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- techguru2006, on 01/05/2009, -0/+56I don't need my ISP's money. I'm working with people in Nigeria through this e-mail I received.
- mreade, on 01/05/2009, -2/+45Send me cash every time I get spam? Woo-hoo, I'm a millionaire!
- ileftfark, on 01/05/2009, -13/+54I have root access to your mother's box. And sometimes, when you're not looking, I SSH in as well.
- alexforcefive, on 01/05/2009, -2/+39Be honest guys, it's the joke we all came here to make
- shitballs, on 01/05/2009, -1/+28my moms box?
- megaton, on 01/05/2009, -2/+23I'd rather my ISP *not* censor stuff en-route to me. It's *my* responsibility to decide what to accept and what to ignore.
First it's SPAM.
Then it's competitor advertising.
Then it's torrent sites.
Then porn.
Politics.
Digg. - Pfkninenines, on 01/05/2009, -2/+18You do realize that was the first comment, right? I don't think you did.
- AlbinoEatpod, on 01/05/2009, -0/+15I'm gonna spam it
- crackedlogic, on 01/05/2009, -1/+13you stay classy, *****.
- inactive, on 01/05/2009, -2/+13I set my mom up with a C64 and a Quantum Link account so she can get on the internet
- mattharvey716, on 01/05/2009, -0/+10i care because uninteresting stories on just a few rss feeds (tech radar, cracked etc) get attention while good ones are not power dugg to the front page!
I already have rss feeds for these sites, LOOK HARDER - booyahbitch, on 01/05/2009, -0/+9Or leave words out of a sentence... "use"
- sanderton, on 01/05/2009, -0/+8If people put as much effort into digging up the alternate upcoming stories as they do burying MrBabyMan, maybe those stories would make the front page.
Odd as it may seem, we on TechRadar would love that. We think some of our best stories haven't made the front page because they weren't submitted by a power user. - farfromhere, on 01/05/2009, -1/+8They fingered her?
- rusty0101, on 01/05/2009, -1/+8To be fair, his recommendation is that you get paid if the same machine sends you spam after it has been reported, and a suitable period of time has passed. His recommendation is 3 hours.
- ileftfark, on 01/06/2009, -0/+7I was buried pretty hard by MrBabyMan's friends in Upcoming, most of whom I would guess wouldn't get the joke anyway. Like Alex said, the joke was there for the taking... Sorry for not saying something funny or insightful like "great post!" or "Thanks for the article!"
- mogebier, on 01/05/2009, -1/+8Hey!
Keep my mother's box out of this!! - crackedlogic, on 01/05/2009, -1/+8provided that you scan it for viruses/spyware regularly.
- MRintheKeys, on 01/05/2009, -0/+6Yeah, we all know how secure her box really is.
- tendonut, on 01/05/2009, -1/+7I'm pretty sure the voting system is broken. No ***** way your comment is at 0 diggs while the guy pointing out that we came here just to do it has a +9.
- ramd3z, on 01/05/2009, -1/+7my security must suck... how did they know my mom had a linux box?
- javaroast, on 01/05/2009, -0/+5I understand what you are saying and tend to agree. Stories should be dugg or buried on merit or lack thereof. In the cases you mentioned it appears you got 2 stories to go popular because of 1 voting ring and they got buried because of another. Seems like break even all in all.
It's unfortunate indeed that stories are influenced by the submitter... but that's the landscape that digg has created. It seems like the fact that it's becoming a double edge sword is whats causing the annoyance. But instead of railing against only the buries you might want to include blind digging as well. Until digg does something to address the issue it looks like no one will be very happy. - inactive, on 01/05/2009, -1/+6Hold it! I want this man arrested! Captain, these men are in criminal violation of the Environmental Protection Act! And this explosion is a direct result of it!
Your Mother! - sotose, on 01/06/2009, -0/+4That was the best Digg comment since the site's creation.
So...elegant.
This might sound like I'm exaggerating but,I'm not.
Seriously,I'm not. - HonoredMule, on 01/06/2009, -0/+3I subjected my mother to it...now she actually uses her computer.
On Windows, she was terrified to actually do or try anything, and for good reason. How she managed to break the computer so frequently and thoroughly I'll never know, but in the end, she wouldn't even check her email. On Ubuntu, I set up some automatic backups and told her that if she wasn't being asked for her account password, she could do no wrong. Two years later, and the computer has become her primary source of entertainment; (stupid) games, movies, TV shows from torrents, email, chat, and word processing are all on her regular repertoire. She's even comfortable keeping her computer updated and does so, and uses VLC in place of her TV and DVD player, which she also manages to regularly break. She's still completely incapable of using a search engine or visiting a /new/ website, but in all fairness, the web is fairly chaotic to the truly tech-illiterate.
I'm a heartless monster, I know. - cawpin, on 01/05/2009, -3/+6DAMNED, people. The correct usage is damned. As in, "It is damned annoying when people don't colloquialisms correctly."
- elementop, on 01/06/2009, -0/+3Did you buy her a Mac instead, or did you subject her to the nightmare that is a virus- and malware-susceptible Windows desktop instead?
Were I to build a desktop for someone who was inexperienced, who had no preconceived notions of what he/she "needed" in an operating system, and who didn't want to pay the extra cost for a Mac, I would *certainly* build them a Linux desktop. In fact, that's exactly what we do for our unbelievably non tech-savvy field technicians where I work. IMHO, it's easier to support them on a Linux desktop than a Windows box (SSH across a satellite links is way faster and easier than VNC/Remote Desktop). YMMV. - phatedesigns, on 01/05/2009, -4/+7Not only that... but he is calling for the whole ISP industry to be reformed with a focus on security before it gets to the end-user... brilliant man!
- sanderton, on 01/05/2009, -3/+6I will freely admit that it's bloody annoying that we've had two stories in the last couple of days go popular and then be buried within an hour because of anti-power digging sheep burying them just because of who submitted them.
If a story gets buried because of its content that's fine (we try to learn from that in fact). But burying just because of who submitted it with no regard to the quality of the article is every bit as against the democratic ideals of Digg as digging something just because a friend submitted it. - compgeek, on 01/05/2009, -4/+6dug for your mother's box lol
- inactive, on 01/06/2009, -0/+2Australian ISP Optus charges for their spam filter even though its probably a slightly moded version of Apache's mail filter. To me that's like stating pay us or we will get paid by them.
- smotpoker, on 01/05/2009, -2/+4I think they should be buried but only if you're willing to take at least a little time to verify they are not recent dupes and digg the original submission. Otherwise people should just digg it or leave it alone and stop whining.
- evilgourmet, on 01/06/2009, -0/+2netcat was designed as a " reliable "back-end" tool ", as it states in the manpage.
I guess with all tools, it's how you use it that matters. - ry4nsm1th, on 01/05/2009, -2/+4MrBabyMan runs Vista...
- KMitchell, on 01/06/2009, -0/+2Actually, that's not QUITE what he's saying. What he's saying is that YOUR ISP should censor the stuff FROM you en route to ME if you're sending me spam. More accurately he's saying that if your ISP DOESN'T do that, that I should be able to sue your ISP.
...Not that there isn't a slippery slope there too, but his argument is really that the small ISPs have to do this now due to market forces, and that this would force the large ISPs to have to do it also. - trogdoor, on 01/05/2009, -0/+1"but the problem is with the ISP who send it not the ones that try to sort the good messages from the bad!"
That's exactly what he is suggesting. You get spam, you find out what IP address it came from, you call the respective ISP and either they prevent that user from sending you more spam or they give you some cash. I don't think he was suggesting you call your own ISP ( unless of course that's where the spam is coming from ). - Hermmunster, on 01/06/2009, -0/+1We should be suing the advertisers that have their ads pop up from adware/spyware. Someone has to pay and the government doesn't seem capable of removing the adware and other malware. The direct money to these outfits are the advertisers. We should be able to sue them.
- sanderton, on 01/06/2009, -0/+1@smackshaw
We're intending to do just that. - inactive, on 01/05/2009, -0/+1Who is going to pay every time some ***** WordPress site is compromised and used to spam?
- smacksaw, on 01/06/2009, -0/+1@sanderton
I think HuffPo is a good example. They put the button for Digg on everything and it's easy to see the count. I sometimes stumble upon a good article and submit it, as do other people. Since HuffPo has plenty of non-Digg traffic, those articles get seen anyway and eventually Dugg.
Your stuff might do better if it's better integrated to Digg. With this OpenID thing that Facebook is championing it would be nice if any article you see that is linked to Digg could simply be dugg up at it's source without actually loading the Digg page.
You all should work on something like that. Take HuffPo's advertisement and Digg integration and take it a step further. Make it so your regular accounts can bump a story even if they're not Diggers. - Lawbringer, on 01/05/2009, -2/+3Working for an ISP i can stop all my users getting spam. *switchs off mailserver* there!
honestly most ISP do at least try to cut the spam out but the problem is with the ISP who send it not the ones that try to sort the good messages from the bad!
Oh any buried for mrbabyman too :) - vofuse, on 01/05/2009, -3/+4How is it as bad? People who digg stories because of who posted them are doing so to manipulate the system out of their own self-interest. People who bury these stories are doing so to offset and protest this practice. Completely different reasons.
- Lawbringer, on 01/06/2009, -0/+1lol..
umm sure i'll phone Nigeria after they send me that spam mail and say please can I have some money. all they will need is my bank account number and sort code.
Please, this is retarded either way. I expect more from one of the founders of security economics as an academic discipline. - elementop, on 01/05/2009, -0/+1throw...stones...glass houses...
- ethana2, on 01/06/2009, -0/+1Somehow it seems like 'box' implies it's a desktop machine, but she has an Inspiron 1420n, which is a laptop.. ..meh.
I don't get why you dugg it for that. - IllBeBack, on 01/06/2009, -0/+1Andy Samberg's next SNL Short: "In My Mom's Linux Box" feat. Justin Timberlake's mom.
- inactive, on 01/06/2009, -1/+2yea i guess i could have said i netcat into your mom's anus but that sounds kind of rude and offensive :-\
- fedak, on 01/06/2009, -0/+1Really? No old school O&A fans out there?
- MWeather, on 01/06/2009, -0/+1MrBabyMan approved the Seinfed Vista commercials.
- mrBitch, on 01/06/2009, -0/+1+1 to you sir, for linking spam to Nigerian email scams (who would have made that tenuous connection?)
Also interesting, FTA :
"We know, first of all, that the vendors don't have a proper incentive to ship good quality software, because the vendors don't pay the cost of failure; we do. That's something that the car industry took two generations to fix. It took litigation from 1917 to about 1965 to establish the principle in America that the car maker is responsible for design errors. "
Microsoft is so screwed if they were ever held accountable for shipping poorly designed software... -
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