The Nomad and the Olive Branch

  Also dubbed the "Cyberspace" or "Matrix" trilogy, William Gibson's triad of far future dystopian techno-nightmare novels gave birth to the cyberpunk genre. The first title, Neuromancer, takes most of the credit, while the other two titles, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive flesh out the world and characters introduced in the first book and brings the trilogy to a close. In following with my previous reviews, my critiques will focus on style, content, and an overall "feel" of the story. Similar to my other novel series reviews, I will go over each novel one by one. However, for this review, I will begin with a sort of treatise on the man behind the books, American-Canadian (how about I just stick with North American?) author William Gibson, as well as an overall review with a summary. To start off, William Gibson, the author, is one of the few writers to whom the word "prophetic" is a fitting description. Like Ray Bradbury, George ...

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Just when I got my laptop, I decided to try on the wireless feature at my neighborhood. I was surprised that many people, who had wireless routers and networks, were detected by my laptop. I was even more surprised at the fact that a good number of them were unprotected. Connecting to one gave me a faster connection than the one I had at home. I was tempted to stay connected, but I felt I was doing something that I shouldn't be (call it guilt). I mean, it's not my fault that I was able to tap into my neighbor's internet, even though a door wide open that leads to something wrong doesn't necessarily mean you have to or can go into it. So, I disconnected. I mean, sure: it's not like I killed someone, but it's still as bad as stealing someone's wallet. What if the guy paid for bandwidth? What if his bills are already outrageously high? What if he was doing some serious work that required a consistently hi-speed connection? That would certainly make me a bad nei...

As a regular computer user, I've come across different virus-scanning software programs that helped me keep my computer and my data safe. Among them were McAfee Virusscan 5, Norton AV, Norman AV (I thought they were the same), and McAfee Virus-scan 8 and 10. I thought I was in for the best security protection when Windows Live OneCare came out, and decided to subscribe to its services in order to give it a shot. I was like, "Hey, it's coming from the guys who made Windows, so I'm sure they know whatever hits it and whatnot." Boy, was I proven wrong. Let's just take a look at what this software really is ( 1 ). Overall, it appears to be a copy of McAfee Security Suite, which comes loaded with an anti-virus, a firewall, an anti-spyware module, spamkiller, etc. Windows Live OneCare, however, comes with an anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, backup utility, disk cleanup, disk defragmenter, an anti-phishing filter, and... that's about it. The beta version itsel...