More specifically, the disgruntled employee was responsible for making sure they were compliant with their licenses. Not only did the employee turn them in, he could have actually been responsible for the complaints that were filed.
Do you really think he was being malicious as opposed to someone in his team being moronic?
No, "net savvy" or not, I'd be surprised if Dean can barely do more than run his email client. I highly doubt he told someone along the line somewhere to start a spam camapaign. I'm not trying to stick up for him, it just seems more likely that some over-zealous campaign manager somewhere made a serious error in judgement. If you subscribe to the tinfoil hat side of things, you might also consider that one of his opponents started it to give him a bad name.
I'm using my old Tandy 486SX/33 with a 540 meg hard drive right now. I recently set it up as an interim mail server/spam filter (debian+fetchmail+spamassassin) for my+family's ISP email. Before that, I was using it to run an irc deamon and an eggdrop.
You're dead on there. I literally dropped my laptop when I saw my mom type: I want to see pictures of dolphins into google. Took me a little while to show her the ropes, but now she's a search pro.
Didn't MS already start this years ago when they charged people (what was it... $30 or so?) to "upgrade" from Win98 to Win98se? There were no functionality improvements in 98se - the main problem being that godawful memory leak that even after the "upgrade" still wasn't quite fixed.
Ohhh, I get it, if it's a./'er doing it to a spammer, it's not just OK, it's great and laudable and perfectly ethical, but if it's the RIAA doing it to a./'er it's the worst action since the Holocaust and a huge breah of all we hold moral and proper. You people scare me sometimes.
I do understand your arguement here, but allow me to argue the other side for just a moment...
This guy is working of _firsthand_ experience. The **AA have already proved by their C&D to OpenOffice.org mirrors and others that they are relying on bots to do the detective work for them. They are getting AND USING the false positives those bots generate.
This guy is seeing the stuff in real time, with his own eyes, and acting accordingly. While I may not condone his methods, I really can't compare them to the **IA's methods - not entirely.
Think about it though... you can bet that Microsoft can/will now try to use "Homeland Security" as an excuse against the disclosure of vulnerabilites. People discussing, criticizing, or publicizing security flaws of their stuff might now now be labeled as "terrorists", and punished accordingly. God forbid you actually release exploit code. Perhaps my tinfoil hat's on a little bit tight at the moment, but someone who finds yet another buffer overflow or active-x exploit might just end up disappeared or behind a fence in Cuba...
While it may be true for a majority of records, some CDs have to be taken as a whole. The Wall from Pink Floyd, for example, comes to my mind.
Yeah...and how many _albums_ have you found that that's the case for since file sharing came about? I can think of *maybe* 3 or 4 complete albums released in the last 5-6 years that I would listen to in full.
RH 7.3 reaches it's end of life in December of this year. One can only assume (and hope) that they have the in-house people to support it, or it's going to cost them beacoup $$ for continued RHN support.
Why not just call them "Stop all future traffic for your site" ads. I know the _instant_ I ever see anything like this, that will be the very last time I go near that site.
Slashdot Mirror
Species of Marketing VP's pushing Windows Programmer to get code out the door: Human
Species of Marketing VP's pushing Linux Programmer to get code out the door: NON EXISTANT
and I think _that_ is the biggest difference.
Even scarier that they think the tinfoil hat crowd would want to isntall something from Ashcroft's America ;-)
ya know, maybe there should be a mandatory server crash every once and awhile.
I take it you've never played Diablo 2 online...
More specifically, the disgruntled employee was responsible for making sure they were compliant with their licenses. Not only did the employee turn them in, he could have actually been responsible for the complaints that were filed.
Geore Carlin called it The Pussification of the American Male.
Do you really think he was being malicious as opposed to someone in his team being moronic?
No, "net savvy" or not, I'd be surprised if Dean can barely do more than run his email client. I highly doubt he told someone along the line somewhere to start a spam camapaign. I'm not trying to stick up for him, it just seems more likely that some over-zealous campaign manager somewhere made a serious error in judgement.
If you subscribe to the tinfoil hat side of things, you might also consider that one of his opponents started it to give him a bad name.
...even think for one second that this approach is acceptable?"
Probably for the same reasons spammers everywhere continue to do it: some people will click on the pretty colors - they get results.
law enforcement did what exactly?
I'm using my old Tandy 486SX/33 with a 540 meg hard drive right now. I recently set it up as an interim mail server/spam filter (debian+fetchmail+spamassassin) for my+family's ISP email. Before that, I was using it to run an irc deamon and an eggdrop.
You're dead on there. I literally dropped my laptop when I saw my mom type:
I want to see pictures of dolphins
into google. Took me a little while to show her the ropes, but now she's a search pro.
Didn't MS already start this years ago when they charged people (what was it... $30 or so?) to "upgrade" from Win98 to Win98se? There were no functionality improvements in 98se - the main problem being that godawful memory leak that even after the "upgrade" still wasn't quite fixed.
Ohhh, I get it, if it's a ./'er doing it to a spammer, it's not just OK, it's great and laudable and perfectly ethical, but if it's the RIAA doing it to a ./'er it's the worst action since the Holocaust and a huge breah of all we hold moral and proper. You people scare me sometimes.
I do understand your arguement here, but allow me to argue the other side for just a moment...
This guy is working of _firsthand_ experience. The **AA have already proved by their C&D to OpenOffice.org mirrors and others that they are relying on bots to do the detective work for them. They are getting AND USING the false positives those bots generate.
This guy is seeing the stuff in real time, with his own eyes, and acting accordingly. While I may not condone his methods, I really can't compare them to the **IA's methods - not entirely.
Think about it though... you can bet that Microsoft can/will now try to use "Homeland Security" as an excuse against the disclosure of vulnerabilites. People discussing, criticizing, or publicizing security flaws of their stuff might now now be labeled as "terrorists", and punished accordingly. God forbid you actually release exploit code.
Perhaps my tinfoil hat's on a little bit tight at the moment, but someone who finds yet another buffer overflow or active-x exploit might just end up disappeared or behind a fence in Cuba...
...and allow retailers like Walmart to censor song titles on the cd labels (Waif Me??).
While it may be true for a majority of records, some CDs have to be taken as a whole. The Wall from Pink Floyd, for example, comes to my mind.
Yeah...and how many _albums_ have you found that that's the case for since file sharing came about? I can think of *maybe* 3 or 4 complete albums released in the last 5-6 years that I would listen to in full.
I bought those though.
can hop up on the desk and crack OS X?
Thanks for that understandable explanation for us non-coders.
Are you a teacher? If not - consider it.
when the win98 machines BSOD in succession, do the wings fall off?
How about a
"google" search on MSN ; #1 spot goes to Google, next goes to...
"2. Search the Internet
Find it on the Web with MSN Search.
search.msn.com"
"google" search on Google ; no sign of Microsoft links... why would there be?
Seriously... who do they think they're fooling?
or perhaps sitting on a magazine
RH 7.3 reaches it's end of life in December of this year. One can only assume (and hope) that they have the in-house people to support it, or it's going to cost them beacoup $$ for continued RHN support.
um...er...
heh
Read this
I'd love to see bazillions of these set up.
Why not just call them "Stop all future traffic for your site" ads.
I know the _instant_ I ever see anything like this, that will be the very last time I go near that site.
Hexadecimal of the Beast!