The from: was correct. The .exe was a known trojan, and SPAM was the vector; IIRC it was an early form of SQL injection using a known MS bug. The admin I spoke to on the phone first didn't even know his site had been compromised. Me: "Did xxxx send me a trojan in an email?" Them: "I don't know, let me check..."; later conversations with management indicated this spam trojan was sent to all their active customers.

Some years back, I used a small, local ISP. I once got an email from them including an attachment (.exe). Being on a linux box, I opened it, to find it was malware (and the message was SPAM -- someone had cracked their servers).

Do not use an ISP's email and don't even correspond with them. Pay them for their bits and be done with them.

If corporations are people as the US Supreme Court and former candidate for President Mitt Romney have said, then they are obviously people who can ignore laws and customs they don't like. If a human person were to use facial recognition on a widespread scale to follow the public movements of and to gain personal information about another individual, they would run afoul of several anti-stalking measures, at least.

Not so for our corporate ubermenschen

Silly music pirate terrorists.

you forgot "child sexual predator"

Neither, mass murderers get into Yale on their own but leave before graduation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D..., then get a Skull and Bones-er to do his will.

It was good for keeping up with changes for the various projects scattered around the web, but it's not a substitute for SourceForge.

Yep. I had to go to RPMfind.net or to tucows to get the source or SRPMs.

Popularity is important only to the 12-17 demographic.

I don't want to be negative -- but I must.

The infrastructure is cheap; it's the tolls which are expensive. To wit: The loans to repay the bonds for the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge required a 25-cent toll. Now the bridge is built and the bonds presumably are paid off but the present 5-dollar toll charge can't keep the bridge painted (look at any tourist's photo of it.)

Neither government nor business can keep the Peter Principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... from applying in the world's endeavors.

Last time I checked, internet banner ads were going for about $2.20 per thousand impressions (views). That means your loading a page with ten ads brings the site $0.022. Do that every day for a month and the revenue gained from advertisers for your visits is $0.66. This does not equal your stated $5 per month per site.

Of course, the ad companies consolidate the bills and pay in one check, so collection costs are less than from individuals....

Even so, some ad-free subscription sites (like The Well http://www.well.com/) seem to survive.

There is a warm "blob" of water almost directly above this volcano http://news.slashdot.org/story...; additionally, this volcano last erupted in 2011, just before the blob and the drought began. Might there be a connection?

And the difference in behavior of the transmission devices -- wires vs. wave guides -- is explained how?

You may be experiencing the difference between being very smart and being brilliant. I have run across this many times. When brilliant people agree and I don't understand the basics, I have to admit defeat, as if I were playing chess against a Grand Master.

Technics already did this: All radio/TV/radar transmitters and antennae do is change a stream of modulated electrons to similarly-modulated photons. At low frequencies (AM radio, as an example) the photons behave in a classical manner even being able to penetrate dense matter like buildings and mountains. At higher modulation frequencies, like FM or TV, this behavior is moderated, being blocked by physical obstructions; what's more the electrons which leave the transmitter travel not through the connecting copper cables, but on the surface only, which is why those connections are straps and not thick wire. At ultra high frequencies like radar, wave guides are used, as the stream of electrons behaves nearly exactly like light. And as we can deduce, radar is useful because the photons are reflected with very high efficiency.

Perhaps this is the explanation of this phenomenon. I dunno, cause the abstract provides no information on what frequencies were used.

Your last sentence is particularly telling.... It reads like the classic technique of a culprit accusing his accusers of exactly the thing that he himself did so as to deflect criticism.

Like O.J. and and V. Putin vowing to find the "real killers."

I have had good service from keyboards I bought at thrift stores, from Wal-Mart and the original IBM disc keyboard back in the day.

Just pound away at them keeping the wrists curved slightly and stiff, rather than resting them and using my fingers do the walking.

I have never had carpal pain and I have never had a keyboard failure; I use them until their plugs become obsolete.