It looks like the spammers might have forgotten who they were messing with. They were essentially flooding a number of users of which a high percentage actually report their spam.
Could it be that the sudden drop of their FUD spam e-mails to 0 over the last 6 hours be due to this mass reporting? In particular, to SpamCop.
This is a pretty small sample, and might be just random: In all my CS classes thus far in the last three years, I have had only 4-8 other students taking the same class (not that big of a CS school). However, apparently, they are expecting to have the first fully enrolled (intro core) CS classes next year for the first time in a number of years.
That's funny you say that...
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I think one of the best examples of this was surprisingly enough by Microsoft Research. After abandoning Allegiance (a game truly ahead of its time), the game was continually run by the community, with them modding the game. Years after the fact, Microsoft Research thought the community's efforts were so great, they finally decided to release the source code for the game.
What Allegiance is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiance_(computer_ game)
Where the community is/get the game: http://www.freeallegiance.org/
Definitely a fun game if you can get by the learning curve. One of the best team-work based games I've played. When you have 20+ pilots scramble to a single sector for base defense against an equally large enemy bombing convoy, it is a thing of beauty. (yes, the game theoretically supports 100 vs. 100; though the last time that happened was only in beta testing in 1999)
I never really thought about that. Though I also never used optimized builds for faster rendering in the first place. I just use it since it makes FF feel snappier (loading etc.).
Or you mean the antivirus companies that will be left behind. The "smarter" AV companies have been working at pro-active detection for a while now, through either virtual machine type heuristics (Eset, BitDefender's HIVE, Norman's Sandbox technology), or pro-active user/system intervention modules (Kaspersky in 6.0, McAfee's Entercept integration into VSE).
"And even for home computer users who have never taken such precautions before"
You mean an updated antivirus program? You would think after the thousands of worms that everyone would learn by now, especially those who know they have a tendency to click things for no reason.
I don't even know why people even thought Microsoft could even integrate an antivirus without the anti-trust folks raiding the Redmond campus within 30 seconds of the annoucement.
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It looks like the spammers might have forgotten who they were messing with. They were essentially flooding a number of users of which a high percentage actually report their spam. Could it be that the sudden drop of their FUD spam e-mails to 0 over the last 6 hours be due to this mass reporting? In particular, to SpamCop.
This is a pretty small sample, and might be just random: In all my CS classes thus far in the last three years, I have had only 4-8 other students taking the same class (not that big of a CS school). However, apparently, they are expecting to have the first fully enrolled (intro core) CS classes next year for the first time in a number of years.
I think one of the best examples of this was surprisingly enough by Microsoft Research. After abandoning Allegiance (a game truly ahead of its time), the game was continually run by the community, with them modding the game. Years after the fact, Microsoft Research thought the community's efforts were so great, they finally decided to release the source code for the game. What Allegiance is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiance_(computer_ game)
Where the community is/get the game: http://www.freeallegiance.org/
Definitely a fun game if you can get by the learning curve. One of the best team-work based games I've played. When you have 20+ pilots scramble to a single sector for base defense against an equally large enemy bombing convoy, it is a thing of beauty. (yes, the game theoretically supports 100 vs. 100; though the last time that happened was only in beta testing in 1999)
Oh you know Sony and it's Blu-Ray bretheren are going to start plastering the Blu-Ray logo on all their HDTVs.
I never really thought about that. Though I also never used optimized builds for faster rendering in the first place. I just use it since it makes FF feel snappier (loading etc.).
Does anyone know of any SSE2 etc. optimized builds available? The Mozilla forums seem to have died.
Or you mean the antivirus companies that will be left behind. The "smarter" AV companies have been working at pro-active detection for a while now, through either virtual machine type heuristics (Eset, BitDefender's HIVE, Norman's Sandbox technology), or pro-active user/system intervention modules (Kaspersky in 6.0, McAfee's Entercept integration into VSE).
Actually, if you remember, there is no 60% code rewrite. That was some BS Smarthouse made up, and everybody else sourced it.
Well, the Intel iMac would not even be comparable to this system. Hence the price difference. (Such as: Radeon X1600 vs GeForce 7900 GTX)
"And even for home computer users who have never taken such precautions before" You mean an updated antivirus program? You would think after the thousands of worms that everyone would learn by now, especially those who know they have a tendency to click things for no reason.
I don't even know why people even thought Microsoft could even integrate an antivirus without the anti-trust folks raiding the Redmond campus within 30 seconds of the annoucement.
Well that should exist since an old eMachines I have lying around (4 years?) had a jumper on by default that disabled BIOS flashing.
Umm... you really didn't pay attention to the PS2 launch did you?
Well we seem to know why Level3 went down, but why did Verio go down at the same time?