I missed that (but, 1st post...). Still, that's just a problem with a bad router. The packets should be blocked (dropped) right away, otherwise there's no point in blocking.

Report it once, to their abuse address. If it continues (it did), block their IP-range. Problem solved (unless you have a lot of spare time and really WANT to waste time on this instead of reading a book or play computer games).

Woosh.

The post you're replying to was a joke.

Perhaps not the Nethack developers themselves, but I bet somebody will do some kind of VR-version of noteye just to prove it can be done once OcR is out.

Pretty pointless from a gameplaying perspective though. A red & in ADOM (not sure if there are Balors in Nethack?) is way more scary than anything that can be done in VR or any graphical layer.

My girlfriends work computer was hit with Cryptowall 4.0 today. Since the computer belongs to the university she works for, the only backup is the useless sync to the university servers that only works when it rains and there's a full moon. Also, since she's not admin on it, I couldn't install a proper backup solution or a proper AV (Microsoft Security Essentials says everything is fine after a 5 hour full scan, despite a million encrypted files and a dozen popups at startup about paying to have them unlocked).

I'll dd the HD tomorrow and see if the shadow files are of any use (if they're still there), but best bet for now is the manual backup to external HD that she's been doing every week or so.

Well, at least she might be convinced to abandon Windows.

Because spineless abuse-handlers comply with DMCA-notices despite it being a foreign law, totally irrelevant in country X. It's especially hilarious when, for example, some UK company sends DMCA-requests to another EU country. When that happens I sometimes explain to the sender that neither of these countries are US states, and US laws does not apply (especially British people seems to be very confused about this)

Otherwise I just tell them politely to fuck off and come back with a court order, if it's regarding something that's actually illegal and not something random that happens to be covered by the silly DMCA (if even that).

> I doubt many people update each and every time.

They don't have to, Wordpress updates itself by default. Most Wordpress-sites are hacked through plugins like Revslider (lots of people are still running that old version from early 2014) - usually pirated premium plugins (or themes).

> hacking them and dumping their data publicly is illegal

So? Laws that are in conflict with reality should be ignored until they are changed. There are lots of things that are illegal but morally right.

And this is probably why there are so many fat people in the US. Walking or cycling (+ not having tacos or bagels for breakfast... tacos? Really?) would probably be good for a lot of people.

I think the OP meant is that those are concentration camps, not extermination ("death"-) camps. There is a big difference, though lots of people also died in concentration camps.

Right. And if you want to go for a nice drive in the countryside, you just boot up a car game, right?

Emulators can be useful in many ways, but they can not replace the real thing.

> The NSA is supposed to spy on officials.

I don't get that argument. STASI was supposed to spy on East German citizens. Does that make it right? If it's the NSA's job to spy on allies, why not change their damn job description or shut them down?

Targeting OS X is tempting because of 99% of all Mac users *knows* that "Macs can't get infected" (the Apple salespeople told them so), and therefore they don't have any kind of antivirus installed.

At work, I daily deal with Mac-users who gets their mailaccounts hijacked because of infections. It takes roughly 10-20 minutes to convince them to download and run Avast or something like that, but it's worth the "oh....".

The summary is wrong, popcorntime has never used popcorntime.se (and I really doubt a site like that could by hosted with binero, which is a typical webhotel - they don't even offer VPS-accounts).

If it's lawful to kill civilians with drones, then you should change your rotten laws.