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20 Years of Virii

DenOfEarth writes "News.com has an article outlining that it was around twenty years ago that a computer security reasearcher coined the term 'virus', and how the things have been running amok. Interestingly enough, when said researcher applyed for research funding to look into a blanket solution to this possible 'virus' problem, he was turned down."

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  1. Is there as secret to getting stuff submitted? by ViolentGreen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I posted this same damn article yestarday...

    --
    Not everything is analogous to cars. Car analogies rarely work.
  2. Re:not to nitpick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Penis --> Penii

    Yep, my friends and I use that to refer to large groups of idiots.
    "I was at the mall, when a group of Penii walked past".

  3. Re:not to nitpick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Re:not to nitpick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. Re:not to nitpick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  6. Re:not to nitpick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Somebody get these goddamn page wideners OUT!

  7. Re:not to nitpick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  8. Re:Queue the flood of pedantic posts re: "virii" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    1VIRII VIRII2 3VIRII VIRII4 5VIRII VIRII6 1VIRII VIRII2 3VIRII VIRII4 5VIRII VIRII6 1VIRII VIRII2 3VIRII VIRII4 5VIRII VIRII6
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    WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW WWWWWWWWWewquiyrwq WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW WWWWWWWWWxzxzbvxcmn
  9. Re:not to nitpick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I did. Fuck off. How 'bout some 'leet for you:

    D13 b17c#! 1 #473 j00r p#uk1ng p4g3 w1d3n3rz!

    MOD ALL PAGE WIDENERS ON HERE DOWN TO -1, AND THAT'S AN ORDER TO ALL MODS!

  10. Re: Lets get this out of the way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWrewquiyrewqiyewq
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  11. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    MOD ALL PAGE WIDENERS ON THIS STORY DOWN TO -1!

    I am replying to this post so that the mods will see it. Do not mod my post down - the mods won't see it otherwise. This is an alert to the slashdot moderators that there are page wideners. They have large quantities of the letter W, and all text within them is bold.

    I'd post as myself, but I've already accidentally burned two karma points, and don't want to burn any more. So, no anonymous part - I'm bhtooefr, e-mail bhtooefr@NoSpaM.softhome.net, site http://score-1ot.no-ip.com (pointless going there - my server's down right now). Yes, I am a coward, but this is important.

  12. Re:not to nitpick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thanks, mods. Just get some more!

    BTW, I'd nail them myself, but I don't have modpoints and I want to participate in discussion.

  13. Re:not to nitpick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    chap, that was to defeat the lameness filter. not for leet purposes.

    time for a smoke break! if the "VIRII" posts are still above -1 when I get back I'll just have to WWWWIDEN it some more. lookat this picture MMMMMMMM

  14. Re:not to nitpick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Actually, I forgot about the lameness filter - I just wanted to piss you off. Worked, though - didn't it! You need to die, BTW.

  15. Re:not to nitpick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW WWWWWWWWWWWWWWALRUS coo coo ca chooo
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  16. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you've got to admit, it's nice to have the advertisement column pushed off the screen, eh chap?

  17. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I know it's you, but I'm not posting as myself until you widen it one more time.

    No, it isn't, because often the ads are on the top, and the tools and comments aren't on the screen.

  18. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    chill out man, I hit the IP block already. happy thanksgiving! yhbt, hand!

  19. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    isn't this something the browwser should take care of? kinda sad neither mozilla nor IE stops it. PITA having to write a string tokenizer for a simple messageboard.

    also, if /. used CSS for formatting instead of tables there wwould never be another wwidener !!!

  20. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I knew you were trolling me - I just wanted to see what you'd do! Anyway, I thought you said you could post faster than editors could mod. NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA!

  21. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am getting to work on your ridiculous no-ip box, but
    ping: unknown host http://score-1ot.no-ip.com ?
    wwwweak.

  22. Re:Hmm... by bhtooefr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was having problems with Opera - unless I emulated Lynx using my User Mode CSS stylesheet picker. Interestingly, I didn't get modded down for any of that (AFAIK - it was all AC).

  23. Re:Is there a "blanket solution" to viruses? by cfuse · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Turns out amazingly enough, negotiation was what succeeded in the end and not violence.
    1. There is no oil in Northern Ireland
    2. Because of 1, there aren't any war mongering Americans trying to 'free' the populace
    3. Peace (Profit?)

    America has no concept of compromise, it just assumes that it is always right.

  24. Re:not to nitpick by LearnToSpell · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Only if they're unladen penii.

  25. Re:Lets get this out of the way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW WWWWHAT? qrewou
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  26. Re:not to nitpick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Other advice: get a decent web browser, the page widening trick only works on crappy ones.

  27. Re:not to nitpick by jez9999 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Um, right.

    Like both "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; BTopenworld; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)" and "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031126".

  28. Re:not to nitpick by bludger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Penii?? New spam idea - Not only bigger, but multiple penii

  29. Re:not to nitpick by zhenlin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    None of those end in an 'us' sound.

    Linus -> Linii.