I work in tech support at an ISP and I can tell you that very few ISPs would do this.
In my experience, the people most likely to have bots running on their systems are also the people least likely to know how to reformat their systems. Also, those people usually don't want to spend more money on their computer then they already do. All we can really do is tell people how they can get rid of the malware and hopefully they will try.
My guess is that an ISP that would do this would most likely lose more business because of this than it's worth.
Are you saying that you don't back up your customers email?!
I work for an ISP too and we do backups nightly. We just rsync it too an other server, in a different data center, during the night when the bandwidth isn't being used. Not a single backup tape involved.
Of all the things you could screw up for your customers. Losing their email is the last thing you would wan't to do.
Why would the Norwiegians care about aquatic life? They've been violating international treaty on whaling for decades, along with Iceland and Japan.
First off, Iceland hasn't been whaling since 1989 in order to oblige to the treaty.
Second, the whaling treaty has become obsolete because of whale overpopulation but the tree-huggers don't want give up the fight because it generates so much income for them. We either have to stop fishing or start whaling because otherwise other fish will become extinct.
We hear of a "Digital Divide", but never a "Health Halving" or a "Food Fjord" or a "Freedom Fission". "Digital Divide" seems to be just a handy buzz term to throw around when you are a technologist and have no real ideas that address a country's true problems...
Fixing the "digital divide" is really fixing a problem that leads to other problems. Giving people in developing countries a chance to be a part of the "digital age" might improve the economy of those countries and therefore decreasing the problems you speak of.
The bottom line is: if we don't fix the economies of the developing countries, the hunger will continue. Sending food saves lives but it really is just a temporary solution.
Do you think if I trash Girlfriend 1.0 and get an updated version I'll have more luck?
I'd stay with the girlfriend program. I had some problems with with my Protitute 2002. Apparently the ASP license enables other users to use your copy and upload virii.
I sympathize with the Israeli people, but also for the palestinian people. People always want there to be one bad guy and one good guy. But the fact is, both nations have suffered a lot.
Not all palestinians are terrorists, just like not all israelis agree with what Sharon is doing. What I think is the worst thing about this is that the rest of the world seems to want to take sides in this war instead of trying to stop it.
The only way this war is going to end is if the western nations pull together and send troops to the area and try to seperate the two nations with force.
FBI's Kristen Sheldon... testified that an IP address is, "in very simple terms, a Social Security number. Only one person at one specific time can have that number."
Apparently the FBI has never heard of NAT's
An American tech news site discussing an (obviously) American site
It's great that you're pushing for more content that appeals to places outside of America. Just please understand that... well... you probably need to go find (or make) slashdot.co.uk or something similar.
Since when is this slashdot.us. If you want a us centric website... well... you probably need to go find (or make) slashdot.us
.com/.org/.net != US
You don't need to build the island. Just take iceland, it's practically in the middle and the fiber is already there.
Since Iceland doesn't have an army, all you you have to do is spend about half the money to get Iceland kicked out of NATO, the rest on mercenerys to overtake the country.
This is being done right now here in Iceland and has been for about a year.
I had one of these and it worked quite well for me, the advertised speed was from 256kbps to 4,5 Mbps depending on the wiring in the users house.
I got about 1 Mbps but it somtimes went down to about 300kbps. I guess the avarege speed was about 600. For the price it was a pretty good, but then I moved and the powercompany still hasn't installed the system in my new neighbourhood.
This thing is great if you are afraid of thieves First they would have to cut of your hand and if that doesn't scare them you can track them down with the GPS system.
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I work in tech support at an ISP and I can tell you that very few ISPs would do this.
In my experience, the people most likely to have bots running on their systems are also the people least likely to know how to reformat their systems. Also, those people usually don't want to spend more money on their computer then they already do. All we can really do is tell people how they can get rid of the malware and hopefully they will try.
My guess is that an ISP that would do this would most likely lose more business because of this than it's worth.
Are you saying that you don't back up your customers email?!
I work for an ISP too and we do backups nightly. We just rsync it too an other server, in a different data center, during the night when the bandwidth isn't being used. Not a single backup tape involved.
Of all the things you could screw up for your customers. Losing their email is the last thing you would wan't to do.
...that the name of the company is ALIEN technology. Oh my god it's starting! Quick! somebody get Mel Gibson and a glass of water.
Why would the Norwiegians care about aquatic life? They've been violating international treaty on whaling for decades, along with Iceland and Japan.
First off, Iceland hasn't been whaling since 1989 in order to oblige to the treaty.
Second, the whaling treaty has become obsolete because of whale overpopulation but the tree-huggers don't want give up the fight because it generates so much income for them. We either have to stop fishing or start whaling because otherwise other fish will become extinct.
We hear of a "Digital Divide", but never a "Health Halving" or a "Food Fjord" or a "Freedom Fission". "Digital Divide" seems to be just a handy buzz term to throw around when you are a technologist and have no real ideas that address a country's true problems...
Fixing the "digital divide" is really fixing a problem that leads to other problems. Giving people in developing countries a chance to be a part of the "digital age" might improve the economy of those countries and therefore decreasing the problems you speak of.
The bottom line is: if we don't fix the economies of the developing countries, the hunger will continue. Sending food saves lives but it really is just a temporary solution.
This incident is not one of a kind. If you want to you can sign the petition to shut them down here
Do you think if I trash Girlfriend 1.0 and get an updated version I'll have more luck?
I'd stay with the girlfriend program. I had some problems with with my Protitute 2002. Apparently the ASP license enables other users to use your copy and upload virii.
I think I'll patent "a way to modify files on hard drives so that they can be overwritten"
Then I'll sue microsoft and apple for their blatant use of my idea in what they call "delete"
Netscape, Opera, IE, mozilla, backwards compatibility.
And now screen readers. It's getting to be alot of hassle to design websites.
The only thing I don't like about electronic voting is that I like the exitement of election night. Waiting for the results is the best part.
I sympathize with the Israeli people, but also for the palestinian people. People always want there to be one bad guy and one good guy. But the fact is, both nations have suffered a lot.
Not all palestinians are terrorists, just like not all israelis agree with what Sharon is doing. What I think is the worst thing about this is that the rest of the world seems to want to take sides in this war instead of trying to stop it.
The only way this war is going to end is if the western nations pull together and send troops to the area and try to seperate the two nations with force.
FBI's Kristen Sheldon ... testified that an IP address is, "in very simple terms, a Social Security number. Only one person at one specific time can have that number."
Apparently the FBI has never heard of NAT's
An American tech news site discussing an (obviously) American site
... well... you probably need to go find (or make) slashdot.us
It's great that you're pushing for more content that appeals to places outside of America. Just please understand that... well... you probably need to go find (or make) slashdot.co.uk or something similar.
Since when is this slashdot.us. If you want a us centric website
.com/.org/.net != US
You don't need to build the island. Just take iceland, it's practically in the middle and the fiber is already there.
Since Iceland doesn't have an army, all you you have to do is spend about half the money to get Iceland kicked out of NATO, the rest on mercenerys to overtake the country.
Profit
Not only does this cost $8000 bucks! But it must be rather taxing on the CPU to have such a resolution
This is being done right now here in Iceland and has been for about a year.
I had one of these and it worked quite well for me, the advertised speed was from 256kbps to 4,5 Mbps depending on the wiring in the users house.
I got about 1 Mbps but it somtimes went down to about 300kbps. I guess the avarege speed was about 600. For the price it was a pretty good, but then I moved and the powercompany still hasn't installed the system in my new neighbourhood.
This thing is great if you are afraid of thieves
First they would have to cut of your hand and if that doesn't scare them you can track them down with the GPS system.
Too bad about the hand though!!