so you have loads of honeypots out there waiting for worms to exploit them, then you redirect these to "fake services". Whoop-de-hoop.
I don't think worm writers are going to care very much. If they're spammers, then some more of their spam will go in the bin - but it's not costing them, so who cares?
On top of this you are definitely on crack if you think that "launching counter attacks to clean infected hosts!" is a) a good idea or b) legal.
"i can afford it, so why can't I have it".
Perfect. You can afford it, but the world can't afford to have a load of idiots like you in it pissing our natural resources up the wall.
Tell me a convincing reason why helping reduce the damage we do to our environment isn't worth you making a switch to a smaller, more efficient car. Can you not live without your heated leather seats? FFS, THINK.
*anything* with a medical application (i.e. anything classed in law as a "medical device") goes through more testing, validation and proving than you can possibly imagine. trust me on this, i do it for a living. aside from the obvious ethical requirements, the liability you'd be letting yourself in for as a company if you produced either a faulty product or one that could be used incorrectly is enormous.
There are always going to be people new to email who are not going to have our level of cynicism about people offering us stuff via email.
Take my Dad, for example. He's happy keeping in touch with his operatic society via their mailing list, and using email - you forget how big a "Wow!" moment you had when you first got your head around the whole idea of free global communications - but he's still printing out the latest "MS Security Patch" fakes and asking me if he needs to do anything with them. He also keeps asking if there's anything I can do to stop the semi-porn spam - and other than the usual precautions, the answer is still "not really".
It may be natural to us old pros to just hit delete, but to people new to the technology it's not that straightforward.
People think it's polite to mail back saying "actually, I don't want this mail" rather than LARTing them to the ISP, looking up their address from WHOIS, burning down their house and sowing the ground with salt like we do (it's not just me doing this, is it?
Basically, there are always going to be enough people making enough mistakes whilst learning to keep spammers happy...
Mind you, anyone who buys a Penis Patch probably deserves all they get!
speaking as someone who actually buys corporate hardware, from IBM and other vendors, this is complete rubbish.
i'm not a particular fan of IBM, but their hardware division rules: all the kit looks a bit like darth vader, sure, but it does what it says on the tin with a guaranteed TCO. when i reported a BIOS issue with a particular card we use for data capture, their hardware team WROTE A NEW BIOS FOR US in a week: how much better can you get?
anyone who willfully and knowingly uses smileys or other "emoticons" should have their mail client replace it with a some boilerplate text that reads "WARNING: IDIOT AT THE KEYBOARD"
Smileys are just conceptual wheelchair ramps for the humour impaired - unknown circa 1996
that would be for analogue phones then. you'd be talking about an IMEI number for digital phones that aren't 80s throwbacks like the old AMPS systems are.
you can't clone these in much the same way you can't clone someone's (smart) bank card - it's possible, but you need physical possession of the device and it's really only governmental agencies that are going to be able to pull it off...
if it's anything like the P800. and it *is* like the P800. when you first get it, you'll get a day's life, then when the novelty of all the toys wear off and you're just using it for the odd call, reading slashdot whilst on the motorway, and then taking pictures of the ensuing pileup and mailing them to "America's Dumbest Road Users" you'll get more like 4-5 days worth.
This isn't something you can just throw together.
You might find these guys helpful: http://www.lampertz.com/DuS.htm (not affiliated, just had one installed).
They put in secure datasafes and modular IT rooms that are literally blastproof, watertight and fireproof. Not cheap, but datacenters aren't - which you are going to learn as soon as you try and create one.
in 3000 years, you expect a CD-R to be readable? With what, exactly? "If it's more expensive, it damn well be better" - and you wonder why the world's in such a mess? Jeez.
So we can throw as many thin things away as we like, and damn the environment? No matter how full of nasty chemicals those thin things are? Just *think* before posting, that's all I ask.
monitor spam. report to ISP. if they ignore your complaint, blacklist them. if they continue to ignore you, blacklist their whole IP block.
go after the people whose products they're advertising. with a big stick.
and the OU policies we have in place will magically work, will they? and all the bespoke software we have is just going to work without us bothering to test it? and any validated applications that use validated infrastructure are going to do user testing themselves? and the network policies including the various lockdowns that stop you using the wifi card in the lid of your powerbook to connect to your home network and bring crap into ours are similarly going to work out of the box?
i'm not knocking macs, it's just a fact of the world that if you have a controlled infrastructure with standard clients, if someone else wants to bring another in and expect an overworked IT department to just welcome it with open arms, then it just isn't easy.
that's perfect. got my first twinhead setup and the biggest annoyance is that the windows on the taskbar don't correspond to the monitor they window itself is displayed on.
the nvidea utilities attempt to do stuff like snap to monitor x, but don't seem to work too well. thanks for the link.
and their EULA is the clearest i've ever seen, from memory, it actually says words to the effect of "stop! don't just click "next"! this is actually worth reading" in large, friendly letters on the cover.
Slashdot Mirror
...and if i were an undertaker, would it be funny and more to the point, professional if my work email had a signature that joked about dead people?
I don't think worm writers are going to care very much. If they're spammers, then some more of their spam will go in the bin - but it's not costing them, so who cares?
On top of this you are definitely on crack if you think that "launching counter attacks to clean infected hosts!" is a) a good idea or b) legal.
there goes another kitty
"i can afford it, so why can't I have it".
Perfect. You can afford it, but the world can't afford to have a load of idiots like you in it pissing our natural resources up the wall.
Tell me a convincing reason why helping reduce the damage we do to our environment isn't worth you making a switch to a smaller, more efficient car. Can you not live without your heated leather seats? FFS, THINK.
have a nice day, you hear!
i've found that acid fvcked me up more than *anything* else. in a kind of good way, mind...
*anything* with a medical application (i.e. anything classed in law as a "medical device") goes through more testing, validation and proving than you can possibly imagine. trust me on this, i do it for a living. aside from the obvious ethical requirements, the liability you'd be letting yourself in for as a company if you produced either a faulty product or one that could be used incorrectly is enormous.
Take my Dad, for example. He's happy keeping in touch with his operatic society via their mailing list, and using email - you forget how big a "Wow!" moment you had when you first got your head around the whole idea of free global communications - but he's still printing out the latest "MS Security Patch" fakes and asking me if he needs to do anything with them.
He also keeps asking if there's anything I can do to stop the semi-porn spam - and other than the usual precautions, the answer is still "not really".
It may be natural to us old pros to just hit delete, but to people new to the technology it's not that straightforward.
People think it's polite to mail back saying "actually, I don't want this mail" rather than LARTing them to the ISP, looking up their address from WHOIS, burning down their house and sowing the ground with salt like we do (it's not just me doing this, is it?
Basically, there are always going to be enough people making enough mistakes whilst learning to keep spammers happy...
Mind you, anyone who buys a Penis Patch probably deserves all they get!
i'm not a particular fan of IBM, but their hardware division rules: all the kit looks a bit like darth vader, sure, but it does what it says on the tin with a guaranteed TCO. when i reported a BIOS issue with a particular card we use for data capture, their hardware team WROTE A NEW BIOS FOR US in a week: how much better can you get?
if you're using GSM, then ask if your provider can give you GPRS. it's a bodge technology, but gives roughly 56k modem speeds.
Smileys are just conceptual wheelchair ramps for the humour impaired - unknown circa 1996
that would be for analogue phones then. you'd be talking about an IMEI number for digital phones that aren't 80s throwbacks like the old AMPS systems are.
you can't clone these in much the same way you can't clone someone's (smart) bank card - it's possible, but you need physical possession of the device and it's really only governmental agencies that are going to be able to pull it off...
i was responding to the previous comment who claimed it ran Windows CE. I *HAVE* a P800, and YES, Symbian is great. WinCE, however, blows goats.
if it's anything like the P800. and it *is* like the P800.
when you first get it, you'll get a day's life, then when the novelty of all the toys wear off and you're just using it for the odd call, reading slashdot whilst on the motorway, and then taking pictures of the ensuing pileup and mailing them to "America's Dumbest Road Users" you'll get more like 4-5 days worth.
RTFA. symbian
no, the ABOVE average slashdot reader is, though.
This isn't something you can just throw together.
You might find these guys helpful: http://www.lampertz.com/DuS.htm (not affiliated, just had one installed).
They put in secure datasafes and modular IT rooms that are literally blastproof, watertight and fireproof. Not cheap, but datacenters aren't - which you are going to learn as soon as you try and create one.
I'm sure if I check back in 10 minutes there'll be a couple of hundred comments from people who can't help themselves, but really - JUST LEAVE IT BE.
YHBT, HAND
in 3000 years, you expect a CD-R to be readable? With what, exactly? "If it's more expensive, it damn well be better" - and you wonder why the world's in such a mess? Jeez.
So we can throw as many thin things away as we like, and damn the environment? No matter how full of nasty chemicals those thin things are? Just *think* before posting, that's all I ask.
monitor spam. report to ISP. if they ignore your complaint, blacklist them. if they continue to ignore you, blacklist their whole IP block.
go after the people whose products they're advertising. with a big stick.
i'm not knocking macs, it's just a fact of the world that if you have a controlled infrastructure with standard clients, if someone else wants to bring another in and expect an overworked IT department to just welcome it with open arms, then it just isn't easy.
"cloverleaf" cable then, that your local electrical supply shop *will* have
that's perfect. got my first twinhead setup and the biggest annoyance is that the windows on the taskbar don't correspond to the monitor they window itself is displayed on. the nvidea utilities attempt to do stuff like snap to monitor x, but don't seem to work too well. thanks for the link.
and their EULA is the clearest i've ever seen, from memory, it actually says words to the effect of "stop! don't just click "next"! this is actually worth reading" in large, friendly letters on the cover.
...that's just how it is, you're new here, aren't you?