I R'dTFA, and it just seems to stop short about half way through a conversation with a security supervisor. I looked twice and I couldn't find a link to a next page, or a link to the full text. Am I going blind? I suppose it's possible that boingboing usues some bizarre converntion of link hiding that I'm not familiar with, though I do consider myself net savvy.
There are many examples in which someone might not want others to know where they are, but have to travel through public space to get there.
Consider the example of a CEO of a big company. A lot of people would consider it interesting, to say the least, where they have travelled to and who else has travelled there.
If that doesn't do it for you, perhaps because the law doesn't usually apply to big shot CEOs, or perhaps because big CEOs are too far removed from your sphere of experience, consider homosexuals. It's legal (in many places) to be homosexual, but many people don't approve of it, and so there are social consequences to being publically outed. Although you haven't commited a crime, you might get unwanted police attention if Officer Homophobe knew you had travelled to a gay-bar.
Still not convinced? Consider the (admittedly unlikely) scenario of a massive backlash by vergetarians against the meat-eaters. After a decades long war that divides families, eating meat becomes illegal, but some people still like to do it, they have just been forced underground. Would like it to be known to the vege-cops that you have been to a suspected slaughter-house (slang for restaurant that serves meat of course)?
I would consider most root kits to be spyware, and there's a few of those around.
Admittedly most root kits would probably be able to know when you are detecting them and take evasive or retaliatory action, but hey.
I'll leave 1 & 3 alone, but I can give you a pretty good example for 2.
For evolution all you need is imperfect, non-guaranteed reproduction and death
You can get this with memes.
A meme reproduces whenever you tell someone about it. It dies whenever you forget about it. It changes whever you fail to pass on some of the details and the person you are telling fills in the blanks with something different.
This is why santa now wears red and is fat instead of wearing blue and being skinny.
The Japan, Korea, and China memes have yet to start reproducing as successfully as the Soviet Russia and Overlords memes. Hot grits is dying. The legend of goatse lives on. Many, many people spell the as teh.
None of these are physical objects, they are made of the information we remember and decide to pass on.
I would be curious to know if anyone from ZDnet got in touch with anyone involved in Spam Assassin about a submission for the review.
Spam Assassin comes up on the first page of a google search for spam, so I assume they have at least heard of it. Having found the web page it's a simple matter to send an email to the mailing list inviting a submission from the developers.
Assuming they didn't (and I think that a safe assumption) I would like to know why they didn't. Is it because Spam Assassin is open source, and is perceived to be second rate. Or was it assumed that Spam Assassin is made by developers, not marketers and therefore no one at Spam Assassin would be interested in submitting? What other reasons might they have had?
I guess I was misreading the distinction between the owners of computers involved in botnets and the operators who control them.
The cynic in me expects some 60 year old grandmother to get arrested, charged, and convicted of cyberterrorism because her computer was involved in a DDoS attack any day now.
NOTE: Many grandmothers are competent users of computers, just as many geeks shower from time to time, however a stereotype can be a useful communication device.
I wonder why they didn't mention SpamAssassin.
Open Source solutions will never gain the market share they deserve if media never gives them the attention they deserve.
And the media will never give them attention until they get market share. It's a deadly cycle.
Note: Open Source does not inherently make a product worthy of market share.
If anyone is looking to kick the PTCs arse (I'm Australian) in court, they could try to get something out of (from the article):
tools developed by the PTC, including continual monitoring and
archiving of broadcast network programs
I have a feeling that archiving of broadcast television is against a whole bunch of laws, though my knowledge of American Law is nothing to speak up about.
I don't think they are talking about botnets here. Even to my paranoid mind it seems a bit of a stretch for government agencies to be referring to people who don't pathch their machines as "criminals and terrorists".
Someone out there has a sig about moderating incoherent. Finally I begin to understand why that might be necessary.
Sai Babu, if English is not your first language try to post some more information and I (or someone) might try to help you. If English is your first language I hope, for you sake, that you are drunk.
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Comment 15000000 is over here.
Unfortunately Moderator Smith has developed a glitch. He seems to think these instabilities are funny.
Best argument I've ever heard in favor of fucking a pig. "Rather like using the GIMP, but it gets the job done!"
I was starting to get excited by this, but only residents of the USA are eligible for prizes.
Your dating would probably go much better if you got your date some shiny, shiny carbon.
I R'dTFA, and it just seems to stop short about half way through a conversation with a security supervisor. I looked twice and I couldn't find a link to a next page, or a link to the full text. Am I going blind? I suppose it's possible that boingboing usues some bizarre converntion of link hiding that I'm not familiar with, though I do consider myself net savvy.
Please, that comment is just far to close to this post for comfort.
There are many examples in which someone might not want others to know where they are, but have to travel through public space to get there.
Consider the example of a CEO of a big company. A lot of people would consider it interesting, to say the least, where they have travelled to and who else has travelled there.
If that doesn't do it for you, perhaps because the law doesn't usually apply to big shot CEOs, or perhaps because big CEOs are too far removed from your sphere of experience, consider homosexuals. It's legal (in many places) to be homosexual, but many people don't approve of it, and so there are social consequences to being publically outed. Although you haven't commited a crime, you might get unwanted police attention if Officer Homophobe knew you had travelled to a gay-bar.
Still not convinced? Consider the (admittedly unlikely) scenario of a massive backlash by vergetarians against the meat-eaters. After a decades long war that divides families, eating meat becomes illegal, but some people still like to do it, they have just been forced underground. Would like it to be known to the vege-cops that you have been to a suspected slaughter-house (slang for restaurant that serves meat of course)?
Hey, it happened with slavery.
I'd like to say hello.jpg to all those repetitive jokes.
Not that I'm not guilty of repeating them myself, not by a long shot.
Nice one. Finally an iPod killer that might just live up to its name.
That's 5GB, not 5 MB.
You'd think they could have at least read the article title, if not the entire article.
I would consider most root kits to be spyware, and there's a few of those around. Admittedly most root kits would probably be able to know when you are detecting them and take evasive or retaliatory action, but hey.
I'll leave 1 & 3 alone, but I can give you a pretty good example for 2.
For evolution all you need is imperfect, non-guaranteed reproduction and death
You can get this with memes.
A meme reproduces whenever you tell someone about it. It dies whenever you forget about it. It changes whever you fail to pass on some of the details and the person you are telling fills in the blanks with something different.
This is why santa now wears red and is fat instead of wearing blue and being skinny.
The Japan, Korea, and China memes have yet to start reproducing as successfully as the Soviet Russia and Overlords memes. Hot grits is dying. The legend of goatse lives on. Many, many people spell the as teh.
None of these are physical objects, they are made of the information we remember and decide to pass on.
Woah, woah, woah.
OSS has freedom from beer?
Does this mean that I can't drink when working on open source software?
I would be curious to know if anyone from ZDnet got in touch with anyone involved in Spam Assassin about a submission for the review.
Spam Assassin comes up on the first page of a google search for spam, so I assume they have at least heard of it. Having found the web page it's a simple matter to send an email to the mailing list inviting a submission from the developers.
Assuming they didn't (and I think that a safe assumption) I would like to know why they didn't. Is it because Spam Assassin is open source, and is perceived to be second rate. Or was it assumed that Spam Assassin is made by developers, not marketers and therefore no one at Spam Assassin would be interested in submitting? What other reasons might they have had?
I guess I was misreading the distinction between the owners of computers involved in botnets and the operators who control them.
The cynic in me expects some 60 year old grandmother to get arrested, charged, and convicted of cyberterrorism because her computer was involved in a DDoS attack any day now.
NOTE: Many grandmothers are competent users of computers, just as many geeks shower from time to time, however a stereotype can be a useful communication device.
Makes sense. After posting I thought I should have had a look at your previous posts rather than jump to conclusions. Your other posts seemed alright.
I wonder why they didn't mention SpamAssassin. Open Source solutions will never gain the market share they deserve if media never gives them the attention they deserve. And the media will never give them attention until they get market share. It's a deadly cycle. Note: Open Source does not inherently make a product worthy of market share.
I don't think they are talking about botnets here. Even to my paranoid mind it seems a bit of a stretch for government agencies to be referring to people who don't pathch their machines as "criminals and terrorists".
Someone out there has a sig about moderating incoherent. Finally I begin to understand why that might be necessary.
Sai Babu, if English is not your first language try to post some more information and I (or someone) might try to help you. If English is your first language I hope, for you sake, that you are drunk.
Porn! Porn! Porn!
They only caught the ones that weren't paranoid enough.