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1:20 AM
My 3rd top-voted answer on SU took me 1 second to think and 9 to write.
And is really retarded.
 
1:39 AM
@ThatBrazilianGuy Do you remember how my answer to that question came to be? ;P
 
 
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3:24 AM
wow, Azure has quite a lot of services
hell I think they have more than AWS
 
3:46 AM
@ThatBrazilianGuy: 3 of my 5 top voted answers are silly, and one of them was posted when I was sick, and high as a kite ;p
 
4:16 AM
@JourneymanGeek, would it be a great idea if I posted a list of known spammers and spam URLs on Meta?
I would hate to keep this information to myself.
 
4:47 AM
@DragonLord: I have no idea.
We don't ever really rely on that at all after all
heh, state funeral on youtube. People complain about lag. FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS.
 
@JourneymanGeek See recent messages on Ask a Super User Moderator.
 
ya, saw that. Kinda busy XD.
 
superuser.com/questions/870432/… <-- this question has a direct dupe. I dont deal with them much, but my one Close As Dupe isnt going to do anything now.
 
RAMmap's file summary lists the file currently in RAM right ?
 
4:52 AM
@HackToHell every freaking one it seems , to much stuff.
 
Looks like two movies that I downloaded last night are in my RAM o0
 
Watching Our ex president's funeral on youtube
 
Even the "stand-by" or cached files are all there.
 
fffuneral ?
 
I have timed before the effects of using rammap to clear the mess of stuff i will never reuse the cached stuff vrses letting windows slowly toss them out as i fill up with more. and the results were something like:
Once cleared stuff certannly moves a lot faster, BUT the actual time it takes to clear is a teeny tiny bit more time than is saved by clearing it.
Which is as often true for other ram "cleaning" methods. seems faster, if you discount completly the time and effort used to toss it all.
 
5:06 AM
Hang on, I think I've identified an email address that is tied to Tenorshare using Whois information from VirusTotal
5 IP addresses and dozens of URLs found.
It seems one spammer is responsible for a substantial amount of password and data recovery spam.
This might well be my finest hour of spam-fighting on Stack Exchange...
^ This one's a big one
I'm preparing a Meta question and self-answer right now.
 
get me an address and a shotgun :-) Oh wait i dont have to do public services anymore.
 
I'm using every tool available to me to lead a direct assault on spam.
Den Defense, Assassin's Creed Revelations OST is playing in the background as I do this
 
Fast as fast can be, they never catch me, i very rarely even see any of these things anymore, with all the blocking and restricting. But seriously the net community should have taken more of these people down by now. Who's going to herass 1 million users who ddos them?
Lets see them show up in court and find a judge who would give them any justice
 
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Q: The Dragon's Tome: A list of known spammers and spam URLs

DragonLordAs a service to our community, and as a bit of a trophy wall for myself, I'm providing a list of known spammers, spam URLs, and associated IP addresses. This list draws upon my record of spam flags using a variety of resources and combines that information with DNS and reverse DNS lookups from s...

 
@HackToHell: Lee Kuan Yew's state funeral is today
Its actually quite touching and spontanious.
 
5:21 AM
@JourneymanGeek oh
Me thinks it's creepy :/
 
(I mean, people are breaking traffic rules!)
lol
why?
He was pretty much the face of singapore for years and was a decent PM
(and he had a hell of a team)
 
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A: The Dragon's Tome: A list of known spammers and spam URLs

DragonLordTenorshare Data, password recovery, and video conversion spam. Has various other names such as SmartKey. Considering the scale of the spam and the fact that multiple malware programs have been found on these IP addresses, it is probable that this is a criminal organization. IP addresses: 54....

 
@DragonLord why you put on meta ? put it on reddit , with a title like "remember the time you . . ."
gather huge angy mobs to tar and feather em.
 
Wow how did you get my gmail address?
:-)
They say most of the "host" ing servers people, would kick them off in a second if they know. (probably know for sure). So if you surely have the hosts of a known malware or evil spammer, you can send them off to find another host.
Unless (of course) the host is ok with such things Registrant Country: CHINA
 
5:36 AM
Just hit the search rate limit, 30 searches per 60 seconds, while combing through the list of spam URLs.
Done. One new spam post found.
This one managed to stand for more than four years.
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A: i created a pdf from word with an add on and now need to edit this pdf?

Zhuimsile LinI think it is difficulty to find a free program to do that. As you know online conversion is not the choice for you as privacy. My opinion is: You can find a program such Advanced PDF Converter, it allow you free use for 30 times, it is enogh for you. I have used the program. It is really good at...

 
5:54 AM
lol that one place has "Trusted by Norton" "approved by McAfee" plus 40 5star software awards, and is the local that a specific adware as tagged by 1/2 (only) of the virus tools.
the whole web has gone to heck , when I wasn't looking. Just living in the fantasy net with hundred thousand of them blocked.
 
6:11 AM
I like this one "potentially unwanted program" not really malicious, just hooks into the system , sends control codes directly to drivers, and pulls requests off 8 different sites. :-) just a minor annoyance kind of thing eh.
 
6:28 AM
Yea officer we just drove the car around a bit, shot out the tires and left it there in the parking lot to be towed, not like we did anything really wrong.
 
6:41 AM
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Q: The Dragon's Tome: A list of known spammers, spam URLs, and associated IP addresses

DragonLordAs a service to our community, and as a bit of a trophy wall for myself, I'm providing a list of known spammers, spam URLs, and associated IP addresses. This list draws upon my record of spam flags and combines that information with DNS and reverse DNS lookups from sources such as VirusTotal. It...

Updated.
 
6:54 AM
that is pretty disturbing, how these virus detection things are classing "addware" yet the things are downloading installers (more than one) effecting proxy, effecting UNC , Adjust net zones, hooking both mouse and key, and firing up remote services and Injecting code into exe?
Are they all in on it, being paid for it, afraid of being sued, pure idiots having seen to much really evil stuff, to be downgrading it.
In my book that isnt addware, that is as much a virus as any other virus. And 15 years ago doing stuff like this would be outright classed as virus, not Cute little doesnt bother anybody addware.
 
7:07 AM
Updated again.
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Q: The Master Spam List: Known spammers, spam domains, and associated IP addresses

DragonLordAs a service to our community, and as a bit of a trophy wall for myself, I'm providing a list of known spammers, spam domains, and IP addresses to which these domains point. This list draws upon my record of spam flags and combines that information with DNS and reverse DNS lookups from sources s...

That's it for today.
 
@DragonLord you should remove probable criminal and replace with possible criminal. as any one of the items might include a group that would sue your a-- off for saying they were probably criminal
 
@Psycogeek Updated.
 
7:33 AM
ahh i see how some are aquiring thier funds. Trial ~$4 or so, and you end up signing up for "subscrition" type of things, they start sucking funds off your paypal or Credit cards.
at first your plunking down $3-$7 , seems reasonable enough, but then they tag your accounts for ~$24-38 a week later, when you are not Looking.
Scamadviser site is just about like the virus detection, they list some of the SAME Companies/group as 0% trustable, and some of it as 100% trustable. this is all the same group that has used every method of fraud deception scam spam and addware etc.
Seems to me these "tools" that we have available are not effective enough to protect ME , more like they are a freaking joke if they think they can even keep up with this stuff.
one of the groups (and yes i am generalising) is operating out of 4 servers/cities in the US, the actual owners are being hidden by paid services, then connections (similar to how Dragonlord is doing) show that the likely owners are bejing china based.
 
7:57 AM
I'm surprised at how good a job we've done at cleaning up spam.
The research led to two more spam posts getting flagged, but that's it.
 
I would hate to live on the same servers as these people scamadviser.com/check-website/microsoft-net.smartpcfixer.com but there does not seem to be any legit people on them. just layers of the same scams.
Many of the "sites" are dead. as it often occurs a really mean malwares with connections to servers, feeding back users data , or used for the spamming, or e-mail campaigns get shut down. The above trying to pawn itself off as a microsoft site, could very well be shut down for trademark kind of violation.
 
 
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9:13 AM
@DragonLord there's an automated system that learns from our spam flags
Spam flags are essentially meant as a way to train the filters and get what they miss
 
@JourneymanGeek I'm aware of this, I'm just trying to augment it.
Time for me to go, though. See ya later.
 
(And I seem to recall a blog.so post with graphs about it
 
Okay, delete it?
 
Er. I meant for why we have so little spam
 
9:50 AM
Anyone experienced this PureVideo(TM) technology with their nVidia card?
 
Bob
I'm somewhat annoyed this didn't happen two weeks earlier :P
That's an excellent price for that laptop.
 
 
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11:09 AM
@Bob: I found a USB 1.1 hub.
Can't get ampere to measure the charge current from it ;p
 
 
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12:27 PM
Is there any wireless keyboard/mouse that uses bluetooth to pair
Instead of the usual usb thingy
 
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A: Can I connect a USB 1.1 hub to a wall outlet and charge devices?

Journeyman GeekDid a minor bit of experimentation, hardly scientific - I used my phone - a moto G(the original model X1033) and an app called ampere as my measurement device. I used a second phone (an old HTC one V) as a second 'load',. I only measured one device, with the HTC one V just to see what happens. ...

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@HackToHell: sure
Any specific brand?
Combos seem rarer than I expected 0_0
and pricy 0_0
 
@JourneymanGeek Anything cheap :S
 
cheap bt keyboards don't seem to exist
ugh, indian availaibility, no?
 
:/
it's 40$ :O
That's twice my budget
 
40 dollars is cheap
heh
I can't get a cheap wireless keyboard/mouse combo for less than 25
 
That's pretty nice
 
Oh
no mouse ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek Cool
Tempted to get it :/
Why do they have that usb thingy when there's bluetooth in virtually all laptops :/
 
dx.com/p/… looks like the one that someone on a keyboard forum was nuts for
cause laptops don't need external keyboards
;p
 
12:44 PM
Well I can't game in my laptop's keyboard
And it makes my desk messy plugging in two usb cables
 
@HackToHell: I have a single dongle for a mouse/usb
not BT tho
Hmm
 
Bob
@HackToHell If the shipping didn't cost so much, I'd send you one :P
Picked up two of those at the time.
@JourneymanGeek well, pretty much what was expected :P
> You're better off buying a decent powered hub
Nope.
Powered hubs still don't send the correct signals to be detected as such
So, most phones still cap at ~500 mA.
 
@Bob for charging multiple devices, its about as bad as doing it straight off a computer USB port
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek For cahrging multiple devices, get a charger with multiple ports.
The Anker 40W one is excellent. And costs about as much as a powered USB 3.0 hub anyway.
 
Hell I think ill simply get a hub
 
12:58 PM
That's one option I did not consider ;p
(fun fact. I had everything I used for testing on my desk except the USB 1.1 hub(s)
 
@JourneymanGeek I think I remember that. And IIRC, the next day you wouldn't even remember posting it
 
And I was worried people would get mad at me ;p
 
Oh look a cheapo usb 3.0 hub
And it's just 200 bucks \m/
lol apparently it's not usb 3.0
 
Bob
> up to 100mA current per port
wut.
> Low-speed rate of 1.5 Mbit/s (~183kB/s) as is defined by USB 2.0
Full-speed rate of 12Mbit/s (~1.43MB/s) the basic USB data rate defined by USB 1.1
High-speed (USB 3.0) rate of 480 Mbit/s (~57 MB/s)
 
lol
 
Bob
1:06 PM
wat.
 
Time to charge phone : infinity
 
Bob
Are... are they just throwing random numbers around?
 
probably
 
Bob
@HackToHell It's negative time.
 
@Bob yeah the phone probably uses more power than that ...
 
Bob
1:07 PM
 
lol
 
Bob
> Truly Plug & play including windows 98,2000, ME , XP , Vista and WIN 7
Uhh. Pretty sure Win98 didn't actually include USB drivers.
Not sure about hubs though. Def didn't have mass storage ones.
 
@DragonLord Check the flashable zip and see what files have been changed
 
It did
just not mass storage
 
Bob
I'm having trouble finding a single correct claim on that page.
I guess the price isn't a lie? Hopefully...?
 
1:10 PM
mass storage was either per device or you could eventually dig up a 'universal' driver
 
If it changes anything in /system then flash a new rom without wiping /data
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek I just remember installing drivers for flash drives :P
They actually came with CDs!
 
Bob
@JourneymanGeek I didn't have enough USB devices for an additional hub at the time :P
 
;p
(fun fact. These usb hubs are probably older than Ash is)
 
1:58 PM
 
So the library that caused this:
Even had another bug which would also result in an infinite loop right at the DST switch
So around 02:00/03:00 last night my alarm goes off telling me all our application servers are down O__o
 
Bob
@OliverSalzburg That's broken. Always use UTC...
 
@Bob I am
 
Bob
Local time conversion should only ever happen at time of render :\
 
It's a library for cron-like schedules
I just tell it to do something every minute or whatever
And then it fails massively because hours go missing
 
Bob
2:03 PM
Hours don't go missing in UTC.
Seconds, maybe. Not hours.
 
What I do in my code has really no affect on how the library works with time
And UTC really doesn't apply to intervals
 
Bob
@OliverSalzburg Oh, I wasn't talking to you specifically. I just meant all programmers should always use UTC for date calcs.
 
Oh
Yeah, I agree ;D
Well, now I can ignore the issue for a year :P
I'll probably drop the whole dependency and just use setInterval()
But that library was "downloaded 15863 times in the last month"
And it breaks apart by something like DST change
 
 
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5:47 PM
@HackToHell I'll look into it—perhaps I should mod the zip to remove everything except the kernel and initrd proper?
Should I install just the .img?
 
6:11 PM
Okay, there's only a boot.img in the zip.
 
 
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9:03 PM
how do I take a question and make a discussion out of it. There doesn't seem to be a way to do that, is there ?
for instance if this is the question and I wanted to have a discussion for it rather than asking a new question. Looking forward to know.
 
9:23 PM
@shirish The website isn't a good place to have discussions, best to invite the user you wish to discuss something with to a chat channel.
Or try and start the discussion here.
 
9:33 PM
@MichaelFrank, ok how do I do that, that is also a mystery to me, how do I invite him/her to make a channel.
 
9:57 PM
From chat.stackexchange.com/rooms click on [create new room] (hidden at the bottom of the screen)
 
and how do I invite the concerned person as well ?
 
@Hennes Thanks. Got stuck doing my actual job. ;)
 
No idea. Does an @person_name work when they are not active in any chat room?
 
@Hennes Depends on what you mean by "work"
People still get a message into their inbox and you receive a push notification if you're using the SE mobile app
 
They get a "boing!" and a message (1) in the corner
Ah. I never used a mobile app (at least not yet)
 
10:06 PM
Oh, sorry, I didn't read enough of the context
I don't think normal users can "invite" people into chat with @pings
Mods have @@superpings
 
The only way I ever remember being able to do it is by having the system auto suggest it.
 
Most in the time when I need to move to chat is when I am already knee deep in comments and I post 'lets move to chat'.
Optionally immediately followed by SE automatically suggesting the same
 
10:24 PM
@Hennes I could do that but wanted to do without going to that route, but it seems it's only option.
 
10:41 PM
You could just @ them in the comments with a link to the chatroom you've made.
 
I think that is how I did that to discuss the lha and arc stuff a year back
 
11:33 PM
ohk... thanx.
 

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