Claim: Snopes are in bed with Fastclick, which serve ads via Snopes.
Status: Irrelevant
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[Collected via Sunbelt Blog 2008]
[F]or a long time now (probably at least a year), I've noticed that they are in bed with Fastclick, which in turn constantly serves one annoying ad on Snopes.
Origins: All joking aside, despite Sunbelt Software passing themselves off as vendors of anti-spamware, they have a sordid spammy past themselves. Go to http://groups.google.com/ enter the newsgroup `news.admin.net-abuse.email' and search for keywords "Sunbelt" "spam"/"spamming".
The cyber-attacks were the result of cyber-intrusions conducted by cyber-hacker cyber-criminals intent on causing cyber-damage. When caught they will be elligable for cyber-representation by cyber-lawyers for cyber-prosecution. Unfortunately said attorneys will be unable to practice cyberlaw due to the cyber-trademark registered by cyber-lawyer Eric Menhart.
This isn't flamebait, I'm just saying this scared me away from buying an iPhone (among many other things which have already been hashed on here and the consumerist).
I'm excited to see what comes out of the Android platform from google.
Really, his public statements make for great entertainment. I get a good chuckle out of his nutty conclusions. I wouldn't say ignore him, but rather just don't take him seriously;-)
I live in Arizona and the drivers here are just dreadful. I see them on the freeways day after day, they have no confidence in their driving skills. They tap their brakes constantly whether something is in front of them or not, and it makes me crazy.
I can't help but wonder if the onslaught of snowbirds that migrate here year after year during the winter.
I registered with NIC.DDN.MIL in 1988 or 1989, probably why I was able to get a three letter domain name itself. Of course in those days you had to have sponsorship of some kind through the NSF, and that made it a bit harder to get connected to the net.
I will lift my ban on purchasing music. In fact nothing really will change because I don't purchase RIAA sponsored music -- they will open themselves to a new customer market at least as far as I'm concerned.
I think you're really touching on my first issues with qmail, at least when I was new to qmail. Aside from what has already been discussed to death here (and rightfully so) about all of the patches required to get a functioning qmail system running I have always been frustrated by a lack of a centralized concise configuration system.
Too much of qmail's runtime configuration is inconsistent. If you spawn qmail from inetd(8) then you need to wrap it with tcp-env and a bunch of other junk. If you use UCSPI then it's configured completely different. An inappropriate number of configuration options live in the form of obscure command-line switches and environment variables. I remember when I was new to qmail I spent 4 hours just trying to determine what version of qmail I was running.
I would like to throw a "thanks!" out there to websites like life-with-qmail and qmailrocks that document qmail to great lengths.
This is just my opinion of course, but what I think Alan was trying to say is that chroot(2) environments are no replacement for well-written, regression-tested peer reviewed software, nor a substitute for well-defined security policies and procedures. However I still love the risk mitigation that chroot environments provide.
It's like locking your car or the door to your house at night. It wouldn't prevent a determined intruder (although perhaps it could), but it's better than not using the feature at all. Nonetheless I would agree that if it gives you a false sense of security that's not good either.
Consider the source folks, this is the same online rag that hosts Maureen O'Gara articles. For those that aren't familiar with "MoG" she a SCO shill with an extreme anti-IBM bias that stalked Groklaw's PJ, posted her personal information and other sorts of gossipy crap which SYS-CON happily published. MoG is also the last holdout that believes the SCO lies (and who is, coincidentally, owed money by SCO as is shown in the bankruptcy debtors list).
At one time SYS-CON promised to get rid of MOG, right after a mass exodus by SYS-CON writers in protest over what was called a gross violation of professional ethics. Later in an interview for Free Software Magazine, Fuat Kircaali, CEO of Sys-Con, stated he felt Maureen did nothing wrong. Today they still let her secretly write pro-SCO rubbish, and in some cases outright incorrect information under a pen name.
Anyone who consideres SYS-CON an authoritive source of IT information would be better off reading eweek or TheOnion for that matter. Sys-Con has some sort of agenda and are (at least in my opinion) serving interests other than Free or Open source software.
I have been reading consumerist (and have read enough of the best buy sucks' archives) long enough over the years to realize that I should avoid "Best" Buy with all extreme prejudice. It amazes me that people continue to do business there. Don't spend your hard earned dollars there. Seriously. Really.
Yep, I agree. Having worked there a while back I can tell you this would never happen with Ticketmaster's systems. They probably have the most fault tolerant super computer cluster of ticketing systems ever made just for the purpose of ticketing alone. One thing that made a big impression on me is that for a company not specifically based in the tech field they're probably one of the most high tech places I've ever worked at. They have a mix of skillsets there from kernel hackers to network engineers that would rival any other IT department.
Everyone send an e-mail or make a phone call to their upstream Internet Provider, Bay Mountain Inc:
BAYMOUNTAIN.COM 501 E FRANKLIN ST RICHMOND, VA 23219-2330 804-644-5109 fax: 804-644-5410
Let them know that they are allowing their clients' intellectual property to be leaked against the terms of their alleged copyrights by allowing inbound connections to their clients' host computer's ports 80 and 443.
This leak should be remedied immediately by installing a packet filter on the server, or access control rule on their border routers to prohibit these inbound (and egress) leaks of their valuable IP.
Even better, the host computer should be halted, shut off, locked into a secure room without network connectivity or electricity, and finally place an armed security guard at the entrance.
Viola, secure IP.
Cheers!
P.S. I did not really include Bay Mountain's e-mail address, it's not really their fault they have dipshits as customers.
Re:I kinda feel sorry for the employees.
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I must strongly disagree with you sir. I might have bought into this argument in 2003 but the current staff and employ of SCO are perpetuating a lie -- a scam of defraud and deceit that would give satan a boner.
Any person investing in SCO or working for SCO, at this point (and in my opinion mind you), deserves any and all consequences forthcoming. It matters not to me their personal status as they had ample opportunity to consciously endure working for these small-minded greedy twits.
Thousands of people in the United States are laid off every year. This is one small group of people I will shed no tears for.
The best way to deal with the iPhone is not to buy the goddamn thing. Seriously, I'm disappointed with the number of people that fail to consider this as not only an option but an obligation as a consumer. I find it aggrivating that consumers today will pay back a corporation that is engaging in disgusting and unethical behavior by handing them piles of cash money.
Darl just can't keep from flapping his festering pie-hole. Up until now SCO attorneys have been fairly good at keeping him quiet and from making public statements. However it looks as though he couldn't resist doing a computerworld interview. I'm not sure what he thinks he has to gain by attempting to try his case in the courts of public opinion:
We absolutely and fundamentally believe we are right in this case, and we believe in the justice system. But we also know that things don't always happen the way they're supposed to, and we're realistic about that point.
And this gem is fascinating as well:
Let's call a spade a spade: We just took a literal pounding. We got knocked down -- there is no doubt about it. This is not a good ruling for us. But it's not the end of the line of the legal battle. In fact, there's some very encouraging things that came out of even this ruling. And we will continue to fight on those fronts.
I can only guess that the "encouraging thing" he is speaking about has to be that Kimball ruled that they own their own derivitive works of UnixWare. However these are facts were never in question. At this point we can expect SCO to argue that the M$ and Sun licenses were SCOsource licenses and not SVR4 UNIX. Good luck with that since I believe they have made conflicting public statements about that in the past as well.
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Claim: Snopes are in bed with Fastclick, which serve ads via Snopes.
Status: Irrelevant
Examples:
[Collected via Sunbelt Blog 2008]
[F]or a long time now (probably at least a year), I've noticed that they are in bed with Fastclick, which in turn constantly serves one annoying ad on Snopes.
Origins: All joking aside, despite Sunbelt Software passing themselves off as vendors of anti-spamware, they have a sordid spammy past themselves. Go to http://groups.google.com/ enter the newsgroup `news.admin.net-abuse.email' and search for keywords "Sunbelt" "spam"/"spamming".
Cheers
The cyber-attacks were the result of cyber-intrusions conducted by cyber-hacker cyber-criminals intent on causing cyber-damage. When caught they will be elligable for cyber-representation by cyber-lawyers for cyber-prosecution. Unfortunately said attorneys will be unable to practice cyberlaw due to the cyber-trademark registered by cyber-lawyer Eric Menhart.
Cyber-lame.
This isn't flamebait, I'm just saying this scared me away from buying an iPhone (among many other things which have already been hashed on here and the consumerist).
I'm excited to see what comes out of the Android platform from google.
Feel free to hop back into your time machine and join us in 2008.
Wrong automobile manufacturer, you're thinking of the De Lorean, not Ford.
Sigh... so much for the days when the average slashdot user wasn't a lawyer ;-)
The possibilities go on and on.
Ford, you and your lawyers suck. That's what I can't stand about lawyers, 98% of them give the other 2% a bad name.
Network Solutions has a history of engaging in scummy unethical business practices.
I have been avoiding them like a disease for years now.
as long as the new Wonder Woman has big boobies and wears a skimpy patriotic bikini.
*blinks*
what?
Really, his public statements make for great entertainment. I get a good chuckle out of his nutty conclusions. I wouldn't say ignore him, but rather just don't take him seriously ;-)
most prisons already do this! ;-)
I live in Arizona and the drivers here are just dreadful. I see them on the freeways day after day, they have no confidence in their driving skills. They tap their brakes constantly whether something is in front of them or not, and it makes me crazy.
I can't help but wonder if the onslaught of snowbirds that migrate here year after year during the winter.
Filter! filter! filter! filter!
Filter! filter! filter! filter!
CON-TENT CON-TENT!
filter (x 8)
CONTENT CON-TENT!
filter (x 8)
A SUIT! A SUIT!
OOOOOOOOOH, IT'S A SUIIIT!
I registered with NIC.DDN.MIL in 1988 or 1989, probably why I was able to get a three letter domain name itself. Of course in those days you had to have sponsorship of some kind through the NSF, and that made it a bit harder to get connected to the net.
I will lift my ban on purchasing music. In fact nothing really will change because I don't purchase RIAA sponsored music -- they will open themselves to a new customer market at least as far as I'm concerned.
I munged the sender's URL slightly, to avoid crashing the poor guy's server from all the traffic I'm sure he's already getting
You mean This guy???
This guy?
Carol Eash (402) 496-7015 4677 N 127th St, Omaha, NE 68164
Rod Eash (402) 496-7015 4677 N 127th St, Omaha, NE 68164
Oh, yeah ok, nobody should call him or anything then. That might be grounds for personal contact, then the guy can spam you legitimately...
I think you're really touching on my first issues with qmail, at least when I was new to qmail. Aside from what has already been discussed to death here (and rightfully so) about all of the patches required to get a functioning qmail system running I have always been frustrated by a lack of a centralized concise configuration system.
Too much of qmail's runtime configuration is inconsistent. If you spawn qmail from inetd(8) then you need to wrap it with tcp-env and a bunch of other junk. If you use UCSPI then it's configured completely different. An inappropriate number of configuration options live in the form of obscure command-line switches and environment variables. I remember when I was new to qmail I spent 4 hours just trying to determine what version of qmail I was running.
I would like to throw a "thanks!" out there to websites like life-with-qmail and qmailrocks that document qmail to great lengths.
This is just my opinion of course, but what I think Alan was trying to say is that chroot(2) environments are no replacement for well-written, regression-tested peer reviewed software, nor a substitute for well-defined security policies and procedures. However I still love the risk mitigation that chroot environments provide.
It's like locking your car or the door to your house at night. It wouldn't prevent a determined intruder (although perhaps it could), but it's better than not using the feature at all. Nonetheless I would agree that if it gives you a false sense of security that's not good either.
Consider the source folks, this is the same online rag that hosts Maureen O'Gara articles. For those that aren't familiar with "MoG" she a SCO shill with an extreme anti-IBM bias that stalked Groklaw's PJ, posted her personal information and other sorts of gossipy crap which SYS-CON happily published. MoG is also the last holdout that believes the SCO lies (and who is, coincidentally, owed money by SCO as is shown in the bankruptcy debtors list).
At one time SYS-CON promised to get rid of MOG, right after a mass exodus by SYS-CON writers in protest over what was called a gross violation of professional ethics. Later in an interview for Free Software Magazine, Fuat Kircaali, CEO of Sys-Con, stated he felt Maureen did nothing wrong. Today they still let her secretly write pro-SCO rubbish, and in some cases outright incorrect information under a pen name.
Anyone who consideres SYS-CON an authoritive source of IT information would be better off reading eweek or TheOnion for that matter. Sys-Con has some sort of agenda and are (at least in my opinion) serving interests other than Free or Open source software.
He can just resell the brick tiles on eBay as modified iPhones...
I have been reading consumerist (and have read enough of the best buy sucks' archives) long enough over the years to realize that I should avoid "Best" Buy with all extreme prejudice. It amazes me that people continue to do business there. Don't spend your hard earned dollars there. Seriously. Really.
Yep, I agree. Having worked there a while back I can tell you this would never happen with Ticketmaster's systems. They probably have the most fault tolerant super computer cluster of ticketing systems ever made just for the purpose of ticketing alone. One thing that made a big impression on me is that for a company not specifically based in the tech field they're probably one of the most high tech places I've ever worked at. They have a mix of skillsets there from kernel hackers to network engineers that would rival any other IT department.
Everyone send an e-mail or make a phone call to their upstream Internet Provider, Bay Mountain Inc:
BAYMOUNTAIN.COM
501 E FRANKLIN ST
RICHMOND, VA 23219-2330
804-644-5109 fax: 804-644-5410
Let them know that they are allowing their clients' intellectual property to be leaked against the terms of their alleged copyrights by allowing inbound connections to their clients' host computer's ports 80 and 443.
This leak should be remedied immediately by installing a packet filter on the server, or access control rule on their border routers to prohibit these inbound (and egress) leaks of their valuable IP.
Even better, the host computer should be halted, shut off, locked into a secure room without network connectivity or electricity, and finally place an armed security guard at the entrance.
Viola, secure IP.
Cheers!
P.S. I did not really include Bay Mountain's e-mail address, it's not really their fault they have dipshits as customers.
I must strongly disagree with you sir. I might have bought into this argument in 2003 but the current staff and employ of SCO are perpetuating a lie -- a scam of defraud and deceit that would give satan a boner.
Any person investing in SCO or working for SCO, at this point (and in my opinion mind you), deserves any and all consequences forthcoming. It matters not to me their personal status as they had ample opportunity to consciously endure working for these small-minded greedy twits.
Thousands of people in the United States are laid off every year. This is one small group of people I will shed no tears for.
The best way to deal with the iPhone is not to buy the goddamn thing. Seriously, I'm disappointed with the number of people that fail to consider this as not only an option but an obligation as a consumer. I find it aggrivating that consumers today will pay back a corporation that is engaging in disgusting and unethical behavior by handing them piles of cash money.
STOP BUYING IPHONES.
Darl just can't keep from flapping his festering pie-hole. Up until now SCO attorneys have been fairly good at keeping him quiet and from making public statements. However it looks as though he couldn't resist doing a computerworld interview. I'm not sure what he thinks he has to gain by attempting to try his case in the courts of public opinion:
We absolutely and fundamentally believe we are right in this case, and we believe in the justice system. But we also know that things don't always happen the way they're supposed to, and we're realistic about that point.
And this gem is fascinating as well:
Let's call a spade a spade: We just took a literal pounding. We got knocked down -- there is no doubt about it. This is not a good ruling for us. But it's not the end of the line of the legal battle. In fact, there's some very encouraging things that came out of even this ruling. And we will continue to fight on those fronts.
Original article here
I can only guess that the "encouraging thing" he is speaking about has to be that Kimball ruled that they own their own derivitive works of UnixWare. However these are facts were never in question. At this point we can expect SCO to argue that the M$ and Sun licenses were SCOsource licenses and not SVR4 UNIX. Good luck with that since I believe they have made conflicting public statements about that in the past as well.