Years ago, a buddy of mine from Honduras told me that was local slang for "jagoff". We used to call each other "Paja" for short, it was hilarious. I never heard it used again until now!
The use of phrases is called a code. That is a very simple verbal form of a cipher. Read up on the basics of codes and ciphers and you have a lot of the basic information you need on encryption.
The other process you are describing is also well known, it's called "steganography". There are already algorithms written to not only encode data that way, but also to detect patterns of encoded data in an image. Read up on "stegbreak".
Hi, great program! Thank you - longtime user here. Any plans to support streaming to ("fling to") players using DLNA or UPnP?
Many devices like WDTV, FireStick/Kodi, etc. support this protocol, and I can control them very easily from a media "player" PC. I prefer the PC's user interface over the crummy remote control UI's of the playing device(s).
Did a little more research; MS-16-014 addresses the fix, and the KB's resulting from it are KB3126587 and KB3126593.
However, oddly, they are not included in the "SP2" roll-up released on 5/12/2016. Weird. I tried to find out if those two KB's were replaced by something newer and I haven't been able to turn up anything.
I did find a couple of articles about the KB's causing some errors and failing to install on some systems, usually caused by a lack of an earlier update that they apparently are dependent upon.
I read the article and the researcher's PDF and neither really points out which "February Fix" MS released that addresses this particular bug. Anyone know which one, specifically?
I have all Windows Updates turned off normally, so they can't pull a drive-by WinX install on me, but I would sideload this one KB if it was really worthwhile.
The little bitty outboard motor that some fishing skiffs have is called a "trolling motor" not a "trawling motor". Trawling is using a net, trolling is using a baited line.
That was what "net neutrality" was supposed to accomplish. Yet, every day since then the motherfuckers have been trying more and more shitty tricks to do an end-run around the new laws or get them overturned.
Some actual ENFORCEMENT of the law might give those assholes pause when they try thinking of their next trick to screw the consumers harder and deeper.
Are you kidding? (Pun intended) The entire "Space Age" had the world completely enthused in the 50's and 60's, everybody looked up to the astronauts and rocket scientists, as they were thought to hold the promise of a better future for all. Oh, well...
From the 1930's to about the 1950's or so, most normal people idolized the cream of the intelligentsia, Albert Einstein was quite the celebrity in his day, even among common folk. Werner Von Braun and the Rocket Kids of the 1950's-1960's were probably the last of the scientists regular people looked up to.
I still use it for your stated reasons - just use an older, more trustworthy version (before BitTorrent got bought out). I use version 2.2 from 2010, and it works great, no rootkit, no ads.
FWIW, IBM actually PUBLISHED the SOURCE CODE for their IBM PC BIOS in an actual book!
Among the service documentation you could buy for the model 5150 was an IBM blue binder manual that had actual scans of MX-80 printouts of the BIOS in 7-dot matrix print as well as the actual schematics of everything in the 5150 except the Power Supply, which they bought OEM from Astec at the time.
You had to buy the SAMS 3rd-party manual for the PC if you wanted power supply schematics.
Just a non-fucking-spoofable caller ID would go a long way to fixing this, the assholes couldn't hide behind spoofed numbers and would be thus made easily reportable to authorities.
As soon as I heard that caller ID was FUCKING USER MODIFIABLE, I realized it was an absolutely worthless "feature".
Years and years of scummy, shady web-based malware pop-up windows with fake "Yes" and "No" buttons that do the same thing have conditioned many users to opt for the "close windows" X button as a more fool-proof way to ensure that nothing happens.
But as others have pointed out it's too late by the time this window appears, and they don't believe the only real solution, hitting the "cancel update" button will work.
Yes, supposedly, when you un-select them in Windows Update, then right-click and "Hide Update", refreshing the available updates to install makes them disappear.
BUT, somehow like a painful rectal itch, it keeps coming back. I set updates to manual and check each time I go and collect them once a month or so, and fuck if there isn't one or more of them, back ready to install again. Be sure to check "optional" updates as well as "recommended" / "important", some of the "poisoned" updates appear there as well.
True. It keeps getting doled out at extortionate prices every time there's a drought. Holding your breath gets you higher than smoking that ditch filler does.
YES THEY ARE. After careful analysis of the KB's included in the rollup, I have found three turds in the punchbowl. They are:
Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3068708) -- KB3068708 installs telemetry service, prepares for upgrade to Windows 10, CEIP Win7, Win8.1, Svr2008R2, Svr2012R2 Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3075249) -- KB3075249 Adds Telemetry points to consent.exe (UAC tracking bullshit) Win7 Win8.1 RT8.1, Svr2008R2, Svr2012R2 Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3080149) -- KB3080149 Timezone fixes, may add yet more telemetry, posible CEIP bullshit Win7 SP1, 8.1, Svr2008R2, Svr2012R2
Nice try, fuckers. I believe these can be removed after the rollup is installed by the command line (Replacing the "kbxxxxxxx" with the appropriate number):
The update catalog page where you put the files into your "basket", there is a "Package Details" tab, and there it lists the 123 KB files that are included ("replaced").
Slashdot Mirror
Really? A car called "Pajero"?
Years ago, a buddy of mine from Honduras told me that was local slang for "jagoff". We used to call each other "Paja" for short, it was hilarious. I never heard it used again until now!
Really? They flew into a telegraph pole? When were they flying it, 1937?
Attention ladies and gentleman and all the ships at sea! The Hun is invading Europe, but airship travel is SAFE!
The use of phrases is called a code. That is a very simple verbal form of a cipher. Read up on the basics of codes and ciphers and you have a lot of the basic information you need on encryption.
The other process you are describing is also well known, it's called "steganography". There are already algorithms written to not only encode data that way, but also to detect patterns of encoded data in an image. Read up on "stegbreak".
Hi, great program! Thank you - longtime user here. Any plans to support streaming to ("fling to") players using DLNA or UPnP?
Many devices like WDTV, FireStick/Kodi, etc. support this protocol, and I can control them very easily from a media "player" PC. I prefer the PC's user interface over the crummy remote control UI's of the playing device(s).
Thanks! I didn't drill that far down into the KB descriptions. Thanks for taking the time to confirm they are in fact addressed by "SP2".
Did a little more research; MS-16-014 addresses the fix, and the KB's resulting from it are KB3126587 and KB3126593.
However, oddly, they are not included in the "SP2" roll-up released on 5/12/2016. Weird. I tried to find out if those two KB's were replaced by something newer and I haven't been able to turn up anything.
I did find a couple of articles about the KB's causing some errors and failing to install on some systems, usually caused by a lack of an earlier update that they apparently are dependent upon.
I read the article and the researcher's PDF and neither really points out which "February Fix" MS released that addresses this particular bug. Anyone know which one, specifically?
I have all Windows Updates turned off normally, so they can't pull a drive-by WinX install on me, but I would sideload this one KB if it was really worthwhile.
This looks almost like William's Moon Patrol arcade video game! It used to be one of my favorites from the 80's...
The little bitty outboard motor that some fishing skiffs have is called a "trolling motor" not a "trawling motor". Trawling is using a net, trolling is using a baited line.
But I'm probably preaching to the trolls...
That was what "net neutrality" was supposed to accomplish. Yet, every day since then the motherfuckers have been trying more and more shitty tricks to do an end-run around the new laws or get them overturned.
Some actual ENFORCEMENT of the law might give those assholes pause when they try thinking of their next trick to screw the consumers harder and deeper.
Are you kidding? (Pun intended) The entire "Space Age" had the world completely enthused in the 50's and 60's, everybody looked up to the astronauts and rocket scientists, as they were thought to hold the promise of a better future for all. Oh, well...
From the 1930's to about the 1950's or so, most normal people idolized the cream of the intelligentsia, Albert Einstein was quite the celebrity in his day, even among common folk. Werner Von Braun and the Rocket Kids of the 1950's-1960's were probably the last of the scientists regular people looked up to.
I still use it for your stated reasons - just use an older, more trustworthy version (before BitTorrent got bought out). I use version 2.2 from 2010, and it works great, no rootkit, no ads.
FWIW, IBM actually PUBLISHED the SOURCE CODE for their IBM PC BIOS in an actual book!
Among the service documentation you could buy for the model 5150 was an IBM blue binder manual that had actual scans of MX-80 printouts of the BIOS in 7-dot matrix
print as well as the actual schematics of everything in the 5150 except the Power Supply, which they bought OEM from Astec at the time.
You had to buy the SAMS 3rd-party manual for the PC if you wanted power supply schematics.
Just a non-fucking-spoofable caller ID would go a long way to fixing this, the assholes couldn't hide behind spoofed numbers and would be thus made easily reportable to authorities.
As soon as I heard that caller ID was FUCKING USER MODIFIABLE, I realized it was an absolutely worthless "feature".
Everybody knows it was Al Gore who invented all that shit!
Not some fucking arcane, misbegotten piece of Big Media purchased and paid-for legislation.
And yeah, the web was really boring before it was wall to wall scams and advertising, thank the gods for the DMCA which changed all that.
...VAST and VAPID are the rules of the game....
There, FTFY.
Dirty? Apparently your autocorrect doesn't believe in God, either!
Years and years of scummy, shady web-based malware pop-up windows with fake "Yes" and "No" buttons that do the same thing have conditioned many users to opt for the "close windows" X button as a more fool-proof way to ensure that nothing happens.
But as others have pointed out it's too late by the time this window appears, and they don't believe the only real solution, hitting the "cancel update" button will work.
They must be taking lessons from Bill Cosby!
Try the veal folks, I'll be here all week!
Yes, supposedly, when you un-select them in Windows Update, then right-click and "Hide Update", refreshing the available updates to install makes them disappear.
BUT, somehow like a painful rectal itch, it keeps coming back. I set updates to manual and check each time I go and collect them once a month or so, and fuck if there isn't one or more of them, back ready to install again. Be sure to check "optional" updates as well as "recommended" / "important", some of the "poisoned" updates appear there as well.
True. It keeps getting doled out at extortionate prices every time there's a drought. Holding your breath gets you higher than smoking that ditch filler does.
It should. According to the KB description, these are ALL the updates all the way back to SP1, so it should supersede any of the previous roll-ups.
YES THEY ARE. After careful analysis of the KB's included in the rollup, I have found three turds in the punchbowl. They are:
Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3068708) -- KB3068708 installs telemetry service, prepares for upgrade to Windows 10, CEIP Win7, Win8.1, Svr2008R2, Svr2012R2
Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3075249) -- KB3075249 Adds Telemetry points to consent.exe (UAC tracking bullshit) Win7 Win8.1 RT8.1, Svr2008R2, Svr2012R2
Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB3080149) -- KB3080149 Timezone fixes, may add yet more telemetry, posible CEIP bullshit Win7 SP1, 8.1, Svr2008R2, Svr2012R2
Nice try, fuckers. I believe these can be removed after the rollup is installed by the command line (Replacing the "kbxxxxxxx" with the appropriate number):
wusa.exe /kb:3080149 /uninstall /quiet /norestart
Nevermind, I found it.
The update catalog page where you put the files into your "basket", there is a "Package Details" tab, and there it lists the 123 KB files that are included ("replaced").