I imagine there's a fair bit of automation that could be built into this. Set up a system set up to monitor for excessive outgoing emails. Have that system auto-email the client's contact email with a "we think you're zombified" email, complete with links to helpful webpages/downloads, and a contact number. Maybe even set up a web-based forum for customers to poke around and discuss amongst themselves - there's ALWAYS going to be a few clients who are the helpful types that will aid others.
Trick here is, finding the sellers. I would imagine the zombie network sellers (or really, *renters*) go to great lengths to hide their identities.
Though I had a similar idea... if one could somehow, after getting access to the zombie network, track down the individual machines, and alert the owners to their PC's zombified states... dismantling the network one PC at a time as the owners (hopefully) clean up their boxes...
Just start monitoring for bursts of spam from their clients, and simply *pick up the phone* and *call them.* "Sir, we've detected mass spam coming from your connection. Please clean up your computer. You have one week."
I'm admittedly largely ignorant of the Genesis project and the issues recovering it, but...
Couldn't they have possibly gotten that probe into an orbit that a shuttle could have matched, and recover the probe that way?
Granted, it could be a while before a shuttle could be tasked to such a recovery, but one could think they could put the probe into a reasonably stable orbit to wait until that time.
The 600 only came out in what? February? That's when I got mine.
I certainly hope they offer some sort of trade-in. It's nice that they're making advances and coming out with new models, but to obsolete a new model after only a few months is pretty shitty, especially considering the price tag on the 600.
This is just the latest moronic move made by the IOC and/or the individual city Olympic committees.
I remember, in the roll-up to the '96 games in Atlanta (where I used to live), the local OC started going after companies that had the word "olympic" in the name. The best one was a car garage that had been around for decades - I forget the entire name but the main word in the garage's name was "Olympic". Absolutely nothing to do with sports - it was a repair shop! - but they were jacked over and (IIRC) forced to change the name they'd done business under for years - about as long as the head of the local OC had been *alive*.
Nowhere in the article is that term used. And the description of the virus doesn't sound like it causes "damage" at all. The submitter's info leads one to believe the phones are made unusable.
Editors, please edit before posting these stories.:)
'At present, P2P software has too many times been hijacked by those who use it for illegal purposes to which the vast majority of our consumers do not wish to be exposed.'
Swap "P2P" for "Microsoft". Doesn't that make more sense?:P Maybe those forty-seven AGs need to rethink who they go after.
They should be capable of telling you that with normal barcode scanning. The real advantage of the RFID route is *verifying* your bag is on the plane - i.e. walking around with a powerful-enough scanner trying to pick up the ID of your bag's tag - and possibly, in the future, better routing of the bag to/from the terminal.
We all know how long it can take for bags to make it to baggage claim... what if the workers could just drop *all* the baggage onto a conveyer belt or belts, not worring about where it goes, and an automated system could scan each bag's RFID tag and shuffle it to the right carousel? Ahh heaven.:)
The court's job is to interpret law, not modify or make it, Einstein. The opinion is valid. I think they basically said "Yeah, we *know* this is dumb, but it's not in our mandate to do anything about it. It's Congress' job."
So what does this mean? It means, and I hate to fall back on cliche, "write your congressman." What needs to happen is people need to get Congress to amend the Wiretap Act appropriately.
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...the national transportation tracking system they're creating will be to travel on foot."
This guy obviously has never heard of that newfangled device, the bicycle!
(Not even going to mention Segways. Wait...! D'OH!)
(And yes, I know the article is mainly about highways... but still... this is Slashdot, home of snarky comments!)
You could be right! :)
...to buy a dictionary and learn how to spell 'screwed' properly. :)
...what Lessig's been advocating for some time. Good!
...a Dawson's Creek Pepper Keeper Future S2000?
I imagine there's a fair bit of automation that could be built into this. Set up a system set up to monitor for excessive outgoing emails. Have that system auto-email the client's contact email with a "we think you're zombified" email, complete with links to helpful webpages/downloads, and a contact number. Maybe even set up a web-based forum for customers to poke around and discuss amongst themselves - there's ALWAYS going to be a few clients who are the helpful types that will aid others.
Trick here is, finding the sellers. I would imagine the zombie network sellers (or really, *renters*) go to great lengths to hide their identities.
Though I had a similar idea... if one could somehow, after getting access to the zombie network, track down the individual machines, and alert the owners to their PC's zombified states... dismantling the network one PC at a time as the owners (hopefully) clean up their boxes...
Just start monitoring for bursts of spam from their clients, and simply *pick up the phone* and *call them.* "Sir, we've detected mass spam coming from your connection. Please clean up your computer. You have one week."
I'm admittedly largely ignorant of the Genesis project and the issues recovering it, but...
Couldn't they have possibly gotten that probe into an orbit that a shuttle could have matched, and recover the probe that way?
Granted, it could be a while before a shuttle could be tasked to such a recovery, but one could think they could put the probe into a reasonably stable orbit to wait until that time.
...in the past, it's all been just normal talk. Now, they can put it to music!
"Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt: The Musical"
...and call it "U".
:P
That way, they can give back "F", "U", and "D".
...if these Austinites consistently make fun of Renaissance Festivals.
...that should be played within:
Esquivel's "Space Age Batchelor Pad Music"!
The 600 only came out in what? February? That's when I got mine.
I certainly hope they offer some sort of trade-in. It's nice that they're making advances and coming out with new models, but to obsolete a new model after only a few months is pretty shitty, especially considering the price tag on the 600.
...25,000 extra spam for that one legit email? :P
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2166
This is just the latest moronic move made by the IOC and/or the individual city Olympic committees.
:/
I remember, in the roll-up to the '96 games in Atlanta (where I used to live), the local OC started going after companies that had the word "olympic" in the name. The best one was a car garage that had been around for decades - I forget the entire name but the main word in the garage's name was "Olympic". Absolutely nothing to do with sports - it was a repair shop! - but they were jacked over and (IIRC) forced to change the name they'd done business under for years - about as long as the head of the local OC had been *alive*.
Yaaaaaaaayyyy, CAPITALISM!
Nowhere in the article is that term used. And the description of the virus doesn't sound like it causes "damage" at all. The submitter's info leads one to believe the phones are made unusable.
:)
Editors, please edit before posting these stories.
'At present, P2P software has too many times been hijacked by those who use it for illegal purposes to which the vast majority of our consumers do not wish to be exposed.'
:P Maybe those forty-seven AGs need to rethink who they go after.
Swap "P2P" for "Microsoft". Doesn't that make more sense?
Tarbox is described in her bio as having dealt with an "internet predator".
Now she and her lawyers are after this other Katie over a domain name.
Who's the internet predator now?
They should be capable of telling you that with normal barcode scanning. The real advantage of the RFID route is *verifying* your bag is on the plane - i.e. walking around with a powerful-enough scanner trying to pick up the ID of your bag's tag - and possibly, in the future, better routing of the bag to/from the terminal.
:)
We all know how long it can take for bags to make it to baggage claim... what if the workers could just drop *all* the baggage onto a conveyer belt or belts, not worring about where it goes, and an automated system could scan each bag's RFID tag and shuffle it to the right carousel? Ahh heaven.
I wonder if someone is going to pull that same prank as the guy with the P-P-P-P-P-Powerbook!
:)
Take a little cardboard box, scribble the screen and controls on the front, and mail it in saying "gimme my rebate!"
Can you be more smarmy? :/
The court's job is to interpret law, not modify or make it, Einstein. The opinion is valid. I think they basically said "Yeah, we *know* this is dumb, but it's not in our mandate to do anything about it. It's Congress' job."
So what does this mean? It means, and I hate to fall back on cliche, "write your congressman." What needs to happen is people need to get Congress to amend the Wiretap Act appropriately.
"Doctor Octopus, you are a BAD MAN!" (waves finger in air)