And for that matter what I want to know is how the heck have these customers not just been disconnected altogether? A little reworking of the zombie, and the spammers are back in bidness, and the computers are again a liability to Comcast and the Internet alike.
It would seem that actual spammers on Comcast's network are shut down quite promptly by Comcast, so how is it that someone innocent isn't shut down equally quickly, too, whether or not they're guilty of intentionally spamming.
If you're not guilty, sorry, but you'll have to cleanup your infected machine before we'll put you back on our network.
A clean machine should be required for Internet access, IMHO, think of it as like a smog/safety inspection for your car.;-)
Hmmm...just a guess, but it probably went something like this:
SELECT *
FROM customer_list
ORDER BY last_name ASC;
[zoom to scene of employee nervously looking over his shoulder and tapping his fingers impatiently]
92,213,798 rows returned.
[employee thinks to self]: "Dude! Cool! Bonus! We only had 91,125,553 last time I ran this. I'll have to thank the marketing department for sending out those CDs!"
As for the fans, that's acutally (somewhat) true. I think the fans on the older of the two may've actually come from the same assembly line as a '96 Ford. (Suffice it to say, IT'S VERY LOUD! [Shudders.])
FWIW: The fans on the i386 boxes were all good fans, too, as far as I can gauge (no Pricewatch or BestBuy specials! [grin]), it just so happened the Alphas survived the harsh conditions. That's my story, and I'm stickin' with it.;-)
Uhhh. I do.:-) We have two Alpha boxen running BSD for a variety of purposes. They're brutally dependable and really just plain fun to work with. The SRM BIOS is more like a shell than a BIOS in the sense that most people are familar with. For someone familar with Unix, it makes so much sense--no goofy menu/submenu systems like most i386 BIOSes to go hunting through for the setting you're trying to change.
We had a situation where a cooling unit failed and a couple of RAID cards, drives, RAM, and what not fried in some of our i386 boxes, but the Alphas (knock wood) have never missed a beat even after that.
I SOOO wish there was a bigger call for 'em in the marketplace, these two servers are among the finest pieces of engineering I've ever encountered. Really. They're great. But, alas! Alphas got trounced by Intel.:-|
Ya know. . . these pooches have a better vocabulary than some of the people in my neighborhood growing up! 200 words! W-O-W! That would've meant attendance of grade school. Holy smokes.
That's not to say everyone was a dullard, but suffice it to say some of them may've been limited to fewer than ten words with the primary one being: HUH?
Hmmm... I guess that's more of an utterance than a real word though. In any case, 200 words is impressive.
Good point. It is the fact that something is by most anyone's notion "unfixable" by the average end user to protect themselves that makes it so disagreeable in our eyes. It seems a bit like a car company recalling cars because of faulty parts then replacing those faulty parts with other faulty parts.
As consumers we can, and do, put our money where our mouths are. Fine indeed. At what point though are companies really held accountable? Much later to their shareholders for dropped profits? No one will ever tie the two events together.
I agree it may be a bit over the top to say criminal offense, but at some point, at some point, this type of product negligence really is just that.
Why are companies allowed to get away with this crap just because we pay them for their shoddy wares?
Any open source coder would be summarily flogged for such a transgression. Why on EARTH is this not literally considered a criminal offense for a company to do?
And I for one used to hold Netgear in reasonably high regard, too.
What's with everyone moving to "clown mode" with their UIs? I *adore* the current Firefox look. Love it.
I know the old adage of "you can't please all the people all the time, but this general movement in the industry towards "clown mode" stinks.
Gimme a lean-n-mean, no frills, no DAMNED animated windows opening and closing interface.
On a somewhat unrelated note, why, why, why, why, why does Microsoft INSIST on animating everything? It slows the whole human-computer-human feedback cycle immensely, and just gets in the way, particularly on "slower" (read: anything built over 6 months ago) machines.
Oh yeah, thanks for posting the screenshots.:-)
Re:OF COURSE IT SERVES A PURPOSE
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Is Caps Lock Dead?
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· Score: 5, Funny
Kidding (somewhat) aside, if you've ever read anthing in legalese there is ALWAYS at least one obligatory section that warrants being written in all caps.
I call this the:
"If you don't read anything else in this contract read this one,
or our hungry attack lawyers will eat you and your young for lunch."
What happened is someone in marketing at Mickey D's has just figured out the term "bundling".
Just when we thought we'd taught our kid siblings and parents not to download the cute smileys because they'd get stuff they didn't want, the marketing team at Mc D's comes along and figures out how to bundle music with Big Macs.
Come to think of it, some might call it "reverse bundling", but sheesh! when is the insanity going to end?!
software salesperson to customer:
"Ooh! You must be excited, Mr. Customer, what free new car would you like to select as a bonus with your purchase of Windows 2020?"
"Huh? Uh, new car? I just want my computer to stop crashing. And what's with this thing called "The eWallet 2020?"
Slashdot Mirror
Indeed!
;-)
And for that matter what I want to know is how the heck have these customers not just been disconnected altogether? A little reworking of the zombie, and the spammers are back in bidness, and the computers are again a liability to Comcast and the Internet alike.
It would seem that actual spammers on Comcast's network are shut down quite promptly by Comcast, so how is it that someone innocent isn't shut down equally quickly, too, whether or not they're guilty of intentionally spamming.
If you're not guilty, sorry, but you'll have to cleanup your infected machine before we'll put you back on our network.
A clean machine should be required for Internet access, IMHO, think of it as like a smog/safety inspection for your car.
92,213,798 rows returned.
[employee thinks to self]: "Dude! Cool! Bonus! We only had 91,125,553 last time I ran this. I'll have to thank the marketing department for sending out those CDs!"
One is from 1996; one from 1998 (I think).
;-)
As for the fans, that's acutally (somewhat) true. I think the fans on the older of the two may've actually come from the same assembly line as a '96 Ford. (Suffice it to say, IT'S VERY LOUD! [Shudders.])
FWIW: The fans on the i386 boxes were all good fans, too, as far as I can gauge (no Pricewatch or BestBuy specials! [grin]), it just so happened the Alphas survived the harsh conditions. That's my story, and I'm stickin' with it.
Uhhh. I do. :-) We have two Alpha boxen running BSD for a variety of purposes. They're brutally dependable and really just plain fun to work with. The SRM BIOS is more like a shell than a BIOS in the sense that most people are familar with. For someone familar with Unix, it makes so much sense--no goofy menu/submenu systems like most i386 BIOSes to go hunting through for the setting you're trying to change.
:-|
We had a situation where a cooling unit failed and a couple of RAID cards, drives, RAM, and what not fried in some of our i386 boxes, but the Alphas (knock wood) have never missed a beat even after that.
I SOOO wish there was a bigger call for 'em in the marketplace, these two servers are among the finest pieces of engineering I've ever encountered. Really. They're great. But, alas! Alphas got trounced by Intel.
Sigh. Sad day.
Ya know. . . these pooches have a better vocabulary than some of the people in my neighborhood growing up! 200 words! W-O-W! That would've meant attendance of grade school. Holy smokes.
That's not to say everyone was a dullard, but suffice it to say some of them may've been limited to fewer than ten words with the primary one being: HUH?
Hmmm... I guess that's more of an utterance than a real word though. In any case, 200 words is impressive.
Good point. It is the fact that something is by most anyone's notion "unfixable" by the average end user to protect themselves that makes it so disagreeable in our eyes. It seems a bit like a car company recalling cars because of faulty parts then replacing those faulty parts with other faulty parts.
As consumers we can, and do, put our money where our mouths are. Fine indeed. At what point though are companies really held accountable? Much later to their shareholders for dropped profits? No one will ever tie the two events together.
I agree it may be a bit over the top to say criminal offense, but at some point, at some point, this type of product negligence really is just that.
Why are companies allowed to get away with this crap just because we pay them for their shoddy wares?
Any open source coder would be summarily flogged for such a transgression. Why on EARTH is this not literally considered a criminal offense for a company to do?
And I for one used to hold Netgear in reasonably high regard, too.
Never again.
What's with everyone moving to "clown mode" with their UIs? I *adore* the current Firefox look. Love it.
:-)
I know the old adage of "you can't please all the people all the time, but this general movement in the industry towards "clown mode" stinks.
Gimme a lean-n-mean, no frills, no DAMNED animated windows opening and closing interface.
On a somewhat unrelated note, why, why, why, why, why does Microsoft INSIST on animating everything? It slows the whole human-computer-human feedback cycle immensely, and just gets in the way, particularly on "slower" (read: anything built over 6 months ago) machines.
Oh yeah, thanks for posting the screenshots.
I call this the: clause.
What happened is someone in marketing at Mickey D's has just figured out the term "bundling".
Just when we thought we'd taught our kid siblings and parents not to download the cute smileys because they'd get stuff they didn't want, the marketing team at Mc D's comes along and figures out how to bundle music with Big Macs.
Come to think of it, some might call it "reverse bundling", but sheesh! when is the insanity going to end?!
software salesperson to customer: "Ooh! You must be excited, Mr. Customer, what free new car would you like to select as a bonus with your purchase of Windows 2020?"
"Huh? Uh, new car? I just want my computer to stop crashing. And what's with this thing called "The eWallet 2020?"