Comments on: New Zealand kid behind botnet busted. http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/11/30/new-zealand-kid-behind-botnet-busted/ General interest observations and true web-log. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:53:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Charbax http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/11/30/new-zealand-kid-behind-botnet-busted/comment-page-1/#comment-900395 Charbax Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:28:00 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14860#comment-900395 Don't you think that: 1. There is a conspiracy from the established telecoms against WiMax cause WiMax would make previous 3G and other technologies completely useless. Those big telecoms probably will try to kill off the prospects of the 700mhz auction bringing in any disruptive cheap mobile broadband network. 2. There is a conspiracy in South Korea cause LG is one of South Koreas biggest companies, so to make sure there wasn't too much bad press they simply made up some story about the guy having been killed instead of the Lithium-Ion battery having exploded. Don’t you think that:

1. There is a conspiracy from the established telecoms against WiMax cause WiMax would make previous 3G and other technologies completely useless. Those big telecoms probably will try to kill off the prospects of the 700mhz auction bringing in any disruptive cheap mobile broadband network.

2. There is a conspiracy in South Korea cause LG is one of South Koreas biggest companies, so to make sure there wasn’t too much bad press they simply made up some story about the guy having been killed instead of the Lithium-Ion battery having exploded.

]]> By: Glenn E http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/11/30/new-zealand-kid-behind-botnet-busted/comment-page-1/#comment-900175 Glenn E Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:45:26 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14860#comment-900175 "They" got the idea for the exploding cellphone from an episode of NBC's "Chuck" (about a month ago). Which was also a fake, because the character in the story didn't die from the explosion. Anyway, I resent the implication that I "want to believe that someone could die that way." The news seems to love exploding battery stories, because it discourages the sales of hybrid and fully electric cars. Yet none have ever been reported as exploding. It would be all over the news if one ever did! Instead the scare mongers resort to exploding laptop and cellphone stories. “They” got the idea for the exploding cellphone from an episode of NBC’s “Chuck” (about a month ago). Which was also a fake, because the character in the story didn’t die from the explosion. Anyway, I resent the implication that I “want to believe that someone could die that way.” The news seems to love exploding battery stories, because it discourages the sales of hybrid and fully electric cars. Yet none have ever been reported as exploding. It would be all over the news if one ever did! Instead the scare mongers resort to exploding laptop and cellphone stories.

]]> By: Glenn E http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/11/30/new-zealand-kid-behind-botnet-busted/comment-page-1/#comment-900157 Glenn E Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:27:29 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14860#comment-900157 I'm running XP SP2, and just last week it would accept logins on the welcome page. After several reboots, it kinda worked. So I ran Chkdsk (or whatever it's called) on it, and after going over the entire C: drive, it seems to be Ok now. Not XP's fault. Probably the harddrive got a little flaky. The same could be true of the Leopard OS. A few faulty harddrives could be the real problem. I’m running XP SP2, and just last week it would accept logins on the welcome page. After several reboots, it kinda worked. So I ran Chkdsk (or whatever it’s called) on it, and after going over the entire C: drive, it seems to be Ok now. Not XP’s fault. Probably the harddrive got a little flaky. The same could be true of the Leopard OS. A few faulty harddrives could be the real problem.

]]> By: Angel H. Wong http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/11/30/new-zealand-kid-behind-botnet-busted/comment-page-1/#comment-899531 Angel H. Wong Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:02:27 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14860#comment-899531 Wait a sec, they dumped the Dell kid because he smoked pot and then Dell hires a man that shouldn't have posed naked on Playgirl ever? Wait a sec, they dumped the Dell kid because he smoked pot and then Dell hires a man that shouldn’t have posed naked on Playgirl ever?

]]> By: moss http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/11/30/new-zealand-kid-behind-botnet-busted/comment-page-1/#comment-898902 moss Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:33:04 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14860#comment-898902 Golly gee, Chris. Where is this pipeline you have to 100% quality assurance on hardware and all the software you use? Or should I adopt your tone and just call you an elitist parasite. Golly gee, Chris. Where is this pipeline you have to 100% quality assurance on hardware and all the software you use?

Or should I adopt your tone and just call you an elitist parasite.

]]> By: ChrisMac http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/11/30/new-zealand-kid-behind-botnet-busted/comment-page-1/#comment-898792 ChrisMac Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:42:05 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14860#comment-898792 If "your" computer crashes.. "you" suck at computers If “your” computer crashes.. “you” suck at computers

]]> By: Jim http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/11/30/new-zealand-kid-behind-botnet-busted/comment-page-1/#comment-898677 Jim Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:45:11 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14860#comment-898677 Hmmm so people really have their systems crashing and rebooting that often? I have XP-64 on my laptop (18months) and my desktop (2+ years, though rebuilt the machine last month, LOVE my new MB) and they don't crash. Ever. I have had corsair memory go bad and cause me to think it was XP, my bad. I believe the longest I went without reboots was 2 months. I keep the laptop up for various things so it's more a movable desktop than a real mobile machine. The desktop had an oracle DB and photoshop amongst other things running. I haven't reset that up yet because I needed to build a new drive (when you're THINKING the problem is XP and your drives, it doesn't occur to you to actually test your memory too.) Admittedly, I don't click on hundreds of websites or read facebooks or download dozens of cracked programs. I do download software packages for work over my cable link (4x as fast) but Oracle has those nice and zipped up. So tell me, what all do you all DO to cause these weekly crashes? Hmmm so people really have their systems crashing and rebooting that often? I have XP-64 on my laptop (18months) and my desktop (2+ years, though rebuilt the machine last month, LOVE my new MB) and they don’t crash. Ever. I have had corsair memory go bad and cause me to think it was XP, my bad. I believe the longest I went without reboots was 2 months. I keep the laptop up for various things so it’s more a movable desktop than a real mobile machine. The desktop had an oracle DB and photoshop amongst other things running. I haven’t reset that up yet because I needed to build a new drive (when you’re THINKING the problem is XP and your drives, it doesn’t occur to you to actually test your memory too.)

Admittedly, I don’t click on hundreds of websites or read facebooks or download dozens of cracked programs. I do download software packages for work over my cable link (4x as fast) but Oracle has those nice and zipped up.

So tell me, what all do you all DO to cause these weekly crashes?

]]> By: Gasbag http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/11/30/new-zealand-kid-behind-botnet-busted/comment-page-1/#comment-898273 Gasbag Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:57:18 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14860#comment-898273 A 18 year old New Zealander on a farm doing something other then having "FUN" with sheep? A 18 year old New Zealander on a farm doing something other then having “FUN” with sheep?

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