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  1. Re:Google competition? on Free Nationwide Wireless Internet Access? · · Score: 0

    Or maybe Google will give away free fiber!

  2. Re:woah now... on Spy Sweeper, the Next Netscape? · · Score: 0


    I think he uses IE

  3. Re:My favorite part on PS3 Launch Details Announced · · Score: 0

    I should of said "don't contain any chemicals"

  4. Re:Third Choice? on Blue Security Gives up the Fight · · Score: 0

    But in actuality, if an email is on the frontpage it gets spammed.

    If it's anywhere else, it usually never gets added to the lists.

  5. Re:Third Choice? on Blue Security Gives up the Fight · · Score: 0

    You probably never signed for anything with that real email or ever posted to usenet.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22whine ymacfanboy%40gmail.com%22&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf- 8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

  6. Re:What's the big fucking deal with blogging? on Word 2007 to Feature Built-in Blogging · · Score: 0


      • timecop is timecop@Sia.AnimeNfo.com timecop efnet
        [16:29] timecop on #guliverkli
        [16:29] timecop using irc.mzima.net Welcome to the fjear nation.
        [16:29] timecop End of /WHOIS list.

  7. Re:main effect on Word 2007 to Feature Built-in Blogging · · Score: 0

    They should include DejaVu
    http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/

  8. Re:THE FUTURE OF TROUTS! on The Failure of Information Security · · Score: 0
  9. Re:People will get used to it.. on Nintendo UK Defends the Wii · · Score: 0

    Heck yes. I applied at EBGames the other day and the manager called it the "oui". I thought it was funny hearing someone say, because I never heard it spoken before, and in a seriously way too.

    One reason the name Amazon was chosen was because it was short and memorable, not because it made sense. People will get used to wii, they'll think it's just another weird asian name, like dong phat, or phuc, or what have you.

    Seriously, I bought this vietnamese herbal tea called "Dong Phat".

  10. Re:My favorite part on PS3 Launch Details Announced · · Score: 0

    Because they know that aluminum can't be good for one's health.

  11. Re:Distributed P2P Blue Frog Like Set Up on BlueSecurity Database Compromised? · · Score: 0

    I meant to add that I was trying to point out that I received a much more malicious message than the one in the article.

    I'm sticking with blue frog for sure. In fact, I wish spammers would send me more spam, as this also improves the gmail adaptive filters.

    Just be sure to route them through tor:
    http://tor.eff.org/

    Or someone could try busting you for credit card fraud.

  12. Re:Eye for an Eye? on BlueSecurity Database Compromised? · · Score: 0

    Sorry, damn html.

    Subject: re:Don't pay attention to this email!

    You are being emailed because you are a user of BlueSecurity's well-known software "BlueFrog." http://www.bluesecurity.com/
    [bluesecurity.com]

    Today, the BlueSecurity database became known to the worst spammers worldwide. Within 48 hours, the database will be published on the Internet, and your email address will be open to them all. After this, you will see the spam sent to your mailbox increase 10 - 20 fold.

    BlueSecurity was illegally attacking email marketers, and doing so with your help. Many websites have been targeted and hit, including non-spam sites. BlueSecurity's software has been fully analyzed, and contains an abundance of malicious code. This includes: ability to send mass mail to users; the ability to attack websites with Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS); the ability to open hidden doors on any machine on which it is running; and a hidden auto-update code function, which can install anything on your computer and open it up to anyone.

    BlueSecurity lists a USA address as their place of business, whereas their main office is in Tel Aviv. BlueSecurity is run by a few Russian-born Jews, who have previously been spamming themselves. When all is said and done, they will be able to run, hide and change their identities, leaving you to take the fall. YOU CANNOT PARTICIPATE IN ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES and expect to get away with it. This email ensures that you are well aware of the situation. Soon, you will be found guilty of computer crimes such as DDOS attacking of websites, conspiracy, and sending mass unsolicited bulk email messages for everything from viagra to porn, as long as you continue to run BlueFrog.

    They do not take money for downloading their software, they do not take money for removing emails from their lists, and they have no visible revenue stream. What they DO have is 500,000 computers sitting there awaiting their next command. What are they doing now?

    1. Using your computer to send spam ?
    2. Using your computer to attack competitor websites?
    3. Phishing through your files for your identity and banking information?

    If you think you can merely change your email address and be safe while still running BlueFrog, you are in for a big surprise. This is just the beginning...

  13. Re:Screw the spammers. on BlueSecurity Database Compromised? · · Score: 0

    you can protect your domain with bluesecurity too, when their site finally comes back online.

  14. Re:Eye for an Eye? on BlueSecurity Database Compromised? · · Score: 0

    here's the one I got: From: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" Reply-To: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" To: xxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com Cc: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxgmail.com, xxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com Subject: re:Don't pay attention to this email! Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 14:40:55 +0100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="--xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Content-Type: text/plain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit You are being emailed because you are a user of BlueSecurity's well-known software "BlueFrog." http://www.bluesecurity.com/ [bluesecurity.com] Today, the BlueSecurity database became known to the worst spammers worldwide. Within 48 hours, the database will be published on the Internet, and your email address will be open to them all. After this, you will see the spam sent to your mailbox increase 10 - 20 fold. BlueSecurity was illegally attacking email marketers, and doing so with your help. Many websites have been targeted and hit, including non-spam sites. BlueSecurity's software has been fully analyzed, and contains an abundance of malicious code. This includes: ability to send mass mail to users; the ability to attack websites with Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS); the ability to open hidden doors on any machine on which it is running; and a hidden auto-update code function, which can install anything on your computer and open it up to anyone. BlueSecurity lists a USA address as their place of business, whereas their main office is in Tel Aviv. BlueSecurity is run by a few Russian-born Jews, who have previously been spamming themselves. When all is said and done, they will be able to run, hide and change their identities, leaving you to take the fall. YOU CANNOT PARTICIPATE IN ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES and expect to get away with it. This email ensures that you are well aware of the situation. Soon, you will be found guilty of computer crimes such as DDOS attacking of websites, conspiracy, and sending mass unsolicited bulk email messages for everything from viagra to porn, as long as you continue to run BlueFrog. They do not take money for downloading their software, they do not take money for removing emails from their lists, and they have no visible revenue stream. What they DO have is 500,000 computers sitting there awaiting their next command. What are they doing now? 1. Using your computer to send spam ? 2. Using your computer to attack competitor websites? 3. Phishing through your files for your identity and banking information? If you think you can merely change your email address and be safe while still running BlueFrog, you are in for a big surprise. This is just the beginning...

  15. Re:Eye for an Eye? on BlueSecurity Database Compromised? · · Score: 0

    This is exactly what happened. A spammer got the hashed list of addresses (the do not spam registry or whatever), pretending to comply with the list, but merely compared the hashes with a list of his addresses, hashed in the same way.

    But this is good for the bluesecurity network, since this will generate a huge amount of reports from people that won't ever read or be fooled by a spam message.

  16. Re:Blue? on BlueSecurity Database Compromised? · · Score: 0

    here's the whole thing:

    X-Gmail-Received: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Delivered-To: xxxxxxxxxxxx
    Received: by xxxxxxxxxxxxx with SMTP id xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Received: by xxxxxxxxxxxxxx with SMTP id xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
    Mon, 01 May 2006 05:50:09 -0700 (PDT)
    Return-Path:
    Received: from 3CF5918 ([218.23.108.114])
    by mx.gmail.com with SMTP id a1si5179001ugf.2006.05.01.05.49.58;
    Mon, 01 May 2006 05:50:09 -0700 (PDT)
    Received-SPF: neutral (gmail.com: 218.23.108.114 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of thabto@esplanade.com)
    Received: from 250.0.102.32 by 218.23.108.114; Mon, 01 May 2006 16:44:55 +0300
    Message-ID:
    From: "BARTHOLOMEW Julius"
    Reply-To: "BARTHOLOMEW Julius"
    To: xxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com
    Cc: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxgmail.com, xxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com
    Subject: re:Don't pay attention to this email!
    Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 14:40:55 +0100
    X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
    boundary="--xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
    X-Priority: 3
    X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

    ----8335755536655359
    Content-Type: text/plain;
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit

    You are being emailed because you are a user of BlueSecurity's well-known software "BlueFrog." http://www.bluesecurity.com/

    Today, the BlueSecurity database became known to the worst spammers worldwide. Within 48 hours, the database will be published on the Internet, and your email address will be open to them all. After this, you will see the spam sent to your mailbox increase 10 - 20 fold.

    BlueSecurity was illegally attacking email marketers, and doing so with your help. Many websites have been targeted and hit, including non-spam sites. BlueSecurity's software has been fully analyzed, and contains an abundance of malicious code. This includes: ability to send mass mail to users; the ability to attack websites with Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS); the ability to open hidden doors on any machine on which it is running; and a hidden auto-update code function, which can install anything on your computer and open it up to anyone.

    BlueSecurity lists a USA address as their place of business, whereas their main office is in Tel Aviv. BlueSecurity is run by a few Russian-born Jews, who have previously been spamming themselves. When all is said and done, they will be able to run, hide and change their identities, leaving you to take the fall. YOU CANNOT PARTICIPATE IN ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES and expect to get away with it. This email ensures that you are well aware of the situation. Soon, you will be found guilty of computer crimes such as DDOS attacking of websites, conspiracy, and sending mass unsolicited bulk email messages for everything from viagra to porn, as long as you continue to run BlueFrog.

    They do not take money for downloading their software, they do not take money for removing emails from their lists, and they have no visible revenue stream. What they DO have is 500,000 computers sitting there awaiting their next command. What are they doing now?

    1. Using your computer to send spam ?
    2. Using your computer to attack competitor websites?
    3. Phishing through your files for your identity and banking information?

    If you think you can merely change your email address and be safe while still running BlueFrog, you are in for a big surprise. This is just the beginning...

    ----xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx--

  17. Re:The Cringe of Embracing Windows on Cringely Posits Adobe's Purchase by Apple · · Score: 0

    The problem is that it's a three-hundred kb jpeg that still looks like crap; ie they should of used png (which wasn't around at the time) or gif.

  18. Re:Teenage Wildlife on Verizon's Aggressive New Spam Filter Causing Problems · · Score: 0

    Did you know your site is mentioned on wikipedia? And that your ip address is probably 204.52.215.117? That you edit wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special: Contributions&target=204.52.215.117 You sometimes use: Shareaza 2.1.0.0 You (or your wife) visits: www.womenfitness.net

  19. Re:Teenage Wildlife on Verizon's Aggressive New Spam Filter Causing Problems · · Score: 0

    "Teenage Wildlife" is a song written by David Bowie in 1980 for the album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). Teenage wildlife forum was also the name of the main internet fan site before Bowie launced his Bowienet Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

  20. Peer-2-Peer Antispam? on Verizon's Aggressive New Spam Filter Causing Problems · · Score: 0

    I was thinking about what if I could build a peer-to-peer antispam system which might solve the problem of spam once and for all. For example, using a Kademlia-based distributed-hash-table might work. Your client-side outlook or Thunderbird plugin would do a hashing of your complete email message after the headers, and/or hashes the attachments and/or the fields contained in the headers, then quickly, using the genius of Kademlia (which I really don't understand too well) possibly combined with a local bayesian filtering system, you are able to quickly find out if a message is: 1. spam 2. mailing list 3. not spam. To prevent spamming just leave out 3 & 2, so that any message that gets reported at all is going to be spam; why would a spammer report their own messages as spam?

    Of course they could try reporting known common email like mailing list messages, etc... that aren't spam as spam, but a local adaptive filter similar to gmail's spam filter, that adapts to each user would sort that out.

    A further protection against spammers spamming the system would be a way to trust a certain node, like everyone has an option to generate a guid that identifies you as unique. Then over time, you build up a trust percentile with other people who marked the same messages as spam, and the more closer they do, the more they trust your choices, and you trust them.

    This could even work for usenet, which is filled with so much spam that it makes it nearly unusable, especially since in the case of usenet generally everyone has the exact same message beyond the headers.

    So after this genius brainstorm I searched for 'kademlia spam' and find this guys page:
    SpamWatch - A Peer-to-peer Spam Filtering System
    http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zf/spamwatch/
    Also he wrote this interesting paper:
    http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zf/papers/ata_middlewa re.pdf

    Here's a similar project, but unrelated:
    http://www.mailavenger.org/

    Also other things could be implemented, like for example, quickly reporting email worms and the like.

    For more in-depth Kademlia information:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia

  21. Re:Well okay... on Video Tape Recorder Unveiled 50 Years Ago · · Score: 0

    Ampex From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia AMPEX is an acronym, created by its founder, Alexander M. Poniatoff. It actually stands for (A)lexander (M). (P)oniatoff (Ex)cellence. Poniatoff's company was established in San Carlos, California in 1944 as the Ampex Electric and Manufacturing Company. In 1948, ABC used an Ampex Model 200 audio recorder for the first-ever U.S. tape delay radio broadcast of The Bing Crosby Show. In 1950, Ampex introduced the first "dedicated" instrumentation recorder, Model 500, built for the U.S. Navy. Ampex became a leader in magnetic sound and video recording technology. Ampex was not a recording format, but a company that developed the Quadruplex format that dominated the broadcast industry for decades. The format was licensed to RCA for use in their "television tape recorders." Ampex's invention revolutionized the television industry by eliminating the kinescope process of archiving television programs on motion picture film (at least in the U.S.; in Britain, the BBC and most of the ITV companies continued to use kinescoping alongside videotape until the late 1960s; in most developing countries, many television broadcasters continued to use kinescoping alongside videotape until the mid-1970s). The Ampex broadcast video tape recorder also facilitated time-zone broadcast delay so that networks could air programming at the same hour in various time zones. One of the key engineers in the development of the Quadruplex video recorder for Ampex was Ray Dolby, who worked under Charlie Ginsburg and went on to form Dolby Laboratories, a pioneer in audio noise reduction systems. The first magnetically-recorded time-delayed network television program using the new Ampex Quadruplex recording system was CBS's "Douglas Edwards and the News" on November 30, 1956. Since the early 1950s, Bing Crosby and others tried to record video on very fast-moving magnetic tape. One semi-successful attempt was the BBC's VERA. Ampex pursued recording methods in which recording heads were rotated at high speed and the tape movement was kept slow. The "Quad" head assembly has 4 heads that rotate at 14,400 rpm. They write the video vertically across the width of a tape that is 2 inches (5 cm) wide and runs at 15" (38cm) per second. This allows programs of one hour to be recorded on one reel of tape. (In 1956, one reel of tape cost $300, equivalent to $2000 in 2000 and the recorders cost about $75-100,000, about a half a million dollars today). Today, a majority of the early videotaped content still existing are network programs, since the typical television station could not afford an Ampex VTR. Ampex had trademarked the name "Video Tape", so competitor RCA called the medium "TV Tape" or "Television Tape". The terms eventually became genericized, and "videotape" is commonly used today. In 1967, ABC used the Ampex HS-100 disk recorder for playback of slow-motion downhill skiing on World Series of Skiing in Vail, Colorado. This was the first use of slow motion instant replay in sporting events. Later that year, Ampex introduced the Ampex VR-3000 portable broadcast video recorder, which revolutionized the recording of high-quality television in the field without the need for long cables and large support vehicles. Broadcast quality images could now be shot anywhere, including from airplanes, helicopters and boats. In 1970, Ampex introduced the ACR-25, the first automated robotic library system for the recording and playback of television commercials. Each commercial was recorded on an individual cartridge. These cartridges were then loaded into large rotating carousels. Using sophisticated mechanics and compressed air, the "carts" were loaded into and extracted from the machine at extremely high speed. This allowed TV stations to re-sequence commercial breaks at a moments notice, adding, deleting and rearranging commercials at will. The TV newsroom also began to use the ACR-25 to run news stories because of its random access capability. The Ampex video system is now obsolete. Those machines which still survive have

  22. Re:People that matter don't care on Return of the Web Mob · · Score: 0

    Unless you can't afford disinfection or virus/std testing, like many poor people in new orleans (who are now gone). Also microsoft should be to blame, correct? Since people can get sued for their software causing losses.

  23. Re:People that matter don't care on Return of the Web Mob · · Score: 0

    kind of like broke down mountain, eh?

  24. Re:What the article doesn't say on Return of the Web Mob · · Score: 0

    Do not click this link:

  25. Re:People that matter don't care on Return of the Web Mob · · Score: 0

    Shut them down with this :

    http://ipnic.org/preliminary.html
    [ipnic.org]

    Only works in America.