Hehe... Back when I was in the Air Force, we had a squirrel shut down the entire base for 8 hours. S/he crawled into the main power station, and committed suicide across the breakers, blowing up a good chunk of the station and about 100' of main feeder line.
Today no doubt the press would have whipped up frenzy about a "possible terrorist attack" with artistic renderings of the squirrel in mufti....
hey, while you're spending money to do that, why not also spend the small chump change it would take to harden our grid against EMP and geomagnetic disturbances?
And this is why Ayn Rand was a useless bitch. Take your broken pop philosophy somewhere else, please; the adults are trying to make things better.
If you're going to toss around words like "useless bitch" you really need something more to back it up than "the adults are trying to make things better." You can start by explaining how a multi-trillion dollar government program is going to make things better. Perhaps, you can cite the dozens or perhaps hundreds of other programs the government has run that efficiently made things better? You can also elaborate on exactly how trying to make health care/insurance a government mandated "right" doesn't effectively enslave those who provide such services?
In short, if all you've got are insults, you need to take your socialist government loving self somewhere else. Real adults take care of themselves and don't look to the government for handouts. Understood?
I'd love to see a new Phantasmagoria game!!!
If there were no pirates there would be no need for anti-piracy measures
if the companies ignore the pirates they lose nothing because the pirates are not their customers. they are simply throwing away money on PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT THEIR CUSTOMERS ANYWAY!
if they focus energy and money on games that people want to play, enhancing game-play and then selling them at a reasonable prices, profits will soar.
Do you really think someone will look at a photograph in Wikipedia and say "Hmm - I want to hire the photographer?"
not an average joe, most likely, but a pro publication? maybe.
but then there would never be a thought to contact the photographer without the "promotion" from wiki. is that exposure worth nothing?
if a photographer wants to not participate, they're perfectly free to do so. in which case, wiki will continue with the photos they're currently running.
there's more than one way to make money off a photograph (or a song, or even a movie), and they don't all involve selling (licensing) copies of the material itself.
'To me the problem is the Wikipedia rule of public use,' says Jerry Avenaim, a celebrity photographer. 'If they truly wanted to elevate the image on the site, they should allow photographers to maintain the copyright.'"
Dear Jerry,
If photographers truly wanted to get their images seen in the biggest free encyclopedia in the world and reap the exposure and free credit, they should donate their works.
There. Fixed that for ya.
If you want to stop a DDOS and your firewaall can't seem to mask off IP ranges quickly enough, by far the easiest technological measure is really quite simple: sever the connection. I guarantee you the DDOS will no longer be affecting your equipment at that point.
Congratulations the attacker just won. You've DOS'ed yourself by yanking the plug. Admittedly this might be a consideration if the DDOS is performing attacks on your servers as well as flooding the tubes to keep your data safe.
"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs
