If we use opt-out I could at least get an email from every company in the world. And to make sure Im not gonna get more mails, I have to answer that mail and say "No I don't want to have any more mails from you, thank you!". And then they are surely gonna send a reply to me, saying "We have received your request, you will be removed from our list. But if you in the future wants to have blablabla."
So in the long run I could get atleast 2 times more mails than there are companies in the world.
This can now (maybe soon) also lead to even better biological weapons that can kill much more than the 200 millions that the plauge killed. Now scientists will be able to modify it and cause it to lead to even worser diseases.
"It looks like Microsoft may be trying to do the right thing from a security standpoint"
Hey, look now, I thought that this wasn't the funny section, or am I wrong...?
They attempts to secure IIS? Shouldn't they be "attempting" to do so all the time. Isn't that trivial knowledge in programming to try to find out and fix security holes.
"The number 24 in the first executable line of code above was determined experimentally. I found no mention of it anywhere in the
Platform SDK. If it is not present, the program doesn't work. Apparently, the pipe facility requires a 24-byte header on each write to the
pipe."
I think this says alot why I don't wanna work with windows pipes...:)
Oh wait I forgot to site this: "Our results showed that Linux pipes are considerably faster than Windows 2000 named pipes, and Windows 2000 named pipes are
much faster than Windows XP named pipes."
Anyone who wants to know alot more about pipes in UNIX/Linux should read Richard W. Stevens bible "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment", any respectable programmer should have read that book at least one time in his/her life.
And finally it would be really interesting to see this experiment done with sockets too. Atleast Im gonna try it out.
And btw, I wouldn't want to be around when Billy G gets his hands on those guys who made this test...
He's right about one thing, it was the heat that breaked the towers. But it wasn't just that. The towers are stabding up with the aid of a core of concrete and steel which is covered with a layer of asbestos. The asbestos should in normal cases protect the metal from getting to hot (which makes it softer). According to calculations this "core" should withstand a fire. But when the planes smashed in to one tower, the core was damaged. And because of that the steel in the core went hotter than it should have gotten from a normal fire.
I think that the towers would have been brought down by planes using hydrogen fuel because the core was damaged and couldn't protect the buildings akilles heel.
Hydrogen fuel makes a "colder" fire than burning airplane fuel. That is because it has a lower energy per mass ratio. But hydrogen fuel can't be applied (I think) because you will need much more of this kind of fuel than ordinary fuel. An ordinary boeing contains about 56000 litres of fuel, to substitute that with hydrogen you will have to multiply that number with about 10 or so. Also Im not sure that planes could use hydrogen fuel because it gives lesser energy. Maybe it just can substitute gasolin as a fuel.
But one thing is for certain, any type of aircraft is, or can be, used as a terrorist device!!!
I see computers with artificial intelligence, humans put in boxes like their where in a farm. Whats that? It seems that they have cables connected to their body. Noooo... their comin to get us to fuel the Matrix's campaign of domination in the "real" world.
But wait!!! I see a hero, a hacker, he looks kinda Keanu Reeves. And theres some mysterious rebels too...
Im sorry but I cant post any links to those reports I got those facts from because they are just printed in ordinary paper. There are no digital versions of them, and if they were digital you could'nt read them anyway beacuse they are in swedish;-)
But, but, if you really want to see some statistics you can visit our statistics site at the Criminal prevention Council but I warn you, it's all in swedish.
And besides, the guy who I replyed to was'nt including any links either, but you did believe him anyway (just because he said what you wanted to hear)...?
I think that this is the worlds largest Linux installation ever. IBM says it is the biggest ever commercial use of Linux, it is more than 15000 IBM eServer xSeries running there, can you beat that?
By the way, did you all know that google has over 6000 Linux servers, ahh me like google _alot_:)
When it comes to this kind of controversial matters, one can wonder what my rights online actually are. If it is freedom to speach, does that include freedom to supress the weaker (like childs) to...
Great now we just have to make sure that spammers can't send 'round their dirty stuff. A law prohibiting spam is of course good, but will it be effective?
I mean, there are some problems with spam:
The first is that spammers don't care about any law, if they are outside EU they don't have to care about the law either (actually most of the spam comes from USA).
Second, there are some problems if you want to track down spammers because they does'nt send the spam from their computers. Sending millions of emails from your own computer is risky business, and also demanding, so most of the spam are sent via some "innocent" server. Long lists of this unprotected servers can easily be found on the net. With the webcrawlers out there digging up millions of adresses, theres no lack of receivers either.
So spam can be stopped at serverlevel, but how do you do that?
First of all make sure that the email server is'nt set to forward mail coming from "outside". If that is the case, use the "relay control"-function. And also make sure you upgrade old servers that does'nt have this kind of protection.
Configurate "reverse lookup" for the server in the dns. With reverse lookup your email server can verify that the sender really is who he claims to be. That should stop alot of spam.
Happy anti-spamming;-)
Maybe we should have laws that "nails" people who has'nt configured their mailservers the rigth way, that oughta do it..
If someone have'nt noticed, theres a big difference between simulated porn and anything else simulated. Take for example an ordinary scary movie, it is intended to make the people scared, not with the intent of arousing murderous feelings in the viewer. Porn movies are made to make people excited and wanna have sex. Im sure that anybody more likely would like to have sex with a real girl instead of jerkin' off in front of the computer (or...?). Well I guess that almost all of you say yes to that, having real sex can hardly be compared to a pornmovie (simulated or not), can it?
But simulated child porn, with what intentions do you think that someone will do such a movie? Whatever the answer to that question is, theres a fact that who ever looks at it, will surely wanna do it in real instead. And theres also a fact that child pornography (simulated or not) is done with the intent of arousing pedophilic feelings in the viewer.
Theres also several reports which support the fact that the availability of child porn will increase the number of child molestations. And that also conforms to virtual stuff too (but maybe some will get a bigger "kick" out of it if they know it is real children suffering).
So one can conclude that theres several reasons why banning child porn is rigth, it is not only because of the harmful effect of creating the porn on the real children involved. It is because they who watch this, also want to to the stuff they see on the screen.
And why should the producer of such a movie want to stick with just child pornography, because it is simulated they can do anything they want. They can kill the children, cut them into pieces and do more horrible stuff. I say that somewhere we have to draw the line. And I think that the line should be drawn to protect the children in our society. Or would you like to have your kids at the kindergarten when you know that their teacher watches movies with titles as "child porn slaughter 3000" or "kindergarten rapist" at his spare time, or at work?
Most people look at "regular porn", masturbate themselves to orgasm, and then stop thinking about sex. When Sweden legalized porn, rape, child molestation, and other sex crimes dropped.
Excactly where did that information come from?
I'm from Sweden and does extensive research about this kind of crimes. The fact is that sex crimes like rape have doubled in just a few years. It seems that this new kind of violence used in porn encourages already sick guys to commit sex crimes. This is also the indication for child molestation, which has grown exponentially as an effect of the use of internet to spread material related to this kind of crimes.
It is a fact that people that watches this kind of "porn" and/or normal porn doesnt just "masturbate themselves to orgasm, and then stop thinking about sex.", they get inspired about it, fixated about it. And some become sex criminals beacuse their large consumtion of porn, they just can't stop watching it. In my work I've seen people addicted to porn like it was a drug, and thats scary because it will affect innocent in the long term...
It's also interesting to check how the internet have expanded just over some years, thinkgeek has some cool maps over how internet looked in the years 1999,
2000 and also for the year
2001.
These are graphs of how the Internet might look if you were a packet of data that were sent thru the bulk of the Internet infrastructure.
Also read more about the company Lumeta that has a long-term research project to collect routing data on the Internet, it's called The Internet Mapping Project. They have some information there about how it is done too.
Why Alaska? There are several answers, first the answer to your question:
For this mission, the goal isn't to leave the planet (gravitational escape). It's just to get up in orbit around earth, so the stuff will still be trapped in the gravitational field. But to be able to "kick" the rocket out into space from an orbit, it is better that you do this from the equator. To save fuel of course.
The advantage of launching from this location is its wide-open launch corridor and an unobstructed down-range flight path. The location is ideal for launching expendable launch vehicles with payloads requiring low-Earth polar or sun-synchronous orbits. A look at an overwiev of the launch complex gives some more understanding. Because of the earth rotation, the rocket will fly out over the Pacific.
The weather on Kodiak Island is similar to that of the northwest region of the U.S. with an average rainfall comparable to Cape Canaveral in Florida (which is favorable:).
Along with an excellent geographic location for aerospace operations, Alaska is in the world's most active trading hemisphere and is positioned as the crown of the Pacific Rim. This strategic location, combined with a fully developed transportation system, allows for efficient logistics and worldwide distribution. Alaska has a long history of aerospace activity, and with the wealth of technical resources and skilled personnel in our state, is leading the way for an emerging commercial aerospace industry.
I wonder if that just applies to oceanic crusts, maybe they're all over the planets crust but no one have checked it.
This could mean that some number of theories will have to be reviewed. Also I wonder how this will influence for example the carbon cycle, maybe some long-term climate simulations must be remade.
I've listen for some time now to those sceptics in here, this technology is already in use on Iceland's Keflavik Airport. It seems to work rather good, and if someone innocent is caught they will notice it. After searching them for suspicious stuff they are free to go again. Ok I know after all this math that if the system gives a false positive only 1 in 1000 times it isn't good. But if humans can check this guys caught by this technology, I think it would work rather fine.
But thats not so important, the important stuff is whether or not those 11th September terrorists would be caught by it or not. I think that they would be caught, if they where listed in the database. But these guys where not in _ANY_ database, they werent suspected for anything at all.
This is why these kind of terrorists can do their dirty actions, its because they are people without criminal records. A terroristleader would be rather stupid if he sent rough-mannered criminals on the trip. So he does it the smart way, he searches for ordinary people with the exception that this people are fanatic in their beliefs. Those kinda guys are free to move everywhere, so there will be no problem. And we cant stop every person thats known to have a fanatic belief, can we?
The most important thing to notice is that any person is a dangerous weapon, but he can be handled by the people on the plane. But if this dangerous person have a weapon, you cant stop him. So we must stop people with dangerous weapons and not focus on those with dangerous faces. What really could have stopped the terrorists would be if there was a restriction in bringing 10 cm knives on the planes. But there were no such regulation at all at that time...
Why should this be so exciting!
They can hardly see much because it will only give an image of the surface of the brain. And also, only one little part of the surface will be visible. A brain is 3D not 2D, hope that they know that.
Why cant they just use Magnetic Resonance Imaging instead, then they doesnt even have to put stuff in the poor little rats head. Using nuclear magnetic resonance seems to me to be the only way to se things in 3D because you can scan out "slices" and put them together and so to speak get a 3D-picture of the stuff in the brain.
That would be much more easy and also more ethical.
I dont like this at all, he says that this doesn't violate fair-use rights, but I say it does. My opinion of fair-use rights is that I want to be able to play the record in any way I want (in a computer, on a dvd-player etc.). And also to put it on another media, like a minidisc or in my mp3-player. I even want to make a copy for my personal use. Ok, he says that you can make 6 copies of the record, but he also said "I (also) smoked once but I didn't inhale...", yeah right, what a hero eh? I wonder how they does to limit the number of copies that can be made to 6 when you cant write to the original cd in the first place. How does the cd know that it has been copied 6 times?
What I heard about this matter it certainly not seems to be able to copy the record at all, put it on another media or anything else that duplicates it contents...
So what does he really want? I think he's just a guy who wants to get _alot_ of money from the record companies. Just consider the fact that he says "we are designing the software for the 99 percent of the people who don't want to steal the music". I think that if 99% of the ppl don't steal it, why bother doing the copyprotection in the first place. He also says the income for his company will be about $200 million revenue because of this!!
I think that most of the people that copies records from friends or so, doesn't afford (or doesnt want) to buy the original anyway, so it all evens out in the end.
There are some distinct actions one would take to get rid of viruses.
Skip Office and you'll get rid of about 80-90%. If you change OS the numbers will be about 99% (+-1%).
I think this problems are a great opportunity for other OS to show that they are worth using (or atlesat trying it out). One problem is that normal users can't install and configure a normal Unix/linux system.
The problem nowadays is the normal user who doesnt know that Outlook etc (All Microsoft products) are true evil. Normal users can't be blamed because they are just the average users. They does'nt deserve this attacks even if they use the software that spreads them 'round. This is because they does'nt know any better. Without normal users an ordinary pc would cost hundreds of times more (because the normal user is the biggest group, and they buy these machines). And we can't stop them from using pc's, and why should we? An ordinary pc with windows on it is designed for the "normal" user, I can't imagine putting a Solaris-system in the hands of my mother. That would be disastrous.
The bottom line is; the one to blame should be companys who writes programs with security holes.
And of course, company's that designs OS which are so vulnerable to attacks, should also be blamed...
Maybe we sould send da spanish Inquisition 'round to these companies? Yes I think that'll do it
Nah it wasn't a typo, they cant just go out and say "hey look at this cool thing we just found out...".
They gotta check it again, the experiment must be reproducible. And then double check it again, write reports and send them around so other scientists also can verify it. And finally after some time when the results are accepted they go out with the results in public. There's some form of ethics in science one have to follow.
And if you dont do this you will end up in the same way that those cold fusion-guys did, remember...?
For those who don't remember or know what "the cold fusion debate" was, it breaks down like this: A pair of researchers from the University of Utah announced in 1989 that they had achieved fusion with a simple apparatus at room temperature. Unfortunately, no other scientists were able to reproduce the remarkable results of the Utah researchers. It appears that the original experimenters did not fake the data but were rather inexperienced in the techniques. The two men who claimed to have discovered the energy of the future were condemned as imposters and exiled by their peers.
Why flood them, it's just innocent people infected by a worm. You can't just shoot people that get's sick at the hospital can you?
And by the way, is'nt it almost illegal to flood ppl like that just for revenge... eh?
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If we use opt-out I could at least get an email from every company in the world. And to make sure Im not gonna get more mails, I have to answer that mail and say "No I don't want to have any more mails from you, thank you!". And then they are surely gonna send a reply to me, saying "We have received your request, you will be removed from our list. But if you in the future wants to have blablabla."
:(
So in the long run I could get atleast 2 times more mails than there are companies in the world.
Sounds good eh?
This can now (maybe soon) also lead to even better biological weapons that can kill much more than the 200 millions that the plauge killed. Now scientists will be able to modify it and cause it to lead to even worser diseases.
"It looks like Microsoft may be trying to do the right thing from a security standpoint"
Hey, look now, I thought that this wasn't the funny section, or am I wrong...?
They attempts to secure IIS? Shouldn't they be "attempting" to do so all the time. Isn't that trivial knowledge in programming to try to find out and fix security holes.
"The number 24 in the first executable line of code above was determined experimentally. I found no mention of it anywhere in the Platform SDK. If it is not present, the program doesn't work. Apparently, the pipe facility requires a 24-byte header on each write to the pipe."
:)
I think this says alot why I don't wanna work with windows pipes...
Oh wait I forgot to site this: "Our results showed that Linux pipes are considerably faster than Windows 2000 named pipes, and Windows 2000 named pipes are much faster than Windows XP named pipes."
Anyone who wants to know alot more about pipes in UNIX/Linux should read Richard W. Stevens bible "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment", any respectable programmer should have read that book at least one time in his/her life.
And finally it would be really interesting to see this experiment done with sockets too. Atleast Im gonna try it out.
And btw, I wouldn't want to be around when Billy G gets his hands on those guys who made this test...
He's right about one thing, it was the heat that breaked the towers. But it wasn't just that. The towers are stabding up with the aid of a core of concrete and steel which is covered with a layer of asbestos. The asbestos should in normal cases protect the metal from getting to hot (which makes it softer). According to calculations this "core" should withstand a fire. But when the planes smashed in to one tower, the core was damaged. And because of that the steel in the core went hotter than it should have gotten from a normal fire.
I think that the towers would have been brought down by planes using hydrogen fuel because the core was damaged and couldn't protect the buildings akilles heel.
Hydrogen fuel makes a "colder" fire than burning airplane fuel. That is because it has a lower energy per mass ratio. But hydrogen fuel can't be applied (I think) because you will need much more of this kind of fuel than ordinary fuel. An ordinary boeing contains about 56000 litres of fuel, to substitute that with hydrogen you will have to multiply that number with about 10 or so. Also Im not sure that planes could use hydrogen fuel because it gives lesser energy. Maybe it just can substitute gasolin as a fuel.
But one thing is for certain, any type of aircraft is, or can be, used as a terrorist device!!!
Whats it gonna be next? Are they gonna try to stop all kind of filetransfers on internet? Maybe ban the whole internet and finally shut it down?
Hey this is actually a great idea, copy protecting bad music to prevent it from spreading. This will surely make the world a better place to live ;-)
I see computers with artificial intelligence, humans put in boxes like their where in a farm. Whats that? It seems that they have cables connected to their body. Noooo... their comin to get us to fuel the Matrix's campaign of domination in the "real" world.
But wait!!! I see a hero, a hacker, he looks kinda Keanu Reeves. And theres some mysterious rebels too...
Im sorry but I cant post any links to those reports I got those facts from because they are just printed in ordinary paper. There are no digital versions of them, and if they were digital you could'nt read them anyway beacuse they are in swedish ;-)
But, but, if you really want to see some statistics you can visit our statistics site at the Criminal prevention Council but I warn you, it's all in swedish.
And besides, the guy who I replyed to was'nt including any links either, but you did believe him anyway (just because he said what you wanted to hear)...?
I think that this is the worlds largest Linux installation ever. IBM says it is the biggest ever commercial use of Linux, it is more than 15000 IBM eServer xSeries running there, can you beat that?
:)
By the way, did you all know that google has over 6000 Linux servers, ahh me like google _alot_
When it comes to this kind of controversial matters, one can wonder what my rights online actually are. If it is freedom to speach, does that include freedom to supress the weaker (like childs) to...
I mean, there are some problems with spam:
So spam can be stopped at serverlevel, but how do you do that?
First of all make sure that the email server is'nt set to forward mail coming from "outside". If that is the case, use the "relay control"-function. And also make sure you upgrade old servers that does'nt have this kind of protection. Configurate "reverse lookup" for the server in the dns. With reverse lookup your email server can verify that the sender really is who he claims to be. That should stop alot of spam.
Happy anti-spamming
Maybe we should have laws that "nails" people who has'nt configured their mailservers the rigth way, that oughta do it..
If someone have'nt noticed, theres a big difference between simulated porn and anything else simulated. Take for example an ordinary scary movie, it is intended to make the people scared, not with the intent of arousing murderous feelings in the viewer. Porn movies are made to make people excited and wanna have sex. Im sure that anybody more likely would like to have sex with a real girl instead of jerkin' off in front of the computer (or...?). Well I guess that almost all of you say yes to that, having real sex can hardly be compared to a pornmovie (simulated or not), can it?
But simulated child porn, with what intentions do you think that someone will do such a movie? Whatever the answer to that question is, theres a fact that who ever looks at it, will surely wanna do it in real instead. And theres also a fact that child pornography (simulated or not) is done with the intent of arousing pedophilic feelings in the viewer.
Theres also several reports which support the fact that the availability of child porn will increase the number of child molestations. And that also conforms to virtual stuff too (but maybe some will get a bigger "kick" out of it if they know it is real children suffering).
So one can conclude that theres several reasons why banning child porn is rigth, it is not only because of the harmful effect of creating the porn on the real children involved. It is because they who watch this, also want to to the stuff they see on the screen.
And why should the producer of such a movie want to stick with just child pornography, because it is simulated they can do anything they want. They can kill the children, cut them into pieces and do more horrible stuff. I say that somewhere we have to draw the line. And I think that the line should be drawn to protect the children in our society. Or would you like to have your kids at the kindergarten when you know that their teacher watches movies with titles as "child porn slaughter 3000" or "kindergarten rapist" at his spare time, or at work?
Most people look at "regular porn", masturbate themselves to orgasm, and then stop thinking about sex. When Sweden legalized porn, rape, child molestation, and other sex crimes dropped.
Excactly where did that information come from? I'm from Sweden and does extensive research about this kind of crimes. The fact is that sex crimes like rape have doubled in just a few years. It seems that this new kind of violence used in porn encourages already sick guys to commit sex crimes. This is also the indication for child molestation, which has grown exponentially as an effect of the use of internet to spread material related to this kind of crimes.
It is a fact that people that watches this kind of "porn" and/or normal porn doesnt just "masturbate themselves to orgasm, and then stop thinking about sex.", they get inspired about it, fixated about it. And some become sex criminals beacuse their large consumtion of porn, they just can't stop watching it. In my work I've seen people addicted to porn like it was a drug, and thats scary because it will affect innocent in the long term...
It's also interesting to check how the internet have expanded just over some years, thinkgeek has some cool maps over how internet looked in the years 1999, 2000 and also for the year 2001. These are graphs of how the Internet might look if you were a packet of data that were sent thru the bulk of the Internet infrastructure.
Also read more about the company Lumeta that has a long-term research project to collect routing data on the Internet, it's called The Internet Mapping Project. They have some information there about how it is done too.
I wonder if that just applies to oceanic crusts, maybe they're all over the planets crust but no one have checked it.
This could mean that some number of theories will have to be reviewed. Also I wonder how this will influence for example the carbon cycle, maybe some long-term climate simulations must be remade.
I've listen for some time now to those sceptics in here, this technology is already in use on Iceland's Keflavik Airport. It seems to work rather good, and if someone innocent is caught they will notice it. After searching them for suspicious stuff they are free to go again. Ok I know after all this math that if the system gives a false positive only 1 in 1000 times it isn't good. But if humans can check this guys caught by this technology, I think it would work rather fine.
But thats not so important, the important stuff is whether or not those 11th September terrorists would be caught by it or not. I think that they would be caught, if they where listed in the database. But these guys where not in _ANY_ database, they werent suspected for anything at all.
This is why these kind of terrorists can do their dirty actions, its because they are people without criminal records. A terroristleader would be rather stupid if he sent rough-mannered criminals on the trip. So he does it the smart way, he searches for ordinary people with the exception that this people are fanatic in their beliefs. Those kinda guys are free to move everywhere, so there will be no problem. And we cant stop every person thats known to have a fanatic belief, can we?
The most important thing to notice is that any person is a dangerous weapon, but he can be handled by the people on the plane. But if this dangerous person have a weapon, you cant stop him. So we must stop people with dangerous weapons and not focus on those with dangerous faces. What really could have stopped the terrorists would be if there was a restriction in bringing 10 cm knives on the planes. But there were no such regulation at all at that time...
Why should this be so exciting!
They can hardly see much because it will only give an image of the surface of the brain. And also, only one little part of the surface will be visible. A brain is 3D not 2D, hope that they know that.
Why cant they just use Magnetic Resonance Imaging instead, then they doesnt even have to put stuff in the poor little rats head. Using nuclear magnetic resonance seems to me to be the only way to se things in 3D because you can scan out "slices" and put them together and so to speak get a 3D-picture of the stuff in the brain.
That would be much more easy and also more ethical.
I dont like this at all, he says that this doesn't violate fair-use rights, but I say it does. My opinion of fair-use rights is that I want to be able to play the record in any way I want (in a computer, on a dvd-player etc.). And also to put it on another media, like a minidisc or in my mp3-player. I even want to make a copy for my personal use. Ok, he says that you can make 6 copies of the record, but he also said "I (also) smoked once but I didn't inhale...", yeah right, what a hero eh? I wonder how they does to limit the number of copies that can be made to 6 when you cant write to the original cd in the first place. How does the cd know that it has been copied 6 times?
What I heard about this matter it certainly not seems to be able to copy the record at all, put it on another media or anything else that duplicates it contents...
So what does he really want? I think he's just a guy who wants to get _alot_ of money from the record companies. Just consider the fact that he says "we are designing the software for the 99 percent of the people who don't want to steal the music". I think that if 99% of the ppl don't steal it, why bother doing the copyprotection in the first place. He also says the income for his company will be about $200 million revenue because of this!!
I think that most of the people that copies records from friends or so, doesn't afford (or doesnt want) to buy the original anyway, so it all evens out in the end.
There are some distinct actions one would take to get rid of viruses.
Skip Office and you'll get rid of about 80-90%. If you change OS the numbers will be about 99% (+-1%).
I think this problems are a great opportunity for other OS to show that they are worth using (or atlesat trying it out). One problem is that normal users can't install and configure a normal Unix/linux system.
The problem nowadays is the normal user who doesnt know that Outlook etc (All Microsoft products) are true evil. Normal users can't be blamed because they are just the average users. They does'nt deserve this attacks even if they use the software that spreads them 'round. This is because they does'nt know any better. Without normal users an ordinary pc would cost hundreds of times more (because the normal user is the biggest group, and they buy these machines). And we can't stop them from using pc's, and why should we? An ordinary pc with windows on it is designed for the "normal" user, I can't imagine putting a Solaris-system in the hands of my mother. That would be disastrous.
The bottom line is; the one to blame should be companys who writes programs with security holes.
And of course, company's that designs OS which are so vulnerable to attacks, should also be blamed...
Maybe we sould send da spanish Inquisition 'round to these companies? Yes I think that'll do it
Nah it wasn't a typo, they cant just go out and say "hey look at this cool thing we just found out...". They gotta check it again, the experiment must be reproducible. And then double check it again, write reports and send them around so other scientists also can verify it. And finally after some time when the results are accepted they go out with the results in public. There's some form of ethics in science one have to follow. And if you dont do this you will end up in the same way that those cold fusion-guys did, remember...? For those who don't remember or know what "the cold fusion debate" was, it breaks down like this: A pair of researchers from the University of Utah announced in 1989 that they had achieved fusion with a simple apparatus at room temperature. Unfortunately, no other scientists were able to reproduce the remarkable results of the Utah researchers. It appears that the original experimenters did not fake the data but were rather inexperienced in the techniques. The two men who claimed to have discovered the energy of the future were condemned as imposters and exiled by their peers.
Why flood them, it's just innocent people infected by a worm. You can't just shoot people that get's sick at the hospital can you?
And by the way, is'nt it almost illegal to flood ppl like that just for revenge... eh?