May 19, 2008, the pioneer platform in 3D virtual communities announced today the appointment of a new non-executive board member; Thomas Duterme. Mr. Duterme is currently a New Business Development Manager who assesses new business opportunities at Google. Joining Worlds' board, it is expected that he will help to drive the expansion of the Company's pioneering patented 3D technology.
Since they were sending spam to Google and Microsoft servers they most likely are breaking US law and can be extradited. Perhaps you should inform US police to look into it.
There's a difference between educating people and using their machines to send spam to Google and Microsoft servers.
What if these people had bandwidth limits as some connections in England do. Now you've stolen part of their bandwidth.
According to another slashdotter they changed the background screens. Now you've changed data on another persons computer and that's illegal by itself. How can you be sure that your changes didn't screw up the system? Someone could have been working on something important and you've screwed it up.
Yes, this could have happened anyway however just because people do crime in the world doesn't give the BBC the right to do it too without consequences.
If the BBC managed to obtain crack cocaine/firearms from a public figure, would you be as quick to denounce their actions?
What has that got to do with anything? Between what actually happened and your made up scenario they're not even remotely similar.
The BBC not only obtained a botnet they USED it on PUBLIC property.
For your scenario to make any sense the BBC would have to go on a gun rampage killing spree.
They could have easily setup a botnet on ten of their own machines with their own private mail server and kept it all internal however they decided to break the law instead.
Not if it's their own hotmail and gmail accounts or if they have permission, I can spam myself if I want to, and you could spam me as well if I gave you permission.
No you can't. I'm pretty sure Google and Microsoft wouldn't be happy with you spamming their servers. It might be going to your gmail or hotmail account however your permission means squat unless you're sending the mail to your own mail server.
In fact I'm sure DDOSing Google and Microsoft servers with spam is against the law by itself.
You're assuming that the BBC didn't break into the machines themselves which is most likely what happened.
They most likely started with one machine running a program to break into others so your analogy doesn't fit at all.
Notice I say most likely because none of us know due to the article and video lacking any detail on how they collected the machines. Either way the police should look into it and determine if a crime has been committed, that is after all their job.
Every Google forum is like this and it's because Google doesn't do support at all.
It relies on volunteers to answer questions. Take Youtube and Vimeo as a comparison. Vimeo has *gasp* an email address. Good luck trying to email Google on anything..
Except no one is abusing their position the request is coming from the father of the stabbing victim.
I'd expect incoherent ramblings from the father of the victim, easier to try and change the world and delude yourself that you're making a difference.
Hopefully politicians won't use this to steal money from citizens however I don't have much hopes because everyone involved is an old fart and video games is something they don't understand and must be restricted or banned which has been done in the past.
Wake me up when the following come standard on each install:
- A good command line with auto complete - Sensible file directories (user data all in one place such as/home/username) - A package manager
These are my gripes with Windows and I wish they'd listen. I have nothing personal against them apart from I don't like using their software in its current state.
Indeed, very informative. It's also why people have problems switching, because everyone has that one application; Or there is that one piece of functionality which doesn't exist in the alternative.
They should really tell you where these places are considering how much they fuck up. The last place I'd want to live is next to a damn nuclear bunker.
Why do we need nukes anyway? How does it possibly help in any terrorist situation? What a completely waste of money.
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Thanks, I'll do that..
uh, no it's not.
1) Lets take the bus because it's cheaper then the train.
2) This builder, insurance plan, etc quoted a cheaper price
There are plenty of examples.
Yes that's why everything is divided up into
TRUNK and STABLE
This is a simple case of poor release management by numerous people.
Not only this but their company address is just some dudes house.. wtf..
Why are people investing in this shit? I'm sure this company is a fraud of some kind.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=11+Royal+Road+Brookline+02445+United+States%20(Worlds.com+Inc.)
This is from worlds.com news page..
May 19, 2008, the pioneer platform in 3D virtual communities announced today the appointment of a new non-executive board member; Thomas Duterme. Mr. Duterme is currently a New Business Development Manager who assesses new business opportunities at Google. Joining Worlds' board, it is expected that he will help to drive the expansion of the Company's pioneering patented 3D technology.
Again, it's not their servers. They registered a gmail and hotmail email account. That doesn't make it theirs to send thousands to spam mail to.
Since they were sending spam to Google and Microsoft servers they most likely are breaking US law and can be extradited. Perhaps you should inform US police to look into it.
There's a difference between educating people and using their machines to send spam to Google and Microsoft servers.
What if these people had bandwidth limits as some connections in England do. Now you've stolen part of their bandwidth.
According to another slashdotter they changed the background screens. Now you've changed data on another persons computer and that's illegal by itself. How can you be sure that your changes didn't screw up the system? Someone could have been working on something important and you've screwed it up.
Yes, this could have happened anyway however just because people do crime in the world doesn't give the BBC the right to do it too without consequences.
What has that got to do with anything? Between what actually happened and your made up scenario they're not even remotely similar.
The BBC not only obtained a botnet they USED it on PUBLIC property.
For your scenario to make any sense the BBC would have to go on a gun rampage killing spree.
They could have easily setup a botnet on ten of their own machines with their own private mail server and kept it all internal however they decided to break the law instead.
No you can't. I'm pretty sure Google and Microsoft wouldn't be happy with you spamming their servers. It might be going to your gmail or hotmail account however your permission means squat unless you're sending the mail to your own mail server.
In fact I'm sure DDOSing Google and Microsoft servers with spam is against the law by itself.
If they did then the police is guilty of assisting a crime.
You're assuming that the BBC didn't break into the machines themselves which is most likely what happened.
They most likely started with one machine running a program to break into others so your analogy doesn't fit at all.
Notice I say most likely because none of us know due to the article and video lacking any detail on how they collected the machines. Either way the police should look into it and determine if a crime has been committed, that is after all their job.
Except it's not a private area in any sense. It's a public website with a ToS that strips you of any rights you had to the content you submit.
I'm looking at distrowatch now and PCLinuxOS is 7th place with Ubuntu at 1st, not that I care however I find your comment confusing.
Indeed we should install Ubuntu desktop on routers and web servers.
Every Google forum is like this and it's because Google doesn't do support at all.
It relies on volunteers to answer questions. Take Youtube and Vimeo as a comparison. Vimeo has *gasp* an email address. Good luck trying to email Google on anything..
Except no one is abusing their position the request is coming from the father of the stabbing victim.
I'd expect incoherent ramblings from the father of the victim, easier to try and change the world and delude yourself that you're making a difference.
Hopefully politicians won't use this to steal money from citizens however I don't have much hopes because everyone involved is an old fart and video games is something they don't understand and must be restricted or banned which has been done in the past.
Except people don't grow out of it and now we have an office bullying problem.
If airport security is any indication of the future then it'll be water that's on the banned list.
How come when companies break the law they get to "agree" on the punishment?
Wake me up when the following come standard on each install:
- A good command line with auto complete /home/username)
- Sensible file directories (user data all in one place such as
- A package manager
These are my gripes with Windows and I wish they'd listen. I have nothing personal against them apart from I don't like using their software in its current state.
I am assuming you mean glasses. I don't think you need to wear them or have a port hard wired into your brain.
I think the trick is directing photons to the wearer's pupil, however I can imagine that some strong eye tracking would need to be in place first.
Indeed, very informative. It's also why people have problems switching, because everyone has that one application; Or there is that one piece of functionality which doesn't exist in the alternative.
I welcome it and many like it. I will be setting up my different domain names and sending out emails and letters to all the RIAA and MPAA IPs.
Three strikes and they're out. I guess they didn't realise these laws could be used against them. I hope you all join me in the act.
Your claims about TV are wrong as it has shown you use your brain a lot in past research papers.
I'm not going to link any, I'm too lazy.
They should really tell you where these places are considering how much they fuck up. The last place I'd want to live is next to a damn nuclear bunker.
Why do we need nukes anyway? How does it possibly help in any terrorist situation? What a completely waste of money.