In addition to the other reasons, I don't think customers will take seriously a company which uses a.biz address. The fact that ICANN chose such a slang term for the top-level domain shows they have no concept of the fact that in business, image is crucial. No one will buy from you if they don't take you seriously.
Perhaps a better choice instead of.biz would be something somewhat more mature, such as.inc,.ltd,.llc,.corp, or something along those lines.
Under which circumstances do you need thermal grease? I just got an Athlon 1.4GHz processor running in an Abit Kg7-Raid using a "Cooler-Master" heatsink and fan... I just applied the heatsink directly to the CPU (the heatsink did have a patch on the center of course) and have had no problems.
Just wondering, why did you run it without a fan? : Didn't the cpu come with a "generic" fan or something like that? Usually you don't get an extended warrenty if you don't buy a fan from the same vendor from which you purchase the CPU.
Say you work a 40-hour week (days)...that pretty much only gives you weekends to devote to service. If you work 8 hours on saturday, it will take 30 weeks to complete the sentence.
Anybody want to give up 30 saturdays? I didn't think so
Why should the criminal get to determine the conditions under which his sentence will be imposed? He should have to run the risk of losing his job to complete his sentence. Had the law not been broken, he would not be in such trouble.
Surely though, anyone who writes a program which exploits security holes for malicious purposes and then willingly distributes it to anyone who wants it is no better than a willing accomplice in a DDOS attack.
This is not the same as punishing someone who sells you a gun because you use it to protect yourself. These kinds of malicious programs serve no legitimate, useful purpose of any kind. While I don't think coding should be a crime, the programs DO cause real damage which costs real money to fix. Something needs to be done about it.
One example, not too long ago, someone posted instructions which would allow Hotmail users to read emails belonging to other Hotmail users. What purpose was served by posting this stuff in a public forum? We had already known hotmail security was breached. Did the poster think that someone might just use it to illegally break into another person's hotmail account?
I was wondering how long it would take for the police to finally go after these low-lifes who seem to have nothing better to do with their time than cause other people aggravation. After having to deal with these script kiddies for quite some time, I think jail is the safest place for them. I know quite a few IT people who would love to hunt down these jerks and kill them (Jay and Silent Bob style hehe). I think that in addtion to putting these people in prison where they belong, they should also be fined for all the costs incurred by victims of these viruses.
Anyone who makes a "virus kit" or anything similar should also be imprisoned and fined. Figuring out how to breach security in software and letting the authors know so they can fix it is one thing, and its a good thing to do. But actually writing a program to exploit shortcomings in programs has nothing other than malice written all over it.
On the other hand... one could also make a case that people should be allowed to sue software manufacturers for costs incurred dealing with virii, etc. if the software company was indeed informed about the problem but took no corrective action to fix it. Of course, if they released a patch and you didn't bother to install it, or you didn't bother to install/set up the software correctly, that is and still should be your own fault.
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In addition to the other reasons, I don't think customers will take seriously a company which uses a .biz address. The fact that ICANN chose such a slang term for the top-level domain shows they have no concept of the fact that in business, image is crucial. No one will buy from you if they don't take you seriously.
.biz would be something somewhat more mature, such as .inc, .ltd, .llc, .corp, or something along those lines.
Perhaps a better choice instead of
Under which circumstances do you need thermal grease? I just got an Athlon 1.4GHz processor running in an Abit Kg7-Raid using a "Cooler-Master" heatsink and fan... I just applied the heatsink directly to the CPU (the heatsink did have a patch on the center of course) and have had no problems.
Just wondering, why did you run it without a fan? : Didn't the cpu come with a "generic" fan or something like that? Usually you don't get an extended warrenty if you don't buy a fan from the same vendor from which you purchase the CPU.
Say you work a 40-hour week (days)...that pretty much only gives you weekends to devote to service. If you work 8 hours on saturday, it will take 30 weeks to complete the sentence.
Anybody want to give up 30 saturdays? I didn't think so
Why should the criminal get to determine the conditions under which his sentence will be imposed? He should have to run the risk of losing his job to complete his sentence. Had the law not been broken, he would not be in such trouble.
Surely though, anyone who writes a program which exploits security holes for malicious purposes and then willingly distributes it to anyone who wants it is no better than a willing accomplice in a DDOS attack.
This is not the same as punishing someone who sells you a gun because you use it to protect yourself. These kinds of malicious programs serve no legitimate, useful purpose of any kind. While I don't think coding should be a crime, the programs DO cause real damage which costs real money to fix. Something needs to be done about it.
One example, not too long ago, someone posted instructions which would allow Hotmail users to read emails belonging to other Hotmail users. What purpose was served by posting this stuff in a public forum? We had already known hotmail security was breached. Did the poster think that someone might just use it to illegally break into another person's hotmail account?
I was wondering how long it would take for the police to finally go after these low-lifes who seem to have nothing better to do with their time than cause other people aggravation. After having to deal with these script kiddies for quite some time, I think jail is the safest place for them. I know quite a few IT people who would love to hunt down these jerks and kill them (Jay and Silent Bob style hehe). I think that in addtion to putting these people in prison where they belong, they should also be fined for all the costs incurred by victims of these viruses.
Anyone who makes a "virus kit" or anything similar should also be imprisoned and fined. Figuring out how to breach security in software and letting the authors know so they can fix it is one thing, and its a good thing to do. But actually writing a program to exploit shortcomings in programs has nothing other than malice written all over it.
On the other hand... one could also make a case that people should be allowed to sue software manufacturers for costs incurred dealing with virii, etc. if the software company was indeed informed about the problem but took no corrective action to fix it. Of course, if they released a patch and you didn't bother to install it, or you didn't bother to install/set up the software correctly, that is and still should be your own fault.