Im sorry officer! I was just playing pong on that building over there with my mobile phone and I didnt see that car in front of me... What? That guy was playing pong too??!?!?!?
Hope it doesnt turn out like Loki... The open source community can sure do a lot for the Console gaming industry. But if I buy a game cube, will this be around to produce games worthy of playing?
I deal with Starband (Satellite Internet for those unfamiliar), and Have seen problems with spambots/pornbots like this. People get infected with them, and they start spamming.
Here's the thing though, with StarBand, they have an auto-imposed limit of around 500mb/week upload, and if you go over it, you are automagically shut off for a few days. The problem with this, and I have seen it happen, is that the Spam/Pornbots can infect a Starband Customers computer, and easilly make them go over their weekly 500mb upload limit. Thus causing them to lose their internet connection.
This poses a real problem, not only for the end user (The people I deal with are all in the far reaches of Northern Minnesota where Satellite Internet is the ONLY broadband option) but also for the ISP's. Its viruses/bots like this that make it even more necessary for legislation to fight spam.
The writers of the Bots would be the spammers, not the owners of the infected systems. Just because I borrow your car to deliver the paper, does that mean that in reality, you delivered the paper because it was YOUR car?
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Im sorry officer! I was just playing pong on that building over there with my mobile phone and I didnt see that car in front of me... What? That guy was playing pong too??!?!?!?
Hope it doesnt turn out like Loki... The open source community can sure do a lot for the Console gaming industry. But if I buy a game cube, will this be around to produce games worthy of playing?
Most technically advanced eh? Do they cheat on performance tests like apple does?
Here's the thing though, with StarBand, they have an auto-imposed limit of around 500mb/week upload, and if you go over it, you are automagically shut off for a few days. The problem with this, and I have seen it happen, is that the Spam/Pornbots can infect a Starband Customers computer, and easilly make them go over their weekly 500mb upload limit. Thus causing them to lose their internet connection.
This poses a real problem, not only for the end user (The people I deal with are all in the far reaches of Northern Minnesota where Satellite Internet is the ONLY broadband option) but also for the ISP's. Its viruses/bots like this that make it even more necessary for legislation to fight spam.
The writers of the Bots would be the spammers, not the owners of the infected systems. Just because I borrow your car to deliver the paper, does that mean that in reality, you delivered the paper because it was YOUR car?
-I may not me amish, but I am a geek!-
Actually, I thought I was replying to the Mac OS 10.3 story... Somehow I hit reply on that one, and it posted to this one.
I look forward to reading the article in a day or so, when it is no longer "slashdotted"