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Slashback: Matrix, Terminology, Topology
Well, it's robust, stable and handy for networking tasks ... Linux and Unix users may be justifiably smug about our machines' resistance to viruses and trogans (including ones that send spam), since most of these things are aimed at Microsoft Windows. Maybe it should be no surprise that spammers like Linux, too:
Niels Provos writes "You might remember Honeyd? I have been using it since June to capture spam emails in an attempt to better understand how spammers operate. A recent feature in Honeyd is passive fingerprinting which allows Honeyd to passively identify the operating system that contacts it. For spammers, it turns out that about 43% seem to be running Linux. And mostly Unix, Windows ranks at around 0.7%. The unknown fraction is 52%, so there might be surprises lurking there."
Apple products must be ripened before consumption. Ipodlounge.com editor Dennis Lloyd was one of several readers to note that, rather than the November date named in the recent 2-year iPod retrospective in the New York Times, the device came out just a bit earlier. "The iPod's anniversary was in October ;) The iPod was officially launched on Oct. 23, 2001. The NYT article is incorrect."
May the tide be with you. Doc Searls writes: "Thought I'd direct your attention to the first half of a transcription of the talk Linus gave on the September Geek Cruise that got Slashdotted a few weeks ago. Can't find the link to the Slashdot item, but as i recall it didn't have the benefit of a real transcription." (Here's the Slashdot post about the cruise.) "This one is not only a full transcription (by yours truly, all disclaimers apply), but features pix of his slides and demos as well."
Searls also has up the second part: "That's the Q&A, which is even longer than the prepared part of the talk," as well as the third: "The third part is a transcription of a talk Linus and others gave to the Victoria Linux Users Group. Shorter than the first two."
Searls' three-part report on the cruise itself ran in Linux Journal.
This way to the Egress! Rick Chapman, author of the recently reviewed In Search of Stupidity , writes to point out that book excerpts are available at insearchofstupdity.com, along with some of the book's illustrations.
"Also, I recently was interviewed live on a local CT business show and I've had the session digitized and am mounting on the site today. It runs about 45 minutes and I discuss a lot of the stuff in the book as well as other issues revolving around software marketing and development. ... I have a lot of samples of really bad things I brought to the taping and I think you'll get a kick out of the session."
They should sell nice prints to buy bandwidth. An anonymous reader writes "From the New Scientist article: A project to create a comprehensive graphical representation of the Internet in just one day and using only a single computer has already produced some eye-catching images."
Back pedal, back pedal, baker's man, cover that label with tape if you can. Mr. Slippery writes "According to this Yahoo! News story, L.A. County did not ban the use of 'master' and 'slave' in labeling, but made more of a polite request to vendors. A subtle but important distinction.
'"I do understand that this term has been an industry standard for years and years and this is nothing more than a plea to vendors to see what they can do," said Joe Sandoval, division manager of purchasing and contract services. "It appears that some folks have taken this a little too literally."' (As, perhaps, did those who got offended in the first place...)"
The original memo called Master and Slave labels "not acceptable" -- how non-literally can that be taken? -- and as further news stories have reported, was prompted by an employee's workplace discrimination complaint against the city. That sounds to me like more than a polite request. At least the city has found that a little tape is enough to make the world safe from misinterpreted words.
I bet Bill is a better actor than Keanu. Karma Sucks writes "After some embarrassing PR backlash it seems as if Microsoft is clamping down on distribution of pictures or videos related to the Matrix Spoof that featured Linux and Windows at COMDEX. Even more interesting are the reports that Microsoft is systematically scouting Open Source desktop technology."
And this is what percentage of the industry's profits? dlh writes "Boston.com is reporting that a federal judge Thursday approved a $143 million settlement of a lawsuit that accused major record companies and large music retailers of conspiring to set minimum music prices."
Time to get a new watch. Krellis writes "DynDNS.org, a major dynamic DNS provider, has announced that they will shut off access to any customers using the Linksys WRT54G wireless router to update their service on December 8th unless the router is patched. See the story on ExtremeTech and the DynDNS Press Release for more details. Updated firmware can be downloaded from Linksys."
Well taking that things like sendmail can send 1,000,000 mails and hour with the right spec its not overally surprising as they platform is quick and stable. Of course all spammers should be spit roasted.
Hmm spitroastedspammers.com
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They *do* sell prints. There's a part of the FAQ all about how you can use them for wallpaper, and, er, that's it.
:-)
Not that I have anything against that - they're very pretty, and they're entitled to sell them as much as they want
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
OK, the pics are great, but I'm not an expert in networking nor in internet topology... IP addresses have 4 dimensions but all internet topology pics seem to be in 3 dimensions with brightness showing the density... how are 4D addresses converted to 3D? Or are the internet topology maps spacial 2D traffic (the earth being, more-or-less, a curved plane which can be represented in 2D) projected on a sphere?
I would be very grateful if anyone could point me in te right direction.
Anyone have a mirror or bitorrent for Bill Gates Matrix spoof?
I guess Linux is resistant to those dreaded "spell checkers," too.
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Anyone have a bittorrent link to the Gates Matrix video?
...your prostrate's dead... I think you mean "prostate" for the thing in your ass. Prostrate means laying down flat. Unless you've got a squashed butt gland on the floor.
And this is what percentage of the industry's profits
Probably quite considerably less than they've managed to milk people for by conpiring to artificially inflate prices and create an illegal monopoly in the first place. What is the average annual profit of the RIAA?
I could only think of one thought..."My God! It's full of stars!"
Gorgeous. It's on one of my KDE desktops now.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
But it was better than either of the "official" Matrix equals
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Filerush has a torrent of it up. Also a traditional mirror, take your pick.
The original memo called Master and Slave labels "not acceptable"
Help! Help! I'm being opressed!
Mr. Slippery writes "According to this Yahoo! News story, L.A. County did not ban the use of 'master' and 'slave' in labeling, but made more of a polite request to vendors. A subtle but important distinction.
Now see... a lot of Slashdot folk, when they say "too much time on their hands," they're talking about G4s being made into aquariums, or dropping thousands of rubber balls down a stairwell, or ganging up to kill an unkillable Everquest monster, or something.
When I think of "too much time on their hands" I think of these people.
Please remove the blink red text from your "I say Bill Gates doing something stupid" web site. Arrrrrrrrrgh.
"Hey, I can see my node from here!"
Greetings Slashdot Friends,
We've been extended a very generous bandwidth offer that will greatly benefit our project. However we're now also looking for a beefier box to run this stuff on.
We have made some "under the hood" technology changes and now have this theoretically scanning the entire net in 13 hours, leaving approximately 11 hours for rendering the image.
We're looking to either raise enough capital to purchase a 2-4 way machine with 4GB ram, or have a nice vendor (*cough* dell, HP/Compaq, Apple, etc) step up and donate one for us.
We should have T-Shirts and other paraphernalia ready to purchase sometime in the next week or so. If the machine donation doesn't come through, we'll take the cash from the merchandise sales to pay for it.
Thank you again everyone for your interest, your participation, and most of all your support.
-= The OPTE Team =-
http://www.opte.org
Efnet IRC: #opte
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If you just want the images, I have them mirrored here
Here's a direct mirror to the video
And that would be a prolapsed prostate lying prostrate.
"You might as well get your son a ticket to hell as give him a five string banjo." -unknown minister
"For spammers, it turns out that about 43% seem to be running Linux. And mostly Unix, Windows ranks at around 0.7%. The unknown fraction is 52%, so there might be surprises lurking there."
Windows=more anonymous then?
Even more interesting are the reports that Microsoft is systematically scouting Open Source desktop technology.
...or further down the page
From Dictionary.com
scout
( P ) Pronunciation Key (skout) v. scouted, scouting, scouts v. tr. 1. To spy on or explore carefully in order to obtain information; reconnoiter. 2. To observe and evaluate (a talented person), as for possible hiring.
To reject with disdain or derision. See Synonyms at despise.
If you lost your job today, don't despair. You may die tomorrow anyway.
to be the explanation for the 43% of upstream spam sources. You have people installing older versions of Linux with everything enabled, then bungling the configuration turning it into a mail relay. For a person new to configuring sendmail, postfix, qmail, or whatever, you sort of enter a discovery phase where you make changes to the conf files, restart it, and see if you can send mail yet.
And you stop, pat yourself on the back, and don't change anything when it starts working. But what if that change was that got it to work was, well, relay for all? Whoops.
Then there's the unpatched systems that get r00ted and turned into spam zombies.
I don't think the spammers are installing linux that much. (At least not the BIG ones, and they may be knowledgable/paranoid enough to go with OpenBSD or something) The majority probably got some Alienware rig bought off a stolen CC, running a cracked 2003 server. It's just that they offload the mail to some other cracked Unix host to do the work. That doesn't surprise me.
Fuck Beta. Fuck Dice
Perhaps a toroid? or some other more esoteric geometrical shape that can at least imply an infinite loop.
Their picture makes it look like there is a "center" (although I guess a case could be made for their computer creating the image as the center)
If you are one in a million, then there are six thousand people who are just like you.
I suggest you see your optician. The sky is infact blue, mainly because of light diffraction (that light coming from the sun). Sometimes the sky may have many interesting colours called the northern lights, or there may be a change in the deffraction when the sun sets but the sky should not be red at midday.
karma karma karma karma karma chameleon, you come and go, you come and go.
Love your computer.
I watched the first half, which was funny (but not what microsoft intended for me to find amusing), but it ends (apparently when he's asked to shut his camera off) at the introduction of Bill Gates. Can someone who was there sumarize the remainder of the 'spoof'?
I guess it all depends on where your mind is. That's not the "master" and "slave" I think of when I hear "master" and "slave"...I was thinking more along the lines of, say, "dom" and "sub" which hardly offends anybody.
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Perhaps the spam industry is run by the PHB as well, and the demand for 100% MS, no matter what, is just a prevalent.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
don't think the spammers are installing linux that much. (At least not the BIG ones, and they may be knowledgable/paranoid enough to go with OpenBSD or something)
Most spammers use *BSD. Most of them don't know their ass from a hole in the ground... they just install it, and buy a script and a few lists, and fire away.
Of the three links there, one is to slashdot which can hardly be considered unbiased when it comes to Microsoft PR, the second is a expo diary from a KDE developer that only mentions it, and the third is a summary of the second one.
It's so embarassing when PR wannabe's try to spin.
I had a server that began sending undeliverable messages to my postmaster account that were obviously spams originating from the server itself. I use Debian with Exim set to disable relaying and could not figure out how this occurred. I finally found a couple of strange processes running that apparently were acting as an SMTP reflector of some sort. Computers were sending e-mails to it and it forwarded them out to the proper addresses.
/tmp directory, so it was an easy fix after upgrading the script. I never did figure out exactly what the process was doing though and couldn't find anything about on the 'net. This occurred about a year ago.
I finally traced it back to an older CGI script on the server that had a few bugs. Luckily they only had access to the
Jason
"FORMAT C:" - Kills bugs dead!
Turns out the matrix does have us. Cancer of the Ego
Damn, this thing is funny. :)
It should be called the "iCum" or something like that
Now, here's the important question.... Can it be controlled remotely over the internet?
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
What kind of psychedelics are you on, man?
HOWTO install software on MS-Windows
1. Go to store. Find the software you want, or are told you want.
2. Stand in line to purchase software.
3. Pay $429.99 for office suite
4. Drive home
5. Unpack software. Break fingernail on impenetrable plastic carton. Curse. Wrap finger in Curious George band-aid.
6. Insert CD. Watch the extended edition of The Fellowship of the Ring while the virus scanner checks the CD.
7. When the setup program autoruns, click through licenses and questions both stupid and unintelligible. When the setup program asks for the keycode, look around your workspace. After 5 minutes of frantic searching, realize you through it away with the fingernail-hating packaging. Dig through garbage; find license under old coffee grounds.
8. While the program installing, watch the extended edition of The Two Towers.
9. Run the program for the first time. Dig through settings and configuration to figure out how to TURN OFF THAT DAMNED PAPERCLIP!
10. Done.
Of course, this is for an old version of MS-Office. The newer version is much simpler; since Clippy is no longer included, step 9 is not necessary.
HOWTO install program under Linux (Debian):
1. apt-get install openoffice.org
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
Anyone else ever wonder about the software design of the matrix? I mean, a separate program for everything?
I did some followup on the article and the result is in this month's linmagau:
The article "What if the CIO doesn't know if they're running Linux?" is online now.
(PS. If this is familiar, I also noted this under the article Real NTFS.SYS under Linux.)
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Please fix moderation to something else, maybe negative or neutral. Troll might work. But it's not offtopic, if you bother reading the slashbacks that site is linked does have red blinking text and that text is the whole point of the update. Therfore it IS ON TOPIC, even if it is a troll.
Since I'm a genetically modified fish with a glowing arse who uses linux to spam, and thus increase sales of my spoof of the microsoft spoof of the matrix which I call "Master/Slave Jumper Settings".
I have to say I find the policies of L.A. County and the State of California to be Discriminatory.
I doubt that. Spammers hire very tech-savy people, and I would imagine they also pay them very well. The 'dark side', indeed.
Honestly, it doesnt surprise me that spammers are using Linux; they dont have to concern themselves with licensing issues, it gives them better profit margins, better remote management (especially when most spammer's have their operations outside the USA), etc.
Also, I find it curious that you claim the majority of Linux servers which are doing the spam are 'compromised' systems. That would basically make MS machines the safest ones on the net, if we go by the article's statistics...
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Wow, if that isn't an overstatement!
Someone's blog and an article in linuxworld can hardly, HARDLY be called an embarrassing backlash.
Please, just because a couple of linux nerds got their knickers up in a bunch doesn't mean there was even an inkling of a backlash.
Please, let's not engage in stupid hyperbole... it just makes us real Linux supporters look like overreacting assholes.
...I've fallen into a plot hole and I can't get up!!
-Matrix Trilogy
Why is Microsoft portraying themselves as the rebels? Sounds like they envy the Linux image.
I was thinking make the "master" device beige and the "slave" devices black, that way the master devices would stand out..... oh wait... that probably wouldn't reduce the offensiveness would it.... but it would be funny as hell in an extreamly offensive way and teach whoever started the whole thing not to be stupid.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
The lastest firmware plugs the hole you can use to play around with the linux distro on the router. :(
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
Hey I can see my website from here!!!
(it's the one with the dot)
I stole this Sig
Agreed, but...
Where's google?
I honestly think google should be visually recognizable on such a map.
Never mind, I just realized that it's a hop map, not a link map. I would expect both google and slashdot (and perhaps memepool) to be recognizable on a link map.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
Traceroute is a rather interesting anomaly. In the Unix world most commands are rather well, short. Whereas most Windows commands are more descriptive, though longer. For example: mv:move, cp:copy, rm:del, ls:dir But then along comes Traceroute. In Unix it is traceroute where as Windows uses tracert. The technical reason for Windows naming of traceroute is due to the old 8.3 file name limitation. Traceroute had to be shortened in order to be 8 characters long. Unix on the other hand never had these limitations and could name the file with any length name. But, long names are contrary to the naming philosophy which say to use very short names for easy typing.
Why is the Unix traceroute command so damn long? Why wasn't it called tr? Oh, that conflicts with tr, as in the translate command. Well then, why not trt? That's more Unix like. Or perhaps, they could really have been considerate of all the network engineers that use traceroute so often and simply called it "t". Now that would be really good. Calling traceroute "t" would also make it nearly impossible for the average user to associate the command with it's meaning making difficult to remember and just generally hard to use and well, let's face it, that's what Unix is all about.
So what the hell happened to Unix' traceroute. Who ever thought of naming a Unix command completely and descriptively? It's heresy, I tell you!
I like the spider web looking maps of the internet that are thrown around every now and then. But I think it would be far more interesting to see a map of what it looked like during the last major northeast blackout. It would perhaps be a good show of just how capable the internet really is of rerouting itself.
herewhile you still can...
"It remains to be seen if the human brain is powerful enough to solve the problems it has created." Dr. Richard Wallace
When I get a robot it frellin well better fully treat me as "master." And I will be totally comfortable using it as "slave."
Machines should be our slaves, not people. Machines may even be why we don't need slaves any more to construct successful economies - well, that and the Chinese who will work for less than it would cost to keep a good machine in service here, let alone a human being.
When the AI folks start arguing for transhumanism and machine's rights, consider that the only way to grant machines rights is to take rights away from human beings. And, since machines are not independent and will never truly have feelings about anything (since that takes being built from live cells, at which point you're not a machine) those who control the machines which gain rights from human beings have themselves gained the machines' power by proxy.
"with their freedom lost all virtue lose" - Milton
Also, I find it curious that you claim the majority of Linux servers which are doing the spam are 'compromised' systems. That would basically make MS machines the safest ones on the net, if we go by the article's statistics...
That is assuming that the crackability of any particular linux system running vs. a windows system is somehow dependant on the likelyhood of any particular instance of that OS running a mail server. I will go out on a limb and claim that linux boxes visible to the Internet are 100 times more likely to have a mailer installed than a Windows box will have a copy of Exchange.
The statistic makes it look like swiss cheese, but I think it's because the people looking for a relay host are targetting linux boxes (and the other 52%) specifically so they have a higher chance of success of it being nearly ready to go after the breach.
Fuck Beta. Fuck Dice
Another thing worth mentioning is that the moon story was crap. And didn't I tell ya? I think I did.
Lord Of The Rings!
i can see linux the linux response by having Linus as Frodo, Alan Cox as Gandolf, Redmond as Mordor. SCO as Saruman.
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Bush Jr. knows the Moon is made of *green cheese*, and any mission to it would benefit only *welfare queens*. That's socialism! No go.
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2. openoffice 0.2rc-3 successfully installed :*)
"Pretty maps of the Internet."
Oboy!
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Curious, does MS even have the legal authority to even request someone pull down the spoofs? MS making the spoofs does not mean that it is their creative work -under the law-.
If I make a derivative work of a Star Wars movies and distribute a clip, Lucas doesn't have to come after me; that's the original holder's option. But I also have no legal protection for my work either; I can't require and legally enforce that someone take down the clip, only ask them to nicely.
As far as I can tell, the spoofs are derivative works, and therefore MS has no legal copyright claim or hold to make such a request (if they did so as if they were legal holders of copyright).
1st note--maybe the spoof falls under parody (imo, strictly speaking, it's not).
2nd note--maybe the spoof is technically in violation of someone else's coypright. That doesn't mean MS is going to be charged with something. However, that also means that MS doesn't have any legal protection for their spoof to tell someone else to take it down.
3rd note--I don't really care about the spoofs, parody or not, as MS did what they did and that's fine by me; I tend to dislike the copyright restrictions in the US. But when MS went after someone like they had a legitimate legal claim of ownership, the gloves come off.
Interesting how Microsoft showed Linux running the Matrix. Apparently only Linux was stable and flexible enough for such a massive project.
You're missing some steps.
Between 9 and 10, you forgot to include rebooting, product activation, rebooting, getting any updates, rebooting, running spyware/adware checking software, and deleting unnecessary icons and shortcuts...as needed.
There should also be a sidebar where product activation gets triggered when you swap hardware around.
Then there's the EOL issue where the program stops running and you have to repeat all of the steps over again.
Now, of course I didn't RFTA, especially on a Slashback where there's tons of them, but I was just wondering how effective it is to offer excerpts when Amazon lets you browse large chunks. Now, that being said, I don't know how long these excerpts are, I was just pointing out something that I noticed.
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I've been paid over $1,500 for some simple per-site spamming stuff. I was recently approached for a "bulk" deal for 10-15 sites, at around $1000 a pop. And he said that some friends where interested to.
So yes, it does pay. $15,000 for a months work is pretty nice, especially in this economy.
Guess no one has read the article about the master/slave thing in LA county. They mentioned that they were calling it "Primary" and "Secondary" instead of master/slave. Pretty stupid if you ask me, whats the drive connected on the slave on secondary IDE channel? Secondary Secondary? How about Primary Primary? Looks like most of the speculation about it just being one guy who way overreacted are true according to the article. Heh IBM even said "we'll look into it" about the terminology.
HOWTO *really* install program under Linux (Debian):
/usr/local /home/user/ ...
1. apt-get install openoffice.org
2. "Script exited with error -100"
3. Curse and reboot (whoops, that didn't work)
4. dselect, update apt-get update dselect update perl
5. apt-get install openoffice.org
6. Where'd it go?
7. ope<tab><tab>
8. cd
9. ope<tab><tab>
10. cd
16. user@host.org# find / * -iname *office*
17. man grep...
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(Yeah, like I'm gonna throw away karma for this)
So again, if you are saying the majority of those Linux boxes are 'compromised' machines, than Linux security is FAR worse than that of Windows. But honestly it wouldnt surprise me; unless somebody had gotten bold and cracked Debian, there would still be an unknown kernel exploit in the wild. I would imagine there are a lot more which smarter crackers are using on the down-low and just keeping to themselves.
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I'm gonna put a big D-U-H on that. After all, hasn't he been telling us that "windows is secure," "the windows api is open to developers," "windows actually works," and the likes of that for years? And been believed by some (nobody here, I'm sure)? I mean, even for the matrix movie that was *good* we all knew it was just a movie (once again, excluding the same people)
Does anyone have a link to this in mpeg, quicktime, avi or some video format that is not stupid WMF? I refuse to install the windows media player on my mac out of general principle, but would love to see this vid.
I used to have a better sig than this, but I got tired of it
Clippy has actually returned in Office 2003, but no one else seems to have noticed....
Yes, this should be in Slashback. I got taken in the last time this kind of story appeared here, when the president was supposedly going to announce a Mars initiative. Of course, that was bunk. I wasn't fooled this time.
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Whichever way you look at it, the whole of "Political Correctness" is founded on bullshit. Words are words. Offence is as much in the perception of the offendee as in the intention of the offender.
..... in this country, any attack by a white person on a black or asian person is considered a racial attack even if there is a clear non-racial motive. A few years ago in a part of my home city where I no longer hang out, a bunch of under-age white youths were trying to buy booze and cigarettes from an off-licence, and the asian proprietor - mindful that, if he served them, he would {a} prejudice his licence, and therefore his own livelihood; {b} carry some responsibility if the kids got drunk and went out committing crimes; and {c} expose himself to a lawsuit from Little Johnny's parents claiming that the fags he had sold their precious little darling were responsible for his terminal lung cancer - barred them from his shop. Basically he was 100% in the right and they were wrong.
Take for example the idea that you cannot say "blind", you have to say "visually impaired". How does that make any difference? If someone is blind, they are blind. Using a different name for it does not make them any less blind. The only difference it can possibly make is that you can feel a little less guilty about the fact that you can see and they can't. But you shouldn't be feeling guilty about that in the first place. It probably isn't your fault, after all. It's just the way the world works. {Of course, placing people in denial and making them feel guilty about themselves is a great way to manipulate them. Cf. Dr Benway in Naked Lunch}. "Master" and "slave" when applied to inanimate pieces of hardware are just names. Humans do not keep slaves anymore {so the theory goes} so there is no reason for anyone to be offended by the terms.
Another thing
Later, the same kids went to his home and tried to start a fire. The law held that it was a racist attack, even though it was most patently not: it was simple revenge, motivated by nothing more than childish indignation at someone else choosing to behave in accordance with the spirit of the law. Race had nothing to do with it. Whilst I don't doubt that a few racial epithets may have been used in the verbal accompaniments to the violence, my contention is that the primary grievance was not with the shopkeeper's race but with his understandable aversion to a prison sentence. Misrepresenting this as a racial incident only gives ammunition to real racists.
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
It's long been common knowledge that Sendmail requires proper configuration to use safely. The system's not compromised in the sense that the spammer has root access, but in the sense that the email server on the system automatically relays any mail sent to it.
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As it turned out, the level with the shorter tag (of two letters) did rest between the letters "JJJ" and "LLL." Fascinating really, if one is fascinated by immaturity and oversensitivity.
End result, something was brought to my mind in a very negative way and no it was no the evils of racist whites in silly sheets with burning crosses.
Way to go, the PC movement once again is enlightening one mind at a time through careful application of reactionary knee-jerk solutions.
Depends on where you live. If you live far enough north (or south), the sun will sometimes stay on the horizon all day, and thus can appear red at midday.
Your IP has been logged. The nuclear missiles are on their way.
Then there's the unpatched systems that get r00ted and turned into spam zombies.
I don't think the spammers are installing linux that much. (At least not the BIG ones, and they may be knowledgable/paranoid enough to go with OpenBSD or something) The majority probably got some Alienware rig bought off a stolen CC, running a cracked 2003 server. It's just that they offload the mail to some other cracked Unix host to do the work. That doesn't surprise me.
So, *nix security is really, really bad, and/or spammers are using mostly Linux. Im not supporting either claim, I am just addressing the ramifications of his comments.
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I like the curious george bandaid.. Nice touch! hahaha
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Reeeaaallly. I can't wait to see this in action. I knew they could never let Microsoft Bob die.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.