Makes you wonder, if botnet operators aren`t spamming at full throttle, what are they assigning the botnets to do?
For example, during the Anonymous e-offensive in defense of Wikileaks, Wikileaks came under attack as well, which coincided with a significant drop in spam levels.
Let the people decide what they like by downloading stuff and give those artists a living wage paid for with taxes.
So all the RIAA and MPAA have to do is fudge a little download information and divide the payout however they want. We can trust them not to do that, right?
Quick question: WTF ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY HAVE YOU BEEN FOLLOWING?!!!
I think it's pretty moot which republican is voted to office. If it's Romney or Huckabee, the oil industry and military contractors will continue to run the country, having built up favors with both during their campaigns. If it's Palin, the oil industry and military contractors will continue to run the country without her knowledge or consent.
I can speak for the music industry as a sound engineer and touring musician. The RIAA cannot bitch about the theft of the fake art they manufacture and promote. Produce and promote real talent and people will pay for it voluntarily, guaranteed.
For every successful band there's a dozen equally good candidates that the MIAA quash so they can produce and promote one band to capture the same market all the others would have shared. Then they take all the profits and pay the artists only slightly more than each of the dozen would have made. It is literally the mandate of the RIAA to cripple artistic development so that they make sure their offerings are only as good as will galvanize the market to their brand at the least expense. Just ask any failed musician with a huge advance they have to pay back because their A&R guy fucked them.
Napster was so popular because it was a fascinating new avenue available to people, not knowing the harm it caused. Now that it's apparent the damage piracy causes to musical development and diversity, people will pony up for artists they respect. I wish those most affected by the early days of piracy would step up and challenge both piracy and the industry's response to it. As poorly accepted as Metallica's "Beer GOOD, Napster BAD" impression of anti-piracy was, it was bang on. If say, Chris Cornell and Billy Corgan now stepped up to reinforce that argument for the sake of emerging artists, the message would be much better received.
What the hell are they thinking spending 6 years building an ice cube station at the South Pole?! There's ice everywhere already! Cripes, you'd need a water heater just to get the water to the ice machine! It's not like there's much of a customer base down there either...
Yeah right. All the botnet operators that directed them to attack WikiLeaks servers instead of spamming are just being patriotic and there was no government pressure there. (My friend who's job it is to block spam for a cellular provider tells me that during the WikiLeaks DDoS attacks spam traffic dropped to less than 1% of normal)
Lest we forget the issue covered right here on/. about the US State Department bullying graduate students and threatening their employability should they post anything encouraging about WikiLeaks online, but despite the fact that it is openly declared that the US State Department is responsible, they're in fact just patriots acting on their own time using company letterhead to save a trip to Kinko's.
And for the grand finale, while Assange's completely bullshit charges have Interpol looking under rocks to arrest him, Nigeria has requested Interpol issue an arrest warrant for Dick Cheney for well-supported bribery charges. But of course the fact that Assange's warrant has been issued and Cheney's hasn't has nothing to do with US government pressure either way, Interpol is just having a half-price sale on Australians.
Wake up and smell the military dictatorship. Your ignorance is inexcusable.
Actually the leaks would make pretty good training in cowboy diplomacy. They should thank Assange for compiling them into a digest. They should also thank him for introducing the graphic combination of ass and orange. Perhaps I should take partial credit.
Threatening to thwart the employability of those who view it is just a taste of what's in the leaks too. You couldn't advertise WikiLeaks any better if you tried. That ranks pretty high on the FAIL scale.
If you really think another bomb will be hidden in someone's jock and you don't trust the security personnel then don't fly. You're welcome to use other means of transportation, like trains, buses, boats, and cars, all of which are statistically less safe.
Better yet, get over yourself, your body really isn't 'titllating" enough for a TSA officer to lose their job over. They have access to pr0n too.
Why shouldn't the voting system be any less corrupt than the candidates?
My point is it's going to take a lot more than an election to clean house on the hill, and even then it's an uphill battle to keep the country from sliding into a full-fledged military dictatorship, instead of the secret one it already is. For example when a military can get away with firing radioactive weaponry into civilian populations on at least two occasions without so much as a slap on the wrist, they are above the UN, much less their own government, and democracy has long since left the building.
Being EMP-safe means all semi-conductors (not just the transistor substitutes) would have to also be EMP-safe. Kinda pointless to use relays for that if an EMP fries the power supply capacitors, for example.
And conventional tempest protection easily outweighs the performance/size/weight compromise of using relays.
We'll need something sexier than this to remove the yawn tag from the OP.
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Makes you wonder, if botnet operators aren`t spamming at full throttle, what are they assigning the botnets to do?
For example, during the Anonymous e-offensive in defense of Wikileaks, Wikileaks came under attack as well, which coincided with a significant drop in spam levels.
Who in their right mind would want to net-boot even a portion of the OS now that solid state drives are affordable?
So, a capitalistic, fully performance based (with results being the performance metric) environment does not seem to work well for science.
Nonsense, it works great for pharmaceutical companies - the more money the drug can make, the better the test results!
Let the people decide what they like by downloading stuff and give those artists a living wage paid for with taxes.
So all the RIAA and MPAA have to do is fudge a little download information and divide the payout however they want. We can trust them not to do that, right?
Quick question: WTF ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY HAVE YOU BEEN FOLLOWING?!!!
We'll just ask everyone to openly declare they are spamming as they re-tweet every openly declared spam message they get. Yeah, that'll work.
WTF is iTunes?
It's the virus that is installed when you update Quicktime.
I think it's pretty moot which republican is voted to office. If it's Romney or Huckabee, the oil industry and military contractors will continue to run the country, having built up favors with both during their campaigns. If it's Palin, the oil industry and military contractors will continue to run the country without her knowledge or consent.
Mod parent UP!
I can speak for the music industry as a sound engineer and touring musician. The RIAA cannot bitch about the theft of the fake art they manufacture and promote. Produce and promote real talent and people will pay for it voluntarily, guaranteed.
For every successful band there's a dozen equally good candidates that the MIAA quash so they can produce and promote one band to capture the same market all the others would have shared. Then they take all the profits and pay the artists only slightly more than each of the dozen would have made. It is literally the mandate of the RIAA to cripple artistic development so that they make sure their offerings are only as good as will galvanize the market to their brand at the least expense. Just ask any failed musician with a huge advance they have to pay back because their A&R guy fucked them.
Napster was so popular because it was a fascinating new avenue available to people, not knowing the harm it caused. Now that it's apparent the damage piracy causes to musical development and diversity, people will pony up for artists they respect. I wish those most affected by the early days of piracy would step up and challenge both piracy and the industry's response to it. As poorly accepted as Metallica's "Beer GOOD, Napster BAD" impression of anti-piracy was, it was bang on. If say, Chris Cornell and Billy Corgan now stepped up to reinforce that argument for the sake of emerging artists, the message would be much better received.
What the hell are they thinking spending 6 years building an ice cube station at the South Pole?! There's ice everywhere already! Cripes, you'd need a water heater just to get the water to the ice machine! It's not like there's much of a customer base down there either...
I'll gladly exchange 'suggested links' at the top I can easily ignore for ads I can block effectively.
Considering the hugely lopsided ratio of female pr0n versus male, 'broadband' is a very inappropriate term, it should be called 'dudeband'.
a scratched record would sound like...record would sound like...record would sound like...
You can say that again
Why is everyone so hard on TSA agents? They're completely trustworthy.
(emphasis on hard on)
Yeah right. All the botnet operators that directed them to attack WikiLeaks servers instead of spamming are just being patriotic and there was no government pressure there. (My friend who's job it is to block spam for a cellular provider tells me that during the WikiLeaks DDoS attacks spam traffic dropped to less than 1% of normal)
As for the rape charges in Sweden which were already dropped because the 'victims' "partied with [Assange] after the consensual sex and even bragged about the intercourse on twitter and to their friends", the Swedish legal system is just being patriotic by completely subverting every principle they're sworn to uphold. No government pressure there either.
Lest we forget the issue covered right here on /. about the US State Department bullying graduate students and threatening their employability should they post anything encouraging about WikiLeaks online, but despite the fact that it is openly declared that the US State Department is responsible, they're in fact just patriots acting on their own time using company letterhead to save a trip to Kinko's.
And for the grand finale, while Assange's completely bullshit charges have Interpol looking under rocks to arrest him, Nigeria has requested Interpol issue an arrest warrant for Dick Cheney for well-supported bribery charges. But of course the fact that Assange's warrant has been issued and Cheney's hasn't has nothing to do with US government pressure either way, Interpol is just having a half-price sale on Australians.
Wake up and smell the military dictatorship. Your ignorance is inexcusable.
You already work for the US government, the only thing at risk is whether you'll be paid for it, or if you'll do the paying.
Actually the leaks would make pretty good training in cowboy diplomacy. They should thank Assange for compiling them into a digest. They should also thank him for introducing the graphic combination of ass and orange. Perhaps I should take partial credit.
Threatening to thwart the employability of those who view it is just a taste of what's in the leaks too. You couldn't advertise WikiLeaks any better if you tried. That ranks pretty high on the FAIL scale.
If you really think another bomb will be hidden in someone's jock and you don't trust the security personnel then don't fly. You're welcome to use other means of transportation, like trains, buses, boats, and cars, all of which are statistically less safe.
Better yet, get over yourself, your body really isn't 'titllating" enough for a TSA officer to lose their job over. They have access to pr0n too.
No it'll cost $6000 in Canada too, we just don't see the bill.
They should make it so you can filter whatever frequency bands you want. I've always wanted a blue tan.
Why shouldn't the voting system be any less corrupt than the candidates?
My point is it's going to take a lot more than an election to clean house on the hill, and even then it's an uphill battle to keep the country from sliding into a full-fledged military dictatorship, instead of the secret one it already is. For example when a military can get away with firing radioactive weaponry into civilian populations on at least two occasions without so much as a slap on the wrist, they are above the UN, much less their own government, and democracy has long since left the building.
Indeed, it is far less satisfying for drugs and pornography to strip away your core cognitive functions when you never really had them.
Here's your engaging teacher for ya. http://failblog.org/2010/10/04/epic-fail-video-answering-your-phone-in-class-fail/
Being EMP-safe means all semi-conductors (not just the transistor substitutes) would have to also be EMP-safe. Kinda pointless to use relays for that if an EMP fries the power supply capacitors, for example.
And conventional tempest protection easily outweighs the performance/size/weight compromise of using relays.
We'll need something sexier than this to remove the yawn tag from the OP.
"Holy shitballs Ricky, they discovered a PANSQUANCH!!"