A horrible vision? Why wait until that long from now? I remember all the cheap knock-off movies that came out after StarWars.
Prepare for next summer with "Dude, Where's My Ring?" and endless others. I suppose someone will think of doing some of the endless Shananara books as movies too. Or maybe Leslie Nelson as an Evil Overlord who really isn't Sauron.
Not to mention where Gandalf and Saruman compare magic mojo and Gandalf snaps Saruman's staff like a twig.
We know Galdalf is back, he's white and he's better, but we don't get an idea of how much better until then. I'd like to see that scene eventually. There were a lot of battling of wills and unseen powers, especially when Saruman is speaking. It would interesting to see how it was carried off without a lot of WWF-style posturing.
A girl and a boy bump into each other -- surely an accident.
A girl and a boy bump and her handkerchief drops -- surely another accident.
But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid -- that had to mean something.
-- S. Morganstern, "The Silent Gondoliers"
Either that or sixties advertising. There was a cleaner in a bottle that had the pitch "Cleans like a white tornado!" (Just the thing for getting soot out of those Klan robes?)
It could have been worse. There was a laundry detergent that had some giant troll arm reach out of the washer and grab your clothes. Then again, with Slashdot, inventing giant trolls would be redundant...
And Windows has always been Microsoft Windows, but they've gone after other products using windows in their name. (But not X-Window for some reason.:^)
Obviously they don't own "SQL" and can't force anyone to stop using it, but now that they've laid their cockoo's egg of SQL Server, anyone else wanting to use "Bob's SQL Server" will hear from their lawyers because it causes confusion.
Exactly. Sybase SQL Server. And it was Microsoft SQL Server, but once Microsoft has their product in position, they drop the company name and gradually make everyone assume that the generic term refers to them by default. If they've managed to be extra tricky, they then sue anyone not using the generic term to refer to their product. (Did Sybase really chose to rename their product, or were they forced to by legal/marketing forces?)
They already think they can sue the entire Evil Penguin Empire. (They're a little confused because they can't locate the Evil Penguin Overlord, but that has to be Linus, right?)
Of course they have some technical people left. That wasn't a DDoS, that was an outgoing flood of job applications. I wonder what they put on their resumes instead of SCO/Caldera?
Use UDP packets. The source IP address can be forged, and the packet can contain information/commands to the zombie, or at least how/where to look for further commands.
Then the zombie-master can have a few zombies spray the entire Internet with these packets to find the rest of the zombies.
A lot of the current ones try to spread themselves as email. (All those "security updates".) After a while they go quiet and.. wait.. for orders via whatever com channel they use.
A lot of the emails don't make it to a system that can be infected, aren't opened by someone dumb enough, and so on. However, like the numbers involved in spamming, they just need a very small percentage to be dumb enough.
I'm not talking about accessing a rooted box, I talking about the comand and control of zombie networks that some spammers appear to run. Some of them seem to use the usual IRC methods of coordination, some use other methods.
If there's already a structure for controlling these networks, why re-invent the wheel?
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Prepare for next summer with "Dude, Where's My Ring?" and endless others. I suppose someone will think of doing some of the endless Shananara books as movies too. Or maybe Leslie Nelson as an Evil Overlord who really isn't Sauron.
Deagol dies? Damn, he was a great character! Almost as good as Horsefeathers in Time Bandits.
We know Galdalf is back, he's white and he's better, but we don't get an idea of how much better until then. I'd like to see that scene eventually. There were a lot of battling of wills and unseen powers, especially when Saruman is speaking. It would interesting to see how it was carried off without a lot of WWF-style posturing.
If your head wears tinfoil pants .. I don't want to know.
Not if you're routing traffic through Twin Peaks. The owls are not what they seem.
If you've got 50,000 pigeons pooping, go for a "buffer overflow" exploit.
Have plenty of barbeque sauce on hand. (Although Szechwan peanut sauce is nice too.)
It could have been worse. There was a laundry detergent that had some giant troll arm reach out of the washer and grab your clothes. Then again, with Slashdot, inventing giant trolls would be redundant...
TV "culture"? You're soaking in it!
Genetic algorithm? I'm not even sure that DNA testing would work 100%. With that skin colour, you'd probably find Borg nanoprobes in his blood.
Obviously they don't own "SQL" and can't force anyone to stop using it, but now that they've laid their cockoo's egg of SQL Server, anyone else wanting to use "Bob's SQL Server" will hear from their lawyers because it causes confusion.
Anyway, major topic drift, oops!
Exactly. Sybase SQL Server. And it was Microsoft SQL Server, but once Microsoft has their product in position, they drop the company name and gradually make everyone assume that the generic term refers to them by default. If they've managed to be extra tricky, they then sue anyone not using the generic term to refer to their product. (Did Sybase really chose to rename their product, or were they forced to by legal/marketing forces?)
Typical Microsoft calling their product something generic that should apply to any SQL server. Almost like calling a product .. Windows.
Large yes, but I'm sure that their list of who they want to sue must be huge! (Atoms in the universe huge.)
Now... How many billion spams did he send out?
They already think they can sue the entire Evil Penguin Empire. (They're a little confused because they can't locate the Evil Penguin Overlord, but that has to be Linus, right?)
It was all their remaining technical people sending out floods of job applications.
Of course they have some technical people left. That wasn't a DDoS, that was an outgoing flood of job applications. I wonder what they put on their resumes instead of SCO/Caldera?
Then the zombie-master can have a few zombies spray the entire Internet with these packets to find the rest of the zombies.
A lot of the emails don't make it to a system that can be infected, aren't opened by someone dumb enough, and so on. However, like the numbers involved in spamming, they just need a very small percentage to be dumb enough.
If there's already a structure for controlling these networks, why re-invent the wheel?
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I know what happened: Their GPLicence expired.
Beware the DOSferatu: The Children of the Byte, who reboot from the grave.
They really need to learn to say no to spammer money (or close open proxies).