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  1. Re:What about a distributed attack system on Can Banks Shift Phishing Losses to Customers? · · Score: 1

    Actually I've spent the last few days collecting Domain names that benefit from spam, that way I don't have to use domain names of legit sites, and again its more difficult thean I imagined, going through 150 spams only got me got me 50 unique domains names, and it looks like they are thinning out pretty quickly, now I'm going through 7 spams to get one unique domain name, so a few sites seem to be benefiting from most of the spam.

  2. Re:Primary Goal of the Mission on Face on Mars Gets a Make-Over · · Score: 1

    Oh no I said Santa Clause, the Tim Allen Character not Santa Claus, the chubby guy from the north pole who leaves presents and eat cookie, you must think I'm stupid or something.

  3. Re:Relgious take on it... on Face on Mars Gets a Make-Over · · Score: 1

    It was the ESA, European Space Agency, the Europeans are always starting shit they can't finish, the French surrendered yesterday, yadda, yadda yadda.

  4. Re:Primary Goal of the Mission on Face on Mars Gets a Make-Over · · Score: 1

    It was rather like even though you know there was no Santa Clause, finally getting the "official notice of non-existance" was a big let-down.

  5. Re:Business Students... on Which Grad Students Cheat the Most? · · Score: 1

    After I posted that I re-read TFA and noticed it was "cheated last year" rather than "cheated ever"; so while I still stand by my post, it really doesn't apply like I had thought, it increases the problem rather than mitigates it.

  6. Re:hm on Which Grad Students Cheat the Most? · · Score: 1

    we had test that went
    Question
      1.
      2.
      3.
      4.
    a) answers 1, 3, 4
    b) answers 1, 2, 4
    c) answers 2, 3
    d) answers 1, 4
    e) answers 3, 4

  7. Re:Business Students... on Which Grad Students Cheat the Most? · · Score: 1

    Personaly if someone in a PhD program in a physical science admits to cheating in a course he had to take in eastern philosophy, I don't fine that to be a big deal. Consider this the instructor at my college used to debrief the students after they had taken the state boards and adjust the course to teach what was on the tests, I think 3/4 of our test questions were basicaly stolen from the state boards; would that count as cheating? If it does then we were at 100%.

  8. Re:Business Students... on Which Grad Students Cheat the Most? · · Score: 1

    Well when I crossing a bridge, I'm going to think that at least 54% of the engineers were inclined to use reference materials :) the tendency at least seemed to me to be the more technicaly demanding the course work, the more likely the students were to cheat, hardly something unexpected when you actually think about it, then there is the Business students way up at the top out of porportion!

  9. Re:Makes Me Hungry on Mathematician Claims New Yorker Defamed Him · · Score: 1

    Well if you push on the cup part you can mush it into the handle without tearing it and it becomes a donut, which of course will no longer hold your coffee with will spill into your lap, burning you and then you can sue Mc Donalds for the topological disaster! So the correct answer is there is no difference between a cup and a donut that money can't fix.

  10. Re:Political statement only on California Sues Automakers for Global Warming · · Score: 1

    No serious, it's a blue H2 that runs on hydrogen a prototype for now (and a publicity stunt), but any blue from factory hummer is a H2H a hydrogen powered H2 Hummer. My boss was actually offer an oppertunity to be on the list to beta test a hydrogen power hummer but there are no fueling stations localy. The Hummer he had was taken back under the lemon law beacuse they couldn't get the lightbar electrical to quit leaking so he got a bran d new Escalade instead, the engine bay has a huge open area that the hybrid batteries are going to be put in, when available. The auto companies are moving a lot faster than people realise.

    I know a couple people who work for Chrysler in Auburn Hills, and a coworker's husband is with Ford's proving grounds in Romeo, these are people who are working on stuff from next year to ten years out. Everybody I talk to is in love, yes LOVE with Hydrogen, the Automakers see it as a way to put the money they spend on emissions testing into the dividend checks or at least stop the hemmorraging loses. Also having a whole batch of Eco-Freindly cars available could very well peer-pressure people into new vehicles that might have been sitting on the fence. From the perspective I have it's the Energy companies that are dragging their feet not the automakers. Remember the Ford's Model T was designed to run on ethanol and the diesel engine on vegetable oil.

  11. Re:What about a distributed attack system on Can Banks Shift Phishing Losses to Customers? · · Score: 1

    That way they'll be sufficiently overwhelmed with fake data that it'll be hard to get the real stuff.
    I've written a program I call chummer that does that, it's not really complete yet, what it still needs is a few more pseudo-random data generators which is easy to do just need to I just need to get motivated and gather more target sites for data. The problem is phishing sites getting few and far between now. A phishing site page analysis routine would be helpful to avoid have to custom write the program or hand configure it for each phishing site, but tests on my localhost shows it can easily swamp a phishing site with bogus data entries, fill their harddisk and eat into their bandwidth bill from just one computer!

    I wrote about chummer in my journal, check out the The New Internet Version of WMD entry also and imagine the two used together!

  12. Re:You are right, provided... on Can Banks Shift Phishing Losses to Customers? · · Score: 1

    it actually is your fault. 99.99% of the time,
    Actually the banks should do more and are probablly required to do more than they are, for example, most of the phishing spam I get looks pretty good, mostly because they use the official bank's reg tradmarked style logos! Owners of trademarks are required to protect those trademarks. Just serving those logos off a cgi script that makes sure the requesting agent isn't a email client would help a lot of people recognise phishes, and limiting how many times an image url can be downloaded would help the webmail users.

    Zapping a few Internet Cafes with Predator drones would be kinda cool, too. take a look at my last journal entry and let me know what you think of chummer.

  13. Re:I do what I can to the phishers on Can Banks Shift Phishing Losses to Customers? · · Score: 1

    I used to webmaster poiuyt.com many years ago and you'd be amased at the number of people who register at web sites as poiuyt with a password of qwerty! I've written some perl scripts designed to send bogus data to phishing sites called chummer, I'm trying to decide if it would be illegal to actually use it.

  14. Re:trade with russia on Scientists Shocked as Arctic Polar Route Revealed · · Score: 1

    I'd think that due to cold-war concerns, Nuclear subs, ICBM's ect., the Artic ocean is probably the most extensively map ocean in the world

  15. Re:Shocking? Not really... on Scientists Shocked as Arctic Polar Route Revealed · · Score: 1

    Masonry construction is very popular in Europe, and it must seem silly that it's not popular in North America, but masonery is brittle and when it fails the failure is catastophic where wood frame constuction can fail gradually. We have far more tornadoes and earthquakes than hurricanes, and in a good strong earthquake we expect whole cities to collapse due to masonery construction of commercial buildings much like what you'd expect in the Turkey-Iran area.

  16. Re:Appearance is everything on DoD Wary of That "Open" Word · · Score: 1

    well it slow, like a humming bird compared to a perigrin slow, but when your on the ground the damn thing is amazing, this old grunt is glad it's ours. Way back when I was in air defense and stationed in Germany I got to see a von Richthofen in a P51 Mustang playing tag with some F4 Phantoms, there were some very embarassed jet jocks that day; a lot can be said for quick over fast and for genetic potential as well.

  17. Re:Political statement only on California Sues Automakers for Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Be fair Arnie's Hummer is blue, and blue Hummer run on Hydrogen, and hydrogen doesn't relaese carbon dioxide at the tailpipe.

  18. Re:Why not? on California Sues Automakers for Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Well the thought just occured to me, when I buy a handgun, the seller includes a trigger-lock that is on the gun when I take possesion; what would be the automakers equivalent? What came to mind is simpley programming a california chip for the computer, since the legal minimun speed is 45MPH, is ther really any reason for californians to travel faster than 55, it would reduce carbon emmissions quite a bit!

  19. Re:Oh for the love of..... on California Sues Automakers for Global Warming · · Score: 1

    REMOVE THE TARIFF FROM ETHANOL SUGAR IMPORTS.
    Great idea then the Brazillians can burn the other half of the rainforrest to sell the sugar cane to the ethanol plants sheesh.

  20. Re:Oh for the love of..... on California Sues Automakers for Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Why sue the automakers for simpley burning the evil petroleum fuel the big oil companies sell. Toyota and Honda both make hybrids and GM has hydrogen powered Hummers out there, I measn it's not like you can't use grapes to make E85! When your sue for damages, don't you have a responsibility to mitigate the damages, so what about all of those state owned vehicles burning high carbon fuels?

  21. Re:Use real data, not test data on Strategies for Test Databases? · · Score: 1

    good point SpaceLifeForm, does your planet except Earthling immigrants? On my world, just before I send in the bug report to the language developers about the bug I've been ripping my hair out about for two days, the thought occures to me to double check the test data and sure enough the program is doing exactly what it should be with the data it's getting.

  22. Re:You're missing the point on Gonzales Wants ISP Data Retention To Curb Child Porn · · Score: 1

    it's typical Gov-think, if they were really serious and thought about prioritizing the investigations to get the worst of the worst first and succeeded, then the funding would be cut when the problem ceased to be a problem. Instead they go after the least of the worst and insure funding, the perverts trading shit on usenet are lamo compared to what's traded via 966 phone number dial-up servers in Africa. The problem isn't so much child porn as it is the whole mind set where preditors kidnap orphans sell them into sex slavery then porn and prostitution then kill them for their organs to sell on the black market.

    The other thing I notice is if the "Big-Brother" agencies are supposedly already monitoring all of our telephone and internet usage, why do they need the ISP records other than to tie a dynamic IP number to an account? It would make more sense to me to force an upgrade to IP6 and put everybody on static IP; problem solved.

  23. Re:That's nothing compared to this one. on How a Wiring Rack Should Look · · Score: 1

    OK sit down and take a breath, the first computer I ever saw was in the Army and it was made by (Are you still breathing) RCA. The CPU was in a big verticle drawer(are you sitting) and made out of nand gates and ferrite core memory, (still breathing) and every thing was wire-wrapped bt hand and the results were still more organised than what that picture lookes like!

  24. Re:Use real data, not test data on Strategies for Test Databases? · · Score: 1

    Additionaly live production data had better be good data, but for testing and QA you'll want some bad data; how well the bad data is handled is important for a robust system.

  25. Re:Fanatics, yes, proponents, no. on Big Tobacco Funded Anti-Global Warming Messages · · Score: 1

    Well that was really the author's point, there is too much fear-mongering; a reasonable voice gets lost in the noise. The media will take an objective and scientific study that really says we not sure about his and turn it into the end-of-the-world version 4.7.