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  • #2
    I've heard of these in theory. Wasn't aware there were any in the wild. That SUCKS.
    The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

    I'm the least you could do
    If only life were as easy as you
    I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
    If only life were as easy as you
    I would still get screwed

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    • #3
      Those that makes this kind of software needs to be hunted down and thrown into some really nasty prison
      If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

      Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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      • #4
        Agreed....Didn't Symantec buy Veritas? Backups seem to be the only reasonable defense.
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        • #5
          Sounds like a job for the GPGPU discussed in the other thread
          Dr. Mordrid
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          An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

          I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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          • #6
            It is reminescent of Casino: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_249.htm

            While you didn't have to pay to get your files back, you had to play a slot machine. Loosing resulted in loosing the files, winning resulted in keeping the files.


            Jörg
            pixar
            Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow. (James Dean)

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