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ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon
schnell writes: The New York Times Magazine has a fascinating story about ISIS efforts to get their hands on a mysterious and powerful superweapon called Red Mercury. The problem is that by consensus among scientific authorities, Red Mercury doesn't exist. And yet that hasn't stopped the legend of Red Mercury, touted by sources from Nazi conspiracy theorists to former Manhattan Project scientists, as having magical properties. Middle East weapons traders have even spun elaborate stories for its properties (ranging from thermonuclear explosive properties to sexual enhancement) and origins and sources (from Soviet weapons labs to Roman graveyards). What can account for the enduring myth of Red Mercury — is it rampant scientific illiteracy, the power of urban legend and shared myth, or something else?
Too much exposure tho and you'll turn into a smeg head.
We tell them Andromeda Strain was a documentary.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
The New York Times Magazine has a fascinating story about ISIS efforts to get their hands on a mysterious and powerful superweapon called [Allah]. The problem is that by consensus among scientific authorities, [Allah] doesn't exist. And yet that hasn't stopped the legend of [Allah], touted by sources from Nazi conspiracy theorists to former Manhattan Project scientists, as having magical properties. Middle East weapons traders have even spun elaborate stories for its properties (ranging from thermonuclear explosive properties to sexual enhancement) and origins and sources (from Soviet weapons labs to Roman graveyards). What can account for the enduring myth of [Allah] — is it rampant scientific illiteracy, the power of urban legend and shared myth, or something else?
Are you telling me a group of religious fundamentalists are scientifically illiterate??
Natch. The power to destroy intellectual property franchises - what else could the demon Amerika be more vulnerable to?
The nature of a group like ISIS (though I hear they hate being called DAESH, which is a good reason to) leads them to be somewhat gullible on such matters. So this is not surprising. But part of me is oddly reassured by the fact the most feared terrorist organization in the world is on a massive snipe hunt.
This is typical /. propaganda. Red Mercury DOES exist.
Recent scientific research has confirmed that it's so-called 'magical properties' are actually endowed by Allah.
This is how I have been able to build one myself. I am offering it for sale to ISIS for $USD20 Billion and no one can stop me (hopefully).
I mean, if they're really this gullible, why stop there? If we want to talk about fictional destructive fluids of a crimson color, why not try to sell them red matter? What faster way to your 72 virgins than destroying an entire planet? Or don't they have a way yet to drill to the Earth's core?
Don't spoil the honeypot, assholes.
This seems like a great plot for the next Indiana Jones movie. Maybe they could even have a Spock cameo.
Some thermometers have red mercury.
movie title...band name...porn id....too many possibilities.
Maybe they're thinking of Ice-9?
--Steve
What can account for the enduring myth of Red Mercury — is it rampant scientific illiteracy, the power of urban legend and shared myth, or something else?
Yes.
Has mercury and is colored Red. Pleasure doing business with you Mr. Armeen.
In that case, regular mercury can be dyed red. Now you just gotta get them to drink a lot of it. Probably won't be hard as they think it's magic.
I just hope they never get a hold of a supply of Unobtanium..
I hope they don't learn about the absolutely lethal dihydrogen monoxide. They'll be all over that shit.
Oh, I let the cat out of the bag didn't I?
"The ferrets, they're every where I tell you!"
...that what they're really looking for is Red Matter.
Red Mercury is totally bogus. If they were smart, they'd go to Ethiopia and swipe the Tabota Seyen -- the Ark of the Covenant. There's your super-weapon. I mean, all you have to do is carry it in front of your army, and it just wipes out your enemies in masse! The Ethiopians themselves have used it multiple times in battle.
Did you guys *see* what it did in Raiders of the Lost Ark? That movie was totally fact-based! ;)
It gave Spock COPD
Let us set up a clandestine program to dope real RDX explosives red, make spectacular explosions as demo and lure them in. Let us sell them fake red mercury that would not explode well, add tracers to them and track them down.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
biggest conspiracy theory ever
I'm still waiting for that Israel/UK joint SARS virus that targets only Middle Easterners.
https://occupycorporatism.com/new-race-specific-engineered-sars-virus-may-transmit-person-to-person/
As much as I like laughing at idiots, I'm not sure that letting them know it's bullshit is in anyone's best interest. Every bit of money and manpower they devote to finding shit that doesn't exist is money and manpower that's not killing everyone else.
In fact, the RIGHT approach to this would have been to seed the marketplace with various government agents leading the bad guys on in their hunt for this mcguffin.
Remember folks: DON'T educate the bad guys. Don't tell them what they are doing wrong - it's counterproductive to make them smarter.
A thousand pounds of wood moving at 300 feet per minute. Don't get in the way.
Wasn't this used in the first JJ Abrams Star Trek reboot? The stuff will suck in an entire planet, it truly is dangerous. The movie proved it. Just need to kidnap Spock to find some...
I've long suspected Isis is actually the mind of the sex goddess written about in Ancient Egypt.
And she's merely looking for a little stimulation in the form of a fabled sex device in a world that's gone crazy.
people who are wildly batshit insane keep yakking about the mythical "red mercury"
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
They're looking in the wrong place.
This is what Daesh should actually be looking for:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You are welcome on my lawn.
I take it they haven't seen the Star Trek reboots...
Well, don't TELL them it's fake you buncha DUMBASSES!
Jeez louise you idiots are almost as dumb as the daeshbags are.
For the right price, I could be persuaded to part with my red mercury.
Have gnu, will travel.
I think they'd be happy just to get their hands on some high level radioactive wastes so they can build a dirty bomb. So while everyone is being snarky, they are probably being serious, but not about Red Mercury.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Mercuric oxide is red. I'm not sure about any of the other properties, but it *is* red. (Actually orange might be a better descriptive, but it's on the red side of orange.)
Google: mercuric oxide color
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
I think we've all seen what Red Matter did to the planet Vulcan. If the terrorists get their hands on that, we are all doomed.
My understanding -- which could be wrong, because the intelligence agencies certainly aren't going to discuss it openly -- is that the red mercury myth was deliberately spread by western intelligence agencies both as a red herring and as a way to flush out state and non-state actors attempting to lay hands on nuclear materials. I would not be at all surprised if CIA operatives have sold brick dust at exorbitant prices to would-be nuclear terrorists more than once.
The clowns of ISIS believe the islam crap fervently enough to kill and get killed for the sake of that pathetic mythology. It is not surprising that they also believe the red mercury mumbo-jumbo.
What is it with that hair, Donald?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Don't let them know about this other super weapon.
Below is but a few of the many recent noteworthy contributions from the so-called religion of peace to the field of Scientific Advancement
Polio is making a come back in Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan, thanks to Islam, many health workers were killed because they were accused of trying to make the little children infertile with the polio vaccine
Islamic clerics from Saudi Arabia claim that female who drive are prone to damage their ovaries
And if you really want to know how moslem feel about science, I encourage you to read an article from the Discover Magazine to find out
http://discovermagazine.com/20...
Red mercury is located next to the dilithium crystals (below the unobtanium) at any Walmart.
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On that movie set where they faked the moon landings.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
A lot of people who believe in Red Mercury don't believe in global warming.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
What can account for the enduring myth of Red Mercury
We had almost stamped out that myth, and then Star Trek (2009) came out with red matter, and it started up all over again.
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
New sequel? Indy returns to the mid east with Nazis and Communists replaced by ISIS.
Real or not, red muercury is used to lure rubes into ISIS' ranks as the superweapon for wiping out the superpowers. Without a superweapon on their side, the ISIS rubes know they're looking at a serious butt kicking when the sleeping giant tires of their games - and nobody wants to be on the losing side. ISIS leadership knows this, too, and has fabricated the red mercury story and how close they are to acquiring it to keep membership and morale up. I could also be completely full of shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I don't think anyone questioned that.
It's at the bottom of a big pit on Oak Island. Just keep digging. It's down there.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
This is typical /. propaganda. Red Mercury DOES exist.
I know you're mocking, but that's closer to the truth than you want to believe. Red Mercury doesn't exist as a matter of US government policy with the all too cute cover story that same government circulated rumors about it to create a terrorist honeypot. They know the Soviets developed it. And so did Sam Cohen. The guy was involved with nuclear weaponry from that start for goodness sake, with a great handle on Soviet nuclear developments as well. But the whistleblower gets painted as crackpot again. Wouldn't want to frighten the sheeple, would we?
monatomic gold! That stuff makes red mercury look like candy!
... I would go for Cold Fusion instead
I mean, if I were to waste my time hunting down non-existing red mercury I might as well waste my time better by chasing down an equally non-existing cold fusion
If I were to get Red Mercury what the fuck am I going to do with it, other than a few spectacular ' KA-BOOM '?
But if I were to get my hands on Cold Fusion that really works, I would be the one controlling the world's endless supply of the much needed energy that this world is hungry for
What better way to force the world bows down before me, huh?
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
the nearest Ford/Lincoln car dealer
Or it's like how the star wars missile defense project was supposed to work, billions spent and nothing happend.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
It's the same kind of persistent wishful thinking that has afflicted mankind throughout the ages, except instead of using the Philosopher's Stone to turn lead into gold and gain economic power, the dream for some folks is military-power.
"OK, it sounds too good to be true... But what if it isn't! What if I could have it!?"
Now that's a superweapon!
We're just making our small business by pulling money from these idiots and their sponsors.
Possibly you know, previously we offered Lapis Philosophorum.
Have you ever asked yourself what color anti-mercury would be?
... if they get red mercury, we still have Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lee Byung-hun, and Helen Mirren... we can just send them in to kick their asses. We could call it RED 3, although we'd have to actually call it a "reboot" of RED 2, and i'd hate to see the actors they go with this time around. Bruce WIllis.... ain't nothing going to get to us... red mercury, asteroids the size of Texarse... nothing!
Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. See also: NAZI's
What is it with that hair, Donald?
It's RED MERCURY powered hair, derrrr.
Cryonics - Keep cool and carry on.
Probably we'd die of laughter if it wasn't "our" money, but the US and Soviets spent huge amounts of money trying to find and control psychotic weapons. One plausible sounding idea was "remote reading". After all, if you could read cards, then why not read "intelligence" documents. I guess Yuri Geller said that he could ready Soviet intelligence on their psychotic weapons research and would suggest further avenues of research. Now, don't these "investigation" have to be scrutinized by experts in a field. Otherwise, there would be an army of people trying all sorts of shit.
The biggest example of bogus science was at Harvard, when the world's leading brain surgeons decided to lobotomize J.F. Kennedy's sister Rosemary. Now, the two biggest problems are that the Kennedy's had access to money and were not morons.
Will it explode?
Because then we would be truly fucked. Unobtanium pisses down on Red Mercury from a very great height.
What are psychotic weapons? Or did you mean "psychic"?
Now THAT's powerful!
I got your Red Mercury right here! I mean, not here now. I have it, I just need some time to deliver.
I wonder if all those people in pursuit of 72 virgins realize that souls don't have dicks?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I first read about this when researching John Dee...red mercury was part of his alchemy work on the Philosopher's Stone. That was over 400 years ago, far older than the NYT's claims of "around the time of the Cold War".
The formulation for red mercury can be found in the koran - The return of the Mahdi, the final defeat of infidels and the end of the world - that's the formula for red mercury. They have been staring at it all along.
The Sphynx has a room underneath its front paws, dicovered by means or echolocation.
However, no archeologist has been allowed in, yet.
Must be because the superweapon is there!
..who laughingly refer to themselves as 'Islamic State', is revealed in all it's glory, here: They're idiots. Violent, animalistic, atavistic idiots, but idiots nevertheless. They believe in Fairy Tales, superstitions, and myths. They're not rational in the least. Sadly, they think they're fit to rule over a population, when in reality their 'caliphate' is a bad joke, and they don't posess even a fraction of the intelligence, experience, or restraint to actually create and rule over a productive, modern country. Makes one wonder if they even acknowledge that the world is round, and if they believe the sun revolves around the Earth.
I heard today an estimate that it might take 20 or 30 years to completely rid the Earth of this particular pestilence of radical 'Islamic' (in quotes because the term only applies to them in the loosest sense of the word imaginable) extremists; I just hope I survive long enough to see the day when the last of them are finally put down.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
It's much more effective if you dilute in one to a million with water.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Making sure to make the tracer Isotopic for the double win, trigger a Geiger counter to convince them this is real and make it easier to track.
http://www.britannica.com/scie...
That must be a very tiny room..
No way any full grown human can fit in there.
Now... mice-archeologist might be able to fit in there, but there are other obvious issues with that solution as well.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Terrorist money spent on Red Mercury is money not being spend on bombs and bullets. Perhaps more time should be spend debunking the debunkers :-)
The red ones are alcohol based. They put red dye in it because clear alcohol in clear glass is kind of hard to see.
I've got an old mercury thermometer and the contents is a silvery liquid (i.e. mercury).
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Unfortunately the NY Times again is trying to downplay ISIS as a stupid bunch of thugs who can't possible be a threat. The real story is ISIS has some real significant money to work with to buy real and significant weapons and we should not underestimate their abilities to gain access to them. It seems the liberal media keeps making excuses for Obama and I thought the whole premise of ISIS being a JV squad was long since dispelled. I'm sure the people in Paris know this now.
White phosphorous is used in munitions, including the controversial "whiskey pete" anti-personnel explosives. Red phosphorous is the source for phosphine, a toxic gas used as a fumigant.
OK, neither one is mercury or a radionuclide, but one is red, one is a weapon, and phosphine could be used as WMD.
I don't know what those Daishts' problem is. This substance, Red Mercury (Romeo Mike or RM for short) has been known for some time to a group I'm working with.
It requires both some alchemist techniques as well as some relativistic effects to bring this substance into existence, but nothing not achievable with century-old tech.
The basic requirement is that you have a quantity of lead of around 100 grains or more in mass. This needs to travel at a velocity of around -800 feet per second (or less). That is all that is required to turn the lead into this substance.
* Yes, that negative sign in front of the velocity is exactly right. For those not too familiar with vector arithmetic, it means if it is traveling at a velocity of that magnitude, but directly towards the observer, it turns into RM during this travel - but only for the observer!
The only remaining problem our research team is struggling with is to make the transition from lead to mercury permanent. So far only the red color persists once the material sample comes to rest again.
The only reason ISIS is looking for "Red Mercury" is because ISIS didn't really have the strategy for success.
ISIS assumed that US, Russia and NATO will ignore them until they gather enough strength to make attacking them too costly.
They had no backup plan for when they are not ignored.
So, they are trying anything now as the backup plan.
It's not that different from Germans trying to build V-weapons during WW2.
That horrible Star Trek reboot with the red matter must recently have made its way to ISIS computers.
There is a body in the grave, but there are no known samples of his DNA (or Kyle's) to test against so the identity of the body is uncertain.
The nature of the work he did during the war is likewise unknown. As is why he, a civilian, arrived in the Ardennes in early December 1944, but whatever he was doing there had Germany worried enough to launch a major offensive for the sole purpose of capturing him alive, now known as "The Battle of the Bulge".
For obvious reasons.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
It's because it sounds a bit like fReddie Mercury.
unless you can take it with you to Jihadi heaven its not going to be of any use to you with those 72 rasins!
Haha. What idiots will believe that there's a weapon of mass destruction in that area that they need to find?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
western agencies should try to sell them "red mercury" ie. metallic natrium or potassium or silver acetylide.
Double profit: get some of the terrorists' money and get them burned.
The more money and resources they spend on chasing something that doesn't exist, the less money and resources are available for actual acts of terror. Keep them in the dark!
Whatever we do, we must not let ISIS find out that Ann Coulter has the secret to achieving a working Red Mercury weapon.
That's the only Mercury I worship.
Sounds a like Red Matter in His first Star Trek movie.
When terrorists do it, they are ignorant.
When the US does it, they are fighting for Western freedom?
Maybe the CIA should whip up a batch of viagra laced with ricin and red dye and distribute it to some of these morons.
Other than geographic and ethnic proximity, ISIS follows violent archaic practices not accepted by most of Islam. They disparage the glory of the original Caliphate which did support science and multi-culturalism.
They are probably interested in Hafnium-172
Which is supposed to release energies at orders of magnitude of chemical reactions.
It also a byproduct of nuclear explosions.
So why not give them some million degree hot Hf-178 enveloped in a few m^3 if liquid helium?
If we're lucky.
See subject & this (my ware's been verified safe by 1 of the best) http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & this (60++ reputable sources say it's safe too) http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + this (false positives filtering done by my sources for hosts data AND my program too vs. your "MITM" bullshit) http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & lastly this (your lies on AD+DNS I never once said - show us where I did scumbag & YOUR SCREWUPS ON ADMIN PRIVELEGE USE IN MY PROGRAM) http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
* You fucking worm...
(Why'd you run from those, hmmm?)
APK
P.S.=> I am going to annihilate you publicly for those you reprehensible piece of fucking lying malicious libelous trolling trash... apk
See subject & this (my ware's been verified safe by 1 of the best) http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & this (60++ reputable sources say it's safe too) http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + this (false positives filtering done by my sources for hosts data AND my program too vs. your "MITM" bullshit) http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & lastly this (your lies on AD+DNS I never once said - show us where I did scumbag & YOUR SCREWUPS ON ADMIN PRIVELEGE USE IN MY PROGRAM) http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
* You fucking worm...
(Why'd you run from those, hmmm?)
APK
P.S.=> I am going to annihilate you publicly for those you reprehensible piece of fucking lying malicious libelous trolling trash... apk
Maybe I should sell the Libyans some of my Corbomite stockpile to fund my time travel experiments.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Don't they know that they must first exhume the body of Cobra Commander??
ISIS is in very large part made out of meth heads:
here
Meth heads high on delusions of grandeur are not the most logical minds you will find...
I'll be glad to sell them my spare Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. I don't use it much anymore.
What a bunch of idiots...
Send ISIS my way, I'll be glad to take their money. I've got a supply ready to go.
Both are seeking a mythical thing, for the very existence of which there is absolutely no evidence, but which is widely believed in because it has been the subject of endless books, TV shows, movies, legends, rumors or just simply a desperate desire.
Time and money are better spent in the real world seeking things that actually exist.
Any one else thinking philosophers stone from FMA?
Religions are ~2000 years old;
Humans are ~200,000 years old;
Religion was born when the first con-man met the first fool;
Casteism
Followed a breadcrumb from one of the news sites on the "Red Mercury" being mentioned in alchemical texts.
Yep, it is right on target as a reference to the paint pigment "vermilion". When used in traditional carved laquerware from China; it is known as "cinnabar". Red Mercury is mercury sulfide, one of the easiest ores to get elemental mercury from.
Whomever started the disinformation campaign on the properties of "Red Mercury" should be commended. Good gag there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnabar
NRRPT/RCT
A thermometer that contains mercury doesn't contain red liquid, and a thermometer that contains red liquid does not contain mercury. The red liquid is usually alcohol with red dye.
See subject: Eating his words vs. me providing yet more evidence of it:
"you're the pathetic simian who cannot let a comment about your malware go unchallenged - by Sardaukar86 (850333) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:57AM (#50899263)
Your POOR DIET (eating your words) decreased what little brain function you had - Security pros & /.'ers disagree w/ that raving loon rant of yours:
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APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit = Safe proven by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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Its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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So is it's installer per VirScan-> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
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MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
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"APK is a one-trick-pony with only hosts-file manipulation to his name, a technique that was rightfully deposed in the 90's" - by Sardaukar86 (850333) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:57AM (#50899263)
Noted security pros disagree & on "1 trick pony" your big mouth has allowed me to RAM that right back down your throat in my p.s. below:
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Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET says hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Oliver Day (Symantec) does-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...
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* Sardaukar86 - thank you: YOU ARE GOOD @ FAILING vs. myself!
(QUESTION: HOW DOES IT TASTE "eating your words" now that you've stuck your foot in your mouth YET AGAIN vs. me (lol), & rammed them down your throat, washing them down with the "bitter taste of SELF-defeat"?)
APK
P.S.=> You're DYING OF MALNUTRITION (lol)- > 244++:1 in MY favor-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment... ) & on "1 trick pony" in things you'll NEVER do I have too http://slashdot.org/comments.p... - Do yourself a favor & CHANGE YOUR DIET: Eating your words != GOOD NUTRITION!
... apk
"APK is a one-trick-pony with only hosts-file manipulation to his name" - by Sardaukar86 (850333) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:15AM (#50899307)
Per a quote from your loon rant: Have you done better, earlier, & more of these things Sardaukar86 in computing?
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn... for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com...
It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge... or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker...
Which ended up fixing a "bug" for them later, here -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultra... via its implementation (partially, NOT fully implemented yet as I outline it & use in my applications such as this one -> http://www.start64.com/index.p...
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* You WISH you were me, but you're just a "ne'er-do-well" bigmouth... lmao!
(QUESTION: HOW DOES IT TASTE "eating your words" now that you've stuck your foot in your mouth YET AGAIN vs. me (lol), & rammed them down your throat, washing them down with the "bitter taste of SELF-defeat"?)
APK
P.S.=> You're going to DIE OF MALNUTRITION if you keep this up (lol) - > 244++:1 in MY favor vs. your big mouth-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment... ) & here too http://slashdot.org/comments.p... - so do yourself a favor & CHANGE YOUR DIET: Eating your words != GOOD NUTRITION... lol!
... apk
"your 'programs' are viewed with well-justified suspicion and mistrust" - by Sardaukar86 (850333) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:24AM (#50899343)
Per the quote of your raving loon rants: Security Pros & /.'ers disagree:
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"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
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Its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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So is it's installer per VirScan-> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
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* :)
You WISH you were me, but you're just too damn STUPID to be in my league... lmao!
(I sincerely hope all New Zealanders aren't like you - big mouthed morons who constantly have to "eat their words"... tell us, won't you, HOW DO THEY TASTE now that you've stuck your foot in your mouth YET AGAIN vs. me (lol), & rammed them down your throat, washing them down with the "bitter taste of SELF-defeat"?)
APK
P.S.=> This dietary issue of yours is by NO means a 1st for you vs. myself either (244++:1 in MY favor vs. your big mouth-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment... ) - so do yourself a favor & CHANGE YOUR DIET: Eating your words != GOOD NUTRITION... lol!
... apk
See subject: Eating his words vs. me providing yet more evidence of it:
"you're the pathetic simian who cannot let a comment about your malware go unchallenged - by Sardaukar86 (850333) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:57AM (#50899263)
Your POOR DIET (eating your words) decreased what little brain function you had - Security pros & /.'ers disagree w/ that raving loon rant of yours:
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APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit = Safe proven by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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Its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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So is it's installer per VirScan-> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
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MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
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"APK is a one-trick-pony with only hosts-file manipulation to his name, a technique that was rightfully deposed in the 90's" - by Sardaukar86 (850333) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:57AM (#50899263)
Noted security pros disagree & on "1 trick pony" your big mouth has allowed me to RAM that right back down your throat in my p.s. below:
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Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET says hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Oliver Day (Symantec) does-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...
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* Sardaukar86 - thank you: YOU ARE GOOD @ FAILING vs. myself!
(QUESTION: HOW DOES IT TASTE "eating your words" now that you've stuck your foot in your mouth YET AGAIN vs. me (lol), & rammed them down your throat, washing them down with the "bitter taste of SELF-defeat"?)
APK
P.S.=> You're DYING OF MALNUTRITION (lol)- > 244++:1 in MY favor-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment... ) & on "1 trick pony" in things you'll NEVER do I have too http://slashdot.org/comments.p... - Do yourself a favor & CHANGE YOUR DIET: Eating your words != GOOD NUTRITION!
... apk
"APK is a one-trick-pony with only hosts-file manipulation to his name" - by Sardaukar86 (850333) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:15AM (#50899307)
Per a quote from your loon rant: Have you done better, earlier, & more of these things Sardaukar86 in computing?
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn... for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com...
It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge... or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker...
Which ended up fixing a "bug" for them later, here -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultra... via its implementation (partially, NOT fully implemented yet as I outline it & use in my applications such as this one -> http://www.start64.com/index.p...
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* You WISH you were me, but you're just a "ne'er-do-well" bigmouth... lmao!
(QUESTION: HOW DOES IT TASTE "eating your words" now that you've stuck your foot in your mouth YET AGAIN vs. me (lol), & rammed them down your throat, washing them down with the "bitter taste of SELF-defeat"?)
APK
P.S.=> You're going to DIE OF MALNUTRITION if you keep this up (lol) - > 244++:1 in MY favor vs. your big mouth-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment... ) & here too http://slashdot.org/comments.p... - so do yourself a favor & CHANGE YOUR DIET: Eating your words != GOOD NUTRITION... lol!
... apk
"your 'programs' are viewed with well-justified suspicion and mistrust" - by Sardaukar86 (850333) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:24AM (#50899343)
Per the quote of your raving loon rants: Security Pros & /.'ers disagree:
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"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
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APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit = Safe proven by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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Its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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So is it's installer per VirScan-> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
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* :)
You WISH you were me, but you're just too damn STUPID to be in my league... lmao!
(I sincerely hope all New Zealanders aren't like you - big mouthed morons who constantly have to "eat their words"... tell us, won't you, HOW DO THEY TASTE now that you've stuck your foot in your mouth YET AGAIN vs. me (lol), & rammed them down your throat, washing them down with the "bitter taste of SELF-defeat"?)
APK
P.S.=> This dietary issue of yours is by NO means a 1st for you vs. myself either (244++:1 in MY favor vs. your big mouth-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment... ) - so do yourself a favor & CHANGE YOUR DIET: Eating your words != GOOD NUTRITION... lol!
... apk