Quantity has a quality all its own.
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"Quantity has a quality all its own." - Joseph Stalin
For those of you who don't understand the historical context, Stalin was saying that even though the Russian soldier might be the inferior to the German soldier quality-wise, there were far more Russian soldiers than Germans. In this case:
infected Windows boxes == Russian soldiers OpenBSD == German soldiers.
There was a Cowboy Bebop episode on Cartoon Network (Adult Swim) a few nights ago about some weather satellite using its laser cannons to draw birds, animals, etc into the Earth....
OT, but I just submitted the story below. Since this is an SCO thread, and -Taco probably isn't going to post 2 SCO stories in a row, here it is:
Thank you to all/. readers! The SCO "litigious bastards" linking campaign has succeeded! SCO is now the first link on a Google search for litigious bastards. (If you try a "I'm Feeling Lucky" search, it'll still go to SCO, but it looks like the SCO site is down.)
But it's not DDOSing now. The attack is set to begin February 1st and end on the 12th.
The virus affects computers running Windows versions 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP.... The virus also copies itself to the Kazaa download directory on PCs, on which the file-sharing program is loaded.
I'm thinking, wow, whoever wrote this covered all the bases. He/She even got the Kazaa people.
Anyway, why don't ISPs, just for the time being, ban connections to SCO.com? It's not like it's a huge Internet portal or anything, and us geeks who actually need access to the site can just set up a mirror or something.
Well, as proprietor of some anti-SCO websites, let me weigh in here:
ARE YOU IDIOTS INSANE?
(FYI, I am a college student, U of W @ Madison) I didn't hear about this new virus until now. But at about 4:30 PM today, I get this email from an attractive, intelligent female friend of mine from high school. She goes to Knox College in Illinois. (Let's call her Kristin) The email is listed below in it's entirety, but basically it says watch out for this new virus. So I figure, OK, maybe some stupid Bagle (Beagle, whatever) virus variation has come out, and computer illiterate college students haven't figured out how to push the big Update button on their virus scanners. No biggie.
So late evening, around 6:30 PM, I go to a student government meeting (contrary to published doctrine, some college students actually give a shit about what's happening in the world.) I get back, check/., and what do I see? A virus attacking SCO!
Now, I think everyone here knows I dislike SCO. I own websites that are anti-them (Check my sig, the scolawsuit.com link above, and Litigiousbastards.com linking campaign. But this is not the type of publicity we need. This gives SCO more ammunition, when it needs less. Guess what? The public equates viruses like this to terrorism. The average Joe Sixpack will think "Oh, this poor company's getting hurt by terrorism! These gosh darn Linux assholes are terrorists!" Can you say Guantanamo Bay?
If you want to DOS someone, do something constructive like sending an email to a Congressman/woman, donate to Groklaw.
(And yes, I must admit, and in the spirit of fairness, I was laughing out loud when I saw this article)
My friend's letter:
Hey everyone - Just something you might want to be aware of even with the virus protection software that you have. School is going well, and I am really enjoying myself here. I have a lot of work, but I am having fun. I even had a bat in my room, which was interesting. Ok, time to go back and do homework.
Kristin
=Original Message=
From: "M. Sean Riedel"
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:59:33 -0600
A new virus, yet to be named, is spreading quickly and has slipped by
many AntiVirus applications. If you have received a message with the
following parameters, delete it immediately without opening the
attachment. You will only become infected if you open the attachment.
The common factor in its profile is that it carries an unsolicited
attachment. So far we have seen filenames of "body", "data",
"document", "file", "glszfj", "message", "readme", "test", "text",
"vgsu042a", and "vncexdl" attached to messages all with either the.pif,.scr,.zip file extensions.
We already ban extensions of.pif or.scr. Until the antivirus
companies release the definition files to detect this new virus, we are
banning the.zip extension also.
As soon as our vendors update the definition files, we will remove
the ban on the.zip extension.
As always, if you receive messages with attachments from anyone you do
not know or unexpected attachments from people you do know,
don't open them. If the message is from an unknown party, just delete
it. If it is from someone you know, verify with that person that the
attachment was intended since many viruses will forge the sender.
Eklypz
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Joined: Jan 16, 2004
Posts: 2
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 8:48 pm Post subject: Post it to slashdot. Maybe some one there can help ya Back to top
yeah! But seriously, This has got to be one of the stupidest patents ever issued. Why not go after Microsoft's Zone.com or AOL's game area? I know I used to play Harpoon Online and Air Warrior on AOL, (many years ago, mind you) and they had player rankings.
...start unloading on Amazon's 1 Click patent? FF2 is attacking the gift ordering patent, not the 1 Click patent. Why not go for the gold and strike deep into Amazon's core portfolio? I'm sure European shops would benefit by using 1 Click "technology"
Well, I think this repost is *good*
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Not to be a troll or anything, but this is a really concise article, with both points of view. Face it people, most articles to date have been clearly biased pro/anti SCO, yes, even Forbes, the various hobbyist sites (even my own, check my sig and SCO Report). I'm not saying that's bad or anything, but the non-nerdy don't want to dive into specific details, they want a clear, concise view of things, and this article provides it. Perhaps it's done by SCO's hometown paper, but it still seems to be balanced reporting.
This is one repost I don't mind. If anyone asks you what this sco fiaSCO is about, you can direct them to this article.
That's the dumbest thing I've heard on/. forums for a long time. When you preface something with "99% pure" anything, whatever the stuff is made out of is put into the anything place. Read the f***ing article.
Try searching for "ocz ultra premium silver" on Froogle. This is the first link. It clearly states Made with 99.9% pure micronized silver and Over 70% silver content by weight. When they're emphasizing "silver" all the time, what do you think Marketing is trying to tell you? That's right, they want you to buy their garbage because it's got a cool silver crud in the product, not because it looks silverish.
Jeez, try taking a Marketing class yourself. And wash it down with a good English class.
Beginning January 22nd 2004 we are issuing a full recall of any and all OCZ Ultra 2.
Any Customers who wish to return OCZ Ultra 2 thermal paste with an invoice will in exchange for their full or partially used tube(s) receive:
1- One (dependant on # of tubes returned) 3-gram OCZ thermal Compound (made by Arctic Silver Inc.) or one OCZ Dominator 2 Heatsink.
2- One OCZ EL DDR T-Shirt
3- One 10 dollar off rebate on any OCZ EL DDR Dual Channel Kit (at participating resellers)
Sounds cool, but how many people will have saved a receipt?
These people have to have violated more than a few false advertising laws, and since the article says on the bottom that all tests have been verified with an independent testing agency, I say this is a fairly open and shut case.
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"Quantity has a quality all its own." - Joseph Stalin
For those of you who don't understand the historical context, Stalin was saying that even though the Russian soldier might be the inferior to the German soldier quality-wise, there were far more Russian soldiers than Germans. In this case:
infected Windows boxes == Russian soldiers
OpenBSD == German soldiers.
Guess who's gonna win?
There was a Cowboy Bebop episode on Cartoon Network (Adult Swim) a few nights ago about some weather satellite using its laser cannons to draw birds, animals, etc into the Earth....
...what about BeOS? BSD?
Microsoft reads these forums.
The Great Deamons of Justification have been invoked - Terrorism, Paedophillia, Hackers and in this case Users of Adult Sites.
I think you were trying to write daemon, but in this context, it's just demon.
At least they'll have to wait for the domain name litigiousbastards.com to expire to grab it.... And I rather like this domain name. Perhaps I'll keep it after this fiaSCO ends.
zonealarm? Windows??
LYNCH THE HETHEN.
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like Howard Dean screaming
I don't suppose it would improve my situation if I said I was listening to Don't Say You Love Me (Alterate Link) on Windows Media Player, would it?
No, I didn't think so either.
2004-01-28 01:25:51 Litigious Bastards Linking Campaign Successful! (articles,caldera) (rejected)
Oh well, at least I got a Funny score, but I meant it to be Interesting....
You know, more than 50% of /.'s readership uses IE.
Indeed, some moronic Linux fans are cheering MyDoom on. "Quick, disable your AV software, and get some Windows boxes on the internet!"
Terrific. Too bad the comment was AC... Come on people, how many times do i have to tell you that this worm is a bad thing?. Do I need a sledgehammer or something?
Why not try using that new supercomputer you have and run a mail server? Surely it won't take up too much processing power...
OT, but I just submitted the story below. Since this is an SCO thread, and -Taco probably isn't going to post 2 SCO stories in a row, here it is:
/. readers! The SCO "litigious bastards" linking campaign has succeeded! SCO is now the first link on a Google search for litigious bastards. (If you try a "I'm Feeling Lucky" search, it'll still go to SCO, but it looks like the SCO site is down.)
:-(, and mirror!
Thank you to all
Congratulations, everybody!
On a side note, simply searching for "bastards" brings up SCO). If Google happens to notice and block it (as in the past), a screenshot is here. Please be kind to my server
MyDoom Windows Worm DDoSing SCO
But it's not DDOSing now. The attack is set to begin February 1st and end on the 12th.
The virus affects computers running Windows versions 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP.... The virus also copies itself to the Kazaa download directory on PCs, on which the file-sharing program is loaded.
I'm thinking, wow, whoever wrote this covered all the bases. He/She even got the Kazaa people.
Anyway, why don't ISPs, just for the time being, ban connections to SCO.com? It's not like it's a huge Internet portal or anything, and us geeks who actually need access to the site can just set up a mirror or something.
Who goes to a college that's like a few hundred miles away... yeah, something's happening here..
...SOL.BR>
Well, as proprietor of some anti-SCO websites, let me weigh in here:
/., and what do I see? A virus attacking SCO!
.pif, .scr, .zip file extensions.
.pif or .scr. Until the antivirus
companies release the definition files to detect this new virus, we are
banning the .zip extension also.
As soon as our vendors update the definition files, we will remove
the ban on the .zip extension.
ARE YOU IDIOTS INSANE?
(FYI, I am a college student, U of W @ Madison) I didn't hear about this new virus until now. But at about 4:30 PM today, I get this email from an attractive, intelligent female friend of mine from high school. She goes to Knox College in Illinois. (Let's call her Kristin) The email is listed below in it's entirety, but basically it says watch out for this new virus. So I figure, OK, maybe some stupid Bagle (Beagle, whatever) virus variation has come out, and computer illiterate college students haven't figured out how to push the big Update button on their virus scanners. No biggie.
So late evening, around 6:30 PM, I go to a student government meeting (contrary to published doctrine, some college students actually give a shit about what's happening in the world.) I get back, check
Now, I think everyone here knows I dislike SCO. I own websites that are anti-them (Check my sig, the scolawsuit.com link above, and Litigiousbastards.com linking campaign. But this is not the type of publicity we need. This gives SCO more ammunition, when it needs less. Guess what? The public equates viruses like this to terrorism. The average Joe Sixpack will think "Oh, this poor company's getting hurt by terrorism! These gosh darn Linux assholes are terrorists!" Can you say Guantanamo Bay?
If you want to DOS someone, do something constructive like sending an email to a Congressman/woman, donate to Groklaw.
(And yes, I must admit, and in the spirit of fairness, I was laughing out loud when I saw this article)
My friend's letter:
Hey everyone - Just something you might want to be aware of even with the virus protection software that you have. School is going well, and I am really enjoying myself here. I have a lot of work, but I am having fun. I even had a bat in my room, which was interesting. Ok, time to go back and do homework.
Kristin
=Original Message=
From: "M. Sean Riedel"
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:59:33 -0600
A new virus, yet to be named, is spreading quickly and has slipped by many AntiVirus applications. If you have received a message with the following parameters, delete it immediately without opening the attachment. You will only become infected if you open the attachment.
The common factor in its profile is that it carries an unsolicited attachment. So far we have seen filenames of "body", "data", "document", "file", "glszfj", "message", "readme", "test", "text", "vgsu042a", and "vncexdl" attached to messages all with either the
We already ban extensions of
As always, if you receive messages with attachments from anyone you do not know or unexpected attachments from people you do know, don't open them. If the message is from an unknown party, just delete it. If it is from someone you know, verify with that person that the attachment was intended since many viruses will forge the sender.
M. Sean Riedel
Computer Center
Knox College
Can we help you in some way? Old computers, networking equipment, webspace, etc?
Eklypz
StarChamber Initiate
Joined: Jan 16, 2004
Posts: 2
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 8:48 pm
Post subject:
Post it to slashdot. Maybe some one there can help ya
Back to top
yeah! But seriously, This has got to be one of the stupidest patents ever issued. Why not go after Microsoft's Zone.com or AOL's game area? I know I used to play Harpoon Online and Air Warrior on AOL, (many years ago, mind you) and they had player rankings.
George Bush's Desktop:
None. You can't put a desktop on a Etch-A-Sketch.
...start unloading on Amazon's 1 Click patent? FF2 is attacking the gift ordering patent, not the 1 Click patent. Why not go for the gold and strike deep into Amazon's core portfolio? I'm sure European shops would benefit by using 1 Click "technology"
Not to be a troll or anything, but this is a really concise article, with both points of view. Face it people, most articles to date have been clearly biased pro/anti SCO, yes, even Forbes, the various hobbyist sites (even my own, check my sig and SCO Report). I'm not saying that's bad or anything, but the non-nerdy don't want to dive into specific details, they want a clear, concise view of things, and this article provides it. Perhaps it's done by SCO's hometown paper, but it still seems to be balanced reporting.
This is one repost I don't mind. If anyone asks you what this sco fiaSCO is about, you can direct them to this article.
That's the dumbest thing I've heard on /. forums for a long time. When you preface something with "99% pure" anything, whatever the stuff is made out of is put into the anything place. Read the f***ing article.
Try searching for "ocz ultra premium silver" on Froogle. This is the first link. It clearly states Made with 99.9% pure micronized silver and Over 70% silver content by weight. When they're emphasizing "silver" all the time, what do you think Marketing is trying to tell you? That's right, they want you to buy their garbage because it's got a cool silver crud in the product, not because it looks silverish.
Jeez, try taking a Marketing class yourself. And wash it down with a good English class.
Beginning January 22nd 2004 we are issuing a full recall of any and all OCZ Ultra 2.
Any Customers who wish to return OCZ Ultra 2 thermal paste with an invoice will in exchange for their full or partially used tube(s) receive:
1- One (dependant on # of tubes returned) 3-gram OCZ thermal Compound (made by Arctic Silver Inc.) or one OCZ Dominator 2 Heatsink.
2- One OCZ EL DDR T-Shirt
3- One 10 dollar off rebate on any OCZ EL DDR Dual Channel Kit (at participating resellers)
Sounds cool, but how many people will have saved a receipt?
several thermal compounds that claim to have 99% pure silver content
They are advertised as CONTAINING silver, it's not just silver color.
need I say more?
These people have to have violated more than a few false advertising laws, and since the article says on the bottom that all tests have been verified with an independent testing agency, I say this is a fairly open and shut case.