I'd love to see some spammers get a vacation at a federal PITA accomodation for using fraudulent credentials to fool mail servers into relaying their spam.
Then again, most spammers just want to make sure I can get a hard-on and have plenty of busty babes and a Canadian pharmacy connection to work with - they're not performing a near-textbook case of manslaughter by depraved indifference.
Your continued presence within my eyesight constitutes acceptance of the assertion that I have a right to take everything of value you have. Wallet, jewelery, cash please?
Most of my (non tech-savvy) friends don't care if their machine is botted, so long as it plays GTA x okay. I have to explain (usually one-on-one) why they're being harmed, even if they never see a slowdown on their desktop or have to deal with law enforcement. I have to explain why letting spambots run on their boxes is bad, even if they never check their own e-mail (and thus never see spam).
Good luck explaining to Grandma and Grandpa why they should pony up an extra thirty-odd dollars per month or more just to get their e-mail a little faster and with one or two less mouse clicks. Incidentally, has anybody here considered that people who are satisfied with dialup are doing the rest of us a favor? Likely as not, they're not sophisticated users and are the ones most likely to be running infected systems - best to relegate them to the list of "connects occasionally for limited uses". My greatest nightmare is already coming true - millions of desktops running Windows with inadequate protection persistently connected to the internet via a high-speed connection.
Lemme get this straight - for all intents and purposes, AVG has turned their entire customer base into one huge botnet, yes? They can't instruct it to "attack server ", or to initiate campaigns to increase the size of their botnet, but a botnet it remains. Anybody with AVG software installed will accept whatever that software does (at the behest of AVG), but since it lives under a cloak of legitimacy users won't be trying to purge it from their hosts anytime soon.
So - AVG Antivirus is a trojan, it's behavior once installed is much like a worm, it has been shown to inadvertantly cause DDoS attacks on websites (hey, what's the impact on the backbone from this?). AVG Antivirus is the BitTorrent of the botnet world!
If I wrote software like that, DOJ'd have me in jail 'til my beard reached past my kneecaps.
Given the technical literacy of the US government, they'll be lucky if they can even find the internet.
Don't tell 'em it's hiding in my basement. I downloaded it last week, and had a plummer come and remove the pipes afterward just to keep its location secret.
Seriously, AVG wasn't trying to DDoS websites around the world - they were only demonstrating that they aren't very good at predicting the consequences of their software's actions.
Never attribute to malice what can readily be explained by simple ignorance.
CO2 emissions from human activities (pollution)? Or . ..
Changes in solar energy output (the "ringing" of the Sun)? Or . ..
Naturally occuring changes in the planetary atmosphere (as has happened before on this planet)? Or . ..
Naturally occuring changes in the planetary hydrosphere (as has also happened before on this planet)? Or . ..
Al Gore's incessant whining about greenhouse gasses (now there's a bunch of hot air!)? Or . ..
But you get the point - when we at least have an educated guess as to the 'why' (and if that 'why' comes back to human activity on the planet), then I'll consider this more than an interesting possibility.
Wipe out the planet? Better still, wipe out the planet by creating one of the most powerful objects known to exist in the Universe? Oh wait, even better - wipe out the planet by creating exotic forms of matter which have hitherto not been observed in nature?
Okay, so the CC monitoring hasn't slashed violent/street crime, and it hasn't been a panacea for law enforcement/prosecution of crimes - but it has provided tons (tonnes?) of footage for "Wildest Police Video XXIV" and "FHV" . . .
Hey, I can remember (back before the intarweb) - on television, advertisers wouldn't even mention the competitor's name. It was always "a nationally-leading brand", or "the other guys", or some such offhand reference. Heck, for a long time, Avis was Number Two (and that Hertz).
I'm quite certain there was a lot of evidence presented before the court to which we are not privy. The judge in this case seems to have decided that Orion Residential Finance apparently was attempting to "piggyback" their advertising to the pre-existing corporate entity Orion Bankcorp.
Then again, there have been debacles in this area. I recall vaguely some poor guy (oriental) who set up a website (.com) using his family name, only to be sued seven years later when a major international corporation of the same name decided he was a cybersquatter. The courts ruled in favor of $MEGACORP even though the guy had proof that there had been content there practically from the day he went online. Money talks . ..
And it's that simple. Money talks. I understand your point about it being more convenient for the consumer to do comparitive shopping, but if I've heard of some "Orion Bank" and I want to know about it, I shouldn't be counted upon to know that "Orion Residential Finance" isn't the same thing. If I want to know about "Residential Finance", that's great - show me both links (and a bunch more) and let me shop. If I'm looking for "Orion Bank" or "Orion S&L", I shouldn't be confronted by a cynical ploy from ORF to steal OB's business. Evidently, OB felt the same way and had the money to make their opinion both known and a matter of law.
I watched this P. O. S. back when I was, erm, considerably younger than I am now, and I have only one question for the producers of the movie "Speed Racer" . ..
Why?
C'mon - "Japanimation" aimed squarely at the five-to-eight year old audience doesn't exactly scream out for a movie remake. What's next, "Kimba, the White Lion"? - oh, wait, Disney already gave us that (but they misspelled Kimba)!
I suppose it's true that Hollywierd hasn't got anything new to say - but why do they insist on trying to say it?
Anybody got a round-trip air ticket and a decent rifle I can borrow for a few days . . . ?
I'm getting tired of ads from Canadian Pharmacy, Nigerians with millions of quasi-illegal dollars to smuggle out of the country and "get rich now" offers (although I'm glad Debbie is still waiting for me).
Eventually, the free service providers (free net mail in particular) will become predominantly the domain of spamsters. When that happens (and it will), admins like me will start blackholing them; then, end-users will be forced to abandon them. Finally, they'll be obliged to start doing something heinous, like requiring a paper form submitted via snail-mail before a new account can be set up.
The dim bulbs in our government will love this, because it'll provide the "accountability" they've been craving to track that much more of what the average citizen is doing online. The lawyers will have a field day when mistakes get made (as they inevitibly will). Eventually, some particularly malicious government type will mandate TCM and biometrics on new computer hardware, tied to strong encryption (but only for the specified tracking and other "benign" government uses).
OMG - teh tubes! Ted Stevens was right! We've got to put some check-valves and emergency-cutoffs on teh intarweb, to protect our babies from the evils of Smiling Bob, Cialis and Debbie (who really wants me). Won't someone think of the children?
God, I hope I just need to get a tinfoil hat. I really do.
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Different equation. Different results. Also, how 'bout biofuels from waste (we've got plenty of that . . .)?
Ranting. Ignored.
You forseeing a massive crop failure the rest of us don't see coming?
Okay, we'll use nice, virgin oil made from surplus soybeans/corn/whatever vegetable - although it won't have that "french fried" smell . . .
Hey, you got one right!
Uh, hence the term renewable energy resources. Renewable. Not like fossil fuels (which are NOT renewable). Like crops.
Now, if you wanna look at the problem, it's not entirely our energy infrastructure; in large part it's our energy gluttony which is doing us in.
pushing the button? (SSLR)
Hey, somebody had to say it.
Then again, most spammers just want to make sure I can get a hard-on and have plenty of busty babes and a Canadian pharmacy connection to work with - they're not performing a near-textbook case of manslaughter by depraved indifference.
Your continued presence within my eyesight constitutes acceptance of the assertion that I have a right to take everything of value you have. Wallet, jewelery, cash please?
Most of my (non tech-savvy) friends don't care if their machine is botted, so long as it plays GTA x okay. I have to explain (usually one-on-one) why they're being harmed, even if they never see a slowdown on their desktop or have to deal with law enforcement. I have to explain why letting spambots run on their boxes is bad, even if they never check their own e-mail (and thus never see spam).
Good luck explaining to Grandma and Grandpa why they should pony up an extra thirty-odd dollars per month or more just to get their e-mail a little faster and with one or two less mouse clicks. Incidentally, has anybody here considered that people who are satisfied with dialup are doing the rest of us a favor? Likely as not, they're not sophisticated users and are the ones most likely to be running infected systems - best to relegate them to the list of "connects occasionally for limited uses". My greatest nightmare is already coming true - millions of desktops running Windows with inadequate protection persistently connected to the internet via a high-speed connection.
Allowing seven puppies to be harmed during the creation of your post. Really!
Lemme get this straight - for all intents and purposes, AVG has turned their entire customer base into one huge botnet, yes? They can't instruct it to "attack server ", or to initiate campaigns to increase the size of their botnet, but a botnet it remains. Anybody with AVG software installed will accept whatever that software does (at the behest of AVG), but since it lives under a cloak of legitimacy users won't be trying to purge it from their hosts anytime soon.
So - AVG Antivirus is a trojan, it's behavior once installed is much like a worm, it has been shown to inadvertantly cause DDoS attacks on websites (hey, what's the impact on the backbone from this?). AVG Antivirus is the BitTorrent of the botnet world!
If I wrote software like that, DOJ'd have me in jail 'til my beard reached past my kneecaps.
in a canoe (sslr).
Don't tell 'em it's hiding in my basement. I downloaded it last week, and had a plummer come and remove the pipes afterward just to keep its location secret.
Seriously, AVG wasn't trying to DDoS websites around the world - they were only demonstrating that they aren't very good at predicting the consequences of their software's actions.
Never attribute to malice what can readily be explained by simple ignorance.
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Hey, somebody had to say it.
Changes in solar energy output (the "ringing" of the Sun)? Or . . .
Naturally occuring changes in the planetary atmosphere (as has happened before on this planet)? Or . . .
Naturally occuring changes in the planetary hydrosphere (as has also happened before on this planet)? Or . . .
Al Gore's incessant whining about greenhouse gasses (now there's a bunch of hot air!)? Or . . .
But you get the point - when we at least have an educated guess as to the 'why' (and if that 'why' comes back to human activity on the planet), then I'll consider this more than an interesting possibility.
Works for me! :^D
Wipe out the planet? Better still, wipe out the planet by creating one of the most powerful objects known to exist in the Universe? Oh wait, even better - wipe out the planet by creating exotic forms of matter which have hitherto not been observed in nature?
To quote Governor Tarkin, "I think you overestimate their chances!" But if you insist, visit . Then tell me you think the LHC could spell the end of Earth itself - there are plenty of more likely ways to go than by particle collision.
THIS is /., not www.whitehouse.com.
Hmmm . . . nuclear fusion . . . yup, that's a household word nowadays. In use everywhere. Yup.
I'll bet the onboard computer comes with DNF pre-installed.
Okay, so the CC monitoring hasn't slashed violent/street crime, and it hasn't been a panacea for law enforcement/prosecution of crimes - but it has provided tons (tonnes?) of footage for "Wildest Police Video XXIV" and "FHV" . . .
I'm quite certain there was a lot of evidence presented before the court to which we are not privy. The judge in this case seems to have decided that Orion Residential Finance apparently was attempting to "piggyback" their advertising to the pre-existing corporate entity Orion Bankcorp.
Then again, there have been debacles in this area. I recall vaguely some poor guy (oriental) who set up a website (.com) using his family name, only to be sued seven years later when a major international corporation of the same name decided he was a cybersquatter. The courts ruled in favor of $MEGACORP even though the guy had proof that there had been content there practically from the day he went online. Money talks . . .
And it's that simple. Money talks. I understand your point about it being more convenient for the consumer to do comparitive shopping, but if I've heard of some "Orion Bank" and I want to know about it, I shouldn't be counted upon to know that "Orion Residential Finance" isn't the same thing. If I want to know about "Residential Finance", that's great - show me both links (and a bunch more) and let me shop. If I'm looking for "Orion Bank" or "Orion S&L", I shouldn't be confronted by a cynical ploy from ORF to steal OB's business. Evidently, OB felt the same way and had the money to make their opinion both known and a matter of law.
Why?
C'mon - "Japanimation" aimed squarely at the five-to-eight year old audience doesn't exactly scream out for a movie remake. What's next, "Kimba, the White Lion"? - oh, wait, Disney already gave us that (but they misspelled Kimba)!
I suppose it's true that Hollywierd hasn't got anything new to say - but why do they insist on trying to say it?
I'm getting tired of ads from Canadian Pharmacy, Nigerians with millions of quasi-illegal dollars to smuggle out of the country and "get rich now" offers (although I'm glad Debbie is still waiting for me).
The dim bulbs in our government will love this, because it'll provide the "accountability" they've been craving to track that much more of what the average citizen is doing online. The lawyers will have a field day when mistakes get made (as they inevitibly will). Eventually, some particularly malicious government type will mandate TCM and biometrics on new computer hardware, tied to strong encryption (but only for the specified tracking and other "benign" government uses).
OMG - teh tubes! Ted Stevens was right! We've got to put some check-valves and emergency-cutoffs on teh intarweb, to protect our babies from the evils of Smiling Bob, Cialis and Debbie (who really wants me). Won't someone think of the children?
God, I hope I just need to get a tinfoil hat. I really do.
Strange venue to pick if you wanted privacy.