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More Details Emerge on AMD's Hammer
Diabolus writes "Anandtech have more information on AMD's upcoming Hammer processors. " Talking with several engineers who are in the know about it, the Hammer looks pretty frickin' amazing. Itanium will have a run for its money, I suspect.
Errr, as the code is commented just above the part you pasted:
# logs attempts to break, fool, flood a particular form
That is, the people who are attempting to break, say, the comment posting form and post 500 comments at once are logged and may be banned by IP if they try hard enough.
Anyone can see, by reading Slashcode itself, not the misleading or irrelevant comments surrounding it, that the code in question does not apply to people who try to abuse the "multipost" bug (which doesn't even exist anymore; it has long since been fixed), but to people who have been moderated down with a certain frequency.
Let me spell it out for everyone since you have so little regard for the truth as to actually attempt to hide this fact:
Anyone who is moderated down four or more times within a 24-hour period will have their ENTIRE TCP/IP SUBNET banned for the following 72 hours.
That is a fact. It can be confirmed by reading the slashcode. It can further be confirmed by simply posting a comment which will be likely to garner a few negative moderations (i.e., any comment that disagrees with popluar slashdot opinions) and observing the results.
So michael, the obvious question here is, why are you lying to people? Why not just tell the thruth: The moderation system, combined with the IP-subnet-banning system, will automatically ban people for posting anything people disagree with.
Slashdot is clearly designed with the expressed purpose of surpressing unpopular opinions within its comment system.
That is, of course, your right, as this is your website and you may do with it as you choose. However, people should know that you are lying when you claim (in the FAQ and elsewhere) that people are never banned for their opinions, only for attempts at "flooding". That is complete fiction.
What to do? Well, here is a suggestion from an AC:
What we need to do now is set up some sort of IP spoofing system so we can get huge popular subnets banned from commenting on Slashdot for 72 hour periods. There must be a dozen critical subnets that would really quieten things down here if they were regularly banned. I.e. a few important University campuses.
Get going on it, trolls. Have fun with it. Let's get some of these stuffed shirts banned for a few days and see them fume.
I'm not technically adept enough to accomplish this. Anyone want to have a go at it?
Break case
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Who leaves Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We Do!
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Who holds back the Electric Car?
Who makes Steve Guttenberg a Star?
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Who robs cavefish of their sights?
Who rigs every Oscar night?
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Joan was quizzical
Studied patophysical science in the home
Late nights all alone with a test tube, Oh-oh-oh-oh
Maxwell Edison
Majoring in medicine calls her on the phone
Can I take you out to the pictures, Jo-o-o-oan?
But as she's getting ready to go a knock comes on the door
Bang Bang Maxwell's Silver Hammer came down upon her head
Clang Clang Maxwell's Silver Hammer made sure that she was dead
Back in school again
Maxwell plays the fool again, teacher gets annoyed
Wishing to avoid an unpleasant sce-e-e-ene She tells Max to stay
When the class has gone away, so he waits behind Writing fifty times I must not be so-o-o-o
But when she turns her back on the boy
He creeps up from behind
Bang Bang Maxwell's Silver Hammer came down upon her head
Clang Clang Maxwell's Silver Hammer made sure that she was dead
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.