evolutionary anti-bug protection, duh. If we feel certain small nerve firings it's usually because of a bug landing on your skin and touching a hair or two so we scratch and the bug flies away. It doesn't come up much indoors these days of course.
I read that they, as a whole, stopped giving free notepads and clocks and pens and ice cream and subs to doctors at hospitals in person cuz it was costing too much. Geeeee, I wonder what they re-routed the money towards! I doubt they just completely cut out that form of marketing and didn't replace it. Contracted astroturfing apparently had better results so they dumped the pens and hired more writers. That's my theory at least.
you're right and I bet as soon as Twitter is back online, it'll crash again on its own when every single person tweets at once "OMG Twitter wuz just down!!!!!!1"
It's either going to be a running process with startup entries and visible exe or DLL or whatever files, and then it's simple to find, or it's going to be hiding itself somehow. In the second case, use Rootkit Revealer. It's free and basically 100% heuristic with no definitions file at all. It just looks for inconsistencies between the registry and file system or something like that. I don't think any rootkits can hide from that.
well if you search without quotes for "Why are PCs so expensive" on google, result #1 is about HDML cables and #2 is about macs being expensive. Ooooooh anti-Apple bias! OMG! Anyone can cherry pick one set of results for one search term and make up some paranoid fake bias. I think Bing has those search results arranged that way because it sucks as a search engine, that's all.
that actually makes a hell of a lot more sense than someone just saying "I'm bored, let's do something else" and giving a 5 million computer botnet up. I mean come on, what are they, insane?! That's like the computer criminal version of buying a buying an italian sports car and then driving it into a lake on purpose. You just don't do that once you finally have one. This article is just stupid beyond words! There is no way in hell it was just "given up." The person behind it either died or is feeling some serious heat from people trying to catch them.
I definitely don't know enough about particle phsyics but I assume the article meant by "core" electrons, the lowest energy level ones in the closest shell or whatever. So how would they only knock one of those out and leave the rest in higher energy levels and wouldn't one in a higher energy level just emit a photon and then drop down an energy level to replace the missing one? Isn't that basically what happens when you ionize atoms positively? Or did they literally knock off all the electrons in the higher energy levels and also ones nearest to the nucleus? Either way, the article states that it maintained its crystaline structure so it's not a new state of matter, it's still a solid. In fact, it sounds like just really, really ionized aluminum by the description. But then there's the whole "it lasted 40 femtoseconds" thing. And it only was invisible in the ultraviolet spectrum? There's a lot of weird details in that summary.
You ever hear of this thing called a laptop? Some people like me have one. They even have build in wireless b/g/n. I think that whole laptop thing might really catch on and soon people will want wireless connections for their laptops when they're traveling.
exactly, the article just says "beautiful women." Well that means the ones with the best makeup, most plastic surgery, and most fancy cremes and skin treatments and other products. That has nothing to do with genetics. The only thing you really can't do anything about is facial bone structure and genetic fat proportioning and hunger level (if proven to be genetic). So I guess the really, really, really ugly people are getting filtered out because there's no easy fix for those but other than that, it's all fake.
I guarantee they're going to pull an "operation squirrel." That's where you cut tons of fibre with a dull tool so it looks chewed but you do so much that they know it was on purpose. People do that more than you think.
Remember that other slashdot story recently where a couple was on vacation in some Asian country and saw their friends' christmas card photo on a huge printed banner in a store window. The people designing the ad apparently just looked for a nice looking couple online, found the pic on a blog, and tada, they're 10 feet wide, on a store, in korea or something. THAT is exactly what people don't want happening in digital or printed format. It's just creepy knowing your image is being used to sell something somewhere and you don't even know about it. They could put you on an erectile dysfunction ad for all you know. What were these moron execs thinking?!
Or maybe you're half right and it's both. Maybe someone submitted bad info on purpose cuz they hate Apple with a passion (come on, you know they're out there!) and AVG rushed the definitions into an update, just kinda taking their word for it.
well thank God they can now dock their ships and start sending out scam e-mails on their new OC line. All that sea travel was probably making some of them seasick.
If it reboots non-instantly and not with a blue screen, just exactly the same way that it would if you pressed the power button, and it wasn't a virus, I would have narrows it down to the power switch awfully quickly.
Hold on a second there. I'm an independent repairer (non-shady one) and my main problem with all the "official" ones like Geek Squad is they're a little reinstall happy. Unless system files are missing or damaged, I never reinstall windows. It's not that hard to automatically then manually remove any trace of incompatible software or any malware. Their big thing is that it'd take 4 hours of labor to fix the problem or 3 to reinstall windows and back up all their data first. I charge so little for labor that it doesn't really matter and then they get to keep all their software instead of spending a week reinstalling everything, half of which they lost the discs for.
Oh and you're not a very good repairer if you're just guessing at parts. If you can't tell the difference between a broken power supply, motherboard, or ram then you don't know what you're doing.
If I made a product and Europe told me I HAD to include other people's 3rd party software in my software product, I'd tell them where to shove their 3rd part code. That's ridiculous. If you take it out of this context and apply it as a rule in general, it's insane. The worst part is, if they're installing Windows 7 and see Firefox and Opera and let's say 10 other really, really crappier browsers, they'd appear to be official Microsoft options. That means they'd get supports calls when suddenly pages look wrong in Firefox or Opera is crashing, etc. This is all a nightmare no matter how they go about it.
well they could just retitle it "how stupid are florida laws?" and rephrase the summary and it would basically be the same thing. Actually it could have said "Florida requires Wells Fargo to sue itself"
Either way this is idiotic and um...I hope Wells Fargo loses lol.
First of all, if you say at your next job interview "I worked on _____" they won't know what the hell you're talking about. Even IT people don't know about every single software solution ever made and how it performed. The odds that they'll have any idea what you're talking about is non-existant unless you worked on Vista or something.
But if you are working on some super high profile project like for Microsoft or Facebook or something, you'll definitely want to quit BEFORE the project is even close to done. If you know it's idiotic and as soon as it's done it's a disaster and the execs all blame you for their own stupid idea and fire you, well then you're out of a job anyway. So beat them to it and quit! But before you do, tell the higher ups that you refuse to work on a project that pointless and wrong because of what it'll do to your career. Tell them if they don't let you make the major changes you know it needs or cancel the project, you quit. Usually they'll just tell you to quit but who knows, it might get you somewhere.
You're right. Wasn't there already an article here about how much more CO2 fat people put out in a year by using more fuel and eating more food that has to be shipped and grown and stuff? So if they take a pill that literally makes them breathe out CO2 because they're fat, that would pretty much tear it for most people who already don't like fat people.
I actually just invented a better cure for obesity. It's called put down the damn donuts and get on the treadmill lol. That or play some Unreal Tournament cuz you can't sweat that much during a match and not be burning calories.
that's funny because they stopped being my favorite at C&C Tiberium Wars when they somehow managed to make the enemy able to cheat the laws of the game and made the AI of your own troops stupider. And I'm not even going to buy Red Alert 3 even with RA2 being one of my fav games of all time and Generals being my favorite RTS game by far. It comes with some ridiculous borderline malware DRM scheme and I think anti-cheat system too. And the gameplay got even worse and is unbalanced with crappy AI and poor cutscenes. It's been out for how long now? And guess what, it's already $30 brand new. That's a REALLY bad sign that proves sales sucked. I hope they got the message and are actually going to release a game as good as Generals then for #4.
okay or as a slightly more useful product (well okay, that's an opinion) they could make it sense a more modern set of colors like 16 bit at least and make projection screens out of it. That would make it really easy to project reel to reel movies onto it and record it in realtime at a high resolution. Then tada, you've got a digital version of an old movie. Those giant, dark projection boxes are what they use these day. The picture is always little off though cuz of the keystone-ish effect of having to mount the camera somewhere above, below, or to the side of the projector. Just take a look at the non-digitally altered version of The Wizard of Oz and you'll see what I mean.
All I have to say is I hope they don't cancel Puppy Wars 2: Furmageddon. I just can't get enough of that shooting puppies with shotguns. Just kidding, I made that up (unless it's a real game, in which case I wouldn't be that surprised). But seriously, that Japanese rape game that was just mentioned on slashdot in another recent story and games that have you shooting or otherwise harming real, existing people definitely shouldn't be made. You don't need to go through a bunch of constitution reading and legal song and dance to know people shouldn't be allowed to write freaking rape games. I mean what's next, Child Molester 3000?
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evolutionary anti-bug protection, duh. If we feel certain small nerve firings it's usually because of a bug landing on your skin and touching a hair or two so we scratch and the bug flies away. It doesn't come up much indoors these days of course.
I read that they, as a whole, stopped giving free notepads and clocks and pens and ice cream and subs to doctors at hospitals in person cuz it was costing too much. Geeeee, I wonder what they re-routed the money towards! I doubt they just completely cut out that form of marketing and didn't replace it. Contracted astroturfing apparently had better results so they dumped the pens and hired more writers. That's my theory at least.
you're right and I bet as soon as Twitter is back online, it'll crash again on its own when every single person tweets at once "OMG Twitter wuz just down!!!!!!1"
It's either going to be a running process with startup entries and visible exe or DLL or whatever files, and then it's simple to find, or it's going to be hiding itself somehow. In the second case, use Rootkit Revealer. It's free and basically 100% heuristic with no definitions file at all. It just looks for inconsistencies between the registry and file system or something like that. I don't think any rootkits can hide from that.
well if you search without quotes for "Why are PCs so expensive" on google, result #1 is about HDML cables and #2 is about macs being expensive. Ooooooh anti-Apple bias! OMG! Anyone can cherry pick one set of results for one search term and make up some paranoid fake bias. I think Bing has those search results arranged that way because it sucks as a search engine, that's all.
that actually makes a hell of a lot more sense than someone just saying "I'm bored, let's do something else" and giving a 5 million computer botnet up. I mean come on, what are they, insane?! That's like the computer criminal version of buying a buying an italian sports car and then driving it into a lake on purpose. You just don't do that once you finally have one. This article is just stupid beyond words! There is no way in hell it was just "given up." The person behind it either died or is feeling some serious heat from people trying to catch them.
I definitely don't know enough about particle phsyics but I assume the article meant by "core" electrons, the lowest energy level ones in the closest shell or whatever. So how would they only knock one of those out and leave the rest in higher energy levels and wouldn't one in a higher energy level just emit a photon and then drop down an energy level to replace the missing one? Isn't that basically what happens when you ionize atoms positively? Or did they literally knock off all the electrons in the higher energy levels and also ones nearest to the nucleus? Either way, the article states that it maintained its crystaline structure so it's not a new state of matter, it's still a solid. In fact, it sounds like just really, really ionized aluminum by the description. But then there's the whole "it lasted 40 femtoseconds" thing. And it only was invisible in the ultraviolet spectrum? There's a lot of weird details in that summary.
You ever hear of this thing called a laptop? Some people like me have one. They even have build in wireless b/g/n. I think that whole laptop thing might really catch on and soon people will want wireless connections for their laptops when they're traveling.
exactly, the article just says "beautiful women." Well that means the ones with the best makeup, most plastic surgery, and most fancy cremes and skin treatments and other products. That has nothing to do with genetics. The only thing you really can't do anything about is facial bone structure and genetic fat proportioning and hunger level (if proven to be genetic). So I guess the really, really, really ugly people are getting filtered out because there's no easy fix for those but other than that, it's all fake.
I guarantee they're going to pull an "operation squirrel." That's where you cut tons of fibre with a dull tool so it looks chewed but you do so much that they know it was on purpose. People do that more than you think.
Remember that other slashdot story recently where a couple was on vacation in some Asian country and saw their friends' christmas card photo on a huge printed banner in a store window. The people designing the ad apparently just looked for a nice looking couple online, found the pic on a blog, and tada, they're 10 feet wide, on a store, in korea or something. THAT is exactly what people don't want happening in digital or printed format. It's just creepy knowing your image is being used to sell something somewhere and you don't even know about it. They could put you on an erectile dysfunction ad for all you know. What were these moron execs thinking?!
Or maybe you're half right and it's both. Maybe someone submitted bad info on purpose cuz they hate Apple with a passion (come on, you know they're out there!) and AVG rushed the definitions into an update, just kinda taking their word for it.
well thank God they can now dock their ships and start sending out scam e-mails on their new OC line. All that sea travel was probably making some of them seasick.
If it reboots non-instantly and not with a blue screen, just exactly the same way that it would if you pressed the power button, and it wasn't a virus, I would have narrows it down to the power switch awfully quickly.
Hold on a second there. I'm an independent repairer (non-shady one) and my main problem with all the "official" ones like Geek Squad is they're a little reinstall happy. Unless system files are missing or damaged, I never reinstall windows. It's not that hard to automatically then manually remove any trace of incompatible software or any malware. Their big thing is that it'd take 4 hours of labor to fix the problem or 3 to reinstall windows and back up all their data first. I charge so little for labor that it doesn't really matter and then they get to keep all their software instead of spending a week reinstalling everything, half of which they lost the discs for.
Oh and you're not a very good repairer if you're just guessing at parts. If you can't tell the difference between a broken power supply, motherboard, or ram then you don't know what you're doing.
If I made a product and Europe told me I HAD to include other people's 3rd party software in my software product, I'd tell them where to shove their 3rd part code. That's ridiculous. If you take it out of this context and apply it as a rule in general, it's insane. The worst part is, if they're installing Windows 7 and see Firefox and Opera and let's say 10 other really, really crappier browsers, they'd appear to be official Microsoft options. That means they'd get supports calls when suddenly pages look wrong in Firefox or Opera is crashing, etc. This is all a nightmare no matter how they go about it.
well they could just retitle it "how stupid are florida laws?" and rephrase the summary and it would basically be the same thing. Actually it could have said "Florida requires Wells Fargo to sue itself"
Either way this is idiotic and um...I hope Wells Fargo loses lol.
well not exactly but wouldn't it be funny is someone did publish the exploit they used to hack imageshack? :-P
First of all, if you say at your next job interview "I worked on _____" they won't know what the hell you're talking about. Even IT people don't know about every single software solution ever made and how it performed. The odds that they'll have any idea what you're talking about is non-existant unless you worked on Vista or something.
But if you are working on some super high profile project like for Microsoft or Facebook or something, you'll definitely want to quit BEFORE the project is even close to done. If you know it's idiotic and as soon as it's done it's a disaster and the execs all blame you for their own stupid idea and fire you, well then you're out of a job anyway. So beat them to it and quit! But before you do, tell the higher ups that you refuse to work on a project that pointless and wrong because of what it'll do to your career. Tell them if they don't let you make the major changes you know it needs or cancel the project, you quit. Usually they'll just tell you to quit but who knows, it might get you somewhere.
You're right. Wasn't there already an article here about how much more CO2 fat people put out in a year by using more fuel and eating more food that has to be shipped and grown and stuff? So if they take a pill that literally makes them breathe out CO2 because they're fat, that would pretty much tear it for most people who already don't like fat people.
I actually just invented a better cure for obesity. It's called put down the damn donuts and get on the treadmill lol. That or play some Unreal Tournament cuz you can't sweat that much during a match and not be burning calories.
that's funny because they stopped being my favorite at C&C Tiberium Wars when they somehow managed to make the enemy able to cheat the laws of the game and made the AI of your own troops stupider. And I'm not even going to buy Red Alert 3 even with RA2 being one of my fav games of all time and Generals being my favorite RTS game by far. It comes with some ridiculous borderline malware DRM scheme and I think anti-cheat system too. And the gameplay got even worse and is unbalanced with crappy AI and poor cutscenes. It's been out for how long now? And guess what, it's already $30 brand new. That's a REALLY bad sign that proves sales sucked. I hope they got the message and are actually going to release a game as good as Generals then for #4.
okay or as a slightly more useful product (well okay, that's an opinion) they could make it sense a more modern set of colors like 16 bit at least and make projection screens out of it. That would make it really easy to project reel to reel movies onto it and record it in realtime at a high resolution. Then tada, you've got a digital version of an old movie. Those giant, dark projection boxes are what they use these day. The picture is always little off though cuz of the keystone-ish effect of having to mount the camera somewhere above, below, or to the side of the projector. Just take a look at the non-digitally altered version of The Wizard of Oz and you'll see what I mean.
All I have to say is I hope they don't cancel Puppy Wars 2: Furmageddon. I just can't get enough of that shooting puppies with shotguns. Just kidding, I made that up (unless it's a real game, in which case I wouldn't be that surprised). But seriously, that Japanese rape game that was just mentioned on slashdot in another recent story and games that have you shooting or otherwise harming real, existing people definitely shouldn't be made. You don't need to go through a bunch of constitution reading and legal song and dance to know people shouldn't be allowed to write freaking rape games. I mean what's next, Child Molester 3000?
Most people don't know this but as far as I know, it's still true. The Bugatti Veyron is a Chevy because they own the company.
or an airplane just flew through one of the thousand kite lines and the fishies and airplane passengers get zapped!