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Why would they be on vacation? It's not Canadian Thanksgiving day (that was a few weeks ago).
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Did I say they were celebrating Thanksgiving? 
They are off early for Advent. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Talking of "two Thanksgivings ago": Anyone who is still unfamiliar with Arlo Guhrie. Alice's Restaurant[^] should spend the 18 minutes it takes to listen to this talking country tune!
The movie based on the tune is certainly a nice presentation of hippe life at the time of Woodstock, but it is not half as funny as the song. Watch it if come across it, but don't cross the continent to get hold of it.
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Given the state of the world, the main thing that he/she/it has to be thankful for is that he/she/it's an alien. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: he/she/it
I am not going to call Bob, Gender Neutral Bob, I'm sorry I'm drawing the line in the sand on this one! 
They call me different but the truth is they're all the same!
JaxCoder.com
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Bob's an alien. Do you know how many sexes the species has?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Gender.Neutral? Is that some namespace in .Net Core?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Snowflake
Gender
Neutral
???
They call me different but the truth is they're all the same!
JaxCoder.com
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We all know Bob is Canadian, and Canadian Thanksgiving is in October.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I have received a phishing email that looks very well produced.
I'm tempted to spin up a virtual machine and go to the link inside of it just to see what happens.
Do you think there is any malware that can escape a virtual machine? 
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Do you think there is any malware that can escape a virtual machine?
Nothing escapes from a virtual machine. Once the malware passes the event horizon, it is reduced to pure energy by the time it reaches the singularity. Wait... that was a black hole, not a virtual machine. Better install everything on a black hole then.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Thanks. I needed a chuckle.
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Great idea! I was unaware of such sites.
Thanks! 
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Do you think there is any malware that can escape a virtual machine?
It has been done: Escaping VMware Workstation through COM1[^]
And even if this security hole is fixed now, I wouldn't bet on it.
Remember that your virtual machine is sharing the processor and local network as well.
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You're right. I will follow Richard's advice and use one of those investigative sites instead.
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Quote: Do you think there is any malware that can escape a virtual machine?
I have no idea. but to be on the safe side: I suggest you make an image of your systems drive, before dipping your toes in potentially toxic waters.
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I agree. I won't really do it.
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No "old" computer in your attic?
There used to be a time when I would simply click on it, because a decent MVPS host file blocks most, and a lot of malware leaned on downloading files and have the user click on the "Run" dialog instead of Save. Fire up fiddler2, and go.
With the current state of webbrowsers, I'm not that confident. If you still interested in doing so, use the Lynx browser to navigate there.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It is possible if host and guest machines share a virtual network...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Excellent point! I didn't think of that.
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Yeah, it's more likely to be a problem if the machine--whether an old box you don't care about or a VM--is on a network.
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You could also spin up a vm in the cloud.
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Great idea! Thanks.
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Well.. it will probably confirm to them your email is active!
And then you will get even more emails!
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