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  1. Re:Why? on What You Get When You Buy a Spam CD · · Score: 1

    Haven't you ever received spam for the "banned CD"?

  2. Just like WWF on DARPA Robot Contest Update · · Score: 5, Funny

    All sorts of heated tempers and a split to a rival federation. All they need now is a few good rants, some cage matches, and one bot hitting another with a chair or something. It'll be a shoe-in for weekend afternoon TV. w00t!

  3. Re:Jituxramon... on New Worm Spreads Via MSN Messenger · · Score: 1

    But Wormmon was a good Digimon! (Okay, Ken was a prick.)

  4. Re:Some notify mechanism on New Worm Spreads Via MSN Messenger · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because the notify mechanism would be hijacked to advertise blue-penis-pills or it might have a security flaw? Keep it simple.

  5. Re:So what does it actually do? on New Worm Spreads Via MSN Messenger · · Score: 1

    It could turn the box into a spam zombie-proxy. There have been a few of those recently.

  6. Re:So what does it actually do? on New Worm Spreads Via MSN Messenger · · Score: 2, Informative

    A number of the worms linked to spammers and DDoS attacks on anti-spammer sites have been multi-stage jobs. Once a PC is infected, it either scans for or waits for contact to pull down the next stage. (Sort of like a Wormdows Update feature.)

  7. Prepare for trouble! on New Worm Spreads Via MSN Messenger · · Score: 1
    Looks like we're Blastering off again!

    Ping!

  8. Re:Um, how are IM and P2P "web" connections? on 75% of Network Connections Not From Browsers · · Score: 1

    That was fsckup in the article, I think. Besides, Blaster uses connection-less UDP packets which probably wouldn't have been counted. (Code Red did use HTTP.) But it wouldn't have been as funny to point that out. :^)

  9. Re:Nielsen on 75% of Network Connections Not From Browsers · · Score: 1
    When I uninstalled it, it tried to call home once more.

    After you uninstalled or as you were uninstalling it? I'd love to see the final packet it sends. "I'm melting! I'm melting!" or "Daisy daisy..."?

  10. Re:I can definitely attest to this on 75% of Network Connections Not From Browsers · · Score: 1

    How do you single out P2P from the rest? Just wondering because HTTP doesn't have to be on port 80, and all the Kazaa/whatever can be on various ports. As well, most of the P2P protocols seem to be descended from HTTP. (When I get a "dirty" DHCP IP address, it's sometimes fun to toss a web server on the targeted port to see what files people are requesting from the previous IP address owner. I just check the logs after a while.)

  11. Re:msblast on 75% of Network Connections Not From Browsers · · Score: 5, Funny

    That probably gets balanced a bit by the HTTP connections from people still infected with Code Red.

  12. Re:How the hell would they know? on 75% of Network Connections Not From Browsers · · Score: 1
    Let's see. On a bigblueball page, which is aimed at IM-type users, quoting a PRNewswire "story".

    At first pass, my guess is they made it up.

  13. PRNewswire? on 75% of Network Connections Not From Browsers · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, that's an authoritative source.

  14. Re:From an american italians perspective on Grand Theft Auto Ban To Be Decided By Courts · · Score: 1
    We have to move stereotype groups off planet. For every ethnical identifable criminal group, just substitute the Martian Mob, the Greenies, etc.

    Then when anyone pops up to complain, *bang*, they're in a government lab before they get out word one.

  15. Re:Tables turned on Grand Theft Auto Ban To Be Decided By Courts · · Score: 1
    No no, if you want outrage, you make a game about beating anyone involved with SCO and Darl McBride to a bloody pulp.

    And then you release it for Windows/DirectX only (with tweaks to bust WINE).

  16. Re:Hollywood? on Grand Theft Auto Ban To Be Decided By Courts · · Score: 1

    Sources? I forget who owns whom these days, but a lot of game companies, if not in bed with them, at least sleep over at that west coast old boys club. (But nothing wrong happens, honest!)

  17. Re:Just bear through it. on Best Way To Beat A Caffeine Addiction? · · Score: 1
    Strangely, in Canada, Mountain Dew doesn't have any caffeine. (Anyone know the reason for that?)

    Probably just as well. When I drank it as a kid, the sugar buzz alone was bad for the walls.

  18. Rotational? Not important! on No More Leap Second? · · Score: 1
    Apparently the most important science discovery on 2003 was Fark energy. (Follow the link in my sig before they fix the typo.)

    I'm not following the parent post, but it is a dead news day.

  19. Re:Critical links about Primerica on Forbes Ventures Bold Predictions For IT, Linux · · Score: 1

    No, just Link Of The Day. (It's been a long day.) Besides, Shatner isn't Lord Of The Dins. That's Elron Hubbard is (Warning, this is the sonic equivilent of goatse. I'm not kidding.)

  20. Re:Critical links about Primerica on Forbes Ventures Bold Predictions For IT, Linux · · Score: 1
    Definitely. It possibly does work for some people buying and selling their services. Personally I've come in contact with them twice, and both times it seemed like a cheesy MLM with telemarketing. I can't vouch for the accuracy of Ken Young or the other links. (I said they were critical and reasoned, not that they were correct.)

    I'm certainly not saying don't involved, just to take the time to be well informed about the various strong opinions before agreeing to anything.

  21. Re:My own list on Tech Predictions for 2004 · · Score: 5, Funny
    The only Ring of Power that I see are the rights of any claim of ownership of UNIX. Whoever controls those without destroying them will be subject to the corrupting influence of trying to make claims of ownership of anything close to UNIX like the elven rings of Linux.

    Just look at what happened to Gollum McBride. Sad.

  22. Re:IBM to *Settle*? on Forbes Ventures Bold Predictions For IT, Linux · · Score: 1
    And in the end, from the smoking corpse of SCO, IBM picks up the rights to UNIX, such as they are.

    Do they then cast those into the Cracks of Doom, or will they find them more precious than gold and keepsess them?

  23. Critical links about Primerica on Forbes Ventures Bold Predictions For IT, Linux · · Score: 1
    Just follow Google's list of critical links. (These are the reasoned critical links. There are endless "Primerica sucks!" links, but who needs those?)

    I really doubt the Linux community would want to use them as a business model. Might as well: Send $5 to Linus and the four other names on the list. Remove Linus' name from the top, add your name to the bottom and send the list to all your friends...

    You know, replace $5 with a beer...

  24. Re:How to make money giving it away for 'free'. on Forbes Ventures Bold Predictions For IT, Linux · · Score: 1
    Primerica comes on like a pyramid scam! They get people to sign on and sell their stuff and sign others on to sell their stuff.. They also tend to be very sly about telling you who they are when doing so.

    Think of Amway for financial stuff--with a wiff of cult. Check them out very carefully.

  25. Re:Description of the new shape on Has The Poincare Conjecture Been Solved? · · Score: 1
    It's universe-shaped, and pale green, and it's emitting a very low pitched hum.

    A deep-humming pale-green universe-shaped thing. This does not bode well!