How about a Tuxinated version of American Gothic? Folksy, down-to-earth, hard-working back-to-the-lan values... (Ignoring the slight creepiness or other take-offs like in Rocky Horror.)
If it's a bug in the code, it serves the authors right for not making it open source. A patch would have been posted within hours!
But seriously, if the DDoS code doesn't work, then it really sounds like that part is a secondary red-herring that was either never properly tested, or it was deliberately left non-functional. Either way, that would mean the proxy/backdoor function is the primary purpose--which might tend to point to spammers and their Igor and Renfrew hirelings.
That was written a few days ago. Now there's some doubt that anything will happen. We'll find out tomorrow. (I wonder if that's Feb 1st 00:01 localtime or GMT?)
!bang path routing can be even smarter. Since there don't have to be any domain registrars involved, the names can be arbitrary and local. Only the hop before it has to know what it is and how to get to it. anytown!smallvillage!fred for example. The relay at smallvillage can even know that to get to fred, it should route via overhill!overdale!grandmashouse. It's a bit of a lost art these days, but long ago the plains thundered with mighty !bang paths and open relays were a public service... (Check old posts in googlegroups for examples.)
Bah, the Mars rovers have a fairly high-speed connection with a 15-20 minute round-trip delay. This story is about getting connectivity into really hard to reach places!:^)
I think
it is highly uncivilised of us to impose what we call 'our culture' on them. Cultural diversity makes this world so interesting. The Guarani have their own culture. Please leave them alone.
I almost submitted that story, and did some research (okay, I Googled) on the Guarani. These aren't some fabled unspoiled Garden of Eden privatives. They have all the nasty problems of marginalized native cultures: suicides, substance-abuse, but mainly lack of a future. If five lousy laptops can make a difference, good! Can't make anything worse.
Bozos like this want everyone else to remain in a pristine natural state (brutish and short) so he might enjoy himself as a traveller (he did not say tourist). Sounds more like something out of the back-end of Traveller, Robert E. Lee's horse.
I'm cranky this morning, I need coffee--Then I'll be wired and cranky!
Since they're using an off-the-Internet store and forward system, I wonder if that email address would need a !bang path? (Perhaps a bang-bang path if the motorcycle is running rough.) UUCP lives on.
A 1860 operation that lost a lot of money ($700,000 in 1860 dollars), charged $5 an ounce, and went under in 19 months. Obsoleted at the start by the telegraph. That Pony Express?
Romantic as hell, part of the myth of the Old West.
In the spam that I get, almost none has been through open relays for the last couple of years. Spammers have been going though open proxies and now trojan/zombied proxies.
Using a proxy has the advantage (to the spammer) of not leaving a trace in the Received lines in the email header. Also, since home broadband is now common, spammers don't need to find a server with a large pipe. If one DSL won't do, find one hundred.
This effort is at least four years behind the times. Typical. They need to get the message out to home users that any computer can be a server.
Well you claim you've written several books. Since you don't say which ones or who you are, no ones knows if they are any good. That's barely argument by hand-waving.
The idea that operators of open relays are in no way responsible for the network abuse sent through their servers is an out of date view. It hasn't been accepted for over eight years. I know of one net old-timer who keeps an relay open as a misguided "free speech" effort. Everyone else just shakes their heads and blocks the old fool.
I wouldn't have thought of putting the offered contract on eBay. He managed the 4. Profit! part without taking Microsoft's bloodmoney, risking court or looking like a chump. Perhaps the eBay money was luck, perhaps not, but I don't think we've heard the last of this Mike Rowe.:^)
I wouldn't count on a signature. That's the original Jan 14th agreement MS sent him--one copy for him, one for them perhaps? He didn't sign it, and then MS offered to throw in an Xbox, the trip, MSCE course, etc. (I wonder if the text of the agreement he did sign has or will be made public?)
If the bidding doubles a couple times, he'll be making more than the $10,000 he wanted in the first place. Hmm, maybe in 30 years, he'll buy them?
Be careful which version you get. I finally read all of the "Complete" HHGTTG hardcover (missing Mostly Harmless) that I bought for Young Zaphod Plays It Safe, and the text is the Americanized version -- which can be jarring if you're used to the original version.
Random word paragraphs aren't new. The latest thing I've seen is a dyslexia filter-buster. The words in the email are mildly scrambled. "Get hrad in sceonds!" Other people receive it unscrambled, so I bet the spammers know which ISPs have some kind of filtering to stop the un-dyslexic version.
It's not just Slashdot. When that problem surfaced with the WiFi router that redirected an HTTP request to their parental filter ad every eight hours, a reporter emailed a bunch of people in news.admin.net-abuse.email to see if he could talk with them. I agreed, what the hell, but I guess no one gave him the angry sound-bite or quote he was looking for, so they didn't run the story.
I guess "comments on Slashdot" or "a member of a spam-fighting newsgroup on Google*" sounds far better than "a bunch of guys who were arguing in a bar". (* Yes, many people think Usenet is wholly a part of Google.)
That should be fun when two dueling Mail/AV systems keep passing it back and forth--especially if the original target and forged sender keep getting notifications. Probably won't happen, most systems should be smart enough to avoid mail loops, probably.
When Aaron Sneary first got married, the frequent noises he made playing with Legos annoyed his bride. But gradually, she warmed to the sound, knowing it meant he was having a good time, being creative and mentally returning to his childhood.
Okay, what does "sounds" mean? Humming, muttering to himself, yoddling, fake farts, what? And at what level? A little talking to yourself is fine, but is it a complete dialog with multiple voices? "Yess, my pressciousss Lego..."
Should we begin the construction of Lego sanitoria?
My Heathkit PC clone supported a few other combinations. CTRL-ALT-INS would either get the ROM monitor program or the ROM copy of debug. (It's been a while.)
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How about a Tuxinated version of American Gothic? Folksy, down-to-earth, hard-working back-to-the-lan values... (Ignoring the slight creepiness or other take-offs like in Rocky Horror.)
But seriously, if the DDoS code doesn't work, then it really sounds like that part is a secondary red-herring that was either never properly tested, or it was deliberately left non-functional. Either way, that would mean the proxy/backdoor function is the primary purpose--which might tend to point to spammers and their Igor and Renfrew hirelings.
That was written a few days ago. Now there's some doubt that anything will happen. We'll find out tomorrow. (I wonder if that's Feb 1st 00:01 localtime or GMT?)
!bang path routing can be even smarter. Since there don't have to be any domain registrars involved, the names can be arbitrary and local. Only the hop before it has to know what it is and how to get to it. anytown!smallvillage!fred for example. The relay at smallvillage can even know that to get to fred, it should route via overhill!overdale!grandmashouse. It's a bit of a lost art these days, but long ago the plains thundered with mighty !bang paths and open relays were a public service... (Check old posts in googlegroups for examples.)
Did you mean Boots or her cover of The Beatle's Run For Your Life? (Very very un-PC lyrics these days.)
Bah, the Mars rovers have a fairly high-speed connection with a 15-20 minute round-trip delay. This story is about getting connectivity into really hard to reach places! :^)
Bozos like this want everyone else to remain in a pristine natural state (brutish and short) so he might enjoy himself as a traveller (he did not say tourist). Sounds more like something out of the back-end of Traveller, Robert E. Lee's horse.
I'm cranky this morning, I need coffee--Then I'll be wired and cranky!
Hmm, seems to have ticked off a member of the Perpetually P-O'ed Class "A true traveller" Bleh, what an idiot.
Since they're using an off-the-Internet store and forward system, I wonder if that email address would need a !bang path? (Perhaps a bang-bang path if the motorcycle is running rough.) UUCP lives on.
Romantic as hell, part of the myth of the Old West.
Using a proxy has the advantage (to the spammer) of not leaving a trace in the Received lines in the email header. Also, since home broadband is now common, spammers don't need to find a server with a large pipe. If one DSL won't do, find one hundred.
This effort is at least four years behind the times. Typical. They need to get the message out to home users that any computer can be a server.
Where in their FAQ does it say that?
The idea that operators of open relays are in no way responsible for the network abuse sent through their servers is an out of date view. It hasn't been accepted for over eight years. I know of one net old-timer who keeps an relay open as a misguided "free speech" effort. Everyone else just shakes their heads and blocks the old fool.
Herself? It fell asleep with its probe stuck out. Now it's going to wake up with some memories missing. That sounds like a guy activity to me.
I'm sure it's in there somewhere, but can't think of which one right now. Any bets that MS's .. fix .. breaks non-HTTP URLs like ftp:// ones?
1. Print out copy of web pages.
2. Make photocopy of printout for individual's files.
3. Fax printout.
4. Put printout in department client files.
I wish I was kidding, but that was the SOP in one place 1990ish. (Except that there was no web to print back then, details!)
I wouldn't have thought of putting the offered contract on eBay. He managed the 4. Profit! part without taking Microsoft's bloodmoney, risking court or looking like a chump. Perhaps the eBay money was luck, perhaps not, but I don't think we've heard the last of this Mike Rowe. :^)
If the bidding doubles a couple times, he'll be making more than the $10,000 he wanted in the first place. Hmm, maybe in 30 years, he'll buy them?
Be careful which version you get. I finally read all of the "Complete" HHGTTG hardcover (missing Mostly Harmless) that I bought for Young Zaphod Plays It Safe, and the text is the Americanized version -- which can be jarring if you're used to the original version.
I'm quite used to the sound Lego makes. She said the sound he made. Well, just so long as he doesn't say "Oh Lego yes!" at night, I guess.
Random word paragraphs aren't new. The latest thing I've seen is a dyslexia filter-buster. The words in the email are mildly scrambled. "Get hrad in sceonds!" Other people receive it unscrambled, so I bet the spammers know which ISPs have some kind of filtering to stop the un-dyslexic version.
I guess "comments on Slashdot" or "a member of a spam-fighting newsgroup on Google*" sounds far better than "a bunch of guys who were arguing in a bar". (* Yes, many people think Usenet is wholly a part of Google.)
That should be fun when two dueling Mail/AV systems keep passing it back and forth--especially if the original target and forged sender keep getting notifications. Probably won't happen, most systems should be smart enough to avoid mail loops, probably.
Should we begin the construction of Lego sanitoria?
My Heathkit PC clone supported a few other combinations. CTRL-ALT-INS would either get the ROM monitor program or the ROM copy of debug. (It's been a while.)