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Internet Backbone DDOS "Largest Ever"
wontonenigma writes "It seems that yesterday the root servers of the internet were attacked in a massive Distributed DoS manner. I mean jeeze, only 4 or 5 out of 13 survived according to the WashPost. Check out the orignal Washington Post Article here."
I'm playing Devil's Advocate.
Your post hints at but does not fully form the idea that the recent view of Terrorism is paranoid and McCarthyist.
Got the wrong change back when buying bread at the corner shop ? It must be run by the Al Quaeda.
That kid who wants to marry my daugter has dyed blue hair ? God-damn Al-Quaeda-loving bastard.
It's going that way again. If McCarthyism had gone just a bit further I can imagine them rounding up the "communists" and putting them on trains "to Madagascar".
It's fundamental human nature. There are scary problems in the world. Just convince the general population that it's the fault of some random group and then fear and anger will do the rest.
Welcome to Genocide.
Posting at + 1, so the modding down takes a tiny bit longer.
graspee
joke (jk)
n.
Something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line.
A mischievous trick; a prank.
An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation.
Informal.
Something not to be taken seriously; a triviality: The accident was no joke.
An object of amusement or laughter; a laughingstock: His loud tie was the joke of the office.
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You know it had to be some ebay junkie who just had to win an auction, so he blocked out half the internet.
CSRs are taught to stretch the truth anyway. What's the harm in this? :)
Regardless, regarding syntax, the binary infix notation is not to be ashamed of. a != b is commonplace in imperative languages; I can't speak for Lisp which you seem to be intimiately familiar with, but its well-understood in Slashdot culture at least in my limited experience. In similar vein, a = !b is also accepted, its standard C++ semantics believe it or not. The alternative, a = b' used in Randall's Art of Assembly , is no more or less favorable. Prefix or postfix, its all the same.
As I'm sure you are aware, != is what it is due to our limited rendition of mathematical binary logical operators thanks to ASCIIization of the Internet (what ASCII bytes where sent to the backbones to DDoS them? ADM, perhaps?!), and although Unicode is now a standard, 3.0 being the largest and most complete compendium ever notwithstanding Unihan CJK languages, Slashdot choses to return the same identical Content-Disposition header ignoring actual content. This forces one to write != rather than the preferred "Equal Sign With Slash Overbar", approximated /= by some, not to be confused with auto-assignment division, but you have to compromise somewhere. I would have written = U+"COMBINING SLASH" or, in canonical form U+02AF2 "NOT EQUAL/LESS THAN OR GREATER THAN", but what do I look like, a Unicode-compatible typist?
Wheels can exist without cars, everyone agrees on that. Of course, cars cannot drive without wheels--you can't go anywhere, but your kids can still fiddle in the back with the radio and color DVD players, their own XBOX, and our 802.11b-linked Home Entertainment System. If you see SSID=NACHONETWORK, I have embedded a buffer overflow in our SSID which exploites NetStumbler and is able to create a connect-back rootshell on my MacOS server. I'll show you the forest in the trees, just wait for your magic Christmas tree packet!
Now can I go?
"The lesson to be learned is not to take the comments on slashdot too literally." --Vinnie Falco, BearShare
Obviously you are/have not [been] a UCR student otherwise you would know that Randall Hyde is a capital asshole :) His dishonor is so great that even linking to him is shamefull.
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
This will be modded down I'm sure; and at the same time I know it isn't a whole post, but...
Wow.
I think with the interesting people, their lives can't possibly be wrapped up into a nice little package.
If you bought it, a truck brought it.
"The lesson to be learned is not to take the comments on slashdot too literally." --Vinnie Falco, BearShare
ROTFL! Now I gotta listen to some Afroman.
"The lesson to be learned is not to take the comments on slashdot too literally." --Vinnie Falco, BearShare