Seriously. 94.8% means there's a one in 20 chance that when you pick up your phone, it's not going to work. That is the equivalent of playing Russian Roulette in an emergency.
I believe Russian Roulette is played mainly with a revolver, dont know of any revolvers with 20 barrels.
Lets do some logic!
Peaceful demonstration = No ray gun
Rioting = Ray gun
Although, what would suck would be on asshole ruining the whole peaceful demonstration thing and then the whole group gets the ray gun.
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You have no fucking idea how the internet works do you, nor TCP/IP or UDP. You just made yourself out to be the least intelligent/.'r I've ever seen. Please go back and play CS.
A person on dialup can not lag a fucking server on a decent pipe. Unless the server has way too many player slots for its connection and a 56k'r joins and that breaks the straw on the camel's back. Then you will start to lag. Even then, since the pipe is saturated, everyone will lack. You fucking prick's make it hard for anyone with dialup to have a fun game since your always saying "WTF DUDE UR DIALUP IS LAGNG US PLZ LEAEV ASHOL3"
Another great thing about consoles is the ability to tweak any of your settings to exactly how you like it. By editing the autoexec.cfg or your config files, you can adjust everything possible. Consoles have never allowed for that and probably wont.
Edit *** I meant Another great thing about PC games*****
I hate BF 1942, for the simple fact that it's basically a arcade WW2 game. I play Day of Defeat, theirs more realism to everything, from how many hits it takes to kill someone, to the actual sounds of the weapons, superb teamplay and really really really fast paced urban warfare. BF 1942 is a pathetic attempt at a real WW2 game. People these days are swayed by eyecandy too easily. You are right, EA seems to think graphics are gameplay. Its not people.
People saying that console's have the price advantage are wrong, at least to me. Console's usually have a life span of around 5-7 years. Computer games now arently really dependent on CPU speed but how fast the card sitting in your AGP / PCIe slot are. If you build a decent 2.5 - 2.8 ghz computer with around 1 gig of DDR400 and slap in a 6600 GT, ( I built a Abit IC7 G with a Intel P4 HT 2.6 GHZ and a gig of DDR400 and a 6600 GT for 590 dollars, its called good skills on pricewatch.com )
You can basically play any game that has ever came out for PC and even the newer ones just fine. The thing is with a PC nowadays since most games are just GPU dependent, you can upgrade your card which equals better graphics, faster speed on older games and ones that just came out, and support for new optimizations on older games. And the comp will last you a good while, when I had my GF4 TI4200, that lasted me 3 years, spent 180 dollars on a 9800 Pro after they dropped, its lasted me up until now, when I got a 6600 GT for 170 bucks. People think upgrading graphics cards and buying the newest for 400 dollars are stupid, they act like they cant wait 7 months and let the price drop by 2/3's. Consoles dont have the upgrability feature with graphics, nor will they be able to improve on older games. And the consoles coming out now, whilst beefy, are going to run in the 500 dollar range most likely, but people say "500 dollars for a 3ghz processor and a sweet graphics card!" are right, but the thing why PC's are more expensive, do consoles give you the option for software - music - pr0n - movies - basically unlimited storage - multimedia design. Console are built for a single purpose, thats why their cheaper.
Almost every port that was oringally a game for the PC that has been brought to console has sucked balls, mainly due to limited system resources. The Doom 3 port to Xbox was about the best port I've seen that still kept the graphics intact ( btw I'm not an eyecandy whore, I still play Quakeworld =] )
Anyways, Morrowind was so horrid on Xbox, literally the load times took upwards up 6 minutes, I was able to take a shower once and it was still loading on some new zone I was entering.
Btw, playing a MMORPG on a console that made it Singleplayer, not fun.
If you want a FPS, play a PC FPS, having a keyboard and mouse is 500000000x better than using a controller and day. If you want to play a sports game, play it on a console. If you want RPGS, play them on a console, if you want a MMORPG, play them on a PC, if you want a adventure game, play it on a console.
PC games have the advantage in a crap load of areas, their are badass games that come out for PC's and consoles, but what seperates the two is PC's have the ability for mods. Half Life and Quake were two of the most defining FPS's ever in the history of gaming. But what made them was mods. Mods are by gamers for gamers, companies even though they try can never give a gamer what he really wants. They can give a gamer a sweet storyline, but as far as multiplayer, its all about the mods. PC's having mods also have craploads of maps also, having the same 1-15 maps on a console FPS sucks. Also the fact that PC engines can support a crap load of players, and the fact that you can host your own dedicated server and play on it and admin it. Consoles cant come close and will never probably. And we know that console game makers arent going to fork over money a month to pay for a dedicated server so that console gamers can enjoy a player experience with more than 16 players. Most broadband connections cant handle more than 12 players.
PC games will always prevail, end of story. Console gaming is fun, but while its fun for some genres, PC gaming will never be rivaled. Another great thing about consoles is the ability to tweak any of your settings to exactly how you like it. By editing the autoexec.cfg or your config files, you can adjust everything possible. Consoles have never allowed for that and probably wont.
You act like people are going to some 13 year old kids Geocities site to diagnose their problems. Almost every disease has some sort of support group / website where people meet and gather and discuss the disease on some sort of forums or whatever. And the people just dont jump to conclusions, they read what the people with the disease or disorder's symptoms are like and closely look at what theirs are.
Doctors now just prescribe whatever gives them the most amount of money or gets the customer out of the way the fastest. Like someone posted , doctors dont take on the challenging cases anymore, they just bounce them from doctor to doctor.
I was even told that everything was fine or at least according to the examinations. That I lost more and more weight, could not digest *any* food at all any more, had a steadily dropping blood pressure and so on was...well...a little inexplicable (in the words of my physician). But so what? Only by accident I stumbled over what food intolerance can do to our metabolism - celiac disease, lactose intolerance, iodine intoxication (for example). And it was the internet where I could find the explanations, the doctors couldn't give me. Changing my diet changed my life. Many thanks to PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=p ubmed and Elsevier http://www.sciencedirect.com/!
Yea I know what you mean, the doctor that gets paid 100k a year just wrote me off as another case of IBS after charging me 7k for 2 invasive tests. I knew it wasnt IBS and I told him so, did he listen? No, hell no he didnt. I ended up stumbling up Celiacs via Google which then in turn lead me to a Celiacs sufferers website where I found a forum that basically everyone that posted their was a exact clone of me in terms of symptoms and habits.
Charge and tell them they are simply nuts? Or, somewhat more sensible, tell them they have IBS and they should realize it that there is no cure?
Doctors getting paid 100k and up shouldnt just write people off like that.
I wouldnt say Im cured per say, basically Celiacs Disease is a intolerance to gluten which is found in almost all dairy products and wheat products. I basically had to change my diet and have to keep it this way for life if I dont want to go back to the way I was. What sucks is that bread and dairy are my favorite things to eat, so basically since I found out I had Celiacs I rarely eat bread anymore on anything / drink milk or eat my beloved fruity pebbles cereal :
I have been suffering with some pretty fucking bad digestion problems all my life. I have the hershey squirts alot and real bad cramps in my stomach. I went to the gastrointestinal doctor here in my home town for a endoscopy and colonoscopy. He diagnosed me with IBS syndrome and sent me on my marry way saying it was just a nervous stomach. After suffering for 4 more years of that crap I decided to try and figure out what the hell was wrong with me. I googled my symptoms and found my symptoms closely related to Celiacs Disease...Almost identical in everyway to the people with Celiacs of what they described. I went to another doctor the week after reading the Celiacs website and was diagnosed after another biopsy as having Celiacs. Only after using the web to help me find out my symptoms was I actually diagnosed properly. Google saved my bowels from a lifelong of shitting and pain:/
Watching all the original animes that come from Japan, the Japanese voice actors are no better than the US ones once it has been put on over here. They all fucking suck, so quit trying to sound elite among your anime watching friends.
Went down to Nevada to go spend 2 weeks with my girlfriends parents because we are in a semi serioius relationship. My girlfriends uncle lives with his mom still, no fucking joke the guy looks like Christopher Walken. He's pretty addicted to porn and spends half his paycheck every week to go get laid at some bunny ranch. Anyways, he comes down stairs one morning all shook up for some reason. I asked him whats wrong, he said that "somehow" he got a popup for child porn ( who in the fuck has child porn popups ) anyways I didnt say anything. He was going on how the FBI would raid his house and asked how he could get rid of it. I really didnt feel like formatting his harddrive so I just said "dont know you can figure something out." He takes the case and monitor outside and proceeds to bash it in with a hammer. I witnessed the funniest thing of stupidity in my life that 2 weeks. The funnier thing was the look on his face and the fact that he bashed that monitor good and 2 took swings at the case....hard drive was still intact:O I stole it after he threw it in the dumpster and formatted it. New 120 gig Maxtor =]
Sup I own a 1996 keyboard. Most of today's programs for anything whether it be video editing or Flash offer keyboard shortcuts in their GUI. People that made such said programs didnt spend countless hours refining a nice GUI thats simple to use and easy to navigate just for you to go out and buy a hyped potentially 400 dollard keyboard. Raped by shortcuts.
After reading up on this and being dazzle and amazed then I started thinking about it, who actually looks at their keys now, it would be nice for some niche stuff but the thing is...After researching the OLED technology the longest OLED life I've read about is 15000 hours....Thats just over a year...I dont want to buy a potentially 40-300 dollar keyboard for it to die on me in a year. Thats just not acceptable for any mainstream consumer...which is apparently where this thing is marketed. That and the cons of this device far outweigh its potential "application" Seriously what types of stuff can this thing be REALLY TRULY acceptable for. People say gaming...ok how so? It switches around your configs on what game you play? Guess what...I have something up my sleeve thats free and doesnt even require you to think about it...its called a autoexec.cfg or a config file....ohh wait...most games have GUI's in game now...This thing would really only be good for power users that truly are power users, Im talking video editors / CAD engineers and the like. Other than that this thing is a bunch of hype, cool hype yes...but profitable mainstream NO.
You know their would be some sort of software thats pretty easy to use and probably vunerable. And knowing that this keyboard is probably mainly based for the Windows OS. You can bet your bottom dollar ads will show up....imagine teaching your grandma how to use a computer and she is peck typing...she looks down only to see every key on the keyboard has turned into Goatse and Tubgirl.
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Nice concept though:)
Like I said =] Anything can be considered a attack if it uses the end servers bandwidth in any excessive form. Its all about what the person / company getting their bandwidth consumed considers a
"attack" Hell this could happen, lets say its 1:30 at night and I'm just sitting around inside a shell prompt and I see that BAM my servers bandwidth load incoming goes up by 800%, I check the snort logs and MRTG graphs and see that I have around 10k+ ips requesting info from me. Any person would automatically think it was a DDOS. Little did you know that your site was linked to Slashdot without you knowing. What if someone that was running a dedicated server didnt even know what Slashdot is or even cared. Some people could be complete assholes and consider it an attack and take/. to court. Its far fetched but with the current definition of a DOS attack it CAN happen.
No, it's completely different...the individuls participating willingly would be more accountable for their actions than the ones whose machines are infected.
Why shouldnt people that are infected be held accountable? Just because they didnt know they were infected? Seems to me in the court of law if I own a gun and it gets stolen due to my negligence in locking it up and making sure where it was at all the time and someone commits a crime with it, I would be held accountable to some degree in a court considering the crime was commited with my gun. Criminal negligence is a fickle thing in this country. Ever heard of kids dieing from playing with their mom or dads gun then the parents going to jail for not "securing" their gun inside the house.
Case closed. Move along Matlock
What constitutes a DOS period. I mean come on, its the most simple attack that can be done. Its quite effective, and so simple that a DOS can be anything that doesnt tickle the attackee's funny bone. If the anti-spammers were to get a bunch of people to download a program that basically requested the spammers domain / website over and over is that considered a DOS attack? Anything can be considered a DOS attack if you think about, hell the slashdot effect could be considered a DOS attack if you really want to get literal. I would like to see how and when the courts decide what a malicious bandwidth eating attack is really.
I switched over to Linux as a desktop about a year ago after learning 99% of my knowledge in Linux / Unix systems server wise through a shell prompt on Windows. What sucked is that when I installed Gentoo as my first distro, I was really fucking suprised that my P4 @ 2.6 GHZ and a gig of DDR400 was having problems running KDE as smoothly as I thought it would be considering everyone hyping KDE / Gnome desktops as ass raping the hell out of the windows desktop / GUI / shell. IMHO both desktops are bloated, and yes I know that they can be minimalised which I did but it just doesnt seem to help when it takes like someone said a 3ghz computer to run a text editor. What was really appaling with the current major linux desktops was the time it takes for some menus to expand...jesus christ I thought Windows was slow. I opted with the Fluxbox solution, made my own theme and had at it. =]
I made the mistake of being a systems administrator for a fledgling webhosting startup. Bad move for me. Got paid next to nothing, worked 90 hour weeks. Even had to do my job + sales + support. One man systems administrator for over 120 dedicated servers with around 700 clients. Sucked when your the only support and everything including the company is riding on your back. Needless to say after I finally quit the company, 4 weeks later the company died and make quite a big fuss over at www.webhostingtalk.com
I never touched a tangible paycheck while working their.
I will work hard at a job, but never again will I burn myself out like I did with that job.
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Seriously. 94.8% means there's a one in 20 chance that when you pick up your phone, it's not going to work. That is the equivalent of playing Russian Roulette in an emergency.
I believe Russian Roulette is played mainly with a revolver, dont know of any revolvers with 20 barrels.
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Lets do some logic! Peaceful demonstration = No ray gun Rioting = Ray gun Although, what would suck would be on asshole ruining the whole peaceful demonstration thing and then the whole group gets the ray gun. :
You have no fucking idea how the internet works do you, nor TCP/IP or UDP. You just made yourself out to be the least intelligent /.'r I've ever seen. Please go back and play CS.
A person on dialup can not lag a fucking server on a decent pipe. Unless the server has way too many player slots for its connection and a 56k'r joins and that breaks the straw on the camel's back. Then you will start to lag. Even then, since the pipe is saturated, everyone will lack. You fucking prick's make it hard for anyone with dialup to have a fun game since your always saying "WTF DUDE UR DIALUP IS LAGNG US PLZ LEAEV ASHOL3"
Another great thing about consoles is the ability to tweak any of your settings to exactly how you like it. By editing the autoexec.cfg or your config files, you can adjust everything possible. Consoles have never allowed for that and probably wont. Edit *** I meant Another great thing about PC games*****
I hate BF 1942, for the simple fact that it's basically a arcade WW2 game. I play Day of Defeat, theirs more realism to everything, from how many hits it takes to kill someone, to the actual sounds of the weapons, superb teamplay and really really really fast paced urban warfare. BF 1942 is a pathetic attempt at a real WW2 game. People these days are swayed by eyecandy too easily. You are right, EA seems to think graphics are gameplay. Its not people.
People saying that console's have the price advantage are wrong, at least to me. Console's usually have a life span of around 5-7 years. Computer games now arently really dependent on CPU speed but how fast the card sitting in your AGP / PCIe slot are. If you build a decent 2.5 - 2.8 ghz computer with around 1 gig of DDR400 and slap in a 6600 GT, ( I built a Abit IC7 G with a Intel P4 HT 2.6 GHZ and a gig of DDR400 and a 6600 GT for 590 dollars, its called good skills on pricewatch.com ) You can basically play any game that has ever came out for PC and even the newer ones just fine. The thing is with a PC nowadays since most games are just GPU dependent, you can upgrade your card which equals better graphics, faster speed on older games and ones that just came out, and support for new optimizations on older games. And the comp will last you a good while, when I had my GF4 TI4200, that lasted me 3 years, spent 180 dollars on a 9800 Pro after they dropped, its lasted me up until now, when I got a 6600 GT for 170 bucks. People think upgrading graphics cards and buying the newest for 400 dollars are stupid, they act like they cant wait 7 months and let the price drop by 2/3's. Consoles dont have the upgrability feature with graphics, nor will they be able to improve on older games. And the consoles coming out now, whilst beefy, are going to run in the 500 dollar range most likely, but people say "500 dollars for a 3ghz processor and a sweet graphics card!" are right, but the thing why PC's are more expensive, do consoles give you the option for software - music - pr0n - movies - basically unlimited storage - multimedia design. Console are built for a single purpose, thats why their cheaper.
Almost every port that was oringally a game for the PC that has been brought to console has sucked balls, mainly due to limited system resources. The Doom 3 port to Xbox was about the best port I've seen that still kept the graphics intact ( btw I'm not an eyecandy whore, I still play Quakeworld =] ) Anyways, Morrowind was so horrid on Xbox, literally the load times took upwards up 6 minutes, I was able to take a shower once and it was still loading on some new zone I was entering. Btw, playing a MMORPG on a console that made it Singleplayer, not fun.
If you want a FPS, play a PC FPS, having a keyboard and mouse is 500000000x better than using a controller and day. If you want to play a sports game, play it on a console. If you want RPGS, play them on a console, if you want a MMORPG, play them on a PC, if you want a adventure game, play it on a console. PC games have the advantage in a crap load of areas, their are badass games that come out for PC's and consoles, but what seperates the two is PC's have the ability for mods. Half Life and Quake were two of the most defining FPS's ever in the history of gaming. But what made them was mods. Mods are by gamers for gamers, companies even though they try can never give a gamer what he really wants. They can give a gamer a sweet storyline, but as far as multiplayer, its all about the mods. PC's having mods also have craploads of maps also, having the same 1-15 maps on a console FPS sucks. Also the fact that PC engines can support a crap load of players, and the fact that you can host your own dedicated server and play on it and admin it. Consoles cant come close and will never probably. And we know that console game makers arent going to fork over money a month to pay for a dedicated server so that console gamers can enjoy a player experience with more than 16 players. Most broadband connections cant handle more than 12 players. PC games will always prevail, end of story. Console gaming is fun, but while its fun for some genres, PC gaming will never be rivaled. Another great thing about consoles is the ability to tweak any of your settings to exactly how you like it. By editing the autoexec.cfg or your config files, you can adjust everything possible. Consoles have never allowed for that and probably wont.
You act like people are going to some 13 year old kids Geocities site to diagnose their problems. Almost every disease has some sort of support group / website where people meet and gather and discuss the disease on some sort of forums or whatever. And the people just dont jump to conclusions, they read what the people with the disease or disorder's symptoms are like and closely look at what theirs are. Doctors now just prescribe whatever gives them the most amount of money or gets the customer out of the way the fastest. Like someone posted , doctors dont take on the challenging cases anymore, they just bounce them from doctor to doctor.
I was even told that everything was fine or at least according to the examinations. That I lost more and more weight, could not digest *any* food at all any more, had a steadily dropping blood pressure and so on was...well...a little inexplicable (in the words of my physician). But so what? Only by accident I stumbled over what food intolerance can do to our metabolism - celiac disease, lactose intolerance, iodine intoxication (for example). And it was the internet where I could find the explanations, the doctors couldn't give me. Changing my diet changed my life. Many thanks to PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=p ubmed and Elsevier http://www.sciencedirect.com/!
Yea I know what you mean, the doctor that gets paid 100k a year just wrote me off as another case of IBS after charging me 7k for 2 invasive tests. I knew it wasnt IBS and I told him so, did he listen? No, hell no he didnt. I ended up stumbling up Celiacs via Google which then in turn lead me to a Celiacs sufferers website where I found a forum that basically everyone that posted their was a exact clone of me in terms of symptoms and habits.
Charge and tell them they are simply nuts? Or, somewhat more sensible, tell them they have IBS and they should realize it that there is no cure?
Doctors getting paid 100k and up shouldnt just write people off like that.
GOOGLE SAVED MY TEH INNARDS FROM POO OVERLOAD.
I wouldnt say Im cured per say, basically Celiacs Disease is a intolerance to gluten which is found in almost all dairy products and wheat products. I basically had to change my diet and have to keep it this way for life if I dont want to go back to the way I was. What sucks is that bread and dairy are my favorite things to eat, so basically since I found out I had Celiacs I rarely eat bread anymore on anything / drink milk or eat my beloved fruity pebbles cereal :
I have been suffering with some pretty fucking bad digestion problems all my life. I have the hershey squirts alot and real bad cramps in my stomach. I went to the gastrointestinal doctor here in my home town for a endoscopy and colonoscopy. He diagnosed me with IBS syndrome and sent me on my marry way saying it was just a nervous stomach. After suffering for 4 more years of that crap I decided to try and figure out what the hell was wrong with me. I googled my symptoms and found my symptoms closely related to Celiacs Disease...Almost identical in everyway to the people with Celiacs of what they described. I went to another doctor the week after reading the Celiacs website and was diagnosed after another biopsy as having Celiacs. Only after using the web to help me find out my symptoms was I actually diagnosed properly. Google saved my bowels from a lifelong of shitting and pain :/
Watching all the original animes that come from Japan, the Japanese voice actors are no better than the US ones once it has been put on over here. They all fucking suck, so quit trying to sound elite among your anime watching friends.
Went down to Nevada to go spend 2 weeks with my girlfriends parents because we are in a semi serioius relationship. My girlfriends uncle lives with his mom still, no fucking joke the guy looks like Christopher Walken. He's pretty addicted to porn and spends half his paycheck every week to go get laid at some bunny ranch. Anyways, he comes down stairs one morning all shook up for some reason. I asked him whats wrong, he said that "somehow" he got a popup for child porn ( who in the fuck has child porn popups ) anyways I didnt say anything. He was going on how the FBI would raid his house and asked how he could get rid of it. I really didnt feel like formatting his harddrive so I just said "dont know you can figure something out." He takes the case and monitor outside and proceeds to bash it in with a hammer. I witnessed the funniest thing of stupidity in my life that 2 weeks. The funnier thing was the look on his face and the fact that he bashed that monitor good and 2 took swings at the case....hard drive was still intact :O I stole it after he threw it in the dumpster and formatted it. New 120 gig Maxtor =]
We've got a elitist commenting on someone just because of their UserId. Gogo gadget assumptions!!
Sup I own a 1996 keyboard. Most of today's programs for anything whether it be video editing or Flash offer keyboard shortcuts in their GUI. People that made such said programs didnt spend countless hours refining a nice GUI thats simple to use and easy to navigate just for you to go out and buy a hyped potentially 400 dollard keyboard. Raped by shortcuts.
After reading up on this and being dazzle and amazed then I started thinking about it, who actually looks at their keys now, it would be nice for some niche stuff but the thing is...After researching the OLED technology the longest OLED life I've read about is 15000 hours....Thats just over a year...I dont want to buy a potentially 40-300 dollar keyboard for it to die on me in a year. Thats just not acceptable for any mainstream consumer...which is apparently where this thing is marketed. That and the cons of this device far outweigh its potential "application" Seriously what types of stuff can this thing be REALLY TRULY acceptable for. People say gaming...ok how so? It switches around your configs on what game you play? Guess what...I have something up my sleeve thats free and doesnt even require you to think about it...its called a autoexec.cfg or a config file....ohh wait...most games have GUI's in game now...This thing would really only be good for power users that truly are power users, Im talking video editors / CAD engineers and the like. Other than that this thing is a bunch of hype, cool hype yes...but profitable mainstream NO.
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Did Snoop Dogg teach you English? Its consonant you insensitive clod.
Intent would be hard to prove in any of the aformentioned cases....intent can be molded just like the DOS definition...
You know their would be some sort of software thats pretty easy to use and probably vunerable. And knowing that this keyboard is probably mainly based for the Windows OS. You can bet your bottom dollar ads will show up....imagine teaching your grandma how to use a computer and she is peck typing...she looks down only to see every key on the keyboard has turned into Goatse and Tubgirl. : Nice concept though :)
Like I said =] Anything can be considered a attack if it uses the end servers bandwidth in any excessive form. Its all about what the person / company getting their bandwidth consumed considers a "attack" Hell this could happen, lets say its 1:30 at night and I'm just sitting around inside a shell prompt and I see that BAM my servers bandwidth load incoming goes up by 800%, I check the snort logs and MRTG graphs and see that I have around 10k+ ips requesting info from me. Any person would automatically think it was a DDOS. Little did you know that your site was linked to Slashdot without you knowing. What if someone that was running a dedicated server didnt even know what Slashdot is or even cared. Some people could be complete assholes and consider it an attack and take /. to court. Its far fetched but with the current definition of a DOS attack it CAN happen.
No, it's completely different...the individuls participating willingly would be more accountable for their actions than the ones whose machines are infected. Why shouldnt people that are infected be held accountable? Just because they didnt know they were infected? Seems to me in the court of law if I own a gun and it gets stolen due to my negligence in locking it up and making sure where it was at all the time and someone commits a crime with it, I would be held accountable to some degree in a court considering the crime was commited with my gun. Criminal negligence is a fickle thing in this country. Ever heard of kids dieing from playing with their mom or dads gun then the parents going to jail for not "securing" their gun inside the house. Case closed. Move along Matlock
What constitutes a DOS period. I mean come on, its the most simple attack that can be done. Its quite effective, and so simple that a DOS can be anything that doesnt tickle the attackee's funny bone. If the anti-spammers were to get a bunch of people to download a program that basically requested the spammers domain / website over and over is that considered a DOS attack? Anything can be considered a DOS attack if you think about, hell the slashdot effect could be considered a DOS attack if you really want to get literal. I would like to see how and when the courts decide what a malicious bandwidth eating attack is really.
I switched over to Linux as a desktop about a year ago after learning 99% of my knowledge in Linux / Unix systems server wise through a shell prompt on Windows. What sucked is that when I installed Gentoo as my first distro, I was really fucking suprised that my P4 @ 2.6 GHZ and a gig of DDR400 was having problems running KDE as smoothly as I thought it would be considering everyone hyping KDE / Gnome desktops as ass raping the hell out of the windows desktop / GUI / shell. IMHO both desktops are bloated, and yes I know that they can be minimalised which I did but it just doesnt seem to help when it takes like someone said a 3ghz computer to run a text editor. What was really appaling with the current major linux desktops was the time it takes for some menus to expand...jesus christ I thought Windows was slow. I opted with the Fluxbox solution, made my own theme and had at it. =]
I made the mistake of being a systems administrator for a fledgling webhosting startup. Bad move for me. Got paid next to nothing, worked 90 hour weeks. Even had to do my job + sales + support. One man systems administrator for over 120 dedicated servers with around 700 clients. Sucked when your the only support and everything including the company is riding on your back. Needless to say after I finally quit the company, 4 weeks later the company died and make quite a big fuss over at www.webhostingtalk.com
I never touched a tangible paycheck while working their.
I will work hard at a job, but never again will I burn myself out like I did with that job.