I'm sorry it (the previous relationsihp) didn't work out for you. But, I hope that better ones will come along soon enough. Perhaps, one that does 'geek crack' in moderation or not even any at all.
My wife is a gamer too... and we play together... it gives us one more thing to discuss and share in common during 'cuddling' (as you call it).
For others with SO's reading this, I think the key here, is that we don't ignore each to exclusion, when we are playing. We see it(gaming) as more of a common house project that we're both working on.
Where are all the beautiful riffs... the edge... the songs about people, about you and me... about our feelings... anger, love, sacrifice, pain, angst, passion... Most of what we get is noise now... no content, no meat, no soul.
Remember the music of the Beatles, Bread, Journey, Led Zepplin, Scorpion, Carole King, KLF, Tears for Fears, Devo, The Police, Queen, John Couger Mellencamp, etc etc... the list of the great ones, goes on and on...
What do we get nowadays? Britney Spears, N'Sync, P Diddy, Celine Dion... What do they sing/crow about... gangs, 'dissing', hoes, pimps, themselves...
And TV? Crap. Reality Shows. 5 Gays dressing-up 1 Guy. The sometimes mundane, and often poison-laced scheming and dealing in 'Survivor'-like reality shows. Too many advertisments that are too loud and shallow.
Granted, there is good material, but mostly on paid cable, like HBO. Broadcast TV sucks, big time.
And movies, other than a few notable mentions, most movies produced in Hollywood are shallow, slapstick, overdone, over-budget, drivel... and to top it off, ticket prices are getting more and more expensive.
And they (the 'Execs') wonder about declining sales of music CDs, declining numbers of TV viewship and falling theatre attendances. Clueless morons, blaming p2p music-sharing, DVD burners, gaming industry, etc...
Give me a good game anytime, and don't waste my evenings, thank you.
In my opinion, I don't think it was a Linux fan that caused it.
Firstly, he attack was not technologically sophisticated, in that it required exploiting a weakness in the operating system. The style of the attack was conceptually sophisticated, it was a worm not a virus. Which means that the attack relied on 'social engineering' or 'human weakness' to succeed.
The exploit however was quite creative. It was multi-faceted, even doing a DDOS on 'www.sco.com'.
Personally, I suspect that the creator and the executor of this worm may be two different persons altogether. Most importantly, the one ultimately responsible for the worm's spread and impact on the internet is not a Linux fan.
Linux users, ones that are capable enough to create such a worm, would more likely be above average intelligence. They would know very well, the consequences of DDOS'sing SCO's web-site, and that these consequences will most definitely be extremely detrimental to Linux. They would also know very well that a DDOS of SCO's web-site is almost a trivial thing to fix, and doesn't help in reducing SCO's position in any way.
Other than making SCO spend some money to rectify the DDOS, and preventing some of SCO's limited customer base from accessing SCO's web-site, it doesn't do relatively much harm to SCO (as compared to finding a back-door or hole into SCO's internal network). There is no real motivation for a Linux fan to carry out a DDOS on SCO's web-site.
I think the REAL reason for this worm, was for a 'frame-up'. It coincides with the conceptually sophisticated thinking as evidenced in its style of attack. I think the real reason was to *help* SCO and Microsoft, because both of these entities have the most to gain from it. Even with the recent 'b' variant of the worm targetting Microsoft. I still think the original motive remains the same.
Either that, or we're dealing with an extremely shallow and stupid 'Linux fan', which I very highly doubt.
People reading this may start having this thought of 'oh, another conspiracy theory...', but I would ask readers to carefully think about the obvious and carefully consider the occurence of this worm. Industrial espionage has been around for a long-time, and we know that it happens. What's to prevent it worms or viruses being used in industrial espoinage? Especially when the internet is a lot more relevant to businesses today.
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I'm sorry it (the previous relationsihp) didn't work out for you. But, I hope that better ones will come along soon enough. Perhaps, one that does 'geek crack' in moderation or not even any at all.
Well, not really...
My wife is a gamer too... and we play together... it gives us one more thing to discuss and share in common during 'cuddling' (as you call it).
For others with SO's reading this, I think the key here, is that we don't ignore each to exclusion, when we are playing. We see it(gaming) as more of a common house project that we're both working on.
Music nowadays? JUNK...
Where are all the beautiful riffs... the edge... the songs about people, about you and me... about our feelings... anger, love, sacrifice, pain, angst, passion... Most of what we get is noise now... no content, no meat, no soul.
Remember the music of the Beatles, Bread, Journey, Led Zepplin, Scorpion, Carole King, KLF, Tears for Fears, Devo, The Police, Queen, John Couger Mellencamp, etc etc... the list of the great ones, goes on and on...
What do we get nowadays? Britney Spears, N'Sync, P Diddy, Celine Dion... What do they sing/crow about... gangs, 'dissing', hoes, pimps, themselves...
And TV? Crap. Reality Shows. 5 Gays dressing-up 1 Guy. The sometimes mundane, and often poison-laced scheming and dealing in 'Survivor'-like reality shows. Too many advertisments that are too loud and shallow.
Granted, there is good material, but mostly on paid cable, like HBO. Broadcast TV sucks, big time.
And movies, other than a few notable mentions, most movies produced in Hollywood are shallow, slapstick, overdone, over-budget, drivel... and to top it off, ticket prices are getting more and more expensive.
And they (the 'Execs') wonder about declining sales of music CDs, declining numbers of TV viewship and falling theatre attendances. Clueless morons, blaming p2p music-sharing, DVD burners, gaming industry, etc...
Give me a good game anytime, and don't waste my evenings, thank you.
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Viewers and participants all,
Keep your eyes peeled and ears cocked.
Here thus we see,
the very first steps of SCO's end-game.
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Personally, I think it indicates that these two companies may know either
1) that perhaps it's almost impossible to find who did it (assuming it was a 1 person)
or
2) that perhaps the "designer" was a scapegoat, while the "executor" (from which damaging links could be dug out) simply goes unidentified.
In my opinion, I don't think it was a Linux fan that caused it.
Firstly, he attack was not technologically sophisticated, in that it required exploiting a weakness in the operating system. The style of the attack was conceptually sophisticated, it was a worm not a virus. Which means that the attack relied on 'social engineering' or 'human weakness' to succeed.
The exploit however was quite creative. It was multi-faceted, even doing a DDOS on 'www.sco.com'.
Personally, I suspect that the creator and the executor of this worm may be two different persons altogether. Most importantly, the one ultimately responsible for the worm's spread and impact on the internet is not a Linux fan.
Linux users, ones that are capable enough to create such a worm, would more likely be above average intelligence. They would know very well, the consequences of DDOS'sing SCO's web-site, and that these consequences will most definitely be extremely detrimental to Linux. They would also know very well that a DDOS of SCO's web-site is almost a trivial thing to fix, and doesn't help in reducing SCO's position in any way.
Other than making SCO spend some money to rectify the DDOS, and preventing some of SCO's limited customer base from accessing SCO's web-site, it doesn't do relatively much harm to SCO (as compared to finding a back-door or hole into SCO's internal network). There is no real motivation for a Linux fan to carry out a DDOS on SCO's web-site.
I think the REAL reason for this worm, was for a 'frame-up'. It coincides with the conceptually sophisticated thinking as evidenced in its style of attack. I think the real reason was to *help* SCO and Microsoft, because both of these entities have the most to gain from it. Even with the recent 'b' variant of the worm targetting Microsoft. I still think the original motive remains the same.
Either that, or we're dealing with an extremely shallow and stupid 'Linux fan', which I very highly doubt.
People reading this may start having this thought of 'oh, another conspiracy theory...', but I would ask readers to carefully think about the obvious and carefully consider the occurence of this worm. Industrial espionage has been around for a long-time, and we know that it happens. What's to prevent it worms or viruses being used in industrial espoinage? Especially when the internet is a lot more relevant to businesses today.
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