I'm from Memphis, where the Fedex world hub is located. I have several friends that work at the hub and often report the Feds (FBI, DEA, etc) letting dogs randomly sniff through lots of packages. These are drug dogs searching for contraband, not bomb dogs, which would kind of be understandable considering these packages are air freight. Why is a company like Fedex, letting it's customers privacy rights be trampled on by government and third party PRIVATE organizations? What do they have to gain? I just don't understand.
$5 a gallon won't make a difference when people will spend $8 a gallon for bottled water. A 20 bottle of water on my school campus costs $1.25. How 'bout $12.80 a gallon for coffee, (two bucks for a venti brewed at Starbucks.)
And the same people that consume pricey beverages will bitch and moan about outrageous profits at $3.00 USD / US gallon at the pump.
The ethanol evangelist are drinking Koolaid made with corn syrup. The Cato Institue reported on the inefficiencies of running a car on moonshine yesterday.
Let corn be used for what God intended it to be used.
The DDoS started with invalid PHP requests. I think the spammer is using a combination of methods to disable Blue Security now, but that's just an assumption. The question is, how long are spammers going to focus their efforts on the counter attack? Using their resources to attack Blue Security means less resources to send profitable spam. The spammer wants me to unregister from Blue Security's site, but at the same time, disabled it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not about to cave in to extortion. Right now I'm happy to have Gmail intercepting spam so others don't have to deal with it. I guess you can say I and the rest of the Blue Security community are drawing fire for the rest of ya'll.
If you have received an email threat please take the time to fill out a complaint at the Internet Crime Complaint Center. The threats are a crime whether they are personal or to a business address. I also have a friend that is contacting someone at the U.S. Atty's office here. It may seem futile but spammers get sloppy sometimes and they have been sent to prison before.
Spammers are supposed to use the BlueSecurity Cleaning Tool to end opt-out requests from spamming victims. The tool is encrypted and has a numerous amount of bogus email addresses listed. I think most people are missing this point: Spammers cannot collect extra email address from the tool, however they can potentially see who is a BlueSecurity subscriber in the list of email addresses they currently have.
I personally do not care if a spammer knows if I am a member or not. I joined less than a week ago and my spam has decreased from a few dozen to a hundred a day down to maybe a dozen in the past 24 hours, including the spam threats. It seems to be working.
I am a victim of the blackmail letter as well. It's easy to figure out how the spammers got my email address, they already had it. They simply backed up their address book, cleaned their list with Blue Security's tool, then "diffed" the database to figure out who was BlueSecurity member.
Another note, BlueSecurity is not Slashdotted. It is unavailable because of a DDoS attack started sometime earlier this week. The attack started submitting invalid PHP requests, making the site slow to a crawl and at times be completely unavailable.
I write about it on my blog. More on the attack here. The threating letter I received is also on my Slashdot journal.
Mod this up! Informative. Tesla actually invented radio and thought himself a failure because his intent was to broadcast power. This idea is nearly 100 years old.mi
Best of all, there are few if any commercials, and NO ANNOYING LOGOS OR SLIDERS. That's gets my vote hands down.
I agree, and it's absolute worst when those sliders happen during a fast paced game like basketball. Or the last two minutes of a football game and the score is tied and we have to listen to who's f-ing who on an "All New Desperate Houswives."
It makes me sick. At least take a tip from Google and target your adds
Same day the rest of the birds, fish, and aquatic mammals were:
Gen. 1:20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning--the fifth day.
Genesis doesn't cover toe number, reversed toes, or tree perching. Not to start an arguement or anything, but there is a written record of the creation and none of evolution, so I accept intelligent design theory on at least as much evidence AND faith as evolutionist do.
If I were to guess I would say that people who use Firefox spend a whole lot more free time on the web that people that suffer with IE.
This figure does not take in to account browser choice. I would also surmise that most people who use a web browser at work are forced to click the big blue "E".
At my computer labs at school we do have a choice between IE or Firefox. The IE icon is in it's default desktop location underneath My Computer and My documents. I imagine this is clicked out of habit rather than preference. The Firefox icon is on the bottom of the desktop.
It will take years of habit changing before Firefox is the preferred browser for a majority of users.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm from Memphis, where the Fedex world hub is located. I have several friends that work at the hub and often report the Feds (FBI, DEA, etc) letting dogs randomly sniff through lots of packages. These are drug dogs searching for contraband, not bomb dogs, which would kind of be understandable considering these packages are air freight. Why is a company like Fedex, letting it's customers privacy rights be trampled on by government and third party PRIVATE organizations? What do they have to gain? I just don't understand.
As for Cato, they're usually pretty good, but I think they're using some pretty pessemistic numbers for their quotes
Well economics is the "dismal science" so I guess it fits Cato.
$5 a gallon won't make a difference when people will spend $8 a gallon for bottled water. A 20 bottle of water on my school campus costs $1.25. How 'bout $12.80 a gallon for coffee, (two bucks for a venti brewed at Starbucks.)
And the same people that consume pricey beverages will bitch and moan about outrageous profits at $3.00 USD / US gallon at the pump.
The ethanol evangelist are drinking Koolaid made with corn syrup. The Cato Institue reported on the inefficiencies of running a car on moonshine yesterday.
Let corn be used for what God intended it to be used.
I think Blue Security should name their headquarters "Zion city".
Well they are located in Israel.
Blue Security Blog
Netcraft Article on DDoS
My original article on the attack 4/1/06
The DDoS started with invalid PHP requests. I think the spammer is using a combination of methods to disable Blue Security now, but that's just an assumption. The question is, how long are spammers going to focus their efforts on the counter attack? Using their resources to attack Blue Security means less resources to send profitable spam. The spammer wants me to unregister from Blue Security's site, but at the same time, disabled it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not about to cave in to extortion. Right now I'm happy to have Gmail intercepting spam so others don't have to deal with it. I guess you can say I and the rest of the Blue Security community are drawing fire for the rest of ya'll.
If you have received an email threat please take the time to fill out a complaint at the Internet Crime Complaint Center. The threats are a crime whether they are personal or to a business address. I also have a friend that is contacting someone at the U.S. Atty's office here. It may seem futile but spammers get sloppy sometimes and they have been sent to prison before.
If violence never solved any problems, then why do police officers (in the United States) carry guns?
BlueSecurity
The site is under a double whammy attack right now. DDoS from spammers and the Slashdot Effect from, well, you.
Spammers are supposed to use the BlueSecurity Cleaning Tool to end opt-out requests from spamming victims. The tool is encrypted and has a numerous amount of bogus email addresses listed. I think most people are missing this point: Spammers cannot collect extra email address from the tool, however they can potentially see who is a BlueSecurity subscriber in the list of email addresses they currently have.
I personally do not care if a spammer knows if I am a member or not. I joined less than a week ago and my spam has decreased from a few dozen to a hundred a day down to maybe a dozen in the past 24 hours, including the spam threats. It seems to be working.
I am a victim of the blackmail letter as well. It's easy to figure out how the spammers got my email address, they already had it. They simply backed up their address book, cleaned their list with Blue Security's tool, then "diffed" the database to figure out who was BlueSecurity member.
Another note, BlueSecurity is not Slashdotted. It is unavailable because of a DDoS attack started sometime earlier this week. The attack started submitting invalid PHP requests, making the site slow to a crawl and at times be completely unavailable.
I write about it on my blog. More on the attack here. The threating letter I received is also on my Slashdot journal.
I got you beat. I believe my inlaws are first generation hominids. My wife took a great leap.
Ubuntu has a huge bankroll behind it. It's great, I use it. But the bankroll helps.
Mod this up! Informative. Tesla actually invented radio and thought himself a failure because his intent was to broadcast power. This idea is nearly 100 years old.mi
Then why don't we just use Ted Kennedy?
I agree, and it's absolute worst when those sliders happen during a fast paced game like basketball. Or the last two minutes of a football game and the score is tied and we have to listen to who's f-ing who on an "All New Desperate Houswives."
It makes me sick. At least take a tip from Google and target your adds
Genesis doesn't cover toe number, reversed toes, or tree perching. Not to start an arguement or anything, but there is a written record of the creation and none of evolution, so I accept intelligent design theory on at least as much evidence AND faith as evolutionist do.
TAOPM is on the Personal MBA book list.- display/-/2T49HSJQJBYI1/
http://www.personalmba.com/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide
The author meets with people there to discuss concepts in the book. I highly recommend the Personal MBA to anyone looking to further their business management knowledge. I'm working on mine right now.
If I were to guess I would say that people who use Firefox spend a whole lot more free time on the web that people that suffer with IE.
This figure does not take in to account browser choice. I would also surmise that most people who use a web browser at work are forced to click the big blue "E".
At my computer labs at school we do have a choice between IE or Firefox. The IE icon is in it's default desktop location underneath My Computer and My documents. I imagine this is clicked out of habit rather than preference. The Firefox icon is on the bottom of the desktop. It will take years of habit changing before Firefox is the preferred browser for a majority of users.
You can always get the daily traffic report here:
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm
From the packet loss graphs you can see when the outage occured. Yes, everything looks back to normal.
The human would play slower than the bots and could easily be booted for missing his/her 500 ms timeout.
What about the Purity Test?
http://www.thespark.com/ has apparently cleaned up it's act and removed the it's offensive tests.
You can find another version of the test here. http://www.puritytest.net/
Typical ./ garbage. When Dvorak trashes open content he is a troll. When he touts FOSS he is a saint.
I'll probably get modded down for this. LOL.
If it's not a service, then why does the software of out of business vendors wind up on the discount rack of Compusa?
NO, NO, NO, it's
In Soviet Russia you buy your own information.
Equifax
Transunion
Experian
Unless you consider once a year access acceptable. Your credit report free. But that's only once a year.
Who's information is it anyway?