It won't surprise anyone what my opinion of Gates is. Hint: It's not positive.

I gave him the benefit of the doubt anyway. I'm prepared to give anyone a second chance. Maybe it's even because of the huge damage he caused humanity in the past that he needs to do something positive now to ease the guilt. (For example, if he hadn't held back computer science by a decade, maybe Malariacontrol.net might have already fixed half of these problems).

But then I had a survey, right here, that kept asking me how the foundation affected my perception of Gates himself. Not of the foundation, of the man.

Which, for me, confirms it's nothing to do with altruism and everything to do with self-aggrandized narcissism.

I'm not sure how laxative, to be fair - but it's often eaten pre-enema to help with...flushing.

I'm not sure how I know this. I'm kinda worried that I do, I must read some crap (pun intended).

I can't remember what it does, it's something really stupid like stopping food sticking together, or making it shiney or something. Something absurd anyway.

On the plus side, it's a laxative, so what you can ingest is somewhat limited anyway.

Where I come from, we have more original titles. The Boneless. Snake-In-The-Eye, Shaggy-Breeches.

I'd have to be The Hairy Happening.

Bonus points if you know who the first two Hairy Happenings were.

Unlock your offerwalls. Persona.ly and peanutlabs especially.

Also, the summer slump is nearly over - kids are back to school a week on Monday, it picks up steadily all the way from there to Christmas.

It's a windows script file, but it's broken up into functions of obfuscated (and rearranged) arrays. At the end, the obfuscated arrays are then concatenated into a string and called as a command. It's definitely either a virus or some kind of malicious exploit. Hyldig might be right about the missing piece, or it might just be something missing in the *nix environment - since it's quite specifically a Windows script.

But yeah, it's definitely dodgy.

Also, since there's now a .jar file in there, there are probably several different malicious files doing different things anyway. I only looked at the 10$ ClixSense Bonus.wsf file.

StarryMight wrote: This is exactly why I prefer to use Linux operating systems to do PTC, since the risk is much lower on them than Windows (which I do use for pretty much everything else ).

Heh yeah - I couldn't figure out what it did (it's pretty well obfuscated), so I tried to run it (safely, in a sandbox), and couldn't get the damn thing to work.

The only time I make allowances is if somebody tried to sign up under a friend, and got it wrong. There needs to be evidence that they got it wrong - the referral ID contains one wrong character, or the URL was a bit dodgy, or something of that sort - and I don't even pay. When you refer someone to my site, you just get a kudos score that's good for nothing other than displaying in your profile. I'd be even more unmoving in my refusal to allow changes if I actually paid people.

Funny you should say that - I was trying to convince my daughter to take me to an ancient mine near where she lives on Monday. She didn't, so I only got to dream about it too.

If Sarah can quote herself, then so can I.

Quote:If you had stabbed me in the front I wouldn't have just forgiven you, I would have actually respected you. I don't mind that you stabbed me - that just means you sincerely believe you're right and I'm wrong - it's choosing to put the knife between my shoulder blades that I can't forgive.

--Me, in my last resignation letter

Quote:don't store your passwords on your browser

The security conscious should read this:

Quote:In this paper we surveyed a wide variety of password
managers and found that they follow very different and
inconsistent autofill policies. We showed how an evil
coffee shop attacker can leverage these policies to steal
the user’s stored passwords without any user interaction.
We also demonstrated that password managers can pre-
vent these attacks by simply following two steps - never
autofilling under certain conditions like in the presence
of HTTPS certificate validation errors and requiring user
interaction through some form of trusted browser UI, that
untrusted JavaScript cannot affect, before autofilling any
passwords.

Password Managers: Attacks and Defenses | USENIX

In fact, storing passwords in the browser can be fine - or it can be disaster. Find a keychain that meets the recommendations in the paper.

valerie wrote: The KODI I ordered is suppose to come fully loaded. I just didn't understand if it
had pay per views on it too or if everything was going to be free.

There are some addons where you do need to pay for content, but not many. The official repos are completely free (I think - there may be one or two exceptions) and completely legal. The unofficial repos are 99% free, but mix and match legal and not so much.

They don't, at a project level. They're pretty popular these days, but they're all third party.

Kodi is just a media player. It's a very sexy media player, but it's still just a media player.

A lot of Kodi Boxes are ROKU boxes, Roku is actually the software - it's the difference between Mac and Windows.

I run Kodi on a Raspberry Pi, but I've never used Roku, so I can't really tell you exactly what the differences are, but I can tell you there are a quintabajillion addons for Kodi. If you're looking for something, it's got it (but not all in the official repos). The only thing it hasn't got is 4OD, but 4OD is the single biggest PITA on the planet, so that's to be expected.

We were told that the recent upgrade was to be done in multiple parts.

Generally speaking - and there are exceptions, so emphasis on generally - it just doesn't scale to push everything out in one go once a day. It puts a huge spike on your resources, and pushes your hardware requirements way up above what you'd need if you staggered them throughout the day.

Obviously, I don't know what goes on behind the scenes anymore than you do, but I strongly suspect everything coming at midnight is a temporary thing.

Alfhuck wrote: Another thing I think that keeps me going is playing it like a game viewing yesterday's earnings as the high score I want to beat today!

Yeah, that.

I especially like it every January when we get flooded with "this is the worst slow down in the history of the world" because the Christmas boom is over, and everyone is still on holiday...but your earnings are the same or higher than the previous year.

Quote:I start at the feet and work my way up. I wrap him as tenderly as a mother swaddling an infant. I marvel at the play of light on the miraculous translucence. Soon, Roy Orbison is entirely wrapped in cling-film. I thank God that I was born to live this minute.

-- Ulrich Haarbürste

Well, that was a bit underwhelming.

Cats kill fish, so why is a Shark like helmet stronger than a Catlike helmet?

Tír na nÓg at Brudenell Social on the 14th. Not entirely sure where that is - vaguely in the Woodhouse sort of direction is all I know.

I've never heard them at all, but I was told I should go see them a couple of days ago. Don't know if I will, but I got a recommendation anyway.