I have only had 2 attacks on my machine that actually did anything to it.
Both were keyloggers that ran under run32dll.exe in the form of a dll file. Both were from ads on a popular World of Warcraft site that I picked up pretty much the same day.
I had AVG 7.5 and it did NOT pick up either. Warcraft caught BOTH of them. Yep. The GAME caught them. Simply told me it didn't like the programs running on my machine and refused to let me log in(Way to go Blizzard! You could have informed me BEFORE I typed in my password though).
Wasn't that hard to find once I knew there was something to look for, but c'mon, for petes sake. Warden caught it when AVG couldn't?
Build yourself a pretty little walk-in closet, put something shiny in it to attract Sims. Once they are inside the closet, enter build mode and sell the closet door. Not only are they now trapped in a doorless closet, you get a refund on the door!
"As for a game that is intrinsically nonviolent, the Sim games are probably the only popular ones I can think of. Sim City, Sim Tower, The Sims, and the like are all well known titles, The Sims and expansions, in particular, sell very well and frequently visit top 10 seller lists."
You obviously do not have a sick mind.
Other then using a cheat code, the fastest way to make money in the Sims was to marry a neighbor(after the proper amount of time spent on wooing them), wait for the new wife/husband to go for a swim, then delete the ladder coming out of the pool. Let em tread water until they meet a watery death. Tada! You are now the sole beneficiary of the deceased's estate.
Either that, or simply brick 'em into a wall. Gravestones in the pool always seems to upset the party guests.
" Some physicians at UCLA have developed a similar therapy and plan to commercialize it."
Not "in the know" on this one, do doctors PATENT procedures? Is there some guy/s out there, essentially holding the cure to AIDs, that has the RIGHT to withhold such a procedure from common use, if they are not paid?
If so, wouldn't the intentional withholding of such a treatment from a patient, for whatever reason, be a direct violation of the Hippocratic Oath, and thus grounds for the revocation of a medical license?
Pretty obvious I am out of my realm, eh? Serious questions though.....
I use a freeware version of "Revo Uninstaller"(got it from downloads.com....yeah, yeah. Shake your heads, but it works, and works well).
What it does is images your drive BEFORE an installation(must have hunter mode active for this imaging to take place) so that when you go and UNinstall something, it knows what shouldn't be there. It then runs the applications built-in Uninstaller. After that it does a comparison and lists ALL changes that were made to your harddrive by the installation, BUT NOT CHANGED BACK BY THE UNINSTALL. You are then free to manually delete all the crap left behind. Careful though. It is essentially a registry editor as well.
So far, it has been totally successful, although I have not tried to remove SecureROM with it(didn't let that shit on in the first place).
Using Revo and "ProcessExplorer"(another AWESOME freeware app), I can essentially watch all the handles and DLLs utilized by an installer and its child App, and thus have a pretty good idea what is going on rather then just sit, wonder and hope.
Regardless, I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO RESORT TO THIS SHIT.
Maybe it is just the current administration putting all our well-spent dollars to work in the pursuit of information about what Obama/McCain might do in regards to Bush and Sons Liquidators, LLC.
I'm sure Kennedy/s experienced the same sort of probing.
Or maybe it isn't all that sinister. Maybe the two campaigns simply paid 3rd parties to hack each other. That sits much better with me.
It appears, to me, that somebody wants people to stop using the internet for various purposes that might be in contradiction to their financial goals. They claim they are losing money.
So, once they get what they want, and the internet is no longer a means of the free exchange of ideas, information, etc, what the FUCK do they think is going to happen?
Hmmm...maybe people will stop using it? And what happens to all the corporations that make THEIR money from the internet? Are they going to stand there and let it happen?
From my point of view, this "war" against copyright infringers is going to blow the whole damn boat out of the water. Right now, it is a war against "us", when it should really be a war between those corporations. A lot of people(read, companies) other then "us" supposed copyright violators stand to lose a lot of money, and I am not talking about the copyright holders.
Apparently, you've never tasted reality. I can tell you, sometimes it tastes like shit.
Cops DO breaks rules. Cops DO beat the shit out of people for no reason other then they have had a bad day. People wronged by those actions sometimes do NOT win lucrative civil settlements(I didn't even bother since the cop had already lied in his report).
Just because I did not provide personal details(what fucking idiot WOULD on a public forum?) and exact specifics doesn't mean it didn't happen.
And hey, if you want people to take YOU seriously, maybe you should at least take the effort to post under ANYthing other then Anonymous Coward. Its called that for a reason.
It DOES piss them off (especially if your knocking it away with Vibram-soled, steel toe boots), but they don't necessarily beat the crap out of you. They just let the now-very-pissed-off dog chew on you for awhile. That way there are no marks from THEM to indicate excessive force.
The problem here is that the DOG does NOT have to announce himself as a police officer (like I'm gunna see a badge, on the collar, in the dark). That allows the officer to apply force without clearly announcing that you are dealing with someone that your not allowed to DEFEND yourself from. When it happened to me, I had already kicked the dog 4-5 times and been chewed on for 10-15 seconds by the time I had ANY idea there was a cop in the area.
Personally, I think robots would just remove the normal hesitation that most people experience when confronted with the decision of killing someone else. In other words, get rid of that pesky conscience.
My daughter was just a few minutes ago telling me about a friends husband. He had signed on to the Army as a photographer AND as a conscientious objector. After being sent to Iraq a couple weeks ago, he is a mess. He is now a guard in a military prison, I suspect, with orders that do not sit well with him. The military knows nothing of "intended purpose". If it can be used to kill, it will be.
Maybe the military understands that if they can take the PERSONAL out of killing, it will be easier for people like the man I just described to go out and KILL.
And before you say it, I realize the man had unrealistic expectations. Ahh, the folly of youth. Isn't it a wonderful thing?
The area I live in is under the jurisdiction of EIGHT different entities. Border Patrol, State patrol, City police, INS, FBI, etc. primarily because of geographics.
It is not one agency that I worry about. It is the entire spectrum of public servants whose shadow I fall under that concerns me.
Think about it.
If the policies, their stated purpose, and, more importantly, the powers bestowed on those eight entities to achieve their stated purpose, do not allow ONE agency to perform the questioning or search of someone, I am QUITE sure some other agency has powers that DO. It is a matter of a phone call. And you all know in this day and age just how "important" sharing information amongst agencies is.
It really is NO different then one agency having ALL of these powers.
It reminds me of the idea that if you make enough laws, everyone will be subject to arrest.
I wonder what effect this may have had on the development of music in humans. Can we somehow discern these oscillations, like magnetic fields in the brains of pigeons?
Suppose the timing of all our music is based on oscillations of our own star, Sol. What might the effects be on a planet that orbits a much different star. A planet under the effects of multiple stars? Would an extraterrestrial culture in such a situation have more complex music if it was under such effects?
"Using a selecting agent to grow only these trolls, the teams identified a gene that inactivates the Troll's hydrogen uptake system so that all of the hydrogen produced is released. Because the troll's cells cannot recycle the hydrogen, the hydrogen they produce can be captured and used as a fuel whose byproduct is water and heat"
But the real question is whether or not feeding the trolls legumes will offset the drawbacks of using trolls, via the "Peanut Butter Effect".
The metal recycling bins behind automatic transmission repair shops, if they allow you access, will supply you with some of the weirdest gear arrangements you'll ever see. Helical gears, planetary gears, square cut gears, you name it. The nice thing is that not only do you have full sets of gears, you often have more then one KIND of gear being used in conjunction with another type. There is also lots of valving, springs, clutches, bands and electronic whizmos inside a transmission.
The only disadvantage is that most will be of a fairly heavy-duty nature.
Personnel Flunkie #1: "Fuck Dave, your still going through the DNA filters on the new applicants? Whats tak...BITCH!...ing you so long?"
Personnel Flunkie #2: "Get bent. Every single one of these mutants has somet...KAKA!...hing wrong with them. This guy has alcoholism markers, this sick fuck has a predisposition to pedophilia......Wait! This guy just has Tourette's. He'll fit right in."
Soon as I read "airplane" and "conductive" in the same article ideas started coming to me.
Umm.........lessee......If you alternated NON-conductive layers in with the Buckypaper composite body of the aircraft, one could theoretically design/build-in all the electronic circuitry right into the structural body. Printed circuits inside the walls of the aircraft, essentially. Save even more weight, not to mention cost, when you could toss all that copper/silver currently used for wiring.
Build the body of the aircraft, then simply add more layers to the inside for circuitry.
In the story "The Langoliers", the main characters utilize a drop in cabin pressure, and the resulting lack of oxygen to incapacitate themselves so they will not be dematerialized.....
Flight Attendant: Captain, we got problems back here........
Captain: Serious?
Flight Attendant: Do it, sir.
Captain: Have a seat and buckle up, Gladys. I don't want you falling down and hurting yourself.
(After checking the reinforced, hermetically sealed cockpit door and disabling the emergency oxygen mask system in the main cabins, the Captain vents cabin pressure to atmosphere)
Whoosh!
Hell..........maybe even follow it with an incapacitant so the oxygen can be turned back on.......and not kill everyone.
Slashdot Mirror
To be used in a positive manner, allowing discourse and access to information.......until the next administration rolls around.
Then your worst Orwellian nightmares come true, AND there is no longer an alternative.
Not sure I like this idea.
"Sure would be cool to build such a beast, do some random connections, and see what happens..."
Just don't give it a modem.
"...and see what happens..." can be pretty fucking scary sometimes, and letting scary out of the building just might be a bad idea.
Never know if your going to end up with Skynet or the mother of all spammers...
I have only had 2 attacks on my machine that actually did anything to it.
Both were keyloggers that ran under run32dll.exe in the form of a dll file. Both were from ads on a popular World of Warcraft site that I picked up pretty much the same day.
I had AVG 7.5 and it did NOT pick up either. Warcraft caught BOTH of them. Yep. The GAME caught them. Simply told me it didn't like the programs running on my machine and refused to let me log in(Way to go Blizzard! You could have informed me BEFORE I typed in my password though).
Wasn't that hard to find once I knew there was something to look for, but c'mon, for petes sake. Warden caught it when AVG couldn't?
Build yourself a pretty little walk-in closet, put something shiny in it to attract Sims. Once they are inside the closet, enter build mode and sell the closet door. Not only are they now trapped in a doorless closet, you get a refund on the door!
"As for a game that is intrinsically nonviolent, the Sim games are probably the only popular ones I can think of. Sim City, Sim Tower, The Sims, and the like are all well known titles, The Sims and expansions, in particular, sell very well and frequently visit top 10 seller lists."
You obviously do not have a sick mind.
Other then using a cheat code, the fastest way to make money in the Sims was to marry a neighbor(after the proper amount of time spent on wooing them), wait for the new wife/husband to go for a swim, then delete the ladder coming out of the pool. Let em tread water until they meet a watery death. Tada! You are now the sole beneficiary of the deceased's estate.
Either that, or simply brick 'em into a wall. Gravestones in the pool always seems to upset the party guests.
" Some physicians at UCLA have developed a similar therapy and plan to commercialize it."
Not "in the know" on this one, do doctors PATENT procedures? Is there some guy/s out there, essentially holding the cure to AIDs, that has the RIGHT to withhold such a procedure from common use, if they are not paid?
If so, wouldn't the intentional withholding of such a treatment from a patient, for whatever reason, be a direct violation of the Hippocratic Oath, and thus grounds for the revocation of a medical license?
Pretty obvious I am out of my realm, eh? Serious questions though.....
I use a freeware version of "Revo Uninstaller"(got it from downloads.com....yeah, yeah. Shake your heads, but it works, and works well).
What it does is images your drive BEFORE an installation(must have hunter mode active for this imaging to take place) so that when you go and UNinstall something, it knows what shouldn't be there. It then runs the applications built-in Uninstaller. After that it does a comparison and lists ALL changes that were made to your harddrive by the installation, BUT NOT CHANGED BACK BY THE UNINSTALL. You are then free to manually delete all the crap left behind. Careful though. It is essentially a registry editor as well.
So far, it has been totally successful, although I have not tried to remove SecureROM with it(didn't let that shit on in the first place).
Using Revo and "ProcessExplorer"(another AWESOME freeware app), I can essentially watch all the handles and DLLs utilized by an installer and its child App, and thus have a pretty good idea what is going on rather then just sit, wonder and hope.
Regardless, I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO RESORT TO THIS SHIT.
"knock, knock"
Hot women answers door......
Hot Woman: "Hello?"
Hot Guy: "Hello. The agency sent me, but I'm afraid there has been a mistake. I'm gay."
Hot Woman: "What a waste. You don't know the half of it. So am I."
Did I adequately address your point?
What makes anyone think it is an overseas job?
Maybe it is just the current administration putting all our well-spent dollars to work in the pursuit of information about what Obama/McCain might do in regards to Bush and Sons Liquidators, LLC.
I'm sure Kennedy/s experienced the same sort of probing.
Or maybe it isn't all that sinister. Maybe the two campaigns simply paid 3rd parties to hack each other. That sits much better with me.
He must have a lawyer as a cellmate.
Only a lawyer could come up with this shit.......
It appears, to me, that somebody wants people to stop using the internet for various purposes that might be in contradiction to their financial goals. They claim they are losing money.
So, once they get what they want, and the internet is no longer a means of the free exchange of ideas, information, etc, what the FUCK do they think is going to happen?
Hmmm...maybe people will stop using it? And what happens to all the corporations that make THEIR money from the internet? Are they going to stand there and let it happen?
From my point of view, this "war" against copyright infringers is going to blow the whole damn boat out of the water. Right now, it is a war against "us", when it should really be a war between those corporations. A lot of people(read, companies) other then "us" supposed copyright violators stand to lose a lot of money, and I am not talking about the copyright holders.
Where are THEIR voices, on this matter?
Apparently, you've never tasted reality. I can tell you, sometimes it tastes like shit.
Cops DO breaks rules. Cops DO beat the shit out of people for no reason other then they have had a bad day. People wronged by those actions sometimes do NOT win lucrative civil settlements(I didn't even bother since the cop had already lied in his report).
Just because I did not provide personal details(what fucking idiot WOULD on a public forum?) and exact specifics doesn't mean it didn't happen.
And hey, if you want people to take YOU seriously, maybe you should at least take the effort to post under ANYthing other then Anonymous Coward. Its called that for a reason.
I can attest to that myself.
It DOES piss them off (especially if your knocking it away with Vibram-soled, steel toe boots), but they don't necessarily beat the crap out of you. They just let the now-very-pissed-off dog chew on you for awhile. That way there are no marks from THEM to indicate excessive force.
The problem here is that the DOG does NOT have to announce himself as a police officer (like I'm gunna see a badge, on the collar, in the dark). That allows the officer to apply force without clearly announcing that you are dealing with someone that your not allowed to DEFEND yourself from. When it happened to me, I had already kicked the dog 4-5 times and been chewed on for 10-15 seconds by the time I had ANY idea there was a cop in the area.
Personally, I think robots would just remove the normal hesitation that most people experience when confronted with the decision of killing someone else. In other words, get rid of that pesky conscience.
Oh, please.
My daughter was just a few minutes ago telling me about a friends husband. He had signed on to the Army as a photographer AND as a conscientious objector. After being sent to Iraq a couple weeks ago, he is a mess. He is now a guard in a military prison, I suspect, with orders that do not sit well with him. The military knows nothing of "intended purpose". If it can be used to kill, it will be.
Maybe the military understands that if they can take the PERSONAL out of killing, it will be easier for people like the man I just described to go out and KILL.
And before you say it, I realize the man had unrealistic expectations. Ahh, the folly of youth. Isn't it a wonderful thing?
The area I live in is under the jurisdiction of EIGHT different entities. Border Patrol, State patrol, City police, INS, FBI, etc. primarily because of geographics.
It is not one agency that I worry about. It is the entire spectrum of public servants whose shadow I fall under that concerns me.
Think about it.
If the policies, their stated purpose, and, more importantly, the powers bestowed on those eight entities to achieve their stated purpose, do not allow ONE agency to perform the questioning or search of someone, I am QUITE sure some other agency has powers that DO. It is a matter of a phone call. And you all know in this day and age just how "important" sharing information amongst agencies is.
It really is NO different then one agency having ALL of these powers.
It reminds me of the idea that if you make enough laws, everyone will be subject to arrest.
I wonder what effect this may have had on the development of music in humans. Can we somehow discern these oscillations, like magnetic fields in the brains of pigeons?
Suppose the timing of all our music is based on oscillations of our own star, Sol. What might the effects be on a planet that orbits a much different star. A planet under the effects of multiple stars? Would an extraterrestrial culture in such a situation have more complex music if it was under such effects?
"Using a selecting agent to grow only these trolls, the teams identified a gene that inactivates the Troll's hydrogen uptake system so that all of the hydrogen produced is released. Because the troll's cells cannot recycle the hydrogen, the hydrogen they produce can be captured and used as a fuel whose byproduct is water and heat"
But the real question is whether or not feeding the trolls legumes will offset the drawbacks of using trolls, via the "Peanut Butter Effect".
The metal recycling bins behind automatic transmission repair shops, if they allow you access, will supply you with some of the weirdest gear arrangements you'll ever see. Helical gears, planetary gears, square cut gears, you name it. The nice thing is that not only do you have full sets of gears, you often have more then one KIND of gear being used in conjunction with another type. There is also lots of valving, springs, clutches, bands and electronic whizmos inside a transmission.
The only disadvantage is that most will be of a fairly heavy-duty nature.
"According to wikipedia..."
Damn dude, shoot yourself in the foot, why don't you?
Try this next time......
"According to God..."
Cindy Lou Hensley McCain is branching out her empire into the realm of pharamaceuticals.
So that t-shirt I have with a pot leaf on it is next, right?
Why stop with the Mongols?
Personnel Flunkie #1: "Fuck Dave, your still going through the DNA filters on the new applicants? Whats tak...BITCH!...ing you so long?"
Personnel Flunkie #2: "Get bent. Every single one of these mutants has somet...KAKA!...hing wrong with them. This guy has alcoholism markers, this sick fuck has a predisposition to pedophilia......Wait! This guy just has Tourette's. He'll fit right in."
"Build the body of the aircraft, then simply add more layers to the inside for circuitry."
Or simply disconnect the bad circuit panel and simply lay another one right over the top.
Whoa. Didn't know that.
Soon as I read "airplane" and "conductive" in the same article ideas started coming to me.
Umm.........lessee......If you alternated NON-conductive layers in with the Buckypaper composite body of the aircraft, one could theoretically design/build-in all the electronic circuitry right into the structural body. Printed circuits inside the walls of the aircraft, essentially. Save even more weight, not to mention cost, when you could toss all that copper/silver currently used for wiring.
Build the body of the aircraft, then simply add more layers to the inside for circuitry.
In the story "The Langoliers", the main characters utilize a drop in cabin pressure, and the resulting lack of oxygen to incapacitate themselves so they will not be dematerialized.....
Flight Attendant: Captain, we got problems back here........
Captain: Serious?
Flight Attendant: Do it, sir.
Captain: Have a seat and buckle up, Gladys. I don't want you falling down and hurting yourself.
(After checking the reinforced, hermetically sealed cockpit door and disabling the emergency oxygen mask system in the main cabins, the Captain vents cabin pressure to atmosphere)
Whoosh!
Hell..........maybe even follow it with an incapacitant so the oxygen can be turned back on.......and not kill everyone.