Neopets.com is a great repository of flash games. I partial to a faerie bubbles myself. If you get bored with the games, then there's the world to explore, neopoints to collect, etc, etc.
The problem is, nothing is 100% secure or reliable.
Thumbprint - Can be copied, thumbs can go missing, gloves
Voice print - Can be recorded, stress is a factor, mute people
DNA (baby, that spells DNA) - Can be easily stolen, may be painful for everyday use, hard to match quickly
Drawing - Can be shoulder surfed, hard to reproduce accurately, hands go missing, blind people
One-time passwords - Requires users to remember to increment their password, algorithm must be simple for user's sake (making it easy to compromise for hacker's benefit)
Dongles - Can be stolen or lost
Anything overly complex - Password owner can fuck it up and lock themselves out.
Any sort of lock that would be at home in a D&D game is probably inappropriate.
I've been thinking about this lately. A lot of people at work have no problem shelling out $12 a month for a satellite radio. The music and talk selection isn't really any better than what you'd get on AM/FM. What they're paying for is the availability. It's mainly because they travel a lot between FM "zones", and don't like their music interrupted. (And they like the web interface, which they pipe through the office PA). It's pricey (in my books, anyways), but they have no problem with the payments.
But they'd never go with a pay-to-access Napster-esque service.
The cost is about the same. ~$10/month. With both of them, you lose access to the music as soon as you stop playing. Both are DRM'd (poorly and can be analog-hole'd). Both require access to a network, though the S-Radio is easier to connect to in the car. (No reliable metro wifi in Toronto yet).
So why would they pay for one, but never for the other. After talking about it, the reason we all seemed to agree on is the promise of what's offered. The S-Radio people are right up front with it. "Pay us money. We'll pipe you channels of music. If you stop paying, we stop piping. It's a service we're offering. Okay?"
Whereas these music places are a bit shadier with their promise. "Pay use money, and you can download music, as much as you want.". They say it knowing full well that people associate "download music" as "I transfer a file to my computer and it's there forever, and I can play it however much I want". They think of iTunes, which instantly brings up the thought of "pay per song". So Napster et all are effectively trying to trick people into thinking that they're just like iTunes, but you get unlimited music rather than paying per track. They dance around the "lose access" part of the deal. It comes off as very, very scummy and untrustworthy-- and people don't like dealing with companies like that. After all, if they're going to lie right to your face about this (outright or by omission), then what else are they going to lie about? What else can't you trust them with? Are they REALLY unlimited? It's already too good to be true-- and isn't true at that-- so what else is going to screw you out of your cash?
The satellite radio company tell you right up front what you'll get, and they give it to you. They're business is music.
Napster (and other Music Services) tells you a veiled lie, and seems only intent on taking your money. They're business is exploiting people's desire for music. They don't care about the music at all.
I'm in a software dev applied degree program at Seneca College. One of the upper semester professional option course is Topics in Open Source Development (Link to the course wiki, archives for 2006 at bottom of page).
The entire course was learning about open source culture, how projects are started, what makes a successful (or unsuccessful project). We learned about concepts like the GPL, Cathedral vs. Bazaar. We learned about open source tools like Source Forge. We learned about how open source devs communicate, through IRC, newsgroups and wikis. We learned about documentation and CVS.
And our term project was to write an extension for Firefox. There were a million and a half feature requests for Firefox anyways. So why bother writing a bunch of useless code that'd get tossed at the end of the semester, when we could write half-useless code that might actually benefit the community at large later on.
Most of us failed miserably at writing code for Firefox, but it was the learning process we were marked on, and not the final product. Though, from what I understand, a few of the extensions made it onto Source Forge, or were integrated into the Firefox 2 code. One of my classmates was hired by Mozilla for his co-op term, and was flown from Toronto to California.
At no time were any of us exploited or taken advantage of. We learned about how stuff actually works in a field that we'll either be entering, or working peripherally with. The code we produced was actually useful, rather than being some throw-away Hello World. It was a great learning experience.
Another course I took was a Patterns class. We used Design Patterns as the course text. Everyone had to write a summary of one pattern and present it to the class. The prof noticed that Wikipedia had entries on all the patterns, and on the book as a whole-- but that the book's entry had a note saying "Chapter 2: A case study description needs to be added". So for my assignment, instead of covering a pattern, I wrote the entry for the case study. In writing it, I accomplished many things. I got my required reading done. I learned about design patterns. And I used my newly acquired knowledge to help expand other's knowledge by contributing to a community project. It wasn't exploitive in any way. I would have learned that knowledge anyways. Someone would have put up that summary sooner or later (though judging by the revision history, it might have been VERY later).
Neither of the professors in the above had any trouble marking the work. The Open Source prof ran a wiki, and had full access to Source Forge or anywhere else we wanted to upload our projects. We had to Watch our own Wiki pages. Should there be a discrepancy, revision logs are ALWAYS available. The Patterns prof just reminded me to create a Wikipedia account so that he could see my revision history. I made sure to send him a link to the historical entry that had my final submission. I don't see why there would be any problem marking work that is fully accessible and timestamped.
(Like any Wiki entry, it has since been revised and improved many times. How many times can you hand in an incomplete school project, get marked for it, and have other people finish it for you later-- and have that all okayed in advance by your prof? =) )
We have layers of routing in networking to allow for easy modification of the system as a part without changing the system as a whole.
If you combined Layers 3 and 2 together, then it would be responsible for naming and routing. When you entered a name, the part of the system that takes in the name also has to know how to route it. If you change the routing protocol, you also have to completely redo your naming protocol. Right now, the naming protocol just discovers a place, and lets a specialist figure out how to get to that place. The routing doesn't care about the naming, and vice versa.
And for the record, the real world DOES work like the dots in an URL. They refer to subdomains-- places within places. So, in your example, a human knows the difference between Joe's Books in Georgia and Joe's Books in London BECAUSE of those dots. The thought process of "Am I in England or in Georgia?" is solved by observing the dots. It's Joe's Books, Goergia. Or Joe's Books, London.
An URL couldn't (or shouldn't) work like this, because URL's aren't geographically defined. In this example, you'd force someone to come up with a Georgia subdomain of.US. And any business in Georgia would have to register as JoeBooks.Georgia.US. What if there's more than one location? What if it's an international company? What if the bookstore is in Georgia, but thier shipping plant is in New York? How far down should the URL drill? JoeBooks.Downtown.Westpoint.MeriweatherCounty.Georgia.UnitedStates.NorthAmerica.NorthenHemisphere.Earth.SolSystem.Milkyway.Universe ? What if JoeBooks moves to Toronto? Do they need an entire new domain?
Computers don't work the way people think, because they're computers. Computers and humans speak two entirely different languages, and it's up the the programmers and engineers to come up with the interfaces that will best translate between them. URL is one such interface. It isn't perfect, but it's damn near the best we can do.
First let's sing that old familiar song-- "Causation != Correlation. La la la la na na."
There were 4 planes hijacked before the no-fly list. Now there's none. If you cancel the no-fly list, and a plane gets hijacked, what'll you tell people?
There were 4 planes hijacked before the Obama ran for president. Now there's none. If you don't elect Obama, and a plane gets hijacked, what'll you tell people?
... before Halo 3 came out. If you don't pwn the Covenant, and a plane gets hijacked, what'll you tell people?
... before Katrina. If you fix the damns and hurricanes don't kill terrorists and a plane gets hijacked...?
... before the Canadian Dollar went on parity with the greenback. If you don't buy bacon and maple chesterfields to keep the economy strong.... ?
... before the Bear Tax. If you let the Bears win...
If that's true, then they have the world's strangest list. "I'm sorry, Mr. Goatse guy, but you aren't allowed to fly. In fact, we're going to have to perform a cavity search. {unzip} Hmm, this'll be easy."
OR you can buy the game, and install it in a VM. Craft the VM to be as full of bullshit information as you like. Then next time you play, install it in a VM, and fill it with a completely different set of bullshit information. Play through a rotating series of geographically disperse proxies so that false location information is sent. If everyone choked them with worthless marketing data, they'll either stop or go bankrupt trying to market birth control pill ice cream to male Eskimos.
First, I agree with you about ads. I'd prefer to see none, but if they are there, they should be unobtrusive.
However, if you are keeping mission-critical and sensitive data on your computer, then you shouldn't be installing games on it. You're exposing your clients (and yourself) to admittedly invasive third parties. And that's just the software you KNOW about. If you're willing to install this, then what else gets indiscriminately installed? What does it do?
If you must play the game, install it on another machine. Or on a VM on your workstation. Though you should have that sensitive data on a separate intranet that is isolated from the rest of the world.
First, AP's wasn't offshore. It was run out of Kahnawake. Which is in Canada. (Okay, Quebec, so it's SORTA in Canada).
Second, there is oversight. There's the Kahnawake Gaming Commission. But, admittedly, they blow at customer relations. But with their backs against the server-room, they're actually doing something about this one. They're commissioning an independent investigation to see what's going on. Again-- because it would be bad PR otherwise.
And that's where the real oversight comes in. The players are what keep the online casinos "honest". Players like those who discovered the AP cheats. People who know how the games should be running, and know when things aren't being run correctly. Then there's player run oversight groups like Casinomeister. And there's also people who have put up tons of statistical information about online games, like The Wizard of Odds
A casino with a bad reputation gets spotted, gets talked about, and goes out of business. The online gambling world's potential playerbase is relatively small, and there's a LOT of businesses who want a piece of their action. Screw up once, and every single player has five hundred other places they can go to.
I think that "Viacom Puts the Entire Daily Show with Jon Stewart Archive Online as I think the show is technically called that now? But you're right, the show began in 1996 and Craig Kilborn was the host until 1999" is too long of a title for a Slashdot article.
It's the message. If there's fucking stupid people, they'll fall for fucking stupid things. This isn't "a brilliant now scam". It's the exact same scam, praying on the exact same people: fucking idiots stupid enough to open an attachment because the email told them they'll make money.
Maybe we should just start taking a supremely draconian stance on this. Someone comes down to the police station saying that all their money is gone because some email scammer stole it? Shoot them in the head. Then use their bank records to track down the scammer, and shoot them in the head, too. If you can't find the scammer, that's okay. Soon enough their pool of victims will dry up due to head/bullet related activities.
You'd think this wouldn't work, because people would stop coming down to the police station because they heard people were getting shot in the head. But then again, you'd also think that email scams wouldn't work because people keep hearing about other people getting ripped off by email scams. Those people will fall for anything. The cops can just send out an email about it. "Got ripped off by a scammer? Come down for free $$$! No h3ad shotz for sure!"
And if had any intention at all to do good instead of harm, he would have sent the SWAT team to an address that ended up being the IT department responsible for 911 security.
He'd also have five pepperoni pizzas waiting for them, an ten page document that outlined, in detail, exactly what he did to get everyone to this point, and how it can be fixed.
And, of course, he'd have done it all anonymously.
Radiohead: Hi, we have this album. Pay whatever you want, then take it.
Fan: And if I want to pay nothing.
Radiohead: Sure.
Fan: What's this costing you, then?
Radiohead: A few pounds or so for the electricity and such. Oh, a couple pence in bandwidth per download.
Fan: So, if someone gives you zero, you lose a couple pence on the sale?
Radiohead: Yeah, pretty much, but whatever, right? One sale'll make up for it.
Fan: Here, let me give you a hand. I'll put it on the P2P, and the folks who weren't going to pay for it anyways will get it, but won't suck up your bandwidth.
Radiohead:Thanks ma--
Forbes: AHA WE CAUGHT YOU YOU PUSS-SWEATING KNEE-RAPING PIRATE!!!!!!!1!
Or we could ship them off to the middle of Verdant Wilderness, USA along with all the other ne'er-do-well, white collar criminals. Drop them in the middle of lush, fertile, farmable land that would otherwise go to "waste". Give them all the farming tools they'll need, access to potable water, a pat on the back and a good view of the helicopter flying away.
And no computer. Or phone, or CB or anything.
They can live off the land, and that'd be fine. Or they can organize into a farming community, and live well off the land. Or they can cultivate the land, gather all the food that's just sitting there, and trade it back to the government at a fair price for other goods and services-- meat, looms, whole cloth, better tools, soft beds, insulation-- etc.
If they want to brave the wilderness and walk 500 miles back to civilization-- and they survive-- let's count that as a reform. (Though it may be closer to 1000 miles-- who knows?).
If they serve their time and want back, not a problem. Helicopter will be right around.
Or maybe they'll build a thriving farm, a life, a community and maybe a family. And maybe they'll want to stay. And that's just fine, too.
Or they'll all go batshit and kill each other in an orgy of white-collar supremacy and y'know what, maybe that was just meant to be.
No torture needed. No forcible confinement. No tens of thousands of dollars a year per person. They get a new life out of it, the country gets extra usable farm land.
Oh yeah, and if they get convicted again, THEN it's off to PMITA for 10-15. They had their chance.
While I have no qualms with a spammer/scammer getting offed in a most satisfactory way, I would hesitate to celebrate it as a victory for "anti-spam". If he was murdered by the Russian mafia, it wasn't because Don Boris got one too many Viagara advertisements. It's because, as a rich business owner, he didn't pay protection money. Or because he short-changed a pill supplier, who is probably a mafia person too-- and mispaying the mafia directly or indirectly isn't good. Or he moved in on someone else's territory. Or because he had boatloads of cash hanging around and didn't buy an ADT alarm system.
Basically, he wasn't murdered because of spam. He was murdered because he was a anuscluster who crossed the wrong people.
Though, I do think it would be wonderful if Don Boris' 18 year old nephew, who is also the "company's" sys-admin, came to him one day and said "Hey, you know what I want for my graduation present? {type type typitty type whois reverselookup tap-type-print} That snogmuffin off the Internet."
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Neopets.com is a great repository of flash games. I partial to a faerie bubbles myself. If you get bored with the games, then there's the world to explore, neopoints to collect, etc, etc.
Thumbprint - Can be copied, thumbs can go missing, gloves Voice print - Can be recorded, stress is a factor, mute people DNA (baby, that spells DNA) - Can be easily stolen, may be painful for everyday use, hard to match quickly Drawing - Can be shoulder surfed, hard to reproduce accurately, hands go missing, blind people One-time passwords - Requires users to remember to increment their password, algorithm must be simple for user's sake (making it easy to compromise for hacker's benefit) Dongles - Can be stolen or lost Anything overly complex - Password owner can fuck it up and lock themselves out.
Any sort of lock that would be at home in a D&D game is probably inappropriate.
Yes, but is a picture worth a seven hundred words, one hundred upper case words, one hundred numbers, and one hundred special characters?
Rule 45: Expand or die.
Rule 34: War is good for business.
Oddly appropriate.
But they'd never go with a pay-to-access Napster-esque service.
The cost is about the same. ~$10/month. With both of them, you lose access to the music as soon as you stop playing. Both are DRM'd (poorly and can be analog-hole'd). Both require access to a network, though the S-Radio is easier to connect to in the car. (No reliable metro wifi in Toronto yet).
So why would they pay for one, but never for the other. After talking about it, the reason we all seemed to agree on is the promise of what's offered. The S-Radio people are right up front with it. "Pay us money. We'll pipe you channels of music. If you stop paying, we stop piping. It's a service we're offering. Okay?"
Whereas these music places are a bit shadier with their promise. "Pay use money, and you can download music, as much as you want.". They say it knowing full well that people associate "download music" as "I transfer a file to my computer and it's there forever, and I can play it however much I want". They think of iTunes, which instantly brings up the thought of "pay per song". So Napster et all are effectively trying to trick people into thinking that they're just like iTunes, but you get unlimited music rather than paying per track. They dance around the "lose access" part of the deal. It comes off as very, very scummy and untrustworthy-- and people don't like dealing with companies like that. After all, if they're going to lie right to your face about this (outright or by omission), then what else are they going to lie about? What else can't you trust them with? Are they REALLY unlimited? It's already too good to be true-- and isn't true at that-- so what else is going to screw you out of your cash?
The satellite radio company tell you right up front what you'll get, and they give it to you. They're business is music.
Napster (and other Music Services) tells you a veiled lie, and seems only intent on taking your money. They're business is exploiting people's desire for music. They don't care about the music at all.
THAT'S why they will always, always fail.
The entire course was learning about open source culture, how projects are started, what makes a successful (or unsuccessful project). We learned about concepts like the GPL, Cathedral vs. Bazaar. We learned about open source tools like Source Forge. We learned about how open source devs communicate, through IRC, newsgroups and wikis. We learned about documentation and CVS.
And our term project was to write an extension for Firefox. There were a million and a half feature requests for Firefox anyways. So why bother writing a bunch of useless code that'd get tossed at the end of the semester, when we could write half-useless code that might actually benefit the community at large later on.
Most of us failed miserably at writing code for Firefox, but it was the learning process we were marked on, and not the final product. Though, from what I understand, a few of the extensions made it onto Source Forge, or were integrated into the Firefox 2 code. One of my classmates was hired by Mozilla for his co-op term, and was flown from Toronto to California.
At no time were any of us exploited or taken advantage of. We learned about how stuff actually works in a field that we'll either be entering, or working peripherally with. The code we produced was actually useful, rather than being some throw-away Hello World. It was a great learning experience.
Another course I took was a Patterns class. We used Design Patterns as the course text. Everyone had to write a summary of one pattern and present it to the class. The prof noticed that Wikipedia had entries on all the patterns, and on the book as a whole-- but that the book's entry had a note saying "Chapter 2: A case study description needs to be added". So for my assignment, instead of covering a pattern, I wrote the entry for the case study. In writing it, I accomplished many things. I got my required reading done. I learned about design patterns. And I used my newly acquired knowledge to help expand other's knowledge by contributing to a community project. It wasn't exploitive in any way. I would have learned that knowledge anyways. Someone would have put up that summary sooner or later (though judging by the revision history, it might have been VERY later).
Neither of the professors in the above had any trouble marking the work. The Open Source prof ran a wiki, and had full access to Source Forge or anywhere else we wanted to upload our projects. We had to Watch our own Wiki pages. Should there be a discrepancy, revision logs are ALWAYS available. The Patterns prof just reminded me to create a Wikipedia account so that he could see my revision history. I made sure to send him a link to the historical entry that had my final submission. I don't see why there would be any problem marking work that is fully accessible and timestamped.
(Like any Wiki entry, it has since been revised and improved many times. How many times can you hand in an incomplete school project, get marked for it, and have other people finish it for you later-- and have that all okayed in advance by your prof? =) )
Nei dies halfway through.
The goggles! They do nothing!
If you combined Layers 3 and 2 together, then it would be responsible for naming and routing. When you entered a name, the part of the system that takes in the name also has to know how to route it. If you change the routing protocol, you also have to completely redo your naming protocol. Right now, the naming protocol just discovers a place, and lets a specialist figure out how to get to that place. The routing doesn't care about the naming, and vice versa.
And for the record, the real world DOES work like the dots in an URL. They refer to subdomains-- places within places. So, in your example, a human knows the difference between Joe's Books in Georgia and Joe's Books in London BECAUSE of those dots. The thought process of "Am I in England or in Georgia?" is solved by observing the dots. It's Joe's Books, Goergia. Or Joe's Books, London.
An URL couldn't (or shouldn't) work like this, because URL's aren't geographically defined. In this example, you'd force someone to come up with a Georgia subdomain of .US. And any business in Georgia would have to register as JoeBooks.Georgia.US. What if there's more than one location? What if it's an international company? What if the bookstore is in Georgia, but thier shipping plant is in New York? How far down should the URL drill? JoeBooks.Downtown.Westpoint.MeriweatherCounty.Georgia.UnitedStates.NorthAmerica.NorthenHemisphere.Earth.SolSystem.Milkyway.Universe ? What if JoeBooks moves to Toronto? Do they need an entire new domain?
Computers don't work the way people think, because they're computers. Computers and humans speak two entirely different languages, and it's up the the programmers and engineers to come up with the interfaces that will best translate between them. URL is one such interface. It isn't perfect, but it's damn near the best we can do.
First let's sing that old familiar song-- "Causation != Correlation. La la la la na na."
There were 4 planes hijacked before the no-fly list. Now there's none. If you cancel the no-fly list, and a plane gets hijacked, what'll you tell people?
There were 4 planes hijacked before the Obama ran for president. Now there's none. If you don't elect Obama, and a plane gets hijacked, what'll you tell people?
If that's true, then they have the world's strangest list. "I'm sorry, Mr. Goatse guy, but you aren't allowed to fly. In fact, we're going to have to perform a cavity search. {unzip} Hmm, this'll be easy."
OR you can buy the game, and install it in a VM. Craft the VM to be as full of bullshit information as you like. Then next time you play, install it in a VM, and fill it with a completely different set of bullshit information. Play through a rotating series of geographically disperse proxies so that false location information is sent. If everyone choked them with worthless marketing data, they'll either stop or go bankrupt trying to market birth control pill ice cream to male Eskimos.
However, if you are keeping mission-critical and sensitive data on your computer, then you shouldn't be installing games on it. You're exposing your clients (and yourself) to admittedly invasive third parties. And that's just the software you KNOW about. If you're willing to install this, then what else gets indiscriminately installed? What does it do?
If you must play the game, install it on another machine. Or on a VM on your workstation. Though you should have that sensitive data on a separate intranet that is isolated from the rest of the world.
Second, there is oversight. There's the Kahnawake Gaming Commission. But, admittedly, they blow at customer relations. But with their backs against the server-room, they're actually doing something about this one. They're commissioning an independent investigation to see what's going on. Again-- because it would be bad PR otherwise.
And that's where the real oversight comes in. The players are what keep the online casinos "honest". Players like those who discovered the AP cheats. People who know how the games should be running, and know when things aren't being run correctly. Then there's player run oversight groups like Casinomeister. And there's also people who have put up tons of statistical information about online games, like The Wizard of Odds
A casino with a bad reputation gets spotted, gets talked about, and goes out of business. The online gambling world's potential playerbase is relatively small, and there's a LOT of businesses who want a piece of their action. Screw up once, and every single player has five hundred other places they can go to.
I think that "Viacom Puts the Entire Daily Show with Jon Stewart Archive Online as I think the show is technically called that now? But you're right, the show began in 1996 and Craig Kilborn was the host until 1999" is too long of a title for a Slashdot article.
Maybe we should just start taking a supremely draconian stance on this. Someone comes down to the police station saying that all their money is gone because some email scammer stole it? Shoot them in the head. Then use their bank records to track down the scammer, and shoot them in the head, too. If you can't find the scammer, that's okay. Soon enough their pool of victims will dry up due to head/bullet related activities.
You'd think this wouldn't work, because people would stop coming down to the police station because they heard people were getting shot in the head. But then again, you'd also think that email scams wouldn't work because people keep hearing about other people getting ripped off by email scams. Those people will fall for anything. The cops can just send out an email about it. "Got ripped off by a scammer? Come down for free $$$! No h3ad shotz for sure!"
He'd also have five pepperoni pizzas waiting for them, an ten page document that outlined, in detail, exactly what he did to get everyone to this point, and how it can be fixed.
And, of course, he'd have done it all anonymously.
But what about the unknown unknowns? How will it know to know them?
Because all it takes is for the college intern to get confused about "Indexable" and "Non-Indexable" flags...
Fan: And if I want to pay nothing.
Radiohead: Sure.
Fan: What's this costing you, then?
Radiohead: A few pounds or so for the electricity and such. Oh, a couple pence in bandwidth per download.
Fan: So, if someone gives you zero, you lose a couple pence on the sale?
Radiohead: Yeah, pretty much, but whatever, right? One sale'll make up for it.
Fan: Here, let me give you a hand. I'll put it on the P2P, and the folks who weren't going to pay for it anyways will get it, but won't suck up your bandwidth.
Radiohead:Thanks ma--
Forbes: AHA WE CAUGHT YOU YOU PUSS-SWEATING KNEE-RAPING PIRATE!!!!!!!1!
And that, folks, is the death of journalism.
And no computer. Or phone, or CB or anything.
They can live off the land, and that'd be fine. Or they can organize into a farming community, and live well off the land. Or they can cultivate the land, gather all the food that's just sitting there, and trade it back to the government at a fair price for other goods and services-- meat, looms, whole cloth, better tools, soft beds, insulation-- etc.
If they want to brave the wilderness and walk 500 miles back to civilization-- and they survive-- let's count that as a reform. (Though it may be closer to 1000 miles-- who knows?).
If they serve their time and want back, not a problem. Helicopter will be right around.
Or maybe they'll build a thriving farm, a life, a community and maybe a family. And maybe they'll want to stay. And that's just fine, too.
Or they'll all go batshit and kill each other in an orgy of white-collar supremacy and y'know what, maybe that was just meant to be.
No torture needed. No forcible confinement. No tens of thousands of dollars a year per person. They get a new life out of it, the country gets extra usable farm land.
Oh yeah, and if they get convicted again, THEN it's off to PMITA for 10-15. They had their chance.
I like the tag better. Mmmm.... taco man arrows. Sounds-- tastily disturbing.
And everything is just an extension of Object. So what?
Basically, he wasn't murdered because of spam. He was murdered because he was a anuscluster who crossed the wrong people.
Though, I do think it would be wonderful if Don Boris' 18 year old nephew, who is also the "company's" sys-admin, came to him one day and said "Hey, you know what I want for my graduation present? {type type typitty type whois reverselookup tap-type-print} That snogmuffin off the Internet."
"But mom, you're embarrassing me!"