I refer you to P = NP for the scalability issues involved in this. :) Botnet a needs to be an order of magnitude smaller than botnet b to affect it, which would just lead to construction of botnet c with another order of magnitude for difference. It honestly becomes very unrealistic after the first round of hack/counterhack.

Also, I had not properly grokked browser behavior. You need to type into the address bar in order to get the automatic URL fixing functionality. It doesn't work when you click on links. Before I get flamed, if you're in ff and you clicked the link and see the appropriate response, click your address bar and hit enter, and it will get hijacked :)

and nevermind my misplaced usage of append and lack of prepend, I'm tired today. :)

There is one problem with this. If you had access to a comcast connection it would become immediately apparent. When a web browser encounters an NX Record (say for: asdjoiasjdoiasjdo.com), the default behavior (At least for me in FF 3.5.2) was to AUTOMATICALLY Try it with www.asdjoiasjdoiasjdo.com..bam. Hijacked. So, if you try an internal webmail VPN host, or try to do anything webbased with a windows domain host (eg. http://testsystem/), firefox would fail to find the dns record, append .com, fail, and then append www...bam... freakin hijacked again.. Comcast customers with firefox (and i'm assuming IE has most of this default behavior, probably safari and opera as well), try it for yourself. http://abosjdoiqjwodijioqwjdo/

What you fail to see is that the VPN Layer would only be called upon after the 'failed resolution' of the domain by the primary dns resolution, which will NEVER fail in this scenario because comcast will dns hijack and return a valid record.

It is certainly more understandable how "ready" would bother her family very much, and you very little. :)

Yeah. Some campuses are probably closer to 90%. Alternatively, theres probably some campuses who have few students who can afford anything close to a mac.

I was trying to figure out how to blame this guy until I realized that he was probably fully running linux (or would at least claim that) and a virus was not likely responsible. This is how. Thanks, you win one internets. :P Not like this blog ever gets updated again though, most likely. The guy probably will figure out what caused the issue and just never come back :P

I am curious if the former USSR has released something like this, especially with Putin basically still at the head; two things: first, how much of this document is black-lined at this point? Second, isn't it pretty obvious anything that isn't is an attempt to tell us what they want us to believe?

Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Funny) by goombah99 (560566) Alter Relationship on Wednesday May 06, @07:58PM (#27854073) [citation needed] [1] You gets +1 insightful :)

My favorite least cool effect of filesharing is when your dumbass kids shut down your network with bittorrent because they don't know what they're doing. :) Yeah, you can fix it after the fact but it's definitely confusing when it starts the first time.

Peter sunde for prime minister? Anyone think the swedes will attempt to ban him from running? Anyone think THAT may lead to a riot? Sweden better not mess this up or may need to figure out how to stop a revolution. :P

agreed.

Wow dude, go get some coffee and read the article before you go all 'FLAME ON'.

So what does that make 'Irish Terminal Velocity'?