Viruses.. They are getting annoying!!
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One of my favorite B5 quotes as well. Not to mention the many episode (almost 2 seasons IIRC) delay between the setup and the payoff. That's a writer with patience. Although I am also rather fond of Carter's quip during the 1st encounter with one of the "old-timer" alien races...
wmallory wrote:
One of my favorite B5 quotes as well. Not to mention the many episode (almost 2 seasons IIRC) delay between the setup and the payoff. That's a writer with patience.
Still falls well short of the payoff from stealing b4. When a studio suit asked if and when a payoff would be seen, JMS replied "In about 4 years." The suit responded "I'm going to pretend we never had this conversation". b5 was designed as a 5year arc from teh beginning; even if it did undergo major changes during the course of being filmed.
wmallory wrote:
Although I am also rather fond of Carter's quip during the 1st encounter with one of the "old-timer" alien races...
Off hand I'm not sure what you're referring to.
The European Way of War: Blow your own continent up. The American Way of War: Go over and help them.
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...when are users gonna learn not to believe everything their web browser tells them while surfing porn. Technically, that's more spyware/adware than virus but you are right they dig in like ticks and refuse disable or block everything that could fix them easily. They key to removing most of these to disable System Restore as it sticks itself in there and restores itself on restart. From there scanning from safe mode or from a DOS based AV will usually start to sweep it up. You may need to scan again in Windows and do some manual cleaning Hosts File, IE Add-ins and etc. This is just social engineering at it's finest like the Anna Kornikova virus.
Not just social engineering. I got hit by the first virus since I can remember, doing nothing interactive on an innocuous site I'd been on many times before. Further inspection found that it came in through the Java Installer--I suspect someone hijacked an ad. This one blocked Malwarebytes and SpyBot from displaying, though once I figured out what fake driver it had installed, Malwarebytes cleaned it out.
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wmallory wrote:
One of my favorite B5 quotes as well. Not to mention the many episode (almost 2 seasons IIRC) delay between the setup and the payoff. That's a writer with patience.
Still falls well short of the payoff from stealing b4. When a studio suit asked if and when a payoff would be seen, JMS replied "In about 4 years." The suit responded "I'm going to pretend we never had this conversation". b5 was designed as a 5year arc from teh beginning; even if it did undergo major changes during the course of being filmed.
wmallory wrote:
Although I am also rather fond of Carter's quip during the 1st encounter with one of the "old-timer" alien races...
Off hand I'm not sure what you're referring to.
The European Way of War: Blow your own continent up. The American Way of War: Go over and help them.
dan neely wrote:
Still falls well short of the payoff from stealing b4.
Agreed. That was one of the best laid out multiple time travel loop story lines I've ever seen or read.
dan neely wrote:
wmallory wrote: Although I am also rather fond of Carter's quip during the 1st encounter with one of the "old-timer" alien races... Off hand I'm not sure what you're referring to.
IIRC, from memory... Ivanova and Carter on bridge of a Whitestar sitting in space in front of a very large "old-timer" alien spaceship after repeated attempts to make contact. Ivanova: "I don't get it. I know they understand what I'm saying, but they refuse to acknowledge me." Carter: "Oh, so they're French."
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dan neely wrote:
Still falls well short of the payoff from stealing b4.
Agreed. That was one of the best laid out multiple time travel loop story lines I've ever seen or read.
dan neely wrote:
wmallory wrote: Although I am also rather fond of Carter's quip during the 1st encounter with one of the "old-timer" alien races... Off hand I'm not sure what you're referring to.
IIRC, from memory... Ivanova and Carter on bridge of a Whitestar sitting in space in front of a very large "old-timer" alien spaceship after repeated attempts to make contact. Ivanova: "I don't get it. I know they understand what I'm saying, but they refuse to acknowledge me." Carter: "Oh, so they're French."
You partially threw me by using the actors name; not the characters. It looks like Marcus's line was: "At least it tells us they understand our language, they're just not willing to speak to us in it. Who knew they were French?" -- Marcus Cole, B5 "Voices Of Authority" http://www.urbin.net/EWW/sigs/sf-sigs2.html[^] I bought the script books a few years ago when JMS was selling them (discontinued); if you want I can look up Susan's line as well.
The European Way of War: Blow your own continent up. The American Way of War: Go over and help them.