I hate seeing a sore loser with deep pockets trying to buy legislation that infringes on my rights
I hate to break it to you, but lobbyists have been around much longer than the RIAA and MPAA, causing more harm than them too. We could start with corporate welfare, how the rich avoid paying taxes, how the insurance lobby passed laws requiring everyone to buy their product or get tickets and their drivers licenses revoked, how the tobacco lobby made states pass laws where local towns can't prohibit smoking in their public area's, the list goes on...
All the music I can think of and many DVD's are at my library. You don't even need a library card, because you don't have to check anything out. You just toss the DVD or CD in the laptop and copy it over. Put the DVD or CD back in the collection when done, and you have your copy that you can listen to whenever you want.
I think what the MPAA and RIAA wants to do with p2p is not to shut it down (because that will be an impossible goal), but to make it so hard to copy stuff that 99% of the people will not want to even try. People will get on-line, look for a few websites, try to make a copy, and when it fails, three hours later, they will say fuck it. They did it with napster when they flooded them with mp3's that had high pitched noises in the music, or worse, gave you a loop of 10 seconds of the song. It was not usable. Then they went after torrent websites, leaving a few left that you have to register with.
I suggest that everyone who wants music go to the library and copy it while you can. Who knows what the RIAA and MPAA have comming down the pike.
that some of the scariest 1984ish stuff would be coming out of the fricking entertainment industry fer chrissakes
1984 was all about people who could not make any choices, were limited with who they talked with or what they did. 1984 was about government enterning the homes of people, following them on dates, and making sure the person did what government wanted. 1984 was also about re-writing history, changing history. i see lots of this 1984-esq happening today? call me a troll if you wish, but the parent has a point. bush attacks iraq because of wmd, not because saddam was a bad guy. one year later, the history books say we liberated iraq because saddam was a bad guy. back in the 1980's it was well known that aids was a homosexual disease, that spread to heterosexuals only because of drug use. yet because of what is considered politically correct, if someone mentions that aids was created by gays, that person would be labled everything but truthful. and something even more simple. i was talking with a person about how crack came on the street, it was common knowledge that hoover's fbi created it and distributed it to poor black neighborhoods. yet today, you won't find that truth anywhere. yes. it is 1984. it has come here. government will soon be putting that metal cage with the big rat around yourhead, and the rat will feast on the ears and eyes. i am paranoid because i know government can read these posts, and might come for me next.
1-2 minutes per query? Dear god. what were they using for a db server, a 386?
Nobody ever gets to see the server. The database is Oracle, and it is located somewhere off site. When it does not work, we have a phone number we call for tech support. We leave a message, and if we are lucky someone will call back within an hour. The web interface to the database is proprietary, and is serviced by a consulting company. The tech guys I talked with were all smart, but most of the time the anwser was the same thing, "try again later".
The problem is the database is just too big for all the data. There must be over a million customers in the database, and most of those customers in the database have nothing to do with my region. The other problem is the requests time out too often. It sucks waiting 2 minutes to get an error page. That is why most people, either very early in the morning, or when they leave the office, will download large chunks of the database on their desktop, so they won't have to wait.
Most people that would do this do so with the assumption that they won't get caught. I am completely for blaming the company. If you can't secure something then you shouldn't keep it.
Here is the problem I have with your statement. Technology always changes. What was secure yesterday may not be tomorrow.
If this was pre-computer times, it would be like keeping the accounting books on the desk of an employee, while the employee was out to lunch. Now how much security is enough? Having the books in a locked room where only people who needed access to the books had the key? Keeping the books in a locked room where only one gatekeeper had the key? Keeping the books in a steel safe? At some point, it gets rediculous, you have to blame the thief.
I think blaming companies does everyone a disservice. It gives the thief a reason to break in, it is never their fault, it turns it into a game of cat and mouse. If the penalty is high enough, then it wont be worth it for the hackers to try and hack in.
Okay, I get the whole arc that these nano computers will be very small. But for the home user, or even buisness user, at what point is the computing power enough?
I sometimes wonder if graduate students in physics are more like a william gibson book club, with some star trek and battlestar galactica thrown in. They are very creative smart people, but what is the cost of what they do? They could be finding cures to cancer, or making better space shuttles, or doing a ton of things with applications that would be useful. How is getting a 800 ghz computer with 500 gigs or ram and a 40 gig video card going to change things? Lets be honest here, does anyone think the games they played 10 years ago sucked when they were playing them?? It seems to me too much time and money is being invested in the wrong place.
maybe youd like to argue that crime is extortion by the police department? or fire extortion by the fire department? Or heart disease extortion by the heart surgions?
The fire department does not go around setting fires, so they can have more buisness. Heart surgeons are not the ones selling Big Macs. But with computers, it is the same network security people who cause the problems. How many people learn about security by sniffing around, doing war driving, hacking into websites and computers, then after they learn enough, they go looking for a job? That is why states have to regulate computer and network security professionals. Anyone who was ever convicted of a crime involving fraud or dishonesty should be prohibited from that kind of job. People who want to work in that field should have to sign a statement saying they never hacked into computers they did not own, and if it is later determined they lied, that clause of the contract should be enforcable by revoking the licnese and high fines.
I did not have any trouble with my cell phone company. When I called to activate the phone, I told the person I did not want to give out my SSN. They did not make a big deal out of it.
But when I called to get cable in my apartment, the cable company made a big stink out of it. I told them what they were asking was illegal, and that I would sue. I talked to two different people on the phone, and finally the guy told me I would have to make a copy of a bank statement if I did not want to give out my SSN#. I told him that was not acceptable, there is no reason they need that information. I told him I would prepay the years servive, and would not need the box for pay per view. They gave me a ton of crap, but I stuck to my guns, kept threatening them with a lawsuit, and eventually they gave me my cable, with no more information than my name and address. The key is, if a company denies you a service, you have to sue. The threat can't be empty.
You do know how many of these companies sell your information, don't you? It is in your contract that they can share information with their business partners. That is nothing more than wording saying they can sell your personal data to anyone.
Government disagrees with you, and when they catch these people they go to jail. Some go to jail for years. I think the penalties should be even harsher. Government must make a few examples of people, just like you. Then less people will be inclined to do this kind of stuff.
I say you are wrong. It's tough shit. If stupid companies want to store stupid information stupidly which they shouldn't even be storing anyway then it is the fault of the system and underlines how pathetic the 'modern age' is.
You say it is "tough shit" if a THIEF breaks into a computer? Well, I'll say tough shit when you are in jail getting raped. You know they don't have any vaseline in jail, it is going to be butt burn. That is like carpet burn, but in your butt. LOL. And all because you want to break into computers and steal data. What a price to pay.
Sensitive information (all business-related data in my opinion) belongs on the server, not on individual machiens.
I get the part about not having sensitive information on individual machines. But the server has to give out data to these machines for normal buisness. If I am in billing, I will need some of the customer data from the server. What is to stop someone from just sniffing the data?
Having worked at a few companies, I know employees will find ways to get around this. I knew one place that did keep customer information on a server, and the server was so slow getting any queries processed. So you know what employees did? They used a function which allowed parts of the database to be downloaded into spreadsheets, which they kept on their desktop computer. They figured it was quicker to do one download than to wait 1-2 minutes for each query.
I am suprised how many people give out their SSN# to anyone who seems legitimate and asks. I never give them out, and you should not either. There is only one reason by law a company can have your SSN#, and that is for paying taxes. If your relationship with the organization does not include paying taxes, then refuse to give them your SSN#. If they deny services, you can sue, it is illegal for them to force you to give them your SSN#. This goes for colleges too, you don't have to give them your SSN#, and they will have to give you a different ID.
These kinds of crimes deserve bigger penalties. This crime is not done by someone who is starving for food and decides to rob a liqueur store. These crimes are done by semi-skilled people, who probabaly are well off, and continue repeating their crimes (I say well off because the obviously have the computers and education). This is not a guy wanting to feed his family who steals a loaf of bread, this is a no good spammer who makes life miserable for everyone else. I say when we catch them, they should hang. Make an example of them, make the penalty so high that it makes people shiver in their boots.
I don't like defending companies, but in this one instance I will. Companies are not responsible for military type security. I don't want to have to pay an extra 10% for my car so Ford can pay network security people outrageous salaries to protect my costumer information. It is extortion by the computer security people. Maybe the state needs to start licensing computer security people, they way states license other professionals. By doing so, anyone who wants to get a job working with netowrk security would be known by the state. Buisnesses would be prohibited from hiring non-licensed people, so the wanna-be hacker either has to register or forgo the potential six figure salary. Then catching these people might not be so hard.
You know, the thing that really pisses me off is the fact that whenever companies start using a technology, they make everything that the scientists and engineers who don't work for them illegal. In the meantime, they release products (like MS Windows) that are totally insecure
What??? So if I buy a lock that does not work, and you decide you want to "educate" me, you can break in my house? Is that right? What if I don't want to lock my door, is that my fault? What are you saying about human nature?
We need to get rid of people like this. They are the problem makers. There is probably a reason he locks himself in his room with the computer all day. He is worthless to society. I say get rid of him asap before he turns into a bigger threat like a spam corp. If he can cripple 50,000 computers, what makes anyone think he won't one day send out 50,000,000,000,000 spam emails?
The message has to get out that doing stuff like this will get severe punishments. He crippled 50,000 computers.
The judge imposed three years of supervised release following his prison term, during which Parson can only use computers for business and education - not video games or file-sharing or hacking.
The judge should have denied him any access to computers, to hell with the kids education. Would a judge allow a drunk driver to get back in a car if he caused damage to 50,000 cars? It is the same thing.
I hope there is a federal law they can nail him on a second time. He needs a stronger punishment. I don't think telling kids that if they get caught doing this stuff all they will get is a year will deter them.
The parents are not responsible for what the kid does. He knew what he was doing was wrong and did it anyways.
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Jailed for using a nonstandard browser
A Londonder made a tsnuami-relief donation using lynx -- a text-based browser used by the blind, Unix-users and others -- on Sun's Solaris operating system. The site-operator decided that this "unusual" event in the system log indicated a hack-attempt, and the police broke down the donor's door and arrested him. From a mailing list:
For donating to a Tsunami appeal using Lynx on Solaris 10. BT [British Telecom] who run the donation management system misread an access log and saw hmm thats a non standard browser not identifying it's type and it's doing strange things. Trace that IP. Arrest that hacker.
Armed police, a van, a police cell and national news later the police have gone in SWAT styley and arrested someone having their lunch.
Out on bail till next week and preparing to make a lot of very bad PR for BT and the Police....
So just goes to show if you use anything other than Firefox or IE and you rely on someone else to interogate access logs or IDS logs you too could be sitting in a paper suit in a cell:(
There is something more going on here than just using a different browser. Police would never arrest someone just because of the browser he was using. Was he trying to hack into the website? If he did that, then it is a crime and the police had the right to arrest and jail him (hopefully for a long time).
But I just can't feel too sorry for them.
I mean, I know it's wrong, but when you get into that business I'm sure this isn't really that uncommon. Gambling is a shady 'business' in the first place, so if you have to deal with other shady people to keep it going, then them's the breaks, buddy.
Would you prefer to deal with a bookie or a regulated buisness? At least the on-line gambling websites have to pay taxes.
Many extortionists are targeting net-based betting firms and threatening to cripple their websites with deluges of data unless a ransom is paid.
Okay, I understand that we're talking about gambling websites. But these same methods can be used to take down just about any website. Society makes the final call on what is legal and illegal. Some might say the hackers are using their ethics to take down a vice. But if that was the hackers goal, why ask for money? Second, the tax revenue gambling generates often goes to schools. By taking them down, it would seem harm is being done in unexpected places. Politicans are responsible for planning funding, and if a bubble bursts, the community is in trouble.
Second, do we want one, or a small group of people, telling society what they can and can't do? What if a group of Jehova's Witnesses hackers decided to remove ALL porn off the web. People would freak out. One man's utopia is another mans hell.
I still have a system with a 20 gig 5400 rpm hard drive. What does SATA do? I see it everywhere, with the 8 meg buffers. It has been a long time since I upgraded or built systems. Is SATA as over-rated at IDE-133 was when IDE-100 was the standard. Is it just another marketing term, or does it produce results?
My computer for surfing the web does a very good job, and is very old. I only have a PIII 550 and a 20 gig 5400 rpm hard drive. People had better computers 3 years ago. But it is not slow for what I throw at it. I'v even ripped DVD's for back-ups, and in under an hour.
I like the idea of price falling. Maybe I'll pull out the mobo, cpu, and update the hard drive. But so far, there is no good reason. The 20 gigs was getting tight, but I spent $60 on a dvd-rw and back up data there.
I think for most people the #1 important decision is how much they will spend, followed by #2 size of drive and #3 speed of drive. Although 2 and 3 might flip flop; I knew a guy who spent 3 times as much a few years ago to get a scsi drive. I have been wanting to check out those hard drives with the 8meg buffers to see if there is any speed increase over the 2meg buffer ones. I think raid 0 would be good for speed, but only on newer systems with faster bus speeds. Or have hard drives always been the bottle neck?
The only real ISPs that have any serious clout are run directly by the phone companies
There are the cable companies too. Lets not forget them.
I knew a guy who ran an ISP of sorts. He lived in an apartment complex, ordered a cable modem, then sold access to his neighbors. It was probably against his TOS with the cable company, but nobody ever bothered him, and he got service for free.
I am writing this as a webmaster of a smaller personal website.
How can someone take my domain, that I paid for, and hijack it? And if you register for a domain, for a period of time, say 1 year, can someone at the end of that time come and take the domain away, or do you always get the first chance to renew?
Does security of domains have anything to do with the company that registers??
I knew people who went to Ivy schools, I myself went to a state school. The Ivy'ers were pretty bland people, no personality. They burned the oil at both ends, and while they could tell you how Dante relates to the banana, they couldn't identify a keg. They have no sociability. Well, most don't.
The problem with Ivy'ers is they spent most of their life looking for anwsers in books. They never closed the book and looked around, in the real world.
Most of the people I have met at state schools were pretty smart. I met one guy who was much, much smarter than anyone at haaaaaavard, but he would never admit it.
The next time you Ivy'ers see a state school, if you want to see true expressions of brilliance, watch how 18 year olds find ways to buy beer even though the sign says "over 21 only", or how the frat guys find one more new way to open a bottle of beer, not just using doors or teeth.
BTW, if Real Genius was to happen, it would never happen at a private school. It would be a public school.
And oh, we have one more thing the private schools don't. Chicks with tits. So take that haaaaavard. Go back to banging your nasty sister with buck teeth.
The real damage here is if someone buys your software from him and there are viruses in it. Your product name could suffer. Plus, the idea of it being sold in a flea market...
So, was he from India or Italy? If he was from India, you probably could have called the local police department and sent them $5 bucks. They would have killed the guy. They are incredibly currupt. I hear people over there sell their kids if the price is right. If he was in Italy, you could have filled a complaint with Interpol. They might have been a little more civilized with the crook, but he would have been forced to remove your works.
Did you know his buisness address? You could have used the Kyzinski solution...
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I hate to break it to you, but lobbyists have been around much longer than the RIAA and MPAA, causing more harm than them too. We could start with corporate welfare, how the rich avoid paying taxes, how the insurance lobby passed laws requiring everyone to buy their product or get tickets and their drivers licenses revoked, how the tobacco lobby made states pass laws where local towns can't prohibit smoking in their public area's, the list goes on...
I think what the MPAA and RIAA wants to do with p2p is not to shut it down (because that will be an impossible goal), but to make it so hard to copy stuff that 99% of the people will not want to even try. People will get on-line, look for a few websites, try to make a copy, and when it fails, three hours later, they will say fuck it. They did it with napster when they flooded them with mp3's that had high pitched noises in the music, or worse, gave you a loop of 10 seconds of the song. It was not usable. Then they went after torrent websites, leaving a few left that you have to register with.
I suggest that everyone who wants music go to the library and copy it while you can. Who knows what the RIAA and MPAA have comming down the pike.
1984 was all about people who could not make any choices, were limited with who they talked with or what they did. 1984 was about government enterning the homes of people, following them on dates, and making sure the person did what government wanted. 1984 was also about re-writing history, changing history. i see lots of this 1984-esq happening today? call me a troll if you wish, but the parent has a point. bush attacks iraq because of wmd, not because saddam was a bad guy. one year later, the history books say we liberated iraq because saddam was a bad guy. back in the 1980's it was well known that aids was a homosexual disease, that spread to heterosexuals only because of drug use. yet because of what is considered politically correct, if someone mentions that aids was created by gays, that person would be labled everything but truthful. and something even more simple. i was talking with a person about how crack came on the street, it was common knowledge that hoover's fbi created it and distributed it to poor black neighborhoods. yet today, you won't find that truth anywhere. yes. it is 1984. it has come here. government will soon be putting that metal cage with the big rat around yourhead, and the rat will feast on the ears and eyes. i am paranoid because i know government can read these posts, and might come for me next.
Nobody ever gets to see the server. The database is Oracle, and it is located somewhere off site. When it does not work, we have a phone number we call for tech support. We leave a message, and if we are lucky someone will call back within an hour. The web interface to the database is proprietary, and is serviced by a consulting company. The tech guys I talked with were all smart, but most of the time the anwser was the same thing, "try again later".
The problem is the database is just too big for all the data. There must be over a million customers in the database, and most of those customers in the database have nothing to do with my region. The other problem is the requests time out too often. It sucks waiting 2 minutes to get an error page. That is why most people, either very early in the morning, or when they leave the office, will download large chunks of the database on their desktop, so they won't have to wait.
Here is the problem I have with your statement. Technology always changes. What was secure yesterday may not be tomorrow.
If this was pre-computer times, it would be like keeping the accounting books on the desk of an employee, while the employee was out to lunch. Now how much security is enough? Having the books in a locked room where only people who needed access to the books had the key? Keeping the books in a locked room where only one gatekeeper had the key? Keeping the books in a steel safe? At some point, it gets rediculous, you have to blame the thief.
I think blaming companies does everyone a disservice. It gives the thief a reason to break in, it is never their fault, it turns it into a game of cat and mouse. If the penalty is high enough, then it wont be worth it for the hackers to try and hack in.
I sometimes wonder if graduate students in physics are more like a william gibson book club, with some star trek and battlestar galactica thrown in. They are very creative smart people, but what is the cost of what they do? They could be finding cures to cancer, or making better space shuttles, or doing a ton of things with applications that would be useful. How is getting a 800 ghz computer with 500 gigs or ram and a 40 gig video card going to change things? Lets be honest here, does anyone think the games they played 10 years ago sucked when they were playing them?? It seems to me too much time and money is being invested in the wrong place.
The fire department does not go around setting fires, so they can have more buisness. Heart surgeons are not the ones selling Big Macs. But with computers, it is the same network security people who cause the problems. How many people learn about security by sniffing around, doing war driving, hacking into websites and computers, then after they learn enough, they go looking for a job? That is why states have to regulate computer and network security professionals. Anyone who was ever convicted of a crime involving fraud or dishonesty should be prohibited from that kind of job. People who want to work in that field should have to sign a statement saying they never hacked into computers they did not own, and if it is later determined they lied, that clause of the contract should be enforcable by revoking the licnese and high fines.
I did not have any trouble with my cell phone company. When I called to activate the phone, I told the person I did not want to give out my SSN. They did not make a big deal out of it.
But when I called to get cable in my apartment, the cable company made a big stink out of it. I told them what they were asking was illegal, and that I would sue. I talked to two different people on the phone, and finally the guy told me I would have to make a copy of a bank statement if I did not want to give out my SSN#. I told him that was not acceptable, there is no reason they need that information. I told him I would prepay the years servive, and would not need the box for pay per view. They gave me a ton of crap, but I stuck to my guns, kept threatening them with a lawsuit, and eventually they gave me my cable, with no more information than my name and address. The key is, if a company denies you a service, you have to sue. The threat can't be empty.
You do know how many of these companies sell your information, don't you? It is in your contract that they can share information with their business partners. That is nothing more than wording saying they can sell your personal data to anyone.
Government disagrees with you, and when they catch these people they go to jail. Some go to jail for years. I think the penalties should be even harsher. Government must make a few examples of people, just like you. Then less people will be inclined to do this kind of stuff.
You say it is "tough shit" if a THIEF breaks into a computer? Well, I'll say tough shit when you are in jail getting raped. You know they don't have any vaseline in jail, it is going to be butt burn. That is like carpet burn, but in your butt. LOL. And all because you want to break into computers and steal data. What a price to pay.
I get the part about not having sensitive information on individual machines. But the server has to give out data to these machines for normal buisness. If I am in billing, I will need some of the customer data from the server. What is to stop someone from just sniffing the data?
Having worked at a few companies, I know employees will find ways to get around this. I knew one place that did keep customer information on a server, and the server was so slow getting any queries processed. So you know what employees did? They used a function which allowed parts of the database to be downloaded into spreadsheets, which they kept on their desktop computer. They figured it was quicker to do one download than to wait 1-2 minutes for each query.
I am suprised how many people give out their SSN# to anyone who seems legitimate and asks. I never give them out, and you should not either. There is only one reason by law a company can have your SSN#, and that is for paying taxes. If your relationship with the organization does not include paying taxes, then refuse to give them your SSN#. If they deny services, you can sue, it is illegal for them to force you to give them your SSN#. This goes for colleges too, you don't have to give them your SSN#, and they will have to give you a different ID.
I don't like defending companies, but in this one instance I will. Companies are not responsible for military type security. I don't want to have to pay an extra 10% for my car so Ford can pay network security people outrageous salaries to protect my costumer information. It is extortion by the computer security people. Maybe the state needs to start licensing computer security people, they way states license other professionals. By doing so, anyone who wants to get a job working with netowrk security would be known by the state. Buisnesses would be prohibited from hiring non-licensed people, so the wanna-be hacker either has to register or forgo the potential six figure salary. Then catching these people might not be so hard.
What??? So if I buy a lock that does not work, and you decide you want to "educate" me, you can break in my house? Is that right? What if I don't want to lock my door, is that my fault? What are you saying about human nature?
We need to get rid of people like this. They are the problem makers. There is probably a reason he locks himself in his room with the computer all day. He is worthless to society. I say get rid of him asap before he turns into a bigger threat like a spam corp. If he can cripple 50,000 computers, what makes anyone think he won't one day send out 50,000,000,000,000 spam emails?
The judge imposed three years of supervised release following his prison term, during which Parson can only use computers for business and education - not video games or file-sharing or hacking.
The judge should have denied him any access to computers, to hell with the kids education. Would a judge allow a drunk driver to get back in a car if he caused damage to 50,000 cars? It is the same thing.
I hope there is a federal law they can nail him on a second time. He needs a stronger punishment. I don't think telling kids that if they get caught doing this stuff all they will get is a year will deter them.
The parents are not responsible for what the kid does. He knew what he was doing was wrong and did it anyways.
There is something more going on here than just using a different browser. Police would never arrest someone just because of the browser he was using. Was he trying to hack into the website? If he did that, then it is a crime and the police had the right to arrest and jail him (hopefully for a long time).
Would you prefer to deal with a bookie or a regulated buisness? At least the on-line gambling websites have to pay taxes.
Okay, I understand that we're talking about gambling websites. But these same methods can be used to take down just about any website. Society makes the final call on what is legal and illegal. Some might say the hackers are using their ethics to take down a vice. But if that was the hackers goal, why ask for money? Second, the tax revenue gambling generates often goes to schools. By taking them down, it would seem harm is being done in unexpected places. Politicans are responsible for planning funding, and if a bubble bursts, the community is in trouble.
Second, do we want one, or a small group of people, telling society what they can and can't do? What if a group of Jehova's Witnesses hackers decided to remove ALL porn off the web. People would freak out. One man's utopia is another mans hell.
And I thought I saw 10k rpm ide drives?
I like the idea of price falling. Maybe I'll pull out the mobo, cpu, and update the hard drive. But so far, there is no good reason. The 20 gigs was getting tight, but I spent $60 on a dvd-rw and back up data there.
I think for most people the #1 important decision is how much they will spend, followed by #2 size of drive and #3 speed of drive. Although 2 and 3 might flip flop; I knew a guy who spent 3 times as much a few years ago to get a scsi drive. I have been wanting to check out those hard drives with the 8meg buffers to see if there is any speed increase over the 2meg buffer ones. I think raid 0 would be good for speed, but only on newer systems with faster bus speeds. Or have hard drives always been the bottle neck?
There are the cable companies too. Lets not forget them.
I knew a guy who ran an ISP of sorts. He lived in an apartment complex, ordered a cable modem, then sold access to his neighbors. It was probably against his TOS with the cable company, but nobody ever bothered him, and he got service for free.
How do you administer domain security??? All I can think of is a tough password for the registrar. Or do all the changes by telephone only.
How can someone take my domain, that I paid for, and hijack it? And if you register for a domain, for a period of time, say 1 year, can someone at the end of that time come and take the domain away, or do you always get the first chance to renew?
Does security of domains have anything to do with the company that registers??
There are so many questions...
No! It is not a move toward fairness. As long as there is inbreeding at these schools, the playing field will never be level.
I knew people who went to Ivy schools, I myself went to a state school. The Ivy'ers were pretty bland people, no personality. They burned the oil at both ends, and while they could tell you how Dante relates to the banana, they couldn't identify a keg. They have no sociability. Well, most don't. The problem with Ivy'ers is they spent most of their life looking for anwsers in books. They never closed the book and looked around, in the real world. Most of the people I have met at state schools were pretty smart. I met one guy who was much, much smarter than anyone at haaaaaavard, but he would never admit it. The next time you Ivy'ers see a state school, if you want to see true expressions of brilliance, watch how 18 year olds find ways to buy beer even though the sign says "over 21 only", or how the frat guys find one more new way to open a bottle of beer, not just using doors or teeth. BTW, if Real Genius was to happen, it would never happen at a private school. It would be a public school. And oh, we have one more thing the private schools don't. Chicks with tits. So take that haaaaavard. Go back to banging your nasty sister with buck teeth.
So, was he from India or Italy? If he was from India, you probably could have called the local police department and sent them $5 bucks. They would have killed the guy. They are incredibly currupt. I hear people over there sell their kids if the price is right. If he was in Italy, you could have filled a complaint with Interpol. They might have been a little more civilized with the crook, but he would have been forced to remove your works.
Did you know his buisness address? You could have used the Kyzinski solution...