h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

exactly, your countness, and as i said in post 502 (i think it was) i gave clues to finding MY personal address on MY computer in MY company

(no commercial aspects whatsoever, you wouldn't even be able to guess what company it is)

and if this had lead to somebody trying to spam me with trojan 's or virusses nobody would be able to hold bbc responsible for anything even if they wanted to

but never mind that. 10 minutes later i posted the address somewhere else and it was snatched by the right person before the 's could erase it

in fact it's still there, i just checked

I get spam!

In tins!!!!


I LOVE IT!!!!

(spam, spam, spam, spam, spam,......)

No, I do get the other spam as well.

My BT package though gives me an excelletnt spambot that chucks it all in a bin that I empty once a week, after checking for the odd spambot mistake!


GT

...Double Glasement, Dong enhancers, phone your new bride in Outer Siberia...yup. Nice. , I used to have my own website about the loudspeaker thing - can you imagine the amount of fanpost?

Strangely enough, my email addresses at w*rk got far more spam than my personal addresses. No matter what new technology you introduce, there will always be someone (or lots of someones) with a vested interest in corrupying it for their own ends.

Not only corrupying it, but corrupting it as well.

There is a lot of very clever programming in writing the bots that trawl for email addresses. One wonders why the rectums writing them don´t do something that doesn´t get on your nerves.

If they succeed at getting on your nerves, that's a victory for them. There's a certain kind of mentality that sees life as a huge scoreboard. They score enough victory points, they win. Maybe the kids who play video games 24/7 are acting out that whole scoreboard approach as well, but the ones who are designing their *own* games are a step beyond that. What happens to hackers after they get caught? Sometimes they end up with a nice career of testing large institutions' security systems to spot the vulnerable spots. This is highly useful work, but it wouldn't be necessary if there weren't other hackers out there, looking for points of entry.

Some hackers like to play the dangerous games though.....

Like hacking the Pentagon..........


You get to go to a nice full-board Hotel in the US when you get caught!!



GT

Here we have the CeBit, the largest IT fair in Europe. A twelve year old got into ***´s newest antihacker program and only allowed the firm back in for a 10Deutschmarks bribe.

Only 10Dm Pit???


Not good at haggling, was he!!!!!



GT

10DM would buy you five pints of ...the official exchange rate is €5, which buys you two in a cheap pub.

And I´m not talking NAAFI prices, which were very bad when treating a damaged liver.

Tell me about it!

Malta, RAF Luqa, 1972.


Double 'cardi Coke, 1/11d (<10p)




GT

Detmold, Hobart Barracks, London Lillybeth´s Lifeguards Sgt´s Mess...don´t ask.

GT

Bern, when a completely clobbered corporal drives you home...no German policeman dares to stop a stolen MP Landy with on.

so!


i was kinda wonderin

i have been away for a week

what is the latest official news on the future of h2g2?

if you don't mind... ?

thanks

No official news yet.

h2g2c2 news: F20154027?thread=8031760

wow!

thanks vip that was amazing
i read and followed all the links enclosed in that link too

absolutely amazing!

the reason i asked this here was because of the subject line
i am glad now because the link to what is really happening to the future of h2g2 is here now


i hope i can do something to help

Hi all. Just to let you know, that we're shutting this thread now. But only because we've just made a new announcement about plans for the site here http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F77636?thread=8045490 and we'd like you to continue your conversations there. Many thanks Chris and Sam H2G2Eds