Comment Re:What a waste (Score 5, Funny) 229
It's a lot easier to get paid to sit at a desk and troll Facebook all day.
Comment Re:Affect on spam? (Score 1) 70
Doesn't seem to be much of a difference according to Spamcop stats. For all the hullabaloo, whatever spammer lives at Cyberbunker doesn't seem to be a very big player.
Comment Re:Determining vulnerability? (Score 1) 179
I found 8.8.8.8, 4.2.2.4 etc. on there, which I'm hoping are set up responsibly. But I don't know of a "known bad" resolver to scan and see if the results come out differently.
Comment Determining vulnerability? (Score 1) 179
I see that the Open Resolver Project has a tool to scan for offending servers in your IP space, but it doesn't explain what the results indicate. I'm guessing that an RCODE value of 0 means you're not part of the problem?
FCC Chair Genachowski Resigns; What Effect on Net Regulation? 42
New submitter RougeFemme writes with news of Friday's announcement that FCC chairman Julius Genachowski will step down in the next several weeks (also at Politico), and asks "Obama promised us the continuation of a free, open Internet. Will the resignation of the FCC chairman have any affect on that 'net neutrality'?"
Comment Re:Twitter-shaming. (Score 1) 1145
The girl involved in the Steubenville rape case I mentioned in my previous post was threatened with death and physical harm on social media for the 'harm' she was doing to the local football team by pursuing charges.
And many of these threats were made by girls, two of whom were subsequently charged for it.
Comment Re:You can't un-post an image (Score 1) 1145
All of this pubic on the internet.
I hope you have some good savings banked up, because that's totally sexist and out of line!
Comment Re:Did it make a sound? (Score 1) 111
It was more like a KAPOOYA.
Comment Re:correction (Score 1) 222
I doubt it. Most of these are automated scanning from compromised machines in general, not this guy's one project, and from what I gather, the "census" was more polite about the number of login attempts. I've been getting random scans for years and I don't foresee them stopping anytime soon.
Comment Re:Always the optimist (Score 1) 87
Their entire "business model" revolves around suing John Does. They wouldn't hesitate to sue an AC.
Comment Frampton came alive (Score 3, Funny) 101
Do you, you... Feel like I do?
Ask Slashdot: Where to Host Many Small, Related Projects? 69
MellowTigger writes "I work at a non-profit organization. I am looking for a site where we can register an account under our group's name, then spawn multiple projects to solicit programmer help for our organization. The current projects that we have in mind are small and probably not of interest to the wider world, although one very large project is possible. I need a site that emphasizes our non-profit as the benefactor rather than the wider world, since most projects are so specific that wider applicability seems slim. We would need help with various technologies including at least Powershell and SQL. At the moment, my available options emphasize individual projects of public interest, so we would have to spawn multiple independent projects, seeming to spam the host with 'pointless' minor tasks. We already have technical people seeking to donate time. We just need a way to coordinate skill matching, document sharing, and code submission out on the web. What do you suggest?"
Comment Re:I'm impressed (Score 1) 286
It's a bug, whether that's admitted to or not. Articles from the mysterious future are supposed to be visible to paid subscribers only. Turns out, though, this varnish shit is kinda tough.
Comment Re: First strike (Score 5, Interesting) 418
I've already seen similar shit in my area where an ISP claims you have a "virus" and pulls your plug if you use more data than your average grandma.
This is actually a soft warning tactic I've encountered in many corporate and education scenarios. They'll identify folks using a lot of transit, and send them a notice along the lines of "hey, we noticed you're using a lot of bandwidth... Maybe you've got a virus or something?" These notices work particularly well in cases where someone's been found to be downloading gigs of porn on the office computer, etc. The user realizes he's being watched, says "yeah! that must be it! I gotta virus!" and suddenly the behavior stops.
I'm not defending the ISP you mention, just saying this tactic is pretty common. It's their way of asking you to knock it off, without accusing you of anything.
Comment Re:More Likely (Score 1) 239
That's what it sounds like to me, too. An identity thief wouldn't be having all of these email notifications etc. being sent to the victim's address, he'd have created an account on Yahoo or something to receive those messages without the victim knowing. The porn site registrations are a pretty good sign that this is "revenge spam." Someone just wants to annoy the heck out of submitter.
As an aside, anytime Apple updates their Terms of Service on an iOS device, there's always a button for "Send these terms via email." That form performs no check on a) whether the address entered belongs to an Apple ID, or b) whether you've already emailed the terms. So, you can easily have Apple spam someone's mailbox with as many copies of their TOS as you're willing to waste time on. Last time I did this, each click of the send button actually generated two emails... One about the TOS and one about the game store, or something.
