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This article discusses a popular opinion poll discussing the possible repercussions of texting while driving. Although this article doesn't contain much scientific backing, its still extremely surprising to see what people think about texting while driving. I was incredibelly shocked when I read that 97% of those polled thought that texting while driving should be illegal. This number is so surprising to me because the act seems to be so prevalent these days. It feels like whenever your walking down the street, on a bus, or driving everyone around you has there eyes down as the stare at and type on the cell phone. I understand that some people are confident in their abilities to multitask, but lets face it some of the same confident people are just being delusional. I don't think everyone can handle this multitasking, as is evident by the amount of time I spend dodging around people that don't even notice me walking towards them. Beyond that statistic there are also several others that are worth taking a look at. Especially that 50 percent of those polled believe that texting while driving should have similar repercussions to drunk driving. To me this seems to be going a bit to far, but I do agree that there should probably be some punishment. But then again, I almost never use my cell phone, what do all of you think about this poll?

For us, being CIT majors, the blue screen of death been a common mishap. Late night papers due first class period, or printing out that lab report the morning of its due date. " IT SUCKS! "A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED." What the hell just happened?" There are millions of ways that this problem can show its ugly face. It ranges from hardware to software. It is even our operating systems. So what causes this problem? When it comes to the application side of this terror it is due to programs using more memory then what should be allowed. So who is to blame? Those pesky programmers! Next we come to system crashes. Yes those are the ones that you run to mommy and dad for repair money. " There's a few reasons for that. A major reason", says Maximum PC Editor Maximus Will Smith, "is that Apple and Microsoft have spent a lot of time moving stuff that used to run at really low level, deep in the guts of the OS, up a few layers into the user space, so an application error that would've crashed a whole system by borking something at the kernel level just results in an annoying program-level hang up." What that means is, instead of crashing your whole computer, most application have a self destruct button which tells them application to shut down before your whole computer goes south. The easiest fix for this is to keep drivers up to date. So why are computers crashing less now? Well Apple and Microsoft have been embedding many brutally annoying "send error report" emails within many programs. This has led to many advancements and preventable maintenance on their part. With the new Windows 7, it has many programs to "feel" a problem about to happen, and limit that problem from happening. Yet, there will always be forces of nature causing hard drive problems, and the lazy operator ability to prevent dust from entering the system. So for as long as we wish to make advancement in hardware, programmers will always be there to embed program errors for us