It was a terrorist attack intended to disrupt a major part of the infrastructure, period.
Oh, really? You were there? You know what they were thinking? How do you know it wasn't a couple of punk kids just screwing around and not realizing what they were getting themselves into?
I never said they shouldn't be charged. I (and the parent I responded to) both just said that they will likely be charged with much more than the crime warrants. The Wired article indicates that they were retaliating because some Comcast dweeb was rude on the phone. It also indicates that they were stupid enough to be surprised by how big and loud this blew up. Further, it indicates this is a repeat offense for both "hackers". If all that is true, then I submit there is very little chance they are going to be charged with more than the crimes warrant. Repeat offenders and that kind of petty extortion should be slapped as hard as possible.
I agree with Gates, Win95 was as good as Windows got.
What a load of crap. I absolutely detest working on Windoze, and ME was a poorly repackaged disaster, XP still has issues and the Vista fiasco has been well documented.
Unless you've gone through the hassle of buying (or attempted to buy) a house this wouldn't be very clear. Did you really just say that he will become relevant when he moves out of his parents house?
[...] I damn sure expect that I will be able to make "headhoncho@acme.com" my official email address and my business card (and get reliable service out of it).[...] And what exactly does this have to do with TFA? Smtp relay anyone? You must be new here... Why would you ask a RTFA question?
However, to answer, it pertains to the relevance of using gMail as an email service separate from your webHosting service... Or, to decode for you, it's a discussion as to whether or not DreamHosts email commentary is a good idea for businesses, or at all. In other words, I quite germane to TFA.
but what if I like bondage? What would the Internet be without a little (okay, well, a lot) of bondage?! So, you want to be tied up with a cat-5 cable or have you upgraded to fiber?
There's no question that what this woman did was wrong and morally repugnant. But was it a crime? Yes, there IS a question as to what she actually did! Geezus. Finding out whether or not someone was driving the car is a good idea before you go looking for a broken law to charge that person with, wouldn't you say?
From TFA - there is a person who satd that this woman did NOT create the account, and that "She wrote a few messages to Megan" and that she was NOT the person who wrote the "The world would be better off without you" break up note.
Last month, an employee of Drew, 19-year-old Ashley Grills, told ABC's "Good Morning America" she created the false MySpace profile but Drew wrote some of the messages to Megan.
Grills said Drew suggested talking to Megan via the Internet to find out what Megan was saying about Drew's daughter, who was a former friend.
Grills also said she wrote the message to Megan about the world being a better place without her. The message was supposed to end the online relationship with "Josh" because Grills felt the joke had gone too far.
"I was trying to get her angry so she would leave him alone and I could get rid of the whole MySpace," Grills told the morning show.
The human brain continues to physically develop sometimes as late as age 25. (smile) the entire rest of your post is now suspect because of this remark....
It implies that you have never met, or are ignoring the evidence of, most of the 40 something middle management screw ups I've had to work for. their little brains are still developing very, very slowly.... Some of them I'm quite sure will never make it.
Except half of slashdot didn't create the profiles to terrorize a little girl and cause her to kill herself. In this specific case, a life was lost because of the actions of this woman. I don't think "Terrorize" is an accurate way to describe this, even if she's guilty.
The article (and others) suggests that is was more like the parent creates a fake profile to spy on the victim to see "What the girl might be saying online", and at some point, for some reason, decided to "have some fun" - if she did it was grossly stupid. IMHO parents generally should stay out of teen social entanglements.
But I have to agree, it's a civil case, not a social one.
apparently i REALLY didnt learn anything growing up in North Carolina That's for damn sure... you people can't even make barbeque - ask any Texan. Well, that's okay, Texans mistakenly think they know what Chili is too (beans are required, People! How else are you going to encourage the inlaws to go home?!)
!!Are we sure Garth Brooks isn't a lethal weapon or in violation of the geneva conventions? I mean I heard about them playing Eminem loud at guantanamo to increase stress levels, but Garth Brooks...that would obscene. And from a strategic perspective, should we really give away our best interrogation techniques to the chinese?
Water boarding with achey breaky heart in the background? The horror. I shouldn't say this, because C&W isn't a preferred genre of mine, but Garth Brooks didn't do that song - It was Billy Ray Cyrus
"(Except for bits about the installation, the review is actually quite positive.)"
I must have read a different article (whupps, sorry, it's slashdot, I know I'm not supposed to RTFA, backsliding again, I suppose)
the first page was complaints about the installer, a paragraph or two that's positive about the performance, and then a complaint that you have to buy the enterprise edition for support, because you can't buy support for Fedora...
Didn't do much for me as a review of the new Fedora, and it certainly didn't seem like the rest was "Positive".
Until someone has the balls to restart Project Orion, I don't see why we should even bother. But, but, think of the environmental impact.... Orion would have irradiated a path through space from the beginning to the end of the mission... And then our [mutant] children would be stuck with the irradiated mess to clean up - think of mother earth! (um... I mean... Father Solar system!)
Well Bush pushed space exploration fairly hard. I would expect that a Dem in the White House won't have time for it. They'll be busy spending money "for the children." It will be hard to justify spending money on space exploration when you campaign on platform of a Chicken Little economy if you don't win. I suspect you are right, the Democratics won't spend money on Space programs, but for the wrong reason. Not because they are spending money on the Children, but because there is no money to spend. We've have and are continuing to dump a lot of money into Iraq, and even if the next regime withdraws from Iraq, it'll still cost a fortune to get out. That money has to come from somewhere after all....
I used ORBS, blocked all of asia-pacific net, and ran ASSP (Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy). After around 5 days of training I had SPAM down to maybe 3-5 a day per mailbox; I never could beat that number. I'm managing a little better than that with Spamassassin, a few SARE rules and some tweaks to the scoring (mostly upping the scores on the RBL's) We seem to be averaging around 2/day/act for around 3000 user accounts.
The sacrifice is 2 or 3 false positives a month.
If I can get an acceptable handle on the backscatter problem we're currently dealing with, we can improve this, I believe.
Your assessment of the current state of email is correct. But, blaming users for using it to fill a need when there is no realistic alternative is silly.
email is ubiquitous and easy. 99.5% of the time, it's nearly instantaneous. Should I really have to get an IM account on google, yahoo, aim, microsoft, etc.... so I can deal with time-critical messages? And, for that matter, should everybody else? if it's time critical, pick up the phone or send a fax, and IM, a text message, or use features in one of the groupware offerings, there are viable alternatives in the wild, using old and new technology.
The simple fact of life is that if you depend on eMail for time critical message transfer, then you will, sooner or later, get burned.
When you can collect that much data that quickly it has very little value. What do you base that assertion on? I can't, in my experience, correlate the value of data to the time it takes to acquire it.
What's more, I suspect that the fact that all that data was harvested implies value.
The junk in my physical mailbox is more annoying, and such junk mail has been going on for centuries without a solution. So I don't think you can expect a solution to non-physical spam either. You really think junk mail is over 200 years old?
Slashdot Mirror
you fail at English. "y'all fail at good English"
There, fixed that for ya.
I believe he is aware that Elvis is dead, which is why he postulated the Alien resurrection theory.
learn to convert monies properly ploxkthxbai I really want a -1 "Woosh" mod.
Oh, really? You were there? You know what they were thinking? How do you know it wasn't a couple of punk kids just screwing around and not realizing what they were getting themselves into?
I never said they shouldn't be charged. I (and the parent I responded to) both just said that they will likely be charged with much more than the crime warrants. The Wired article indicates that they were retaliating because some Comcast dweeb was rude on the phone. It also indicates that they were stupid enough to be surprised by how big and loud this blew up. Further, it indicates this is a repeat offense for both "hackers". If all that is true, then I submit there is very little chance they are going to be charged with more than the crimes warrant. Repeat offenders and that kind of petty extortion should be slapped as hard as possible.
I agree with Gates, Win95 was as good as Windows got.
What a load of crap. I absolutely detest working on Windoze, and ME was a poorly repackaged disaster, XP still has issues and the Vista fiasco has been well documented.That said, 98 was better than Win95.
That was very smooth!
Smtp relay anyone? You must be new here...
Why would you ask a RTFA question?
However, to answer, it pertains to the relevance of using gMail as an email service separate from your webHosting service... Or, to decode for you, it's a discussion as to whether or not DreamHosts email commentary is a good idea for businesses, or at all. In other words, I quite germane to TFA.
They just need to send Pretty leading Man/Woman of the month around to the court house to blow a judge or three.....
You'll have to start making your own tubes. Nah, excellent tubes are manufactured in Russia....
(oblig Futurama quote: It's funny because it's true)
From TFA - there is a person who satd that this woman did NOT create the account, and that "She wrote a few messages to Megan" and that she was NOT the person who wrote the "The world would be better off without you" break up note. Last month, an employee of Drew, 19-year-old Ashley Grills, told ABC's "Good Morning America" she created the false MySpace profile but Drew wrote some of the messages to Megan.
Grills said Drew suggested talking to Megan via the Internet to find out what Megan was saying about Drew's daughter, who was a former friend.
Grills also said she wrote the message to Megan about the world being a better place without her. The message was supposed to end the online relationship with "Josh" because Grills felt the joke had gone too far.
"I was trying to get her angry so she would leave him alone and I could get rid of the whole MySpace," Grills told the morning show.
It implies that you have never met, or are ignoring the evidence of, most of the 40 something middle management screw ups I've had to work for. their little brains are still developing very, very slowly.... Some of them I'm quite sure will never make it.
The article (and others) suggests that is was more like the parent creates a fake profile to spy on the victim to see "What the girl might be saying online", and at some point, for some reason, decided to "have some fun" - if she did it was grossly stupid. IMHO parents generally should stay out of teen social entanglements.
But I have to agree, it's a civil case, not a social one.
!!Are we sure Garth Brooks isn't a lethal weapon or in violation of the geneva conventions? I mean I heard about them playing Eminem loud at guantanamo to increase stress levels, but Garth Brooks...that would obscene. And from a strategic perspective, should we really give away our best interrogation techniques to the chinese?
Water boarding with achey breaky heart in the background? The horror. I shouldn't say this, because C&W isn't a preferred genre of mine, but Garth Brooks didn't do that song - It was Billy Ray Cyrus
"(Except for bits about the installation, the review is actually quite positive.)"
I must have read a different article (whupps, sorry, it's slashdot, I know I'm not supposed to RTFA, backsliding again, I suppose)
the first page was complaints about the installer, a paragraph or two that's positive about the performance, and then a complaint that you have to buy the enterprise edition for support, because you can't buy support for Fedora...
Didn't do much for me as a review of the new Fedora, and it certainly didn't seem like the rest was "Positive".
The sacrifice is 2 or 3 false positives a month.
If I can get an acceptable handle on the backscatter problem we're currently dealing with, we can improve this, I believe.
email is ubiquitous and easy. 99.5% of the time, it's nearly instantaneous. Should I really have to get an IM account on google, yahoo, aim, microsoft, etc.... so I can deal with time-critical messages? And, for that matter, should everybody else? if it's time critical, pick up the phone or send a fax, and IM, a text message, or use features in one of the groupware offerings, there are viable alternatives in the wild, using old and new technology.
The simple fact of life is that if you depend on eMail for time critical message transfer, then you will, sooner or later, get burned.
When you can collect that much data that quickly it has very little value. What do you base that assertion on? I can't, in my experience, correlate the value of data to the time it takes to acquire it.
What's more, I suspect that the fact that all that data was harvested implies value.