OK, yeah, that works for this particular IP address... I didn't bother to check before I posted. I suck. But MOST people attacking me do not have any extra info available. If you look up what there is, you see that it's one of a zillion faceless @Home cable users (for example). What can you do about those people? They are the real problem, because they don't even know they are compromised. And you can't tell them. And you can't tell the ISP about them. ISPs don't care.
(Well, @Home didn't anyway. Now I am on Speakeasy DSL and they are killing circuits of infected people, which is great.)
How do you reckon all those other OS X apps got to LOOK like OS X apps? They used OS X calls in the code.
Mozilla CAN look like an OS X app, they just have to do it the right way, instead of some kludged theme that probably won't even be able to use transparency and other features of the OS.
What kind of rock do you have be living under not to have heard of this by now?
Rocks like this:
216.84.60.138
I have the addresses of a lot of other rocks. They appear to be quite common. But how can you alert a rock-dweller if they don't have a domain name and email set up?
The Windows EULA basically says that M$ is not responsible at all no matter what. In reality, whomever agreed to the EULA's is responsible for this mess.
That's unfair. If someone using Linux or FreBSD suffered from some kind of attack, is it their fault for choosing an OS that doesn't provide someone to sue?
And can you suggest an OS alternative that does provide legal recource for something like Nimda? I can't think of one.
People are driving around with big American flags on their vehicles and displaying these in the name of patriotism.
And there is nothing wrong with that. Patriotism is what has protected us for so long. Like it or not, patriotism is what allows you to sit there and post this. Someone ELSE's patriotism, I mean. Someone who may have had to fight a war on your behalf.
If no one cared about our national identity, it would have been lost long ago. Patriotism can be abused, but it is a critical part of maintaining the cohesiveness of the state. Of ANY state.
Patriotism is not a dirty word. If you find it disturbing, at least let other people express it. Be vigilant, sure... but I'm not seeing mobs of flag-wavers torching Moslem businesses in my neighborhood yet.
We've seen this kind of patriotism before - or at least if we haven't, our grandparents and great-grandparents have (treading close to the Godwin line here, but not in histrionics as would normally be the case).
You are comparing our current flag displays to the fervor of wartime Germany?
Don't you think that flags were displayed in this manner after Pearl Harbor? I think that would be a better comparison.
In addition to all that, didn't they tamper with Trek history to make that movie? I though that Cochrane was a native of Alpha Centauri -- as in, a colony Earth built with slower-than-light ships -- and he invented that gadget there.
er, what's wrong with the "where no one has gone before"? Seems pretty slick to me.
Everything is wrong with it. It is not accurate. So the crew goes to Kronos... where no representative of mankind has gone before... but the Klingons sure as hell have been there, so "no one" doesn't work.
Sure, there are places where they will go that no ONE has been to, but most of the series will revolve around conflicts with other intelligent beings, and we will be visiting the areas they hang out in. "...no man..." is better for that.
B5 had a lot of dreadful acting, but it also had 2 of the best-acted characters in all of sci-fi TV: Londo and G'kar. In comparison to them, everyone else looked to be phoning it in.
That isn't funny, that's dead serious. On OS vendor has a lot of ad inventory to sell if they get creative. I'm shocked that there isn't a small ad banner in the IE toolbar already.
What is the installed base of IE5? I couldn't find it just now when I looked. But let's look at AOL's user base for fun. They have 29M users. Assume just for the sake of argument that on average, each AOLer user their browser to view 1 web page per day. That's 29M impressions a day; the CPM on "bottom-feeder" banner ads is about a buck. Let's slash that to $0.50, assuming some smaller ad banner and a volume discount.
With a CPM of $0.50 and 29M impressions a day, you are making $14,500 a day. That is about $5.3M per year.
I'm sure there are more than 29M IE5 users, and they probably average more than one page viewed per day, and so on. Even if you slash ad rates, it seems quite possible to make upwards of $10M per year by putting ads in your OS like that.
Sounds like a lot of money, but I guess it's not. I used to work on an ATT project that was axed partway through development... see, it was *only* going to make $10M per year, and ATT likes big projects to make at least $30M per year. I'd assume MS thinks the same way. Maybe that's why we haven't seen it yet.
(Why hasn't MS built spyware and ad-delivery mechanisms into the OS? Then shareware/freeware authors can tap into the Direct Advertising API, and MS can take a cut...)
The majority owners of nearly all U.S. corporations make up the richest 5% of the population. The minority owners are middle-class folk like you and I who have 401Ks and mutual funds.
Why not stop complaining and try to get into that 5%? Start a business. If you get rich then you can advance your agenda more effectively, whatever it is.
Exact same problem on a K6-2 450. Have to run it at 300MHz, and that's even with a nice heat sink/fan. Still a lot better than the P133 it replaced... but I hate paying for something I'm not getting.
Since you mention murder, almost 20,000 people have been murdered in the US since 9/11.
I don't think that is true. I Googled for some crime stats and I found this piece at CNN. It's the '97 stats, but it says that there were "...18,209 murders, or 6.8 for every 100,000 people..."
20,000 murders in the US since 9/11/01? It's more like 20k murders a year in the entire nation.
Those guys were probably all mentally unbalanced, in some clinically definable way. The terrorist networks specialize in finding people that can be groomed into those fanatic/suicide positions. Their end product does seem to stand up in the field, I have to give them that.
A human life is a human life, and an innocent American is not worth more than an innocent Afghani or Iraqi.
Very soon we may be forced to make some hard decisions like that... there's collateral damage in any war. I do not relish the thought of dead innocent civilians, but I WILL spend their lives in the effort to protect ours... because they are ours.
If prefering Dead Brand X to Dead Americans makes me some kind of nationalistic freak -- so be it.
(I am not saying the whole conflict boils down to that, of course. But it is one aspect of it, and I'll support it unflinchingly as long as it's getting results.)
There was a certian time during the war the the US ran out of "essential" targets to hit...
But in Vietnam we had our hands tied politically. There were a lot of valuable targets not in Vietnam itself that our forces were not allowed to engate. My memory sucks, but something about supply lines from Cambodia comes to mind.
We will easily prevail militarily in Afghanistan -- to a point. No Taliban military vehicle will be safe from our air forces. We will quickly smash their most expensive toys... and then it will be us and them, in the dirt and the caves with rifles and grenades and gas and knives. Ick.
I still think we will fare better than the Soviets did, though. For one, we probably won't have a major world power supplying the Taliban with high-tech weapons. For another, we will have help from anti-Taliban Afghans, if we are smart enough not to piss them off. Hopefully we can help them develop a real government and help out their people, too.
Elsewhere on the web, I read an anecdote about the Soviet-Afghan war. It basically said that the Sovs had won, at one point; their special Afghan-killing Spetznaz forces were racking up some very serious kills, and they had broken the back of the resistance. It was AFTER this that the Afghans started getting hundreds of Stinger missiles from the United States, and this was what they needed to come back out fighting and turn things around into their favor.
I don't know if that is true. Maybe someone with a good grasp of military history can weigh in on it.
Even though Bush is a cowboy, I have faith that his administration will handle the fight well.
So far I give him high marks as far as his message goes. The "you are with us or against us" bit was strong language, but perfect, IMHO. It's time for the forces of Law to take down the forces of Chaos. And if no one but us and the Brits have the stomach for the fight, then we'll do it with just the two of us... and we'll save the civilized world, again.
Doesn't every business have a right (as long as they're not a monopoly) to set their prices as they see fit?
Without getting into ethical arguments, the fact remains that businesses do NOT have that right under the law.
Getting into the ethical bit: nor should they, IMHO. We need smaller government, yes, but if there are not some controls placed on businesses they'll screw us over. This is a sensible place for gov't regulation. It protects us, and not in that offensive reading-your-email way.
For example, what if price fixing was legal... Imagine how much gas would cost. (Green freaks, replace "gas" with any other important product manufactured by only a few companies, and keep your "I wish!" statements to yourself.) With such a high barrier to entering that market, there is no practical way for a competitor to jump in and undercut the price-fixing consortium. That is the system with maximum freedom, but it still sucks!
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OK, yeah, that works for this particular IP address... I didn't bother to check before I posted. I suck. But MOST people attacking me do not have any extra info available. If you look up what there is, you see that it's one of a zillion faceless @Home cable users (for example). What can you do about those people? They are the real problem, because they don't even know they are compromised. And you can't tell them. And you can't tell the ISP about them. ISPs don't care.
(Well, @Home didn't anyway. Now I am on Speakeasy DSL and they are killing circuits of infected people, which is great.)
How do you reckon all those other OS X apps got to LOOK like OS X apps? They used OS X calls in the code.
Mozilla CAN look like an OS X app, they just have to do it the right way, instead of some kludged theme that probably won't even be able to use transparency and other features of the OS.
What kind of rock do you have be living under not to have heard of this by now?
Rocks like this:
216.84.60.138
I have the addresses of a lot of other rocks. They appear to be quite common. But how can you alert a rock-dweller if they don't have a domain name and email set up?
The Windows EULA basically says that M$ is not responsible at all no matter what. In reality, whomever agreed to the EULA's is responsible for this mess.
That's unfair. If someone using Linux or FreBSD suffered from some kind of attack, is it their fault for choosing an OS that doesn't provide someone to sue?
And can you suggest an OS alternative that does provide legal recource for something like Nimda? I can't think of one.
People are driving around with big American flags on their vehicles and displaying these in the name of patriotism.
And there is nothing wrong with that. Patriotism is what has protected us for so long. Like it or not, patriotism is what allows you to sit there and post this. Someone ELSE's patriotism, I mean. Someone who may have had to fight a war on your behalf.
If no one cared about our national identity, it would have been lost long ago. Patriotism can be abused, but it is a critical part of maintaining the cohesiveness of the state. Of ANY state.
Patriotism is not a dirty word. If you find it disturbing, at least let other people express it. Be vigilant, sure... but I'm not seeing mobs of flag-wavers torching Moslem businesses in my neighborhood yet.
We've seen this kind of patriotism before - or at least if we haven't, our grandparents and great-grandparents have (treading close to the Godwin line here, but not in histrionics as would normally be the case).
You are comparing our current flag displays to the fervor of wartime Germany?
Don't you think that flags were displayed in this manner after Pearl Harbor? I think that would be a better comparison.
In addition to all that, didn't they tamper with Trek history to make that movie? I though that Cochrane was a native of Alpha Centauri -- as in, a colony Earth built with slower-than-light ships -- and he invented that gadget there.
er, what's wrong with the "where no one has gone before"? Seems pretty slick to me.
Everything is wrong with it. It is not accurate. So the crew goes to Kronos... where no representative of mankind has gone before... but the Klingons sure as hell have been there, so "no one" doesn't work.
Sure, there are places where they will go that no ONE has been to, but most of the series will revolve around conflicts with other intelligent beings, and we will be visiting the areas they hang out in. "...no man..." is better for that.
Lt. Yar wasn't a LESBIAN, she was just the head of security.
Though if you do the wild thing with the ship's talking toaster, maybe there is some other label for you.
B5 had a lot of dreadful acting, but it also had 2 of the best-acted characters in all of sci-fi TV: Londo and G'kar. In comparison to them, everyone else looked to be phoning it in.
That isn't funny, that's dead serious. On OS vendor has a lot of ad inventory to sell if they get creative. I'm shocked that there isn't a small ad banner in the IE toolbar already.
What is the installed base of IE5? I couldn't find it just now when I looked. But let's look at AOL's user base for fun. They have 29M users. Assume just for the sake of argument that on average, each AOLer user their browser to view 1 web page per day. That's 29M impressions a day; the CPM on "bottom-feeder" banner ads is about a buck. Let's slash that to $0.50, assuming some smaller ad banner and a volume discount.
With a CPM of $0.50 and 29M impressions a day, you are making $14,500 a day. That is about $5.3M per year.
I'm sure there are more than 29M IE5 users, and they probably average more than one page viewed per day, and so on. Even if you slash ad rates, it seems quite possible to make upwards of $10M per year by putting ads in your OS like that.
Sounds like a lot of money, but I guess it's not. I used to work on an ATT project that was axed partway through development... see, it was *only* going to make $10M per year, and ATT likes big projects to make at least $30M per year. I'd assume MS thinks the same way. Maybe that's why we haven't seen it yet.
(Why hasn't MS built spyware and ad-delivery mechanisms into the OS? Then shareware/freeware authors can tap into the Direct Advertising API, and MS can take a cut...)
The majority owners of nearly all U.S. corporations make up the richest 5% of the population. The minority owners are middle-class folk like you and I who have 401Ks and mutual funds.
Why not stop complaining and try to get into that 5%? Start a business. If you get rich then you can advance your agenda more effectively, whatever it is.
And without us product managers, you programmmers won't have... uh, you won't have...
Crap! I've become irrelevant. Time to start a business, or turn to a life of crime.
Exact same problem on a K6-2 450. Have to run it at 300MHz, and that's even with a nice heat sink/fan. Still a lot better than the P133 it replaced... but I hate paying for something I'm not getting.
...we should focus on what's good about this story...
;)
That was hilarious. You must be new around here.
Wow, that "IIS" sounds fantastic, since I need an elegant industry-standard application platform. Do you have any brochures?
...until some other crime is committed, there was no victim of simply stealing the numbers.
And if I drive home drunk and get away with it, what's the harm?
Phosgene is indeed used as a weapon.
Since you mention murder, almost 20,000 people have been murdered in the US since 9/11.
I don't think that is true. I Googled for some crime stats and I found this piece at CNN. It's the '97 stats, but it says that there were "...18,209 murders, or 6.8 for every 100,000 people..."
20,000 murders in the US since 9/11/01? It's more like 20k murders a year in the entire nation.
Those guys were probably all mentally unbalanced, in some clinically definable way. The terrorist networks specialize in finding people that can be groomed into those fanatic/suicide positions. Their end product does seem to stand up in the field, I have to give them that.
I would far, far, prefer Indian culture to American, and that has nothing to do with economics.
Then move; it really is that simple.
A human life is a human life, and an innocent American is not worth more than an innocent Afghani or Iraqi.
Very soon we may be forced to make some hard decisions like that... there's collateral damage in any war. I do not relish the thought of dead innocent civilians, but I WILL spend their lives in the effort to protect ours... because they are ours.
If prefering Dead Brand X to Dead Americans makes me some kind of nationalistic freak -- so be it.
(I am not saying the whole conflict boils down to that, of course. But it is one aspect of it, and I'll support it unflinchingly as long as it's getting results.)
Man, this is gonna be a CRAPPY war, isn't it?
There was a certian time during the war the the US ran out of "essential" targets to hit...
But in Vietnam we had our hands tied politically. There were a lot of valuable targets not in Vietnam itself that our forces were not allowed to engate. My memory sucks, but something about supply lines from Cambodia comes to mind.
We will easily prevail militarily in Afghanistan -- to a point. No Taliban military vehicle will be safe from our air forces. We will quickly smash their most expensive toys... and then it will be us and them, in the dirt and the caves with rifles and grenades and gas and knives. Ick.
I still think we will fare better than the Soviets did, though. For one, we probably won't have a major world power supplying the Taliban with high-tech weapons. For another, we will have help from anti-Taliban Afghans, if we are smart enough not to piss them off. Hopefully we can help them develop a real government and help out their people, too.
Elsewhere on the web, I read an anecdote about the Soviet-Afghan war. It basically said that the Sovs had won, at one point; their special Afghan-killing Spetznaz forces were racking up some very serious kills, and they had broken the back of the resistance. It was AFTER this that the Afghans started getting hundreds of Stinger missiles from the United States, and this was what they needed to come back out fighting and turn things around into their favor.
I don't know if that is true. Maybe someone with a good grasp of military history can weigh in on it.
Even though Bush is a cowboy, I have faith that his administration will handle the fight well.
So far I give him high marks as far as his message goes. The "you are with us or against us" bit was strong language, but perfect, IMHO. It's time for the forces of Law to take down the forces of Chaos. And if no one but us and the Brits have the stomach for the fight, then we'll do it with just the two of us... and we'll save the civilized world, again.
Once the plane is in the air there is too much of an opportunity for abuse. Won't you think of the children?
What we really need are waiting periods for airline tickets. How could that not work?
And how do you make a distincion between making a profit and abnormal or predatory pricing?
How do you define obscenity? If I recall, it has a really vague "offends the community" type of legal definition, but things still work out in court.
Doesn't every business have a right (as long as they're not a monopoly) to set their prices as they see fit?
Without getting into ethical arguments, the fact remains that businesses do NOT have that right under the law.
Getting into the ethical bit: nor should they, IMHO. We need smaller government, yes, but if there are not some controls placed on businesses they'll screw us over. This is a sensible place for gov't regulation. It protects us, and not in that offensive reading-your-email way.
For example, what if price fixing was legal... Imagine how much gas would cost. (Green freaks, replace "gas" with any other important product manufactured by only a few companies, and keep your "I wish!" statements to yourself.) With such a high barrier to entering that market, there is no practical way for a competitor to jump in and undercut the price-fixing consortium. That is the system with maximum freedom, but it still sucks!