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Explaining encryption to the technology stupid is so much fun. Mainly because it makes me feel smart and like I know things.

If you really want to blow people minds, explain to then that their IP address is one of only 254 used for residential homes. Obviously leave out the NAT/PAT aspect of the Internet.

Is there any wonder why people have so much trouble with technology when tech companies (apple, google) do so much stupid crap when you upgrade software or devices? Just this weekend I upgraded my wife's iPad b/c the calendar was no longer syncing (yes, I rebooted, deleted/installed account, etc.)REALLY!.it worked just fine for several years and suddenly it won't link and sycn. It's as if Apple disables stuff to force you to upgrade your OS, which makes your old device slow and nearly useless forcing you to buy a newer, more expensive device anyway, sorry for the tangent.

Well, I upgraded the iPad and now suddenly all calls to her cell are going to the iPad and she is not getting any text messages.now WTF would upgrading an OS on a mobile device suddenly disable her iPhone. Yes, I've got it mostly figured out (some texts are still not getting in/out) but really I should not have to jump through hoops like that to make her phone work correctly when I update a completely separate device.

My cousin's wife has an android phone...never had an iOS device or an iTunes account (so it's not iMessage or Apple account issues). My wife cannot reply to any group txt messages she sends. I've searched for a solution and tried everything I've found but no luck. Single txt messages work fine, but not group messages.

Try explaining btc to them

JDCAG (NOT Colin) said:

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BlackGoldAg2011 said:

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i am struggling to fight the urge to ask her to explain how one would "hack into the internet"

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See if you can convince her that Obama made them turn off the firewall because of carbon dioxide emissions.

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I'm seriously concerned that I could, because apparently, the DDoS against Dyn was because "Obama handed over the internet"

Did you turn off iMessage and FaceTime on the iPad?

Also, there's a setting under messages on iPhone that allows you to block or get group texts

I am pretty much the only teacher at my school who knows how to properly use their iPad and the apps we use for education. I went to a "technology" meeting and some teachers (late 20's, early 30's) were asking how to "make word and excel documents on google".

The worst part is, now everyone thinks I know absolutely everything computer related and ask me to do photoshop, which computer to buy, fix things for them, etc.

BlackGoldAg2011 said:

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JDCAG (NOT Colin) said:

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BlackGoldAg2011 said:

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i am struggling to fight the urge to ask her to explain how one would "hack into the internet"

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See if you can convince her that Obama made them turn off the firewall because of carbon dioxide emissions.

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I'm seriously concerned that I could, because apparently, the DDoS against Dyn was because "Obama handed over the internet"

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You should tell her they probably found one of the internet tubes and drilled a hole in it to watch people's internet traffic. And if she notices the internet running slow, that it probably means whatever tube she's using is clogged.

At A&M I had a friend (C/O 01) who was like this, but she was pretty batty in general so it wasn't limited to anything technological. One time I mentioned that if she put the tower part of her computer higher than the monitor it'll run faster because the electricity goes downhill. Next time I was at her place there it was, perched on top of a bookshelf.

She was also convinced for a while that if you unplug the keyboard/mouse/... while it's on you'll get 0s and 1s everywhere and it'll make a big mess. That's what you see all over the printers at a computer lab - someone unplugged something and black stuff (actually toner) got all over.

Her computer was something miserable, a Compaq running Windows ME. It had the repair CD in a holder built into a little compartment on the top with a translucent gray cover so you could see right what was in there. She called because the mouse on her computer didn't work any more even after turning it off and back on again, and the absence of black powder behind the computer suggested it was in fact still plugged in. I told her to reboot the computer with the repair CD in it and it'll take care of the problem. NOPE. She couldn't figure out how to do the turn computer on/insert CD part over the phone and I had to drive over to Treehouse to do it for her.

When I was in grad school I worked at the departmental computer lab which also meant we handled secretary, TA and prof machines. The only regular customer I had was a professor emeritus who was in his mid-80s. He came in every day just to BS with other profs and read Drudge Report, and half the time needed help turning the computer off before he went home. He knew the power button was the wrong way to do it, but didn't remember the whole Start -> Shut Down thing. Since he was a nice guy I didn't mind walking over to help him out.

AGSPORTSFAN07 said:

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Tell me she was at least hot.

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Maybe not quite hot, but very attractive then and still is now. But a lot of the things she did would really leave you scratching your head. Like one time at a party I told her if she smoked a cigarette backwards it wouldn't hurt her so of course she bums one off somebody and tries to light the filter for the next 10 minutes.

She's caught in that gray area where if she were to end up with somebody they'd probably get tired of basically living with Jar Jar without the annoying voice, and she's religious enough to not end up in some kind of FWB situation. We've kept up since A&M, she's been largely single the entire time.

Brick Tamland said:

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Did you turn off iMessage and FaceTime on the iPad?

Also, there's a setting under messages on iPhone that allows you to block or get group texts

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yes, did all that and for some reason she is still not getting texts from one of the kids. She was on Friday, then after I updated the iPad they stopped.

Brick Tamland said:

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I am pretty much the only teacher at my school who knows how to properly use their iPad and the apps we use for education. I went to a "technology" meeting and some teachers (late 20's, early 30's) were asking how to "make word and excel documents on google".

The worst part is, now everyone thinks I know absolutely everything computer related and ask me to do photoshop, which computer to buy, fix things for them, etc.

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trying to give the benefit of the doubt here, but maybe they were asking if they could create word/excel documents on google ecosystem like a chromebook. Or maybe they were asking how to create the equivalent on a chromebook. I toss those out because chromebooks are being pushed heavily now in education







Or maybe they were just dumb

BlackGoldAg2011 said:

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i am struggling to fight the urge to ask her to explain how one would "hack into the internet"

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Dammit, didn't see that JDC had posted the exact same vid

Being the it schlub is great sometimes. Sell more things !

BlackGoldAg2011 said:

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i am struggling to fight the urge to ask her to explain how one would "hack into the internet"

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I think it would involve furiously typing on the keyboard

You all are SO brilliant !