Invasive, obnoxious, petty and dumb. Malware engineers have had to fall back on other methods of intrusion thanks to the current iterations of popup blockers being built into practically everything. The most notorious workaround being the ads built to resemble windows error messages. Said ad warns the reader they are compromised and offers Paid-per-fix solutions; a new low. It makes me wonder if its possible to criminalize being sleazy- which candidate is running on THAT platform? Then again, if this were so, the vast majority of guys in bars would have been fined into financial ruin.
The good senator from Alaska, Ted Stevens, has given us all a good laugh with his concern of us sending 'internetz' to each other over our analgous systems of tubes. But the real issue remains. This gentleman is in charge of regulating Internet Commerce for the United states and his cumulative knowledge of the internet in a dead heat with my 5 year old nephew. Currently the good senator will try to push his anti-netneutrality bill through during congress' recess. One wonders how ISPs forcing all traffic exclusively to their partners will help anyone but the senators cheif campaign contributors.
Dont get me wrong, there are problems everywhere in this debate.
