[News] strange happenings of 2015

[Ornette]

Clearly you have your users better trained than I have!

While I was purposely being facetious about how easy it is, I'm sure some of your users know how to download a program and run it. It really isn't that hard, there's nothing going on that tries to make it hard or prevent it from getting removed. It's not a virus.

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Not that anyone in their right mind would run smbd on an unprotected port or not behind a firewall, but it's still something that's pretty nasty. Patch already available.

[pwhodges]

It's not a virus.

Sure it's not. But facilitating ads is already a bad thing as it provides a route that many viruses and trojans arrive through. That it can compromise HTTPS on the way just makes it even less desirable. Here's a somewhat worse version (and I have read the footnote):

[url]https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/865-Comodo-ships-Adware-Privdog-worse-than-Superfish.html[/url]

[Mr. Tines]

Llama drama in Arizona.

[pwhodges]

2015-02-10: Russian opposition leader Nemtsov does interview in which he says he's afraid Putin will have him killed, due to his opposition of war in Ukraine.

2015-02-27: Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov shot dead

Of course, there can be coincidences...

[Ray]

Putin is Ex-KGB, the guys a stone cold killer and he commands the biggest country on earth! What did you expect?

[BobBQ]

Of course, there can be coincidences...

Critics of the ruling party being mysteriously shot dead on the streets of Moscow is by no means a new phenomenon.

[Bagheera]

Critics of the ruling party being mysteriously shot dead on the streets of Moscow is by no means a new phenomenon.

Yeah, gotta say, as coincidences go this one is pretty damn unlikely.

[soul.assassin]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/28/a-head-transplant-is-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-idea.html

About the only people who are willing to pay huge amounts to risk their lives for this, uh, Frankensteinian "breakthrough", are more likely the narcissistic.

[drinian]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/28/a-head-transplant-is-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-idea.html

About the only people who are willing to pay huge amounts to risk their lives for this, uh, Frankensteinian "breakthrough", are more likely the narcissistic.

Considering the continuing work in creating replacement organs out of stem cells, who wouldn't want to be able to grow a younger copy of their body and stitch their head onto it?

[Ray]

I'm thinking of pulling a PWHodges and changing my Avatar to reflect various stages of my Fanfic.

Of Course I'll actually have to get around to PUBLISHING It!

Ugh. I hate my schedule.

[Bagheera]

Considering the continuing work in creating replacement organs out of stem cells, who wouldn't want to be able to grow a younger copy of their body and stitch their head onto it?

Considering that the head would continue to age normally I'm not sure that would be all that hot of an idea. It's all meaningless until you find a way to keep the brain going first.

[pwhodges]

Heh - I just watched Mushi-shi Zoku Shou ep 6 (I won't spoil those who haven't yet by saying why it's relevant).

[Shinoyami65]

Considering that the head would continue to age normally I'm not sure that would be all that hot of an idea. It's all meaningless until you find a way to keep the brain going first.

The ideal solution would be to clone a whole new body and find a way to transfer your memories and personality to it.

Although we're wandering into 'who wants to live forever' territory then.

[Trajan]

The ideal solution would be to clone a whole new body and find a way to transfer your memories and personality to it.

Although we're wandering into 'who wants to live forever' territory then.

But would that really be you? Would the old copy of you die and replicated by a new copy that acts like you and thinks like you but isn't really you? Stuff like this is why I'm happy with my finite natural lifespan.

[Lavinius]

But would that really be you? Would the old copy of you die and replicated by a new copy that acts like you and thinks like you but isn't really you? Stuff like this is why I'm happy with my finite natural lifespan.

I don't see why a very poorly thought-out proposed method of attaining immortality makes immortality any less desirable.
In any case, what is proposed there certainly would be more meaningful (though infinitesimally) than having children, which for some reason seems to satisfy most.

[pwhodges]

[url]http://www.inquisitr.com/1881975/westboro-baptist-church-announces-intent-to-picket-leonard-nimoys-funeral/[/url]

Ugh; I put it here so as not to pollute the thread on him.

[Ray]

Those bigots don't speak for me. What is their problem?

[NemZ]

I continue to hold out for the day my mind can be transferred to distributed cloud network among a swarm of nanobots capable of atomic reorganization and self replication.

[Chuckman]

I am already the entire universe. I just forgot for a while.

[UrsusArctos]

[url]http://www.inquisitr.com/1881975/westboro-baptist-church-announces-intent-to-picket-leonard-nimoys-funeral/[/url]

Those bigoted fools know nothing of the power of the fandom they are messing with.