Reminded me of a *quality Windows 95© screensaver.

Most QR reading apps show you the URL or other QR code contents before doing anything with it. They don't just go to the URL automatically unless you tell it to do so (none that I've used anyway). I'm assuming if there were a program for desktop/laptop PCs that reads QR codes, it would behave similarly. Standard QR codes can't really contain anything other than text data, because they are extremely limited in the number of bytes they can represent. Generally, they're used to store a website URL or similar type of thing.

I've never heard of a web-based attack that would automatically infect you. There would be some sort of confirmation or you'd need to run some piece of software manually in order to get infected. JavaScript doesn't have the ability to actually break out of the browser, so there's nothing it could really do at a system level. If it downloaded software, you would need to let it install before there was any risk.

I've heard of screensavers, back in the like, Windows 95/98 days, where if you used it, you could become infected. But that's no different. Screensavers (at least back then) were nothing more than specialized .exe files, so you're just running a program like any other thing.

If you're dumb enough to click a link and then install the software it downloads, then you're not exercising proper basic security principles and you kind of deserve to learn a lesson anyway.

Nerdgasm.. and yes nice bokeh effect.

If I had those set on loop as a screensaver I'd never take my eyes off it.

I want this as a screensaver, NOW!

I want a screensaver that does this. You have a library of videos and it tries to randomly fill the screen with videos from your library, starting at arbitrary times, and looping them all. If you don't have enough videos within your specified library to fill the specified number of video tiles, it will reuse items from the library, but they will start at different times.

If I could develop that, it would be awesome.

>> ^alien_concept:
she might walk past while the screensaver has kicked in, hahaha


But she has to move the screen saver--and she's addicted to the comp, so she'll be back on today

she might walk past while the screensaver has kicked in, hahaha

that's a desktop image, not a screensaver! jeez, amateur mistake.

>> ^Kofi:

I was really hoping for Rebecca to appear. I feel sorry for that tone-deaf spoilt little brat. Hope she doesn't become too emotionally scarred from all this.

Don't worry, she has her own channel on Funny or Die, and they gave her videos a special voting setup - instead of "Die" Or "Funny" for choices you have "Monday" or "Friday". She is milking this thing for all it is worth, and good for her. She's still just a kid, yet she seems to be taking it all in stride rather than letting it crush her soul.

Besides, her 15 minutes are almost up, and at least it her song didn't rocket up the charts like some other crap did in the past:





Aye yay yay, how come so many people to this day still think MacArthur Park is anything other than a horrible song? We all may be part of the problem.

the default desktop background for an arse computer is goatse.cx. Luckily they were all in screensaver mode!

NP, KP.

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Thank you very much, my Finnish friend!
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*promote

Thank you very much, my Finnish friend!
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*promote

O_O.. I want those silly flip floppin' space cats as a screensaver or somethin'.

>> ^spawnflagger:

From the latter half of the video it seems Watson will only buzz in if the probability of a correct answer is very high (green). If they set the cut-off lower, say 60%, it would have buzzed in much more often.

By the title of the video, I assumed that "destroy" meant the humans would have 0 points... It would have been much more intimidating if they had a "Cyberdyne Systems Model 101" standing between the 2 humans instead of a screensaver.


KILL KILL KILL!

From the latter half of the video it seems Watson will only buzz in if the probability of a correct answer is very high (green). If they set the cut-off lower, say 60%, it would have buzzed in much more often.

By the title of the video, I assumed that "destroy" meant the humans would have 0 points... It would have been much more intimidating if they had a "Cyberdyne Systems Model 101" standing between the 2 humans instead of a screensaver.