I wouldn't say so. While the average return-per-spam has probably declined sharply, the uptake of email has increased by silly amounts. Considering it takes little to no effort to send spam to millions of emails at no real cost to you, I'd say you could easily make a tidy profit from a minimal amount of effort. Plus, he's the spam KING, that immediately implies he's got riches of gold and silver.
I find it hard to believe that the "spam king" didn't amass a small fortune through all of his illicit dealings, I mean with the sheer amount of spam he created, how can they know how much money he's really made? What's more, as far as "criminals" go, he's pretty low on the register of importance. Really, all he did was annoy the fuck out of everyone, not like he killed anyone or anything like that. Hell, identity thieves have done more damage than he has - and for less money. I guess what I'm trying to say is he's probably got the means to safely disappear under the RADAR and live in a hot country with a big house for the rest of his life.
The real issue I see with this isn't so much that the ISP's are sending out warning letters - they've all stated that they're not prepared to cancel anyone's service - but that the record companies have essentially got the ISP's to do their dirty work for them. NOW they know that the ISP's will have detailed files on every single person they find allegedly distributing copyrighted music - detailed files that means these "John doe" cases we seen in America will start turning into "John Smith" cases.
There's a tool on the site below that apparently checks if the DNS you're currently using is vulnerable to such an attack. I checked my work DNS and my home DNS - both were fine. Apparently OpenDNS is secure as well, so there's probably nothing to worry about.
No, the statement is just as Valid today as it was 5 years ago. Just go ask Nintendo why they don't let developers of Wii games access the internal flash storage more than once every few seconds.
WinFS was never a file system, it was a layer that got inserted on TOP of the existing NTFS filesystem and the technology is still used by Microsoft today, just for different applications.
I know this guy is probably a cherished author (I've never read any of his books - sorry) and while I'm sure he's a Genius on many, many levels, even if he was God Almighty himself, I'd still want to punch him for using an extra 0.
Well done on assuming that Europe is one big member state with exactly the same health care, unemployment and whatever other statistics you want to quote. No, France, Germany and the UK have completely different medical services, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. And that's just 3 countries, out of 27 in the EU alone. They also have quite different levels of unemployment, but none of them are even close to the 35% you're quoting, they're more akin to about 6% or 7%. In fact, Slovakia is the highest at around 10%, still nowhere near what you're quoting. I'd like to see some sources for that bullshit. What's more, you speak of the medical care in these countries as if it's vastly inferior to your own just because it doesn't always work out for the best for some people - yet you don't seem to realise that in the USA (I'm assuming that's where you're from based on your lack of knowledge about the EU) if you don't have health insurance, you're basically fucked if you get hit with anything worse than a bacterial infection or a broken bone. Sure, you might live, but you'll spend the rest of your life trying to pay that ridiculously bloated medical bill. I'm not saying things are better in the EU, I've yet to see a "perfect" medical system, but to talk about it as if it flat out doesn't work is ludicrous. Quite frankly the British National Health Service is one of the best things to ever happen to the country, despite is flaws and failures - the fact that it's still around after more than half a century proves this and the first politician to suggest scrapping it is going to be performing political suicide.
Sorry if I've read into your post a bit too much, but when you say "the OFFICIAL Adobe flash...", you imply that there's some sort of alternative, unofficial version? Is that true or did I just, as I said, read into it a bit too much? If so, what's the advantages/disadvantages to it?
Personally, I think they should have put IE7 in the service pack and forced all those companies to update their software. Worst case scenario is that a company is using a piece of outside software they can't get fixed and thus learn a valuable lesson.
XP SP3 does NOT include IE7, Microsoft deliberately kept it as a separate installation so that people wouldn't be discouraged installing the service pack in case it broke the very web apps you mention. In this tiny, small instance, Microsoft's lack of web standards has bit them in the arse.
I wonder how many of those are IE6, which a lot of people use because they CAN'T upgrade to IE7. And as an above commenter pointed out, I highly doubt they factored in that some OS's can't actually run the latest version of their browser.
No it's not, the article cited the recent O2 leak (which WAS in the UK), but it's about a bunch of operators leaking MMS messages, including some in the US and Canada. You could have at least bothered to read the summary.
I read "Naomi Campbell" and for some reason unknown to me, thought you were making a reference to Metal Gear Solid, which made no sense to me what so ever. It took me a solid 2mins to actually figure out you were talking about a real person and not a fictional character who's name I still managed to get wrong. It's 5am here. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
I thought one of the major obstacles of using LED lights was that they weren't actually very white, but rather a shade of light blue? Has there been some major advance in creating white LEDs that I just happened to miss out on (serious question btw)? And if so, just how white ARE these super cheap LEDs?
How do you know they don't? It's not like they spread their names all over the things they release, it's not like any of them have ever wrote "[scene name] pwns j00! BTW I'm also [dev name] that wrote that really kickass piece of OSS, [really popular linux program]. In fact, if you look at the history of Open Source software, it all began with the same kind of people that liked to break security for fun, it was all the same kinds of mentality. Plus, the techniques used to reverse engineer are nearly exactly the same ones used in projects like WINE and ReactOS - coincidence?
It depends entirely where you get it from. If you go through the "correct" sources, you've got little chance of getting an incorrect file. Reloaded themselves HATE P2P, I think nearly all the cracking groups do. And something tells me Ubi don't really have access to one of the group's FTPs.
It's not that they stole it, it's more that they couldn't be bothered to make an official one. I mean, when you think about it - what if that crack WAS dodgy? What if it had a time bomb in it that wiped out your hard drive after a certain date? I don't think for a second that Ubi disassembled the cracked.exe and checked it for irregularities or they'd have noticed the cracking group's moniker and removed it. That, plus it would have been easier to recompile a new one from the source they have. Of course, I trust the group but I know full well that if it DID have something dodgy in it, I'd be fully responsible for it and have to accept that it was my fault. But in this case, Ubi could have been under some serious shit if such a thing had happened. There's really no excuse, it's sheer laziness on their part.
Perhaps I'm a bit silly thinking this, but I have a lot of respect for the majority of the cracking scene. Time and time again they've always proved just how talented and resourceful they can be. I say props to them! At the very least, Ubi should sack whatever middle-manager that decided to release this as an "official" patch or lazy programmer that decided to submit this rather than build a proper executable and give THEM a job instead. I've had more "official" patches from both Ubi and EA (And a few others) break stuff than dodgy, pirate hacks.
Actually the DVD-Rom hack is instrumental in running Linux and as far as I'm aware, if you're prepared to spend a few days brute forcing your CPU-ID, you can bypass any protection Microsoft has and downgrade your Firmware so that you may install Linux once again. Still, it's not as ideal as the original Xbox hacks and a "true" hack to install custom *nix has yet to be seen. As for XNA, it's a step forward, but it's still pretty limited. It's not as limited as Sony's *nix stuff, but it's not that far off.
To be fair, even if it is completely crippled, it's still a lot more open than any commercial console for the last 10 or 20 years has been.
Saying the 360 is more open because it's been hacked is a little unfair, Microsoft in no way helped or guided anyone to hack it, it just so happens someone found a problem with the DVD-Rom's firmware that could be exploited fairly easily. Same for the wii, it's only open because someone found enough glitches to be able to open it. It'll soon happen to the PS3 (Although it must be said, Well done Sony for lasting THIS long, they apparently learned from their PSP botch up) and then we'll all be able to take full advantage of it. Personally, I can't wait for it to happen as the sheer raw power available in that console could make it the biggest hacker's dream for years to come.
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I wouldn't say so. While the average return-per-spam has probably declined sharply, the uptake of email has increased by silly amounts. Considering it takes little to no effort to send spam to millions of emails at no real cost to you, I'd say you could easily make a tidy profit from a minimal amount of effort.
Plus, he's the spam KING, that immediately implies he's got riches of gold and silver.
I find it hard to believe that the "spam king" didn't amass a small fortune through all of his illicit dealings, I mean with the sheer amount of spam he created, how can they know how much money he's really made?
What's more, as far as "criminals" go, he's pretty low on the register of importance. Really, all he did was annoy the fuck out of everyone, not like he killed anyone or anything like that.
Hell, identity thieves have done more damage than he has - and for less money.
I guess what I'm trying to say is he's probably got the means to safely disappear under the RADAR and live in a hot country with a big house for the rest of his life.
The real issue I see with this isn't so much that the ISP's are sending out warning letters - they've all stated that they're not prepared to cancel anyone's service - but that the record companies have essentially got the ISP's to do their dirty work for them.
NOW they know that the ISP's will have detailed files on every single person they find allegedly distributing copyrighted music - detailed files that means these "John doe" cases we seen in America will start turning into "John Smith" cases.
There's a tool on the site below that apparently checks if the DNS you're currently using is vulnerable to such an attack. I checked my work DNS and my home DNS - both were fine. Apparently OpenDNS is secure as well, so there's probably nothing to worry about.
http://www.doxpara.com/
So then what exactly was your point?
No, the statement is just as Valid today as it was 5 years ago. Just go ask Nintendo why they don't let developers of Wii games access the internal flash storage more than once every few seconds.
WinFS was never a file system, it was a layer that got inserted on TOP of the existing NTFS filesystem and the technology is still used by Microsoft today, just for different applications.
I know this guy is probably a cherished author (I've never read any of his books - sorry) and while I'm sure he's a Genius on many, many levels, even if he was God Almighty himself, I'd still want to punch him for using an extra 0.
Well done on assuming that Europe is one big member state with exactly the same health care, unemployment and whatever other statistics you want to quote.
No, France, Germany and the UK have completely different medical services, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. And that's just 3 countries, out of 27 in the EU alone.
They also have quite different levels of unemployment, but none of them are even close to the 35% you're quoting, they're more akin to about 6% or 7%. In fact, Slovakia is the highest at around 10%, still nowhere near what you're quoting. I'd like to see some sources for that bullshit.
What's more, you speak of the medical care in these countries as if it's vastly inferior to your own just because it doesn't always work out for the best for some people - yet you don't seem to realise that in the USA (I'm assuming that's where you're from based on your lack of knowledge about the EU) if you don't have health insurance, you're basically fucked if you get hit with anything worse than a bacterial infection or a broken bone. Sure, you might live, but you'll spend the rest of your life trying to pay that ridiculously bloated medical bill.
I'm not saying things are better in the EU, I've yet to see a "perfect" medical system, but to talk about it as if it flat out doesn't work is ludicrous. Quite frankly the British National Health Service is one of the best things to ever happen to the country, despite is flaws and failures - the fact that it's still around after more than half a century proves this and the first politician to suggest scrapping it is going to be performing political suicide.
Sorry if I've read into your post a bit too much, but when you say "the OFFICIAL Adobe flash...", you imply that there's some sort of alternative, unofficial version? Is that true or did I just, as I said, read into it a bit too much?
If so, what's the advantages/disadvantages to it?
Really... I was under the impression that SP3 included IE.
Sadly, I think you made the fatal mistake of assuming that Microsoft would use Common sense.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/No-Internet-Explorer-7-Will-Not-Be-a-Part-of-Windows-XP-SP3-73896.shtml in case you're interested in reading.
Personally, I think they should have put IE7 in the service pack and forced all those companies to update their software. Worst case scenario is that a company is using a piece of outside software they can't get fixed and thus learn a valuable lesson.
XP SP3 does NOT include IE7, Microsoft deliberately kept it as a separate installation so that people wouldn't be discouraged installing the service pack in case it broke the very web apps you mention.
In this tiny, small instance, Microsoft's lack of web standards has bit them in the arse.
A SEXY manbitch.
I wonder how many of those are IE6, which a lot of people use because they CAN'T upgrade to IE7.
And as an above commenter pointed out, I highly doubt they factored in that some OS's can't actually run the latest version of their browser.
For all you know, the parent is a sexy bitch with big titties. ...it could happen!
On Slashdot.
No it's not, the article cited the recent O2 leak (which WAS in the UK), but it's about a bunch of operators leaking MMS messages, including some in the US and Canada.
You could have at least bothered to read the summary.
Slashdot is no place to go dogging! Save it for the M1.
I read "Naomi Campbell" and for some reason unknown to me, thought you were making a reference to Metal Gear Solid, which made no sense to me what so ever. It took me a solid 2mins to actually figure out you were talking about a real person and not a fictional character who's name I still managed to get wrong.
It's 5am here. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
I thought one of the major obstacles of using LED lights was that they weren't actually very white, but rather a shade of light blue? Has there been some major advance in creating white LEDs that I just happened to miss out on (serious question btw)?
And if so, just how white ARE these super cheap LEDs?
How do you know they don't? It's not like they spread their names all over the things they release, it's not like any of them have ever wrote "[scene name] pwns j00! BTW I'm also [dev name] that wrote that really kickass piece of OSS, [really popular linux program].
In fact, if you look at the history of Open Source software, it all began with the same kind of people that liked to break security for fun, it was all the same kinds of mentality.
Plus, the techniques used to reverse engineer are nearly exactly the same ones used in projects like WINE and ReactOS - coincidence?
It depends entirely where you get it from. If you go through the "correct" sources, you've got little chance of getting an incorrect file.
Reloaded themselves HATE P2P, I think nearly all the cracking groups do.
And something tells me Ubi don't really have access to one of the group's FTPs.
It's not that they stole it, it's more that they couldn't be bothered to make an official one. .exe and checked it for irregularities or they'd have noticed the cracking group's moniker and removed it. That, plus it would have been easier to recompile a new one from the source they have.
I mean, when you think about it - what if that crack WAS dodgy? What if it had a time bomb in it that wiped out your hard drive after a certain date? I don't think for a second that Ubi disassembled the cracked
Of course, I trust the group but I know full well that if it DID have something dodgy in it, I'd be fully responsible for it and have to accept that it was my fault.
But in this case, Ubi could have been under some serious shit if such a thing had happened.
There's really no excuse, it's sheer laziness on their part.
Perhaps I'm a bit silly thinking this, but I have a lot of respect for the majority of the cracking scene.
Time and time again they've always proved just how talented and resourceful they can be.
I say props to them! At the very least, Ubi should sack whatever middle-manager that decided to release this as an "official" patch or lazy programmer that decided to submit this rather than build a proper executable and give THEM a job instead. I've had more "official" patches from both Ubi and EA (And a few others) break stuff than dodgy, pirate hacks.
Actually the DVD-Rom hack is instrumental in running Linux and as far as I'm aware, if you're prepared to spend a few days brute forcing your CPU-ID, you can bypass any protection Microsoft has and downgrade your Firmware so that you may install Linux once again.
Still, it's not as ideal as the original Xbox hacks and a "true" hack to install custom *nix has yet to be seen.
As for XNA, it's a step forward, but it's still pretty limited. It's not as limited as Sony's *nix stuff, but it's not that far off.
To be fair, even if it is completely crippled, it's still a lot more open than any commercial console for the last 10 or 20 years has been.
Saying the 360 is more open because it's been hacked is a little unfair, Microsoft in no way helped or guided anyone to hack it, it just so happens someone found a problem with the DVD-Rom's firmware that could be exploited fairly easily.
Same for the wii, it's only open because someone found enough glitches to be able to open it. It'll soon happen to the PS3 (Although it must be said, Well done Sony for lasting THIS long, they apparently learned from their PSP botch up) and then we'll all be able to take full advantage of it.
Personally, I can't wait for it to happen as the sheer raw power available in that console could make it the biggest hacker's dream for years to come.