Comment Re:Does anyone have a QR code to a Rick Roll? (Score 1) 234
That reminds me, I really want to meat Rick.
You sick perverse bastard!
That reminds me, I really want to meat Rick.
You sick perverse bastard!
Given that Pi never ends
MMMMMM... I like Pi.
How irrational of me.
Get real.
Imaginary my surprise!
Stop complaining. Vote with your feet, and take your business elsewhere.
Where? All the Big Box electronics stores where the average consumer buys things are all this way. Oh you mean the specialty shops only available on the Internet... Oh you mean Dell. Ohhh... right, try and find it on a powerful machine or laptop... Oh back to those Specialty shops on the Internet. Oh, Lenovo... try and order it from the website. Oh back to those Specialty shops on the Internet. Dude, you are batting pretty badly.
you are assuming the universe is spherical in geometry.
As far as we can estimate and measure... it is a sphere. It might not be, but by the time we (may) actually discover the real shape, we will all be dead and gone and probably the Human Species will be long forgotten.
She decides what's hot and what's not.
But... wait... it it works? It should be *hot*!
Your facts are racist!
That person *MUST* be a Tea Party member!
So... what hardware would they run on then? VMs hosting VMs hosting VMs hosting VMs?
Really? What's your user account? You say your home directory just disappeared?
Huh, I guess I'll have to restore it from backups.
Shucks, looks like your homedir was excluded from backups the last year... funny that.
I completely agree, even then... let us consider how many people are in a specific Zip Code, especially in places that are super heavily populated... 87% chance? doubtful.
87% of all statistics are pulled from
I'm sorry, but running userland "daemons" is child's play. This has been around for EONs. Please don't think you have something new here.
You problem here is that, you idea will only affect the *USER* environment, not the machine. Anything you run or install into the user environment will be bound by the standard user accounts everyone should be running as, without privileges (such as root/super user)
This separate the privileges from the user and the system quite well and delineates it.
Lets compare Windows and *NIX (in general):
Windows, I can send you and e-mail and you standard user just looks at my e-mail and via ActiveX can leverage a 10 year old exploit to install a service as a *SYSTEM ACCOUNT*. This means my process then has full access to the system... Possibly being able to wipe out the machine period, or use it for a launching pad to send out e-mails to other accounts on the system or other account in any address book or just grab your passwords (probably being abcd1234 or password or or what have you (Think Sarah Palin's Yahoo account... wooo really good password there)) for your Bank account. Its very much *THAT* simple, no stupidity involved.
Now, if for some reason ActiveX is disabled, I can just tell you how important the Microsoft update is and it needs to be run... and how you *MUST* forward it to your friends so they can be safe... Sheeple are gullible and will never be safe from this stupidity.
Now speaking of stupidity, its really the only way Linux/*NIX/*BSDs will be compromised... even then most likely only the *user's* data will be flogged. Not the whole system. Now, let us just say *I* download and run your program/update/shell/python script/perl script/etc... Sure it downloads and installs the BOINC daemon and runs in the background... to be honest who cares. Any program you run or have running to capture data from the user will only affect the *USER* not the whole system. Separation of privileges is pure and simple why the *NIX systems will not seriously fall prey to these kinds of things. And to be honest, unless you install a persistent AT job for the BOINC daemon to start or at the very least a cronjob that runs every minute... a reboot will kill your pitiful attempt.
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