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Comment Re:question... (Score 0) 484

by TW Atwater on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @12:46PM (#25961213) Attached to: Apple Quietly Recommends Antivirus Software For Macs

Think of it this way. Using Linux is like marrying a virgin and both of you staying true to each other forever. One of you could still get an STD, but it won't be from screwing each other. Using Windows is like screwing a different NYC crack whore every Saturday night. You will maybe not get infected if you use enough protection.

You're welcome.

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Comment Buying from AAFES (Score 0) 593

by TW Atwater on Monday December 01, 2008 @12:05AM (#25939731) Attached to: Recourse For Poor Customer Service?

I've bought three mail-order laptops through AAFES. No hassle, you can use your Military Star card, and you have recourse through AAFES if the vendor screws up. I highly recommend ordering through AAFES to all military folks.

493568 submission

Submission + - IFPI Seizes 2,339 Computers in Brazil (arstechnica.com) 2

Submitted by

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property

on Tuesday January 29, 2008 @04:07PM

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "The IFPI reports that they have seized 2,339 computers and made one arrest in their raids on 335 Brazilian internet cafes. Working in conjunction with the Associacao Anti-pirateria de Cinema e Musica (APCM) and more than 600 Special Ops police, they are trying to stem the tide in a country where they allege that 20% of the people are pirates and half the CDs and DVDs are bootleg copies. If true, Rock Braziliano would be proud."

458668 submission

Submission + - pugoob Image search tool (googlepages.com)

Submitted by

bitlooter

on Wednesday January 09, 2008 @01:57PM

bitlooter writes: "Pugoob is an image search tool. You submit an image and pugoob can locate other occurences of that image on the web. You can crop part of an image and pugoob can find other images that have the part you cropped. It is a model search tool. In other words, it sees one image as a scene and tries to locate the second image (as a model) within the scene. It is based on work done 15 years ago and works remarkably well. Of course the down side is that it is computationally intensive. A running version and the entire source code (Actually the whole Amazon Machine Image) can be found here : http://pugoob.nameserver.googlepages.com/"

456792 submission

Submission + - Open source has sec flaw every 1000 lines of code

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @04:13PM

Stony Stevenson writes: Open source code tends to contain one security exposure for every 1,000 lines of code, according to a program launched by the Department of Homeland Security to review and tighten up open source code's security. Popular open source projects, such as Samba, the PHP, Perl, and Tcl dynamic languages used to bind together elements of Web sites, and Amanda, the popular open source backup and recovery software running on half a million servers, were all found to have dozens or hundreds of security exposures and quality defects. A total of 7,826 open source project defects have been fixed through the Homeland Security review, or one every two hours since it was launched in 2006, according to David Maxwell, open source strategist for Coverity, maker of the source code checking system, the Prevent Software Quality System, that's being used in the review.

455016 submission

Submission + - Asus Says Eee PC is their Most Successful Product (linuxloop.com)

Submitted by

zephyrcat

on Monday January 07, 2008 @10:08PM

zephyrcat writes: "Although the big news from the joint Asus, Intel, Sprint announcement is new Eee PCs, Asus also talked about the huge success of the current model of Eee PC, an ultra-mobile computer designed to do basic web surfing and e-mail activities, saying that the Eee PC is their most successful product ever. That means a lot coming from such a huge company. Although ultra-mobile PCs have not been very popular in the past, it looks like Asus may have finally done one right."

409869 submission

Submission + - Spammers Hijacking My Domain Name 1

Submitted by

TW Atwater

on Tuesday December 04, 2007 @12:50PM

TW Atwater writes: "My wife and I run a small Mom and Pop business and we have a website and email accounts. I set up a catch-all account to trap misaddressed messages. It also works well for one-shot submissions to sites that demand an email address.

Now, for the second time my catch-all email account was flooded this morning with notices of rejections and undeliverable email from dozens of ISPs. In every case the rejected email was from a non-existent account. The headers indicate the origin of these emails is in Poland, and (no surprises here) the subject is Viagra.

Aside from the feeling of having been violated, I worry that if this happens often enough I may find my domain blocked as a SPAM source. Also, I will eventually have to explain to clients that we are not advertising Viagra.

I've run nmap on my router and computer and am confident that the messages are not being run through my box. My hosting is with GoDaddy.

The question for Slashdot is how can I protect myself from having my domain name hijacked by SPAMMERS? Is there anything that can be done about the nitwit ISPs who don't bother to check if the SPAM actually came from the domain in the return address before they contribute to the useless information cluttering up the internet?

Thanks, Slashdot.

My signature is missing."

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