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I suppose that there's always the hope that this will set a precedent for religious leaders to attempt to recreate miracles, and kill themselves in the process.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I thought we may have lost a jesus freak from the Kakadu, damn.
WTF sort of publication is that, one of the ugliest, over the top designs I have seen in a while. I was going to read the store but my eyes kept crossing.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Well clearly his demonstration was not accurate.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I just love the eyewitness comment:
Quote: 'He promised he would demonstrate his faith to us today, but he unfortunately ended up drowning and getting eaten by 3 large crocodiles in front of us.
'We still don’t understand how this happened because he fasted and prayed the whole week. They finished him in a couple of minutes.
Thank God I don't suffer from religion!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Kevin
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PeejayAdams wrote: Thank God I don't suffer from religion!
Ah, but you do suffer - from other people's religion!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Very true!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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He got what he deserved for misrepresenting the "Gospel Message" and reducing "Christian Faith" to a Carnival side show. Unfortunately the public as I can see from the many replies will misconstrue the actions of this far out fringe religious group as representing what Christians are really like and what we actually believe. Crazy religious fanatics like these make the rest of us look bad and the unbelievers are easily lead to believe they represent the real followers of Jesus, the Messiah.
I am glad his career is cut short so he cannot corrupt more people than he already has.
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Interviewer: What would you say is your greatest strength?
Me: I'm a really fast learner. Give me any problem and I will figure it out.
Interviewer: What is 11 * 11?
Me: 65.
Interviewer: Not even close. It is 121.
Me: It's 121.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: It is 121.
Not even close. It's 1001. 
"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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We don't have any life-critical data on our little home network, but I keep full backups of our data on air-gapped drives. Then I also backup some important data to DVDs that cannot be corrupted.
I cannot help but wonder: Hospitals and other medical institutions have very critical data. How can they not keep regularly updated backups on safe media, out of reach of Ransom viruses? It just seems extremely negligent to me.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Hospitals and other medical institutions
You have to remember not all of the people who work at these places are dedicated medical professionals. There are many low paid admin staff who sit at computers all day, perhaps surfing for things unconnected with your heart attack or my haemorrhoids.
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I believe it is the responsibility of the IT professionals to have safe data backups in case they are attacked. Assume it WILL happen and plan accordingly. What is the alternative? What we have in the UK and other countries today?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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In an ideal world ... but unfortunately we live in the real world where things get forgotten, or done wrong. Just look at some of the stuff in QA every day.
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Quote: we live in the real world where things get forgotten
Sadly, yes! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I believe they generally do (exception exists of course), but before they can push back a backup they need to make sure all computers are clean. That could take quite a while for an understaffed IT department.
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Let me explain it this way. I work in the medical industry. We have 100,000 or so workstations where I work, I can't even count how many servers. It's in the the thousands. Backing those up to DVD's would require more DVD's than have ever been made on Earth, and the manpower to do the backups - same.
Now, we do backups. We have million dollar robotic backup libraries, spread across 3 cities in 2 states. It is a huge task. There are dozens of staff who do nothing but manage this. We have continuity of operations manuals and training on a regular basis to make sure everything is "on top". Still, it's not enough.
Your backup of a desktop computer is comparing apples to oranges. I manage a VAST amount of data, and that's just in my tiny little world. Petabytes.
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So what is your strategy in case you are attacked?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Actually that's not my job, so I'm not the one to ask. I'm just an engineer. And also the term "attacked" is a broad one. Think about it, there are many ways we can lose service. Actually one of the worst I remember was when a water main burst and flooded a prime data center. Still that really didn't take anything down for long.
I don't think anyone is going to answer that question directly because it violates security principles anyway.
I will say this, no one slept much this weekend.
The point I was trying to make is that those people responsible for your data do take this VERY seriously, at the least the one's I know do. But it's a very complex problem. And it's expensive. Everyone is doing the best they can with limited resources.
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Don't start sleeping yet - Europol pointed out that the real fun will be Monday, when all those "turned off for the weekend" computers are booted up... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's cool Griff. We are spending the week dead, for tax reasons.
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Just don't press that weird black button that is labelled in black on a black background. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well that's strange. A sign popped up and it said "please do not press that button again".
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That is strange! Normally a small black light lights up black to let you know you've done it.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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