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'How DEA Agents Took Down Mexico's Most Vicious Drug Cartel', and how it was replaced with a similar organization within a week. Besides the drug money is keeping a number of western economies afloat.


'Either a green unicorn just raced across the lab, or I accidentally took some LSD.', Dr. Walter Bishop


We don't, it's how the correctional personnel get their jollies :o


"How Did We Get Here"?

Microsoft Windows?

"Integrity means assessing whether the software and critical data within your networks and systems are compromised with malicious or unauthorized code or bugs."

How about designing a 'computer' that can't be compromised by clicking on a URL or opening a malicious email attachment.


"What can we do?"

Stop using Microsoft Windows and use something else instead?


I don't have such a problem, I have been Microsoft free for years ..


'Tracks your most used directories, based on 'frecency'.'

Shouldn't that be frequency ..

https://github.com/rupa/z/blob/master/README


"Frecency is any heuristic that combines the frequency and recency into a single measure." (from Wikipedia)

I first heard it used to describe Firefox's location bar (Awesomebar).


"I think it's important to recognize that all this happened on the fringes of JPM"

Disingenuous excusing :)


'A botnet consists of many (usually hundreds or thousands) of normal home or work computers [running Microsoft Windows] that have malicious software installed on them.'


Because the underlying hardware MMU can't prevent one process from accessing memory that don't belong to it.


Why Linux should thank Digital Research, Seattle Computer Products and DR-DOS, would make a more accurate title ..


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