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I worked at a pulp and paper mill for 12 1/2 years and have heard repeatedly that we are moving towards a paperless society. A comment was made this week that we will be a paperless society when we stop using toilet tissue.
On my commute this morning, I was pondering that and this question came to find:
Are anti-virus and anti-malware application just digital toilet tissue?
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No. They are analogous to the toxic stuff you use for decontamination from biological weapons.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: Are anti-virus and anti-malware application just digital toilet tissue?
Yes.
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So ... will we move to the Three Seashells, or start to wipe with an iPhone?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: wipe with an iPhone
Thank goodness it has rounded corners!
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Lmao, I love a good Demolition Man reference 
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Dyson will invent a bidet that runs on recycled water and dreams.
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Then he'll get it made in a Chinese sweatshop, and sell it for a month's pay in the West ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well, it had to be made from *someone's* dreams.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: worked at a pulp and paper mill for 12 1/2 years
You have my condolences. The closest airport to where I used to live was in the same town as a pulp and paper mill. I dreaded flying because the smell there made me sick.
Recently a friend and I were driving back and happened to go through said town, we had the windows rolled up and the AC going. Suddenly the most horrible noxious smell invaded my nose, fortunately friend mentioned that the paper mill must be going. Broke into laughter, apologized, and admitted that I was worried he had just passed some rancid gas. 
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I can live with antivirus if that's all they do.
These days though seems every av product comes bundled with a couple dozen bottles of snake oil and enforced system cripples. We've all accused ms of bloating their products and removing user control/settings, these guys have taken that to a whole new level.
Actually I only use mbam 1.75 on-demand, common sense full-time, windows firewall both ways.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Tim Carmichael wrote: I worked at a pulp and paper mill for 12 1/2 years
Production or IT?
I did years in corrugated fiberboard shipping container manufacturing while taking some time off from college. For most of the last 2 years of it, I was working 12 hour shifts, with one day off every two weeks. It was the inspiration I needed to get my a$$ back to school!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: It was the inspiration I needed to get my a$$ back to school!
If only more folks were that smart and inspired.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: Are anti-virus and anti-malware application just digital toilet tissue?
Well, it's certainly not like an auto-installed anti-virus definition update has ever had a false-positive on one of our shared .NET assemblies, deleted every instance of it from the server, and rendered several of our websites inoperable last Saturday morning. 
The false-positive was removed in the next update, but I still needed to force it to check for updates, as it was too soon after the last update. And then copy the file back to every "bin" directory that used it.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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If you want 'bumpf' then it's hard to do better than Microsoft documentation!
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Tim Carmichael wrote: Are anti-virus and anti-malware application just digital toilet tissue?
Them thar's a ponderous question, Podner, a virtual septic field of ontologies floating in epistemology.
If I had to poke a stick into it, I might opine that these warez are a kind of chimeric cross of immune-system, and excretory functions, even a kind of necessarily symbiotic microbiome line of defense.
But, I think I'll keep this here schtick fresh.
cheers, Bill
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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How can I record VR on my VCR?
My coat, yes, I am on my way.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Move away from the Sea.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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take out the Cassette
Sin tack
the any key okay
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If your mother did not teach you this before the age of six, we can't help you,
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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Recording stuff is not the problem. Always having to spool to the right position before you can continue is a little disruptive.
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Carefully. Isn't that what the "C" in VCR stands for?
Marc
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by applying the & 0x05 op on the media ...
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I just love that kind of article, like this one in the news section today.
In 1980 I read the cover article from this magazine[^] about the new 16 bit processors (Like the MC68k and Intel 8086  ). They wrote that these processors are awesome and will help us solve the last mysteries of the universe, but will be far too expensive and powerful for normal users. Around 1988 I read a similar article about the new 80486, singing very much the same song.
So what will quantum processors bring? Of course they will solve the last mysteries of the universe. They are awesome, but far too powerful and expensive for normal users.
And a few years later we will be posting cat pictures faster, in more colors and higher resolutions than ever before with them.
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