Okay, Let's say i'm an admin of a free unix shell service. I have about 10,000 users (shellyeah.org has this many). I use their tools to find that about 150 of my users are running these ddosd's. Why should I report it to them? I'd simply terminate their access and the daemons. (And maybe report them to their ISP's, tell their mommies, etc).
Bottom line, why would i want the FBI to take care of it when i can take care of it myself? I could watch the daemons for about a week and try to figure out who else is on the ddos network, and report it to those sysadmins. The 'net isn't FBI ground, no matter what they try to force on the public.
>The same with software credits. They're just a morale boost for the people who write software.
And why shouldn't we let the people who write the software we use every day have credit for their hard work? Why shouln't every little bit of morale boosting possible go to the programmers? A happy coder = good code!
Sure a lot of people don't watch the credits in movies.. the same is true for software, not a whole lot of people actually read what's in the docs or about box. I'm not saying that everyone should be forced to know what brand of caffeine the programmers used to code this peice of software, but that coder damn well better get credit for his work somewhere!
> Great, now freshmeat can go downhill just like slashdot has. Seriously, this site doesn't get updated as often as it used to. Whaaa?! Slashdot has gone downhill? Coulda fooled me. Andover has made it worthwile for Rob to continue doing Slashdot. Believe me. Slashdot would REALLY go downhill if Rob got burned out and quit. You should be THANKFUL that it gets updated as much as it does! I can just imagine that your mouse button is broken from clicking reload. > Weekends are particularly sporadic. Do you have a job? It seems to me that you don't understand what it's like to work all week, and have to do a LOT more on weekends to satisfy people who click refresh until their mice are broken. How about a little R&R for once?
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Okay, Let's say i'm an admin of a free unix shell service. I have about 10,000 users (shellyeah.org has this many). I use their tools to find that about 150 of my users are running these ddosd's. Why should I report it to them? I'd simply terminate their access and the daemons. (And maybe report them to their ISP's, tell their mommies, etc).
Bottom line, why would i want the FBI to take care of it when i can take care of it myself? I could watch the daemons for about a week and try to figure out who else is on the ddos network, and report it to those sysadmins. The 'net isn't FBI ground, no matter what they try to force on the public.
Heh, i'd moderate that one funny.. it doesn't look serious..
Stop doing what, adding credits to their deletium? They never did!
>The same with software credits. They're just a morale boost for the people who write software.
And why shouldn't we let the people who write the software we use every day have credit for their hard work? Why shouln't every little bit of morale boosting possible go to the programmers? A happy coder = good code!
Sure a lot of people don't watch the credits in movies.. the same is true for software, not a whole lot of people actually read what's in the docs or about box. I'm not saying that everyone should be forced to know what brand of caffeine the programmers used to code this peice of software, but that coder damn well better get credit for his work somewhere!
> Great, now freshmeat can go downhill just like slashdot has. Seriously, this site doesn't get updated as often as it used to. Whaaa?! Slashdot has gone downhill? Coulda fooled me. Andover has made it worthwile for Rob to continue doing Slashdot. Believe me. Slashdot would REALLY go downhill if Rob got burned out and quit. You should be THANKFUL that it gets updated as much as it does! I can just imagine that your mouse button is broken from clicking reload. > Weekends are particularly sporadic. Do you have a job? It seems to me that you don't understand what it's like to work all week, and have to do a LOT more on weekends to satisfy people who click refresh until their mice are broken. How about a little R&R for once?
Whaa? XMMS has a future on windows? Seems kinda odd..
oh, btw, FIRST POST!