It'd be worse if he'd confuse both projects. That'd mean his rocket would require a quad Xeon MP 2,0ghz with 16gb of RIMM memory to launch while Doom3 would put your computer in orbit...
And you trust a spammer? They'd prolly even send kiddie porn out if it paid enough. They spam, that's enough proof their moral compass is seriously misaligned.
You know, I've been thinking a bit. Spam is becoming a real problem and it's only a matter of time before email itself becomes nearly useless due to the massive amounts of spam. Something has to be done and it has to be done soon in order for it to still be effective enough. Stopping spam itself when it's en-route is not an option, as it will only lead to an arms race between spammer/virus writers and hackers/AV corps. Killing the bandwidth of the computers that send spam isn't an option either as it involves (D)DoSing, which is rather illegal. Killing the spammers themselves, as satisfying and tempting as it may be, is not an option either. Remember, even a spammer is someone's father/mother and/or son/daughter.
Maybe, MAYBE we have a chance by sicking the BSA on them. Yes, the Business Software Alliance, the same people who use some sort of legalized extortion and raid small businesses that "fail to comply" to their rather variable demands. Think about it, most small time spammers are technological idiots who use home computers. Do you really think every spammer who has 10 PCs churning out email has valid licenses for Windows? Maybe a few, but loads don't. And even if they do, MS licensing is so horrid that whatever the heck you did, you're bound to violate at least 3 licenses anyways, excluding other licenses like the spam software itself. This is how we might go after a few small-time spammers. And hey, it actually makes the BSA people do something useful as well! Maybe an idea?
Put your home town on Slashdot again for the first spam-related homicide. Ask for OSDL funding when on trail. Ask if the judge likes his daughter to see an email with a bunch of guys in the act of riding the brown highway together, due to spam. Make us PROUD.
The graying grandmother in a "What Would Jesus Do?" T-shirt proudly recalls stretching two turkey carcasses into enough gumbo to feed 100 of the city's poor.
Jesus would prolly open up a can of whoop-ass when he finds out she's sending "XXX HOT LATIN TW1NKS XXX FOR FREE rqewgkjtqwertnb" to random 13 year olds. How about some divine retribution with a vulcan cannon?
A combination of AAA, Autonomous Advanced Algorithms and SAM systems, Secure Authority Message, designed to bring down any hostile airborne WLAN sniffer. Available in both US and Russian flavours.
During Iraq II they took the risk of degrading the signal in the rest of the world so they could concentrate more satellites over Iraq, which increased both diversity and accuracy.
Ahhh... That explains why my car's navigational system insisted that the most direct route to the supermarket was through Baghdad!
We're used to privately held channels which show a lot fewer ads, and still produce good programming. Take a look at Britain's ITV or Sky and the Dutch, German and Scandinavian channels to see fairly high-quality programming with at most 2 commercial breaks in a 30 minute programme, versus the four or more seen on some US channels.
What, quality programs and fewer ads on Dutch TV? Put that bottle of glue back where you found it, mister! Either that, or give me that trans-dimensional travelling device!
Sadly, as spammers become interested in exploited open relays for their "business", writing viruses is slowly but surely becoming lucrative. And we're not talking about some random 13 year olds with a 1997 OE exploit, here, either. While most professionals would never write a virus for fun, money is always a very good, very valid and very strong argument.
Such is life. Get Grisoft AVG while you can, free and good virus scanner. Norton sans bloat and anual subscriptions.
09:00: Get up, sniff glue 09:30: Read newspaper, lick a poisonous toad 10:30: Arrive at work, get high on cough syrup 10:31: Review patents 17:30: Go home, yell at imaginairy wife, pass out on a skittle frenzy
I know, I know, this site is largely aimed at Open Source news and the Linux kernel is one of the flagships of the OS movement. But this is getting slightly ridiculous. What's up next? Daily revisions of nightly builds? If by now people haven't already got to know the 2.6 kernel has some very promising features in particular for desktop uses, they are either blind, daft, both or belong to the Yankee Group.
Useless graphs, over-emphasis on gaming, lots of flashy buzzwords and "benchmarks" that involve nothing more other then running the latest games... Did someone screw up the DNS records for extremetech.com and reroute all traffic to tomshardware.com? No? Damned!
Seriously, all of that is fun but laptops are usually sold for two reasons*, one being the size and the fact it's easy to hide then. ( really nice if you don't want a desktop case in the middle of your living room ) The second reason is that they are mobile ( really! ) and thus can be lugged around by business people who seem to value their email more then their own lives. What about important factors to people who want a laptop for those two reasons? What about size, weigth, heat during use, screen brightness, stability, etc etc? 98% of the people who buy a laptop care more about the damned thing being lightweigth instead of being able to cram out 0,2543 fps on Halo. If you're going to buy a laptop for gaming you're a bit dense to start with. You can buy a state-of-the-art laptop and before you left the story it's ancient already. Try upgrading the proc or graphics card of your shiny new laptop to run HL3 or Doom4. Try playing for more then six hours without the system stalling due to overheating. Try to install an extra HD or something.
There, simply put; laptops are nice but aren't made to be used for gaming. Hence why putting a bunch of laptops through a series of benchmarks, aimed at gaming and set up by some people who most likely consider this to be the most arousing thing on the internet, is very useless. At best.
* = Working in computer retail business, ( kill me please ) so I unfortunately know what I'm talking about here.
Me: Good day, you've called hell, Satan speaking! SCO customer: Er, yes, quite... Uhm... Well... My UnixWare server crashed. Me: Hardware issues. Our software is so shit it doesn't cause crashes, just leprosy, STDs and the occasional appocalypse. SCO customer: I... see... So, what do you suggest? Me: How about replacing your hardware with something flashy? Tried using a Super Nintendo? SCO customer: What's wrong with you!? Me: I'm just out of maximum security prison after killing the last person who called me. Have you ever enjoyed the sound of a spinal column snapping? It's like music... SCO customer: *disconnects*
I suggest enlightening the users about malware while they download it. Let's go for the Pavlov effect and hook the hardware platform up to a pellet gun, tazer and a program which mails the squid logs of the current day of said victim to his/her mother/SO. Users learn so much easier that way...
Some folks think that painting it is a better solution. You see, if you paint part of it white, it will deflect the asteroid by about 1 earth-radius 20 years ahead of time. (Less than the margin of error in our guess, most likely. Might knock it into us.) And, to paint a 100-meter or 1-kilometer rock takes A LOT of paint.
That, and hiring a small army of painters to actually paint the damn thing would cost a fortune! They charge a fortune for coming over here even if they are from the same town, can you imagine what they would charge for going to an object somewhere between Mars and Jupiter?
How about people stop innovating and start producing for a while instead? People have been throwing around terms like 'solid state harddisks', 'magnetic-optical drives' and 'diamond processors' for ages and longer. Time to cough up some prototypes, hmm? I'm far amazed if someone would cough up a cheapo and fast 8 GB solid state HD that works then some 350 GB magnetic HD that runs hot enough to initiate a fusion reaction.*
* = Okay, there has been SOME advancement; SATA is lovely, 64 bit processing is finally becoming a reality and USB 2.0, along with firewire, has finally brought along some decent ways to connect stuff to PCs. That said, Firewire 2.0 (?) would be very interesting if it ever comes about!
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AMIGA AINT DEAD!!!
It just smells funny...
*hugs his A500*
It'd be worse if he'd confuse both projects. That'd mean his rocket would require a quad Xeon MP 2,0ghz with 16gb of RIMM memory to launch while Doom3 would put your computer in orbit...
2000 gung-ho, pissed of marines with landing craft, naval support and air support vs pasty chinese spammer with goverment welfare support.
I get to deal with 12+ hours of watching advertisements per month on my NON-FREE, PAID computer already. Go figure.
And you trust a spammer? They'd prolly even send kiddie porn out if it paid enough. They spam, that's enough proof their moral compass is seriously misaligned.
You know, I've been thinking a bit. Spam is becoming a real problem and it's only a matter of time before email itself becomes nearly useless due to the massive amounts of spam. Something has to be done and it has to be done soon in order for it to still be effective enough. Stopping spam itself when it's en-route is not an option, as it will only lead to an arms race between spammer/virus writers and hackers/AV corps. Killing the bandwidth of the computers that send spam isn't an option either as it involves (D)DoSing, which is rather illegal. Killing the spammers themselves, as satisfying and tempting as it may be, is not an option either. Remember, even a spammer is someone's father/mother and/or son/daughter.
Maybe, MAYBE we have a chance by sicking the BSA on them. Yes, the Business Software Alliance, the same people who use some sort of legalized extortion and raid small businesses that "fail to comply" to their rather variable demands. Think about it, most small time spammers are technological idiots who use home computers. Do you really think every spammer who has 10 PCs churning out email has valid licenses for Windows? Maybe a few, but loads don't. And even if they do, MS licensing is so horrid that whatever the heck you did, you're bound to violate at least 3 licenses anyways, excluding other licenses like the spam software itself. This is how we might go after a few small-time spammers. And hey, it actually makes the BSA people do something useful as well! Maybe an idea?
Put your home town on Slashdot again for the first spam-related homicide. Ask for OSDL funding when on trail. Ask if the judge likes his daughter to see an email with a bunch of guys in the act of riding the brown highway together, due to spam. Make us PROUD.
Jesus would prolly open up a can of whoop-ass when he finds out she's sending "XXX HOT LATIN TW1NKS XXX FOR FREE rqewgkjtqwertnb" to random 13 year olds. How about some divine retribution with a vulcan cannon?
A combination of AAA, Autonomous Advanced Algorithms and SAM systems, Secure Authority Message, designed to bring down any hostile airborne WLAN sniffer. Available in both US and Russian flavours.
Oh, the humanity!!!
PS, Slahdot is fucked. "Score: -5, Bad Pun" is being parsed as no topic at all.
Either that's one buff fairy or a really brightly painted Chinook.
Set up Tripwire to send 10k volts down the appropriate network port in case something goes wonky!
Ahhh... That explains why my car's navigational system insisted that the most direct route to the supermarket was through Baghdad!
What, quality programs and fewer ads on Dutch TV? Put that bottle of glue back where you found it, mister! Either that, or give me that trans-dimensional travelling device!
Sadly, as spammers become interested in exploited open relays for their "business", writing viruses is slowly but surely becoming lucrative. And we're not talking about some random 13 year olds with a 1997 OE exploit, here, either. While most professionals would never write a virus for fun, money is always a very good, very valid and very strong argument.
Such is life. Get Grisoft AVG while you can, free and good virus scanner. Norton sans bloat and anual subscriptions.
09:00: Get up, sniff glue
09:30: Read newspaper, lick a poisonous toad
10:30: Arrive at work, get high on cough syrup
10:31: Review patents
17:30: Go home, yell at imaginairy wife, pass out on a skittle frenzy
I know, I know, this site is largely aimed at Open Source news and the Linux kernel is one of the flagships of the OS movement. But this is getting slightly ridiculous. What's up next? Daily revisions of nightly builds? If by now people haven't already got to know the 2.6 kernel has some very promising features in particular for desktop uses, they are either blind, daft, both or belong to the Yankee Group.
Calm down Sparky, I don't think Yoda would degrade himself to coding.
Useless graphs, over-emphasis on gaming, lots of flashy buzzwords and "benchmarks" that involve nothing more other then running the latest games... Did someone screw up the DNS records for extremetech.com and reroute all traffic to tomshardware.com? No? Damned!
Seriously, all of that is fun but laptops are usually sold for two reasons*, one being the size and the fact it's easy to hide then. ( really nice if you don't want a desktop case in the middle of your living room ) The second reason is that they are mobile ( really! ) and thus can be lugged around by business people who seem to value their email more then their own lives. What about important factors to people who want a laptop for those two reasons? What about size, weigth, heat during use, screen brightness, stability, etc etc? 98% of the people who buy a laptop care more about the damned thing being lightweigth instead of being able to cram out 0,2543 fps on Halo. If you're going to buy a laptop for gaming you're a bit dense to start with. You can buy a state-of-the-art laptop and before you left the story it's ancient already. Try upgrading the proc or graphics card of your shiny new laptop to run HL3 or Doom4. Try playing for more then six hours without the system stalling due to overheating. Try to install an extra HD or something.
There, simply put; laptops are nice but aren't made to be used for gaming. Hence why putting a bunch of laptops through a series of benchmarks, aimed at gaming and set up by some people who most likely consider this to be the most arousing thing on the internet, is very useless. At best.
* = Working in computer retail business, ( kill me please ) so I unfortunately know what I'm talking about here.
I don't. I can loose a small aircraft carrier in this dump...
You really start to feel shit when you hear your laptop is worth more when broken instead of working. :(
I'd say yes, definitely!
Me: Good day, you've called hell, Satan speaking!SCO customer: Er, yes, quite... Uhm... Well... My UnixWare server crashed.
Me: Hardware issues. Our software is so shit it doesn't cause crashes, just leprosy, STDs and the occasional appocalypse.
SCO customer: I... see... So, what do you suggest?
Me: How about replacing your hardware with something flashy? Tried using a Super Nintendo?
SCO customer: What's wrong with you!?
Me: I'm just out of maximum security prison after killing the last person who called me. Have you ever enjoyed the sound of a spinal column snapping? It's like music...
SCO customer: *disconnects*
I suggest enlightening the users about malware while they download it. Let's go for the Pavlov effect and hook the hardware platform up to a pellet gun, tazer and a program which mails the squid logs of the current day of said victim to his/her mother/SO. Users learn so much easier that way...
That, and hiring a small army of painters to actually paint the damn thing would cost a fortune! They charge a fortune for coming over here even if they are from the same town, can you imagine what they would charge for going to an object somewhere between Mars and Jupiter?
How about people stop innovating and start producing for a while instead? People have been throwing around terms like 'solid state harddisks', 'magnetic-optical drives' and 'diamond processors' for ages and longer. Time to cough up some prototypes, hmm? I'm far amazed if someone would cough up a cheapo and fast 8 GB solid state HD that works then some 350 GB magnetic HD that runs hot enough to initiate a fusion reaction.*
* = Okay, there has been SOME advancement; SATA is lovely, 64 bit processing is finally becoming a reality and USB 2.0, along with firewire, has finally brought along some decent ways to connect stuff to PCs. That said, Firewire 2.0 (?) would be very interesting if it ever comes about!