1/21/2004: Different approach to anti-virus

Undertoad · 01-21-2004, 11:25 AM

These Japanese businessmen are holding a service aimed at fending off viruses and glitches for their computers. It's a purification ceremony conducted by a Shinto priest according to Shinto rituals.

Beestie · 01-21-2004, 11:37 AM

Oh, for a minute I thought you were going to suggest abstinence.

tjennings · 01-21-2004, 11:37 AM

Why not. It's at least as effective as calling tech support.

I was a tech for Gateway for a while. It seems that my coworkers had 2 favorite solutions. Format and reload for any technical problem. Suspected virus: wipe hard drive, then format and reload. Seriously, many of them could have been replaced with a recording.

Skunks · 01-21-2004, 11:41 AM

I can't help but notice that there's an iBook in that lineup.

Slartibartfast · 01-21-2004, 01:48 PM

Computers are pure evil.

Blessing it is just going to make it angry.

And exorcising it is going to make the little demon inside go away thus causing the thing to stop working.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-21-2004, 06:17 PM

Same as the priest blessing the fishing fleet.

MAdMoNKEY · 01-21-2004, 06:39 PM

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Originally posted by Slartibartfast
And exorcising it is going to make the little demon inside go away thus causing the thing to stop working.

Don't you mean "daemon"?

wolf · 01-22-2004, 12:54 AM

I do this. Not a Shinto Ceremony, but I got an arrangement with the gods of communications regarding my computer and other bits of necessary technology.

(I keep a big-ass piece of jet on top of the tower to keep it happy, in fact).

A friend of mine used to keep her car running with magick. Stuff would break on it and start working again with the proper magickal encouragment.

Timeless · 01-22-2004, 02:32 AM

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Originally posted by wolf
A friend of mine used to keep her car running with magick. Stuff would break on it and start working again with the proper magickal encouragment.

Jump leads of starting +1?

-- Timeless.

Slartibartfast · 01-22-2004, 07:28 AM

Rabbi Offers Prayer for Web Porn Browsers

Wed Jan 21, 8:25 AM ET

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli rabbi has composed a prayer to help devout Jews overcome guilt after visiting porn web sites while browsing the Internet.

"Please God, help me cleanse the computer of viruses and evil photographs which disturb and ruin my work..., so that I shall be able to cleanse myself (of sin)," reads the benediction by Shlomo Eliahu, chief rabbi in the northern town of Safed.

Eliahu, quoted by Israel's largest daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, said he had responded to a deluge of queries from Orthodox Jews worried that the lure of Internet sex sites was putting family relationships at risk.

The rabbi recommends that Jews recite the prayer when they log on to the Internet or even program it to flash up on their computer screens so they are spiritually covered whether they enter a porn site intentionally or by mistake.

ferkelparade · 01-22-2004, 10:13 AM

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whether they enter a porn site intentionally or by mistake

Judaeo-christian morality at work: it's ok to do pretty much anything as long as you cover your ass by telling God how sorry you are

(I'm a catholic myself, so I know what I'm talking about

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jinx · 01-22-2004, 10:49 AM

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Originally posted by wolf

A friend of mine used to keep her car running with magick. Stuff would break on it and start working again with the proper magickal encouragment.

I fixed 3 different car headlights by tapping them with my ice scraper/wand. I have wittnesses.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-22-2004, 03:00 PM

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Originally posted by wolf

(I keep a big-ass piece of jet on top of the tower to keep it happy, in fact).

Jet?

Slartibartfast · 01-22-2004, 04:35 PM

Saint Isidore of Seville, patron of computer users, computer technicians, computers, and the Internet... This sixth century clergyman is credited with creating one of the world's first data bases- a 20 volume encyclopedia. Saint Isidroe was an 'indefatigable compiler of all existing knowledge' of his time.

Funny, some websites I find say he is the proposed patron saint of the Internet, others say he already is.

One site had the recommended prayer...
"Saint Isadore to you we pray, please make Windows go away."

quzah · 01-22-2004, 07:45 PM

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Originally posted by tjennings
Why not. It's at least as effective as calling tech support.

I was a tech for Gateway for a while. It seems that my coworkers had 2 favorite solutions. Format and reload for any technical problem. Suspected virus: wipe hard drive, then format and reload. Seriously, many of them could have been replaced with a recording.

Since when is it tech support's job to remove viruses? That's like taking your car to a mechanic because a bunch of mice made a nest in the seats.

On an aside, tech support is supposed to do the usually as quickly as possible, because there is no money (for the company) in tech support. Thus, if the hardware is fine, wipe it clean and reinstall. Now your OS is fine too. Sure, you could hack the registry apart, pulling out all the lines that a virus has inserted. You could reextract all of the files one at a time by hand, to recover from the damage it's done. You could then hunt down whatever it's executable is called and delete it.

This takes hours. Or you could simply wipe the drive and use your recovery CD. Much much faster.

Most people don't care if their drive is wiped, so long as they don't have to spend eons on the phone dealing with it.

Quzah.

01-21-2004, 11:25 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	1/21/2004: Different approach to anti-virus These Japanese businessmen are holding a service aimed at fending off viruses and glitches for their computers. It's a purification ceremony conducted by a Shinto priest according to Shinto rituals.

01-21-2004, 11:37 AM	#2
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01-21-2004, 11:37 AM	#3
tjennings Belt Conveyor Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sioux City, IA Posts: 66	Why not. It's at least as effective as calling tech support. I was a tech for Gateway for a while. It seems that my coworkers had 2 favorite solutions. Format and reload for any technical problem. Suspected virus: wipe hard drive, then format and reload. Seriously, many of them could have been replaced with a recording. __________________ No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical. Niels Bohr, physicist (1885-1962)

01-21-2004, 06:17 PM	#6
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Same as the priest blessing the fishing fleet. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-22-2004, 12:54 AM	#8
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I do this. Not a Shinto Ceremony, but I got an arrangement with the gods of communications regarding my computer and other bits of necessary technology. (I keep a big-ass piece of jet on top of the tower to keep it happy, in fact). A friend of mine used to keep her car running with magick. Stuff would break on it and start working again with the proper magickal encouragment. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

01-21-2004, 11:41 AM	#4
Skunks I thought I changed this. Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: western nowhere, ny Posts: 412	I can't help but notice that there's an iBook in that lineup.

01-21-2004, 01:48 PM	#5
Slartibartfast \|-0-\| <-0-> \|-0-\| Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: New Jersey Posts: 516	Computers are pure evil. Blessing it is just going to make it angry. And exorcising it is going to make the little demon inside go away thus causing the thing to stop working.

01-22-2004, 07:28 AM	#10
Slartibartfast \|-0-\| <-0-> \|-0-\| Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: New Jersey Posts: 516	Rabbi Offers Prayer for Web Porn Browsers Wed Jan 21, 8:25 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli rabbi has composed a prayer to help devout Jews overcome guilt after visiting porn web sites while browsing the Internet. "Please God, help me cleanse the computer of viruses and evil photographs which disturb and ruin my work..., so that I shall be able to cleanse myself (of sin)," reads the benediction by Shlomo Eliahu, chief rabbi in the northern town of Safed. Eliahu, quoted by Israel's largest daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, said he had responded to a deluge of queries from Orthodox Jews worried that the lure of Internet sex sites was putting family relationships at risk. The rabbi recommends that Jews recite the prayer when they log on to the Internet or even program it to flash up on their computer screens so they are spiritually covered whether they enter a porn site intentionally or by mistake.

01-22-2004, 04:35 PM	#14
Slartibartfast \|-0-\| <-0-> \|-0-\| Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: New Jersey Posts: 516	Saint Isidore of Seville, patron of computer users, computer technicians, computers, and the Internet... This sixth century clergyman is credited with creating one of the world's first data bases- a 20 volume encyclopedia. Saint Isidroe was an 'indefatigable compiler of all existing knowledge' of his time. Funny, some websites I find say he is the proposed patron saint of the Internet, others say he already is. One site had the recommended prayer... "Saint Isadore to you we pray, please make Windows go away."

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