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Flashback Click Fraud Campaign Was a Bust
zarmanto writes "It seems the Flashback botnet has netted their creators nothing but frustration. Flashback was tagged early on by anti-virus vendors, who promptly sink-holed many of the command & control addresses, and essentially crippled the hacker's ability to control the vast majority of the Flashback botnet... but that's not the best part. The Flashback spawned click fraud campaign resulted in... nada! It seems that their pay-per-click affiliate may be on to their scheme, as they refused to pay out. Score one for the good guys, for once."
this shouldn't need explaining but...
his point is that you'd have to be a complete fucking cretin to click on ads, just as you would have had to be a complete fucking cretin to have voted for Bush.
not that voting for Bush's opponents in 2000 or 2004 would have been particularly appealing(*), but voting for the far greater of two evils is just fucking stupid...Bush will go down in history as the idiot puppet who destroyed what little was left of the american experiment.
and as for the current crop of republican candidates - i honestly can't understand how *anyone* sane could even consider voting for ant of them, or why their very presence as serious candidates for the US Presidency isn't regarded as a cause for deep shame and embarrassment by Americans. they all seem like complete lunatics. terrifying lunatics.
but then, i'm not an american and i think it's blindingly obvious that pretty nearly all of your politicians are either batshit insane or are the enthusiastic puppets of megacorps or both.
(*) Gore wasn't too bad but if he had won, he would have found (just like Obama) has that he wouldn't be allowed by the corporate owners of America to actually do anything major. So he wouldn't have been able to do much good, but at least he wouldn't have done anything actively evil....he certainly wouldn't have jump-started the whole war on terror bullshit or the invasion of Iraq (best excuse: "he tried to kill my daddy") and dragged america (and the conga-line of suckholes in the "coalition of the willing") into the state of permanent war and the Orwellian nightmare that we're living in right now.
And he wouldn't have let the banking scumbags and wall street thieves get away with the massive frauds they perpetrated over years that resulted in the economic crisis of 2007/2008.
So yeah, you would have had to be a complete fucking cretin to vote for Bush. Or for any of the current crop who promise only more of the same but worse and with an even larger dose of fucked-up religious insanity and/or libertarian lunacy layered on top.