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Netcraft Jokes About SCO's Virus Fears
Elektroschock writes: "Through the media SCO Group sent the message that a virus writer that targets its website would be a Linux enthusiast. Netcraft has its own funny remarks in a dogfood article." Some of you might get a cackle out of the third solution.
I for one welcome our new "previously unknown Linux Thought Leader" overlord!
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
...and that makes me wonder if the editor only read that far. ;)
;) )
"Entire set of infected Windows machines is reached and either comes up running Debian or crashes stone dead trying. No denial of service attack occurs. SCO sends licence fee demands to owners of all the previously infected windows machines. They happily pay up and SCO splits the proceeds with Slashdot readers."
(And yes, I read the whole thing.
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Consequences: SCO Executives buy a small business shared hosting account at Yahoo, noting that it runs on FreeBSD, not Linux, and point www.sco.com at the new account.
Makes sense, Unixware and FreeBSD have much in common, according to Netcraft. Can you guess what they have in common?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
From the article: "SCO Execs point www.sco.com at the loopback address 127.0.0.1, end lawsuits, dismiss lawyers, and invest remaining corporate cash reserves in call options in Dell & Microsoft stock."
Since when do SCO and Verisign share corporate strategy for "net presence management?" Now that's synergy in action!
How many roads must a man walk down? 42.
Why not take the time to make a really insightful comment?
Why not just put multiple A records on the sco domain, as to spread the load across multiple servers. Besides, there will be enough traffic to take down many, many sites. Here's a short list, in order of importance...
c omn ux.com
kernel.org (and its mirrors)
groklaw.net
ibm.com
redhat.com
suse.
novell.com
sourceforge.net
slashdot.org
li
apple.com
sco.org (When we're finished, we'll be all you can see)
Fact: *Santa Cruz Operations is dying.
... the entire world starts to DDOS you, to see if an expected DDOS is taking place yet [huge grin :-] ... A company that monitors uptime starts a deathwatch on your site ... That same company publically ridicules you on their homepage :-)
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
Well, the bomb on Utah? Aren't they all Christians in Utah? So I leave it to the Lord to punish SCO. Eternal doom proposed.
Search for: Liars And Thieves *** Sorry, but search returned no results. Try to compose less restrictive search query or check spelling. *** Obviously their search engine is already DDOS'd
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
Linux geeks reveal that they've secretly controlled satellites in order to build a "Death Star" out of existing space debris. (you think the hubble is busted? Ha! We just borrowed some parts 'cause we needed some lenses and a gyroscope).
This "Death Star" goes Independence Day on SCO Land with pinpoint accuracy -- McBride castrated before being zapped like an ant under a magnifying lens.
Sir Gates and the Knights of the Old Republicans wage war against Geekdom because of this weapon of mass destruction. They device a plan to send a Mac to the death star in order to introduce a virus.
Upon pitching the idea to Steve Jobs, the poor man laughs himself to death, leaving Gates and Ballmer (in their Matrix outfits) to have their tablet PC plugged into the Linux-powered "Laser" via Samba.
The XP Tablet-PC edition spreads like a cancer through the ext3 filesystem resulting in many "I Told You So" comments by Reiser.
Linus, finally sick of all these events, sheds his impartial nature and embraces his dark side. Finally teaches everything he knows to that bleach-blonde IBM Commercial kid and dubs him Darth Tux. Geeks around the world cede their control of the Death Star to Darth Tux, who shoots down both Washingtons and proceeds to carve his face onto Mt. Rushmore.
Darth Tux declared supreme leader, quoted as saying "Choice is good...as long as you choose Linux" Proceeds to create his own distro -- Slim Shady Linux.
Geeks install distro, wave their hands skyward in apathy, and enjoy the new era of computing.
http://www.sco.com/mydoom/
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What long-term steps should I take to protect against future viruses?
3. Do not download any documents or programs from any Website that you do not know to be reputable
This is just their way of stopping people finding what GPL stuff they're still giving away, isn't it?
I'm scared of numbers that can't be written as a fraction. It's an irrational fear.
Mormons, actually. It's like Christ++.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke
Object-Oriented Religion?
Oh yeah. Back in the old days they used to have these whacky ideas about inheritance. It wasn't uncommon for children to have many parents.
"The words of the prophets are written on the Slashdot walls."
Perhaps they just think of slashdot when they think of DDoSing?
Mormons, actually.
Wonder why my brain edited out the second m there for a moment...
Seemed reasonable too...
There used to be a website (ftp.warez.org I think, but it's changed now) that resolved to 127.0.0.1, it was great to give to those idiots who join random irc channels and ask for good "warez" servers, especially if they happened to be running an ftp server on their own computer. "This site sucks, it has the same stuff as me!"
Dum dum dum dum dum, Joesph Smith was called a Profit, dum dum dum dum dum! dum dum dum dum dum
...link so SCO again? This is getting fishy :)
So, if Christ is the Highest, wouldn't Christ++ wrap around (2's complement) to the lowest possible, meaning the devil? No wonder SCO is located there...
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
I hear that if you're from the island of Java, you can only have one parent.
Yep. That's right. Keep on repeating it. You might start believing it.
I work in tech support for one of the major computer manufacturers.
I've had people call up claiming that their brand new computer came with the Blaster worm.
It'd be nice if the sales people had enough sense to give out a flyer with instructions on how to enable the Windows XP firewall and download the patch, but I probably expect too much.
Solution 2: Take www.sco.com out of the DNS.
Consequences: Everyone has a quiet weekend. SCO Execs drink Budweiser and watch the Superbowl. Global media considers that the virus author "has won". Anti-virus company Execs do not return journalists' calls on "What was all that fuss?"
The SCO execs are all Mormon I thought, they'll have to settle for a dixie cup of lemonade, that is if they're not at church.
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
Object-Oriented Religion?
Isn't that referred to as 'idolatry'?
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