Virus/anti-virus aside the car-computer bugs mentioned elsewhere in the thread have had a terrible impact. Also google for the dive computer (SCUBA) which had a bug in its handling of NitrOx divers, worked out really nasty for several people diving aggressive dive plans.
So -- this is the same Trend Micro that decided to quarantine Cygwin a month or so back, took out our entire development team. A couple of years back Trend Micro decided to quarantine all emails containing the letter 'p'.
Since my office was so seriously affected by this problem, it would be great if people could post other embarassing Trend Micro stories too!
I'm not usually much of a tin-foil-hat wearer. The fact is that I do not know how to explain the lack of the debris field you'd associate with a plane hitting something. All the quotes I can't verify, innuendo, allegedly confiscated tapes, whatever aside there should be serious nastiness all over the lawn, right?
I'll play if I can hunt down and kill Rand so Jordan has to write up a decent protagonist. Better yet maybe someone could balefire the fuck out of Rand so I can get back the hours I wasted reading the parts he was in waiting for the books to get good. Rand was the reason I stopped reading around book six or so, closely followed by the fact that there wasn't a single convincing female character and Nynavae was less interesting and more annoying than Rand.
But... I'd be willing to try it out, I guess. More likely if it was set a few Ages before the books take place, but...
Yes, I most certainly am. First, the safety glass you're thinking of is the windshield -- side windows are considerably easier to break. Also, a window hammer isn't like a standard claw hammer where the work is done by impact of a large mass on the target, it's more of a spike so the smallish force you are applying is focussed onto one very small point on the window shattering it in two or three blows.
Your concern about the blade is misplaced as well -- the "business end" of the device (both the hammer spike and blade) is kept safe in a capsule you need to unscrew to get them out. The blade is also protected by a guard rather like the one on a letter opener.
If I'm in a serious enough accident where I need to worry about my rearview coming off the windshield, the case braking open and me getting stabbed by this piece of emergency gear then... I think getting stabbed by this piece of emergency gear will be the least of my worries.
...So if I crashed into a river, I hope I was driving the '89...
Entirely offtopic, but do you wear a seatbelt? Can you unbuckle it when it's loaded (ie: you're hanging upside down from it?)? Get a seatbelt saw/window hammer. The combined tool is not much larger than your thumb, and it comes on a lanyard to hang from your rearview mirror. Some are also emergency flashlight.
Why you whippersnappers! I remember before we had Data suggesting superfluid universes we had Spock. Spock was always solid and reliable. Spock taught us how to be people none of this gibberish about the beginnign of universes... Why at Amok Time he said, ""It is undignified for a woman to play servant to a man who is not hers." -- and that's as true now as it was then.
Well, using an outside messenger is grounds for deletion, and for the persistent offenders, siteban. And if you've been playerkilled you can expect your amulet to be dropped somewhere out of the way -- like way out in the ocean where only your killers will know your coordinates. And to prevent you from counting squares or pulling it from a log, you'd probably be put in a closed backpack.
DartMUD is still working quite well with (nearly) permadeath enabled. In DartMud when you die you lay in your body until it rots away. In this state you can send tells requesting help -- and a well-trained healer can put you back together.
There's a slightly better solution -- if you are wearing a soul amulet your soul is transferred into the amulet, and you run no risk of having your body rot away... but you can't send a tell... And if you were killed by a player (DartMUD has no limitations on PK....) they now have you in an amulet, can float you far out in the see, bury you in the depths of the underdark,...
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Forgetting to open is very unlikely to kill you these days.
"Remember -- when the people look like ants, pull. When the ants look like people, pray"
"Pull high -- it's lower than you think."
1. Because our IT department is incompetent. Choice of virus scanner is tip-of-the-iceberg as far as proving that goes.
2. See 1.
Virus/anti-virus aside the car-computer bugs mentioned elsewhere in the thread have had a terrible impact. Also google for the dive computer (SCUBA) which had a bug in its handling of NitrOx divers, worked out really nasty for several people diving aggressive dive plans.
If you're all that and a bag of peanuts start a security consulting firm.
Are you certain of that, sir? With out computers the image name displayed as system and so did the user name.
EVERY XP machine in my office was affected.
Since my office was so seriously affected by this problem, it would be great if people could post other embarassing Trend Micro stories too!
Nice joke, but this took out my company Friday afternoon PDT.
/purile
C:\>copy con autoexec.bat
@echo off
echo ^G^GSYSTEM ERROR
autoexec.bat
^Z
1 file(s) copied.
C:\>copy con t.bat
echo Fuck you.
t.bat
^Z
1 file(s) copied.
C:\>t.bat
I'm not usually much of a tin-foil-hat wearer. The fact is that I do not know how to explain the lack of the debris field you'd associate with a plane hitting something. All the quotes I can't verify, innuendo, allegedly confiscated tapes, whatever aside there should be serious nastiness all over the lawn, right?
...what happened at the pentagon on 9/11? The photographic evidence seems to contradict the the official story... Look
Tried the Discworld MUD?
But... I'd be willing to try it out, I guess. More likely if it was set a few Ages before the books take place, but...
Nope. Don't read Car and Driver. Did break a window with one once. Dunno why Car and Driver would print that, but it wasn't hard.
Your concern about the blade is misplaced as well -- the "business end" of the device (both the hammer spike and blade) is kept safe in a capsule you need to unscrew to get them out. The blade is also protected by a guard rather like the one on a letter opener.
If I'm in a serious enough accident where I need to worry about my rearview coming off the windshield, the case braking open and me getting stabbed by this piece of emergency gear then... I think getting stabbed by this piece of emergency gear will be the least of my worries.
Entirely offtopic, but do you wear a seatbelt? Can you unbuckle it when it's loaded (ie: you're hanging upside down from it?)? Get a seatbelt saw/window hammer. The combined tool is not much larger than your thumb, and it comes on a lanyard to hang from your rearview mirror. Some are also emergency flashlight.
Help me out here! Xanth, Valdemar, whatever the hell Rosenberg called his Keepers of the flame
/One ticket
//Window, not aisle
///Non-smoking please
Why you whippersnappers! I remember before we had Data suggesting superfluid universes we had Spock. Spock was always solid and reliable. Spock taught us how to be people none of this gibberish about the beginnign of universes... Why at Amok Time he said, ""It is undignified for a woman to play servant to a man who is not hers." -- and that's as true now as it was then.
Their site is down so I can't get any real details, but I think this is smoke and mirrors in any case.
Well, using an outside messenger is grounds for deletion, and for the persistent offenders, siteban. And if you've been playerkilled you can expect your amulet to be dropped somewhere out of the way -- like way out in the ocean where only your killers will know your coordinates. And to prevent you from counting squares or pulling it from a log, you'd probably be put in a closed backpack.
There's a slightly better solution -- if you are wearing a soul amulet your soul is transferred into the amulet, and you run no risk of having your body rot away... but you can't send a tell... And if you were killed by a player (DartMUD has no limitations on PK....) they now have you in an amulet, can float you far out in the see, bury you in the depths of the underdark, ...
In other news, Microsoft gives you your veri=y first UFIA
Quite spankable, apparently.