They're blackmailing online bookies, not individuals, and mainly timing it around big sporting events. The amount of income lost due to the DDoS could easily be more than the requested payment.
I venture to suggest that you don't read much tech news other than/.. Stories about DDos blackmail of online bookies have been common for at least 6 months. As to terrorism - no: the purpose is to make money, not to create terror. As to worm authors - as with spam, zombies created by worms are already the main source of DDoS attacks.
I didn't even look at it. However, since you request: the opinion that war has ended slavery and communism does also seem to neglect significant proportions of the world.
Actually, if you care about the US read
this daily
"World News Daily"?! This would be for the definition of "world" as "between Mexico, Canada, the Atlantic, and the Pacific"? Pretending that nowhere outside the US exists is hardly going to improve relations between the US and the rest of the world.
"COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED TRANSPORT OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION OBJECTS"? I realise that's the title rather than a claim, but it does sound like intent to stake out any networking whatsoever.
Well, if great-grandparent poster wants to count actions against US interests he should strike London 1980 from the list. As it is, the list is highly selective: it features attacks in Europe, but discounts numerous domestic European terrorist organisations of the 80s. Where are the IRA, the UVF, the Red Brigade, the Red Army Faction, ETA, Action Directe, November 17,...?
Perhaps he can pick up a few tips by watching Rimmer's performance in Justice:
KRYTEN: I ask the court one key question: would the Space Corps have allowed this man ever to be in a position where he might endanger the ship? A man so petty and small-minded he would while away his evenings sewing name labels on to his ship-issue condoms? A man of such awsome stupidity...
RIMMER: Objection.
JUSTICE: Objection overruled.
KRYTEN: A man of such awsome stupidity, he even objects to his own defence counsel.
Putting up filters are just a smokescreen. If people want child pornography they WILL be able to find it - through closed communities, IRC, doing tunneling, p2p, etc.
OTOH, if people don't want child pornography, they may be quite grateful not to have malware or popups leaving it kicking around in their browser histories for their spouses etc to find.
That's just stretching it a little far. Java is (so far) a programming language, this JDS nonsense not withstanding.
Well... In some contexts Java is a language; in others it's a platform. In the context of phones it's a platform rather than a language - if you're really worried about minimising your footprint you may find yourself assembling bytecode with Jasmin rather than writing Java source.
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Is there a term "units nazi" for someone who points out that light years are units of length, not time?
Wish I could get uptime like that on my boxes.
The former. The standard Apple setup would be computer with Airport card, Airport base-station, and Internet connection plugged into the base-station.
What's noble about one-up-manship?
They're blackmailing online bookies, not individuals, and mainly timing it around big sporting events. The amount of income lost due to the DDoS could easily be more than the requested payment.
I venture to suggest that you don't read much tech news other than /.. Stories about DDos blackmail of online bookies have been common for at least 6 months. As to terrorism - no: the purpose is to make money, not to create terror. As to worm authors - as with spam, zombies created by worms are already the main source of DDoS attacks.
I didn't even look at it. However, since you request: the opinion that war has ended slavery and communism does also seem to neglect significant proportions of the world.
"COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED TRANSPORT OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION OBJECTS"? I realise that's the title rather than a claim, but it does sound like intent to stake out any networking whatsoever.
I'm more puzzled about why you'd use it to play music if you can only hear one frequency.
Well, if great-grandparent poster wants to count actions against US interests he should strike London 1980 from the list. As it is, the list is highly selective: it features attacks in Europe, but discounts numerous domestic European terrorist organisations of the 80s. Where are the IRA, the UVF, the Red Brigade, the Red Army Faction, ETA, Action Directe, November 17, ...?
KRYTEN: I ask the court one key question: would the Space Corps have allowed this man ever to be in a position where he might endanger the ship? A man so petty and small-minded he would while away his evenings sewing name labels on to his ship-issue condoms? A man of such awsome stupidity...
RIMMER: Objection.
JUSTICE: Objection overruled.
KRYTEN: A man of such awsome stupidity, he even objects to his own defence counsel.
It's a Java story - check out the mnemonic for bytecode 0xa7.
Which man's a disgrace to which country? From context you appear to be talking about Blair, but you're writing American rather than English.
Team-building? Communication skills? Improved co-ordination?
And maybe written by people who know how to spell propaganda and hearsay.
Those of us who aren't American don't know who Al Franken is. From context, I presume a Democrat?
I want to know which king the article's author thinks is ruling England.
Rustic: one who lives in the country.