I believe I got hit by this about a week ago when I clicked on an advert linked on Chicago Tribune's website.
A fullscreen message appeared saying my computer had been encrypted and I had to pay $300 to decrypt it. I pulled my network cable out and had to power off my PC because the keyboard would not work. I was able to boot back up, but when I logged in both regularly and in Safe-Mode, a full white screen saying "please connect to the Internet" appeared and I couldn't use the keyboard again.
I pressed F8 on boot and booted into Safe-Mode Command line only. Once I logged in and saw the command line, I typed rstrui.exe (windows System Recovery) and using the Restore Wizard, restored to a checkpoint from a day earlier. I restarted my PC again and let it boot normally and once I was able to log in without seeing the message, reconnected my network cable.
My PC was never encrypted. The message only said it was. The clincher was before I booted Windows in Safe-Mode, I used a Knoppix DVD to mount the Windows partition and copy off my personal data before I started the recovery process. The data was perfectly readable and not encrypted.
There is a huge decrease in what is available if we go streaming only.
Out of the 13 DVDs in my queue, only 2 are available by streaming. Most of those unavalable are Criterion Collection movies by Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman.
If they remove Babylon5 from my streaming queue before I'm done watching the whole series, I'm going Narn on someone ass.
My wife was never into 1st person shooters. Frighteningly enough, she WAS into Mortal Kombat Armeggedon. The sadistic creativity she showed while playing it was light-years beyond what my buddies in college showed.
What is the ICD-10 code for being a dickless idiot. They could save time by automatically adding it to the record of all Federal employees. OK - maybe not the FBI - honestly I didn't mean you, I was just sayi.....
The ICD-10 codes for being a dickless idiot would be: Q56.4 Indeterminate sex F79.1 Unspecified mental retardation with significant impairment of behaviour requiring attention or treatment
You don't know the half of how trivial that payment is. Speaking from first-hand experience with the Danieli v. IBM overtime lawsuit , IBM settled that lawsuit for $7.5 Million. The total amount of time it took them to agree to that amount once the lawyers were all together? 2-3 hours. That's right. For the privilige of claiming no wrong doing, they paid $7.5 Million.
The same bribery thing happened in the late 90's in Argentina. A couple of IBM South America execs were facing prison time over that one. Why isn't there jail time this time around?
This guy was really 1337. I never thought of a logic bomb to beat Whack-a-mole. My own exploit involved a brute-force attack, but the results were hit or miss.
We have a Govorner busting unions in Wisconsin. (FYI - I'm not fully pro-union, but I am pro-"people need a voice" and pro-bargaining.)
We have corporations convincing the SCOTUS that they need to be able to donate as much as they want to elected officials. (Funny how they don't want the common man to have the same influence as they do, or even a voice to object)
We live in a Corporate Fascist state. You're damn right be be scared.
We are moving to a country of Corporate Royals and Working Serfs. Guess what side of the boot tread you are.
Here's my observation based on use of both search engines:
MS doesn't copy Googles results. If they did, Bing would actually return useful results.
When I need to search Microsoft's Knowledge Base, I use Google. Bing returns useless info half of the time for me. When your competing search engine returns better results that your own, on your own website, you can't consider yourself having a useful search engine.
I was in college at the time as a music major. I had just started to get interested in the Internet due to the fact that I could search for almost anything by telneting to other Universities and NASA. My thought when I saw it on the TV was "duh, isn't it just the next ARPAnet?"
When people started talking about this newfangled thing about the same time, called the World Wide Web, I thought "Why can't I telnet to the web? Sounds like something I should Gopher."
Has anybody thought of the possibility that the phones went from a low temperature, into a high temperature, relatively high humidity environment? i.e. Going from your car in the winter into your nice, warm house. That might trip the sensor when moisture condenses in the cold phone.
I can vouch for the killing ability of owls.
Several years ago we had many feral cats in the neighborhood that were, for lack of a better description, breeding like rabbits.
I was outside after midnight and was watching two kittens bounce across my lawn. They paused for a second and during that instant, an owl flew out of our pine tree and grabbed one of the kittens. I believe it was a barred owl judging by the size.
Being an animal lover, it was hard to watch and hear a kitten being killed. However, also as an animal lover, I couldn't help but marvel at the hunting ability of an owl in the dead of night.
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I believe I got hit by this about a week ago when I clicked on an advert linked on Chicago Tribune's website.
A fullscreen message appeared saying my computer had been encrypted and I had to pay $300 to decrypt it. I pulled my network cable out and had to power off my PC because the keyboard would not work. I was able to boot back up, but when I logged in both regularly and in Safe-Mode, a full white screen saying "please connect to the Internet" appeared and I couldn't use the keyboard again.
I pressed F8 on boot and booted into Safe-Mode Command line only. Once I logged in and saw the command line, I typed rstrui.exe (windows System Recovery) and using the Restore Wizard, restored to a checkpoint from a day earlier. I restarted my PC again and let it boot normally and once I was able to log in without seeing the message, reconnected my network cable.
My PC was never encrypted. The message only said it was. The clincher was before I booted Windows in Safe-Mode, I used a Knoppix DVD to mount the Windows partition and copy off my personal data before I started the recovery process. The data was perfectly readable and not encrypted.
ZOMG There's no stars. This must be a NASA staged event and didn't really happen... on the moon.
Take a closer look towards Iapetus. There's a monolith there that's full of stars.
The 'heat vision' idea might work. Too bad we don't have anything that could direct microwave/RAdio energy into space to Detect And Range the object.
But the California scientists azure us that the system will work.
The question is, how many languages can you have with binary based languages?
How about 10?
Some people know when to stop digging the hole they're in.
Other people, at that moment, take out the blasting caps and dynamite.
There is a fine line between sharing a link with someone and inflicting it on them.
I'm pretty certain goatse falls on the latter side.
There is a huge decrease in what is available if we go streaming only.
Out of the 13 DVDs in my queue, only 2 are available by streaming.
Most of those unavalable are Criterion Collection movies by Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman.
If they remove Babylon5 from my streaming queue before I'm done watching the whole series, I'm going Narn on someone ass.
Get that 1-up!
Smack my Peach up!
My wife was never into 1st person shooters. Frighteningly enough, she WAS into Mortal Kombat Armeggedon. The sadistic creativity she showed while playing it was light-years beyond what my buddies in college showed.
What is the ICD-10 code for being a dickless idiot. They could save time by automatically adding it to the record of all Federal employees. OK - maybe not the FBI - honestly I didn't mean you, I was just sayi.....
The ICD-10 codes for being a dickless idiot would be:
Q56.4 Indeterminate sex
F79.1 Unspecified mental retardation with significant impairment of behaviour requiring attention or treatment
Sacre Bleu! Merde!
Sorry to be a Grammar Nazgul, but they ride Warg's
You don't know the half of how trivial that payment is.
Speaking from first-hand experience with the Danieli v. IBM overtime lawsuit , IBM settled that lawsuit for $7.5 Million. The total amount of time it took them to agree to that amount once the lawyers were all together? 2-3 hours. That's right. For the privilige of claiming no wrong doing, they paid $7.5 Million.
The same bribery thing happened in the late 90's in Argentina. A couple of IBM South America execs were facing prison time over that one. Why isn't there jail time this time around?
This guy was really 1337. I never thought of a logic bomb to beat Whack-a-mole.
My own exploit involved a brute-force attack, but the results were hit or miss.
You have to ask?
We have a Govorner busting unions in Wisconsin. (FYI - I'm not fully pro-union, but I am pro-"people need a voice" and pro-bargaining.)
We have corporations convincing the SCOTUS that they need to be able to donate as much as they want to elected officials. (Funny how they don't want the common man to have the same influence as they do, or even a voice to object)
We live in a Corporate Fascist state. You're damn right be be scared.
We are moving to a country of Corporate Royals and Working Serfs. Guess what side of the boot tread you are.
Here's my observation based on use of both search engines:
MS doesn't copy Googles results. If they did, Bing would actually return useful results.
When I need to search Microsoft's Knowledge Base, I use Google. Bing returns useless info half of the time for me. When your competing search engine returns better results that your own, on your own website, you can't consider yourself having a useful search engine.
I was in college at the time as a music major. I had just started to get interested in the Internet due to the fact that I could search for almost anything by telneting to other Universities and NASA.
My thought when I saw it on the TV was "duh, isn't it just the next ARPAnet?"
When people started talking about this newfangled thing about the same time, called the World Wide Web, I thought "Why can't I telnet to the web? Sounds like something I should Gopher."
Has anybody thought of the possibility that the phones went from a low temperature, into a high temperature, relatively high humidity environment? i.e. Going from your car in the winter into your nice, warm house. That might trip the sensor when moisture condenses in the cold phone.
That would definately make "Peter the Great" a double-entendre.
I think more people would be willing to openly celebrate Javakkuh, if fewer people hated the JVS.
I can vouch for the killing ability of owls. Several years ago we had many feral cats in the neighborhood that were, for lack of a better description, breeding like rabbits. I was outside after midnight and was watching two kittens bounce across my lawn. They paused for a second and during that instant, an owl flew out of our pine tree and grabbed one of the kittens. I believe it was a barred owl judging by the size. Being an animal lover, it was hard to watch and hear a kitten being killed. However, also as an animal lover, I couldn't help but marvel at the hunting ability of an owl in the dead of night.
Or at the very least add "%wheel ALL = (ALL) ALL" to /etc/sudoers.
Chuck Norris would just drop Japan with a roundhouse kick.
Greedo had those HUGE compound eyes on his head. He must have been seeing hundreds of Han Solos in front of him. He just shot at the wrong one.
FTFA- "the system starts with the formation of nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane gas"
We now have a scientific reason why we laugh at fart jokes.