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Evil Bit Added to TCP/IP Packets
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!"
Post a dupe and get away with it by posting another and chalk it up to April Fool's day.
Very clever.
And you would have gotten away with it too! Had it not been for those meddlesome kids.
It's going to be a long day...
If you say it often enough, it will become funny. Just like CowboyNeal.
I read the first one. Evil bit. I was thinking of legitimate usages and stuff. Then I saw the dupe and was thinking...idiots. Then I saw the 3rd one and I was thinking...idiot. :-D
I hope this slashdotting of slashdot is not a joke! Don't mess with my information drip!
God I love April Fool's Day. Keep on posting dupes, it makes the page more fun to read.
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Now even for April fools day this is a bit much, this story has now been posted three times today!
First Taco dupes someone else's post, then he dupes himself. A double-dupe, or "tripe" (pun intended).
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This is a perfect example of why I will NEVER pay for
This is truly Evil!!! Make it stop!!!
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
third repeat, second by you in 2.5 hours.
That takes talent!
Whoever stated that signature sizes should be limited to one hundred and twenty characters can just go ahead and kiss my
I sniffed the packets from this duplicate article, and the evil bit was not set! I demand Slashdot immediately implement RFC3514 for all duplicate articles!
--
"Open source is good." - Steve Jobs
"Open source is evil." - Microsoft
It's April Fool's day, not Groundhog Day!
Get it right, Taco.
mbbac
Whee! First triple, april fool's day post:
I only wish it was a joke... *sigh*
I still find it amusing that people have comments the third time this article is posted :)
As a member of the IETF*, I argued vociferously for a minimum of 3 bits (two to encode [good evil neutral], the third to encode [lawful chaotic]); but after much argument over the space limitations, and confusion over how to interpret the "extra" bit pattern, I was finally shouted down with cries of "you're either with us, or against us!" * Not.
When it comes around the next time, should we call it Quad Damage?
--LP
"Hey Mr. Taco, this story appears three times on the homepage, being attributed twice to you as a poster."
"Yes, I know. April fool! Hahahah!"
"I want to laugh and feel caught out by the joke, but I'm finding it difficult to derive humour from it."
"That's because it was a genuine mistake! hahhah! April Fool!"
"It's still not funny. You're not getting out that easily."
"..."
PGP KeyId: 0x08D63965
If a post in duplicate is a Dupe, then a triplicate must be Tripe!
(groan!)
--Azaroth
Of course, if duplicate stories are an April Fool's prank, then the editors must believe that every day is April Fool's on Slashdot.
What's the point of having an evil bit if you don't do something evil with it time and again. I mean, it IS an evil bit after all, what do you expect. It's not every person who knows how to make the most of an evil bit. It's not like it's an evil byte you know, but one of those could come in handy, it's an evil bit, and you simply have to make the most of an evil bit, because it's only so much evil, hardly enough to go around, don't you know.
The annual april fools crapfest serves to remind us all, on this very special day, how much worse the whole mess of perl scripts and duct tape could be.
I am not a number! I am a man! And don't you
OH ITS A DUPE OH MAN WHY CAN'T TACO READ HIS OWN POSTS YOU WOULD THINK THIS IMPORTANT SITE WOULD BE RUN BY PEOPLE WHO KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS /. AND *THINK* FOR A SECOND GOD THIS TOTALLY INVALIDATES SLASHDOT IN MY EYES OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE AMATEURS WHO HAVE NEVER HAD ANY REAL RESPONSIBILITY JEEZE AT LEAST LOOK DOWN 3 OR 4 POSTS BEFORE YOU CLICK SUBMIT AAAAAA BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH I LOVE TO HEAR MYSELF TALK IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT *BONK* OW JESUS WHAT WAS THAT
/. 'lameness filter' wont let it go through. Putting all of this normal text down here at the bottom really takes something away from the knee-jerk idiot image i was trying to portray, but oh well, I guess you all get the idea.
*sigh*. I was going to leave it at that, but the
Taco, you are friggin awesome :).
;).
Hes doing it on purpose to get a rise out of you all. No matter how stupid Slashdotters in general think Taco is, hes not stupid enough to post the same story twice. Yeah he does dupes but come on... do you really think he'd post the same story twice unless it was on purpose?
The best part of this is that Taco is trolling the crap out of all of you and hes probably sitting at work reading the comments and laughing his ass off.
Now a real April fools joke would be Katz posting a story that didn't have the phrase "... in these post 9/11 times..."
can't sleep slashdot will eat me
OK, as I have understood from all the reports today, this is the third "evil bit" added to the Internet Protocol.
Using all these three bits together, it is now possible to express 2^3 = 8 different levels of evilness, ranging from 000 = "not an evil datagram at all" to 111 = "a more evil datagram than anything you can imagine". And yesterday we had no means of indicating the degree of evilness in a datagram at all! Talk about progress!
I'm prepared!!
it does require a patch, but it's integrated in the statefull module of ipchains.
example: iptables -A INPUT -m state --state EVIL -j DROP
Privacy is terrorism.
that he might be doing it on purpose? To annoy you?
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