The war between wetware and hardware.
Bug or feechur?
Grammatron » Wed Oct 11, 2017 6:18 pm
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Both.
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My poor virgin ears. :shock:
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Last post by Pyrrho Wed Oct 11, 2017 10:57 pm
Twitter purists are mad
by Anaxagoras » Wed Sep 27, 2017 10:36 am
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THE INTERNET DOESN'T NEED—OR WANT—LONGER TWEETS
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WTF? Two empty posts Pyrrho??
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Last post by sparks Sat Sep 30, 2017 2:20 am
CCleaner got bugs
by Pyrrho » Tue Sep 19, 2017 12:01 am
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Talos recently observed a case where the download servers used by software vendor to distribute a legitimate software package were leveraged to...
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I'm goin' Carr . . . .
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Last post by Doctor X Fri Sep 22, 2017 11:06 am
One for AA
by gnome » Thu Sep 21, 2017 7:45 pm
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A photo AA added to another thread got me remembering this one.
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Holy crap, I just realized that site has a double handful of awesome stories!
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Last post by gnome Thu Sep 21, 2017 7:52 pm
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Last post by ed Thu Sep 21, 2017 10:31 am
AI technology puts "gaydar" on a scientific basis.
by Rob Lister » Fri Sep 08, 2017 5:46 pm
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It took me a while to get there but I input my photo and it said I was more hetero than ed. Apparently they had ed on file. Me at 99%. Him at 66%....
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Why this forum exists.
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Last post by Doctor X Sun Sep 17, 2017 3:39 am
Interactive app programming
by Pyrrho » Sat Sep 16, 2017 3:47 pm
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Okay...so part of my job is making interactive kiosk applications from time to time. Up until the licensing died on my laptop, I'd been using Adobe...
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MATLAB Web Server for the backend, and web assembly for the frontend. Duh.
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Last post by Mentat Sat Sep 16, 2017 9:10 pm
Photo shit Bucket
by ed » Wed Sep 06, 2017 1:36 am
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Changed their policy: no more third party hosting. IOW, the hundreds of links I created are now busted.
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put img dx
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Last post by Pyrrho Wed Sep 06, 2017 11:05 pm
Paint, we hardly knew ye
by Pyrrho » Mon Jul 24, 2017 3:20 pm
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Microsoft's graphics program Paint has been included in a list of Windows 10 features that will be either removed or no longer developed.
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The thing with Paint is there are no questions. No functionality either. But there ya go.
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Last post by Rob Lister Mon Jul 31, 2017 11:49 pm
Vladimir Putin versus all you sneaky shpiony
by gnome » Mon Jul 31, 2017 4:41 pm
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My prediction: This will cause plenty of people lots of hassle (including whoever is chosen to be made an example of) but will not significantly dent...
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In similar news:
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Last post by Witness Mon Jul 31, 2017 8:17 pm
Google phishing detection
by Pyrrho » Fri Jul 28, 2017 9:31 am
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Website I manage for a relative...Google declares that it's found social engineering and flags a URL which gets the red background and warning in...
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I got this from an image hosting site:
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Last post by Witness Sun Jul 30, 2017 2:56 am
Microchip 4 U
by Pyrrho » Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:00 am
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Three Square Market is offering to implant the tiny radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip into workers' hands for free - and says everyone will...
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. . . Similar technology is already in use in the USA for cattle sheep roundups. :)
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Last post by xouper Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:39 pm
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Last post by ed Fri Jul 14, 2017 1:41 am
Internet sites charging for services that were once free
by Anaxagoras » Wed Jul 12, 2017 5:47 am
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It's an outrage! :freedom:
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I am aware of that issue, but there are free imaging capture programs that will get around the problem of not being able to download your own...
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Last post by Doctor X Thu Jul 13, 2017 9:20 am
Crashed Radio Shack flogs off its IPv4 stash
by gnome » Mon Jul 10, 2017 12:47 pm
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Dibs on 139.60.212.86 !!
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Something similar is phone numbers. Certain phone numbers can be valuable. Apparently all the phone numbers in the 212 area code (New York City,...
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Last post by Anaxagoras Wed Jul 12, 2017 7:58 am
Has your email been compromised?
by ed » Sun Jun 25, 2017 11:29 am
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Find out --- got the link from Shopify
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Compromised? I tend to think of it as a night in a cheap hotel .
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Last post by Fid Sun Jul 02, 2017 11:54 pm
Wanna haunt someone from beyond the grave?
by Nyarlathotep » Sat Jul 01, 2017 8:11 pm
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What I really want to do give someone I trust and who knows me well my FB password and about six after I die, start posting on my account like...
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Dammt, what can a boyo do these days to have a bit of fun. Fuckwads!
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Last post by Fid Sun Jul 02, 2017 11:46 pm
Batchfile to prevent Petya/Not Petya ransomware
by asthmatic camel » Wed Jun 28, 2017 8:57 am
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While analyzing the ransomware's inner workings, Serper was the first to discover that NotPetya would search for a local file and would exit its...
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Not if you are poor.
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Last post by Doctor X Thu Jun 29, 2017 6:14 am
Great news for AC
by Witness » Mon Jun 05, 2017 3:03 am
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Intel officially announces Core i9 - up to 18 cores
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At the top of the lineup is the Core i9 Extreme Edition processor – lauded as the first consumer desktop CPU with 18 cores and 36 threads, all of...
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Last post by asthmatic camel Wed Jun 28, 2017 8:53 am
Govt websites hacked
by Pyrrho » Sun Jun 25, 2017 6:52 pm
The Ohio governor's website was apparently hacked on Sunday, along with the state's prison system's website.
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Last post by Pyrrho Sun Jun 25, 2017 6:52 pm
Binky
by Pyrrho » Sat Jun 10, 2017 11:06 pm
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Hah.
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I prefer old school Blinky
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Last post by Bruce Sun Jun 11, 2017 12:44 pm
Osiris Ransomware
by ed » Thu Jan 12, 2017 9:25 pm
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Got it
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...so on this forum server there's a default email address which for some reason had collected 150 megs of email. I decide to see what's in there....
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Last post by Pyrrho Sat Jun 10, 2017 7:16 pm
Mouse hover Zusy malware
by Pyrrho » Sat Jun 10, 2017 11:24 am
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On Windows, where else?
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Yup. This saves them a click.
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Last post by Pyrrho Sat Jun 10, 2017 3:01 pm
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Last post by Doctor X Fri May 26, 2017 9:31 pm
Jen gets the Internet
by ed » Thu May 18, 2017 9:21 pm
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I think the IT Crowd is probably the most consistently funny thing that I've ever seen on TV.
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I think the IT Crowd is probably the most consistently funny thing that I've ever seen on TV.
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Last post by Witness Sun May 21, 2017 1:42 am
Old Wacom tablet
by Pyrrho » Sat May 20, 2017 7:54 pm
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Let's see if this thing will work on this Win10 system.
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Intuos 3 is what I have. Works fine, only I'd like to be able to remap the movement a bit.
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Last post by Witness Sat May 20, 2017 10:21 pm
Free cheap website builder
by ed » Mon May 15, 2017 2:02 pm
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What is the best way to make a simple website?
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You know, Abdul is a mean fucker. You wouldn't know just looking at him but there it is.
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Last post by ed Mon May 15, 2017 10:55 pm
HP keylogger
by Pyrrho » Fri May 12, 2017 11:14 pm
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LOL
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Seems like some coder forgot to excise that part of the driver… :roll:
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Last post by Witness Sat May 13, 2017 6:38 pm
Hard disks evolution
by Witness » Tue May 02, 2017 8:04 pm
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:mrgreen:
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I still have some Seagate 40mb drives.
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Last post by Pyrrho Tue May 02, 2017 11:56 pm
SilverPush
by Witness » Mon May 01, 2017 5:49 am
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From 2014:
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So it's some kind of spyware in other words.
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Last post by Anaxagoras Mon May 01, 2017 6:29 am
FireFTP
by Pyrrho » Fri Apr 28, 2017 11:46 pm
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Firefox browser extension. Hmm. Clicked on a notification link on a certain other forum and FireFTP opened up a connection to what purported to be US...
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With Windows Containers it might be possible to at some point run your browser in a container where it can't see your Host OS at all.
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Last post by Pyrrho Sat Apr 29, 2017 7:39 pm
Great free image optimiser.
by asthmatic camel » Wed Apr 26, 2017 6:47 am
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I used to use Photoshop to compress images for web use but don't have it any more. This does the job really well, and can be used either online or...
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I will check that out.
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Last post by asthmatic camel Thu Apr 27, 2017 8:34 am
Windows 7 consuming hard drive space
by Pyrrho » Thu Apr 13, 2017 10:39 am
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Work laptop was down to <10% free space. Disk Cleanup helped but every day the drive space kept being eaten by unknown bugs.
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It's the work laptop. I can do some things to it but not many things.
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Last post by Pyrrho Sat Apr 15, 2017 2:33 am
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Last post by Witness Sat Apr 15, 2017 12:47 am
Error 1117
by Pyrrho » Sat Apr 08, 2017 1:49 am
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Macrium Reflect quits when I try to back up the HD. Bad sector. Acronis also spits up a hairball. Chkdsk fixes nothing. Does report that the drive...
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Clonezilla worked!
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Last post by sparks Wed Apr 05, 2017 8:30 pm
WTF just happened?
by ed » Tue Mar 21, 2017 9:03 pm
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My machine updated win 10 (evidentially) and now all my saved stuff (bookmarks, folders on my desktop etc) vanished. The folders are still there,...
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LOL at usual descriptive Windows error messages. I'm confident that Code 87 means, 'hardware or software error.'
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Last post by Grammatron Wed Mar 08, 2017 11:16 pm
Screen Flicker Problem
by asthmatic camel » Sat Feb 04, 2017 6:00 pm
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I've had this problem with my main machine for some time, especially when the processor is working hard. So, I've upgraded the motherboard to a SATA3...
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Stop encouraging me, Pyrrho!
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Last post by asthmatic camel Sat Mar 04, 2017 4:20 pm
Are you unique?
by Rob Lister » Tue Feb 28, 2017 1:47 pm
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Somewhat disturbing but I won't shoot the messenger.
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Now, really, AA, writing an Amazon review. You want to help your fellow humans, or what? :roll:
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Last post by Witness Thu Mar 02, 2017 4:43 am
Kodi
by Witness » Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:23 pm
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Happened on this. It's not for me as I don't need a media center , but perhaps somebody will be interested. Runs on all OSes.
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I tried to install it on our Amazon Fire Stick but couldn't get it to work. (It's apparently possible, probably just me being thick.) A few retailers...
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Last post by asthmatic camel Mon Feb 13, 2017 9:21 pm
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Last post by Pyrrho Tue Jan 24, 2017 1:49 am
Phishing expeditions
by Pyrrho » Fri Jan 13, 2017 1:38 am
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A new highly effective phishing technique targeting Gmail and other services has been gaining popularity during the past year among attackers. Over...
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The bastards are getting pretty good.
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Last post by Anaxagoras Fri Jan 13, 2017 9:17 am
Costco is Selling a Beast for Cheap
by Grammatron » Fri Dec 16, 2016 12:25 am
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How do you know this has SLI support?
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I need 320 for porn. old. bad eyesight. fairly flaccid. You understand, i'm fucking sure.
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Last post by Rob Lister Fri Dec 16, 2016 6:19 pm
Panopticlick
by Witness » Thu Dec 15, 2016 4:29 am
Panopticlick is a research project designed to better uncover the tools and techniques of online trackers and test the efficacy of privacy add-ons....
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Last post by Witness Thu Dec 15, 2016 4:29 am
Does everyone have an iwatch?
by Rob Lister » Tue Dec 06, 2016 8:13 pm
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A new report from IDC shows Apple Watch sales have slumped since last year. The report estimates that Apple has sold 1.1 million Watch units in the...
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Also solar powered:
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Last post by Doctor X Thu Dec 08, 2016 7:15 am
Drone skeet shooting
by Pyrrho » Sat Dec 03, 2016 6:27 pm
The newest anti-drone space gun is DroneShield's DroneGun, demonstrated on video for the first time this week. Another is Battelle's DroneDefender....
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Last post by Pyrrho Sat Dec 03, 2016 6:27 pm
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Last post by Witness Thu Dec 01, 2016 12:41 am
Tales of 'reply all'
by gnome » Mon Nov 14, 2016 5:28 pm
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What's fun about those is about half an hour (or less) after the first reply all there are dozens more exhorting people not to reply all (while...
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They won't work for you, they'll work for your employers. Instead of you.
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Last post by gnome Tue Nov 15, 2016 5:34 pm
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