Is it a virus? I thought that the main characteristic of a virus was that it replicates. I didn't read the article so maybe I am wrong but I don't think that this thing replicates, it just installs itself without the user knowing. Malware? Yes. Virus? No.
While I wasn't looking to start fights as you put it, my dictionary lists schizophrenic as a mental disorder and has nothing like the definition #2 that you gave. So I checked dictionary.com and sure enough definition #2 is the same one that you gave!
I can only assume that the word "schizophrenic" is similar to the word "hacker" in that it has been evolving and changing as time goes on. Oh well, live and learn I guess.
Nevada prostitutes in whore houses get paid about $1000-$2000/hr
I worked in Nevada for a few weeks and me and my cow orkers checked out some of the brothels in the area we were in. If I remember correctly the price was more in the $200.00 - $300.00 range. The girls I saw were nothing to write home about so maybe the better looking ones charge more?
I did see some signs saying that so-and-so porn stars would be at the brothel at a certain date. I would think that a well known porn star could probably pull in $1000-$2000/hr from her fans but there is no way in hell that the regular girls there make that much.
I have had XP blue screen on me. And no I am not some M$ bashing, Linux zealot. It is just a fact. I installed XP Pro multiple times (on the same old hardware with all updated drivers) and each time, after about a month of use it would BSOD and not come back up, I couldn't fix it with the recovery console or anything. I just ended up reinstalling. Eventually I switched back to Windows 2000 as (for me) it has always been rock solid.
My point is that XP may not have ever shown a BSOD to you but your statement Windows XP does not blue screen like the Win9X used to do is not completely true in my experience.
I don't think I'm being arrogant when I say that it just isn't funny any more, and IMO has become another Soviet Russia / Natalie Portman / *BSD is dying
As obnoxious as those things can be, I don't think that slashdot would really be slashdot without them.
I knew a girl who had schizophrenia. As long as she took her medication she was pretty much indistinguishable from everyone else.
One time we were all taking a long ride in a car. Just having the usual conversations that people have. She totally flipped out. In her mind, she thought that everyone in the car was talking about her, saying that she was ugly, stupid, a slut, whatever. She was having some major auditory hallucinations or something. But that was the only time that I ever saw her do anything strange.
The above incident is what prompted her to tell all of us about her schizophrenia. If it wasn't for that I never would have even known that she was schizophrenic and I had been hanging out with this girl at least twice a week for over a year.
Well, I was trying to go out of my way to keep from sounding like some kind of psychopath as then people would be all like "No wonder chicks don't dig you, yer fucked up dude!" In reality I am a pretty screwed up guy. But I don't think that most girls I meet know that, I mean, I keep that side of my personality pretty private and all. Really.
In other news. I've been scouring the P2P sites all day looking for the crazy sex videos involving Pfc. Lynndie England at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq:
"She was having sex with numerous partners. It appeared to be consensual," said a lawmaker who saw the photos.
"It was significantly worse than I had anticipated," said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore) after seeing the videos. "Take the worst case and multiply it over several times."
"Almost everybody was naked all the time," another lawmaker said.
Come on. I've just gotta see those videos!! And I know that my karma will now be going to hell in a handbasket. If anyone knows where to get those videos please do tell! Hi mom! Heh. Up the punx!
It isn't hard to get a real girlfriend. Just go up to them and talk. You'll fail a few times before you score. That's life.
What you say is totally true for the average guy. But what you seem to fail to realize is that there is a very small percentage of us guys who have 0% chance of getting a GF.
Why? I don't know. Hell, I went to college and got a degree, I have a good job. I eat healthier than most people I know and I work out at least three times a week. I am honest, ethical, clean, polite. Most everyone that I know describes me as a good person. You would think that I could find some kind of a girlfriend. But in my twenty-nine years have I ever even come close to having a GF? No.
Statistically a few guys are just always going to be alone. Sucks, but thats the way it is.
As much as I hate to admit it I purchased an imaginary girlfriend from imaginarygirlfriends.com. They charged my credit card about $45.00 and then I never heard from them. I started sending them emails but they never bothered to reply to my emails. Eventually, after about two weeks, I contacted the company who handles their credit card transactions and I filed a complaint with them. Still nothing happened. I again mailed the company that handles their credit transactions, this time an angry email accusing imaginarygirlfriends.com of being a scam and stealing my money. Within a few hours I got an email back from them saying the issue was resolved and that I would be getting a refund and an apology from imaginarygirlfriends.com.
It is not bad enough that I am so low and pathetic that I would think of using a service like imaginarygirlfriends.com but then they go and just take my money and make me look like a bigger loser. Of course in the end I did get my money back but only after weeks had passed and many unanswered emails had been sent.
True nerds would build their own non-lethal stun-guns & shock-batons
I am just curious, why would a true nerd build a nonlethal device? Why wouldn't a true nerd build a shock-baton so powerful that one touch causes lightning to shoot out of all of the victims orifices before he explodes into a cloud of statically charged blood mist?
Woah! That John Stuart Mill quote is pretty screwed up. I think that there are very very few people who would actually say nothing is worth war. What I would be interested in is wether John Stuart Mill ever went to war and saw action himself and if he had if he would still be so gung-ho.
I am reminded of how vietnam combat veteran Joe Haldeman read and was disgusted by Starship Troopers and responded to it by writing The Forever War. The only combat that Robert Heinlein ever saw was through a pair of binoculars from the deck of a ship far away from any danger and look at his macho bravado regarding war. Then look at how an actual combat veteran like Joe Haldeman views war. I think that in all likelihood John Stuart Mill was never in any actual combat, he is just way to macho about it.
Liberals either take the stance that Bush is either an incompetent fool who has no idea what he is doing, or that he is devious and calculating. Which is it?
Which is it? Both. There are millians of people out there who identify themselves as liberals. Some of them probably thing Bush is an incompetant fool and others probably think of him as devious and calculating. Personally I think that Bush is devious and calculating but that doesn't stop him from behaving like an incompetant fool.
I can assure you, these mags hit the coffee table in the lobby
I get mags like this in the mail all the time. I generally throw them straight into the garbage without even opening them. Every year they send me a card saying that I need to renew or they'll stop filling my mailbox with this garbage, and I say "thank god." But then months later they are still sending me magazines...
how else would you stop the player from swimming out into the ocean?
You could just have the ocean be really turbulent the farther out you swim, so there are like these really big winds and waves that push you back into shore.
I just called it and the number rang about ten times with no one answering it before I got bored and hung up.
If your computer uses a modem it shouldn't be to hard to write a script that makes your computer just keep calling the number over and over again.
have the bootstrap loader and OS on the actual CD/DVD media.
Then it would feel to the user very much like using a console system, which would be a good thing. The last console that I had was a NES. You put the cartridge in it, started it up and played the game. If you wanted to play a different game you shut it down, put a new cartridge in it, started it up and played the game. If you put the bootstrap loader and OS on the actual CD for PC games it would be the same situation and the OS on your hard drive wouldn't matter. It's a very good idea you have there!
fact that there are millions of morons out there who will "pirate" commercial software (and especially dog crap like Windows) when they could legitimately obtain free or open source software that's just as good or better for the same or less money and effort.
Personally I'd rather use Photoshop than the GIMP. I'd rather use Visual Studio than Kdevelop. I'd rather use MS-SQL than mySQL. I'd rather use WinRAR than any of the many open source compression utilities out there. I'd rather use UltraEdit-32 than any of the multitude of open source text editors out there. I can think of plenty of more instances where a cracked pirated copy of closed source proprietary software would be a better choice than the open source alternatives.
Of course the reverse holds true. I would rather use Nessus than GFI Languard. I'd rather use Snort than Dragon IDS. I'd rather use Ethereal than Etherpeak. I'd rather use NASM than MASM. There are plenty of instances when OSS is better quality than its closed source counterparts.
What it comes down to is that if you want the best of everything you are going to end up with a mix of both free open source and proprietary closed source software. I even think that there is a word for that... It's called pragmaticism or something.
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technically, it's a virus
Is it a virus? I thought that the main characteristic of a virus was that it replicates. I didn't read the article so maybe I am wrong but I don't think that this thing replicates, it just installs itself without the user knowing. Malware? Yes. Virus? No.
While I wasn't looking to start fights as you put it, my dictionary lists schizophrenic as a mental disorder and has nothing like the definition #2 that you gave. So I checked dictionary.com and sure enough definition #2 is the same one that you gave!
I can only assume that the word "schizophrenic" is similar to the word "hacker" in that it has been evolving and changing as time goes on. Oh well, live and learn I guess.
This is part of why I love Slashdot - we're such a schizophrenic bunch.
Schzophrenia is not multiple personality disorder.
Off topic, I know, but this common misconception needs to be cleared up.
Nevada prostitutes in whore houses get paid about $1000-$2000/hr
I worked in Nevada for a few weeks and me and my cow orkers checked out some of the brothels in the area we were in. If I remember correctly the price was more in the $200.00 - $300.00 range. The girls I saw were nothing to write home about so maybe the better looking ones charge more?
I did see some signs saying that so-and-so porn stars would be at the brothel at a certain date. I would think that a well known porn star could probably pull in $1000-$2000/hr from her fans but there is no way in hell that the regular girls there make that much.
I have had XP blue screen on me. And no I am not some M$ bashing, Linux zealot. It is just a fact. I installed XP Pro multiple times (on the same old hardware with all updated drivers) and each time, after about a month of use it would BSOD and not come back up, I couldn't fix it with the recovery console or anything. I just ended up reinstalling. Eventually I switched back to Windows 2000 as (for me) it has always been rock solid.
My point is that XP may not have ever shown a BSOD to you but your statement Windows XP does not blue screen like the Win9X used to do is not completely true in my experience.
I don't think I'm being arrogant when I say that it just isn't funny any more, and IMO has become another Soviet Russia / Natalie Portman / *BSD is dying
As obnoxious as those things can be, I don't think that slashdot would really be slashdot without them.
More on Brasilia's depressing architecture
I actually think that Brasilia looks pretty damn cool.
I knew a girl who had schizophrenia. As long as she took her medication she was pretty much indistinguishable from everyone else.
One time we were all taking a long ride in a car. Just having the usual conversations that people have. She totally flipped out. In her mind, she thought that everyone in the car was talking about her, saying that she was ugly, stupid, a slut, whatever. She was having some major auditory hallucinations or something. But that was the only time that I ever saw her do anything strange.
The above incident is what prompted her to tell all of us about her schizophrenia. If it wasn't for that I never would have even known that she was schizophrenic and I had been hanging out with this girl at least twice a week for over a year.
dude you sound like Ned Flanders
Well, I was trying to go out of my way to keep from sounding like some kind of psychopath as then people would be all like "No wonder chicks don't dig you, yer fucked up dude!" In reality I am a pretty screwed up guy. But I don't think that most girls I meet know that, I mean, I keep that side of my personality pretty private and all. Really.
In other news. I've been scouring the P2P sites all day looking for the crazy sex videos involving Pfc. Lynndie England at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq:
"She was having sex with numerous partners. It appeared to be consensual," said a lawmaker who saw the photos. "It was significantly worse than I had anticipated," said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore) after seeing the videos. "Take the worst case and multiply it over several times." "Almost everybody was naked all the time," another lawmaker said.
Come on. I've just gotta see those videos!! And I know that my karma will now be going to hell in a handbasket. If anyone knows where to get those videos please do tell! Hi mom! Heh. Up the punx!
It isn't hard to get a real girlfriend. Just go up to them and talk. You'll fail a few times before you score. That's life.
What you say is totally true for the average guy. But what you seem to fail to realize is that there is a very small percentage of us guys who have 0% chance of getting a GF.
Why? I don't know. Hell, I went to college and got a degree, I have a good job. I eat healthier than most people I know and I work out at least three times a week. I am honest, ethical, clean, polite. Most everyone that I know describes me as a good person. You would think that I could find some kind of a girlfriend. But in my twenty-nine years have I ever even come close to having a GF? No.
Statistically a few guys are just always going to be alone. Sucks, but thats the way it is.
As much as I hate to admit it I purchased an imaginary girlfriend from imaginarygirlfriends.com. They charged my credit card about $45.00 and then I never heard from them. I started sending them emails but they never bothered to reply to my emails. Eventually, after about two weeks, I contacted the company who handles their credit card transactions and I filed a complaint with them. Still nothing happened. I again mailed the company that handles their credit transactions, this time an angry email accusing imaginarygirlfriends.com of being a scam and stealing my money. Within a few hours I got an email back from them saying the issue was resolved and that I would be getting a refund and an apology from imaginarygirlfriends.com.
It is not bad enough that I am so low and pathetic that I would think of using a service like imaginarygirlfriends.com but then they go and just take my money and make me look like a bigger loser. Of course in the end I did get my money back but only after weeks had passed and many unanswered emails had been sent.
True nerds would build their own non-lethal stun-guns & shock-batons
I am just curious, why would a true nerd build a nonlethal device? Why wouldn't a true nerd build a shock-baton so powerful that one touch causes lightning to shoot out of all of the victims orifices before he explodes into a cloud of statically charged blood mist?
Woah! That John Stuart Mill quote is pretty screwed up. I think that there are very very few people who would actually say nothing is worth war. What I would be interested in is wether John Stuart Mill ever went to war and saw action himself and if he had if he would still be so gung-ho.
I am reminded of how vietnam combat veteran Joe Haldeman read and was disgusted by Starship Troopers and responded to it by writing The Forever War. The only combat that Robert Heinlein ever saw was through a pair of binoculars from the deck of a ship far away from any danger and look at his macho bravado regarding war. Then look at how an actual combat veteran like Joe Haldeman views war. I think that in all likelihood John Stuart Mill was never in any actual combat, he is just way to macho about it.
Liberals either take the stance that Bush is either an incompetent fool who has no idea what he is doing, or that he is devious and calculating. Which is it?
Which is it? Both. There are millians of people out there who identify themselves as liberals. Some of them probably thing Bush is an incompetant fool and others probably think of him as devious and calculating. Personally I think that Bush is devious and calculating but that doesn't stop him from behaving like an incompetant fool.
Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you!!! That link just brought back so many good childhood memories. I had completely forgotten about that game.
I can assure you, these mags hit the coffee table in the lobby
I get mags like this in the mail all the time. I generally throw them straight into the garbage without even opening them. Every year they send me a card saying that I need to renew or they'll stop filling my mailbox with this garbage, and I say "thank god." But then months later they are still sending me magazines...
how else would you stop the player from swimming out into the ocean?
You could just have the ocean be really turbulent the farther out you swim, so there are like these really big winds and waves that push you back into shore.
I just called it and the number rang about ten times with no one answering it before I got bored and hung up.
If your computer uses a modem it shouldn't be to hard to write a script that makes your computer just keep calling the number over and over again.
have the bootstrap loader and OS on the actual CD/DVD media.
Then it would feel to the user very much like using a console system, which would be a good thing. The last console that I had was a NES. You put the cartridge in it, started it up and played the game. If you wanted to play a different game you shut it down, put a new cartridge in it, started it up and played the game. If you put the bootstrap loader and OS on the actual CD for PC games it would be the same situation and the OS on your hard drive wouldn't matter. It's a very good idea you have there!
fact that there are millions of morons out there who will "pirate" commercial software (and especially dog crap like Windows) when they could legitimately obtain free or open source software that's just as good or better for the same or less money and effort.
Personally I'd rather use Photoshop than the GIMP. I'd rather use Visual Studio than Kdevelop. I'd rather use MS-SQL than mySQL. I'd rather use WinRAR than any of the many open source compression utilities out there. I'd rather use UltraEdit-32 than any of the multitude of open source text editors out there. I can think of plenty of more instances where a cracked pirated copy of closed source proprietary software would be a better choice than the open source alternatives.
Of course the reverse holds true. I would rather use Nessus than GFI Languard. I'd rather use Snort than Dragon IDS. I'd rather use Ethereal than Etherpeak. I'd rather use NASM than MASM. There are plenty of instances when OSS is better quality than its closed source counterparts.
What it comes down to is that if you want the best of everything you are going to end up with a mix of both free open source and proprietary closed source software. I even think that there is a word for that... It's called pragmaticism or something.