Wait, don't get rid of the registration fee before I have a chance to write a brute-force "register everything" script.
This should be modded up (sorry, no points left) because that is exactly what would happen if there weren't any registration fee. Hell we're not far from that now with the companies who register tens of thousands of domains and park them for no reason other than to sell it to someone.
I don't think spammers will have much luck with the legal system. It's kind of like calling the cops when someone steals your cocaine.
I wouldn't be so sure about that, at least not in the US. Criminals sue their victems in civil court all the time when they get injured on the victems property during the comission of the crime. Or the cases where someone legally kills someone attacking them and the relatives sue the victem.
It seemed to work well for Paul Kersey. "I mean, if we're not pioneers, what have we become? What do you call people who, when they're faced with a condition or fear, do nothing about it, they just run and hide?"
wondering at how quickly and why the Chinese are catching up with the US.
It's always easier to follow than to lead. So far they're not doing anything new just copying what has already been done.
They may also be able to catch up faster by taking fewer precautions. If our current space program had the same level of redundancy as our Apollo missions we'd probably be spending a lot less, running many more missions and possibly losing more people.
It does sound excessive, but for people who can't fix it on their own it may make economic sense to. According to the summary "among those who spent money seeking a remedy, the average outlay was $129.". Frys was selling PC's without a monitor for $150 so for people who can't format the drive and reinstall themselves it is very nearly as cheap to buy a new PC as it is to pay someone else to fix it.
The USA is worse than all of Al Queda and Nazi germany put together. We are enslaving the world to "western values". I hope a nuke goes off in NYC, or should I say NYX.
What an idiot. It's a shame people with such a poor grasp of history and reality are allowed out in public.
Yes, but what happens if China decides they're sick of it and creates their own root?
Most people in the would would probably say "so what" since they can't read chinese anyway. It might be one way to get rid of a lot of spam too if we could simply block their root.
It's inevitable and sad. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted!
As a greater percentage of the world population gets on the Internet and their governments want some degree of control you're probably right, it is inevitable.
They get sued and arrested by the state for damaging wetlands in Washington if they try it. You can't even build a house within several hundred feet of a creek out here anymore.
Much like murder, whether you kill 1 person or twenty the punishment is based on how horrible the worse one is, not on how many you killed.
No it's not. People who kill multiple others get consecutive sentences. For example the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgeway, was sentenced to 48 consecutive life sentences. The only reason he didn't get the death penalty was due to a deal with the prosecution to find more of his victems.
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parent Offtopic? Mods must be on crack again. This speaks exactly to the topic at hand.
Punishments should be harsher than they are currently, but death or a life sentence is way out of line for the crime. Once they start putting child molesters to death then maybe someone can start to think about it for computer crimes.
For God's sake, it's been proven that kids learn better from a real, material book as opposed to off computer screens.
Where has it been proven that kids learn better from books than computers? I'm not terribly surprised to hear it, but where are the tests and study results that proove it?
The peacefulness England used to enjoy was not the result of strict gun laws. When it had no firearms restrictions England had little violent crime, while the present extraordinarily stringent gun controls have not stopped the increase in violence or even the increase in armed violence. By opting to deprive law-abiding citizens of the right to keep guns or to carry any article for defence, English government policy may actually be contributing to the lawlessness and violence afflicting its people.
If they're doing data entry why would they need a key logger to see how productive they are? Just check to see how much data they entered. Any data that gets entered should be tagged for who entered it and when so it it should (unless the company is stupid) be easy to track how much a given employee has added without keyloggers.
It's not SP2 firewall enabled PCs that get compromised in 12 minutes. It's unpatched, un protected machines that do. Put an old, unpatched, unsecured Linux machine on a cable or DSL modem and it will get rooted in short order as well.
You honestly want to tell me that the same person who designed a sophisticated piece of software like BitTorrent would make such a crappy page like that?
Of course, bright developers often make crappy web page designers. It isn't at all surprising that someone who could come up with a sophisticated piece of software and new protocol would have a horrible looking website.
Looking at it from the other direction would you assume that someone who can design a beautiful easy to navigate website would also be a brilliant developer?
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This should be modded up (sorry, no points left) because that is exactly what would happen if there weren't any registration fee. Hell we're not far from that now with the companies who register tens of thousands of domains and park them for no reason other than to sell it to someone.
I wouldn't be so sure about that, at least not in the US. Criminals sue their victems in civil court all the time when they get injured on the victems property during the comission of the crime. Or the cases where someone legally kills someone attacking them and the relatives sue the victem.
It seemed to work well for Paul Kersey. "I mean, if we're not pioneers, what have we become? What do you call people who, when they're faced with a condition or fear, do nothing about it, they just run and hide?"
It's always easier to follow than to lead. So far they're not doing anything new just copying what has already been done.
They may also be able to catch up faster by taking fewer precautions. If our current space program had the same level of redundancy as our Apollo missions we'd probably be spending a lot less, running many more missions and possibly losing more people.
Lets see...new car $15,000+ , new PC $150+. Oh yeah, throwing out one is JUST LIKE throwing out the other.
It does sound excessive, but for people who can't fix it on their own it may make economic sense to. According to the summary "among those who spent money seeking a remedy, the average outlay was $129.". Frys was selling PC's without a monitor for $150 so for people who can't format the drive and reinstall themselves it is very nearly as cheap to buy a new PC as it is to pay someone else to fix it.
What an idiot. It's a shame people with such a poor grasp of history and reality are allowed out in public.
It's on at 7pm on DirecTV, time to ditch cable or get a Tivo.
http://pages.prodigy.net/michaln/history/timeline. html
OS/2 Warp 3.0 October 1994
OS/2 Warp Connect May 1995
OS/2 Warp 4.0 September 1996
What are the chances that Google already has it mapped?
Most people in the would would probably say "so what" since they can't read chinese anyway. It might be one way to get rid of a lot of spam too if we could simply block their root.
It's inevitable and sad. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted!
As a greater percentage of the world population gets on the Internet and their governments want some degree of control you're probably right, it is inevitable.
The US wants to retain control.
Control should be given to the UN as a compromise?? That isn't in any way the middle ground that is other nations getting their way - period.
They get sued and arrested by the state for damaging wetlands in Washington if they try it. You can't even build a house within several hundred feet of a creek out here anymore.
No it's not. People who kill multiple others get consecutive sentences. For example the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgeway, was sentenced to 48 consecutive life sentences. The only reason he didn't get the death penalty was due to a deal with the prosecution to find more of his victems.
Punishments should be harsher than they are currently, but death or a life sentence is way out of line for the crime. Once they start putting child molesters to death then maybe someone can start to think about it for computer crimes.
It won't be any different than it is now when educators change education to fit their political beliefs.
Where has it been proven that kids learn better from books than computers? I'm not terribly surprised to hear it, but where are the tests and study results that proove it?
Moran.
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Gun crime is increasing (that's going up for the slower readers) in England since they banned them - morOn.
Gun crime in England and Wales is still rising according to Home Office figures released on Thursday.
Gun crime soars by 35%
Yes, and it's just as stupid as gun control or computer control. Doctors' kitchen knives ban call
If they're doing data entry why would they need a key logger to see how productive they are? Just check to see how much data they entered. Any data that gets entered should be tagged for who entered it and when so it it should (unless the company is stupid) be easy to track how much a given employee has added without keyloggers.
Bzzt, wrong. Nice regurgitation of HCI propoganda though.
It's not SP2 firewall enabled PCs that get compromised in 12 minutes. It's unpatched, un protected machines that do. Put an old, unpatched, unsecured Linux machine on a cable or DSL modem and it will get rooted in short order as well.
Not nearly as bad as Clinton appointing 2 for life.
Of course, bright developers often make crappy web page designers. It isn't at all surprising that someone who could come up with a sophisticated piece of software and new protocol would have a horrible looking website.
Looking at it from the other direction would you assume that someone who can design a beautiful easy to navigate website would also be a brilliant developer?