybody asks when they are first getting started or even if they have been doing it for a couple of years. You know I never really understood what that was all about. What is that all about or it*s bothering me that this is happening with my machine and I can't get it to stalk or you know I have seen something online and I have gotten a piece of E-mail that claims to give me $250 if I keep forwarding this to my friends, is that for real? You know questions like that, I mean I love answering those, by the way the answer to that question is, no. None of them are for real ever and they are not worth forwarding. What really saddens me is when people who are raised in a family where chain letters, physical chain letters being sent through the US Postal Services by the way is illegal but it didn*t really matter because the families had this sort of you know tradition of not breaking the chain letter because it was bad luck. You know that so, that whole thing sort of you know solidified itself and transferred itself onto the Internet and I get at least 5 or 10 a week from people well you never know if this is going to work or not. Actually you do know. If you think about it you do know. It*s not going to work. Microsoft is not going to give you $250 if you forward that E-mail to 5 of your friends or 15 of your friends or Hershey*s is not going to give you a case of chocolate bars, Toyota is not going to give you a new car. You are not going to win a trip to Disneyland. What did you say?

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