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dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


alreadybeen posted:

Why do you need official picture ID for to swap a couple video games?

Maybe the local jurisdiction requires the GameStop to operate as a pawn shop WRT the used games. (In Honorbound's case, with the fingerprinting, this is almost certainly the case.) Or maybe it's just company policy.

As for why the guy fled from Boondock Saint's shop, he might have been trying to use you as an unwitting fence.

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dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


Supeerme posted:

as a non computer geek kind of guy, why is norton have such a bad rap?

Norton software has a history of weaseling into almost every single part of the system - to the point where Symantec had to issue SUPER-uninstallation software beyond the normal uninstall package, and even that doesn't work reliably.

On top of this, Norton products were notorious for sapping system performance and interfering with the system at the driver and socket levels, and in some cases even the kernel level. Add in ignoring (or simply not implementing) whitelists - regardless of whether or not the package was remote-managed, as in a corporate environment - and you have a recipe for disaster.

This has been mitigated as of late, but is by no means gone.

Not-Good-With-Computers Version: It worms into everything and generally gums up the works to a cost well beyond its price or value, sometimes even if you can manage to pull it back out of the computer.

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