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"the fucking Games"

That has a great ring to it. Perhaps everyone wishing to refer to the games without being sued should adopt it.

Yeah, but some folks have come to the same conclusion as jacquesm ( above ) and use the big G as little as possible.

Sure, I have a google account. I almost never use it. For me, the epiphany came when my adsense account was suspended years ago. For what I never found out. I appealed and was reinstated. I then pulled adsense from every site. Lesson learned, and I don't need to learn it again.

tyvm

There was a mail client ( or was it the server itself? can't recall ) that did essentially what you are after. This was around a long time ago - pre www web. It would append a paragraph of pretty inflammatory keyword-heavy text at the end of each email. Stuff calculated to false positive any monitoring.

Anyone remember/know what I am talking about?

Barren Realms Elite :)

Fundamentally I think we agree. Shepherds, sheep and wolves.

If you think you're dealing with a wolf at your level in the company, look up. Ultimately, what the executive allows, it endorses. Odds are they see a man cut from the same cloth, admire his drive, his self interest and and his hard-headedness. If he's still there in a year, I'd say he represents the company's core values.

"Personally I treat it as a failure if we ever hit swap"

/agree. but still a useful feature.

The degraded performance a system will show when it starts hitting disk instead of memory is a great 'soft' failure.

I think it is good to have graduations. Going from 'OK' to 'Damn-this-is-slow' before 'Fail' is handy.

I think the folks that would benefit most from an improvement in ethics are likely to read this without taking away anything more constructive than new ways to 'position' themselves to folks who aren't sociopaths.

still worth talking about tho. ( and yeah, a bit long for a blog post, but only minutes to read.. some things take more than 140 characters )

My tongue-in-cheek idea was to buy him the traffic, not steal it from a legit campaign - Once G thinks you're a porn destination, I doubt very much you will index.

You're right, tho no serious solution there. It's more of a poke at a broken system that automatically ban-hammers good guys with the bad based on signals that totally miss bad actors like this guy.

Clearly the 'hacker' here has invested enough time to understand the system better than legitimate sites that have "wasted" their time trying to generate value for their users.

I wonder if he'd still have adsense if someone "gifted" him 10k hits from an adult network + some run of site adult themed links?

Guessing it wouldn't take long, algorithms being what they are.

Today I learned to remove the battery from any wireless device _immediately_ after stealing it :P

>> "especially if you visited the dealership at the end of the month."

surprised no one else has mentioned that tidbit. If the dealership closes out metrics at month-end, they'll be in a deal making frame of mind at that point. ++ if you can snag a salesperson that hasn't been doing well.

umm glwt?

If anything, this will just damage them by exposing assets used in the attempt.

If I were tasked with detecting these, nothing would run from a Pinterest IP address. Use throwaway VPS hosts on different blocks and replace them regularly.

For that matter if I were tasked with posting this spam, I'd do the same...

I've found a great deal of resistance in using free tools.

Tools that cost 4 figures seem to sit "just about right" in the managerial mindset where I come from.

Some managerial cultures seem to really ( _really_ ) want to see cash laid out for anything before they will believe it holds any virtue.

Nothing new. I remember Slackware 3.6 (?) jumping to version 8 in order to be closer to the other Distro's numbers. thought it was sorta stupid at the time.

I read it ok...

I don't have a google+ account and have a browser that is pretty much locked down. ( no-script + ad-block + request policy ) Other than allowing google.com in no-script, no action required.

Short read, no surprises. - paypal customer has problem, can't get any customer service. There really needs to be some effective competition to PP before these stories stop, I think.

I don't think the .COM vs DE extension is as relevant as what type of interaction your web site is having with American citizens. ( Selling pharma/torrents/gaming etc )

They'll grab your NET/COM/ORG address in a heartbeat, but I think actually extraditing a person would require:

a: that person residing someplace that bends to US will. ( damn near everywhere )

b: costing US interests enough $$$ to piss them off.

Even if they don't extradite, you might find yourself arrested at the airport if you ever make a connecting flight through the good old US of A.

Jed http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/

Notepad2 http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

Really? That's cool if you're right.

It's obviously something done for the love of doing it and doesn't portray the original projects in a bad light. Hopefully they don't pull the plug on him.

The author should put his talent to work on something that _won't_ get him sued. :(

Wondering how long till that domain renders an ICE homepage.

I don't play minecraft. I'm not a fan. I wouldn't know Notch if I tripped on him.

I gotta say hats off to the man. Doing something good for others at your own ( great ) expense when not compelled to do so is unusual. Most people would have spent it on themselves somehow. wtg man.

Some folks might say it's just proof they need to spend a tonne of your tax dollars on better, bigger, scanning machines.

I think this is as much ( more ) about harvesting tax dollars as anything else

/agree. It doesn't cost anything to _not_ be an asshole.

You might like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy...

I think there's an argument for periodic off-line, "hold it in your hands" backups.

Good luck wiping that...

Made three requests following links in this thread, all three times request policy indicated off-site content.

Looks like a hot-link generator to me :(

This assumes we're all playing to the crowd around us.

IMHO, Be yourself and be comfortable with yourself.

>> Slackware can be difficult to set up and use without a modern package manager like APT

slapt-get

Some of the answers above seem to involve 'babysitting' measures that almost certainly won't be on the next box you use.

appropriate countermeasures imho:

1. run an account with the right amount of access.

2. don't use sudo. (su + password makes you think a bit more)

3. this sounds dickish, but I mean it constructively. Pay attention. the -f flag means something...

4. when all else fails, rsync'd folders are a beautiful thing :)