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| Posted: | Wed Nov 16 15:43:39 EST 2005 |
Back in high school, after reading Space-Time and Beyond for the umpteenth time and drinking one too many zombies with my friend Henry, we came up with a theory:
In the infinite set of universes, there had to exist a particular universe in which the events in our lives were being watched as a TV show.
We then made a solemn vow to live in a way to keep our ratings up.
This is the continuation of that story.
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For those of you with a short attention span, short posts telling you what I'm up to right now...
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I needed a "real" number to use as the score, so I used the number of nameservers that saw rootkit-related queries and figured it would be a good lower bound.
In OS X a program such as that cannot be installed unless you type in your password and click "ok" -- it can't be snuck in without you knowing.
But one thing that can happen in OS X is your computer unwittenly sending personal data. I don't know what it's called, but there are banners that try to prompt the computer to send out data.
Thankfully there's a great program called Little Snitch that alerts you everytime that happens