Posts by Morely Dotes 939 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Apr 2007
It should also be noted, in addition to "adnim's" well-taken points, that many advertising servers also serve malware. Some of them aren't doing it intentionally, but one of the important points learned in military service is that "friendly fire, isn't."
So a complete shutdown of services that are supported only by third-party advertising would be, not a disaster, but a boon to Mankind.
The more people who do this, the less effective the RIAA/MPAA terrorists will be:
1. Create files containing open-source software, but rename them to things like "Britney Spears Latest Album.MP3" and "Harry Potter Complete Collection.ISO"
2. Seed those files on torrent trackers.
3. Sit back and relax.
When the RIAA/MPAA comes to call, ignore their demands until a subpoena arrives, then take your files to the court and show the judge that the charges against you are completely false, and the plaintiff has engaged in vexatious litigation.
"If you've got a good suggestion for ways users of other browsers can protect themselves, please leave a comment"
1. Don't use Internet Explorer on the Internet. Seriously. Microsoft has integrated it into the OS, so if IE is compromised, your compute is compromised.
2. Go to http://mvps.org, search for "hosts" and install the hosts file provided by MVPS. It won't stop your browser from running scripts, but it *will* stop your computer from accessing thousands of known malicious Web sites.
3. Boycott any site that permits shockwave or flash advertising banners. That's simply irresponsible site management.
Re: Tom Mendoza, Dan Warmenhoven said, "Freeing him from operational responsibilities to focus his energy on our customers and culture will help us become even more responsive to the market and deeply attuned to the transformation happening in today’s data centers.”
In other words: The more time Tom spends playing golf or on junkets to customer sites, and the less time he spends in the office, the happier we'll all be.
"There's certainly been stressful points along the way – try not to get sued by anybody... especially not your own government... especially if unjust."
Well, Bill, at least you needn't worry about the latter point. You've been sued quite justly for abusing Microsoft's de facto monopoly position.
So that's all sorted, then.
'They go on to suggest that engineers have a "terrorist mindset" making them likelier to turn jihadi than other kinds of people.'
That's because of having to deal with illogical, idiotic arsehats in the Sociology Department. Five minutes of trying to convince one of them that, if he refuses to back up his files to the network, they *will* disappear forever when his laptop crashes/is lost/is sold to buy more drugs, and I'm ready to start assembling bombs from random kitchen objects myself.
Except, rather than being a suicide bomber, I'd be applying them as involuntary suppositories for the SocDept idjits.
That in the UK, no one attends school after the age of 16.
Well, that would certainly explain the state of your economy.
Or is it just possible that the "sexy schoolgirl" is, in fact, a *university* student? And that those who are going on about "think of the children" are, in fact, closet pedo cases themselves?
"Attempts to reach AccuSearch and Patel for comment were unsuccessful."
Why don't you just use their Web site to buy their phone records? I bet you'd hear from them pretty damn quickly.
And Andy, the answer is no, the US does not have any sort of laws to protect the privacy of private citizens. Only the privacy of Government officers and corporations are protected. It's the Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules.
It has been, ever since a Supreme Court clerk granted "personhood" to corporations, very friendly to incorporated businesses and hostile to natural persons.
Sanford Wallace is one of the people who is aware of this and who is also totally amoral, and perfectly willing to "game the system" for his own benefit, no matter who gets hurt in the process.
I was among those who fought against his spamming operations a decade ago. Clearly, the "smart" thing to have done was to start my own, competing spam operation, as it is clear that spammers in the USA get rich, while the rest of us get shafted.
My wife is a (now-retired) banker. The mainframe system at the little bank where she worked in Texas had very, very good input verification, but once in a while someone would enter something from which it simply couldn't make any sense. When that happened, the message returned was:
Input respectfully ignored.
Joe McCarthy will be able to use this ruling to strongarm the broadcasters in the future, when they would really like to mention that civil liberties have been "suspended," but find themselves in the position of being already suspected of disloyalty for arguing with the censors.
Hitler had his Reichstag fire; Bush had his 9/11.
Unlike this article...
"Could contain hazardous materials: just like The Andromeda Strain"
The biological invaders in _The Andromeda Strain_ were of extraterrestrial origin, and hitched a ride to Earth on a space probe which went far beyond Earth orbit. The science content in that book/movie was, like all of Michael Crichton's work, purest fantasy, and requires an extreme effort of willful suspension of disbelief (in other words, only a moron would believe any of it was real science).
Anything that's on the satellite was on it when it was launched; it's extremely unlikely (on the order of the same likelihood as sainthood for George W. Bush) that there were any extraterrestrial organisms launched with that satellite.
The hazardous materials in question here will be oxides of beryllium, and residues of hydrazine fuel. Well, there's also the remote possibility of getting conked on the noggin by debris moving at a respectable speed, but a chicken feather moving that fast would be "hazardous."
I chose the alien to represent the pop-sci-fi quality of the El Reg article.
Item number 2 should be .44 Magnum, the "point" goes to the left of the calibre to indicate how much of an inch your bore is.
And I agree, Noisy Cricket is definitely ultimate sidearm. Small enough to fit in your jock strap (or Anelinia Jolie's brassiere), powerful enough to bring down a flying saucer.
Your idea of aerial travel for mapping the Marian surface has enough merit that it's already been (more or less) developed by NASA. However, something requiring no refueling is perforce going to be extremely light-weight and flimsy by normal Earth standards (and probably won't survive the first windstorm encountered on Mars, either).
A balloon, however, while not really steerable, would serve admirably for atmospheric surveys, just as they do on Earth. Our own stratosphere is then enough to simulate the Martian atmosphere, so we have plenty of experience with such devices.
"The guy was persistently hitting the other companies systems and publishing private information."
Are you out of your fscking mind? The "private" information published was the information *REQUIRED* to be made public under ICANN rules to operate a server on the Internet.
You as well sue someone for handing you a telephone directory and telling you, "your name, address, and phone number are on Page 3." Or better yet, sue the telco for publishing that information.
Judge Cynthia Rothe-Seeger should clearly be removed from the bench for gross incompetence. She has failed to seek competent technical expertise in order to understand the issues involved in the complaint.
I am aghast. I own and operate SPAMBLOCKED.COM and I routinely use WHOIS and zone transfers to determine what IP space to block when one of my customers is spammed. In the event that this case does not go forward and is not reversed on appeal, I will be left with simply blocking every /16 from which my customers receive spam, rather than using the surgical blocking techniques which prevail now.
'“A successful consumer transition from analog to digital television is now imperiled by a cadre of companies that have been hoisted on their own flawed technology petard,” said Dennis Wharton, NAB executive VP. “Try as they might, portable unlicensed device advocates like Google and Microsoft cannot run and hide from the fact that their own technology utterly failed FCC testing. That is not ‘misinformation,’ but rather an inconvenient truth.”
Several vendors have now submitted updated devices, claiming improved anti-interference performance, for testing by the FCC. These include Google (actually its first attempt); Philips (whose white spaces ‘sense-and-avoid’gear did pass previous government testing); and start-up Adaptrum.'
Well, Wharton's partly right. His statement isn't misinformation; it's an outright lie.
...That neither PGP nor GPG has a built-in "wipe the data" command which can be triggered by entering a specific passphrase which is different from the decryption key.
"Oh, you wanted the decryption key? You should have said! I thought you wanted to deprive me of the files, so I gave you the *other* passphrase!"
You bleedingly stupid git. Oh, sorry, sorry, I meant to say...
You have precisely zero chance of preventing people from accessing data over the Internet as long as the Internet exists. Since the UK does not have the armed capability of destroyed every single Internet server on the planet, you are screwed.
Satellite Internet access will continue to exist even if you manage to isolate the UK from the rest of the world's wired communications.
Why don't you just check in o the nearest Home for the Hopelessly Bewildered and save the taxpayers a few pounds, there's a good lass.
Incidentally, the same argument applies to the R.I. Ass. of America, and the BPI.
"I bet you also spout the 'guns don't kill people, people kill people' argument too... I think you'll find that the gun often helps. :)"
Non sequitur. Guns do nothing whatsoever without human control. they don't aim, they don't load themselves, they don't release their own safeties, they don't plan to be fired, nor do they do anything else.
And since, in addition to guns, people are killed with cricket bats, kitchen knives, common household chemicals, automobiles, ropes, medicines, pipes, hammers, wrenches, random bits of lumbar, rocks, and literally thousands of other common objects found everywhere in the world, it is obvious that, using your logic, the only way once can avoid being killed is to commit suicide.
Which is why I think you're a brainless git.
"Switching the ESSID from 9 to 5"
Do you mean you changed the wireless channel on the router, or do you in fact have a single-character ESSID? Wouldn't it be a major nuisance to have to reassociate all your wireless devices after changing the ESSID? Or is the XO laptop the only wireless device you have?
"...rewards creativity and investment... ISPs must get serious and reach agreements with rightholders..."
Let's be honest here, Mr. BPI. You don't give a flaming rat's arse about creativity; the only creativity involved in music distirbution is "creative accounting, and shall we see if Inland Revenue is interested in looking into that?
The creative people are the musicians and production crews, none of whom are rewarded very well by BPI. The "rightsholders" (they were called "the nobility" a few centuries ago, when serfs were kept working the land by threat of physical force, rather than economic coercion) have a huge investment in maintaining the status quo (which, in fact, ceased to exist nearly a decade ago, when direct digital distribution became possible).
And that's the *ONLY* thing that BPI wants to see rewarded
Kurt, I'm retired from the US Army. I held a Top Secret - Special Compartmented Information clearance, because I handled both intel and nuclear warheads.
I have no problem spook-baiting. There's absolutely nothing in the world more important to me than preserving what's left of the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America.
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." That was said by a man who risked his life to ensure the liberty of his fellow man. You are one of the people of whom he was speaking, you coward. You deserve neither liberty, nor safety, if you are willing to knuckle under to the latest incarnation of Stalinists and Nazis in order to have a comfortable life as a slave.
"[This] doesn't mean that Mac is becoming less secure in and of itself. But it does mean that Mac users will have to watch out for social engineering tricks just like Windows users have had to do for years," F-secure reports."
But they've been doing that. That's how they decided to get a Mac in the first place - they resisted the social engineering tricks foisted on the sheeple by Microsoft.
(I'm a Linux fanboi, persoanlly, but Macs are at least not Windows. The enemy of my enemy is ... Well, a less threatening enemy.)
"does this perhaps mean they are using cheap shared hosting or webhost reseller packages without proper WebHostManagement licenses(?)"
Not meaning to be rude here, merely baffled. WTF do you by "WebHostManagement licenses"? Is there some secret society which requires Web host owners to pay a licensing fee, an which so far has managed to miss noticing my hosting service?
Bang icon because there's no ? icon.
BD, HDDVD... It's still crap. Not the storage capacity, not the resolution - the content.
And the Beeb doesn't seem to be releasing Doctor Who on either disk format, so I say f*ck 'em both, there's nothing worth having. I am *DAMN* sure not replacing all my existing DVDs with a new copy. Although I suppose the mindless sheeple will. The same ones that "voted for" GW Bush and Blair, eh?
Instead of boarding and protesting, they ought to get their own harpoon gun, and follow the whalers around. Every time the whalers shoot at a whale, the greenies shoot at the whalers.
It's International waters, so fly a Panamaniam flag (or Swiss, would be even better).
Yarrgh! Heave to, matey, or we'll be forced ta eat the cabin boy!
"The problem resides in Universal Plug and Play"
And nothing more really need be said. The brainless f*ckwits that can't set up their networks without UPnP are going to get infected regardless of Flash.
And those of us who can follow simple directions don't need UPnP, so we turn it off on every device before allowing an Internet connection.
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