Opinion? What's that?

Does it really take a rocket scientist to install an anti-virus app and keep it up to date? If the astronauts aboard the International Space Station are any indication, even that's not enough!

Apparently, earlier this month NASA detected that a worm had infected some computers that were taken up into orbit in July. Smart as astronauts have to be, it seems none of them thought to even install an AV program on their laptops.

Fortunately, the virus in question is only designed to steal passwords for some MMOs popular in East Asia, so shouldn't do any real damage while it is investigated and contained (if the astronauts do play those games, the lag from space might be a bit too much...).

On the upshot, now you can say you're smarter than an astronaut simply by keeping your AV on and up to date


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on Aug 28, 2008

They'd wipe out most of the planet's population with vastly superior technology, catch a cold, and die. That, or we'll just pour water on them.

Have you been reading the post on movie monsters?

 

on Aug 28, 2008

No, I haven't. But it was only logical to make fun of the two worst movie endings in recent history

on Aug 28, 2008
  so that means, that i can go to space now?
on Aug 28, 2008

Only if you have an antivirus.

 

on Aug 28, 2008

Boogie_traps included

 

Boogie traps...originally designed in the 1970's to combat the disco fever epidemic.

 

or...

 

Boogie traps...what astronauts with runny noses use.

on Aug 28, 2008
Boogie traps...originally designed in the 1970's to combat the disco fever epidemic.


Yeah, I remember John Travolta complaining about somebody on the set of Saturday Night Fever not using a handkerchief and getting it all over his new dancing shoes.
on Aug 28, 2008

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That, or we'll just pour water on them.

That HAS been known to make things worse you know... One swimming pool later you may have an epidemic on your hands!!!

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