Depends on where you getting those prepaid Visa cards. Go to a major store and there will be a CCTV log to go on. Then there is repeat payments to the hosting/colo and that will eventually create a link back to the bad guys.
There has to be financial links of payment for the colo/hosting service. Unless they are moving the C&C every month, the payment has to be steady enough to trace it. Governments need to set up honey pots ISP offers as a sting operation to make this a far different enviroment for the botnet folks to work in. Club Gitmo may be open for new guests real soon.
Question is why wasn't the ISP watching it's customers for this obvious violation of ToS? If they just wanted the money from the bot netters, they deserve whatever happens to their company.
This is/., they are going to eliminate any references to evil linked to the Democrat Party. Pity/. has been come so wrapped up in left wing politics and demonize the right. Or is that/. has been daemonized into a left wing propaganda machine?
Any one but Obama. Look, as a conservative, I rather have Hillary in the WH with your party in complete control of Congress during the next two to four years. Economy is going to go ugly and want the party in control of Congress to take the full blame for what is about to happen. I don't like McCain, I don't think I could vote for him (plan to vote Barr if he runs as the LP candidate). I've got a very bad feeling about Obama's naÃvety and inexperience to deal with the bad guys around the world.
I have come to the uneasy conclusion that Obama may have some deeper issues then McCain has. For the GOP, the ideal win is Hillary. The US can survive four to eight years of her and Bill, I don't know if that is true for Obama.
On a side note, this should be a slam dunk for the Democrats. McCain does not enjoy solid support from the GOP base, the current situation should be highly negative for the GOP runner but he is ahead in the polls. How sucky candidates do you guys field to have someone like McCain maybe the next POTUS in today's enviroment? The leadership vaccum within the GOP gave you all a near perfect candidate to run against, and it's a up hill battle? What's up with that?
Shipping a laptop overnight can be terribly expensive. Pfft! Ship a cheapo laptop to your destination a week in advance, just let the hotel know it's coming and keep it safe till your arrival. EEE PC being shipped via USPS Global Express Mail (~5 day option) and it's not that expensive. I mean, your company is paying for the trip, it's a drop in the bucket compared to what your costing them. Just tunnel back to your real system for the real sensitive information. That way there is no real sensitive data to be lost if the EEE PC is lost in transit.
Just ship the laptop/cellphone/pda to your destination first so it will be there prior to your arrival. Ship it back prior to your departure and avoid the headaches. With cheap laptops like EEE PC, it's a minor business expense to have a travelling light laptop shipped back and forth.
Huckabee - Caters to the religious nuts - no way. Worse then that, he's a GOP Bill Clinton and has full cemetary of skeletons in his closet. He's a Fiscal liberal.
Romney: just a gut feeling about him and I can't really place it - he's way too smooth. And to be honest, being a Mormon creeps me out a bit (gold tablets from God?!?) - as much as a devout Christian, or anything else would. As a Pagan, I really have zero interest in his religion. What creeps me out is his liberal fiscal agenda as we seeing the disaster of his medical insurance policy in Mass.
McCain: I don't agree with everything he stands for (he's anti-abortion), but I love his attitude of fiscal conservativeness and straight talking. The dude is a angry nutjob who is more liberal then conservative. I do not trust him and can not vote for him, even against Billary.
Ron Paul is probably the most dissapointing of the GOP. I had such high hopes for him when I heard he was entering into the race. It went quickly down hill when I realize the man is too stuipd to understand the Quaran and what its teachings. I'd be force to vote FOR Billary over Ron Paul.
But doing this usually means that they try to break the market, usually to try to destroy competition. So they rather screw the French consumer? I heard all the FUD about Big Box destroying the competition over the years. Then the little guy finally figured out that the consumer will pay slightly highier prices then the Big Box stores by offering convience and excellent customer service. Something 7-11 convient stores figured out decades ago.
Guess it's status quao for the French Government more worried about the French rich then the French consumer.
GOP was in charge of Congress,/. we all saw their name-party plastered in the article splash. Congress is now in Democrat control and suddenly, no Name-Party is being posted on the article splash. Wuz up with dat?/sigh
It is FUD because USPS carriers (and clerks) have to seperate Netflix and Block Buster DVDs into specific trays before it goes to the plant for processing when people are mailing them back. Half the time, neither come in DPS but in raw mail which carriers (and clerks) have to manually hunt down the address in the case to deliver them.
Let's set this straight. If you take away stun guns from law enforcement, that leaves them with:
1. OC (pepper) spray. I have never been in so much pain in my life and it lasted a hell of alot longer then a stun. People have died from this too. Then there is the back spray issue or accidental exposure to non-combatants from the OC cloud drifting away. Got any idea on what ten or so people going to the hospital for breathing issues is going to cost a dept?
2. Impact weapons. Good old T-handle or my favorite, expandable batton (Asp). Broken bones? Sure. Accidental skull fractures or death because the idiot try to dodge his way out of a arm hit, not a problem.
3. Hand to hand. Now your talking a good chance an officer of getting injured or worse if there is a gun take away. Back in the old days when LEOs were all former military and females were metermaids, slugging it out may have been acceptable, but not today. So you have to worry about officer safety, life long disability checks would suck for a small dept.
Today the courts will ask, "was it reasonable and prudent to use x while you could have used z isntead"?
We should not be trying to play the lottery with our limited scientific money. Who's this "we" stuff? You either donate to SETI (money or system time), or you don't. This isn't our tax money so there is no "we." I find it pretty elitist for someone tell someone else what they can spend their money doing research and what they shouldn't be. People rag on Bush about not spending taxes on embryonic stem cell research, but he does not stop R&D with money raised by private investment. You, OTOH, are doing something even Bush doesn't do.
Through out my life, I've always heard it was useless and shameful to spend money on space when we have so many starving people on the Earth. Where would we be today and how many more people would be starving today if we did not explore space and develope space technologies?
Sitting in Southern Florida for a second hurricane season that hasn't been seen in 30 years, of inactivity, one has to wonder about the CO2 hype. I know, I'm a nasty old troll that will be mod way down because I dare to think differently then the Gorebull Warming crowd here on/. Be as that may for those reading the negative karma replies, Cap and Trade is a return of the central planning http://youtube.com/watch?v=k4oBjbe8BIA/ days of an era we all would like never to come back. For those of you who really do think I'm a troll, here is an easy $125K right in your pocket, just take this test: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-25-2007/0004669458&EDATE=/.
If we do look at Gorebull Warming, let us remember that since the dire predictions of massive warming if the CO2 ppm is doubled, yet where is this because we are what, ~75% to that ppm already? Shouldn't my house been blown away already from none stop hurricanes? Or could it be Solar Activity: http://sidc.oma.be/products/quieta/ has quiet down causing more clouds (cosmic rays increase production of clouds) which keeps a bit cooler.
There is an ongoing lawsuit between Amiga, Inc. and Hyperion-Entertainment, VOF. The Amiga, Inc. that was chartered in Washington went belly up but never signed the insolvency papers. They didn't go belly up (insolvent nor bankruptsy) and they sold everything for debt relief to a debtor, Itec (which is also own Kouri). Itec then made more deals with Hyperion and another contract (Itec and Hyerion) surfaced. Itec then sold AI IP to KMOS (Kouri again) which renamed itself to Amiga Inc. Hyperion's been paid once and then KMOS/AI attempted to pay a second time, which Hyperion refused. Bottom line is Hyperion is in deep doodoo. What's really funny is they hired The Twins at $30K EURO @ month with no deadline but AI activated a buy back at a flat fee of $25K. Hyperion is so deep in doodoo, it's not even funny.
Sounds like the AROS Project is making more progress than Amiga Inc. is. 64 Bit AROS (x86_64) will be released shortly with major OS improvements. AROS is also being ported to PPC http://www.genesippc.com/efika.php/ as well back ported to Amiga86K. Probably the reason why AROS is doing so much better then Amiga Inc has done, ever, AROS is Open Source.
Except FDA is suppost to approve new drugs within six months of the New Drug Application is filed. According to http://www.allp.com/drug_dev.htm/ "the average NDA review time for new molecular entities approved in 1992 was 29.9 months." What really is needed is a new schedule of drug testing for those who are in the last stages of terminal illness.
Never mind the justice, what is the EU going to do with the cash? Do something positive with it or go into EU general fund for political wonks to spend on pet projects?
Funny, being a nerd I hear enough complaints about excessive taxation from my Norwiegn friends that I've know for years. It's not that pretty of a picture for those of your fellow countrymen who have to work and support a family.
If you think the government is the answer, you obviously are not living in the real world. Freedom is the answer, but not freedom from having to work. Freedom to create your own business and create your own wealth is the ticket. To have to lick the hand of government maybe appealing to you, but not to many of us.
Sad thing is, I know what a socialized US Government would be like, I am a Federal employee so I know the system all too well. It's a nightmare of stupidity, union contracts and a group of idiots at the head of the food chain who shouldn't be there and can only make those tough decisions five years too late. Oh, and they only want to hang on too their position, regardless if they give a crap aobut anything down stream, until they can retire with max benefits. Plus they know, if they don't make those tough calls to make things better, they have a lock on those jobs because they are Federal employees.
I really do not want to inflict such a hostile and pathetic work enviroment to the rest of my countrymen to control their daily lives! Funny you do though, but I have a feeling you don't have a family to support either.
Acer will be getting new patents that Gateway has filed via Amiga Developement LLC. Most of the old C= patents are expiring in the next year or two or already have expired. Acer/Gateway/AmigaDevelopement do not have any AOS source code, that is what AI bought, along with the logos and physical hardware inventories. Only person who can open source AOS is Pentti Kouri since it was his companies that bought Amiga Inc from Gateway.
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Depends on where you getting those prepaid Visa cards. Go to a major store and there will be a CCTV log to go on. Then there is repeat payments to the hosting/colo and that will eventually create a link back to the bad guys.
There has to be financial links of payment for the colo/hosting service. Unless they are moving the C&C every month, the payment has to be steady enough to trace it. Governments need to set up honey pots ISP offers as a sting operation to make this a far different enviroment for the botnet folks to work in. Club Gitmo may be open for new guests real soon.
Question is why wasn't the ISP watching it's customers for this obvious violation of ToS? If they just wanted the money from the bot netters, they deserve whatever happens to their company.
Be a lot smarter for startups to pitch the idea of stopping dependency of offshore oil then to pitch Gorebull Warming.
This is /., they are going to eliminate any references to evil linked to the Democrat Party. Pity /. has been come so wrapped up in left wing politics and demonize the right. Or is that /. has been daemonized into a left wing propaganda machine?
People still watch TV?
Dammy
Any one but Obama. Look, as a conservative, I rather have Hillary in the WH with your party in complete control of Congress during the next two to four years. Economy is going to go ugly and want the party in control of Congress to take the full blame for what is about to happen. I don't like McCain, I don't think I could vote for him (plan to vote Barr if he runs as the LP candidate). I've got a very bad feeling about Obama's naÃvety and inexperience to deal with the bad guys around the world.
I have come to the uneasy conclusion that Obama may have some deeper issues then McCain has. For the GOP, the ideal win is Hillary. The US can survive four to eight years of her and Bill, I don't know if that is true for Obama.
On a side note, this should be a slam dunk for the Democrats. McCain does not enjoy solid support from the GOP base, the current situation should be highly negative for the GOP runner but he is ahead in the polls. How sucky candidates do you guys field to have someone like McCain maybe the next POTUS in today's enviroment? The leadership vaccum within the GOP gave you all a near perfect candidate to run against, and it's a up hill battle? What's up with that?
Dammy
Dammy
Just ship the laptop/cellphone/pda to your destination first so it will be there prior to your arrival. Ship it back prior to your departure and avoid the headaches. With cheap laptops like EEE PC, it's a minor business expense to have a travelling light laptop shipped back and forth.
Ron Paul is probably the most dissapointing of the GOP. I had such high hopes for him when I heard he was entering into the race. It went quickly down hill when I realize the man is too stuipd to understand the Quaran and what its teachings. I'd be force to vote FOR Billary over Ron Paul.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/
Guess it's status quao for the French Government more worried about the French rich then the French consumer.
GOP was in charge of Congress, /. we all saw their name-party plastered in the article splash. Congress is now in Democrat control and suddenly, no Name-Party is being posted on the article splash. Wuz up with dat? /sigh
Dammy
It is FUD because USPS carriers (and clerks) have to seperate Netflix and Block Buster DVDs into specific trays before it goes to the plant for processing when people are mailing them back. Half the time, neither come in DPS but in raw mail which carriers (and clerks) have to manually hunt down the address in the case to deliver them.
Funny how "Right Wing" Democrat is die hard socialist.
Let's set this straight. If you take away stun guns from law enforcement, that leaves them with:
1. OC (pepper) spray. I have never been in so much pain in my life and it lasted a hell of alot longer then a stun. People have died from this too. Then there is the back spray issue or accidental exposure to non-combatants from the OC cloud drifting away. Got any idea on what ten or so people going to the hospital for breathing issues is going to cost a dept?
2. Impact weapons. Good old T-handle or my favorite, expandable batton (Asp). Broken bones? Sure. Accidental skull fractures or death because the idiot try to dodge his way out of a arm hit, not a problem.
3. Hand to hand. Now your talking a good chance an officer of getting injured or worse if there is a gun take away. Back in the old days when LEOs were all former military and females were metermaids, slugging it out may have been acceptable, but not today. So you have to worry about officer safety, life long disability checks would suck for a small dept.
Today the courts will ask, "was it reasonable and prudent to use x while you could have used z isntead"?
Through out my life, I've always heard it was useless and shameful to spend money on space when we have so many starving people on the Earth. Where would we be today and how many more people would be starving today if we did not explore space and develope space technologies?
Dammy
Sitting in Southern Florida for a second hurricane season that hasn't been seen in 30 years, of inactivity, one has to wonder about the CO2 hype. I know, I'm a nasty old troll that will be mod way down because I dare to think differently then the Gorebull Warming crowd here on /. Be as that may for those reading the negative karma replies, Cap and Trade is a return of the central planning http://youtube.com/watch?v=k4oBjbe8BIA/ days of an era we all would like never to come back. For those of you who really do think I'm a troll, here is an easy $125K right in your pocket, just take this test: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-25-2007/0004669458&EDATE=/.
If we do look at Gorebull Warming, let us remember that since the dire predictions of massive warming if the CO2 ppm is doubled, yet where is this because we are what, ~75% to that ppm already? Shouldn't my house been blown away already from none stop hurricanes? Or could it be Solar Activity: http://sidc.oma.be/products/quieta/ has quiet down causing more clouds (cosmic rays increase production of clouds) which keeps a bit cooler.
Speaking of AROS, AROS has now entered into the world of 64 bits on x86_64. http://www.amiga.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7476/. Isn't Open Source wonderful?
Except FDA is suppost to approve new drugs within six months of the New Drug Application is filed. According to http://www.allp.com/drug_dev.htm/ "the average NDA review time for new molecular entities approved in 1992 was 29.9 months." What really is needed is a new schedule of drug testing for those who are in the last stages of terminal illness.
Never mind the justice, what is the EU going to do with the cash? Do something positive with it or go into EU general fund for political wonks to spend on pet projects?
Funny, being a nerd I hear enough complaints about excessive taxation from my Norwiegn friends that I've know for years. It's not that pretty of a picture for those of your fellow countrymen who have to work and support a family.
If you think the government is the answer, you obviously are not living in the real world. Freedom is the answer, but not freedom from having to work. Freedom to create your own business and create your own wealth is the ticket. To have to lick the hand of government maybe appealing to you, but not to many of us.
Sad thing is, I know what a socialized US Government would be like, I am a Federal employee so I know the system all too well. It's a nightmare of stupidity, union contracts and a group of idiots at the head of the food chain who shouldn't be there and can only make those tough decisions five years too late. Oh, and they only want to hang on too their position, regardless if they give a crap aobut anything down stream, until they can retire with max benefits. Plus they know, if they don't make those tough calls to make things better, they have a lock on those jobs because they are Federal employees.
I really do not want to inflict such a hostile and pathetic work enviroment to the rest of my countrymen to control their daily lives! Funny you do though, but I have a feeling you don't have a family to support either.
Dammy
Acer will be getting new patents that Gateway has filed via Amiga Developement LLC. Most of the old C= patents are expiring in the next year or two or already have expired. Acer/Gateway/AmigaDevelopement do not have any AOS source code, that is what AI bought, along with the logos and physical hardware inventories. Only person who can open source AOS is Pentti Kouri since it was his companies that bought Amiga Inc from Gateway.
Besides, who needs AOS open source when there is http://www.aros.org/?