neowin wrote:Computer security company Sophos has released a version of their anti-virus software, fully translated into Klingon. Yes, Klingon, the imaginary language from Star Trek.
Apparently, Sophos has decided the Klingon Empire is a completely untapped market, and before Symantec or McAfee got the jump on them, they decided to help rid the empire of all the spyware, adware and other Tribbles troubles that plague their Windows users. Scary to think that Windows would be controlling things like cloaking devices or photon torpedoes, even scarier to think those systems could be infected with a Romulan rootkit.
neowin wrote:Computer security company Sophos has released a version of their anti-virus software, fully translated into Klingon. Yes, Klingon, the imaginary language from Star Trek.
Apparently, Sophos has decided the Klingon Empire is a completely untapped market, and before Symantec or McAfee got the jump on them, they decided to help rid the empire of all the spyware, adware and other Tribbles troubles that plague their Windows users. Scary to think that Windows would be controlling things like cloaking devices or photon torpedoes, even scarier to think those systems could be infected with a Romulan rootkit.
MOOD - Thirsty
A surprising amount of modern pseudoscience is coming out of the environmental sector. Perhaps it should not be so surprising given that environmentalism is political rather than scientific.
Timothy Casey
it's a simple rule in marketing... product quality/reliability/funtion reduces in direct proportion to the level of 'hip zany jouge' infesting the marketing of said product...
much like using chuck 'texas for texans!' norris to plug food with all the flavour and texture of roadkill...
on this scale, sophos makes for an excellent rear-view mirror ornament...
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so - Bertrand Russel
rusty I know you speak Klingon fluently and will have this installed faster than light speed .
Oh and what is Tribble doing in Star Trek?
This sounds like it should be a Aprils Fools joke but hey if it sells it sells...
JUSTICE, n A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
rustypup wrote:it's a simple rule in marketing... product quality/reliability/funtion reduces in direct proportion to the level of 'hip zany jouge' infesting the marketing of said product...
much like using chuck 'texas for texans!' norris to plug food with all the flavour and texture of roadkill...
on this scale, sophos makes for an excellent rear-view mirror ornament...
Meaning... its as useless as a klingon ship with no cloaking device?
Gerrold brainstormed some nonsense words, arriving at "tribble" almost at random.
So Tribble is a nonsense word/person okay then .
JUSTICE, n A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
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<points finger> unclean! unclean! 