How many people have their workstations directly connected to the internet modem, using a public IP ; and how many people have some sort of router between the modem and the workstation, like a home wireless router?
I'd guess the latter is far more common (and , of course, safer when done right). If so, you are likely running your own DHCP server on that router for your internal subnet, or have manually set permanent internal numbers for your workstations. In that case, you've also set your own DNS defaults at the DHCP Server or workstation setup.
Verizon here in Dracut, Mass. (via DSL) is not doing it, at least for now. I have seen it happen sporadically in the past two years.
My favorite test, making sure I'm avoiding something I hit recently and therefore is cached somewhere, is to type in 3-4 random alpha characters (sans a tld). Every 3-4 alpha character domain name resolves to something in the.com TLD.
Assuming Iraqis really do want Obama over McCain.... Let's see if we can figure out why...
Iraqi: The US is here as an invader, an occupier. They justified the war by saying we had ties to Al Qaeda, had something to do with 9/11, had Weapons of Mass Destruction which we intended to use against the US, and were trying to develop more.
Fact: Since the invasion, none of the above claims have been proven true.
McCain: The US will stay in Iraq for 100 years, for 1000 years.
Obama: I've always been opposed to this war, and will get us out as soon as possible.
Whatever you feel about Bush/Cheney and the war... regardless of how bad a guy you think Hussein was and whether or not that was justification enough for the war regardless of the reasons actually given... it doesn't take much imagination to understand why Iraqis may prefer Obama, and it has nothing to do with "all Iraqis are Muslim and they like Obama so he must be a Muslim too."
You're turning this story into something it is not.
This isn't about privacy. There was no attempt at privacy here.
Anyone feeling threatened by this should up their agoraphobia medicine. Either that, or you should educate yourself in the difference between public and private. Just because you had the false impression that your myspace page was private doesn't make it so.
Newsflash, the exterior of your home is also publicly visible. Hanging a billboard sized child pron poster on it will get you landed in jail, and no amount of "but I didn't think the police would be able to see it there" denial will help you.
Anyone in the printing or marketing industries is familiar with the concept of Variable Data Printing (aka One-to-One Marketing, or any of a number of other marketing buzz words). If you cater the ad/promo/mailing to the recipient, you can send out far fewer pieces to fewer participants, but thanks to higher hit percentage, yield better results.
I'm sure the number of attempted infections from this attack are very small in the scale of typical virus'. But I would not be surprised if the number of successful infections was pretty high, relatively speaking.
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, the attorney in this story might be a good choice . . . (but I cannot endorse him).
After that sentence, I have absolutely no doubt that you are, indeed, a lawyer.
[It's a] Prime example of American sexism in one of the few forms it exists today.
What's a prime example? The fact that coding is a male dominated workplace? Or that someone can make blanket, derogatory statements against a group of people based on their sex/race/religion and get away with it?
Yes, you could. Now if you were, say, paying for up to 5 Mbps Transfer rate and your ISP is limiting your bandwidth below that, your legal options become a little more muddled. The fact that your ISP is throttling one kind of traffic over another, or to one destination or another, is not necessarily part of the equation.
How ironic that my feelings on the matter so closely match the quote "What we've got here is failure to communicate... Now I don't like this any more than you do."
OB Harry Chapin Lyric:
And he sideswiped nineteen neat parked cars,
clipped off thirteen telephone poles,
hit two houses, bruised eight trees,
and Blue-Crossed seven people.
It was then he lost his head,
not to mention an arm or two before he stopped.
And he smeared for four hundred yards
along the hill that leads into Scranton, Pennsylvania
all those thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
The other day, I came up with a program that helps put words on paper with the help of a computer.
Problem is, Microsoft already did it a while ago, and called their program "Word."
What do you think... could they sue me for copyright infringement? (Or could the many predecessors to Word sue MS?)
I have to admit I don't know enough of the facts to render final judgment, but I have been a fan of both the site and the books for some time now. From what I understand, hp-lexicon wants to publish, and profit from, their own retelling of a copyrighted work. From what I've seen of the site, I'd imagine it would be quite accurate and true to the original, but that's immaterial.
So what if JKR didn't object to the site when it was non-profit? Also immaterial.
And I know JKR has been a bit (*ahem*) overenthusiastic with other legal actions. Again, immaterial. Karma is not a legally valid argument.
Turn this around and ask... once HP-Lexicon has their own copyrighted version of the Harry Potter story, what's to stop them from changing it? What right would the original creator of the work have to control her creation if the copyright of the retelling is under someone else's control?
Could I call my word processor "Microsoft Word?" I'd really like to. I mean, I've done my best to make it look and act like Word. In fact, I even call all of the outwardly visible features the exact same thing as it's called in Word. Man, being able to call it Word would really help sales.
The Republican Party has mastered the art of political misdirection.
Everything they say they espouse, they despise.(1)
Everything they say they despise, they espouse.(2)
Everything they say their political opponents are guilty of, they have mastered.(3)
1) They are the party against big government and fiscal management, right? Well then why is it that the vast majority of our national debt was accumulated under Reagan, Bush I and Bush II? The military is part of our government, is it not? Hasn't the military blossomed under republican control, to the extent its operations (administration directed, of course) have drained our economy? You can't say you're against big government spending on health care, and then turn around and spend more on the military, while still saying you're the fiscally responsible ones.
2)Republicans say they want the government out of people's lives. Except, come to think of it, I gues it's ok for the government to wiretap you without any checks and balances, of course.
3) According to Republicans, Democrats are soft on crime, soft on defense, and "tax and spend"ers.
a) Republicans have looked the other way while corporate crime has bankrupted so many, from Enron to the Savings and Loans fiasco, to commodities speculation that has driven oil through the roof.
b) No one can claim anyone has done more damage to our military than the Republicans presently in power. And as for defending our country against terrorists... WMD's and Al-Qaeda did not exist in Iraq prior to this war. Al-Qaeda is thriving there now. Because this administration has crippled and disregarded the State Department and the art of international diplomacy in favor of "you're either with us or you're in our military's sights," our country is now economically, militarily, and politacally weaker on the international front than it has in about a century.
c) Democrats are the "tax and spend" party? For the vast majority of Americans, both parties have almost identical taxing preferences. It's primarily on the rich and the corporations that the parties differ, and here it is true the Democrats tax more. But by not taxing the rich, and instead accumulating debt to be paid for by all Americans in the form of higher interest rates and a bubble economy on the verg of collapse, the pain of taxation is much higher from Republicans. It's just not called "taxes," it's called "a weak economy." The piper's got to be paid, and if you're not taxing the rich, it's the poor who pay.
As a bonus example, I give morality. The Republicans are the party of morality, of family values. What a laugh. How many Democratic Presidents have resigned in disgrace? OK, Clinton got a BJ in the hallway next to the oval office and lied about it. Bush II fucked the country, cost us the lives of more soldiers than we lost civilians in 9/11, and based the justification on lies which continue to this day, morphing all the time. Bush I, right along side the Second Coming of Christ-Reagan, sold arms illegally to - wait for it - Iran, in order to illegally fund the contras in direct violation of Congress' directives. You remember the Contras, right? Nowadays, they'd be called terrorists. Christian values? Does anyone really doubt that if there is a hell, Cheney's got a whole wing reserved with his name on it?
The Republican movement of the last 20 years has turned truly evil. The vast majority of Republican politicians are good, honest leaders who would never wish ill on America or Americans. But the movement as a whole has damaged our country as much as any foreign foe ever has.
So then based on my high six figure UID, the church would label me a heretic, an affront to the Bible's version of things, and good candidate to a stake-burning. It's a fair cop.
Breaking News! (Bah-deep beep... bah-deep beep beep...) Google has sold computers to the NSA. These computers are good for searching databases, something Google has a little experience doing. The NSA could be using these servers to SPY ON YOU! Film at 11.
Staples has also been caught selling pens to the NSA, pens that may have been used to WRITE YOUR NAME ON THE TAB AT THE TOP OF A FOLDER!!!!!
And bring it down to the local level, Jim Stevens, of "Jim's Roach Coach," was seen parking his Yuck Truck outside the caf door of the NSA, selling food at break time to NSA employees, who MAY BE USING THOSE CALORIES RIGHT NOW TO SPY ON YOU!!!!
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I'd guess the latter is far more common (and , of course, safer when done right). If so, you are likely running your own DHCP server on that router for your internal subnet, or have manually set permanent internal numbers for your workstations. In that case, you've also set your own DNS defaults at the DHCP Server or workstation setup.
My favorite test, making sure I'm avoiding something I hit recently and therefore is cached somewhere, is to type in 3-4 random alpha characters (sans a tld). Every 3-4 alpha character domain name resolves to something in the .com TLD.
Iraqi: The US is here as an invader, an occupier. They justified the war by saying we had ties to Al Qaeda, had something to do with 9/11, had Weapons of Mass Destruction which we intended to use against the US, and were trying to develop more.
Fact: Since the invasion, none of the above claims have been proven true.
McCain: The US will stay in Iraq for 100 years, for 1000 years.
Obama: I've always been opposed to this war, and will get us out as soon as possible.
Whatever you feel about Bush/Cheney and the war... regardless of how bad a guy you think Hussein was and whether or not that was justification enough for the war regardless of the reasons actually given... it doesn't take much imagination to understand why Iraqis may prefer Obama, and it has nothing to do with "all Iraqis are Muslim and they like Obama so he must be a Muslim too."
This isn't about privacy. There was no attempt at privacy here.
Anyone feeling threatened by this should up their agoraphobia medicine. Either that, or you should educate yourself in the difference between public and private. Just because you had the false impression that your myspace page was private doesn't make it so.
Newsflash, the exterior of your home is also publicly visible. Hanging a billboard sized child pron poster on it will get you landed in jail, and no amount of "but I didn't think the police would be able to see it there" denial will help you.
There are even fewer 8-15 MPG petrol guzzlers over here in the states. In fact, there are so few, they don't even sell petrol here anymore.
I'm sure the number of attempted infections from this attack are very small in the scale of typical virus'. But I would not be surprised if the number of successful infections was pretty high, relatively speaking.
QED?
Hmmm... Have the folks at Wiki put in code that stops an article on the Bible from citing itself as the source?
I put the over/under on American /. users who get this reference at about 5%.
After that sentence, I have absolutely no doubt that you are, indeed, a lawyer.
... considering I don't buy Dell unless you pay me $250 minimum /workstation.
What's a prime example? The fact that coding is a male dominated workplace? Or that someone can make blanket, derogatory statements against a group of people based on their sex/race/religion and get away with it?
Never mind, actually. I'd agree either way.
"A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place." - Gordon Gecko
How ironic that my feelings on the matter so closely match the quote "What we've got here is failure to communicate... Now I don't like this any more than you do."
OB Harry Chapin Lyric:
And he sideswiped nineteen neat parked cars,
clipped off thirteen telephone poles,
hit two houses, bruised eight trees,
and Blue-Crossed seven people.
It was then he lost his head,
not to mention an arm or two before he stopped.
And he smeared for four hundred yards
along the hill that leads into Scranton, Pennsylvania
all those thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
The fact that this comment was modded up to +5 funny by people with mod points is hilarious.
Yeah... I'm not going anywhere near SP3 until it's in SP1, at least.
Problem is, Microsoft already did it a while ago, and called their program "Word."
What do you think... could they sue me for copyright infringement? (Or could the many predecessors to Word sue MS?)
I have to admit I don't know enough of the facts to render final judgment, but I have been a fan of both the site and the books for some time now. From what I understand, hp-lexicon wants to publish, and profit from, their own retelling of a copyrighted work. From what I've seen of the site, I'd imagine it would be quite accurate and true to the original, but that's immaterial.
So what if JKR didn't object to the site when it was non-profit? Also immaterial.
And I know JKR has been a bit (*ahem*) overenthusiastic with other legal actions. Again, immaterial. Karma is not a legally valid argument.
Turn this around and ask... once HP-Lexicon has their own copyrighted version of the Harry Potter story, what's to stop them from changing it? What right would the original creator of the work have to control her creation if the copyright of the retelling is under someone else's control?
Could I call my word processor "Microsoft Word?" I'd really like to. I mean, I've done my best to make it look and act like Word. In fact, I even call all of the outwardly visible features the exact same thing as it's called in Word. Man, being able to call it Word would really help sales.
whew. I'm glad they nipped that in the bud.
"50 gateways" != 50 Cisco 1601R's.
A gateway is a point of entry, but do not confuse "a point" with "a single line, a single box."
Cowboyneal's serving out community service?
Everything they say they espouse, they despise.(1)
Everything they say they despise, they espouse.(2)
Everything they say their political opponents are guilty of, they have mastered.(3)
1) They are the party against big government and fiscal management, right? Well then why is it that the vast majority of our national debt was accumulated under Reagan, Bush I and Bush II? The military is part of our government, is it not? Hasn't the military blossomed under republican control, to the extent its operations (administration directed, of course) have drained our economy? You can't say you're against big government spending on health care, and then turn around and spend more on the military, while still saying you're the fiscally responsible ones.
2)Republicans say they want the government out of people's lives. Except, come to think of it, I gues it's ok for the government to wiretap you without any checks and balances, of course.
3) According to Republicans, Democrats are soft on crime, soft on defense, and "tax and spend"ers. a) Republicans have looked the other way while corporate crime has bankrupted so many, from Enron to the Savings and Loans fiasco, to commodities speculation that has driven oil through the roof.
b) No one can claim anyone has done more damage to our military than the Republicans presently in power. And as for defending our country against terrorists... WMD's and Al-Qaeda did not exist in Iraq prior to this war. Al-Qaeda is thriving there now. Because this administration has crippled and disregarded the State Department and the art of international diplomacy in favor of "you're either with us or you're in our military's sights," our country is now economically, militarily, and politacally weaker on the international front than it has in about a century.
c) Democrats are the "tax and spend" party? For the vast majority of Americans, both parties have almost identical taxing preferences. It's primarily on the rich and the corporations that the parties differ, and here it is true the Democrats tax more. But by not taxing the rich, and instead accumulating debt to be paid for by all Americans in the form of higher interest rates and a bubble economy on the verg of collapse, the pain of taxation is much higher from Republicans. It's just not called "taxes," it's called "a weak economy." The piper's got to be paid, and if you're not taxing the rich, it's the poor who pay.
As a bonus example, I give morality. The Republicans are the party of morality, of family values. What a laugh. How many Democratic Presidents have resigned in disgrace? OK, Clinton got a BJ in the hallway next to the oval office and lied about it. Bush II fucked the country, cost us the lives of more soldiers than we lost civilians in 9/11, and based the justification on lies which continue to this day, morphing all the time. Bush I, right along side the Second Coming of Christ-Reagan, sold arms illegally to - wait for it - Iran, in order to illegally fund the contras in direct violation of Congress' directives. You remember the Contras, right? Nowadays, they'd be called terrorists. Christian values? Does anyone really doubt that if there is a hell, Cheney's got a whole wing reserved with his name on it?
The Republican movement of the last 20 years has turned truly evil. The vast majority of Republican politicians are good, honest leaders who would never wish ill on America or Americans. But the movement as a whole has damaged our country as much as any foreign foe ever has.
So then based on my high six figure UID, the church would label me a heretic, an affront to the Bible's version of things, and good candidate to a stake-burning. It's a fair cop.
"I'm new here" != UID 57578
Breaking News! (Bah-deep beep... bah-deep beep beep...) Google has sold computers to the NSA. These computers are good for searching databases, something Google has a little experience doing. The NSA could be using these servers to SPY ON YOU! Film at 11.
Staples has also been caught selling pens to the NSA, pens that may have been used to WRITE YOUR NAME ON THE TAB AT THE TOP OF A FOLDER!!!!!
And bring it down to the local level, Jim Stevens, of "Jim's Roach Coach," was seen parking his Yuck Truck outside the caf door of the NSA, selling food at break time to NSA employees, who MAY BE USING THOSE CALORIES RIGHT NOW TO SPY ON YOU!!!!