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  1. Fisherman boat & cruise missiles on Virginia Top Court to Re-Hear Spammer's Conviction · · Score: 1
    When a fisherman boat was hijacked by pirates near the coast of East Africa the US sent war ships to destroy pirates facilities in the area. How much could this boat cost? 500 grands?

    Spammers cause losses of billions dollars to the world economy. Everyone spends his/her work time viewing and deleting spam, installing and adjusting spam filters, etc. Billions and billions of dollars, euros, pounds, etc.

    Why in this case an agent could not be sent to a known location. Enter the house while a spammers is shopping and sprinkle some salted water into the spammer's computers? And immerse the spammer's backup hard disks in water?

    Why when an evil leader harass some mountain villagers the military expedition worth trillions is undertaken? But when the real harm to the World economy is done suddenly there are no black helicopters, no trained secret agents available?

    Not to bomb by cruise missiles, not to send the carriers, not to deploy an army overseas, but just pick up the lock, open the door and use some salty water on spammer's computer equipment?

  2. Hammer on Google's Audio CAPTCHA Falls To Automated Attack · · Score: 1
    I can destroy the fence or the door of the Wintercore Labs with a sledgehammer worth 20 bucks. Even if this fence and door cost hundred grands.

    I can but it does not mean I would because it may well land me in a wrong place for a long time.

    Posting a malicious junk into peoples' sites breaking the protection barriers should land the offenders in jail. Period.

    Spammers and crooks should be arrested and locked up. This would be the best protection.

    Otherwise our houses would look like medieval castles with moats, pots with boiling oil on walls, etc.

  3. Slavery on Virginia Top Court to Re-Hear Spammer's Conviction · · Score: 1
    Slavery is also unconstitutional. And I (as millions of others) am the slave of these guys. I have to work for them for free deleting their junk from my in-box.

    Lock him up and lose the keys. Put him in one cell with the Tea-bag.

    There is the difference between free speech and sending out millions of Viagra or enlargment messages.

  4. Re:yeah :| on .su Lives On, Stronger Than Ever · · Score: 1

    We won't come to ask You anything, we'd better die, than do this. The same thing is for Germany. And you will die. Germany will break you in no time. As it did happen already.

    First there will be a "humanitarian crisis" in western part of Poland. Then occupation. You know how they can do it.

    Most Poles wan to be good neighbors with Russia. So do not speak for the whole Poland badmouthing Russia.

  5. Re:History repeats itself on .su Lives On, Stronger Than Ever · · Score: 0
    The USA did occupy the whole Siberia: http://www.militaria.com/8th/WW1/siberia.html This article is written by the US historian and only partly reflects what actually happened. I do not bring in articles in other languages here for obvious reasons.

    They were fought out by Bolshevics. And to understand what is going on now in the world one has to look back into the history.

    The US strategists want to replay it. They cannot forgive themselves that they hat to leave the Siberia. It turned out that Siberia holds a lot of key resources.

    That is why this drive to widen NATO to Russia's borders, to build the radar stations, etc.

    But again. In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia with 1 million army. All European nations were in it. Even 12 000 Swiss. Russia had at that time only 250 thousand army. Napoleon occupied Moscow. Fireworks were fired in Western Europe. Still not a single person from this army returned.

    The "victory in the Cold War" is from the same league. Russia gave the West after the Cold War enough rope. The result - the moral influence of the USA in the world is zero. Soon other consequences will follow.

  6. Re:yeah :| on .su Lives On, Stronger Than Ever · · Score: 1
    If it were not for the USSR one would have a hard time to find Poland on the map. And by the way there is a good chance that you come to ask for help as Germany has got claims on western part of Poland's territory which until 1945 indeed was part of Germany.

    So do not spit into wells from where you drink.

  7. History repeats itself on .su Lives On, Stronger Than Ever · · Score: 3, Interesting
    In the FSU the mood is growing to recreate the USSR in one for or another.

    In 1918 the USSR was the size of Belgium, including only the Moscow and St. Petersburg area. The whole Siberia and Far East of Russia were occupied by the USA, Canada and Japan. South, Ukraine, was hold by France, etc. Still somehow they manged to fight out these powers and unite the country.

    In 1941 Germany, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Finland occupied the whole European part of the USSR. Chances of the USSR were pitiful. The victory was all but celebrated. Still we know the outcome.

    The "Great Victory Victory in the Cold War" is from the same league. The territory of the "defeated" Russia is 4.5 times larger than the territory of the whole European Union. Russia holds the world stock of natural gas and oil, and other key resources.

    The price of these resources has grown 10 times since 2001. The West is sucked in into the was which cannot be won. As result the West is approaching to the economical crisis and social unrest of an unprecedented magnitude.

    Do not celebrate too early. .su still may hit the mainstream.

  8. Re:You know... on .su Lives On, Stronger Than Ever · · Score: 1

    Internet was invented in CERN in Geneva.

  9. Police? on Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA Cracked, Exploited · · Score: 1
    I can put on the best body armor, the best military helmet, and still a child with an air gun will get me in 5 minutes. Unless I use the active defense.

    My point is that the police should get out at last from 19th century, learn something about modern technologies, and get the spammers locked up.

    They should hold international conferences, seminars, and learn to protect us in the real world from the real crimes.

    People around the world are losing billions of hours of the working time to delete spam, by this working for free for spammers. It is the slavery of the modern days. And what the Interpol does about it? Nothing.

  10. Re:Anything but "GIMP" on First Looks at The Gimp 2.5 · · Score: 1
    I use it in the professional environment. I handle with it about 500 images a week. GIMP is one of the best things in the world.

    You have no idea what you are talking about. GIMP is an excellent software. It gives images a magical touch, which other packages cannot do.

    I cannot thank enough Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, major GIMP developers, and also Jernej Simoni for th Windows installer http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

  11. Chiefs on Bill Gates's Wish Is Homeland Security's Command · · Score: 1

    The chiefs of Indian tribes should issue the US visas. Not sons of immigrants.

  12. Re:An ongoing problem; maybe getting worse on Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution · · Score: 1
    First the society makes youth, being or seeming to be young, the object of a desire. Through advertising, through movies, TV, etc.

    To be sexually attractive a woman should look like a child: no body hair, no trace of normal human smell, no wrinkles, unnatural slimness, etc. This is an ideal, which the culture supports.

    No surprise that children become also the object of sexual desire, because they sort of begin to look like adults, because the adults try to look like them.

    It is the multi billion industry. And the victims are children. Think of it when you meet a nice woman, but who did not do skin uplifting, who has natural hair, who does not suck out fat from her body by syringes, who does not smell of the Mendeleev's table, etc, think that maybe it is not that bad after all, that this woman still does have all one may need.

  13. Credit card technology is outdated on Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution · · Score: 2, Insightful
    What is a credit card? All the information is in plain view. The security feature, the CVV, is also visible, but on the other side.

    This is just ridiculous. No, plain stupid. Agree, not more than still using feet and pound for creating machines.

    Why not make an encrypted 6 digits PIN code?

    This is an example as the USA spreads its ineffective obsolete technology around the globe using soft power: advertising, marketing, etc.

  14. Re:Police? on Murdoch's Hacker Speaks Out · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Tarnovsky can put on the best body armor available, the best military helmet, and still I could get him with my old pneumatic air rifle, if he stands still and does not defend himself actively.

    In this case the active defense is the law.

  15. Police? on Murdoch's Hacker Speaks Out · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can break any door with a sledgehammer and an ax. Because I exercise regularly. But I does not mean I should or would.

  16. Re:The new brave world on Spam King Pleads Guilty in Seattle · · Score: 1

    One may download a film or a game from time to time. But it is not a game, Jim. It's day and night, day and night. You get in your e-mail box, forum, comment, guest book only a tip of an iceberg.

  17. The new brave world on Spam King Pleads Guilty in Seattle · · Score: 1
    Spam is profitable. This is the problem. When a 60K official approaches a spammer king the question arises what is better: 60K or a share of 1000K?

    Spam is the slavery of modern days. Billions of people around the globe work for spammers for free. Clicking on the messages either to indicate a filter that it's spam, or delete, or view.

    Roughly 90% of the Internet traffic is Spam. A new type of a social system came out unexpectedly. It is neither capitalism, nor communism. It is the Spam.

    Spam kings will be getting more and more powerful. Already now they befriend such figures as Tony Blair and the likes. Before long 99.99% of the network traffic will be the Spam. We will be working more and more hours for free for the spam kings.

    Welcome to the new brave world of Spam.

  18. Who is fighting the Spam on Spam King Pleads Guilty in Seattle · · Score: 1
    Governor Spitzer made his career "fighting" human trafficking, prostitution, and organize crime. If we say it in English - he was holding interests in theses businesses. If not being an owner and an organizer.

    The information of it started to leak at first and then it all was simplified to being a simple client.

    Is it not a reason why human trafficking business is growing?

    Next question - who is fighting the Spam?

  19. Re:Ok..... on Pentagon Hid Magnitude of Data Loss From Recent Breach · · Score: 1
    Not only Microsoft OS. Any OS has got millions of lines of code. Security? Another OS monitoring an original one. Also nothing more than a code.

    And now we are approaching the autonomous systems, which actually decide when to shoot. Already there are land robots with guns, which do shoot people. Imagine changing a sign on a proper line of code from + to -. And it will turn and fight into another direction.

  20. Re:Ignorance on Pentagon Hid Magnitude of Data Loss From Recent Breach · · Score: 1

    Who knows what they really did? Maybe they replaced the DLLs in the guided missiles' navigation so that they turn to arbitrary targets when ordered by hackers.

  21. Cut fingers on British Airport Will Require Fingerprints From Domestic Passengers · · Score: 1
    They do not know what they are doing. Often the consequences differ from what is expected.

    They expect it will bring more order, but in reality it increases tremendously the value of human fingers for the real criminals.

    The technique will develop to cut the skin and paste it on the live fingers. It happened already with the luxury cars where security was based on the fingers too. It resulted that the finger of owners were cut out.

    Instead of just loosing a bloody car the owners were mutilated.

  22. Re:Airborne Drones Are More Viable on Underground Freight Networks · · Score: 1

    Flying takes a lot of fuel. 7 times more than a train, for example, for one passenger to the same destination.

  23. Not radical enough to work on Underground Freight Networks · · Score: 1
    Why underground? Why not connect the houses with the concrete aqueducts with the delivery pipes inside?

    For instance the first TV sets were hidden as a piece of furniture. Now they are in open.

    If we make the diameter of the tube about 80 cm we can forward humans as well as cargo.

    Ugly? Not as ugly as 1 million killed in traffic crashes every year. The 3rd world war. These pipes will be our protection against the current traffic world war.

    If the computer system regulates the traffic in this system it could be safe. One could even travel long distance in this capsule. The pipe should be placed on the ocean floor for this. Like cables nowadays. Water as coolant will allow tremendous speeds.

  24. WebSlices? on Internet Explorer 8 Beta Features Revealed · · Score: 1
    WebSlices? Sounds like a marketing blur from a TV seller.

    Why these MBAs at Microsoft cannot get that we do the serious things on the electronic networks and we deserve a serious attitude from the software providers.

    It is not about sprites, webslices, and activexes anymore. Human livelihoods and even lives themselves depend on the computer programs. And they offer us what? WebSlices?

  25. Re:It is not democracy they are interested Jim on Domains Blocked By US Treasury 'Blacklist' · · Score: 1
    It brought the Islamic fundamentalists to existence in the first place. If Mossadek manged to make a fair distribution of the BP revenues with the Iranian society the course of the history would be quite different.

    But the oil would not have been be dirt cheap as it was in the second half of the 20th century.