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Comcast Cuts Infected PCs' Network Connections

Posted by timothy on from the and-sends-them-copies-of-knoppix dept.

fidget42 writes "I just noticed this article over at Infoworld. It seems that Comcast is finally doing something about the machines on their network that are being used by spammers. They are now cutting off service to those customers who have computers that have been hijacked by spammers. Now, if only other broadband ISPs would start policing their user base ..."

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  1. AWESOME FOR MAC!!! by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    More bandwith for all the Max OS X users out there :)

    Seriously!

  2. Re:Yes Yes! by Demonspawn · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Again I must contend that an inanimate object has no decision-making capability, and therefore cannot have a purpose. The object cannot act on it's own, it can only do what it's user directs.

    Therefore, a user of a tool decides it's purpose, not the tool itself. A carpenter's purpose for a hammer is to have a handy tool to drive nails into boards. The designer of the display downstairs definitely intended the purpose of the hammer there to remain inanimate on display. A child's purpose for a hammer may be to smash the heck out of whatever he has on had at the moment. A murder's purpose for a hammer is a nifty device to inflict damage to a human body.

    Or are you one of those anti-gun nuts who somehow rationalize that firearms are somehow created with intelligence, and instinctively seek to kill people?

    --Demonspawn