That is just the thing - most people wouldn't think to boot from a blank disk.
However, a whole lot of people would reset their computers and forget there was a floppy in the drive. In the time it took them to realize what they had done, the boot sector virus would load and then infect the hard drive boot sector.
I would bet a lot of systems that come preconfigured from some small-time vendor have a good chance of being infected too. I'm speaking of point of sale systems, computers attached to instrumentation, etc.
I bought a new 80386 (maybe a 486 - I forget) motherboard a long time ago and it had a 5 1/4 floppy disk included with the board drivers software. It was also infected with the Michaelangelo virus. I never knew it until I saw a message on the FIDOnet BBS from some idiot in Bulgaria talking about how his virus was coming and it was going to kill everyone's computers.
I downloaded a free copy of McAffee and it found the virus on my computer as well as every floppy that I had inserted since then that wasn't write protected. McAfee's software offered to clean it but all it did was wipe out the MBR making it where I had to reformat and reinstall everything.
I told a friend at school who had just bought a similar motherboard. He broke the seal on his driver disk, scanned it, and found the virus there too. It was coming from the factory infected.
That was a lesson I will never forget and it happened almost 20 years ago.
In Oklahoma. I had one. It just shuts down the air conditioner for a few minutes. That's it. They roll through the people with them installed so they can peak shave the power requirements.
It keeps the utilities from having to build more capacity, saves a bit of energy, and prevents blackouts during overloads.
It was part of an initiative from the Carter administration. It all went away later because subsequent administrations played the fool and couldn't be bothered with thinking about this country's energy gluttony.
But it has been done before. It wasn't intrusive. It worked. And it got me a discount on my electric bill because I signed up.
They don't have so many satellites in orbit but could be worried about all the spy satellites the USA has. So they blast one of their junkers into lots of little ballistic missiles that damage all satellites.
It doesn't hurt them so much but it definitely harms other countries.
There were some other posts regarding hazardous materials in electronics products. They are correct.
A furnace is going to vaporize and volatilize a lot of really nasty stuff. Burning the drives pollutes big time. If you aren't set up to scrub the exhaust, you are dumping who knows what into your back yard and your neighbor's yards. Plus, if you are breathing any of it, you are setting yourself up for any number of nasty lung diseases, possibly cancers, etc.
I put these into my/etc/hosts...
127.0.0.1 snipurl.com
127.0.0.1 xrl.us
127.0.0.1 myminicity.com
127.0.0.1 tubeurl.com
127.0.0.1 tinyurl.com
127.0.0.1 tinyurl.co.uk
There is no denying that the current administration especially, and I'm sure others as well, have committed international crimes, that doesn't mean we should hand China everything they want/need to bury this country and oppress their own people.
"the nazi's WERE a legitimate government afterall and just because they turned out to be evil bastards it doesn't mean anyone who sold them anything was helping them do that shit"
While that is probably true, what a lot of people don't know is that Prescott Bush (George W's grandfather) continued to deal with the Nazi's even after it was declared illegal by the US government. Charges were even brought against him but through power and influence, he got everything to conveniently go away.
Don't believe me and think it's just a troll? Please take a moment using your favorite search engine and look up "Prescott Nazi WWII". You might be surprised at the results.
Too much information/innovation has already been stolen by the Chinese. They commit computer crime to infiltrate computer systems and exfiltrate data. They use students and employees to steal proprietary information from companies. They reverse engineer products manufactured in China and/or run production lines long.
Have people forgotten about the long string of Chinese engineers busted transferring information to the homeland? How about when their pilot Wang Wei crashed into and crippled a US recon airplane forcing it to land in China, how they imprisoned the crew, basically took the plane apart, and refused to let the US repair it and fly it out?
They use the technology against us and against their own people. There is nothing wrong with helping a country but handing them valuable technology is wrong.
"Oh, please. We don't call people crazy when they pay shitloads of money for some piece of abstract art that looks like something done by a moderately talented three-year-old with finger paints, but happens to have a famous name attached to it."
I found a web site where someone posted they were interested in the same item until the Chrisitie's auctioneer noted that it was a spare visor and never worn. Here is the web site: http://www.originalprop.com/blog/ Relevant section quoted in another post below. At any rate, it would appear, if this other post is true, that Chrisitie's accurately represented the item and Moustakis is paying the price for not paying attention.
Was looking for information about a duplicate set of Dorothy's ruby slippers (I think there was a similar thing about them - a couple of pairs - one worn and one not - and this web page came up:
"Coincidentally, the visor that is referenced in the article as the piece Spiner told the collector was not his visor, was a piece I was interested in for myself at the time of the auction. I had asked a friend in attendance to place a bid for me. After reading this story, I immediately remembered that the auctioneer had noted, before opening the item for bids, that there was an updated description for the item, and that it was made for the show/character, but was not the one seen/used. I don't have the exact quote from the live webcast, but my note on a private forum at the time (we were making notes and discussing in real time) was as follows:
I asked Brandon to bid $1600 on Data's visor (up now)...
Not even worn! I'm okay to miss that one then!
Because this was broadcast on the web and via the History Channel on television, I'm sure the exact remarks by the Christies auctioneer/representative prior to bids placed will have an impact on this case."
End Quote...
If this is true then the guy probably has no case but does have an expensive spiffy green visor.;-)
The DoD is just copying what the aliens already did. I heard that if you do really well in the alien video game, it sends a signal out and pretty soon a talking spaceship lands to take you away to fight evil aliens.
See, the game is just a simulation of the real fight and the aliens need to find someone to save them. If you are the best, they come get you to go fight their war using the fabled "Death Blossom" maneuver.
(Not to be confused with the fabled "Turd Blossom" maneuver used many times over the last seven years by the Bush administration.)
I am not so sure about DLP sets. There have recently been some revelations about longevity of nanomachines and DLP chips probably fall under that same issue since they are silicon that really gets a workout as it aims the little mirrors. Also, one dead pixel and you can have a super bright pixel on your screen. I'd rather have a pixel go dark than super bright.
Plasma sets are also having issues, suffer from burn-in, and are expensive.
I think LCD (either reflective or transmissive) is the best bet for a long-lived and trouble free TV.
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The fire at the Great White "concert" is a good example. There was a pile of people at the exit - choking it off - and they burned in place.
Defense...
"I don't recall"
That is just the thing - most people wouldn't think to boot from a blank disk.
However, a whole lot of people would reset their computers and forget there was a floppy in the drive. In the time it took them to realize what they had done, the boot sector virus would load and then infect the hard drive boot sector.
It was extremely common.
I would bet a lot of systems that come preconfigured from some small-time vendor have a good chance of being infected too. I'm speaking of point of sale systems, computers attached to instrumentation, etc.
I bought a new 80386 (maybe a 486 - I forget) motherboard a long time ago and it had a 5 1/4 floppy disk included with the board drivers software. It was also infected with the Michaelangelo virus. I never knew it until I saw a message on the FIDOnet BBS from some idiot in Bulgaria talking about how his virus was coming and it was going to kill everyone's computers.
I downloaded a free copy of McAffee and it found the virus on my computer as well as every floppy that I had inserted since then that wasn't write protected. McAfee's software offered to clean it but all it did was wipe out the MBR making it where I had to reformat and reinstall everything.
I told a friend at school who had just bought a similar motherboard. He broke the seal on his driver disk, scanned it, and found the virus there too. It was coming from the factory infected.
That was a lesson I will never forget and it happened almost 20 years ago.
I for one welcome our RFID-implanting overlords!
Yo, dude. It's already a vacuum.
But at least you spelled vacuum correctly...
In Oklahoma. I had one. It just shuts down the air conditioner for a few minutes. That's it. They roll through the people with them installed so they can peak shave the power requirements.
It keeps the utilities from having to build more capacity, saves a bit of energy, and prevents blackouts during overloads.
It was part of an initiative from the Carter administration. It all went away later because subsequent administrations played the fool and couldn't be bothered with thinking about this country's energy gluttony.
But it has been done before. It wasn't intrusive. It worked. And it got me a discount on my electric bill because I signed up.
They don't have so many satellites in orbit but could be worried about all the spy satellites the USA has. So they blast one of their junkers into lots of little ballistic missiles that damage all satellites.
It doesn't hurt them so much but it definitely harms other countries.
There were some other posts regarding hazardous materials in electronics products. They are correct.
A furnace is going to vaporize and volatilize a lot of really nasty stuff. Burning the drives pollutes big time. If you aren't set up to scrub the exhaust, you are dumping who knows what into your back yard and your neighbor's yards. Plus, if you are breathing any of it, you are setting yourself up for any number of nasty lung diseases, possibly cancers, etc.
They were the ones that rolled right over for the Bush administration and handed over customer call records without a warrant.
Qwest refused the "request" and ended up losing various government contracts as punishment.
I dropped Verizon when this story broke and now use Qwest for all of my phone services.
I would find it easier to believe that this is how the RIAA actually feels.
I put these into my /etc/hosts...
127.0.0.1 snipurl.com
127.0.0.1 xrl.us
127.0.0.1 myminicity.com
127.0.0.1 tubeurl.com
127.0.0.1 tinyurl.com
127.0.0.1 tinyurl.co.uk
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There is no denying that the current administration especially, and I'm sure others as well, have committed international crimes, that doesn't mean we should hand China everything they want/need to bury this country and oppress their own people.
"the nazi's WERE a legitimate government afterall and just because they turned out to be evil bastards it doesn't mean anyone who sold them anything was helping them do that shit"
While that is probably true, what a lot of people don't know is that Prescott Bush (George W's grandfather) continued to deal with the Nazi's even after it was declared illegal by the US government. Charges were even brought against him but through power and influence, he got everything to conveniently go away.
Don't believe me and think it's just a troll? Please take a moment using your favorite search engine and look up "Prescott Nazi WWII". You might be surprised at the results.
Too much information/innovation has already been stolen by the Chinese. They commit computer crime to infiltrate computer systems and exfiltrate data. They use students and employees to steal proprietary information from companies. They reverse engineer products manufactured in China and/or run production lines long.
Have people forgotten about the long string of Chinese engineers busted transferring information to the homeland? How about when their pilot Wang Wei crashed into and crippled a US recon airplane forcing it to land in China, how they imprisoned the crew, basically took the plane apart, and refused to let the US repair it and fly it out?
They use the technology against us and against their own people. There is nothing wrong with helping a country but handing them valuable technology is wrong.
Just a wild guess, but do you have an implant in your "ISP"? That's kind of a remote control too...
"Oh, please. We don't call people crazy when they pay shitloads of money for some piece of abstract art that looks like something done by a moderately talented three-year-old with finger paints, but happens to have a famous name attached to it."
;-)
I do.
I found a web site where someone posted they were interested in the same item until the Chrisitie's auctioneer noted that it was a spare visor and never worn. Here is the web site: http://www.originalprop.com/blog/ Relevant section quoted in another post below. At any rate, it would appear, if this other post is true, that Chrisitie's accurately represented the item and Moustakis is paying the price for not paying attention.
Was looking for information about a duplicate set of Dorothy's ruby slippers (I think there was a similar thing about them - a couple of pairs - one worn and one not - and this web page came up:
;-)
http://www.originalprop.com/blog/
Quote:
"Coincidentally, the visor that is referenced in the article as the piece Spiner told the collector was not his visor, was a piece I was interested in for myself at the time of the auction. I had asked a friend in attendance to place a bid for me. After reading this story, I immediately remembered that the auctioneer had noted, before opening the item for bids, that there was an updated description for the item, and that it was made for the show/character, but was not the one seen/used. I don't have the exact quote from the live webcast, but my note on a private forum at the time (we were making notes and discussing in real time) was as follows:
I asked Brandon to bid $1600 on Data's visor (up now)...
Not even worn! I'm okay to miss that one then!
Because this was broadcast on the web and via the History Channel on television, I'm sure the exact remarks by the Christies auctioneer/representative prior to bids placed will have an impact on this case."
End Quote...
If this is true then the guy probably has no case but does have an expensive spiffy green visor.
And I was so hoping to buy a real phaser at auction.
The DoD is just copying what the aliens already did. I heard that if you do really well in the alien video game, it sends a signal out and pretty soon a talking spaceship lands to take you away to fight evil aliens.
See, the game is just a simulation of the real fight and the aliens need to find someone to save them. If you are the best, they come get you to go fight their war using the fabled "Death Blossom" maneuver.
(Not to be confused with the fabled "Turd Blossom" maneuver used many times over the last seven years by the Bush administration.)
I just add each one I see to my /etc/hosts file to redirect them to 127.0.0.1. If I ever accidentally click one, it fails.
I am not so sure about DLP sets. There have recently been some revelations about longevity of nanomachines and DLP chips probably fall under that same issue since they are silicon that really gets a workout as it aims the little mirrors. Also, one dead pixel and you can have a super bright pixel on your screen. I'd rather have a pixel go dark than super bright.
Plasma sets are also having issues, suffer from burn-in, and are expensive.
I think LCD (either reflective or transmissive) is the best bet for a long-lived and trouble free TV.