install it in a VM instead, or does it detect that one as well?

Since TFA (more than TFS) mentions that these various attacks are in response to the virus "realising" that it is running in a "sand box" type environment, then I's expect it to detect many un-stealthed VM environments too.

I read TFA for about 5 minutes before I came across something remotely interesting. I got it that the malware had substantial checks to make it *harder* for an investigator (virus researcher, forensics investigator after a break-in) to understand what the virus is doing, and that the virus writer wasn't particularly interested in hiding from the user, but in avoiding being analysed by specialists. Fixing an MBR - trivial. User's home directory encrypted - well whoopie-dee, as if that's going to faze a decent investigator (they'll probably put the home directory on the network and sniff to record write instructions but not necessarily carry them out). So that's a [SHRUG]. But this :

If Rombertik detects an instance of Firefox, Chrome, or Internet Explorer,

So, virus writers really are getting over the IE monopoly? I hadn't noticed, not having used Windows for myself for several years, and not having used IE for even longer, if at all possible to use anything else.

So the hot female receptionist had the hot female sysadmin sucking up to her ( I chose my words carefully) by repairing her computer instead of caning her pert little behind (I choose, etc) and telling her she's a naughty girl and to never do that again.

Perfectly reasonable scenario. I'm sure I've seen it in some of those "training videos".

Ooooo, internet tiger here!

Looks like an internet kitty-video to me. So thet'd be "Ahhhh", not "Oooooh"

Does AC want a tummy rub?

I learned the roads in my town on foot and push bike, and spend about 3 times as much time on the bike as in the car. Which neatly disposes of traffic alerts (route around any problems down side streets) and weather problems (if you don't have your rain coat with you, you're going to get cold and wet, always).

Do you not have a health care system?

Who could be so crass as to attempt to profit from someone else's pain.

Oh, of course - you use arms manufacturers for your medical care. That explains it. Bizarre, but it's your country. Just don't ask me to go there.

As I can understand it, the magnets are purely for holding the phone to the sticky pad. So, wouldn't the degree of magnetisation be altered by rotating the device between 2 or 4 different positions from one charging connection to the next?

(My phone - stays in the jacket pocket when I'm driving. The jacket is laying on the back seat, or hanging behind me. No, I can't use my phone when I'm driving. But it's illegal anyway, so, "meh!"

The license plate reader image from the article shows a category for "other" along with "tax scofflaw". "Other" says nothing but fishing expedition to me. Unbelievable.

I noticed that too. Not being an American, what is a "scofflaw"? Is it an execution offence?

Adobe Reader can view PDFs instead of just freezing the computer solid and then crashing? Well, whodathunkit?

Hmmm, "exactly" the same? Well, if the person producing the PDF remembered to include the appropriate parts of the fonts. (I was trying to make head or tails of a PDF from a geology journal last night. All the diagrams completely labelled with uninformative square "don't have a glyph" glyphs.)

Pretty much every day for me too, since I got an account with Linked-In (of course I don't let them rape my address books!)

Every one gets blocked with a flg of spammer, and a rude return email to the effect "you didn't read my CV you fucking incompetent idiot. Because it says clearly and in black and white "I am not job hunting and will report any recruiters who contact me as being spammers."

About one in ten actually apologise ; the rest I take it, really are spammers.

What is the submitter's beef? Or cheese cake, or whatever the current slang is? Or does he/ she/ it/ they not actually have enough of a complaint to express what they're complaining about?

Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal maximum. The most recent example of what happens if you dump petagrammes of carbon (as hydride (methane) or carbon dioxide) into the atmosphere in a few millennia, and as such the best estimate we have of the near-future climate of the Earth.

People don't seem to understand that it takes decades for the global climate system to reach a new (warmer) equilibrium following the introduction of a force into the system.

Mere decades. It'll take decades of millennia for the Earth's natural systems to bring matters back to something approaching the previous conditions. Of the order of 120,000 years for the PETM.

Natural gas valves could be shutoff at the building or even better at the substations.

What is the blowdown time for your pipework system?

You might be surprised to learn that the flammable fluids industry has some experience in these matters. The last time I was in a position to hear a major gas plant blowing down, it took about a half hour to dump the flammables inventory into the flare stack. (Well, you could leave the gas blowing in the wind. Until it finds an ignition source and flashes back to the source.)

Since gas distribution networks run a low (hundreds of Pa) pressures, their blowdown times are going to be correspondingly long.

Don't forget (8) and upwards : people use something other than Android. Even something from outside the country, or at least outside the reach of the US govt.