Yes, a crime is a crime, but if we are going to build analogies with real world crimes they should at least be correct.
Obviously many DDOS attacks are not carried out by volunteers. They are instead vast hijacked zombie farms under the control a few people. In those cases the term "attack" makes more sense. From my understanding this DDOS attack was carried out by volunteers though. It should really be considered a protest.
What if this guy was part of a real world flash mob that formed in front of a Koch's HQ? Suppose the mob was so large it made it difficult for legitimate employees and/or clients to enter the building? He still might have been arrested but I'm sure the punishment would have been less severe.
Hope you realized you just sent your Slashdot password through some dude's hacked together relay server in, most likely, clear text... Also there are a bunch of other Slashdotters on the same virtual subnet with full root access to theirs, yours, and everyone else's virtual machine on that very subnet.
Very cool post, but you may want to change your password now.
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Just don't do any online banking that way.
The OP said the iPad seem so much better then anything out there.
My point is both tablets are in the same class. Not arguing the new iPad edges out the competition. It should, it's the newest high end tablet, but it's not revolutionary or anything. It will quickly lose the spec crown when the next round of high end Android tablets come out.
The SXTZ display: 10.1". iPad Air display: 9.7"
If you won't care about the extra 128x336 pixels, I won't care about the extra 0.4 inches... Or the likely $100 price difference...
To be fair the Sony Xperia Tablet Z is only 6.9mm thick and only 1.1 pounds... The rest of the specs are also about the same, and that's been out for a month or two now.
4. Once Clooney is hanging off Bullocks, they have stopped relative to the station, which means they have achieved orbital speed, but the movie needs a heroic sacrifice, so...
Another gaffe you got right. I noticed this immediately when watching. Clooney should've bounced back towards the station after the slack in the tether and the parachute lines had been taken up. There was no force acting on him to pull him away, so he shouldn't have been lost.
The parachute line never really went tight. I noticed the line was slipping both from Bullocks foot and the IIS the whole time. The line slowed their momentum from the station but I got the impression they were still both drifting away until Clooney's sacrifice.
Why Clooney untethering himself from Bullocks reversed her momentum is confusing though. It would have made more sense if they pushed off each other sending her back towards the station and him into space.
I'm pretty sure the OP was a reference to Johnny Mnemonic and not Go Bots
Running a mail server from home is near impossible on most ISPs. The majority of ISPs block incoming traffic, and in some cases even outgoing traffic, on port 25 (SMTP). Even if you can get around this using alternate ports, chances are your ISPs IP range is blanket blacklisted by most anti-spam lists.
Your best bet for privacy and control of your e-mail would be to setup a collocated or rented server. You'll have to configure some sort of encryption for your e-mail messages in case the data center gets raided and the servers/hard drives confiscated.
In the end, your SMTP traffic can still be sniffed acrossed the network anyway, since most SMTP traffic is unencrypted.
Most states force car insurance. You can choose not to have a driver's license, but unless you live in a major metro area driving is a requirement to earn a living.
... happen almost 4 billion years ago.
or the aliens live a very long time.
I call BS on this. Sounds like Urbanspoon is just covering their ass.
Bottom line is their reservation system doesn't have any form of CAPTCHA which makes the use of reservation bots completely plausible.
I disagree.
I felt the Hobbit was the first movie I've watched to properly use the 3D medium and not be "show-offy". A lot of the 3D effects added depth into the screen, not out. This gave the gorgeous outdoor vitas a lot more impact in my opinion.
There were some exceptions, though, Gandalf's moth flying into my eye as an example.
Right now it doesn't matter if it were 1.5 light seconds away. We can't get there. It may as well be in another universe.
1.5 light seconds is roughly the distance to the moon. If we had another Earth like planet that close (assuming a somehow stable orbit and ignoring geological and evolutionary impact) you could be vacationing there right now.
"You don't go out and kick a mad dog. If you have a mad dog with rabies, you take a gun and shoot him." -- Pat Robertson, TV Evangelist, about Muammar Kadhafy
