Searching for Screensavers Risky, Viagra is Safe

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hellwig

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ScreenSavers? Those are kind of old tech now days. Seriously, if you aren't using your computer, why not have the screen turn-off instead of wasting electricity showing a photo-slide or whatever screen saver you might have?

With LCD flat panels all but universal these days, you don't really need to do any screen saving, and shutting the monitor on and off isn't going to wear it out like it would an old CRT.
 

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McAfee says that searches using the keyword “Viagra” yielded the fewest risky sites. Perhaps scammers think that men shopping for viagra have enough problems without adding viruses to the mix?

Actually I hear that Viagra helps whether you need it or not. Not that I would know or anything.
 
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[citation]"Perhaps scammers think that men shopping for viagra have enough problems without adding viruses to the mix?"[/citation]
I think that more people are disgusted by all those viagra scams that noone actually uses the internet search engine to try to find viagra. Those who need it probably have to open their mailbox in the 'junk mail' section to find where to get it!
Besides you can buy it in a local pharmacy, no need to use the bankcard over internet to dodgy sites.
 

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Screensavers were popular with CRTs because they have a start-up and a warm-up time. The CRT usable start-up time in a cold server room could take minutes. Mine at room temps usually misses the bios if I turn it off instead of letting go into stand-by mode the night before. A full warm-up time takes between 5-10 minutes also dependent on room temps. Full warm-up time meaning the brightness and colors are as good as it gets.

LCD and LED monitor warm-up times are almost equal to the start-up time and takes seconds. My 40" TV takes 5-10 seconds to pop a picture up, and the colors and brightness are as good as they get by the time I login. It just makes sense to turn LCDs off to save power (either in place of the SS or manually).

I use both an LCD and CRT monitor for my computer and use a SS because I do like the slide show of the 3 million wallpapers/pictures I have accumulated.
 
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The only screen saver I use is the Windows logo on my PC at work. At home I have the screen saver and power management disabled because they interfere with playing games and watching videos. I just turn the monitor off when I am not using the PC.

@The_Blood_Raven:
That site has wallpapers, not screen savers. I am confused as to why so many people continue to mix up those terms.
 
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[citation][nom]screensaversarepasse[/nom]The only screen saver I use is the Windows logo on my PC at work. At home I have the screen saver and power management disabled because they interfere with playing games and watching videos. I just turn the monitor off when I am not using the PC.@The_Blood_Raven:That site has wallpapers, not screen savers. I am confused as to why so many people continue to mix up those terms.[/citation]

I use blank screensaver at home.
The only other screensaver I like is the fishtank. But I don't really use it.
 

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same here...gave up screensavers a year ago and set also to 10min. probably me, saving electricity, even if this lcd monitor uses only 60W.
one more thing, also gave up wallpapers, using only a black background.
maybe, i spend so little time on desktop and more on the browser these days.
 

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[citation][nom]hixbot[/nom]Dude LCD suffer from burn-in just as much, if not more than CRT.[/citation]

Are you high? LCD's do not burn in. There is nothing to BURN in on a lcd they are subject to something i call a myth since i have yet to see it happen no matter how long i leave on my LCD (stuck picture) kinda like burn in where a picture seems to be stuck on a lcd. However turning it off and letting it cool and turning it back on again normaly gets rid of it.

So my question remains.. are you high?
 
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