If someone wrote a virus, that really exploited ALL PCS badly to steal everyones money instead of just spam, then you'll see massive global class action lawsuits that would KILL MS or force it to refund everyones stolen money. Imagine of virus's stole 1000 billion dollars, the government will take notice, or if virus's shutdown hospitals causing 1000's of dead patients. MS has a responsibility to make sure it has NEW XP install CDS with everything patched (stupid assholes), they cant expect users to spend 12 hrs downloading patches when they turn on their pc, by then its too late.
ISPs should also to 'find and flag/block' port scanning virus on those dodgy ports that have the exploits and to also BLOCK those dodgy websites that seed them out and all the spywear sites, I WOULD.
Come on someone, write a virus that patches all crap windows installs and attacks the spammers businesses. That is our KILLER APP. Cant be that hard. Just release it from a safe netcafe in eastern europe.
1. MS should just force a patch that hunts/kills all worms/trojans, how hard can it be?
2. devious, but make a virus that kills all other trojans and does GOOD STUFF.
3. ISPs should detect bad PCs and just KILL THEIR accounts, and say, fix it or else, we can post you a CD with the fixes, make it a telco/govt/fcc rule.
4. tough, but ban whole countries until the goverment forces the ISPs to patch all of their clients.
5. give it same status as terrorism, and hunt em down with the CIA with a bullet in the head, ie the trojan makers.
Id be glad to do a phd, but only if they paid $50k USD min/yr, I cant live on homebrew and no european holidays and no latest laptops or cabletv.
One has to re-evaluate the whole teaching system, its getting to the stage where the net can replace the whole infrastructure (apart from super computers)
People have more power now to learn just about anything on their own which makes the monopoly institution of academia even more threatened, kinda like the RIAA.
Truly genius people dont need acedamia, but so-so people who have the thirst/time to learn probably do... each to their own.
If you are that intelligent, then fuck the PhD and study the market/business world to findout how to be filthy rich exploting 20yr oldprogrammers to develop the next big thing for you for peanuts.
Why waste 4yrs doing something and earning zero income and incuring massive debts to find out that its pretty much uesless or a big corporate will actually make the millions and not you.
Bill gates prooved you dont need one, proving that you work hard is trivial, proving that you are damn smart and have cunning ability is another.
That said, doing hardcode phds on physics string theory and out of the world stuff is ok
1992 : your a gun ace with great ideas at age 18. 1996 : begin MAsters 1997 : begin PHD 2002 : completed PHD, doh.com bubble is gone, and you missed out on the millions, what a waste!!! 2004 : your still working for 40k/yr.
TOSlinks only cost $3 , they could have had optical built in for less than $1 factory cost.
I think these days companies giving crap/limited ports on devices are a scam to sell expensive ass cables with adaptors at 500% profit margines for nothing more than a bit of plastic covering some copper and perhaps 1 or 2 resistors with a capacitor/transistor.
as a virtual 'make believe example'; Do the math, 500000 adaptors at $20 profit = $10m profit, when they could have spent $1 per device to have it avail by default.
So is GWB the anti christ? Will we get rained down from the sky fireballs of death (ie meteors) and wrath of god for GWB claiming to be doing gods work?
Everytime I see GWB do a press converence or speak I get immensley TERRIFIED....... then laugh at his utter incompetence.
Meanwhile millions die from DU poisoning, tabacco deaths/ car accidents, pollutions, diabetes, cancer, aids, gun shots.
But do we stop them? no, because some people still make millions of dollars out of those.
McDonnalds should be a classified as a slow terrorist activity since they are slowly killing everyone by their crap-ass bad food that no respectable cook/chef would touch.
I thought it was the managers fault that windows and many products suck, engineers always have great ideas, fix this do that etc...
But they get placed on a list, no one does em, and people get shuffled around or sacked.
I blame this guy:) stop telling engineers what they cannot fix, yes outlook sucks, its IMAP code is utter grabage probably so stupid ass managers will say, "gee imap sucks, lets use exchange server"
Step 1. replace IE with mozilla 2. use 2xExplorer instead of WinExploder 3. use firefox/thunderbird also 4. use winamp/mediaplayer classic, not WMP 5. use VNC not MS's desktop sharer
its amazing how well a PC works with less and less MS software.
Take for example the Apple Powerbook G3 (wallstreet). 400mhz G3.
It has a dvd player, back in its release day, it had OS9 that played dvds with its dvd player, today, it runs OSX10.3 well (with more ram/faster HD) but stupid ass apple, disabled/took away DVD player support. Why? They still have the source code it would have worked. Are they trying to force people to upgrade to Tibooks etc? Screw em , if they have this attitude, im sticking to dell/or other cheaper laptops with 3x more power for same greenbacks. It smells of pure evil. I mean come on, same company, same programmers, cant even support their own hardware, its pathetic. At least on windows/linux we have many 3rd party dvd players using many 3d/graphics HW accel, yet apple keeps it 'secret' for what? Im going 100% oranges , no apples for me now, I dont trust em, they are bad as Ford.
A new game in USA : $39USD, in Australia an other countries at least 50% more, ie $100AU. (where currency should peg it at $60, (dont tell me it costs postage since giant cargo containers cost $1500 from singapore to sydney, and we now have FTA, besides they can author/package it locally if they will sell min 10000 units.
Besides that $39 is retail, and the shop probably gets them for $30 , so wholesaler prices are lower than retail.
An older game $19USD, mightbe $75au, again it shoul dbe $35au at most.
So why are they more? Who are the real thiefs and sharletons.
If I can get a HD in au for with in 10% of USD price, then why arent other small weight goods the same? I smell a scam/exclusive reseller licences.
Why didnt you just point out the flaws to them and called them 'stupid asses' and say, "ill tell the whole world u morons"
OT: are all car mechanics drug smoking loosers that like to rip people off? Maybe walkinto the repair shop wearing a formula1 jacket and sign the name with Mr Bob Schumnacher and speack with a german accent and claim "my dad is a board member of Daimer Chrylser"
Just go there with a paintball gun, but replace the paint with corrosive metal eating/paint eating liquids, and fire that onto their $50k cars at 4am at 100foot distance, if your feeling nasty that is, and if they have no cameras, (though you could cover your plate 2 blocks down)
Just tell em that the spams with random characters are really secret encrypted messages by terrorists,and that will quickly get the spammers a 12 year holiday at Camp Xray.
One has to ask, who enforces these stupid laws, stupid people? Is that who is hired to be in the army/police force? Surely if you have a political degree and are very smart, you are not going to join a police force.
So here we have, 100000's of stupid cops/army people with no clue on history/peoples rights, and just enforce whatever they feel willy nilly with vengence.
Every little guy in the chain of command and enforcement plays his role, if they 'know' they are doing wrong will they stop? or follow orders coz they might not have $$ to eat next week?
If your the drug cartell doing billions in profits monthly, you can afford a few programmers to make something so bizare/wierd that no one can crack that changes monthly too.
its been said that the underground mafia/blackmarket organized crime has used its profits to embed itself so much into the economic system, that it takes about 10% of it the whole system , so if all organized crime was shutdown, it would kill the whole global economy!! Thats what I call bait n hook!
It takes an engineer to think of a great idea like the 2 way digital radio for all cars, can you imagine the benefits.
But big-car CEOs have no clue and will not 'PUSH' innovation, then claim they will do what consumers ask for, but consumers get tired of asking for something for 10 years and not getting it.
We need more smaller companies, like we have PCs, smaller modular designed cars that anyone can build or small company can build and sell with 'extras' that big car companies wont do.
You dont see the same house being mass produced on assembly lines and shipped out in quarters for assembly in 4hrs.
Civilization will not die if everyone is allowed to copy like hell.
Think of what else you can buy for $20 that had 100x more effort/resources put into. A cpu, a pair of jeans, a kb, a mobile battery, solar cells, CF card., and now that $20 piece of music, which the clowns probly had a damn good time making and wrote the song in 2hrs on a napkin (the songs that take a long time to write are crap).
On the serious side, there are lots of songs that
1. cannot be found locally in some cities 2. wont be on itunes, or itunes wont be active in some other country besides Gods own USA. 3. and yes, we can tune into the limited radio stations playing the same songlist of 100 songs 23.99945/7
But for the vast majority that want top 40 etc... big deal if they download the music, it means they have more $$$$ to spend locally on beer or pizza, or that extra 256meg ram. Besides i have no desire to see Britney get even more richer or make more albums.:) Just look what Jacko did with all his cash.
My defence for C.I. is, well this is it "Jesus would approve" thats it, its moral. Oh and I dont wish to send more $$$ funding USA's war on *.* I'll fund my local beer brewery.
Hey, there is not one IT professional that know that doesnt copy mp3s/movies. Everyone has either a 20-30g of stuff , some have 100gig +. Also often they have dedicated servers at the office (less so in corporate USA companies, shmucks!!). But rife at EDUs and smaller companies, people just carry an 80gig removable HD.
Hey, 80/120/160 GIG removable HDs are cheaper than that much worth of data put on blank CDRs/DVDRs and far more reliable/portable.
Though its a bit ironic that all/most of pollitians of today did recieve/grow up in a world of the 50s/60s where they DID get their education for FREE (.au).
You can only achieve so much if you cannot pay for a $50000 degree and end up with a massive debt.
Give the people affordable degrees $2000/yr perhaps at most. And charge the rich kids $8000 coz if its 1% of their stock portfolios then they should pay the 8k. Then again, what are rich kids doing at school if they already have all the money in the world, they can easily read a few books and start their own business, you never see a rich kid applying for a $8/hr job as a trainee do you.
Bottom line re post, I agree a lot of parents are working nearly 24/7 and have no time to foster their kids achievements because they are probably too well off to worry, but they still should.
Just set the rules to NO images/media content in emails, not even those signatures with images. Any email with a img url in it, block it , put it in a hold folder, and send out an email to the sender telling them, try again with no images.
This would kill 90% of the spam, the rest which is 100% text, well you can process text easier, and kill those with the 'click here to remove' urls.
Another way to get rid of spam, is go after the companies that are in the spam, if XYZ is selling CRAP, then they should be responsible for it, or know at least WHO they used as a 3rd party to send it. Or get back at them, spam the hell out of the companies in the spam emails, generate 1000s of web pages with millions of combinations of usersnames @ company.com That way they will get a taste of their own medicine. If their own companies are removed from the list, then make up other bogus domain names with IPs pointing to their servers. If their own servers blow up coz they cannot handle 100000emails/hr. Then we'll be laughing because then they cant send back out or be in business.
Better yet, lets make a DDOS email with 10000 img links to their servers in the email, and get that passed around using the spam services which would then in turn kill their own servers.
We must figure out a way to kill the spammers using their own spam and techniques.
Is there a website/list any where showing all companies which use spam services? Every little isp/edu and private company servers can then do a whole wide scale router firewall ban of those IPs/domains.
Someone write a virus which will kill all the spam companies and their clients. PLEASE!!!! How hard can it be, just collect 100000 spam emails, analyze them, get the servers addresses, write the virus as a Paris doing it flashfile.exe. Then wait it do its work, if each virus does a few threads, and constantly does 20-30 http requests a min on their cgis or big http files, their server would croke or at least their log files would fill the HD and their ISP bill would be MASSIVE. And lots of people might not even bother to remove this virus too:)
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If someone wrote a virus, that really exploited ALL PCS badly to steal everyones money instead of just spam, then you'll see massive global class action lawsuits that would KILL MS or force it to refund everyones stolen money. Imagine of virus's stole 1000 billion dollars, the government will take notice, or if virus's shutdown hospitals causing 1000's of dead patients. MS has a responsibility to make sure it has NEW XP install CDS with everything patched (stupid assholes), they cant expect users to spend 12 hrs downloading patches when they turn on their pc, by then its too late.
ISPs should also to 'find and flag/block' port scanning virus on those dodgy ports that have the exploits and to also BLOCK those dodgy websites that seed them out and all the spywear sites, I WOULD.
Come on someone, write a virus that patches all crap windows installs and attacks the spammers businesses. That is our KILLER APP.
Cant be that hard. Just release it from a safe netcafe in eastern europe.
1. MS should just force a patch that hunts/kills all worms/trojans, how hard can it be?
2. devious, but make a virus that kills all other trojans and does GOOD STUFF.
3. ISPs should detect bad PCs and just KILL THEIR accounts, and say, fix it or else, we can post you a CD with the fixes, make it a telco/govt/fcc rule.
4. tough, but ban whole countries until the goverment forces the ISPs to patch all of their clients.
5. give it same status as terrorism, and hunt em down with the CIA with a bullet in the head, ie the trojan makers.
Id be glad to do a phd, but only if they paid $50k USD min/yr, I cant live on homebrew and no european holidays and no latest laptops or cabletv.
One has to re-evaluate the whole teaching system, its getting to the stage where the net can replace the whole infrastructure (apart from super computers)
People have more power now to learn just about anything on their own which makes the monopoly institution of academia even more threatened, kinda like the RIAA.
Truly genius people dont need acedamia, but so-so people who have the thirst/time to learn probably do... each to their own.
If you are that intelligent, then fuck the PhD and study the market/business world to findout how to be filthy rich exploting 20yr oldprogrammers to develop the next big thing for you for peanuts.
Why waste 4yrs doing something and earning zero income and incuring massive debts to find out that its pretty much uesless or a big corporate will actually make the millions and not you.
Bill gates prooved you dont need one, proving that you work hard is trivial, proving that you are damn smart and have cunning ability is another.
That said, doing hardcode phds on physics string theory and out of the world stuff is ok
hmm
.com bubble is gone, and you missed out on the millions, what a waste!!!
1992 : your a gun ace with great ideas at age 18.
1996 : begin MAsters
1997 : begin PHD
2002 : completed PHD, doh
2004 : your still working for 40k/yr.
8 remotes at home , I dont need another one.
aircon/tv/vcr/dvd/ptv/dtv/amp
Besides I use my xbox for all my lounge room music needs which can stream over ethernet XNS.
TOSlinks only cost $3 , they could have had optical built in for less than $1 factory cost.
I think these days companies giving crap/limited ports on devices are a scam to sell expensive ass cables with adaptors at 500% profit margines for nothing more than a bit of plastic covering some copper and perhaps 1 or 2 resistors with a capacitor/transistor.
as a virtual 'make believe example';
Do the math, 500000 adaptors at $20 profit = $10m profit, when they could have spent $1 per device to have it avail by default.
So is GWB the anti christ? Will we get rained down from the sky fireballs of death (ie meteors) and wrath of god for GWB claiming to be doing gods work?
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Hes a genetically modified alien by the Greys, he is an alien, and he has no ass, coz he shits from his mouth green turd.
Everytime I see GWB do a press converence or speak I get immensley TERRIFIED....... then laugh at his utter incompetence.
Meanwhile millions die from DU poisoning, tabacco deaths/ car accidents, pollutions, diabetes, cancer, aids, gun shots.
But do we stop them? no, because some people still make millions of dollars out of those.
McDonnalds should be a classified as a slow terrorist activity since they are slowly killing everyone by their crap-ass bad food that no respectable cook/chef would touch.
I thought it was the managers fault that windows and many products suck, engineers always have great ideas, fix this do that etc...
:) stop telling engineers what they cannot fix, yes outlook sucks, its IMAP code is utter grabage probably so stupid ass managers will say, "gee imap sucks, lets use exchange server"
But they get placed on a list, no one does em, and people get shuffled around or sacked.
I blame this guy
Step 1.
replace IE with mozilla
2. use 2xExplorer instead of WinExploder
3. use firefox/thunderbird also
4. use winamp/mediaplayer classic, not WMP
5. use VNC not MS's desktop sharer
its amazing how well a PC works with less and less MS software.
Oh how many girls yell "dont you dare switch on the discovery channel!!!" ;)
re decss
Take for example the Apple Powerbook G3 (wallstreet). 400mhz G3.
It has a dvd player, back in its release day, it had OS9 that played dvds with its dvd player, today, it runs OSX10.3 well (with more ram/faster HD) but stupid ass apple, disabled/took away DVD player support. Why? They still have the source code it would have worked. Are they trying to force people to upgrade to Tibooks etc? Screw em , if they have this attitude, im sticking to dell/or other cheaper laptops with 3x more power for same greenbacks. It smells of pure evil. I mean come on, same company, same programmers, cant even support their own hardware, its pathetic. At least on windows/linux we have many 3rd party dvd players using many 3d/graphics HW accel, yet apple keeps it 'secret' for what?
Im going 100% oranges , no apples for me now, I dont trust em, they are bad as Ford.
A new game in USA : $39USD, in Australia an other countries at least 50% more, ie $100AU. (where currency should peg it at $60, (dont tell me it costs postage since giant cargo containers cost $1500 from singapore to sydney, and we now have FTA, besides they can author/package it locally if they will sell min 10000 units.
Besides that $39 is retail, and the shop probably gets them for $30 , so wholesaler prices are lower than retail.
An older game $19USD, mightbe $75au, again it shoul dbe $35au at most.
So why are they more? Who are the real thiefs and sharletons.
If I can get a HD in au for with in 10% of USD price, then why arent other small weight goods the same? I smell a scam/exclusive reseller licences.
Why didnt you just point out the flaws to them and called them 'stupid asses' and say, "ill tell the whole world u morons"
OT: are all car mechanics drug smoking loosers that like to rip people off? Maybe walkinto the repair shop wearing a formula1 jacket and sign the name with Mr Bob Schumnacher and speack with a german accent and claim "my dad is a board member of Daimer Chrylser"
Just go there with a paintball gun, but replace the paint with corrosive metal eating/paint eating liquids, and fire that onto their $50k cars at 4am at 100foot distance, if your feeling nasty that is, and if they have no cameras, (though you could cover your plate 2 blocks down)
Just tell em that the spams with random characters are really secret encrypted messages by terrorists ,and that will quickly get the spammers a 12 year holiday at Camp Xray.
One has to ask, who enforces these stupid laws, stupid people? Is that who is hired to be in the army/police force? Surely if you have a political degree and are very smart, you are not going to join a police force.
So here we have, 100000's of stupid cops/army people with no clue on history/peoples rights, and just enforce whatever they feel willy nilly with vengence.
Every little guy in the chain of command and enforcement plays his role, if they 'know' they are doing wrong will they stop? or follow orders coz they might not have $$ to eat next week?
If your the drug cartell doing billions in profits monthly, you can afford a few programmers to make something so bizare/wierd that no one can crack that changes monthly too.
its been said that the underground mafia/blackmarket organized crime has used its profits to embed itself so much into the economic system, that it takes about 10% of it the whole system , so if all organized crime was shutdown, it would kill the whole global economy!! Thats what I call bait n hook!
It takes an engineer to think of a great idea
like the 2 way digital radio for all cars, can you imagine the benefits.
But big-car CEOs have no clue and will not 'PUSH' innovation, then claim they will do what consumers ask for, but consumers get tired of asking for something for 10 years and not getting it.
We need more smaller companies, like we have PCs, smaller modular designed cars that anyone can build or small company can build and sell with 'extras' that big car companies wont do.
You dont see the same house being mass produced on assembly lines and shipped out in quarters for assembly in 4hrs.
Well, who made you el corporate defender.
:) Just look what Jacko did with all his cash.
Civilization will not die if everyone is allowed to copy like hell.
Think of what else you can buy for $20 that had 100x more effort/resources put into. A cpu, a pair of jeans, a kb, a mobile battery, solar cells, CF card., and now that $20 piece of music, which the clowns probly had a damn good time making and wrote the song in 2hrs on a napkin (the songs that take a long time to write are crap).
On the serious side, there are lots of songs that
1. cannot be found locally in some cities
2. wont be on itunes, or itunes wont be active in some other country besides Gods own USA.
3. and yes, we can tune into the limited radio stations playing the same songlist of 100 songs 23.99945/7
But for the vast majority that want top 40 etc... big deal if they download the music, it means they have more $$$$ to spend locally on beer or pizza, or that extra 256meg ram. Besides i have no desire to see Britney get even more richer or make more albums.
My defence for C.I. is, well this is it "Jesus would approve" thats it, its moral. Oh and I dont wish to send more $$$ funding USA's war on *.*
I'll fund my local beer brewery.
It would be funny if it was mildly correct.
1. dont use C: as my boot XP is E:, and i might not even HAVE a C: so use %SYSTEM%
2. dont assume a \windows, it could be winnt, or winxp, \XP_04\
tsk tsk, is this what graduates learn at MIT?
Hey, there is not one IT professional that know that doesnt copy mp3s/movies. Everyone has either a 20-30g of stuff , some have 100gig +.
Also often they have dedicated servers at the office (less so in corporate USA companies, shmucks!!). But rife at EDUs and smaller companies, people just carry an 80gig removable HD.
Hey, 80/120/160 GIG removable HDs are cheaper than that much worth of data put on blank CDRs/DVDRs and far more reliable/portable.
Though its a bit ironic that all/most of pollitians of today did recieve/grow up in a world of the 50s/60s where they DID get their education for FREE (.au).
You can only achieve so much if you cannot pay for a $50000 degree and end up with a massive debt.
Give the people affordable degrees $2000/yr perhaps at most. And charge the rich kids $8000 coz if its 1% of their stock portfolios then they should pay the 8k. Then again, what are rich kids doing at school if they already have all the money in the world, they can easily read a few books and start their own business, you never see a rich kid applying for a $8/hr job as a trainee do you.
Bottom line re post, I agree a lot of parents are working nearly 24/7 and have no time to foster their kids achievements because they are probably too well off to worry, but they still should.
Just set the rules to NO images/media content in emails, not even those signatures with images.
:)
Any email with a img url in it, block it , put it in a hold folder, and send out an email to the sender telling them, try again with no images.
This would kill 90% of the spam, the rest which is 100% text, well you can process text easier, and kill those with the 'click here to remove' urls.
Another way to get rid of spam, is go after the companies that are in the spam, if XYZ is selling CRAP, then they should be responsible for it, or know at least WHO they used as a 3rd party to send it. Or get back at them, spam the hell out of the companies in the spam emails, generate 1000s of web pages with millions of combinations of usersnames @ company.com
That way they will get a taste of their own medicine. If their own companies are removed from the list, then make up other bogus domain names with IPs pointing to their servers. If their own servers blow up coz they cannot handle 100000emails/hr. Then we'll be laughing because then they cant send back out or be in business.
Better yet, lets make a DDOS email with 10000 img links to their servers in the email, and get that passed around using the spam services which would then in turn kill their own servers.
We must figure out a way to kill the spammers using their own spam and techniques.
Is there a website/list any where showing all companies which use spam services? Every little isp/edu and private company servers can then do a whole wide scale router firewall ban of those IPs/domains.
Someone write a virus which will kill all the spam companies and their clients. PLEASE!!!!
How hard can it be, just collect 100000 spam emails, analyze them, get the servers addresses, write the virus as a Paris doing it flashfile.exe. Then wait it do its work, if each virus does a few threads, and constantly does 20-30 http requests a min on their cgis or big http files, their server would croke or at least their log files would fill the HD and their ISP bill would be MASSIVE. And lots of people might not even bother to remove this virus too