"The agreement covers anyone who bought, received or used CDs..."
It says it covers anyone who "received or used CDs" with the rootkit. That should cover you if your friend played a CD in your computer and infected it with the Sony Rootkit.
It's newspeak...duh! That's why you can't peg down a meaning. It could mean anything. What ever is most convenient for Big Brother at the moment. I wonder if Guantánamo has a Room 101...?
That's like saying a bridge disqualifies an piece of land from being an island. Manhattan is an island, and it has several subway tunnels, motor vehicle tunnels and bridges.
island
n 1: a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water.
"The only way we're going to get it down to an acceptable level is to make it not worth doing."
That's exactly what Blue Frog was doing. Blue Frog made the spammers customers unhappy and in turn made the spammers unhappy. Thus the spammers decided to attack the source of their unhappiness. That is proof positive that the Frog was working. Filtering is not an option. That the equivalent of turning the other cheek after getting slapped. It is a noble reaction, but a very unrealistic one. You might turn you cheek the first time it happens, if your a very non-confrontational person you might put up with it for a short period of time, but everyone has their breaking point. You might say, "Hey, I never see any of that spam, because I spend hours each day preparing for that slap in the face, and I hardly feel it anymore." Just because you hardly notice it anymore doesn't change the fact that its happening. If you want to filter go right ahead, and while your at it slip back into your gimp suits and ball gags and bend over for some more good old fashion spam lovin. Oh don't worry it only hurts at first...eventually you learn to deal with the discomfort and it become bearable. I for one refuse to slip quietly into the spammers gimp suit and be taken advantage of each and every day! I'm making a stand, I'm fighting back! If they want a piece of my sweet ass they are going to have to work for it!
I beg to differ. The large majority of their money comes from AdSense revenue. If they could stop spammers then the spammers customers would have to go somewhere else to advertise their product. Highly targeted Google AdSense might seem inviting. Of course for those customers that send out spam with illegal content this wouldn't apply.
Can you say Russian Mafia? Can you imagine just how embarrasing closing up shop and calling it quits is for them after of the PR over the last week. I can't imagine they called it quits just because they thought they would have to deal with more DDoSs...infact they seemed to enjoy the fact that they got DDoSed.
Considering that Microsoft Windows runs on 92% of the over half a billion personal computers in this world that's asking alot of people. It's difficult enough to protect one Windows machine must less 460,000,000+.
Exactly the spammer bots can generate more emails than the advertised site can handle. Those advertised sites are usually setup on the cheapest hosting account possible, because they expect to get a small number of page hits compared to the actual number of emails sent.
I'm a rabid Bush-hater. What's wrong with that? Just because I hate him doesn't mean that any and all anti-Bush comments I might make are with out merit. Yea, sure my hatred for him, his actions and his administration might skew my views of things at times, but it certainly doesn't mean i'm going to simply speak out against everything he does just out of spite. Besides I don't think it's my hatred that skews my views so much as it's my distrust of his actions. He is quite simply a dishonest and shady character, and I could never trust him no matter what he did now.
It's like dealing with a child. He's standing there with chocolate frosting all over his mouth and telling me he didn't eat the cake.
I had the same thought. Good American programmers are gainfully employeed...and that is the primary reason there is a small percentage of US persons placing in the top 48.
What would be interesting to know would be the percentage of participants so that we could examine the relationship between the two result.
Statistics are the most misused and abuse for of mathematics ever.
By "find patents that have been issued" i think they mean compare pending patents to existing ones to determine if there is already an issues patent that covers what is described in the pending patent.
Well it certainly hasn't doubled but it did get roughly a 20% increase. They were just a tad over 400K when they got everything back online. Their site currently shows 471,266 as the number of registered users.
I believe this part was accomplish via some good old fashion social engineering of the high level support at the backbones/ISPs in question...whether they did anything wrong or not, someone there is probably going to get fired for this one...
The DDoS attack was actually against bluesecurity.com, but when it started they had already redirected bluesecurity.com to point to their old Typepad blog so they could keep users updated on the status of the attack....or at least that's what I got from their account of what happened on their site...
Bluesecurity's email list wasn't comprimised. If you signed up for bluesecurity you did so because the spammers already have your email address. Many people who never heard of Blue Security also recieved these emails which is just further proof that PharmaMaster simply used his existing mailing list to send these out.
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Not to worry...i'm sure we can dig up a rag-tag team of oil drillers to save humanity...
Yea, or turn it off. That's what I would have done if I was a kid. They I could still make calls if I really needed to....
Ok, I know I should frown on stuff like this, but that was funny as all hell...
"The agreement covers anyone who bought, received or used CDs..."
It says it covers anyone who "received or used CDs" with the rootkit. That should cover you if your friend played a CD in your computer and infected it with the Sony Rootkit.
It's newspeak...duh! That's why you can't peg down a meaning. It could mean anything. What ever is most convenient for Big Brother at the moment. I wonder if Guantánamo has a Room 101...?
Ummm...what?!
That's like saying a bridge disqualifies an piece of land from being an island. Manhattan is an island, and it has several subway tunnels, motor vehicle tunnels and bridges.
island
n 1: a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water.
Come one moderators...that was pretty funny wasn't it?
"The only way we're going to get it down to an acceptable level is to make it not worth doing."
That's exactly what Blue Frog was doing. Blue Frog made the spammers customers unhappy and in turn made the spammers unhappy. Thus the spammers decided to attack the source of their unhappiness. That is proof positive that the Frog was working. Filtering is not an option. That the equivalent of turning the other cheek after getting slapped. It is a noble reaction, but a very unrealistic one. You might turn you cheek the first time it happens, if your a very non-confrontational person you might put up with it for a short period of time, but everyone has their breaking point. You might say, "Hey, I never see any of that spam, because I spend hours each day preparing for that slap in the face, and I hardly feel it anymore." Just because you hardly notice it anymore doesn't change the fact that its happening. If you want to filter go right ahead, and while your at it slip back into your gimp suits and ball gags and bend over for some more good old fashion spam lovin. Oh don't worry it only hurts at first...eventually you learn to deal with the discomfort and it become bearable. I for one refuse to slip quietly into the spammers gimp suit and be taken advantage of each and every day! I'm making a stand, I'm fighting back! If they want a piece of my sweet ass they are going to have to work for it!
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I beg to differ. The large majority of their money comes from AdSense revenue. If they could stop spammers then the spammers customers would have to go somewhere else to advertise their product. Highly targeted Google AdSense might seem inviting. Of course for those customers that send out spam with illegal content this wouldn't apply.
Screw that, I signed up for a war!
Can you say Russian Mafia? Can you imagine just how embarrasing closing up shop and calling it quits is for them after of the PR over the last week. I can't imagine they called it quits just because they thought they would have to deal with more DDoSs...infact they seemed to enjoy the fact that they got DDoSed.
Considering that Microsoft Windows runs on 92% of the over half a billion personal computers in this world that's asking alot of people. It's difficult enough to protect one Windows machine must less 460,000,000+.
Exactly the spammer bots can generate more emails than the advertised site can handle. Those advertised sites are usually setup on the cheapest hosting account possible, because they expect to get a small number of page hits compared to the actual number of emails sent.
I'm a rabid Bush-hater. What's wrong with that? Just because I hate him doesn't mean that any and all anti-Bush comments I might make are with out merit. Yea, sure my hatred for him, his actions and his administration might skew my views of things at times, but it certainly doesn't mean i'm going to simply speak out against everything he does just out of spite. Besides I don't think it's my hatred that skews my views so much as it's my distrust of his actions. He is quite simply a dishonest and shady character, and I could never trust him no matter what he did now.
It's like dealing with a child. He's standing there with chocolate frosting all over his mouth and telling me he didn't eat the cake.
Must not be below your threshold...otherwise you wouldn't have seen it...
I had the same thought. Good American programmers are gainfully employeed...and that is the primary reason there is a small percentage of US persons placing in the top 48.
What would be interesting to know would be the percentage of participants so that we could examine the relationship between the two result.
Statistics are the most misused and abuse for of mathematics ever.
administrational information paths leverage synergies and increase the efficiency of profit centers extrema organisational paths...
*makes retching noise*
By "find patents that have been issued" i think they mean compare pending patents to existing ones to determine if there is already an issues patent that covers what is described in the pending patent.
Well it certainly hasn't doubled but it did get roughly a 20% increase. They were just a tad over 400K when they got everything back online. Their site currently shows 471,266 as the number of registered users.
He did that a long time ago when he started his spamming business...lol
I believe this part was accomplish via some good old fashion social engineering of the high level support at the backbones/ISPs in question...whether they did anything wrong or not, someone there is probably going to get fired for this one...
The DDoS attack was actually against bluesecurity.com, but when it started they had already redirected bluesecurity.com to point to their old Typepad blog so they could keep users updated on the status of the attack....or at least that's what I got from their account of what happened on their site...
Bluesecurity's email list wasn't comprimised. If you signed up for bluesecurity you did so because the spammers already have your email address. Many people who never heard of Blue Security also recieved these emails which is just further proof that PharmaMaster simply used his existing mailing list to send these out.