Hmmm... What can we do to control people and the internet...?

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Caveman

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Wtf is virii?

From Wikipedia:

Virus
The English plural of virus is viruses.[1] In most speaking communities this is non-controversial and speakers would not attempt to use the non-standard plural in -i. However, in computer enthusiast circles in the late 20th century and early 21st, the non-standard viri form (sometimes even virii) was well-attested, generally in the context of computer viruses.[2]
While the number of users employing these non-standard plural forms of virus was always a proportionally small percentage of the English-speaking population, the variation was notable because it coincided with the growth of the Internet, a medium on which users of viri were over-represented. As the distribution of Internet users shifted to be more representative of the population as a whole during the 2000s, the non-standard forms saw decline in usage. A tendency towards prescriptivism in the computer enthusiast community, combined with the growing awareness that viri and virii are not etymologically supported plural forms, also played a part.[citation needed]
Nonetheless, the question of what the Latin plural of virus would have been turns out not to be straightforward, as no plural form is attested in extant Latin literature. Furthermore, its unusual status as a neuter noun ending in -us apparently not of Greek origin obscures its morphology, making guesses about how it should have been declined difficult.[citation needed]
 

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Well going back to the original question of what we can do to control people and the internet before you guys so rudely derailed it. We should teach them spelling and grammar. English mistakes are so rampant on the internet. Clearly the time has come for Beta/VHS/Tazer combo drives. On the one hand, you can shove your old VHS tapes in the drive and convert your retro porn to digital format. On the other hand you will be tazed every time you make a spelling or grammatical error.

I happen to have a wirking (OWWWWW) prototype here as we speak.
 

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The article paints a bleak picture, but it doesn't even address the fact that most of these industrial/commercial vulnerabilities are the result of the customer (not updating software, no oversight of the products installed) and the vendors (building control systems linked to internet AND internal networks, not focusing on security, dismissing found vulnerabilities). They are all going to get what is rightly coming to them.
 

lxskllr

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It's a bunch of bullshit. The government's whoring out this line of thought so it can seize control, and the subjects will kiss their filthy asses for doing it. It's an extension of the terrorist meme, which is itself an extension of the communism meme. They need to get a new boogyman in place before the old one dies.
 

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Lifer
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The article paints a bleak picture, but it doesn't even address the fact that most of these industrial/commercial vulnerabilities are the result of the customer (not updating software, no oversight of the products installed) and the vendors (building control systems linked to internet AND internal networks, not focusing on security, dismissing found vulnerabilities). They are all going to get what is rightly coming to them.

I agree most of the problems stem from poor security even as simple as non updated software. Tell you what, I'll give you a solution to this problem.

We have intrusive ads all over the place all over the internet. (youtube, etc.)

How about your software pops up ads after a certain amount of time that are so intrusive and cannot be bypassed that remind you that you MUST connect to the site to check for updates or the "ads" will continue and disrupt not the running of the software, because that is critical, but the ID 10 T between the keyboard and the chair that is supposed to be checking up on these things. I put ads in quotes because the updates are free so it's not advertising in the traditional sense that it's trying to sell them something, rather trying to not only remind them but really push them to keep it up to date.
 
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