Posts by Swarthy 2412 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2009
Back Orifice didn't require Back Office to work, I think it was actually designed to emulate MSBO in terms of remote administration(RA) of machines. BO just did it on the sly; there were extensions like Silk Rope that would bundle the BO Server into other executables, so that it would install when the victim ran the tainted .exe.
If if properly configured it was a great RA tool, using strong (for the 90's) encryption and could be set to use authentication. I used it as a free RA tool for several machines.
Admittedly, I did use it on some machines that were not mine, as well.
Oh, wow.. That caused some flashbacks.Although, I think I usually used IRQ 5, as a lot of the other random peripherals I had assumed nothing else was using 7, so they did.
"Fond" memories of installing a new modem and finding out my CD ROM no longer worked (IRQ conflict 'twixt modem and Sound Card, and the sound card was the CD-ROM controller).
If history has taught us anything it's that no amount of laws will stop the spreading of ideas. Once the authorities have the power to act on clear risks – and they already have that authority in spades – the solution to continued atrocities is not more control, it is more education.^^^This, A thousand times, THIS!
The problem with the disease/pandemic idea is the timeline. Yes, a disease could wipe out a chunk of population, and a pandemic could wipe out a large section of a species; the pandemic could then mutate and take out other species. But, given natural infection vectors, some would have survived, and resistances or immunities would be developed before the bug could travel. Some geographically remote locations would have not have been exposed.
But to take out all of the species that were wiped out, across the world, without time for a resistance/immunity to develop the Dinosaurs (or the small mammals that took 'em out) would have needed intercontinental travel and a military-grade superbug.
The problem with a news or media outlet doing an "expose" on off-shoring is that, since all left-pondian media is commercial, they'd be cutting their own throats. The only tax avoidance techniques that would get shown are the ones that have already been closed off; if an avoidance technique can be applied by the working class, it will get shut down, and then the media companies won't be able to use 'em.
As the BBC is publicly funded, and presumably tax-exempt, they have nothing to lose showing off these shenanigans. Unfortunately, Auntie Beeb is British, and probably not too familiar with USA Tax law.
But where is the rest of the weekend edition?! I miss the post-pub nosh neckfiller.
..And related, what happened to Lewis Page? I gather he left, but there is usually a Site News article when a notable contributor leaves; or there is a significant shift. There was when Page and Orlowski took the helm as Editor and Executive Editor; there was when the Moderatrix was leaving.
Why not when two of the most observable, commented upon authors depart is there not a blip?
It's a prop.And that's why they should expect a visit, if the winner resides in the US. A real M16 would cost only a fraction, and be perfectly legal; I'm not sure about the grenade launcher, though.
Somebody spending that much money for a gun that can't even fire.. that's un-american, and they must be up to something.
I am somewhat inclined to agree. It is bad enough that the sufferers of the aforementioned birth defect (usually the parents, rather than the one born with it) are struggling with the defect; to be compared with politicians on top is just too much.
Rather than anencephalic I'm thinking the next article could use a form of "rectal-crainial inversion".
I thought the russian method of offline ransom operations involved a couple of guys (of the no-neck variety plus one smart guy)...And Kapersky has form dealing with that kind of ransom as well.
Conspiracy to Commit <crime>.
But yeah.. I could see the aforementioned "plead guilty to this or face Terrorism charges" or possibly "We got you, plead guilty and the judge'll go easy on sentencing"..with no guarantee that said judge will go easy.
Alternatively, it could just be sloppy data entry and "Conspiracy to Commit <crime>" was shortened to " <crime>"
Doesn't that sort of ruin the point? Home brewing of craft booze is good because you can experiment, try new things and learn. This is "insert pack and brew our beer"; no changing what's in the packet, and without the convenience of just going to the shop for a case of your favorite tipple.
Why on earth would an autonomous car have any problems with black ice?
Black ice is so called because it's refractive index is the same as water, and it doesn't have a layer of air between the ice and the surface, which makes it nearly invisible to the Mk1 eyeball. I would imagine that a car with IR cameras could tell the difference between ice and road; add in an IR touch-less thermometer and it can tell the difference between ice and water. which makes black ice no more difficult than regular ice.
Actually, that would bake a good Driver Assist option: Black Ice Defender^W Notifier, to let you know where black ice is before your tires do.
"Safe for any part of the body"I don't know about you, but my face is one of the more sensitive areas of me, with some of the thinnest skin (especially the neck/under the chin). If it's safe to use on a face, it should well be safe for legs, chest, or anywhere else.
Having said that, I agree with the above; lasers (unless guided by a well-trained medical professional) have no business being anywhere near my nether bits.
Actually, it may well be. The "software" that would need re-writing would be all of the Excel "databases" and Access "Applications" that were created every time somebody decided to automate a task with the only tools/knowledge they have to hand, namely MS Office. Also, every government office has at least one SharePoint "portal" and an ungodly amount of .Net. Mono would have to be resurrected, or everything Web would need to be re-written.
My favorite:
We need a PHP developer who also knows ASP <u>and</u> ASP.Net, with experience in Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server. The work in in Washington DC.
Max they could go was $70K. I politely theorized that for that amount they may get someone in the area that could spell SQL.
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