My inbox has dozens of viruses dumped into it every day, which completely and totally pisses me off. However, I'd still shake the hand of the writers of some of the cleverer viruses
So would I. Then I'd kick them in the kneecaps with my steel-toecapped boots.
Also, the spammers want to divert attention away from themselves in order to avoid people associating 'spammer' with 'virus writer', which could seriously damage their revenues.
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Virus experts think that the primary purpose of this virus is to turn infected PC's into spam gateways. Now the spammers realise that if people start to associate spam with viruses, then that's going to hurt sales of penis enlargement pills.
So they come up with this clever idea. Make the virus DOS Microsoft and SCO and then the press will report the DOS attack, diverting attention away from the spammers and onto the Linux community.
This article is not from the Guardian (a UK daily paper), it's from it's sister paper the Observer, which is published weekly on Sundays.
The Observer has a record of stupid and ill-informed articles such as this. In one famous case it published the photo of the boss of Demon Internet, calling him a 'child pornographer', since child porn could be found in nntp feeds that Demon carried. Demon, like Microsoft, countered that it couldn't be held responsible for the actions of it's users.
I don't even have intutitions about how long feet are or how heavy a stone is. Pretty much everyone under the age of 25 only deals with litres, metres and kilograms.
I'm British, 36 and weigh myself in kilograms. My girlfriend is 23 but can't understand kg, so weights herself in stone. I have to keep switching the bathroom scales back to kg.
Yes, I know, 36 y/o geek with 23 y/o g/f - don't quite understand it myself.
Now that analysts and journalists are starting to catch on, expect to see more articles like this. I think that SCO's stock price is nearing the end of its plateau. I don't think that it will drop dramatically but will slowly decline over a number of months. If there are no quick wins in any of their lawsuits, then their investors will gradually lose faith.
Except that Tesco, with their huge legal resources, lost a similar case against Levi's. As a result, Levi jeans are twice the price in the UK, as they are in the US. I like Levi 501's because they fit me well, but am boycotting them because I don't like to be ripped off in the manner. I'm now planning to do the same with cd's.
My first download was an.mp2 too. REM's Losing My Religion - not because I wanted the song, I needed some MPEG audio data to test some streaming software I was writing. This would have been about 1994 too, although I had an Alpha workstation.
I think that this is M$ trying to stem the tide of migrations to Linux, rather than to turn Linux users back to Windows. They've finally accepted that reality is that companies run a mixture of Windows and Unix/Linux systems. They also realise that all of these powerful tools that appeal to developers and sysadmins come free with Linux. So they NEED to provide them to Windows for free or face further erosion of their market share.
Where I work, we develop on Windows and deploy onto Linux servers. We've been talking for ages about switching to Linux desktops, but it hasn't happened yet. Tools like this are useful and could quite easily delay us switching.
I'm also wondering about trying NFS instead of Samba at home. Though SMB sucks and NFS did too when I last used it (years ago).
On a related note, Slartibartfast was originally a working name for the character, which Adams chose just because he didn't like the typist the BBC had assigned for him whilst he was writing the scripts.
In an interview he said that he arrived at the name by writing down all of the 'rude' words that he could think of, and then arranging parts of them until he had a name that was funny without actually being offensive.
. I'm wondering when the terrorists will catch up and build booby traps that only explodes when the RFID scanner attached to the booby trap detects an e.g. US-american citizen nearby
Better still, if it was really clever it could read the tags in their clothing too. So a bus-load of obese american tourists turns up, the rfid reader detects 40 US citizens with waist sizes of more than 80 inches and BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course he's not going out on a limb. This isn't a tech article, it's a piece in a mainstream (British) daily newspaper informing people about what sort of technology they can expect to see in the next few months. Nothing to see here so move along.
The most interesting thing was his advice to not buy a PC with Windows.
don't want to see this guy go to prison unless he was spamming for unsavory things like ridiculously immoral pr0n
According to Spamhaus, he was sending non-stop porn, including 'horsey porn'. I hope that they do jail him and that it serves as a warning to the other scum.
A non-stop group of porn spammers with T1 access. Multiple machines pumping scam and porn spam around the clock. Notorious for "horsey porn" spam starring "Rambo." Jeremy Jaynes, aka "Gaven Stubberfield" seems to be in charge of this sleazy operation. Richard Ruckowski signs up for much of the hosting service.
Since most open source development is not done by professionals nor professional organizations, there is no formal QA process. As such, Linux is in dire need of testing. Especially with all the unproven claims of stability made in its regard.
Have you looked at the email addresses of the kernel contributors. Most of them seem to be @intel.com, @ibm.com, @hp.com, @redhat.com, @sgi.com etc. etc.
Maybe ten years ago they were teenagers, but mostly they are now professional developers who are paid to work on the kernel by their employers.
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My inbox has dozens of viruses dumped into it every day, which completely and totally pisses me off. However, I'd still shake the hand of the writers of some of the cleverer viruses
So would I. Then I'd kick them in the kneecaps with my steel-toecapped boots.
HH
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Also, the spammers want to divert attention away from themselves in order to avoid people associating 'spammer' with 'virus writer', which could seriously damage their revenues.
HH
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Virus experts think that the primary purpose of this virus is to turn infected PC's into spam gateways. Now the spammers realise that if people start to associate spam with viruses, then that's going to hurt sales of penis enlargement pills.
So they come up with this clever idea. Make the virus DOS Microsoft and SCO and then the press will report the DOS attack, diverting attention away from the spammers and onto the Linux community.
Clever, huh?
HH
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This article is not from the Guardian (a UK daily paper), it's from it's sister paper the Observer, which is published weekly on Sundays.
The Observer has a record of stupid and ill-informed articles such as this. In one famous case it published the photo of the boss of Demon Internet, calling him a 'child pornographer', since child porn could be found in nntp feeds that Demon carried. Demon, like Microsoft, countered that it couldn't be held responsible for the actions of it's users.
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This is the same Unix that SCO claims ownership of?
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This film will only last in your memories!
Until they find a way of erasing those too, thus ensuring that you watch the movies over again.
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I don't even have intutitions about how long feet are or how heavy a stone is. Pretty much everyone under the age of 25 only deals with litres, metres and kilograms.
I'm British, 36 and weigh myself in kilograms. My girlfriend is 23 but can't understand kg, so weights herself in stone. I have to keep switching the bathroom scales back to kg.
Yes, I know, 36 y/o geek with 23 y/o g/f - don't quite understand it myself.
HH
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Now that analysts and journalists are starting to catch on, expect to see more articles like this. I think that SCO's stock price is nearing the end of its plateau. I don't think that it will drop dramatically but will slowly decline over a number of months. If there are no quick wins in any of their lawsuits, then their investors will gradually lose faith.
HH
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Except that Tesco, with their huge legal resources, lost a similar case against Levi's. As a result, Levi jeans are twice the price in the UK, as they are in the US. I like Levi 501's because they fit me well, but am boycotting them because I don't like to be ripped off in the manner. I'm now planning to do the same with cd's.
HH
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My first download was an .mp2 too. REM's Losing My Religion - not because I wanted the song, I needed some MPEG audio data to test some streaming software I was writing. This would have been about 1994 too, although I had an Alpha workstation.
HH
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I think that this is M$ trying to stem the tide of migrations to Linux, rather than to turn Linux users back to Windows. They've finally accepted that reality is that companies run a mixture of Windows and Unix/Linux systems. They also realise that all of these powerful tools that appeal to developers and sysadmins come free with Linux. So they NEED to provide them to Windows for free or face further erosion of their market share.
Where I work, we develop on Windows and deploy onto Linux servers. We've been talking for ages about switching to Linux desktops, but it hasn't happened yet. Tools like this are useful and could quite easily delay us switching.
I'm also wondering about trying NFS instead of Samba at home. Though SMB sucks and NFS did too when I last used it (years ago).
HH
--
On a related note, Slartibartfast was originally a working name for the character, which Adams chose just because he didn't like the typist the BBC had assigned for him whilst he was writing the scripts.
In an interview he said that he arrived at the name by writing down all of the 'rude' words that he could think of, and then arranging parts of them until he had a name that was funny without actually being offensive.
HH
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. I'm wondering when the terrorists will catch up and build booby traps that only explodes when the RFID scanner attached to the booby trap detects an e.g. US-american citizen nearby
Better still, if it was really clever it could read the tags in their clothing too. So a bus-load of obese american tourists turns up, the rfid reader detects 40 US citizens with waist sizes of more than 80 inches and BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh well, there goes my karma
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i could only recognise two that looked vaugly as women. #1 = front row, center, really bad dress sense
Who is married to guy in middle row, center with Red Hat and really bad beard sense! Some of you might recognise him.
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Eugenia Loli-Query, Editor in Chief of OSNews and regular /. poster
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Of course he's not going out on a limb. This isn't a tech article, it's a piece in a mainstream (British) daily newspaper informing people about what sort of technology they can expect to see in the next few months. Nothing to see here so move along.
The most interesting thing was his advice to not buy a PC with Windows.
HH
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I would practically give my right arm to go on any one of these trips.
If you went on one of these trips there's a good chance that you'd end up giving a lot more of your body than your right arm.
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So we're now just waiting for the news that the Beagle has landed.
HH
don't want to see this guy go to prison unless he was spamming for unsavory things like ridiculously immoral pr0n
According to Spamhaus, he was sending non-stop porn, including 'horsey porn'. I hope that they do jail him and that it serves as a warning to the other scum.
HH
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From Spamhaus:
A non-stop group of porn spammers with T1 access. Multiple machines pumping scam and porn spam around the clock. Notorious for "horsey porn" spam starring "Rambo." Jeremy Jaynes, aka "Gaven Stubberfield" seems to be in charge of this sleazy operation. Richard Ruckowski signs up for much of the hosting service.
RTFA, or at least LATFSS (look at the fscking screenshots)
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Average Joe can, however, play 3D games. So make navigating the desktop more like playing a game and he'll cotton on.
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You have: 581 km per hour
You want: furlongs per fortnight
* 970410.85
Since most open source development is not done by professionals nor professional organizations, there is no formal QA process. As such, Linux is in dire need of testing. Especially with all the unproven claims of stability made in its regard.
Have you looked at the email addresses of the kernel contributors. Most of them seem to be @intel.com, @ibm.com, @hp.com, @redhat.com, @sgi.com etc. etc.
Maybe ten years ago they were teenagers, but mostly they are now professional developers who are paid to work on the kernel by their employers.
HH
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only the five richest kings in Europe will be able to aford one.
A bit offtopic, but there are only four kings in Europe - those of Norway, Sweden, Belgium and Spain.
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