This is based on his construct of human knowledge and philosophy, which may or not have anything to do with reality.
I mean, really. Check out some of his laws:
A further pressing issue necessarily remains; namely, in addition to the virtues and values, the vices are similarly represented in the matching procedure (for completeness sake). These vices are appropriate in a diagnostic sense, but are maladaptive should they ever be acted upon. Response restrictions are necessarily incorporated into both the hardware and programming, along the lines of Isaac Asimov’s Laws of Robotics. Asimov’s first two laws state that (1) a robot must not harm a human (or through inaction allow a human to come to harm), and (2) a robot must obey human orders (unless they conflict with rule #1). Fortunately, through the aid of the power pyramid definitions, a more systematic set of ethical guidelines is constructed; as represented in the Ten Ethical Laws of Robotics
( I ) As personal authority, I will express my individualism within the guidelines of the four basic ego states (guilt, worry, nostalgia, and desire) to the exclusion of the corresponding vices (laziness, negligence, apathy, and indifference).
( II ) As personal follower, I will behave pragmatically in accordance with the alter ego states (hero worship, blame, approval, and concern) at the expense of the corresponding vices (treachery, vindictiveness, spite, and malice).
( III ) As group authority, I will strive for a personal sense of idealism through aid of the personal ideals (glory, honor, dignity, and integrity) while renouncing the corresponding vices (infamy, dishonor, foolishness, and capriciousness).
( IV ) As group representative, I will uphold the principles of utilitarianism by celebrating the cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude) at the expense of the respective vices (insurgency, vengeance, gluttony, and cowardice).
( V ) As spiritual authority, I will pursue the romantic ideal by upholding the civil liberties (providence, liberty, civility, and austerity) to the exclusion of the corresponding vices (prodigality, slavery, vulgarity, and cruelty).
etc. It goes on and on in the same fashioned. I think that any robot programmed according to these principles will be as psychotic as he is. Scary. And You are invited to see how valid his reality construct is in the first place, just from the examples given above. I believed it tragically flawed.
The Technomages are leaving while they still can, to the other side of the universe. Londo isn't having any of this and he persuades Sheridan to talk with them. Of course, Sheridan will need someone present who knows about them... and who better than Londo Mollari himself? [...]
Londo turns up and sneakily places a recording device in the office. When Elric accuses him of setting this up, Londo denies it all, to which the technical wizard plays back a recording of Vir trying to arrange the meeting. He then destroys Londo's recording device and threatens the foolish ambassador.
Londo finally decides to apologise to Elric after his computer is riddled with holo-demons singing Narn opera and he is forced to own 500,000 shares in a spoo farm. Elric accepts his apology but leaves him the demons as a gift!
Nova = New in Latin, thus the traditional use in astronomy to indicate a new star in the heavens, even though, it is really an old star that is exploding or imploding, etc.
No Va = It Won't Go is a reasonable spanish translation.
Why is it that when I see the initial IE I can't help but think of a b-movie with someone screaming at the top of their lungs as they run down they street.
IIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Re:Recovering from Spyware.
on
The Spyware Inferno
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· Score: 4, Informative
Unless your windows back is infected, which often happens. Often the buggers will be in there for several months, which means that your backup is infected, even if ghosted.
Spyware removal can be a pain. Here is a repost of something I posted earlier, along with some added details
He went down the merry path of trying to rescue the system in
order to keep customer data intact. The story is typical of someone who is entering the fray without have their tools prepared in advance. The solution always looks easier than it really is.
In his case, he needed
a CD with all of the relevent tools and updates
a windows boot disk with CD support
an understanding of the windows command line in order to copy a subset of these tools to a convenient folder on the hard drive from the CD
The knowledge to run these tools from Safe mode, and how to get there in the first place
Include in the subset of tools one that can fix the broken LSP setup.
[LSP
or Layered Service Provider is a piece of software that can be inserted into the Windows TCP/IP handler like a link in a chain. However, due to bugs in the LSP software or deletion of the software, this chain can get broken, rendering the user unable to access the Internet. Spyware is good at this, and some cleaners leave a broken LSP behind.
With
the correct tool, the fix takes seconds. Without the tool, you need to uninstall and re-install the winsocket, or else the same with the entire network support. Otherwise you fall into the trap this poor bloke got into.]
tips - I deal with this stuff all of the time. The best data on
this stuff can be found in articles at spywareinfo.net - the forums are
not bad either, although spywarewarrior.com also has good forums.
also good to have is this list of known rogue spyware cleaners [spywarewarrior.com], along with this list of Anti-Spyware Orphans & Outcasts [spywarewarrior.com]
My current recommended free antivirus is Avast! Home Edition
[avast.com], which is very low maintenance for the home user, and
requires registration for the free license. It also protect a number of
common Instant Messenger clients, as well as several common P2P
clients. It is better than AVG in my opinion, and detects many trojans
as well as spyware.
You can get a system that is so hosed that it will not boot, not even into safe mode, even under XP. The solution there to remove the hard drive, drop it into an external drive enclosure, and hook it up to another system where you can use scanning software to do a basic clean so you can boot in the original configuration. Once it boots you can install cleaners from safe mode, and then run cleaners from inside
every user account. Note that you still need to run the clean from inside each user account because otherwise things will hide in the seperate user folders.
Re: the LSP chain break -- HijackThis can sometimes fix it. Otherwise, Spybot can fix it. Xblock will also fix it. [xblock is an excellent first pass cleaner, with a freeware version available). (Spybot second, AdAware third)I always use more than one scanner, and scan multiple times.] Immunisers such as SpywareBlaster are also nice. All of these packages are mentioned at spywareinfo.com, which sometimes goes under due to DDOS problems from people who do not like the services they provide. (insert obligatory plug for someone to help them out, one way or another.)
He went down the merry path of trying to rescue the system in order to keep customer data intact. The story is typical of someone who is entering the fray without have their tools prepared in advance. The solution always looks easier than it really is.
In his case, he needed
a CD with all of the relevent tools and updates
a windows boot disk with CD support
an understanding of the windows command line in order to copy a subset of these tools to a convenient folder on the hard drive from the CD
The knowledge to run these tools from Safe mode, and how to get there in the first place
Include in the subset of tools one that can fix the broken LSP setup.
[LSP or Layered Service Provider is a piece of software that can be inserted into the Windows TCP/IP handler like a link in a chain. However, due to bugs in the LSP software or deletion of the software, this chain can get broken, rendering the user unable to access the Internet. Spyware is good at this, and some cleaners leave a broken LSP behind.
With the correct tool, the fix takes seconds. Without the tool, you need to uninstall and re-install the winsocket, or else the same with the entire network support. Otherwise you fall into the trap this poor bloke got into.]
tips - I deal with this stuff all of the time. The best data on this stuff can be found in articles at spywareinfo.net - the forums are not bad either, although spywarewarrior.com also has good forums.
also good to have is this list of known rogue spyware cleaners, along with this list of Anti-Spyware Orphans & Outcasts
My current recommended free antivirus is Avast! Home Edition, which is very low maintenance for the home user, and requires registration for the free license. It also protect a number of common Instant Messenger clients, as well as several common P2P clients. It is better than AVG in my opinion, and detects many trojans as well as spyware.
You can get a system that is so hosed that it will not boot, not even into safe mode, even under XP. The solution there to remove the hard drive, drop it into an external drive enclosure, and hook it up to another system where you can use scanning software to do a basic clean so you can boot in the original configuration. Once it boots you can install cleaners from safe mode, and then run cleaners from inside every user account.
I've posted this here before, but it's still appropriate. Maybe we can get the mob involved in this. As seen in this classic item posted on now [sadly] defunct Segfault.org website back in april 99:
Mafia Don Announces New Anti-Spam Venture
As the NSA and FBI fear, traditional crime organizations have been incorporating high-tech communication into their organizations. Although Janet Reno was quoted stating "This is law enforcement's worst nightmare.", techies around the world are sure to be pleased with one New York Syndicate's new venture.
It all started when Don Dominiqi signed onto his AOL account last Monday morning. His inbox was filled with "Make Money Fast", "Viagra On-Line", and "Teenybopper Web Sex" ads. Lost amidst the drivel was an important note detailing a non-taxed shipment of Marlboros, which were later confiscated by the BATF. Little did he know, as he shouted "Bring me the left hand of this f*cking gutterslime!" what would become of it all.
Later that same day, Billy "Run!" Brutekowski and Larry "My Eyes!" Plucker cornered the pasty-faced offender of the Family in a small cyber cafe in Greenwich Village. "This was by far the creepiest place the Boss has ever sent us." stated Billy, who only spoke on condition of anonymity. "Everyone in this place looked pale and sickly, like they had already been 'spoken to'. We asked for this punk, and several people quickly pointed him out. Most of the scum we find in gin joints aren't so quick to finger one of their own," Billy continued.
"He must not watch much TV, because this sh*t didn't even flinch when we came to the corner he was hiding in," Larry proceeded to relate. "We dropped this sheet of paper the Boss had given us on his table and he says 'So you guys want to make money fast, eh?' He puts out his and says to give him $20. This scrawny little dirtball tells me to give him $20!" Larry was quite agitated at this part in his story, and his description of how Sammy Spammer's hand fell off was quite garbled.
Billy continued, "Up till now, this was a routine visit. We was just being playful. The weird sh*t began when we tried to leave." "This pimply faced kid blocks the door as we try to leave, and I'm thinking to myself 'Great, a f*cking Karate Kid hero. He just stand there, and then he hands me a $5 bill." Billy pulls out the $5, and holds it like it is his first quarter from his favorite grandmother. "They lined up after that, and we had $175 in 'tips' when we left the joint."
Later that day the Don himself visited the caf, unwilling to believe the story. Although the details are unclear, sources at the caf indicate that the Don has hired them to build and host a new Anti-Spam site. Through a SSL transaction system, the site will accept spam complaints and credit card donations towards 'solutions to problems'. Multiple complaints against the same spammer are added to the total until an acceptable solution has been found.
Larry tells us that a typical $250 solution is a broken hand, and for $2000 all anyone ever sees again of 'the problem' are his shoes.
The URL is to be announced next week, and the cyber caf's phones have been jammed with requests for more information.
We may have to make allowances for inflation, but still....
I said it before. We need to make it profitable for people to go out and hunt spammers. We need to make it profitable to jail them (think of the drug laws example)
We need to tag them with orange glow in the dark safety tags so people can share their love with them. Behold the Spam Hunter:
My modest proposal is that we have to make it legal for people and service providers to charge spammers for the traffic they create. If you can make a profit in hunting down spammers, I bet a lot of people would jump at the chance.
A federal spam license requiring spammer to register, etc, pay huge taxes to the government, complete with cute little orange tag for the ear. So we know where they live, and allowing people to charge them for the hassle. did I mention that yet?
People would get rich off this, hunting down illegal spammers, collecting fees for ISPs, etc. And
For Myself, I do not buy into the anti zionist rant and rave.
but the main point is interesting. Why vote for the lesser of two evils. Why make that compromise at all?
Of course, your milage may vary when it comes to the actual definition of evil. And you may be completely comfortable with either John Kerry or George Bush. But since both of them are skull and bonesmen, I wonder what the agenda is there, if any.
Not fully trusting either, should I vote for the lesser of two evils? The idea seems to be worthy of debate by itself....
He's got a pretty strong anti-Jew thing happening in more than a few of the articles on the site.
this was pointed out after the fact. I disregarded that element for sake of the core point, which is why vote for the lesser of two evils. Why make that compromise at all?
Of course, your milage may vary when it comes to the actual definition of evil. After all, Microsoft does not own any particular political party. (insert wise acre remark: they merely buy them wholsale)
The fact that he is loopy on some points does not mean that he is unintelligent or does not have some interesting ideas elsewhere. Some folks cannot tell the difference, and sort of paint everything with a hot tar brush with feathers ready at hand. If you going to tar and feather someone, make sure you search him for his gold first. Even if it is a metaphorical tar and feathering.
Shortly after George W. Bush first assumed office, I found myself driving down a rural Arkansas road, enroute to a speaking engagement. A small church stood alongside the road and, as I swept past, I noticed that it's readerboard said, "The lesser of two evils is still evil." I nodded to the wisdom of that rural pastor in posting his commentary on things Presidential. I assumed he meant Bush, of course, as representing the lesser evil in the choice that America had just made.
Amazing how far we have come. I never would have thought it possible to sit here, over three years later, and actually feel nostalgic about the Bill Clinton era. Ah, for the good old days when I merely was ashamed of America's President and thought governmental growth and spending to be simply grossly out of control.
The lesser of two evils is still evil.
So many of us voted Bush into office with the conviction that voting for anybody other than Bush or Gore was wasting our votes. So many of us pulled the lever for Bush, thinking him the lesser of two evils. Ironically, even more of us pulled the lever for Gore, thinking the same thing. Now we face yet another Hobbesian choice: Do we continue with the devil we know, or choose the one we don't? Bush or Kerry?
[...]
What? You're not Jesus? Nobody asked you to climb up on a cross, you know. You don't have to pay with your life to vote your conscience. All you have to do is vote against evil.
Bush or Kerry? The lesser of two evils is still evil.
If we all, every single one of us, voted against Bush and Kerry, we could change America overnight. Even with the substantial vote fraud that takes place all across America.
Ok, you might say - I'll play. Who do I vote for? That is where your responsibility as a citizen comes in. Find out who else is running and choose someone - anyone - that you honestly can say is not a lesser evil. You might even find someone you can support in good conscience. It could happen.
Of course, it's a bit longer in the original article. But definitely worth a read.
would zombies even show up in infra red? You never know, they might just blend in with the back ground. And demons from hell might just overload any night scopes as giant amorphous blob. or they might even look worse than with normal light....
widespread adoption of the second-full-Moon-in-a-month definition followed its use on the popular radio program StarDate on January 31, 1980. We examined this show's script, authored by Deborah Byrd, and found that it contains a footnote not read on the air that cites Pruett's 1946 article as the source for the information. Byrd now writes for the radio program Earth & Sky, whose Web site contains a few short notes giving her perspective on this modern contribution to lunar folklore.
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I mean, really. Check out some of his laws:
etc. It goes on and on in the same fashioned. I think that any robot programmed according to these principles will be as psychotic as he is. Scary. And You are invited to see how valid his reality construct is in the first place, just from the examples given above. I believed it tragically flawed.
I am reminded of the concersation Londo had with the Technomages in The Geometry of Shadows
The Technomages are leaving while they still can, to the other side of the universe. Londo isn't having any of this and he persuades Sheridan to talk with them. Of course, Sheridan will need someone present who knows about them... and who better than Londo Mollari himself? [...]
Londo turns up and sneakily places a recording device in the office. When Elric accuses him of setting this up, Londo denies it all, to which the technical wizard plays back a recording of Vir trying to arrange the meeting. He then destroys Londo's recording device and threatens the foolish ambassador.
Londo finally decides to apologise to Elric after his computer is riddled with holo-demons singing Narn opera and he is forced to own 500,000 shares in a spoo farm. Elric accepts his apology but leaves him the demons as a gift!
And you thought viruses were bad now!
well you can take that several ways....
and conspiratorialists will point to this and say the Kennedy is a marked man in the eyes of our new republican overlords.
take your pick
May be dated, obsolete, your milage may vary, you have been warned.
No Va = It Won't Go is a reasonable spanish translation.
IIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Unless your windows back is infected, which often happens. Often the buggers will be in there for several months, which means that your backup is infected, even if ghosted.
removal instructions here
My current recommended free antivirus is Avast! Home Edition [avast.com], which is very low maintenance for the home user, and requires registration for the free license. It also protect a number of common Instant Messenger clients, as well as several common P2P clients. It is better than AVG in my opinion, and detects many trojans as well as spyware.
You can get a system that is so hosed that it will not boot, not even into safe mode, even under XP. The solution there to remove the hard drive, drop it into an external drive enclosure, and hook it up to another system where you can use scanning software to do a basic clean so you can boot in the original configuration. Once it boots you can install cleaners from safe mode, and then run cleaners from inside every user account. Note that you still need to run the clean from inside each user account because otherwise things will hide in the seperate user folders.
Re: the LSP chain break -- HijackThis can sometimes fix it. Otherwise, Spybot can fix it. Xblock will also fix it. [xblock is an excellent first pass cleaner, with a freeware version available). (Spybot second, AdAware third)I always use more than one scanner, and scan multiple times.] Immunisers such as SpywareBlaster are also nice. All of these packages are mentioned at spywareinfo.com, which sometimes goes under due to DDOS problems from people who do not like the services they provide. (insert obligatory plug for someone to help them out, one way or another.)
been there, done that.
Tour guide
Otherwise, Spybot can fix it.
Xblock will also fix it.
All of which are mentioned at spywareinfo
In his case, he needed
- a CD with all of the relevent tools and updates
- a windows boot disk with CD support
- an understanding of the windows command line in order to copy a subset of these tools to a convenient folder on the hard drive from the CD
- The knowledge to run these tools from Safe mode, and how to get there in the first place
- Include in the subset of tools one that can fix the broken LSP setup.
tips - I deal with this stuff all of the time. The best data on this stuff can be found in articles at spywareinfo.net - the forums are not bad either, although spywarewarrior.com also has good forums. also good to have is this list of known rogue spyware cleaners, along with this list of Anti-Spyware Orphans & Outcasts[LSP or Layered Service Provider is a piece of software that can be inserted into the Windows TCP/IP handler like a link in a chain. However, due to bugs in the LSP software or deletion of the software, this chain can get broken, rendering the user unable to access the Internet. Spyware is good at this, and some cleaners leave a broken LSP behind.
With the correct tool, the fix takes seconds. Without the tool, you need to uninstall and re-install the winsocket, or else the same with the entire network support. Otherwise you fall into the trap this poor bloke got into.]
My current recommended free antivirus is Avast! Home Edition, which is very low maintenance for the home user, and requires registration for the free license. It also protect a number of common Instant Messenger clients, as well as several common P2P clients. It is better than AVG in my opinion, and detects many trojans as well as spyware.
You can get a system that is so hosed that it will not boot, not even into safe mode, even under XP. The solution there to remove the hard drive, drop it into an external drive enclosure, and hook it up to another system where you can use scanning software to do a basic clean so you can boot in the original configuration. Once it boots you can install cleaners from safe mode, and then run cleaners from inside every user account.
Mafia Don Announces New Anti-Spam Venture
As the NSA and FBI fear, traditional crime organizations have been incorporating high-tech communication into their organizations. Although Janet Reno was quoted stating "This is law enforcement's worst nightmare.", techies around the world are sure to be pleased with one New York Syndicate's new venture.
It all started when Don Dominiqi signed onto his AOL account last Monday morning. His inbox was filled with "Make Money Fast", "Viagra On-Line", and "Teenybopper Web Sex" ads. Lost amidst the drivel was an important note detailing a non-taxed shipment of Marlboros, which were later confiscated by the BATF. Little did he know, as he shouted "Bring me the left hand of this f*cking gutterslime!" what would become of it all.
Later that same day, Billy "Run!" Brutekowski and Larry "My Eyes!" Plucker cornered the pasty-faced offender of the Family in a small cyber cafe in Greenwich Village. "This was by far the creepiest place the Boss has ever sent us." stated Billy, who only spoke on condition of anonymity. "Everyone in this place looked pale and sickly, like they had already been 'spoken to'. We asked for this punk, and several people quickly pointed him out. Most of the scum we find in gin joints aren't so quick to finger one of their own," Billy continued.
"He must not watch much TV, because this sh*t didn't even flinch when we came to the corner he was hiding in," Larry proceeded to relate. "We dropped this sheet of paper the Boss had given us on his table and he says 'So you guys want to make money fast, eh?' He puts out his and says to give him $20. This scrawny little dirtball tells me to give him $20!" Larry was quite agitated at this part in his story, and his description of how Sammy Spammer's hand fell off was quite garbled.
Billy continued, "Up till now, this was a routine visit. We was just being playful. The weird sh*t began when we tried to leave." "This pimply faced kid blocks the door as we try to leave, and I'm thinking to myself 'Great, a f*cking Karate Kid hero. He just stand there, and then he hands me a $5 bill." Billy pulls out the $5, and holds it like it is his first quarter from his favorite grandmother. "They lined up after that, and we had $175 in 'tips' when we left the joint."
Later that day the Don himself visited the caf, unwilling to believe the story. Although the details are unclear, sources at the caf indicate that the Don has hired them to build and host a new Anti-Spam site. Through a SSL transaction system, the site will accept spam complaints and credit card donations towards 'solutions to problems'. Multiple complaints against the same spammer are added to the total until an acceptable solution has been found.
Larry tells us that a typical $250 solution is a broken hand, and for $2000 all anyone ever sees again of 'the problem' are his shoes.
The URL is to be announced next week, and the cyber caf's phones have been jammed with requests for more information.
We may have to make allowances for inflation, but still ....
And maybe a few guys can help out getting segfault back online. It was a priceless resource in it's day - Segfault.org website today, and as seen on the Internet Archive
We need to tag them with orange glow in the dark safety tags so people can share their love with them. Behold the Spam Hunter:
Here we see the Spammer in his native environment, lets pull his network connection and see if we can get him rialed up. Crikey, look at em dial tech support!
My modest proposal is that we have to make it legal for people and service providers to charge spammers for the traffic they create. If you can make a profit in hunting down spammers, I bet a lot of people would jump at the chance. A federal spam license requiring spammer to register, etc, pay huge taxes to the government, complete with cute little orange tag for the ear. So we know where they live, and allowing people to charge them for the hassle. did I mention that yet? People would get rich off this, hunting down illegal spammers, collecting fees for ISPs, etc. And
but the main point is interesting. Why vote for the lesser of two evils. Why make that compromise at all?
Of course, your milage may vary when it comes to the actual definition of evil. And you may be completely comfortable with either John Kerry or George Bush. But since both of them are skull and bonesmen, I wonder what the agenda is there, if any.
Not fully trusting either, should I vote for the lesser of two evils? The idea seems to be worthy of debate by itself....
this was pointed out after the fact. I disregarded that element for sake of the core point, which is why vote for the lesser of two evils. Why make that compromise at all?
Of course, your milage may vary when it comes to the actual definition of evil. After all, Microsoft does not own any particular political party. (insert wise acre remark: they merely buy them wholsale)
The fact that he is loopy on some points does not mean that he is unintelligent or does not have some interesting ideas elsewhere. Some folks cannot tell the difference, and sort of paint everything with a hot tar brush with feathers ready at hand. If you going to tar and feather someone, make sure you search him for his gold first. Even if it is a metaphorical tar and feathering.
I presume you are one of several evil mad scientists around here. Why vote to strengthen the competition?
While I don't know what he's saying about zionism, that doesn't disprove his quoted point.
So, which evil are you voting for?
;)
I can imagine the cackling laughter now ....
MMMMWWWAAHHHH HA HA HA HA
would zombies even show up in infra red? You never know, they might just blend in with the back ground. And demons from hell might just overload any night scopes as giant amorphous blob. or they might even look worse than with normal light....
a four digit hit counter. how amusing
we have slashdotted the original movie server, but the bit torrent is working fine ... estimated time to download is 5 h 39 m and some odd seconds
widespread adoption of the second-full-Moon-in-a-month definition followed its use on the popular radio program StarDate on January 31, 1980. We examined this show's script, authored by Deborah Byrd, and found that it contains a footnote not read on the air that cites Pruett's 1946 article as the source for the information. Byrd now writes for the radio program Earth & Sky, whose Web site contains a few short notes giving her perspective on this modern contribution to lunar folklore.