Blue Security IS partially guilty of causing the DDOS, because they KNOWINGLY redirected DDOS traffic to a third party. It's the same as if I owed you money, but when we're being both robbed, I give the money owed back to you, knowing full-well that we're just about to be robbed. Under the law, I will still owe you this money.
Nobody knows exactly how many true unique visitors there are to a given website. And given the various ways to determine what is "unique", this muddles the pie further.
However, the important thing is, advertising rates aren't affected since they have been market-corrected for this. If an advertiser can make money, he will buy. If he can't, he won't. Whatever the true number is, it's already been factored in.
If Microsoft doesn't want to complain when they're not included in Firefox, then that's their problem. Besides, have you ever thought about why they didn't complain? Perhaps it's because they realized if they did, they would be forced to comply to the same later when IE7 came out? They weren't doing it out of fairness. They were doing it out of self-interest by not acknowledging Firefox. You can bet that if IE never existed, MS would be jumping up and down.
Those murders are done by very few criminals that identify with islam. I'm willing to bet there are many more Christian murderers in the world killing more innocent people, than the highly publicized muslim executions.
I call Bull Shit. Where are these "Christian murderers"? Show some proof with statistics to back up your argument.
Highly publicized? You think the media cares who they villify? As long as they can make a buck they will report about anything. Now you sound like some tin foil conspiracist. Let me guess, you think Israel flew those planes into the World Trade Center right?
Besides, the HUGE difference, which you can't ignore if you wanted to, is that the murders are just done by individual criminals, while being condemed by most leaders in the muslim world. Whereas the tortures, incidental bombings and asassinations are actually supported by the highest authorities in the western world, from Bush and the USA to Sharon and Israel.
Condemned? LMAO by whom? If they're there surely nobody can hear them. In fact it's some of these governments that have played up the cartoons and encouraged further violence.
Committed by "individuals"? Of course they are, but with so many "individuals" committing these crimes, people have to wonder, is it really just them? Look around you. Do you see buddhists, hindus, christians commmitting all these violent crimes based on CARTOONS?? I constantly see some of these religions bashed around the world, and yet there are no mass burnings, killings, threats, and massive chaos.
I had entertained the possibility you were just possibly mistaken, but it's exceedingly clear you're just another trying to spread hate and racism.
Oh great, now just throw in the race card why don't you. Idiot. FYI one of my best friends is muslim. All you do is spread accussations without proof. Aliens abducted Elvis too right?
What do you mean "different"? You mean they weren't arabs, and wasn't triggered by a cartoon so it doesn't count?
No, I meant they were perpetrated by completely different groups of people, for completely different reasons. Lumping them all into one to play against this one violent group of thugs is ridiculous.
The Rodney King incident was only about a black man getting beaten by police. The 'stupid cartoon' incident is about muslims being discriminated against, abducted, tortured, killed, etc. You've got a really screwed up system of priorities there.
Rodney King was not only beaten senselessly, but the crooked officers got off with nothing more than a slap on their wrists. That's what triggered the riots. These infantile Muslims on the other hand, started killing people, burning down buildings, and putting up murderous bounties all for a harmless cartoon. A CARTOON!
And please, don't even try to bring up abductions, torture, and murder. Look who are the barbarians that go around beheading innocent people. Nobody's doing the same to these terrorists. You make it seem like as if these violent criminals are nothing but peace-loving victims.
You have no knowledge of history at all, do you? The 11th century, despite a lack of computers, were modern times, with modern standards of acceptable behavior. You should study the crusades, you'll be amazed how "Christian" the Muslims acted, and how brutal and terrorist-like the Christians acted.
That was over 900 years ago!!! There were no telephones, no tv, no radio, no cars, no light bulbs, hardly any scientific thought, and civilizations were still barbaric. You're actually trying to say the 11th century is "modern" compared to the 21st century? Man I don't know what you're smoking.
Ah, the good old straw-man... It's been quite a while since I've seen you.
Hardly. You're trying to make this ludicrous assertion that the 11th century is as modern as the 21st century. If you're going to do that, might as well go for the whole shabang and compare Bin Laden with a Neantherthal.
All those incidents you've alluded to were perpetrated by different groups of people, under totally different circumstances... so no it's not a valid argument. The Rodney King incident was caused by WAY more than some stupid cartoon.
As for the Crusades, that happened in the 11th Century, not today! You want to judge everyone irregardless of time? That's ridiculous. We are here today, with modern laws, moderan civilizations, modern technology, modern expectations of acceptable human behavior. Why don't you just compare Bin Laden with a Neanterthal that lived millions of years ago then, and justify his actions that way?
Props to the Christians. I've been using this screen name for quite a while. Yes it was done to provoke, since I'm agnostic. However I don't see them coming after me. Now imagine if I had used Muhammed's name instead?
So how's anyone going to tell us that Islam isn't a violent religion?
I've been using Topcities.com for a while now and they offer 150MBs. Recently the bandwidth limit has been lifted too. It seems Google is just playing catch-up to the free hosting market. There's really nothing new to see here.
To the people who believe IP is property, and thus should forever belong to their creators:
What is the difference between patents and copyrights? Why protect copyrights so long while not allowing the same with patents? I would venture to argue that patents play a much more important role in our lives.
To think that after a lavish burial, a few thousand years later you'll be dug up for the rest of the world to gawk at. Your best bet is to be cremated, not that you'd care after your demise.
So far the only King that has been found and not dug up, if I recall correctly, is Qin Shi Huan of China. His grave is known, but it's filled with mercury so nobody's tried to excavate his remains yet.
This brings to light an interesting observation. When I was visiting China, I noticed there were few laws and even less enforcement. As a result, a true free market exists, where open discrimination seemed ok. Employees were discriminated on looks, age, height, etc. Customers can pay more to not have to wait in line at certain restaurants, etc.
In the U.S. thought, you have a myriad of laws and regulations that restrict what people can do, where, etc. The idea is to have fair trade, not free trade.
Seems backwards doesn't it? A communist country has less regulations, while a democratic country that prides itself on capitalism isn't really true capitalism.
That's such a cop-out. It hasn't happened, so unless you have proof of such childish and violent behavior from the more civilized world, please do show it.
Having been to many Asian countries, I've noticed that Americans are not only a superpower, but also a superfat country. I've never noticed it till now, but this country is filled with ridiculously FAT people. How in the world does someone let one burger after another go down their tummies until they're literally 100 pounds overweight?
In Asia, people considered fat there would be slim here. They eat smaller portions of better tasting food (as opposed to all that processed, fried crap here), and they do lots of walking. Here everyone just hops into their cars and sit all day.
I've heard in Europe, people are skinny too because of a healthier lifestyle.
Go ahead, keep finding excuses for being fat. Sure it's because of genetics, sure it's contagious... 1 calorie isn't really 1 calorie. Fat comes from thin air. Ok...
Why did Google choose to include Norton? I've found Norton AV to be the most worthless antivirus software I've ever used. It has consistently let me down in terms of protecting my computer. I've even tested it against a known virus. A rival AV was able to catch it. Norton wasn't.
A couple of times I was hit by a trojan by simply going to a web page. Next thing you know, my system gets infected, and Norton shuts down completely and won't start back up again. That's what you call protection? No thanks.
Who are you kidding here? The car industry is completely different from the computer industry.
First of all, a Mac is hardly a Porsche. It doesn't run any faster, turn corners any better, and yet it costs more and underperforms.
Computers are not meant to be fashion statements like cars. They are there to make your life more productive, to get work done. Period. Same can be said for cars, but as you know, that's hardly the case in real life.
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Blue Security IS partially guilty of causing the DDOS, because they KNOWINGLY redirected DDOS traffic to a third party. It's the same as if I owed you money, but when we're being both robbed, I give the money owed back to you, knowing full-well that we're just about to be robbed. Under the law, I will still owe you this money.
Nobody knows exactly how many true unique visitors there are to a given website. And given the various ways to determine what is "unique", this muddles the pie further.
However, the important thing is, advertising rates aren't affected since they have been market-corrected for this. If an advertiser can make money, he will buy. If he can't, he won't. Whatever the true number is, it's already been factored in.
If Microsoft doesn't want to complain when they're not included in Firefox, then that's their problem. Besides, have you ever thought about why they didn't complain? Perhaps it's because they realized if they did, they would be forced to comply to the same later when IE7 came out? They weren't doing it out of fairness. They were doing it out of self-interest by not acknowledging Firefox. You can bet that if IE never existed, MS would be jumping up and down.
Those murders are done by very few criminals that identify with islam. I'm willing to bet there are many more Christian murderers in the world killing more innocent people, than the highly publicized muslim executions.
I call Bull Shit. Where are these "Christian murderers"? Show some proof with statistics to back up your argument.
Highly publicized? You think the media cares who they villify? As long as they can make a buck they will report about anything. Now you sound like some tin foil conspiracist. Let me guess, you think Israel flew those planes into the World Trade Center right?
Besides, the HUGE difference, which you can't ignore if you wanted to, is that the murders are just done by individual criminals, while being condemed by most leaders in the muslim world. Whereas the tortures, incidental bombings and asassinations are actually supported by the highest authorities in the western world, from Bush and the USA to Sharon and Israel.
Condemned? LMAO by whom? If they're there surely nobody can hear them. In fact it's some of these governments that have played up the cartoons and encouraged further violence.
Committed by "individuals"? Of course they are, but with so many "individuals" committing these crimes, people have to wonder, is it really just them? Look around you. Do you see buddhists, hindus, christians commmitting all these violent crimes based on CARTOONS?? I constantly see some of these religions bashed around the world, and yet there are no mass burnings, killings, threats, and massive chaos.
I had entertained the possibility you were just possibly mistaken, but it's exceedingly clear you're just another trying to spread hate and racism.
Oh great, now just throw in the race card why don't you. Idiot. FYI one of my best friends is muslim. All you do is spread accussations without proof. Aliens abducted Elvis too right?
What do you mean "different"? You mean they weren't arabs, and wasn't triggered by a cartoon so it doesn't count?
No, I meant they were perpetrated by completely different groups of people, for completely different reasons. Lumping them all into one to play against this one violent group of thugs is ridiculous.
The Rodney King incident was only about a black man getting beaten by police. The 'stupid cartoon' incident is about muslims being discriminated against, abducted, tortured, killed, etc. You've got a really screwed up system of priorities there.
Rodney King was not only beaten senselessly, but the crooked officers got off with nothing more than a slap on their wrists. That's what triggered the riots. These infantile Muslims on the other hand, started killing people, burning down buildings, and putting up murderous bounties all for a harmless cartoon. A CARTOON!
And please, don't even try to bring up abductions, torture, and murder. Look who are the barbarians that go around beheading innocent people. Nobody's doing the same to these terrorists. You make it seem like as if these violent criminals are nothing but peace-loving victims.
You have no knowledge of history at all, do you? The 11th century, despite a lack of computers, were modern times, with modern standards of acceptable behavior. You should study the crusades, you'll be amazed how "Christian" the Muslims acted, and how brutal and terrorist-like the Christians acted.
That was over 900 years ago!!! There were no telephones, no tv, no radio, no cars, no light bulbs, hardly any scientific thought, and civilizations were still barbaric. You're actually trying to say the 11th century is "modern" compared to the 21st century? Man I don't know what you're smoking.
Ah, the good old straw-man... It's been quite a while since I've seen you.
Hardly. You're trying to make this ludicrous assertion that the 11th century is as modern as the 21st century. If you're going to do that, might as well go for the whole shabang and compare Bin Laden with a Neantherthal.
I just want Google to digitize and archive porn. Midge porn, lesbo porn, animal porn, etc.
Do it all in the spirit of freedom of information!
Skeet skeet.
All those incidents you've alluded to were perpetrated by different groups of people, under totally different circumstances... so no it's not a valid argument. The Rodney King incident was caused by WAY more than some stupid cartoon.
As for the Crusades, that happened in the 11th Century, not today! You want to judge everyone irregardless of time? That's ridiculous. We are here today, with modern laws, moderan civilizations, modern technology, modern expectations of acceptable human behavior. Why don't you just compare Bin Laden with a Neanterthal that lived millions of years ago then, and justify his actions that way?
Props to the Christians. I've been using this screen name for quite a while. Yes it was done to provoke, since I'm agnostic. However I don't see them coming after me. Now imagine if I had used Muhammed's name instead?
So how's anyone going to tell us that Islam isn't a violent religion?
That's the difference between us and them. In our society, we can protest all we want, but in the end we're still civilized about it.
With them, you post a cartoon and next thing you know all hell breaks lose and there's a bounty on your life.
I've been using Topcities.com for a while now and they offer 150MBs. Recently the bandwidth limit has been lifted too. It seems Google is just playing catch-up to the free hosting market. There's really nothing new to see here.
This is why, for example, you can clean room a computer program to avoid copyright infringement, but clean rooming provides no protection.
What exactly does this "room cleaning" and "clean room" mean?
To the people who believe IP is property, and thus should forever belong to their creators:
What is the difference between patents and copyrights? Why protect copyrights so long while not allowing the same with patents? I would venture to argue that patents play a much more important role in our lives.
It's Valentines night, and you and I are posting here because...?
Taiwan is hardly China, as there's freedom of speech there.
That doesn't say anything. I'm American and I HATE SUVs. So can I assume you don't take showers?
And how do you know the parent poster is American and not British, Egyptian, or Chinese?
For a minute there, I thought the article was talking about women...
To think that after a lavish burial, a few thousand years later you'll be dug up for the rest of the world to gawk at. Your best bet is to be cremated, not that you'd care after your demise.
So far the only King that has been found and not dug up, if I recall correctly, is Qin Shi Huan of China. His grave is known, but it's filled with mercury so nobody's tried to excavate his remains yet.
This brings to light an interesting observation. When I was visiting China, I noticed there were few laws and even less enforcement. As a result, a true free market exists, where open discrimination seemed ok. Employees were discriminated on looks, age, height, etc. Customers can pay more to not have to wait in line at certain restaurants, etc.
In the U.S. thought, you have a myriad of laws and regulations that restrict what people can do, where, etc. The idea is to have fair trade, not free trade.
Seems backwards doesn't it? A communist country has less regulations, while a democratic country that prides itself on capitalism isn't really true capitalism.
That's such a cop-out. It hasn't happened, so unless you have proof of such childish and violent behavior from the more civilized world, please do show it.
Having been to many Asian countries, I've noticed that Americans are not only a superpower, but also a superfat country. I've never noticed it till now, but this country is filled with ridiculously FAT people. How in the world does someone let one burger after another go down their tummies until they're literally 100 pounds overweight?
In Asia, people considered fat there would be slim here. They eat smaller portions of better tasting food (as opposed to all that processed, fried crap here), and they do lots of walking. Here everyone just hops into their cars and sit all day.
I've heard in Europe, people are skinny too because of a healthier lifestyle.
Go ahead, keep finding excuses for being fat. Sure it's because of genetics, sure it's contagious... 1 calorie isn't really 1 calorie. Fat comes from thin air. Ok...
If there ever was a group of people who reproduced less than monks, this crowd would be it...
Why did Google choose to include Norton? I've found Norton AV to be the most worthless antivirus software I've ever used. It has consistently let me down in terms of protecting my computer. I've even tested it against a known virus. A rival AV was able to catch it. Norton wasn't.
A couple of times I was hit by a trojan by simply going to a web page. Next thing you know, my system gets infected, and Norton shuts down completely and won't start back up again. That's what you call protection? No thanks.
Planet of the Apes was also recommended when you viewed a Hitchcock collection. So what? I don't hear you complaining about that.
Who are you kidding here? The car industry is completely different from the computer industry.
First of all, a Mac is hardly a Porsche. It doesn't run any faster, turn corners any better, and yet it costs more and underperforms.
Computers are not meant to be fashion statements like cars. They are there to make your life more productive, to get work done. Period. Same can be said for cars, but as you know, that's hardly the case in real life.