Microsoft Assisted Worm Investigation
Microsoft's Internet Crime Investigations Team supported the investigation with law enforcement immediately following the release of the two worms. Microsoft provided technical information and analytical support to the FBI on this case, which was then shared with Moroccan and Turkish authorities.
I'm working on a continuation story with more information and I'll post it here, probably next week. If I can't get it published here, then please come looking for it on Monday or Tuesday in High Tech and on the front page at http://newsblaze.com/
If you bookmark the story you just read, I'll link to the new story from there, too.
Sorry I couldn't get the technical information before I published the first part.
That is how we communicate.
The point is clear communication, so everyone immediately understands what is intended.
There are rules to abide by.
Try writing a program in perl, php, HTML or any other language. Then change the keywords and see the result.
The strange thing about language is that the human brain can usually determine the intended meaning, unless Mrs Malaprop is speaking.
As someone else said, language evolves over time, but that is no reason to destroy a system that works. There is beauty in language that many can't see.
Some new email laws put state residents at risk. The purge lists in Utah and Michigan look like a great way for spammers to check for valid addresses in those states. Breaking the privacy of the people they are trying to protect. That legislation, like most anti-spam legislation is unworkable because the government doesn't understand enough about the subject.
Like the CAN-SPAM law, this could - do nothing - stop legal senders - add to disclaimers on websites - get legitimate senders into touble with the law
Yes, what I am saying is that the US conservatives would have shut them down if they had control, which they don't.
They wouldn't care that it makes money. If they cared more about money, they would tax marijuana.
If the government controlled DNS, it would be completely screwed up and the porn sites would be deleted.
Also, the CAN-SPAM legislation would not have been necessary.
They would just delete spammers.
If you believe everyone plays fair, then put servers in other places, but the root servers need to work together.
What happens if a government decides its going to play dirty and screw up the whole system?
What about physical security? How can you guarantee that if the root servers are spread out across the world?
There have been few problems so far and no dirty pool. Leave it as-is unless theres a compelling case to do otherwise.
Of course, this depends on your particular laptop conforming to the standard. If its way out of tolerance, you can never tell.
Check out a search on Medline and you'll see lots of experiments on rats with low-level microwaves, often modulated by a low frequency.
It may be too late for you. Your jewels may already be cooked.
As suggested above, quickly find a girfiriend and check it out.
Be sure to let us know the results.
Lets just hope you don't get quadruplets on the first shot.
It always seemed more about a failed company clutching at straws to get attention and maybe if they could pull it off, a lot of money and control. - But they never had a good story that would hold up.
That may be true of a backyard operation, but any business that wants to keep its customers doesn't hire dorks.
Some businesses will do this, of course, but you shouldn't outsorce to them without checking that they know what they are talking about.
Remember also, that you only sign a contract that you agree to. You can get lots of interesting things into a contract, such as performance guarantees.
If they won't agree to a reasonable performance guarantee, then you haven't found the right one and you should keep looking.
We lost a customer several years ago because they got a new VP who thought it would save them money to take it inhouse. They were paying us something like $3000 per month. They bought several machines, added the OS and all the software, and 2 staff and were then flooded with spam because they had no experience and software that couldn't handle the load.
How many staff and machines and how much bandwidth can you get for $36k ? And how do you maintain your system 24x7x365 in that price too?
I host my newspaper at EV1servers, but that's not what you need.
What you need is to outsource all of the day-to-day grunt work. My other company could do email for you but we don't do webservers.
Have you considered splitting it up?
You need to dump Exchange. its the most horrible, time-consuming, labour-intensive and expensive email system possible.
If you must stick with Windows (horrible server OS), "Rackspace.com" does Windows and I've never heard any complaints about them. They aren't cheap, but they are cheaper than having staff and they are very good at what they do. You won't have to worry about them keeping up to date or knowing what to do in case of a problem.
As someone else said, you need to list all the things you do, enter the time and effort and run comparisons. Also, you need to consider the qualiy of the work your staff does and compare it to the quality of the outsource shop.
I know you're not going to take it offshore - the savings are not worth the trouble and while labour costs are lower, hardware and network costs are not. Security is probably important to you - another reason not to offshore.
My guess is that there were more - and more interesting project suggestions for KDE than Gnome.
I doubt that Apache's high number has anything to do with Google's use of apache.
It will be related to innovation and usefulness.
If you look at the lists of suggested projects, ASF probably has the biggest number.
Apache projects also have the capability to be useful to more people.
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Microsoft Assisted Worm Investigation Microsoft's Internet Crime Investigations Team supported the investigation with law enforcement immediately following the release of the two worms. Microsoft provided technical information and analytical support to the FBI on this case, which was then shared with Moroccan and Turkish authorities.
I'm working on a continuation story with more information and I'll post it here, probably next week. If I can't get it published here, then please come looking for it on Monday or Tuesday in High Tech and on the front page at http://newsblaze.com/ If you bookmark the story you just read, I'll link to the new story from there, too. Sorry I couldn't get the technical information before I published the first part.
I don't know that its a "quet" release. The news is everywhere. They just didn't make a big announcement. Apple patch fixes sucurity issues
That is how we communicate. The point is clear communication, so everyone immediately understands what is intended. There are rules to abide by. Try writing a program in perl, php, HTML or any other language. Then change the keywords and see the result. The strange thing about language is that the human brain can usually determine the intended meaning, unless Mrs Malaprop is speaking. As someone else said, language evolves over time, but that is no reason to destroy a system that works. There is beauty in language that many can't see.
Some new email laws put state residents at risk.
The purge lists in Utah and Michigan look like a great way for spammers to check for valid addresses in those states.
Breaking the privacy of the people they are trying to protect.
That legislation, like most anti-spam legislation is unworkable because the government doesn't understand enough about the subject.
Like the CAN-SPAM law, this could
- do nothing
- stop legal senders
- add to disclaimers on websites
- get legitimate senders into touble with the law
Email broadcasters unknowingly break the law
Yes, what I am saying is that the US conservatives would have shut them down if they had control, which they don't. They wouldn't care that it makes money. If they cared more about money, they would tax marijuana.
If the government controlled DNS, it would be completely screwed up and the porn sites would be deleted. Also, the CAN-SPAM legislation would not have been necessary. They would just delete spammers.
If you believe everyone plays fair, then put servers in other places, but the root servers need to work together. What happens if a government decides its going to play dirty and screw up the whole system? What about physical security? How can you guarantee that if the root servers are spread out across the world? There have been few problems so far and no dirty pool. Leave it as-is unless theres a compelling case to do otherwise.
Of course, this depends on your particular laptop conforming to the standard. If its way out of tolerance, you can never tell. Check out a search on Medline and you'll see lots of experiments on rats with low-level microwaves, often modulated by a low frequency. It may be too late for you. Your jewels may already be cooked. As suggested above, quickly find a girfiriend and check it out. Be sure to let us know the results. Lets just hope you don't get quadruplets on the first shot.
It always seemed more about a failed company clutching at straws to get attention and maybe if they could pull it off, a lot of money and control.
- But they never had a good story that would hold up.
I sold a few copies of it in the 90s until I realised it was disgustingly horrible.
They are like the bully who beats the crap out of anyone they can, then they realise they have no friends left, so they try bribery.
No chance SCO, you've hurt too many people with long memories.
And beware false statements too.
"Worst in Breed"?
That may be true of a backyard operation, but any business that wants to keep its customers doesn't hire dorks.
Some businesses will do this, of course, but you shouldn't outsorce to them without checking that they know what they are talking about.
Remember also, that you only sign a contract that you agree to. You can get lots of interesting things into a contract, such as performance guarantees.
If they won't agree to a reasonable performance guarantee, then you haven't found the right one and you should keep looking.
We lost a customer several years ago because they got a new VP who thought it would save them money to take it inhouse. They were paying us something like $3000 per month. They bought several machines, added the OS and all the software, and 2 staff and were then flooded with spam because they had no experience and software that couldn't handle the load.
How many staff and machines and how much bandwidth can you get for $36k ? And how do you maintain your system 24x7x365 in that price too?
I host my newspaper at EV1servers, but that's not what you need.
What you need is to outsource all of the day-to-day grunt work. My other company could do email for you but we don't do webservers.
Have you considered splitting it up?
You need to dump Exchange. its the most horrible, time-consuming, labour-intensive and expensive email system possible.
If you must stick with Windows (horrible server OS), "Rackspace.com" does Windows and I've never heard any complaints about them. They aren't cheap, but they are cheaper than having staff and they are very good at what they do. You won't have to worry about them keeping up to date or knowing what to do in case of a problem.
As someone else said, you need to list all the things you do, enter the time and effort and run comparisons. Also, you need to consider the qualiy of the work your staff does and compare it to the quality of the outsource shop.
I know you're not going to take it offshore - the savings are not worth the trouble and while labour costs are lower, hardware and network costs are not. Security is probably important to you - another reason not to offshore.
Last night, I looked into the Western sky and there were Venus, Saturn and Mercury. It was better with binoculars. They will be there again tonight.
My guess is that there were more - and more interesting project suggestions for KDE than Gnome. I doubt that Apache's high number has anything to do with Google's use of apache. It will be related to innovation and usefulness. If you look at the lists of suggested projects, ASF probably has the biggest number. Apache projects also have the capability to be useful to more people.
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And many of them don't take any responsibility for anything, including taking care of or managing their kids.
At some stage, parents may realise they aren't doing their kids any favors. But maybe never.
Then they wonder why their kids are little shits and why their friends don't want to socialize as much any more.
PS. I am over 50 and I am still a kid and a geek.