How do computer viruses get their names? An interesting article on the subject. Sometimes the process is more random. Who would have guessed that the Code Red virus got its…
How do computer viruses get their names? An interesting article on the subject.
Sometimes the process is more random. Who would have guessed that the Code Red virus got its name from an eEye Digital Security researcher’s beverage of choice — the cola variety of Mountain Dew soft drink — the night they picked through the corruptive code.
(Via John Doe)
God Bless USA! Get .USA Domains! Gee, why would the registrar for “.USA” TLDs (Top Level Domains), www.dotusa.com be using a .com address, rather than a .usa address? Could it…
God Bless USA! Get .USA Domains!
Gee, why would the registrar for “.USA” TLDs (Top Level Domains), www.dotusa.com be using a .com address, rather than a .usa address?
Could it be that it’s because these won’t actually be deployed until 2002?
Could it be that “they will initially be viewed on the Internet by making a slight alteration to your web browser.”
And if that’s so, why did the very next spam I get, from the same source, say, “The latest domain name extension has arrived .USA!!! It’s the fresh, new, exciting web address that is taking the world by storm”? How can it be taking the world by storm when nobody can actually go to any such domain yet?
Could it be that this is another set of “rogue TLDs” that won’t work for most people unless they point their DNS pointers to the TLD Network servers (hosters, registrars and vendors of, not uncoincidentally, .usa)?
Could it all be a huge rip-off, playing on American patriotism at home and a desire to be associated with America abroad?
Naaaaaaah. I saw it on the Internet! It must be true!
Tragedy attracts spammers Okay. There are worst scum than those who turn a tragedy like this to their own ideological gain. It’s those who turn it (and the compassion that…
Okay. There are worst scum than those who turn a tragedy like this to their own ideological gain. It’s those who turn it (and the compassion that wells up from it) to their own pecuniary gain.
It’s one thing for Messrs. Falwell and Robertson to spout their vitriol. At least I can assume that it is heartfelt, if horrifically misguided, and respect it on that accord. It’s quite another for people to exploit the charity and giving spirit and the desperate desire to do something we’re all feeling and try to make hay from it.
These folks are the Internet equivalent of looters. They should be shot on sight.