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scott
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Spammed by your own router!
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Nov 7 16:29 UTC 2003 |
We knew it would come to this...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/33858.html
Apparently Belkin's wireless routers have a "feature" where every 8 hours a
randomly-chosen is redirected to Belkin's website, to a page which advertises
Belkin's parental control system.
"In response criticism, a Belkin product manager came forward this week to
confirm the behaviour was designed into the products as a way to make it
easier for consumers to sign up to a free trial of its parental control
software. Belkin's Eric Deming is keen to allay concerns about the technique
which have produced sharp criticism of the company on the
news.admin.net-abuse.email newsgroup. "
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remmers
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response 1 of 23:
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Nov 7 17:06 UTC 2003 |
Yuck. Hope LinkSys doesn't do this.
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gull
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response 2 of 23:
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Nov 7 19:37 UTC 2003 |
Bleh. I've never been impressed with Belkin's hardware, but now I'm
unimpressed with their marketing department as well.
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mcnally
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response 3 of 23:
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Nov 7 19:53 UTC 2003 |
It's mind-boggling to me that anyone could have thought that this
was a good idea, let alone enough people to design it, code it,
test it, and manage the whole process..
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gull
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response 4 of 23:
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Nov 7 20:57 UTC 2003 |
Really, you only have to have a manager be convinced it's a good idea.
After that, everyone else will design, code, and test it because they'll
be fired if they don't.
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mcnally
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response 5 of 23:
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Nov 7 21:50 UTC 2003 |
In my opinion you have to have a really dysfunctional organization
for one manager to be able to insist on something like this against
the recommendations of their engineering, q/a, and support staff.
I'm not saying that it can't happen, but it's a little more complicated
than "you only have to have a manager convinced." You need to have
someone with a huge amount of control and they have to be so convinced
that they cling to that conviction against the recommendations of
everyone around them, or things have to be so screwed up that their
underlings are incapable of giving them good advice.
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willcome
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response 6 of 23:
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Nov 7 23:09 UTC 2003 |
Oh. So, you were just as wrong as gull. Glad to know you, good-bye.
(Put on twit-list)
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aruba
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response 7 of 23:
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Nov 8 03:46 UTC 2003 |
Sonds like a pretty simple system to me. Probably stuck in there at the
last minute.
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scott
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response 8 of 23:
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Nov 8 04:32 UTC 2003 |
I don't have any Belkin hardware... something always seemed creepy about that
company.
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gull
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response 9 of 23:
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Nov 8 06:23 UTC 2003 |
Their cables are okay, but I've never been impressed with their electronics.
I have a Belkin KVM switch at work that's awfully flakey.
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pvn
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response 10 of 23:
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Nov 8 09:21 UTC 2003 |
Like the mouse goes wawa if you switch between different OS on the
same hardware if one of them is Micro$oft?
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pvn
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response 11 of 23:
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Nov 8 09:22 UTC 2003 |
Come to think of it this happens on identical hardware using different
OS from Micro$oft - so much for 'interoperability'...
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remmers
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response 12 of 23:
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Nov 8 14:41 UTC 2003 |
(It's off-topic, but for what it's worth, I have Belkin KVM switches
both at home and at work, and they're quite reliable. No mouse problems.
At home I switch between three OS's -- Linux, WinXP, and OpenBSD -- and
at work between Linux and WinXP.)
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tod
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response 13 of 23:
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Nov 8 16:22 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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sno
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response 14 of 23:
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Nov 10 01:27 UTC 2003 |
#5 sounds like where I work. It's why I'm getting out as soon as
I can find someone to give me a chance elsewhere.
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gull
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response 15 of 23:
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Nov 10 20:44 UTC 2003 |
I have a Belkin KVM switch at work...an Omni View SE. Often after switching
consoles the mouse doesn't work. Sometimes the switch just locks up
entirely. It also requires an external power brick, meaning yet one more
thing to plug in.
I also have a Cybex SwitchView that works great and has never given any
mouse problems. It doesn't need external power, either.
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tod
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response 16 of 23:
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Nov 10 22:31 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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remmers
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response 17 of 23:
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Nov 11 17:22 UTC 2003 |
Hm. I shall keep Cybex in mind for my future KVM needs.
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gull
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response 18 of 23:
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Nov 11 20:48 UTC 2003 |
In our server rack we also have a rack-mount Apex switch that's very,
very nice. But it's also very, very expensive. ;> The Cybex is a
desktop piece.
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tod
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response 19 of 23:
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Nov 11 21:38 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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other
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response 20 of 23:
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Nov 12 00:22 UTC 2003 |
In a follow-up, slashdot reports that Belkin posted a firmware
update which fixes the broken functionality, and though it was
originally posted with a tart note about the advert not being spam,
the accomapnying message has since been toned down.
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pvn
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response 21 of 23:
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Nov 14 08:21 UTC 2003 |
Really. Got a URL?
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willcome
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response 22 of 23:
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Nov 27 09:32 UTC 2003 |
DO I EVER: http://www.buddys-pics.com/pictures9/young-whore.jpg
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pvn
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response 23 of 23:
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Dec 21 08:28 UTC 2003 |
I think I've met your mother before.
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