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Comment Re:Wipe and reinstall. (Score 1) 320

by AlienIntelligence (#41171747) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Rescuing a PC That's Been Hit By Scammers?

Generally XP* and older versions of windows did not rewrite the boot sector. People would install linux on a machine and then try to go back to windows and LILO would still come up. There are ways to force it to do so of course.

Ideally operating systems would ask so you could re-install a partition and not have to mess with getting everything setup.

*for Vista and Windows 7 I think you may have to as well I have not had the issue of lately

Vista and Win7 completely EFFs up a linux install.

Always try to do the linux install last.

Recovering what they do to the grub takes a bit of Live CD finagling to get back.

-@|

Comment Re:Shifted to Brazil... (Score 2) 32

by AlienIntelligence (#41048095) Attached to: Sedo Halts Demonoid Domain Name Sale Citing "Legal Issues"

I wouldn't be surprised. Sedo always gave me the impression they are a seedy operation to begin with. Rumored domain frontrunning via sister division 1&1's whois search is one of them.

I always heard Sedo was GoDaddy's way of selling off domains. Have some kinda proof about the 1and1 before I cancel my 100 domains and hosting with them?

Comment The hell? (Score 3, Insightful) 262

What the fuck man.

Ridiculous question.

At no point in our evolution was it designed for us to sit a long time. Your question has no answer.
ie, the answer is, what ever position works for you and doesn't kill you.

I'm sure others have mentioned standing. But... once again... we weren't designed to stand either.
We are an animal that was expected to be on the move at all times.

Standing will give you:
Varicose Veins
Popped capillaries
Edema
and still even the chance of DVT

Only thing that can be added, take daily aspirin, 80mg or so, to prevent the stroke you are going to get one day.

(My wife died from too much sitting. Literally. DVT behind her knee, broke off, went into lung, Pulmonary embolism
was a result. Upon surgery, part of the clot made its way to her brain. 3 blockages... coma. Few weeks later, and
I'm a widow. Extenuating circumstance? None that Dr would ever admit to. My consolation prize? Nearly 100 grand
in stuff the insurance wouldn't cover. )

-AI

Comment Re:Choose, denialists (Score 1) 422

by AlienIntelligence (#40924683) Attached to: July Heat Set U.S. Record

It's not just that this year was incredibly hot, it's not even that the last year was also very warm. It's that the top 10 hottest years are all since 1998 with 2012 looking like it will be the hottest.

Obviously that's not true if we beat a record from 1936.

-AI

Comment Re:Hopefully it's an outlier (Score 5, Informative) 422

by AlienIntelligence (#40924633) Attached to: July Heat Set U.S. Record

I love it.... "Take the 1936 Texas below normal temperature out of the mix and there goes your 0.2F record making difference with July 2012." Of course, if you randomly take out data points you don't like, you're going to get the result you're looking for. Not to mention that their entire post focuses on the fact that not all states all linearly increased in temperatures, which betrays a complete lack of understanding of how temperatures are come about.

FWIW, a graph tends to be of more value if you evaluate and potentially take out outlier points.
If you are looking for trends. Also, some toss lowest and highest as well.

Just saying.

-AI

Comment Re:Hopefully it's an outlier (Score 1) 422

by AlienIntelligence (#40924583) Attached to: July Heat Set U.S. Record

This July's record heat is only 0.2 degrees higher then the previous record. Let's not blow things out of proportion. (Unless you think the record set in the 1930s is indicative of global warming too?)

Yeah, the new records they set in the Olympics were only milliseconds faster.
Let's not give them a medal or anything. Cause you know.. you don't want to
blow it out of proportion. What's a record anyway, if they are so close to each
other. Amirite?

-AI

Comment Re:awesome publicity for public awareness (Score 1) 597

I know what a fatwa is. And one of the things it's not is a DMCA takedown notice. So I have to reiterate the question: do you have any references or other evidence supporting your original claim that "Islamists issue DCMA takedowns" in response to "people with YouTube channels who bash Islam".

I'm in America, do you have any proof they don't?

Yeah. Gotcha.

-AI

Comment Re:awesome publicity for public awareness (Score 1) 597

Except the cops won't arrest you for a 'claimed act of murder' unless there were:

1. a real provable murder.
2. evidence that you committed said provable murder sufficient to get a grand jury to hand down an indictment.
3. sufficient evidence that would lead a prosecutor to believe they would win a conviction based on said evidence.
 

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Wow, that was a good one.

Evidence! Lol. Wow. I got a tear in my eye.

-AI

Comment Re:awesome publicity for public awareness (Score 1) 597

So if you're upset that no one has ever been charged with perjury for filing an inaccurate DMCA takedown notice, you should at least know that it's not because those organizations/people are above the law. Instead, it's because that's simply not what the law actually says.

Thank you for your post. I wish posts could be promoted to the top. Would solve a lot of going around.

-AI

Comment Re:awesome publicity for public awareness (Score 1) 597

the penalty of perjury is for both sides of the claim- you can recover cost and damages in some situations.

Perjury is a court thing. There is no court here.

You cannot be held accountable for an affirmation that you did not sign nor was
not witnessed to "utter".

They use the word perjury cause most street-people have heard that word when
watching their daily judge shows and "thinks it means they can end up in court, sued".
Which "normal" people cannot afford. So they lay down. (Lie down?)

-AI

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