> It's pretty fucking sad when you now have forecasted virii.
> Weather channel, look out!
Back at the height of the 2003 virus season my local television news programs had short virus warning segments several times a week. I can easily imagine it becoming a regular thing: news, sports, weather, virus alerts.
> First, you'd have to save it to your hard drive, clicking on it wouldn't work (email attachments are data files, not executables). Then you'd need to "chmod +x" it, and then you could run it as your user, in which case it can t only things associated with that user.
All it takes is some kind of $Moron to write an e-mail client that does all that for you when you click an attachment.
> Assuming these unlikely things happened, the superuser can simply disable your account and clean things up, while everyone else on the system can chug along happily.
> If they find something illegal (who doesn't have a "hack for program x" or keygen etc),
Don't the rules limit them to using what was specified on the warrant? Otherwise it's too easy to use a warrant for something trivial as the justification for a fishing expedition.
Of couse, in these days of the all-important War on Blacks^wDrugs and War on Arabs^wTerror, the rules don't seem to matter very much.
> but it is found that they came after you mistakenly, are your computers still lost?
AFAICT, you might as well kiss your stuff goodbye even if you're innocent. Remember the outcome of the clueless cop's crusade against Steve Jackson Games?
> Now comes the spam wars... Once again, a specific problem that must be solved: "How do we develop a method of letting legitimate mail get to us while filtering out spam with a minimum of error?" We don't have the government throwing billions at it, but because it affects the general public, there's an inordinate amount of businesses, academics, and hobbyists throwing brainpower at it.
Develop an AI that can read your mail and decide if the sender wants money. That way you can filter out hit-ups from your deadbeat friends, as well as spam.
> The most common slip-up is when a planned major event gets canceled at the last minute, while the DJ has already locked-in comments about how great the event was. Really messed up when the DJ says how great a concert was when everybody who had tickets knows it didn't happen...
Given the quality of the top bands these days, maybe the DJ thought it was great because it was canceled!
> Roblimo concludes that under the robes, Saudi geeks are much like geeks everywhere
Even the most rudimentary biological knowledge should have tipped you off that what's under the robes is just like what's under the jeans, kilt, or lederhosen.
> In an interview with CNET Darl Mcbride says, "We're finding...cases where there is line-by-line code in the Linux kernel that is matching up to our UnixWare code," In addition, he said, "We're finding code that looks like it's been obfuscated to make it look like it wasn't UnixWare code--but it was."
Translation: If it looks like our code, it was stolen. If it doesn't look like our code, it was stolen.
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> Most of SCO's stock is owned by its executives or corporate allies, and they trade amongst themselves to keep the stock price high.
So where's the payoff in a scheme like that?
> I work for a telco in NZ; one of our partners received an email yesterday from SCO as a heads-up.
And what were their heads up?
> Figures.> Heh. I followed that "failing product line" link for a lark. Then on the side bar I clicked the "Intellectual Property" link...
Did you look on the IBM site? Maybe they stole the IP document along with the source code...
> It's pretty fucking sad when you now have forecasted virii.
> Weather channel, look out!
Back at the height of the 2003 virus season my local television news programs had short virus warning segments several times a week. I can easily imagine it becoming a regular thing: news, sports, weather, virus alerts.
> installing "a program that lets attackers connect to infected machines, install malicious software or steal files."
Doesn't Windows already have to be installed?
> First, you'd have to save it to your hard drive, clicking on it wouldn't work (email attachments are data files, not executables). Then you'd need to "chmod +x" it, and then you could run it as your user, in which case it can t only things associated with that user.
All it takes is some kind of $Moron to write an e-mail client that does all that for you when you click an attachment.
> Assuming these unlikely things happened, the superuser can simply disable your account and clean things up, while everyone else on the system can chug along happily.
Yes, on a multi-user system.
> # internet users / total country's population = percentage. You're welcome.
Why did you comment it out?
> Well yeah, looking at porn sucks with dial up.
Learn to like flat-chested women - it saves on the bandwidth requirement.
> Back in my day we didn't...
<pa>When I was your age I had to download porn on a 1200 baud modem!</pa>
> If they find something illegal (who doesn't have a "hack for program x" or keygen etc),
Don't the rules limit them to using what was specified on the warrant? Otherwise it's too easy to use a warrant for something trivial as the justification for a fishing expedition.
Of couse, in these days of the all-important War on Blacks^wDrugs and War on Arabs^wTerror, the rules don't seem to matter very much.
> but it is found that they came after you mistakenly, are your computers still lost?
AFAICT, you might as well kiss your stuff goodbye even if you're innocent. Remember the outcome of the clueless cop's crusade against Steve Jackson Games?
"Whack his pee-pee!
> Michael Hunt? Richard Hertz?
I used to know a guy named Richard Head.
(His friends called him Richard.)
Supposedly they have a picture of Martians humping Beagle2, but they edited it to look like a plain stewn with rocks.
> Now comes the spam wars... Once again, a specific problem that must be solved: "How do we develop a method of letting legitimate mail get to us while filtering out spam with a minimum of error?" We don't have the government throwing billions at it, but because it affects the general public, there's an inordinate amount of businesses, academics, and hobbyists throwing brainpower at it.
Develop an AI that can read your mail and decide if the sender wants money. That way you can filter out hit-ups from your deadbeat friends, as well as spam.
My advice to you:
If you find haiku too hard
Use sonnet instead
> Where are those spam-eating lawyers we were promised?
Most of them gave up eating spam the day they finished law school.
LoL.
Yeah, I pretend to send some of my e-mail from Nigeria.
> The most common slip-up is when a planned major event gets canceled at the last minute, while the DJ has already locked-in comments about how great the event was. Really messed up when the DJ says how great a concert was when everybody who had tickets knows it didn't happen...
Given the quality of the top bands these days, maybe the DJ thought it was great because it was canceled!
> (though, on \., I've seen far more trivial matters argued in great detail)
Yes, like the proper spelling of "/."
> Roblimo concludes that under the robes, Saudi geeks are much like geeks everywhere
Even the most rudimentary biological knowledge should have tipped you off that what's under the robes is just like what's under the jeans, kilt, or lederhosen.
> In an interview with CNET Darl Mcbride says, "We're finding...cases where there is line-by-line code in the Linux kernel that is matching up to our UnixWare code," In addition, he said, "We're finding code that looks like it's been obfuscated to make it look like it wasn't UnixWare code--but it was."
Translation: If it looks like our code, it was stolen. If it doesn't look like our code, it was stolen.
> If he tries a 7,8,9, it will need to be some pretty compelling OMG reviews to drag my ass in to see 7.
I suspect "OMG" is exactly the kind of reviews they would get.
> 1. What percentage of geeks expect to see EpIII?
After E1 I didn't bother with E2, so I think that percentage has to exclude me.
> 2. Of those going to see EpIII, what percentage expect it to be anything other than a suckfest?
Do we have to see it to vote?
Wow, this is getting more play-by-play reporting than the SCO story is!