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I want to shank the person who thought that one up. Then I want to doubly shank the person who approved it. 
Just yesterday I was setting up my new laptop and grabbing tools to mount ISOs. I wanted the basic version (aka free) so went to the site, and just to the right, up on top, right under the name of the software... "Start Download - Free Version". Sure enough, advertisement. Back, scroll down, and I see the real link, in a green button about a quarter of the size of the ad. "Download".
This is not the first time this has happened to me. 
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RJOberg wrote: mount ISO
I recently used winrar yo unzip these into folders for installation. Worked for all the MS apps.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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RJOberg wrote: scroll down, and I see the real link, in a green button about a quarter of the
size of the ad
Its gotten to the point that I always look for the smallest download link on the page. Even then, I carefully study it to make sure its what I really want to download and not some ad.
Its not free software if its bundled with a lot of crapware, and the crapware pushers want us to pay.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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4: News (or any website) that requires sign-in or "create an account" just to read the story.
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5. Any site that tries to post on my FACEBOOK : "Vunic just watched a wardrobe malfunction". 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
modified 6-Nov-13 9:12am.
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Vunic wrote: Vunic just watched a wardrobe malfunction
Did the doors fall off?
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Yep, and the racks got exposed.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Vunic wrote: Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the
last time they were cute - Jeremy.
They don't even use their own pix - they get them from a cute kids pix website! The ads that really frost me, are those that are longer than the video that follows, and don't have "Skip Ad" links.
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6. File share sites with "free downloads" that force you to do sketchy surveys and offers.
(you also get bonus spam and malware for free too)
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Converting a program from old version to a new version of the language due to upgrade issues.
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n. Adobe flash player auto update.
n+1. All PDF viewers except SumatraPDF.
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My favorite part about that one is the apparently non-functional "Do not remind me later" button.
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7. "Message Automatically Removed" in the forums.
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Newspaper sites you actually pay for blocking your comments. (Unsubscribe - You are free to leave at any time but would you tell us why? - UNSUBSCRIBE!)
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Talking of which, had to get up a bit earlier than usual this morning so set my alarm for 0640.
Hit snooze twice and got up at 0700.
Had shower, woke my daughter up, went downstairs.
Kitchen clock said 0615. Work phone said 0615.
Went back upstairs, retrieved my phone, it said 0715.
5 minutes later it returned to the proper time and then at 0640 the bloody alarm went off again.
Last week it spent a good part of the day claiming it was early in the morning of 2nd January 1970. Think I may need to rethink what I use for an alarm in the mornings.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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I have to admit this made me giggle.
Haunted phone?
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Sounds like your phone went back to the future. Or something like that. 
ChrisElston wrote: Last week it spent a good part of the day <layer>claiming it was early in the morning of 2nd January 1970.
Nice "feature"
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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ChrisElston wrote: Last week it spent a good part of the day claiming it was early in the morning
of 2nd January 1970. Think I may need to rethink what I use for an alarm in the
mornings
Its not supposed to roll over till 2038. You're not slumming back here in 2013, are you? 
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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9. captcha image which are some weird font and so blurred that you need 3-4 attempts to get them right.
.AK.
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That's how I found out that I'm actually a machine. Life is pretty cool now, it's like I'm living in a Philip K. Dick novel.
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Those are definitely the worst. It is so automated that only a machine can decipher it... So much for a Turing test.
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True. 
.AK.
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10: If a news article contains a list of two items with a comma instead of an "and", it is left unread, because it is obviously written by a cretin who is best ignored.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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11. Animated ads and flashing ads
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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