Comment Re:obvious conflict of interest (Score 1) 194
Why is this flamebait? If GP had complained that he no longer got Win95 patches, he would have been laughed out of the room.
Comment Re:Software vulnerabilities (Score 1) 194
Another logical fallacy would be criticizing GP's post without looking at who the author of the post is.
In other words, woosh!
In other words, woosh!
Comment Snail Mail (Score 1) 95
Snail mail is much easier to track. All of my mail spam arrives in the middle of the day, so every evening, I just throw away what's in the mailbox.
Submission + - The Pirate Bay Founders Create DDO$ Attack (dizzythinks.net)
joelmax writes: It seems that The folks over at The Pirate Bay have come up with a Genius Idea for their 30Million SEK Fine that they refuse to pay. Basically, they aim to Have millions of TPB Supporters send small donation payments to the Law Firm representing the Media Industry of 1 SEK (Reccommended amount). Now, if enough people do this, the Law firm only has 1000 free transactions per day, so everything above 1000 transactions costs them money (2 SEK per Transaction). So lets say that this gets tons of support and 30 million people do this (Cost of fine) in 1 day. This means that there would be 29 999 000 transactions that cost the law firm 2 SEK per transaction. This would end up costing the firm $59 998 000 (Just under 60 Million, or double the amount fined). Thats a lot of $$$....
Here is a link to the original article: http://dizzythinks.net/2009/05/pirate-bay-founders-invent-ddo-attack.html
Here is a link to the original article: http://dizzythinks.net/2009/05/pirate-bay-founders-invent-ddo-attack.html
Comment Re:But... (Score 1) 594
Next on Rock Bottom...
Comment Re:Empirical Test (Score 1) 286
I hope that the teacher's response would be something like this:
By continuing this lawsuit, you agree to pay me triple the amount of damages that you receive in said lawsuit.
By continuing this lawsuit, you agree to pay me triple the amount of damages that you receive in said lawsuit.
Comment Re:Empirical Test (Score 1) 286
You will find that the terms of the DVD preclude playing it for large groups..
So what? Some text flashing by on a screen as you play the DVD is not a license.
Comment Re:Srsly? (Score 5, Funny) 198
I guess going from a single tube to a series of them is an improvement...
Comment Re:Alaska's pretty remote... (Score 3, Funny) 190
Yeah, because Illinois is such a remote area...
Comment Re:Weren't the earlier betas much faster? (Score 1) 821
#ifndef BETA
#define _NSAKEY
#endif
#define _NSAKEY
#endif
Comment Re:Funny... (Score 1) 172
The last Republican presidents that didn't attempt to take all the power for themselves were Ford (but he doesn't count) and Eisenhower.
Comment Re:What about the standard way ? (Score 2, Interesting) 405
That's right. No matter how many warnings Windows 7 has, the end user will click right through the "This program is attempting to change Vcore and will destroy your computer" warnings. TC would work, but it's out of the question. The only real solution is ... none. As long as the end user has control of the computer, viruses and botnets are here to stay.
Comment Re:tiresome, misdirected country (Score 1) 292
hellbent on "decarbonizing" an already cooling planet
What data sets are you looking at? The "out of my ass" data sets?
Comment Re:Mortality rates and the flu (Score 1) 84
TFA doesn't say that a cytokine storm occurs, but it does say that the levels are elevated. My uneducated speculation is that this could be caused by a cytokine positive feedback loop occuring, but being stopped by H1N1s immune system attacking properties.
Comment Re:Mortality rates and the flu (Score 5, Interesting) 84
Flu does hit them much harder, but the reason that the Spanish flu killed some many young, healthy people was because it launched a cytokine storm, something that was replicated in H5N1 (remember that?). So far, H1N1 does not seem to do this, although TFA suggests that it might.
