Revolutionary new antivirus
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I find it moderately amusing that I can tell which subreddits we both subscribe to by what you post that I recognise
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Malachite
I think someone needs to update the Pikiweedia page:
No mention of computer viriiusseesses.
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Order now and we'll throw in Snake Oil™ at no extra cost!
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...Have you never met technopagans before? There's no end of WTFs coming from fluff-bunny wiccans, whether they use computers regularly or not.
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Have you never met technopagans before?
I think I'd heard the word before, but I thought it was a joke.
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Have you never met technopagans before?
I've heard of technomages, but not technopagans.
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...Have you never met technopagans before? There's no end of WTFs coming from fluff-bunny wiccans, whether they use computers regularly or not.
Maybe they are just LARPing in Shadowrun setting?
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I really didn't expect to get likes from posting a picture of a character from a cancelled TV show that only had 13 episodes and never went on the air...
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Technopaganism is basically connecting the spiritual practices of neopaganism with modern technology rather than eschewing it in favor of older practices. So you do things like form a virtual coven to hold online rituals, or use crystals and holy water to bless your computer.
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I'm not going to retract it now, but...
Yeah, I missed the original reference, apparently.
EDIT: Oh, Crusade. Well, I got it then, but they were mentioned and featured in the main series.
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EDIT: Oh, Crusade. Well, I got it then, but they were mentioned and featured in the main series.
Yeah, Crusade. I don't remember the Technomages being in Babylon 5, but I watched that series so quickly that a lot of details are jumbled up in my memory.
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And it sound ridiculous to us because we understand how computers work, and can see that waving around crystals won't change Windows' security policies or delete malware from the filesystem. Yet most people still believe in horoscopes, alternative medicine, or other magic rituals, which make exactly as much sense.
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If you take it as a given that lighting some candles, reciting a rhyme, and maybe waving a wand around can change the universe to make events work out in your favor, it's not silly to think that a crystal could change the universe to make your computer not get a virus by making it just so happen that the pages you visit aren't infected. So once you buy into the premise of Wiccan magic, it all follows logically from there.
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AT cut?
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Access to family crystals restricted. Trust level not high enough.
I'm a traditional ninja. Dinner and a show required at a bare minimum before we can discuss that.
Angling for whoosh badge here, ain't I? Maybe I shouldn't reply before I had lunch at least... fuck it!
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Does it have holes in it?
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That's ridiculous. Everybody knows that malachite is only used for SCSI termination issues. Dealing with computer viruses requires a 42" long piece of shaped hickory or ash and a private conversation with the user in question.
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viriiusseesses (Or whatever the plural is this week).
That was last week's. It's virations now.
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What?
It's a family heirloom. Don't want it whipped for hearts by any old priestess.
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@Onyx said:
EDIT: Oh, Crusade. Well, I got it then, but they were mentioned and featured in the main series.
Yeah, Crusade. I don't remember the Technomages being in Babylon 5, but I watched that series so quickly that a lot of details are jumbled up in my memory.
Season 2, "The Geometry of Shadows". They don't show up again in the B5 series, but there's a very good trilogy of books that follows the story of Elric and Galen during that time period.
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It is also very protective—those who use it regularly say that it breaks into pieces when danger is near.
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You say that as if something changed your mind for some inexplicable reason.
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Yet most people still believe in horoscopes, alternative medicine, or other magic rituals, which make exactly as much sense.
I doubt many people here are very much into such things.
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I doubt many people here are very much into such things.
I don't know. We use automated build systems…
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And it sound ridiculous to us because we understand how computers work, and can see that waving around crystals won't change Windows' security policies or delete malware from the filesystem.
You're just using the wrong crystals. One of these will get rid of all your malware quite easily.
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I doubt many people here are very much into such things.
There are a few who visit Chiropractors, and at least one anti vaxxer
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... or who are religious.
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Considering the chiropractor I went to started out by taking an X-Ray... I'd have to suggest it's not entirely quackery.
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Considering the chiropractor I went to started out by taking an X-Ray... I'd have to suggest it's not entirely quackery.
Yeah, the good ones know what they can and can't fix -- they work pretty darn well for the things that are up their alley, though.
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Huh, I thought malachite was that green shit from Skyrim.
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It really exists!
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I wonder if it defeats computer viruses by sending in waves of orcs to fight them in brutal hand to hand combat.
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Huh, I thought malachite was that green shit from Skyrim.
DF2014: Malachite
Malachite is one of several ores of copper. It is found as veins, and is rare compared to other copper ores. Malachite is among the few types of stone that are not fire-safe.
Other copper ores include native copper and tetrahedrite.
"Malachite" is the name of the 5th month of the Dwarven calendar, covering mid Summer.
In real life
Malachite is a hydrated copper carbonate (Cu2(CO3)(OH)2) that forms as a result of the weathering of preexisting copper deposits. Malachite is known to form alongside both Chrysocolla, and Azurite (which is not present in Dwarf Fortress) which it commonly pseudomorphs from.
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/images/thumb/7/78/9135_-Milano-Museo_storia_naturale-Malachite-Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_22-Apr-2007.jpg/106px-9135-Milano-Museo_storia_naturale-Malachite-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_22-Apr-2007.jpg
Filed under: Rated D for Dorf, we need a new tag cloud to attack, @ben_lubar
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I wonder if it defeats computer viruses by sending in waves of orcs to fight them in brutal hand to hand combat.
+1 for the visual. :)
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I always imagine computer antivirus as like Tron. Complete with having its own agenda contrary to user intentions...
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Tron was indeed very much an antivirus (or perhaps more antispyware) kind of program in intent. Tron didn't have his own agenda contrary to user intentions, though. The MCP did.
It's a security program itself, actually. It monitors all contacts between our system and other systems. It finds anything going on that's not scheduled, it shuts it down.
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I was thinking more like Sarc and MCP but the film's visual aesthetic in general.
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I was thinking more like Sarc and MCP but the film's visual aesthetic in general.
Sark. But yes.