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Evil Bit Added to TCP/IP Packets

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-thats-a-good-idea dept.

Absolut Ralts notes that " RFC 3514 is now available. It provides for an additional so called 'Evil Bit' that can be used to determine the nature of the TCP/IP packet. This should vastly simplify networking and internet security, and prevent the beepers of tired sysadmins from going off and interfering with Warcraft III!"

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  1. HAHA when will it stop!! by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Rob, this story was great the first time I saw it. It was even better when you posted it 2 hours later. Now it's just utterly hilarious! Please post it again and again so it becomes the best April Fool's Joke EVAR .

    Go for it!!!

    - A.P.

    --
    "Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
  2. Triple Duplicate Fake Out by kris_lang · · Score: 1, Redundant
    So there we have it. A triple duplicate posting to fool some of the ./ers some of the time, especially those who do not look at the top page simultaneously containing all three postings at once! This was obviously done to counteract the comment in the first posting stating that if this were a REAL story, there'd be duplicate submissions.

    But really folks, a duplicate submission by the same editor within 148 minutes? Outrageous!!!

    New game for those tired of google-games: find the shortest interval duplicate submission. Easy attack mode: look for duplicated links, e.g. ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt, as the giveaway and compare posting times.

    New idea for a submission filter for the editors: implement the comparison of links concept to weed out duplicate postings by editors. If this were really implemented in the slashcode, however, it could destroy the whole nature of reality for ./ers who have come to expect, nay rely upon, the duplicates.

    I didn't use the word "dupe" because I must admit the first time I saw an editorial comment saying "yes it's a dupe", I thought someone had been duped into believing something that is untrue. Of course, that's an everyday occurence here, not something which is reserved for April 1st.

    I must admit that I enjoy these April Fools' items.