One of the major factors in the dot-com boom was the opportunity for no-name tech workers to step up to the plate and try their hand at this "internet thing". The people that strived and made it are now your tier 3 techs and making ~$80k/year. The bubble burst also wasn't just inflated IPO's, it was the saturation of overpaid underqualified techies. If anything, a boom like that is great for a break-in attempt at an industry, but will have it's reprocussions later.
From the page, and I'll put interesting stuff in bold: Question What is the agreement that Blockbuster has recently made to enhance the End of Late Fees program?
Answer Blockbuster has worked with a negotiating group representing several states to further clarify and enhance the End of Late Fees program. We were asked to provide more information about the program and how it works, and although we believe our original communications were clear, we're happy to do whatever we can to improve our communications to further enhance our customer experience.
BS. That's just one example. I'd like to say that I rent from Hollywood Video, get fair prices, no marketing gimmick BS, 5 day rental, etc, never a problem. Screw the marketing antics of blockbuster.
I predict another ugly problem with VOIP spam - add a worm to the formula. Imagine when the inevitable user clicks on that email attachment, and become a phone spam zombie? This is new territory for dealing with spam problems, because now you're crossing over from the data net to the phone net. Who's going to handle that? SBC/Norton AntiPhoneSpam 2007?
On a second note, exactly why do you think phone spam would be limited to POTS phones? Cells are 10 digits too and are perfectly viable targets for dictionary/incrimental number attacks.
So now we begin the fallout of the ILOVEYOU worm. Here's an important opinion that may have looked over.
Pay attention. Note how this worm targets mp3's and jpg's. What is the most transported form of data over the net? Pornography and music. The most used graphics which everyone creates images with? jpg's. Napster - mp3's. Ok, now we have a good start. Let's get psycological. What would you do if your friend sent you a love letter through email? You'd be immediately confused and want to know what's up, and that love letter attachment has your answer. Whoops! You forgot to put your personal curiosity aside and remember the volitility in email attachments.
Next. Let's think deeply now at situations at hand. Who would possibly want to wage war by putting little trojan horses on the backs of our beloved jpg's and mp3's? Maybe someone that dispises those file formats. Maybe someone trying to protect them. Remember from a short while ago how some people were considering flooding napster with bunk mp3's? So now you've downloaded Dre's new song and it turns out to be Garth Brooks. What's up with that? Who would do such an evil thing? And one more thing.. it's not just mp3's. It's mp*. Which means mp3s, mpgs, mpegs. Music....AND video. The RIAA is furious over Napster. They have also admitted that they now know that they are going to have a very difficult time winning this war in the courtroom, so they are looking for outside ways.. hmm. How about the MPAA? They're pretty pissed off about the cracking of DVD encryption. How about the strong backing for anti-online porn? Mattel and others have just had their databases cracked for other people to find out exactly who's blocking what. Let's have a little secret meeting and bump heads to see what can be done about this scurge on the internet. Let's hire a digital vigilante assassin. And not just any, they have to know how to do the job right, and they MUST be out of the United States juristiction. Out of other strong foriegn nations as well, but especially the U.S.
Experts looking at the code of the love bug worm even are finding it a little fishy. It may not even be from the Phillipines. That could easily be a hacked host from which to have spawned it from. Either way, someone appears they know what they were doing, and may easily get away with it. From digitalamusement.com
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One of the major factors in the dot-com boom was the opportunity for no-name tech workers to step up to the plate and try their hand at this "internet thing". The people that strived and made it are now your tier 3 techs and making ~$80k/year. The bubble burst also wasn't just inflated IPO's, it was the saturation of overpaid underqualified techies. If anything, a boom like that is great for a break-in attempt at an industry, but will have it's reprocussions later.
Example:
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From the page, and I'll put interesting stuff in bold:
Question
What is the agreement that Blockbuster has recently made to enhance the End of Late Fees program?
Answer
Blockbuster has worked with a negotiating group representing several states to further clarify and enhance the End of Late Fees program. We were asked to provide more information about the program and how it works, and although we believe our original communications were clear, we're happy to do whatever we can to improve our communications to further enhance our customer experience.
BS. That's just one example. I'd like to say that I rent from Hollywood Video, get fair prices, no marketing gimmick BS, 5 day rental, etc, never a problem. Screw the marketing antics of blockbuster.
I predict another ugly problem with VOIP spam - add a worm to the formula. Imagine when the inevitable user clicks on that email attachment, and become a phone spam zombie? This is new territory for dealing with spam problems, because now you're crossing over from the data net to the phone net. Who's going to handle that? SBC/Norton AntiPhoneSpam 2007?
On a second note, exactly why do you think phone spam would be limited to POTS phones? Cells are 10 digits too and are perfectly viable targets for dictionary/incrimental number attacks.
So now we begin the fallout of the ILOVEYOU worm. Here's an important opinion that may have looked over.
Pay attention.
Note how this worm targets mp3's and jpg's. What is the most transported form of data over the net? Pornography and music. The most used graphics which everyone creates images with? jpg's. Napster - mp3's. Ok, now we have a good start. Let's get psycological. What would you do if your friend sent you a love letter through email? You'd be immediately confused and want to know what's up, and that love letter attachment has your answer. Whoops! You forgot to put your personal curiosity aside and remember the volitility in email attachments.
Next.
Let's think deeply now at situations at hand. Who would possibly want to wage war by putting little trojan horses on the backs of our beloved jpg's and mp3's? Maybe someone that dispises those file formats. Maybe someone trying to protect them. Remember from a short while ago how some people were considering flooding napster with bunk mp3's? So now you've downloaded Dre's new song and it turns out to be Garth Brooks. What's up with that? Who would do such an evil thing? And one more thing.. it's not just mp3's. It's mp*. Which means mp3s, mpgs, mpegs. Music....AND video. The RIAA is furious over Napster. They have also admitted that they now know that they are going to have a very difficult time winning this war in the courtroom, so they are looking for outside ways.. hmm. How about the MPAA? They're pretty pissed off about the cracking of DVD encryption. How about the strong backing for anti-online porn? Mattel and others have just had their databases cracked for other people to find out exactly who's blocking what. Let's have a little secret meeting and bump heads to see what can be done about this scurge on the internet. Let's hire a digital vigilante assassin. And not just any, they have to know how to do the job right, and they MUST be out of the United States juristiction. Out of other strong foriegn nations as well, but especially the U.S.
Experts looking at the code of the love bug worm even are finding it a little fishy. It may not even be from the Phillipines. That could easily be a hacked host from which to have spawned it from. Either way, someone appears they know what they were doing, and may easily get away with it. From digitalamusement.com