No I think the people who own the credit cards you used to commit fraud will call the secret service on you.
Why would they? They just call up their bank, who'll happily reverse the charge, and stick the spammer with the bill, as intended. Isn't the credit card system great?
Heck everyone pretending to reply is another one, which forces to spammer to follow many false leads.
Even better: pretend to buy. Some spammer's site are so easy to crack (hint: SQL-injection) that it's a joke.
Harvest credit card numbers (with matching delivery and billing addresses, and often with matching CVV's) on one spammer's site, and use them on another's.
If enough people do this on a routinely basis, several things will happen:
The word will spread about among buyers of spamvertised products that buying these is a surefire way to get trouble with their credit card
Excessive rate of chargebacks make many spam operations unprofitable
Credit card companies will realize that spammers are troublesome business partners, and become very reluctant to give them merchant accounts.
Hit them in the pocketbook (but use an open proxy, unless you want to get into trouble yourself...)
Is there any law against this? It's not like your book was a GSM!
(No, reading while driving is no less dangerous than phoning, but it's sufficiently uncommon and stoopid that I doubt the lawmakers would have thought of makeing a law against it...)
buy a domain name you first have to fill in a form where you enter nothing but the wanted domainname and your email address: no doubt so they can register it before you can, and then force you to buy it at any price they like (namegiant.com).
If they are really doing this, they are begging to be taught a lesson!
Indeed what's to stop a vengeful user from deliberately "suggesting" thousands of names to them, in which he is not interested at all? Stoopid
namegiant will register all those, and will be stuck with the (first year) bill if they can't sell them...
Note: be careful, use a throaway (hotmail...) e-mail address, you never know...
Apache is not an operating system, apache is much more simple. Comparing market use of an OS and a web server is like comparing apples and oranges, you cant compare them and end up with a logical argument.
True enough, you shouldn't compare apples and oranges, but that does not mean that both kinds of fruit can't share any common properties:
Put a bad apple into a crate of apples, and you get a crate of spoiled apples.
Put a bad orange into a crate of oranges, and you get a crate of spoiled oranges.
Viruses do not necessarily affect the most common web server, they affect the least secure.
It's not outrageous to extrapolate from there, and stipulate that viruses do not necessarily affect most most common OS but rather the least secure.
These pebbles have very little fissionable material encased in thick graphite shell (=moderator) you CAN'T pack them efficiently enough to get supercritical.
What if they shatter, as has happened quite often in Hamm-Uentropp?
What if there is a fire, burning away the graphite, and only leaving the fissionable core?
There is no phase change either, and they even consider this to be an advantage (predictable properties...)
It's a simple design, and if the spheres are made correctly - fool proof
If the spheres are made correctly... And apparently these are quite difficult to make, and were often faulty (fissures, easily shatter into pieces). At Hamm-Uentropp, they excepted only two shattered spheres per year, but actually got several thousands...
... and once had an incident of a sphere getting stuck in the feeding tube, which eventually resulted in more shattered spheres, and release of a radioactive cloud into the atmosphere!
The reason is NOT because Windows is more insecure, or easier to write viruses for, even if that is the case. The reason is the market saturation. 90%.
Why the hell is this classical moronic Windows-astroturfer-tripe moderated as insightful?
Let me tell you something: we don't have to speak in what-if's; we can look at an actual situation: Web server market.
According to netcraft, the most widely used Webserver is Apache. Now, do you see any Code Red worms on Apache? No.
Do you see any Nimda worms on Apache? No.
Do you see any other kind of worm on Apache? No
So there goes this nice theory. Next time a windows user trots out the old line of "windows is the primary target of viruses because of market penetration", smack him right into the face!
Well, the pebbles are in contact with each other while they are being used. You can't get much closer than that.
Read the subject of this thread. It's not about reactor meltdown, but thrash meltdown. Supposedly, the "trash bins" would contain a much higher number of pebbles than the reactor (actually, the output of 40 years of operation...), and without the protective measures (moderator, control rods, lead casing,...) that you'd find in a reactor.
In normal circumstances there would be no problem (these are "spent" pebbles, having only a very low residual fissible uranium content), but what if due to some manipulation error "new" or "partly spent" pebbles were discarded?
All the spent fuel that the PBMR generates during its 40-year life will be stored on site....
Finally, the density of spent fuel in each sphere is so minimal that the repository can be packed as efficiently as possible.
Now, what if there is some malfunction, and a sizeable amount of non-spent pebbles are accidentally "discarded": Instant nuclear bomb! After all efficient packing is one way to reach critical mass and get some megaboss oomph!
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And posted logged in.
And do you think Slashdot will hand out my IP? Not unless somebody tries to use these instructions against the Church of Scientology!
Why would they? They just call up their bank, who'll happily reverse the charge, and stick the spammer with the bill, as intended. Isn't the credit card system great?
That's why you use open proxies. And then, do you really believe that the spammers will call the cops on you?
Photos? You know, he might become the new goat man!
Even better: pretend to buy. Some spammer's site are so easy to crack (hint: SQL-injection) that it's a joke.
Harvest credit card numbers (with matching delivery and billing addresses, and often with matching CVV's) on one spammer's site, and use them on another's.
If enough people do this on a routinely basis, several things will happen:
- The word will spread about among buyers of spamvertised products that buying these is a surefire way to get trouble with their credit card
- Excessive rate of chargebacks make many spam operations unprofitable
- Credit card companies will realize that spammers are troublesome business partners, and become very reluctant to give them merchant accounts.
Hit them in the pocketbook (but use an open proxy, unless you want to get into trouble yourself...)And that's probably why Jon is being retried. You know, it's just a question of avoiding to give Bush two reasons to invade...
I'not American either, but I still like to bitch. About George Bush's international politics...
The Midget
Proud not to be an American!
Were you?
Yes?
Well, that means that you must be a Microsoft shill! Because it was a purely internal meeting. Na!
England is not part of Europe. It is part of the "coalition of willing" and instead of the Euro, it still has "funny" money.
Ha!
Your word processor could use Jabber to check other word processors in your organization if they know of the word in question.
Hmm, unfortunately, no other wordprocessor knows what a "deparment" is either...
So, when will we get a public list of convicted Slashdot goat trolls?
(No, reading while driving is no less dangerous than phoning, but it's sufficiently uncommon and stoopid that I doubt the lawmakers would have thought of makeing a law against it...)
If they are really doing this, they are begging to be taught a lesson!
Indeed what's to stop a vengeful user from deliberately "suggesting" thousands of names to them, in which he is not interested at all? Stoopid namegiant will register all those, and will be stuck with the (first year) bill if they can't sell them...
Note: be careful, use a throaway (hotmail...) e-mail address, you never know...
Actually, the Simson page did have goatse picts and redirects on it... That is, until Simson fixed his lame "Last 10 Incoming Google Searches" box.
However, the blog is pretty much less impressive:
For chrissakes, if you want the pretend to be a geek, whether working for the mafia, or just studying, use some less cheesy presentation software!
Which still leaves the possibility of rouding errors.
Just consider the following fictitious example. Your raw data have the following for the user's "primary" OS (most used, only one choice possible):
- Windows 74.6%
- Linux 10.6%
- MacOS 5.6%
- FreeBSD 2.6%
- GNU/Hurd 1.6%
- BEOS 1.6%
- OS/2 1.6%
- Amiga OS 0.6%
- Atari TOS 0.6%
- Others 0.6%
The raw numbers add up to 100%.Now consider that for "graphical" reasons, you decide to round to an integer number of percentage:
- Windows 75%
- Linux 11%
- MacOS 6%
- FreeBSD 3%
- GNU/Hurd 2%
- BEOS 2%
- OS/2 2%
- AmigaOS 1%
- Atari TOS 1%
- Others 1%
If you add up the rounded numbers, they no longer add up: you get 104% instead of 100%!Given a high enough number of categories, such rounding errors can be as large as you want...
True enough, you shouldn't compare apples and oranges, but that does not mean that both kinds of fruit can't share any common properties:
Put a bad apple into a crate of apples, and you get a crate of spoiled apples.
Put a bad orange into a crate of oranges, and you get a crate of spoiled oranges.
Viruses do not necessarily affect the most common web server, they affect the least secure.
It's not outrageous to extrapolate from there, and stipulate that viruses do not necessarily affect most most common OS but rather the least secure.
What if they shatter, as has happened quite often in Hamm-Uentropp?
What if there is a fire, burning away the graphite, and only leaving the fissionable core?
There is no water. It uses helium as the coolant.
There is no phase change either, and they even consider this to be an advantage (predictable properties...)
It's a simple design, and if the spheres are made correctly - fool proof
If the spheres are made correctly... And apparently these are quite difficult to make, and were often faulty (fissures, easily shatter into pieces). At Hamm-Uentropp, they excepted only two shattered spheres per year, but actually got several thousands...
Work!
Why the hell is this classical moronic Windows-astroturfer-tripe moderated as insightful?
Let me tell you something: we don't have to speak in what-if's; we can look at an actual situation: Web server market.
According to netcraft, the most widely used Webserver is Apache. Now, do you see any Code Red worms on Apache? No.
Do you see any Nimda worms on Apache? No.
Do you see any other kind of worm on Apache? No
So there goes this nice theory. Next time a windows user trots out the old line of "windows is the primary target of viruses because of market penetration", smack him right into the face!
Read the subject of this thread. It's not about reactor meltdown, but thrash meltdown. Supposedly, the "trash bins" would contain a much higher number of pebbles than the reactor (actually, the output of 40 years of operation...), and without the protective measures (moderator, control rods, lead casing, ...) that you'd find in a reactor.
In normal circumstances there would be no problem (these are "spent" pebbles, having only a very low residual fissible uranium content), but what if due to some manipulation error "new" or "partly spent" pebbles were discarded?
All the spent fuel that the PBMR generates during its 40-year life will be stored on site....
Finally, the density of spent fuel in each sphere is so minimal that the repository can be packed as efficiently as possible.
Now, what if there is some malfunction, and a sizeable amount of non-spent pebbles are accidentally "discarded": Instant nuclear bomb! After all efficient packing is one way to reach critical mass and get some megaboss oomph!
(And if any Secret Service goon is reading this: it's a frigging joke!)
... and not a single one containing the word Outlook... Slashdotters, I am disappointed!