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  • I had a Microsoft support scammer once... I let him in to my system too..well not really.

    I quickly spin up a quick fresh install of slack ware Linux in a virtual machine that didn't even have x11 never mind wine installed. When it was up I told him a friend uses something called tellynet (aka telnet but I was playing dumb) to help me on the computer.

    He telnetted in and could not understand why any of his malware wasn't working...

  • My favorite story about this is I had a friend who was smart but quick to jump to conclusions and not technical.

    He had a roommate who sometimes used his computer. He comes home one day to a message on the screen, full screen saying "This computer is locked by the NSA. We have detected illegal activity including child pornogry(yes spelt that way). You may send $300 in Walgreens gift card codes to (some yahoo email address I forget) or you will be arrested. This computer can not be unlocked."

    He panics thinking his roommate did something, shut down the computer, removed the hard drive and memory.

    Two years later I hear about this and tell him it's fake and let me take a look at it. Turns out the computer was not" locked". I got into the system by booting into safe mode. There was a program added to the start up folder of the start menu(this was in windows xp). That program literally just launched a window with that message, set to full screen with no close button. Out of curiosity I rebooted the system message popped up and I just hit alt-f4 and had full control of the system. These scans are designed for people to panic and not think critically.

  • Why does everyone jump to murder?

    "what did you do on purge night?"

    "I took everything from the local Walmart and now drive a fararri on weekends and a Maserati on week days."

  • In this case I do partially agree with it. They are for medical implants and since the expected lifetime of the device is 10 years we need to be able to support them for 10 years after the last surgery.

    If the dog eats your controller which allows you to turn on and off your device we need to be able to sell you a new controller and NOT tell you "sorry, you need to spend several hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills to replace the device and go through a traumatic surgery to install it"

    Now optimally my company would make a modern program that duplicates the technology but is compatible with modern computers but since are no longer making money on these old devices they don't want to invest the time and money. So yeah..

  • Like I said I asked the question in good faith and did not mean anything negative. It was out of pure ignorance and the desire to correct that ignorance.

    I think the prime example of your point of "being on this land doesn't make you Jewish" is the hagie sophiea. It's a ancient place of worship that has been "owned" by multiple religions over the years.

  • I work in a field that is considered by many high tech. I have personally seen a system in use today that duel boots windows 2000 and windows 98.

    The product it's used by is old generations and the system does not have any network access but still must be supported by government regulation for several more years....