Ok, being a former hacker (ok I still do it but still), My unofficial Hackers Rule Book tells me that Mr. Bushnell is not that bright. Hackers Law #1, Always make backups. But #3 states if someone claims it's unbreakable... BREAK IT!. Mr. Bushnell has opened the door for hackers across the globe to crack his unbreakable toy. Historically, every single company, person, and government that has made such claims, their technology was hacked in hours to weeks, and in rare cases months. Now granted some times this is on purposes so they "might" figure out how to patch that hole, but it's useless. In the hacker world, the locks can be picked, the encryption gets decrypted, and we sit back and say.. nice try. If you really piss us off bad enough, we release the code on how to do it. Blueray/HDDVD said it would take what, 10 years to crack? It was initially cracked in what, a week? Then everyone knew how to do it in a month. How much more of an invite do these companies need to do to be shown up? My best guess is if you really want something unhackable, DO NOT ADVERTISE THAT IT CAN'T BE HACKED! Now if you want REAL security, hire a team of top notch hackers and give them what THEY want not what you want and you may very well get a seriously good product that will be hard to hack. But always remember Hackers Law #2, There will ALWAYS be someone better than yourself. l8r
I though some of the hype Micro$oft was chattering about was how secure Vista was. Shouldn't the maker of the operating system take some steps to secure their product before calling it secure? Or maybe the real problem is in the routing. Can't routers become more smart to know what packets are real vs packets from botnets?
Life just seemed so much simpler back in the good old Commodore days.
Hey, bite your tongue. I sell "crappy" dialup service. It keeps food on the table for my little princess daughter. (title to be changed when she reaches the teenage years). As a dialup ISP, I find it interesting that I have a customers coming to me for dialup that are from DSL or cable. As much as I would love to tell them they must be idiots for switching, I still take them with a smile. I personally do not know how or understand how in the world you can go from anything higher than 56k back down to it. I mean to get email even would take 2 hours if you still get video's and pics.
My country of 5 acres in Florida has 100% broadband. A T-1 actually. Since DSL stopped 200 feet from my house and BellSouth (now AT&T) refused to bring it to me, I made them install a T1.:) You should have seen the look on that tech's face. WHAHAHAAHAH
#1 The feds give me new equipment. #2 The feds give me tax breaks for doing their damn job. #3 buy me out. #4 make me believe it will do some good. #5 stop all spamming so I could have the space on my servers to store their crap.
Face it, it's not gonna happen. Which data would get saved anyway? You have radius logs, you have mail logs, you have ftp logs, you have irc logs, you have samba logs, and the list keeps going. There simply aren't enough hard drives to store this type of data for any lengthy period of time. Even compressed. Find another way or put me on the payroll.
I want to submit a patent on farting. This way, no one can fart unless I say so. I demand $0.01 per fart per person throughout any country that is stupid enough to grant me this patent. And $1,000,000.00 per fart by those that give me the patent
Maybe if everyone that doesn't like this "victory", maybe it's time to start spaming the MPAA and RIAA constantly until they get SPAM outlawed. Just a thought.:)
With this ruling, does this not open the door for them to say that ISP's will be help responsible for any actions a user does online?!?!?!?
Are not ISP's 3rd party instruments? A user dials in (or simply connected if you are one of the lucky broadband users out there), and transfers anything, attachments in emails, ftp's, etc. That makes the ISP the middle guy doesn't it?
Considering how the Windows OS is the biggest piece of the spyware world, I wonder why the scans don't show Windows as "dangerous" spyware. Is it because it is really a VIRUS?
I'm filing for a patent on the air we breath. I have enhanced the air good enough to call it my own. No one can breath it unless they sign an agreement and I have to approve it. Depending on your income will depend on the types of air. If you are an employee of Micro$oft, or you LIKE Micro$oft, the air that has been alloted to you is body gasses from after eating at Toco Bell. If at any time my patent is violated, you will sued and made to recite the following statement.
My new saying: Microsoft OS's: A 32-bit graphical user interface to a 16-bit patch of an 8-bit operating system designed for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company who can't stand 1-bit of competition.
But only true lovers of Star Wars, we must also include.....
45 lp - Star Wars Story Book
45 lp - Star Wars Empire Strikes Back Story Book
33 lp - Empire Strikes Back (stripped down movie audio)
And to think Lucas was smart enough to ask for the merchandising.
Not that I am a collector or anything, my collection on top of everything listed thus far, I also have ALL "bubble gum" cards for IV V VI movies, every single Kenner toy, board games, posters, holder, display posters, I even have the remote control R2D2 life size Astro Droid. 98% of all toys are unopened. When I was a kid, I bought everything is double (execpt for the storm troopers) Oh, and yes, the comics in mint condition, 1-16 as I recall.
But none of this stuff has a high enough price to have a picture of the bank employees when they saw what I put in the vault. Truely a Kodak Moment.
I'm no legal expert, but how is it possible for SCO to make someone pay for something that the courts have yet to side with? I can claim that I started SCO and demand money from them. I can even take it to court. Does this mean that I can get the money from SCO before the court says yes or no?
What's the problem is the fact that it is assumed that I wanted to be opt-in'ed. Who decided for me that I WANTED all the spam. If the government would simply make it into law for spammers and telemarketers that they assume I'm not already opt'ed in, the things would be better. Make the people that contact us PROVE that we signed up for their crap.
I want to know.... Who spoke for me when all this SPAM showed up say that I OPTED in in the first place? Why do I have to OPT out of something I never asked to be in? Does this mean that every company that sends me mail, is inpersonating me? Isn't there a law against that? If I sue each company for speaking "for me", just $0.01, I think I would never have to work again. I don't know why our stupid government officials are the way they are. It's simple. Be like all the other countries. Britain, $5000 lbs fines for spam. Spam meaning ANY unsolicited email. Hey USA Government, get with the program. Make it illegal to be automatically OPTED in. Give us SPAMees a way to sue should the spam get sent to our children. Make them disclose ALL information about themselves should the SPAM us so we know where to go and protest on their front yard. You do this, problem solved.
I bet it would be ok if he was relaying kiddie porn. Well, he did have his pants down... hrm, half naked man, spams others with his stolen network carrier wave with his pants down. Sources says, well he was only spaming people so it was ok to do.
Maybe I should sue the government for making it OK for people to send my 6yr old porn and all the other sexist stuff. If I was a company that stood out on the curb, telling a 11 year old girl, "hey, I have something that will make you have an orgasm in 30 seconds or less". Or how about, wouldn't you like to be stretched big enough to handle all the guys that use viagra? How long would it be before I would be arrested? Where is my freedom of speech then? Oh but wait, doing it via the internet is OK!?!?!
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Ok, being a former hacker (ok I still do it but still), My unofficial Hackers Rule Book tells me that Mr. Bushnell is not that bright. Hackers Law #1, Always make backups. But #3 states if someone claims it's unbreakable... BREAK IT!.
Mr. Bushnell has opened the door for hackers across the globe to crack his unbreakable toy. Historically, every single company, person, and government that has made such claims, their technology was hacked in hours to weeks, and in rare cases months. Now granted some times this is on purposes so they "might" figure out how to patch that hole, but it's useless. In the hacker world, the locks can be picked, the encryption gets decrypted, and we sit back and say.. nice try. If you really piss us off bad enough, we release the code on how to do it.
Blueray/HDDVD said it would take what, 10 years to crack? It was initially cracked in what, a week? Then everyone knew how to do it in a month. How much more of an invite do these companies need to do to be shown up?
My best guess is if you really want something unhackable, DO NOT ADVERTISE THAT IT CAN'T BE HACKED!
Now if you want REAL security, hire a team of top notch hackers and give them what THEY want not what you want and you may very well get a seriously good product that will be hard to hack. But always remember Hackers Law #2, There will ALWAYS be someone better than yourself.
l8r
I though some of the hype Micro$oft was chattering about was how secure Vista was. Shouldn't the maker of the operating system take some steps to secure their product before calling it secure? Or maybe the real problem is in the routing. Can't routers become more smart to know what packets are real vs packets from botnets?
Life just seemed so much simpler back in the good old Commodore days.
Hey, bite your tongue. I sell "crappy" dialup service. It keeps food on the table for my little princess daughter. (title to be changed when she reaches the teenage years).
As a dialup ISP, I find it interesting that I have a customers coming to me for dialup that are from DSL or cable. As much as I would love to tell them they must be idiots for switching, I still take them with a smile. I personally do not know how or understand how in the world you can go from anything higher than 56k back down to it. I mean to get email even would take 2 hours if you still get video's and pics.
Not sloppy. It better be nice and clean.
My country of 5 acres in Florida has 100% broadband. A T-1 actually. Since DSL stopped 200 feet from my house and BellSouth (now AT&T) refused to bring it to me, I made them install a T1. :) You should have seen the look on that tech's face. WHAHAHAAHAH
#1 The feds give me new equipment.
#2 The feds give me tax breaks for doing their damn job.
#3 buy me out.
#4 make me believe it will do some good.
#5 stop all spamming so I could have the space on my servers to store their crap.
Face it, it's not gonna happen. Which data would get saved anyway? You have radius logs, you have mail logs, you have ftp logs, you have irc logs, you have samba logs, and the list keeps going. There simply aren't enough hard drives to store this type of data for any lengthy period of time. Even compressed. Find another way or put me on the payroll.
Am I missing something. I thought it was now against the law to spam in the USA...... How can a spamming company even have the right to sue anyone?
I want to submit a patent on farting. This way, no one can fart unless I say so. I demand $0.01 per fart per person throughout any country that is stupid enough to grant me this patent. And $1,000,000.00 per fart by those that give me the patent
Maybe if everyone that doesn't like this "victory", maybe it's time to start spaming the MPAA and RIAA constantly until they get SPAM outlawed. Just a thought. :)
Are not ISP's 3rd party instruments? A user dials in (or simply connected if you are one of the lucky broadband users out there), and transfers anything, attachments in emails, ftp's, etc. That makes the ISP the middle guy doesn't it?
Considering how the Windows OS is the biggest piece of the spyware world, I wonder why the scans don't show Windows as "dangerous" spyware. Is it because it is really a VIRUS?
If you do this, that would make the MPAA and the others "THE LIGHT" of the Internet. This makes me want to up-chuck TocoBell food and re-eat it.
It's SOOOOOoooo..... long to wait for.
Also FireFox.
They want to impress me, forget doing commands, find a way to retrieve memories and put them on thumb-drives for later recalling.
I'm filing for a patent on the air we breath. I have enhanced the air good enough to call it my own. No one can breath it unless they sign an agreement and I have to approve it. Depending on your income will depend on the types of air. If you are an employee of Micro$oft, or you LIKE Micro$oft, the air that has been alloted to you is body gasses from after eating at Toco Bell. If at any time my patent is violated, you will sued and made to recite the following statement. My new saying: Microsoft OS's: A 32-bit graphical user interface to a 16-bit patch of an 8-bit operating system designed for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company who can't stand 1-bit of competition.
45 lp - Star Wars Story Book
45 lp - Star Wars Empire Strikes Back Story Book
33 lp - Empire Strikes Back (stripped down movie audio)
And to think Lucas was smart enough to ask for the merchandising.
Not that I am a collector or anything, my collection on top of everything listed thus far, I also have ALL "bubble gum" cards for IV V VI movies, every single Kenner toy, board games, posters, holder, display posters, I even have the remote control R2D2 life size Astro Droid. 98% of all toys are unopened. When I was a kid, I bought everything is double (execpt for the storm troopers) Oh, and yes, the comics in mint condition, 1-16 as I recall.
But none of this stuff has a high enough price to have a picture of the bank employees when they saw what I put in the vault. Truely a Kodak Moment.
NOTHING IS FOR SALE (yet)
I doubt Windows could handle GIMP. After all, XP really stands for Xtra Problems.
There's something wrong with my transmitter. All I can do is RECEIVE.
I'm no legal expert, but how is it possible for SCO to make someone pay for something that the courts have yet to side with? I can claim that I started SCO and demand money from them. I can even take it to court. Does this mean that I can get the money from SCO before the court says yes or no?
What's the problem is the fact that it is assumed that I wanted to be opt-in'ed. Who decided for me that I WANTED all the spam. If the government would simply make it into law for spammers and telemarketers that they assume I'm not already opt'ed in, the things would be better. Make the people that contact us PROVE that we signed up for their crap.
I want to know.... Who spoke for me when all this SPAM showed up say that I OPTED in in the first place? Why do I have to OPT out of something I never asked to be in? Does this mean that every company that sends me mail, is inpersonating me? Isn't there a law against that? If I sue each company for speaking "for me", just $0.01, I think I would never have to work again. I don't know why our stupid government officials are the way they are. It's simple. Be like all the other countries. Britain, $5000 lbs fines for spam. Spam meaning ANY unsolicited email. Hey USA Government, get with the program. Make it illegal to be automatically OPTED in. Give us SPAMees a way to sue should the spam get sent to our children. Make them disclose ALL information about themselves should the SPAM us so we know where to go and protest on their front yard. You do this, problem solved.
I bet it would be ok if he was relaying kiddie porn. Well, he did have his pants down... hrm, half naked man, spams others with his stolen network carrier wave with his pants down. Sources says, well he was only spaming people so it was ok to do.
Anyone care to guess how tired of spam I am?
Maybe I should sue the government for making it OK for people to send my 6yr old porn and all the other sexist stuff. If I was a company that stood out on the curb, telling a 11 year old girl, "hey, I have something that will make you have an orgasm in 30 seconds or less". Or how about, wouldn't you like to be stretched big enough to handle all the guys that use viagra? How long would it be before I would be arrested? Where is my freedom of speech then? Oh but wait, doing it via the internet is OK!?!?!
If you don't like being called SPYWARE, then quit the &^%@#$ing spying.