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Comment good faith? (Score 4, Insightful) 160

I wonder how long this will last until a class action suit.

I think the ISPs are hiding behind the variables like distance to the tap and peak hours to not make a good faith effort to provide what they are advertising.

In many cases people pay for 3mbs but get 2mbs, then upgrade to the 6mbs plan and get 4mbs, which demonstrates the ISPs capability to have delivered the full 3mbs in the first place.

Comment ahhh (Score 1) 202

I've been wondering about this for 13 years now (when I started learning z80 and 68k assembly) if antivirus software was smart enough to analyze for things like:

  jmp lbl_1 .ds 50 /* declare 50 bytes of storage */
lbl_1:

And those 50 bytes are filled in with random patterns. But this article makes it sound like there are multiple jumps that are being generated which I've also considered. Or dummy for loops.

I'm surprised virus writers are only starting to do this. Any assembly coder worth his salt should be smart enough to think of this.

Comment ha (Score 1) 619

I have my last name registered as a domain so I could have a first_name@last_name.org email address. But I occasionally get news mails that address me as Ralph, my dads name, from the Missouri state university, where my dad went. I also get environmental political action emails addressed to him.

I've examined the links closely and none appear to be phishing attempts.

I'm wondering if these institutions have bought supposed good email addresses from a company that came about them through some kind of "smart" interpolation algorithm.

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