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It's not only the English that drive on the left...

http://www.pubquizhelp.34sp.com/misc/leftdrive.htm l

If the target server is running one of the vulnerable scripts at specific URLs and is configured to permit external shell commands and remote file download in the PHP/CGI environment, a copy of the worm could be downloaded and executed.

1. don't permit external shell access through you www accounts. Make all you www accounts shell be /usr/bin/false. I realize that some people need cli access but it should be severly limited in it's functions and only used by those who have a real need.
2. don't permit php/cgi scripts that are explotiable. Okay that is a broad general statement , however there are well known malicious scripts and well known explotiable scripts. Don't allow them. And certainly don't allow them if cli access is being used.
3. do apply your security patches (after testing).
4. Host with a good website company like 34sp.com (shameless plug with who I am hosted on)

Um, I just ran a tiny bit of calculation with info from the top of my head, which indicates that your 500 exaJoules/year is a 0.1% effect compared to solar irradiation. the diameter of the earth is like 12,750 km; that squared times pi/4 (area of a circle) is like 1E14 m^2 (working in orders of magnitude here). lets guess that of the 1300 W/m^2 that hit the earth, all but 100 W/m^2 is reflected, the rest absorbed.

Our calculation now is 100 W/m^2 * 1E14 m^2 = 1E16 J/s. 1E16 J/s * 3600s/hr * 24hr/day * 365days/year = 4E23 Joules/year = 400 zettajoules/year. this makes the the 500 exajoules/year a little more than a 0.1% effect. Humanity's effects are doubtless huge in an absolute sense, but compared to our favorite nuclear furnace, we aren't heating the atmosphere. What we are doing, is adding to the greenhouse effect, which means the energy that the sun irradiates us with, gets lost to space at a slower rate than it did 200 years ago.

Admittedly, I could be off by an order of magnitude in either direction, but my guess is that the Earth's atmosphere is less than 90% reflective of infrared light. Also, I might've done the real calculation of blackbodies exchanging heat across space, but this is meant more as a sanity check than rigourous math. Please tear my thinking apart; I'll think better for it.

diameter of earth: http://www.pubquizhelp.34sp.com/sci/planets.html
solar irradiation intensity: http://www.tfp.ethz.ch/Lectures/pv/irradiation.htm l

You omitted "parcel" and "huddle" (reference).

Tubular Bells 2003 has this kind of copy protection. If you try to use it from a PC, you don't get CD audio, but horribly compressed mess instead.

About a year ago a similar question came up on /. in the replies was a post about this company. 34sp is a British based host provider. They incredibly inexpensive. About $21.00 a year for the minimum package. You can of course upgrade and pay more. Their email support has been good enough that I have never had to call them.

34sp.com

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I don't know how they do it, but they do. The support is great, with an IRC channel as well as forum based FAQ's etc.

I don't have any interest in this company.

but it seems that the nice guys at 34sp.com have amazingly competent service at the reasonable price of ~$17 per YEAR (Yes, that's YEAR, not MONTH). I haven't yet tried to host there, but reading the community boards and collecting info from people who host there, it looks like I'm NOT going to do any home based DSL hosting.