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Comment: Same experience without the video (Score 1) 473

by kaychoro (#40106335) Attached to: When Antivirus Scammers Call the Wrong Guy
I had the same call come to me twice. The second time I took a little more time and here's how it went: They usually ask you to open up the event viewer to show you all the "malware" on your system. After booting up my windows XP VM, he opened up a command prompt window to one of the Windows folders. Then he ran the command "attrib". at the end I got a similar the command prompt back:

C:\Windows>Windows firewall subscription has expired.

with the written text about the firewall being typed MUCH slower than my 8 year old son types. Eventually I told the guy he was doing all of this in a VM, and he didn't think I was as smart as I said, so he asked a couple of obscure computer questions (about msconfig and northbridge/southbridge)... I then asked him if I could ask him a question... I asked, "Will you take me off of your call list?" I tried to guilt him out of doing what he was doing, but I figured I'd wasted enough time, so I hung up. I haven't had another call since then.

+ - Orrin Hatch (Senator R-UT) removes co-sponsor of P->

Submitted by kaychoro
kaychoro writes "If you can get to your senator's website, you may find something similar to what Orrin Hatch (R-UT, PIPA cosponsor) said:

...the PROTECT IP Act... is simply not ready for prime time ... Rushing something with such potential for far-reaching consequences is something I cannot support and that’s why I will not only vote against moving the bill forward next week but also remove my cosponsorship of the bill.

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Comment: Who cares about politics... (Score 1) 639

by kaychoro (#38451314) Attached to: In the simplistic left/right divide, I'd call myself
I thought it was asking about which side of my brain I use more... my left, more analytical side, or my right, more artistic side... I thought what a pointless question to put to the completely left-brained slashdotters. I guess this line of reasoning was generated by my right side and didn't occur to anyone else.
Science

+ - MIT can now see through concrete walls->

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MrSeb writes "Up there with invisibility, teleportation, and being able to cancel mid-season TV breaks, x-ray vision is one of the most sought after superpowers — and that seems to be what a couple of researchers from MIT have managed to do. It isn’t quite x-ray vision — it uses microwaves instead — but MIT’s radar array, made by Gregory Charvat and John Peabody, can see through 8-inch concrete walls. Basically, it works just like a normal radar system: 44 antennae send out S-band microwaves (2-4GHz, about 10cm peak to peak). Most of these microwaves — 99.4% — bounce off the solid concrete wall. The 0.6% that make it through bounce off any objects on the other side, and then come back through the wall, losing another 99.4% of the waves. By the time the microwaves return to the array, the signal is just 0.0025% of its original strength. The reflected waves are then amplified, subtracted from the concrete wall's echo using an analog crystal filter, and then converted into moving blobs by a computer. The entire rig is about 8 feet wide, and it is designed to be mounted on a military truck for urban warfare — but it could revolutionize emergency response, too, with the ability to see through rubble and collapsed buildings for survivors."
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Comment: Re:Children's toys (Score 1) 297

by kaychoro (#37380556) Attached to: AA batteries of any kind in my residence:
That's been my experience with my kids & my brother's kids as well. In general, young kids would much rather play with something where they control the story via their own imaginations. I'm all for it, and you can see a difference in kids who know how to invent a game / imagine a scenario, and the kids who only know how to push buttons for results. (Pushing buttons for results should be reserved for nerds who get paid to do so & activists who don't)
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+ - Japanese Nuke Plant Radiation Spotted in UK ->

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Stoobalou writes "Radiation from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant has been detected in the UK.
Low levels of radioactive Iodine 131 have been measured in air samples 6,000 miles away from the battered nuclear plant in Oxfordshire and Glasgow although public health officials say there's no need to head for the fallout shelter just yet."
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