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"hunglikeahorsefly"???????

someone getting his metaphors mixed?

or did the spielchucker kick in there?

"Sadly perhaps, these mighty guns never got the chance to fire at any enemy battleships"

Or more accurately, "thank god these guns never got to fire at our battleships........"

"Combined with its wide hips, it’s fair to say this Stegosaurus probably would have had quite a large rear end"

Yep, definitely female

whats a TV licence? ;-)

He'll be treated fairly in the same way as David Kelly was treated fairly until he was found dead.

There won't be a trial - too embarrassing. Instead there will be a highly convenient suicide.

now you understand why the Chinese (and others) used eunuchs to run their civil service.

No hanky panky like this there!

FFS its about time crowdfunding was put to some use for once to finance a hit contract on whichever sick fuck is behind this ISIL evil. How much would it take for someone close to knock him off???

There must be one evil bastard behind all this, in the same way as Hitler / Stalin / Mao / Pot were single minds in charge of their evil cancers. Decapitate the movement and it will collapse.

its an old US Navy satellite which had probably expended most of its fuel and was coming back down again. Rather than run the risk of it arriving in one piece and giving the Russians/Iranians/North Vietnamese/ISIL (name your enemy of the week) a chance of free technology, they lasered it either with a ship-board device (like on the Ponce) or at close range from something like the X-37B.

They're not going to admit to it as doing so would breach a number of antiproliferation treaties

just what is Google+?

Are you claiming that the Clarksons of this world have nothing original to say?

A chemical company I previously worked for had a lab-scale production plant deep in the woods north of Blythewood, S.C (near Columbia)

As a Brit, whenever I went there I was always thrown by the fact that some of the office staff habitually carried guns - especially at weekends. When I asked why, the answer was "big cats, snakes, coyotes and feral people". The sales manager often worked there on his own on saturday mornings and ALWAYS took a magnum (ex-Korean veteran). The place was so isolated that there was a presumed continual risk of breakin by animal and man. The plant is closed now - the groundwater was so polluted it became a superfund site (like a lot of chemical plants around Columbia) and the animals have it all to themselves, with trees growing through the buildings

Musk, in his wide ranging engineering interests, has for some time reminded me of the younger Brunel and his mixed bag of success.

This particular venture brings to mind the vacuum powered South Devon Railway. I hope Musk has allowed for the 21st century equivalent of Brunel's unforseen hungry rats.

so where do I find this filth?

Ironic

closing mobile phone production plants in the country with the world's largest market. If you can't sell product there, then you haven't a chance. Or else management is too stupid to realise the local potential. All they had to do is hand the plants to Huawei or ZTE to run.....

you missed the closest link to the computer industry: the Time Computers "Time Machine" adverts.

see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71meib_q0MY

export restrictions.......

I think you'll find the export restrictions are due to the possible military "dual use" controls - no one wants the the enemy getting self powered night sights, or aircraft instrument panels

I find it interesting that if I try to open the AOL UK webmail page in IE (which is actually TalkTalk) the Malwarebytes AntiExploit tool throws a wobbly fit and refuses to open the page, warning me of a live attack. Try to open the same page in Firefox or Chrome and nowt happens. At face value there would appear to be a rogue script on that site which only works on IE

(note this happens on all the PCs I've tried it with)

One wonders if the sites been infected with an ID-scraping script

Methinks you are conflating cleanup tools with preventative security products. The two are very much different, though obviously some products try to do both.

Of those you mention

Webroot

Back in the days when this existed solely as Webroot Spysweeper then it had a role as a secondary security product, concentrating on the kind of adware/malware that most AV programs then missed. However it didn't have a very high hit rate of finding infections, was pretty much superceded by Microsofts Windows Defender and really was made redundant by Spybot S&D and Spyware Blaster.

Things went from bad to worse when the product was expanded to become a full standalone AV product - they bought in a third-party AV engine, but not the virus definitions and simply cannot compete with the tech ability of the big boys. What over the years has made the situation worse is that may iterations of the Webroot software has been a huge memory hog, and often doesn't play nicely if installed alongside other security software. Often it came bundled with junk cleanup utilities as well - registry cleanup tools which would bork the machine as often as not.

Comodo

These chaps used to offer a range of free security hardening products which were useful plugins. However after a change of ownership these were all binned, and only the mainstream AV and firewall were left. The firewall is supposed to be OK, but my experience is that customers find it impossible to configure. The AV definitions are close to useless and usually come way down in the monthly tests.

You have to remember that Comodos main business is CA certs - the security stuff is just an add-on, and a poor one at that. Given the recent revelations regarding their products, I'd suggest best avoided at present

Emisoft

Used to be very good as a cleanup tool, but too clunky for installation as the main AV defence. It seems to have a good set of AV definitions - possibly too good, as I've had several cases where false positives have borked a system. Not used it much recently - the last time I did I noticed that it seemed to be down to just one scanning engine, not the two it had before

Hitman Pro

Excellent as a clean up tool if used along with a sequence of other products. Note that in the last year the list of AV engines it scans against has changed - in my opinion detrimentally, making it essential that its used as only one of many tools

SuperAntiSpyware

In the past I've used it surprisingly effectively as a cleanup tool. However I'd never trust it as a resident program - it looks too much like some of the fake products on the market, and its built-in advertising is intrusive

Zemana

never heard of it until you mentioned it. However on looking at the website the program looks near-identical to some of the fake antivirus programs that were so popular infections a couple of years ago

WinPatrolPlus

Is that the program with the Scotty Dog? I've had customers who've used it and all found it annoyingly intrusive. Piece of junk in my view

EMET

never really used it. I'd appreciate your comments on how useful it is in real life.

Now what do I use?

First you have to differentiate between cleanup tools and resident primary security.

On a customers home-use machine I keep it simple: usually Avast! AV (the free one - its good enough) which I set to automate removal/deletion of ALL threats including PUPS (which is turned off by default). I usually throw in Malwarebytes anto-exploit (not the usual Malwarebytes program)Then I add a range of script blockers - exactly which ones depends on which browser the customer uses. I TRY to get them to use Firefox, and then lock it down with Adblock Plus, No-Script, Ghostery and a few others. I've never had a machine locked down like this come back to me as infected

Sometimes if the machine is low-spec I'll use Avira rather than Avast. Why those two? Because they constantly come in the top three or four of the regular competitive scan surveys. Despite being free, they work, carry little memory overhead and are relatively free of unwanted popups (though Avast is sadly heading down the wrong road there. And as I said above, since I started using them I've never had a machine come back to me as infected (and you're talking a large number over many years)

For cleanup, I use a wide range of tools, the choice depends on what I find once work starts. However the bottom line is, if in doubt, nuke it. But heres a list of what I find useful to start with

RKill

Combofix

ADWCleaner

TDSSKiller

Hitman Pro

Spybot S&D

Autoruns

CCleaner

Malwarebytes Antimalware

HijackThis (not much use on 64-bit though)

once these have been used up then you're onto the various file / registry repair tools.......

and also of course scanning with more mainstream AV products - usually Kaspersky and if I suspect something still hidden then Emsisoft's tools

the "big payoff" comes when the Chinese Government - via Huawei - gets even more of its technology into the key communications networks of the west, giving them remote access and control on a level which far surpasses anything so far achieved by GCHQ or the NSA.

Think - they wouldn't need to hack the system, their taps would be embedded in the design of it through inclusion of the Huawei technology

FFS, Facebook with its virtualised replacement for real human content, through which it allows uncensored untrammeled abuse, bullying, victimisation and exploitation, is one of the major causes of depression and suicide in existence today.

Essentially its a business model which gains cashflow by exploiting the misery of the sad bastards who have abnegated real live and who instead survive in the misery, mire and malicious mediocrity of Facebooks cynically open leech-like arms. Join Facebook and your brain is mushed, you lose your friends, and become the laughing stock of all who become aware of you.

Dunno what the fuss was about. Judging from the photos she's not all that hot naked anyway.....Hold on, is that why she didn't want anyone to see them?