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Sehr schöne Übersicht, was die Welt sagt: Respekt vor der revitalisierten Fußballmacht - WM 2006 - sport.ARD.de

Auf der einen Seite Delling, Netzer und Beckmann.  Auf der anderen Kerner, Klopp und Rethy.

Genug gesagt.

Unter FootieFox findet sich endlich nochmal eine sinnvolle Erweiterung für den Firefox. Die Liste der Ligen ist imposant, die Optionen gut gewählt. Definitiv gut gemacht. Jetzt muss es sich nur noch mit den tatsächlichen Spielen bewähren.

[tags]FootieFox, Firefox, Firefox extensions, soccer[/tags]

I’m surprised that the demise of BlueSecurity actually seems to draw such big circles on the net.  The overall sentiment seems to be one of sympathy with the people behind Blue Frog. But writing a tool that spams spammers doesn’t seem like such a  smart move to me in the first place.  For one, those people are at this job longer and have more experience, and for two, threats of massive DDoS-attacks aren’t particularly novel, either. It is not at all surprising that somebody who makes his living of using cracked computers to send out mail in ways that often is illlegal in most jurisdictions would start to retaliate.  Standing up and complaining about how completely amoral these people are is … pointless.  We knew that they are all along.

What I find more surprising is that there still is so very little pressure to finally get those bot nets squashed. ISPs, law enforcement, politics—that’s where they need to jump.  They need to get pressure on Microsoft to make botnets not something as easily established.  They ISPs need to get their act together to better deal with infected machines on residential links.  Block connections to the irc servers the botnets connect to.  Get people informed on what their PC is up to. Why does the world have to live with all those hundreds of thousands of machines that their owners can’t really operate well enough and are now sending out junk like mad?

[tags]BlueSecurity, Spam, Internet Security, Internet Policy[/tags]

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Kann bitte endlich Sommer sein?

New York times, maybe you need to register. Ogre to Slay? Outsource It to Chinese - New York Times

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So sah es aus, als es richtig kalt war. Ist zwar nicht direkt der Blick aus dem Fenster, weil aus anderer Perspektive — aber sonst schon sehr ähnlich dem, was ich so sehe.

Erfreulicherweise ist es ja nicht mehr so kalt.