I don't really know much about the stock market, so I could at best make a guess about why insider trading is forbidden. Most likely because law makers noticed that they have stocks but are usually not working in a position where they could get some insider information easily.

They probably dumped a file of each type into the sample set, to see what kind of documents the malware encrypts and in what way. Hence it is looking for TWO Word files. :)

This is rather odd, considering how manual malware reverse engineering works. Usually when you get a sample to dissect, you already know that it's a bogey. So it not doing what it's supposed to do is a quick way to become even more interesting, and finding that reason shouldn't take a good AV researcher more than an hour, tops.

It also doesn't really add to the complexity of the analysis, creating/copying a handful of documents into your VM isn't that big a deal, what you'll probably do is to clean up, copy the files in, create a new base image and run from there. The delay this would cause is minimal.

This as a hurdle for human researchers makes rather little sense, to be honest.

That was in his excuses rolodex.

This is probably what is going to happen now. Until now, there wasn't really much of a reason to do it.

Viruses. In English, at least. In Latin, it would be vira. Third declination, not second.

And while I can at least understand that people who don't understand Latin but somehow learned that -us becomes -i in plural (yes, if it's 2nd and masculine instead of neuter), where the fuck does that second "i" come from?

Brilliant. Pure genius. Nobody ever could come up with this idea.

No, but seriously. The point is that this thwarts automatic detection tools. Of course, if a human is examining the malware, he will dissect it and analyze it and quickly realize that it counts documents. The automated tool will only notice that it does ... well, nothing.

Uh... well, judging from how you "fixed" the rest of the world... could we, you know, decline? I mean, with friends like this, who needs foes?

No, it came out with the left-leaning candidate in the lead and the nationalist-populist didn't want to accept that.

Two major issues. One- indent only code is nearly impossible to find bugs in. I've seen teams of programmers look for weeks for the source of an issue, it ended up being 1 line that used a tab instead of spaces. Indentation fails because of such issues.

Secondly, you can't copy paste cleanly from the web with an indentation based language.

Either of those is a disqualified by itself. Both together make it such a brain dead choice nobody should even look at a language that uses it

Great idea!

Erh... umm... where should I send the nuke?

So? He'd be the first person whose imaginary friend hates him.

I was picturing something more like Oakley's MP3 glasses, but with a super-flat little camera between your eyes. Instead it's a child's toy. They got the button on the device right (because it makes it obvious when you're recording) but they seem to have everything else wrong, including the price. That's too much for something that goofy.

An assload of $29 Android phones with mesh networking software installed and some mighty APs with directional antennas might do the trick. Oh but wait, if we do that for them, our own people will expect us to do it at home.

There is no shortage of algae, it is overgrowing waterways worldwide. The stuff that falls towards the ocean bottom is often eaten before it even gets there, and there is life in the bottom of the deepest parts of the ocean working to turn the remainder of the waste into life again.

On the other hand, oceanic algae (which "produces" most of our breathable oxygen) has been driven subsurface by UV, which reduces respiration.