Just ask Rodona Garst or her "customer" who paid for the pump and dump, Mark Rice for what their take on this scheme is. Details of their pump and dump can be found here.
And since everyone loves to see spammers get theirs, go visit Behind Enemy Lines. Be sure to visit the Lets Get Brutal section to see what spammers look like in various states of undress!
The key phrase is "if somebody else is spilling." What if that somebody is someone like, oh, say GOBBLES, a skriptkiddie with as tenuous a grip on written communication as one can have and still be considered almost literate? How credible need the folks talking about a vulnerability be before ISS will release info.
Craig Shergold is seven years old and suffering from terminal cancer. It is his ambition to be included in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest number of AOL CD's ever collected by one person. Craig would be grateful if you could send all of your AOL CD's to the address below and also send the enclosed pages, including one of your own, to another ten companies. Obviously, speed is of the essence.... Craig Shergold c/o Steve Case 22000 AOL Way Dulles, VA 20166
[Activbuddy founder Tim] Kay said ActiveBuddy was not worried about competing firms offering bot-making tools. "Our primary level of comfort comes from the fact that we have the best choice for developers and others. When given the choice, we're confident people will choose ours," he said.
If that is the case, why patent something you didn't invent and force everyone to license it? In the exact same article he says
"We invented interactive agents. Anybody using his or her own tools (to make bots) is obviously using our technology without paying us to license the server, for example.
If you're anywhere in the midwest, rubi-con is highly recommended. I went this year for the first time, and enjoyed it tremendously. Sure, you run into a lot of the kiddie types, but there were some very useful sessions to me as a developer, and even more for me as a general security wonk.
I checked mine as well, and they were not checked for me either. I do, however, go out of my way to look for anything, upon signing up for any service at all, that indicates they'll do any marketing whatsoever, be it internal or external. Perhaps the author of the article and others running into it are not so attentive?
So any theories on if these would actually damage a human if it DID pass through them?
I dunno. From the article, it "packed the punch of several thousand tons of TNT." If you put several thousand tons of TNT on the head of a pin, would it really matter how many angels there were?
Think back to high school physics.. F = 1/2 mv^2. From the article, if you get several tons up to 900,000 mph, that's going to leave a mark if it hits you...
Interesting, but irrelevant. You have no legal "right" to play DVD's wherever you want to. That's why the algorithms are licensed.
The problem, legally speaking, comes in because they take away your right of fair use. Fair use is given to the public in exchange for strong copyright laws. In this case, the DVDCCA wants to have its cake (strong copyright laws) and eat it too (not allowing fair use).
Second, if the customers get a whiff of this (and they might)
Oh, believe me.. As a Fortune 500 potential customer (we had the dog and pony a few weeks ago), this kind of stuff REALLY matters. If we hadn't eliminated them as a vendor on technical reasons, this would've done it for certain.
What the city did was basically a calculated gamble
So, by your logic, if the odds are pretty good, then it matters not what the price of losing is? I'm glad I didn't depend on you as a father. Things would've sucked that one month in the year when you lost the paycheck on the almost sure bet.
There are some things that you can gamble on, and some you can't. Financial records, generally speaking, fall into the latter category. Similarly, I don't want "calculated gambles" in air traffic control, nuclear plant, or similar critical systems.
Wilkes Barre is not alone. Cleveland just lost 300 users' email and calendars, including the mayor's. Amazingly, it could cost up to $100,000 to institute a backup system, and the city doesn't even have a person acting as CTO. It appears governmental rectocranial inversion is contagious.
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My advice: Never, EVER, get involved in MLM, Scientology, or affiliate programs. In the end, you'll get fucked by all of them.
Try this.
Just ask Rodona Garst or her "customer" who paid for the pump and dump, Mark Rice for what their take on this scheme is. Details of their pump and dump can be found here.
And since everyone loves to see spammers get theirs, go visit Behind Enemy Lines. Be sure to visit the Lets Get Brutal section to see what spammers look like in various states of undress!
What I find most interesting is what Amazon recommends others as having shopped for... "Customers who wear clothes also shop for:" is humorous in and of itself, but that they're also buying "clean underwear", "Ladybug Rain Boots", "Pet Socks", and "Puppy Footed One-Pieces for Newborns" is unsettling to say the least.
The key phrase is "if somebody else is spilling." What if that somebody is someone like, oh, say GOBBLES, a skriptkiddie with as tenuous a grip on written communication as one can have and still be considered almost literate? How credible need the folks talking about a vulnerability be before ISS will release info.
Why hasn't Microsoft gone after them for using the likeness of Windows(TM)?
Because then Apple would sue Microsoft because it looks like Macs? Because Xerox' PARC would then sue Apple? Because SRI would then sue Xerox' PARC?
A limo is a kind of a taxi, right Robin? Do limo drivers in Finland have to pay this also??
Oh. You mean like UD's Team Slashdot?
We already covered this on slashdot. This is just Yahoo picking up on it now.
Then, I can have fun names like riaa.will.su, netkooks.will.su, and the ultimate, scientology.will.su.
Craig Shergold is seven years old and suffering from terminal cancer. It is his ambition to be included in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest number of AOL CD's ever collected by one person.
Craig would be grateful if you could send all of your AOL CD's to the address below and also send the enclosed pages, including one of your own, to another ten companies.
Obviously, speed is of the essence....
Craig Shergold
c/o Steve Case
22000 AOL Way
Dulles, VA 20166
Crap, and here I thought we were going to get a Mr. Fusion Home Energy Converter to slap on our Deloreans.
I have a few dozen cards for Giant Eagle courtesy of their online form. Conveniently, it even gives you a bar-coded "card" to print and use.
If you're anywhere in the midwest, rubi-con is highly recommended. I went this year for the first time, and enjoyed it tremendously. Sure, you run into a lot of the kiddie types, but there were some very useful sessions to me as a developer, and even more for me as a general security wonk.
I, for one, would happily contribute a dollar to T3 Direct. Any prohibition against exporting shit-encrusted dollars?
I checked mine as well, and they were not checked for me either. I do, however, go out of my way to look for anything, upon signing up for any service at all, that indicates they'll do any marketing whatsoever, be it internal or external. Perhaps the author of the article and others running into it are not so attentive?
So any theories on if these would actually damage a human if it DID pass through them?
I dunno. From the article, it "packed the punch of several thousand tons of TNT." If you put several thousand tons of TNT on the head of a pin, would it really matter how many angels there were?
Think back to high school physics.. F = 1/2 mv^2. From the article, if you get several tons up to 900,000 mph, that's going to leave a mark if it hits you...
Interesting, but irrelevant. You have no legal "right" to play DVD's wherever you want to. That's why the algorithms are licensed.
The problem, legally speaking, comes in because they take away your right of fair use. Fair use is given to the public in exchange for strong copyright laws. In this case, the DVDCCA wants to have its cake (strong copyright laws) and eat it too (not allowing fair use).
2) That they got paid-per-page which was an incentive to churn out crap.
Oh, you mean like every other freelance journalist with being paid per word?
Second, if the customers get a whiff of this (and they might)
Oh, believe me.. As a Fortune 500 potential customer (we had the dog and pony a few weeks ago), this kind of stuff REALLY matters. If we hadn't eliminated them as a vendor on technical reasons, this would've done it for certain.
What the city did was basically a calculated gamble
So, by your logic, if the odds are pretty good, then it matters not what the price of losing is? I'm glad I didn't depend on you as a father. Things would've sucked that one month in the year when you lost the paycheck on the almost sure bet.
There are some things that you can gamble on, and some you can't. Financial records, generally speaking, fall into the latter category. Similarly, I don't want "calculated gambles" in air traffic control, nuclear plant, or similar critical systems.
Wilkes Barre is not alone. Cleveland just lost 300 users' email and calendars, including the mayor's. Amazingly, it could cost up to $100,000 to institute a backup system, and the city doesn't even have a person acting as CTO. It appears governmental rectocranial inversion is contagious.
>> Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these government officials!
> Easy, it's called "Congress"
Which we all know is the opposite of progress
Check out Foundstone. They'll do it and do it right.