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How Interesting is Your IP Address?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-you-can dept.

SKicker writes "This site gives your IP a score based on how interesting it is. Its silly and pointless but fun." Thank god my IP is a full house. Wonder which one of you has the royal flush and prime number IP!

249 comments

  1. It's almost slashdotted ... by ggvaidya · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can somebody post a mirror?

    1. Re:It's almost slashdotted ... by FalconZero · · Score: 2, Informative

      No, it's a dynamic page, which according to the site does several pattern matching algorithms (hence the severe slashdot effect - see my below post)

      --
      Windows in 6 Bytes (IA-32) : 90 90 90 90 CD 19
    2. Re:It's almost slashdotted ... by ggvaidya · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah I know ... was just hoping somebody could complete the joke and link to a mirror anyways ... :)

    3. Re:It's almost slashdotted ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      http://www.npglass.com/images/sun%20mirror.jpg

    4. Re:It's almost slashdotted ... by space_juice · · Score: 5, Interesting

      My new business plan. 1) Post some stupid application everyday that does nothing productive or useful. 2) Try to get it posted to slashdot. 3) Make sure it crashes under any type of heavy use. 4) Put google ads on the page. 5) Sit back, play some Call of Duty, and laugh about how I use to have to work for a living.

    5. Re:It's almost slashdotted ... by starmeup · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Kind of more of the same thing, but until you can check your own "nothing interesting about it" IP address, you can see what they think about one of Googles IP: Googlebot

    6. Re:It's almost slashdotted ... by Ken_g6 · · Score: 1

      Hey! They said the Mirrordot IP was not interesting. But 2 is a prime, dangit!

      --
      (T>t && O(n)--) == sqrt(666)
    7. Re:It's almost slashdotted ... by narad · · Score: 0

      Damn... I am on a IPv6 network and it still says nothing unique about my IP.

    8. Re:It's almost slashdotted ... by kiwipeso · · Score: 1

      The image someone suggested is every aussie man's dream lover...

      --
      - Kaos games and encryption systems developer
  2. bah by B3ryllium · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There is nothing remarkable about your IP address.

    Well, *I* could have told you that.

    But seriously, don't you think that this site might potentially be trolling for vulnerable systems?

    1. Re:bah by ggvaidya · · Score: 4, Funny

      Anybody could be doing that - everybody on the net knows your IP, right?

    2. Re:bah by Ubi_NL · · Score: 2, Insightful

      No
      If you want that, than you can more easily post some porn as the people who even know what an IP address is tend to have secure machines.

      --

      If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
    3. Re:bah by B3ryllium · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Well, would you rather have 16 billion junk IPs, or a few hundred thousand that have confirmed Web Browser variants (UserAgents) and geographic regions on the other end?

    4. Re:bah by j-cloth · · Score: 5, Insightful

      And again, how is this site any different than any other website on the net in terms of the information available to it?

    5. Re:bah by digidave · · Score: 2, Funny

      Of course, because IPs of Slashdotters are probably much more vulnerable than those of random web users.

      --
      The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally.
    6. Re:bah by slavemowgli · · Score: 2, Funny

      There's no 16 billion junk IPs, simply because there's no 16 billion IPs, at least not as long as you limit yourself to IPv4 (which I assume we do). About one quarter of that address space is reserved, anyway, and then there's a few subnets (10.0.0.0/8, 127.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16, at least) which are also not for public use, so that leaves you with less than three billion IP addresses. Still a lot of junk in there, of course, but I'd say "try to attack the boxes attached to random IPs" still won't just work, but will in fact work better than trying phish for "valid" IP addresses. (With "work better" as in "require less effort and yield results faster".)

      --
      quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
    7. Re:bah by linuxfanatic1024 · · Score: 1

      Note that the above post is by an Anonymous Coward.

      I'm not aiming for mod privs...

      --
      Microsoft-free since March 28, 2004
    8. Re:bah by petermgreen · · Score: 1

      so could any other site you visit on the web. not that i'm convinced /. would be a good place to post such a troll, somewhere orientated to net newbies would be far more effective at getting vulnerable ips.

      --
      note: i'm known as plugwash most places but i screwd up registering that here somehow in the past and now can't register
    9. Re:bah by librarygeek · · Score: 1

      Mine is extremly uninteresting...

      "Your IP address has scored: 0. This is ranked #9815 of the 9815 IP's spotted so far."

    10. Re:bah by Syberghost · · Score: 1

      The other day I had, over a period of about 58 minutes, 4037 unsuccessful attempts at my root password from a single IP address at a University in Italy. This is a slightly unusual number, but a completely average occurance. Evidently they don't need the help of a site like this to find me.

      I wish that kid had checked this site first; he'd have seen my IP is completely unremarkable. And if he wanted root on a Linux box that badly, I'd have sent him an Ubuntu CD.

    11. Re:bah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There is nothing remarkable about this site either. What a dumb site, I thought slashdot was supposed to be a tech news site?

    12. Re:bah by njh · · Score: 2, Informative

      Even more basic, 2^32 is only 4 billion.

    13. Re:bah by techno-vampire · · Score: 1

      You only know what's there right now. Considering how many IP addresses today are dynamic, what's there today may not be there tomorrow. Even if the address is either static or a long-term lease, there's a good chance it points to a LAN. There's no reason to think that the machine you're connecting to now is the same one you did before, so anything you learned is probably worthless in attacking.

      --
      Good, inexpensive web hosting
    14. Re:bah by ghstomahawks · · Score: 1

      Is my IP seriously in the bottom 10 they have on there!!! Why am I sooo low out of over 45,000 people!!! eegads

    15. Re:bah by MentalMooMan · · Score: 1

      That in itself is interesting. It's like the interesting number paradox, already mentioned by someone else here.

      --
      43rd Law of Computing:
      Anything that can go wr
      fortune: Segmentation violation -- Core Dumped
    16. Re:bah by blippy · · Score: 1
      Reminds me of that old joke ...

      Theorem: All numbers are interesting

      Proof by contradiction: Assume that not all numbers are interesting. Construct the set S of all (postive) numbers that are not interesting. That set will have a minimum - a number which in itself is quite interesting. But this cannot be, since it is a member of S. QED

    17. Re:bah by B3ryllium · · Score: 1

      Hrm, I thought my math had been off. Oops :( Thanks for the correction.

  3. Slashdot effect in action... by FalconZero · · Score: 4, Informative

    This site includes an IP counter. I'm guessing 20,000 IPs in the first hour (or the server crashes...)

    14:10GMT - 1951 IP's
    14:21GMT - 3170 IP's
    14:27GMT - Sorry non-subscribers. We broke it before you got here....

    --
    Windows in 6 Bytes (IA-32) : 90 90 90 90 CD 19
    1. Re:Slashdot effect in action... by MintyGreen · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Not quite. I'm a non-subscriber, and I managed to get one hit in (awww, a 7!) before it proclaimed they'd been "dugg/slashdotted."

      And what's this? An ad (for "DocMonster") that wasn't there before. Advertising opportunity? Interesting.

    2. Re:Slashdot effect in action... by MintyGreen · · Score: 1
      And what's this? An ad (for "DocMonster") that wasn't there before. Advertising opportunity? Interesting.

      It's gone now, but eyeballing the source shows some commented-out references. Looks like they're tweaking the page on-the-fly; I've seen some odd rendering changes between reloads. (Yes, I am a mean bastard, kicking them while they're down.)
    3. Re:Slashdot effect in action... by MindStalker · · Score: 1

      7! ? wouldn't that be 5040 aka 0.0.19.176 ?

    4. Re:Slashdot effect in action... by hahiss · · Score: 1

      Actually, digg beat slashdot to it. It was on the front page of digg early this morning (US, Central time), and I was able to get on the site.

      The only down side is that I'll never get those wasted 5 seconds back.

      --
      "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." - H.L. Mencken
    5. Re:Slashdot effect in action... by rnpg1014 · · Score: 1

      I spotted this on del.icio.us a while before either Digg or Slashdot. I really do feel bad for their server, del.icio.us(ed)/Dugg/Slashdotted all in one day.

      --
      - Nick
  4. I'm seventh! by someonewhois · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Your IP address has scored: 39. This is ranked #7 of the 3507 IP's spotted so far."

    I guess the slashdot crowd hasn't hit it yet? I have two "241"s in my IP address today (strange) which lead to 28 points in and of itself. ;)

    Anyone know how the bitmap or poker hand was calculated?

    1. Re:I'm seventh! by richardablitt · · Score: 1

      "We've been dugg/slashdotted.. back in a bit"

      They've hit it (:

    2. Re:I'm seventh! by serialdogma · · Score: 4, Informative

      On the bitmap, and IP address is 4bytes, or 32bits. On a black and white bitmap you can map each 1 to a white, 0 to a black and add a fixxed width and bingo your bitmap.
      The poker could be done in a pretty much the same way just convert it to a diffent base, and look at what digits you get.

    3. Re:I'm seventh! by carlos92 · · Score: 1

      But 32 isn't the square of anything, so the bitmap can't be square, and it doesn't seem to be 8x4 or 2x16 (or 1x32)

    4. Re:I'm seventh! by Terrasque · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Your IP address has scored: -2. This is ranked #7166 of the 7166 IP's spotted so far."

      My life in a nutshell, really..

      --
      It's The Golden Rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules."
    5. Re:I'm seventh! by serialdogma · · Score: 1

      Yes so it is, thanks for pointing that out. I make it out to be 6x6, so thats 36 pixels and only 32 bits. Ohwell; if anyone knows what algorithm it uses, please do tell.

    6. Re:I'm seventh! by azipsun · · Score: 1

      The four corners are not part of the bitmap. So, for A.B.C.D, the image is

        AAAA
      AAAABB
      BBBBBB
      CCCCCC
      CCDDDD
        DDDD

      I still haven't managed to create anything that it recognizes...

    7. Re:I'm seventh! by ParisTG · · Score: 1

      You can figure this out by trial and error just by typing in a bunch of carefully crafted IP addresses.

      The bitmap is as you describe, except with the 4 corner pixels missing. So its a 6x6 grid, with the first and last rows having only 4 pixels (and centered). 255.255.255.254 shows the full grid (except the last bit). 255.255.255.255 would show the full grid, but the program doesn't want to accept that one.

      Try 4.128.133.224 :).

      The poker is similar. Starting at the first bit, each "card" is 6 bits, with the last 2 bits ignored. The first 2 bits is the suit, with 00=spades, 01=clubs, 10=diamonds, and 11=hearts, and the remaining four bits is the value, with 0000=A, 0001=2, upto 1100=K.

      0.194.202.36 is a royal flush (although you can encode it in other ways as well). Oh, and the website says that it's not working correctly, so they may change this.

      The colour is just the last 3 bytes as an rgb value. 0.255.0.0. is red, 0.0.0.255 is blue, etc.

      Now see who can generate the highest score! :)

    8. Re:I'm seventh! by uigrad_2000 · · Score: 1
      The four corners are not part of the bitmap. So, for A.B.C.D, the image is

      -AAAA-
      AAAABB
      BBBBBB
      CCCCCC
      CCDDDD
      -DDDD-
      I still haven't managed to create anything that it recognizes...
      Nor have I. But, here is a square, with the corners cut off:
      http://www.ipspotting.com/?IP=248.97.134.31

      For the poker, it turns your IP into a binary, with the most significicant digit first. It throws away the last two bits. Then it takes the 30 bits, and separates them into 5 sets of 6 bits. For each card, the first 2 bits determine suit, and the other for bits determine rank.
      Ace is 0000.
      2 is 0001.
      3 is 0010.
      4 is 0011.
      etc.

      So, the original IP separated this way looks like:

      xx.oo.oo.xx
      oo.oo.xx.oo
      oo.xx.oo.oo
      xx.oo.oo.--
      The xx is for suit, oooo is for rank, and -- is thrown out.

      Royal flush:
      http://www.ipspotting.com/?IP=48.176.10.36

      --
      Free unix account: freeshell.org
    9. Re:I'm seventh! by uigrad_2000 · · Score: 1
      Ok, I found a way to get a score of 72.
      I'm sure that more is possible. Anyone care to try?

      72:
      http://www.ipspotting.com/?IP=252.251.251.127

      --
      Free unix account: freeshell.org
  5. 192.168.1.100 by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn thing ain't working!

  6. You get +5 for a web server by frinkacheese · · Score: 1


    And I got +36

    Wow, this is great! I'll set a script off to test all my IP addresses over night..

  7. Looks like a spammer site by superflytnt · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Your IP is interesting only if there is a vulnerability to exploit, so they can turn your PC into a spam-spewing zombie. In that regard, I prefer to be boring.

    1. Re:Looks like a spammer site by jb.hl.com · · Score: 1

      Because it's not like web servers record your user agent, IP address etc by default. No siree.

      --
      By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
    2. Re:Looks like a spammer site by bitslinger_42 · · Score: 1

      If that's the case, then I enjoy the delicious irony of the spammer being slashdotted into oblivion!

  8. This is CRAP by ellem · · Score: 3, Funny

    My IP got a 1! Damn them! Damn those bastards! Do you know how long it's going to take to change my IPs and reconfigure the VPN?

    Well yeah from 8-72 hours... but still.

    --
    This .sig is fake but accurate.
  9. "It's funny. Laugh" by grimJester · · Score: 1

    Never has that text been so inaproppriate. No, not only because my IP gives me "There is nothing remarkable about your IP address."

  10. Gee, thanks. by Mondoz · · Score: 4, Funny

    "There is nothing remarkable about your IP address."

    Much like the hundreds of bottle caps tell me; I am not a winner.

    --
    /sig
    1. Re:Gee, thanks. by The+Locehiliosan · · Score: 1
      Much like the hundreds of bottle caps tell me; I am not a winner.

      Not anymore. Now you have to log in and give them an email address before they inform you of your loser status.

      --
      http://www.missionfaces.com/
    2. Re:Gee, thanks. by squidfood · · Score: 1
      There is nothing remarkable about your IP address.

      It must be an uninteresting number. (But is it the most uninteresting one?)

    3. Re:Gee, thanks. by Ray+Radlein · · Score: 1

      I was obscurely delighted to discover that, according to them, with a score of -1, my IP address was the least interesting one they had seen so far. W00t.

  11. My IP number is so awesome... by scolby · · Score: 1

    ...that the site is offering me free Firefox with Google Toolbar! Wowsers!

    1. Re:My IP number is so awesome... by chrisnewbie · · Score: 0

      What if you get "your are a candy store without a clerk" ????

      should i worry? :(

  12. 66.35.250.150 by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 5, Funny

    66.35.250.150

    Your IP address can turn servers into slag.

  13. Nothing remarkable? by republican+gourd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nothing remarkable? I'm crushed. I thought my IP address was unique :'(

    1. Re:Nothing remarkable? by slthytove · · Score: 0, Redundant
      I thought my IP address was unique

      It is. Just like everyone else's.

    2. Re:Nothing remarkable? by rufty_tufty · · Score: 1

      Am I the first to say:
      Brian: "You're All individuals"
      Crowd: "Yes, we are all individuals"
      Man 1: "I'm not"
      Man 2: "Shh"

      --
      "The weirdest thing about a mind, is that every answer that you find, is the basis of a brand new cliche" -
  14. Re:Slashdotted... by chadbailey · · Score: 1

    WOW- they lasted a whole what... 10 min?

  15. Apart from being slashdotted by Illserve · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think this isn't really worth a front page article. I can't use the thing because it's already down, but I'm guessing that someone's got some 10 line algorithm that looks for primes or squares in your IP and computes some kind of score. It's not that it's not nerdy, or not interesting, it's just not enough.

    This would be better suited for slashback.

    1. Re:Apart from being slashdotted by Rufus211 · · Score: 1

      Actually it's better suited for a quicky. Anyone remember those?

    2. Re:Apart from being slashdotted by aconkling · · Score: 1

      This would be better suited for slashback.

      Or digg.com? Latest headline on Digg: "Awesome re-cut of the SNL 'Lazy Sunday' video by two 5th graders"

      Uh... yeah.

    3. Re:Apart from being slashdotted by wfberg · · Score: 0

      I'm guessing that someone's got some 10 line algorithm that looks for primes or squares in your IP and computes some kind of score. It's not that it's not nerdy

      not that nerdy?!

      You do realise that the vast majority of the population that does have a girlfriend has probably never even heard of IP adresses? Or how to construct an algorithm to find squares and primes in it? Let alone be interested in making it?

      Your geekiness is a shiny example to us all. And your UID isn't even lower than mine..

      --
      SCO employee? Check out the bounty
    4. Re:Apart from being slashdotted by DrMcCoy · · Score: 3, Informative

      And you do realise that you failed to understand a simple sentence? He didn't say "It's not that nerdy", but "It's not that it's not nerdy", which is quite a difference...

    5. Re:Apart from being slashdotted by gid · · Score: 1

      Yeah, they quickies were good. There was usually a lot of geeky goodness packed into those, maybe 5 or so links like this one. All of which wouldn't/shouldn't make a full article in themselves.

    6. Re:Apart from being slashdotted by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      Well, I just got to use it, and I have two jack of spades in my hand, so I got marked down for cheating! This in spite of my whole hand being face cards :) Also, I think it's plenty nerdy. who but nerds would do this? who but nerds would care?

      --
      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  16. Digg... by TrippTDF · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... ok guys... this is EXACTLY the same post from Digg. As far as I know, this is the first time someone has just copy-and-pasted a Digg story for /.

    What's next? Fark headlines on /.?

    Hilarity Ensues.

    1. Re:Digg... by Southpaw018 · · Score: 1

      I donno, but it seems likely (though not copy-paste). Lately, because of Fark's more community based nature on story submission, it's beaten /. to the punch on a whole bunch of stuff.

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      ACs are modded -6. I don't read you, I don't mod you, I don't see you. Don't like it? Don't be a coward.
  17. Giving you the bird by RingDev · · Score: 1

    My IP is nothing special (5), but the IP as a bitmap looks like someone flipping the bird.

    -Rick

    --
    "Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
  18. banners by georgeda · · Score: 0

    well at least i have more sites to block with adblock :)

  19. /.'d by schlumpf_louise · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Only 22 comments posted and it's already slashdotted? what's the record number of posts for a site to be /.'d?

    1. Re:/.'d by kevin.fowler · · Score: 1

      It was already in the process of being Digg'd. Now it is very most sincerely dead.

      --
      Bury me in mashed potatoes.
    2. Re:/.'d by Raistlin77 · · Score: 0

      1...

  20. mine by slashdotnickname · · Score: 1, Funny

    Mine is pretty cool!

    it's got a one, two zeros, and a year number that according to wikipedia nothing ever happened in... i.e peaceful, the way I like it!

    1. Re:mine by Skidge · · Score: 1

      You're calling the birth of Zheng Xuan "nothing"? :)

  21. My next pickup line by broothal · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Hi honey. As you no doubt has noticed, there's nothing remarkable about me, but hey - you should check out my IP!"

  22. 127.0.0.1 by Roj+Blake · · Score: 1

    I've always thought my computer was interesting, I wonder if ipspotting.com does.

    --
    Auron may be different, Cally, but on Earth it is considered ill-mannered to kill your friends while committing suicide.
    1. Re:127.0.0.1 by Ken_g6 · · Score: 1

      Yes!

      Your IP address has scored: 12. This is ranked #2565 of the 9288 IP's spotted so far.

      --
      (T>t && O(n)--) == sqrt(666)
  23. Here's a Special one by slashbob22 · · Score: 4, Funny

    72.3.211.135: Your IP is super special. You are not only the location of www.ipspotting.com BUT you are also being slashdotted.

    --
    Proof by very large bribes. QED.
    1. Re:Here's a Special one by trajik2600 · · Score: 1

      I thought that IP looked like it was from a familiar block. I work at Rackspace. And you just made someone work :-p

    2. Re:Here's a Special one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thanks for that mate, remind me never to try this again in the future

    3. Re:Here's a Special one by Arthur+Dent+'99 · · Score: 1
      According to slangsite.com, and also pseudodictionary.com, the word is contrafibularity, not contrafribularity. Interesting word, though. Made famous by Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder, evidently.

      Sorry for the segue! Now, back to our regularly scheduled topic!

  24. Nothing interesting about your IP by Billygoatz · · Score: 0

    Cool cus I was alittle worried about having the IP

    666.666.666.666

    You know with the apocalypse, antichrist, and the end of the World and all.

    1. Re:Nothing interesting about your IP by Daytona955i · · Score: 1

      I know it was probably meant as a joke but that is not a valid IP address so it's not really all that funny.

    2. Re:Nothing interesting about your IP by Billygoatz · · Score: 0

      Did you try it with Subnet Mask 666.666.0.0 ?
      Kinda a newbie mistake, but maybe you overlooked it.

      And no Armageddon is not funny.

    3. Re:Nothing interesting about your IP by bcmm · · Score: 1

      It makes me wonder... Why are IPv4 addresses expressed in decimal? If they were written in hexadecimal, no random aa.bb.cc.dd string would be invalid, i.e. the address space would fit neatly into the available numbers.

      --
      # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
      Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
    4. Re:Nothing interesting about your IP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Go away, you suck.

    5. Re:Nothing interesting about your IP by Billygoatz · · Score: 0

      You go away.

      I was just helping "Daytona955i" with a networking problem.

        And looks like it it worked, as "Daytona955i" hasn't posted any problems after being aware of the fix.

      P.S. You suck

  25. Dugg/Slashdotted... by Animaether · · Score: 1

    At the time of this writing, it's not just Slashdotted - no, it's "Dugg/Slashdotted". Digg gets first mention... poor /. ;)

    1. Re:Dugg/Slashdotted... by Raistlin77 · · Score: 1

      Try reversing them, then speaking them, and tell me which you prefer to say. Dugg/Slashdotted sounds better.

    2. Re:Dugg/Slashdotted... by koreaman · · Score: 1

      I told them a thousand times to put Spinal Tap first, puppet show second!

      --
      Le français vous intéresse?
  26. I guess I'm lame. by immorak · · Score: 1

    my ip is boring i guess.

  27. Who cares about DNS? by FridayBob · · Score: 1

    Currently, I have the misfortune of having to deal with a moron who'd rather configure everything with IP addresses, because he can't wrap his mind around DNS. Maybe this website is for him.

  28. Mine doesn't work :| by REBloomfield · · Score: 3, Funny

    5F05:2000:80AD:5800:0058:0800:2023:2F8E

    1. Re:Mine doesn't work :| by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Had to google for an ipv6 example did you? Not a true geek then.

  29. IPv6 by JFrizzle · · Score: 1

    I only wonder what clever genius will design this on the basis of IPv6.

  30. nothing new by phlegmofdiscontent · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't know if this is the same site, but I saw one a couple months ago that determines how interesting your social security number is. The funny thing is, my SSN was deemed completely uninteresting because "we could not find any accounts with any money in them". Seriously, though, one has to wonder if a site like this could be used in phishing. How interesting is your credit card number? How interesting is your drivers license number? How interesting is your social security number, etc. I'd be willing to bet people will willingly input all those numbers...at will.

    1. Re:nothing new by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Shades of the late Brunching Shuttlecocks' Mr. T name generator: http://www.brunching.com/mrtname.html

  31. re: it's now slashdotted ... by ed.han · · Score: 2, Interesting

    i feel bad for these guys...i'm now getting the following message:

    "we've been dugg/slashdotted.. back in a bit"

    dugg? can anybody help me with that?

    ed

  32. If only by megacia · · Score: 3, Funny

    they had a web server with +5 against ping damage.

    1. Re:If only by cashman73 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Damn. My IP address scored "-1 Troll".

  33. it knows a lot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It gave me this message: "come out of Comcast's dynamic IP you coward!"

  34. Re: it's now slashdotted ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Uh, maybe it was on digg.com --

  35. Re:It's dead, jim. by DrMcCoy · · Score: 1
    It's dead, jim.
    Hey, that's /my/ catchphrase!
  36. Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by The-Bus · · Score: 4, Funny

    CHLOE: "Jack tell me your IP address so I can upload this decryption program."

    [ The memoirs of PRESIDENT PALMER are hidden from view because he changed the font! ]

    JACK BAUER: "OK, it's 292, dot, 162, dot, 12, dot, 2."

    CHLOE: "Thanks!"

    I guess in the future world of 24 we're on IPv8.

    --

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    1. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by Dr.+Manhattan · · Score: 1
      JACK BAUER: "OK, it's 292, dot, 162, dot, 12, dot, 2."

      That's just the IP equivalent of a telephone number like 555-4561. It's not going to correspond to any real address and cause problems.

      (Of course, they missed out on a chance for some viral marketing, like how "Lost" did a fake airline website...)

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    2. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by Glasswire · · Score: 3, Funny

      Could have made an inside joke out of it by saying his address was 192.168.1.1

    3. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They probably did it for the same reason all phone numbers in TV and movies start with 555.

    4. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by sglane81 · · Score: 1

      I guess in the future world of 24 we're on IPv8.

      Perhaps they didn't want some random person to get attacked. Same principle as 555-xxxx in phone numbers.

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    5. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by BoredAtWorkWhatElse · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Or 127.0.0.1 ^^

    6. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by The-Bus · · Score: 1

      They could've made it 69.44.123.70...

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    7. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by Durandal64 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      They've always put invalid IP's in the show, probably to stop people from actually going to those IP's. Just ask Mark Hammil about what can happen when your phone number is put in a movie. :)

      The more glaring errors in the show come when Chloe is running around the office just spouting jargon off. Like in last night's episode, someone made a comment about modifying a header file to grant privileges. Chloe also mentioned an "NP-safe" algorithm for facial recognition in one episode. (NP is a classification of problems, not algorithms.)

      One thing I have always liked about the show is that they tend to use real interfaces on their computers, not some stylized slideshow. When Jack looks up the computer's IP address in the exchange you mention, he actually goes to the proper place in Mac OS X: the Network preference pane. Everything is laid out exactly as it should be. He opens Palmer's memoirs with the actual version of Microsoft Word for OS X.

    8. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by wx327 · · Score: 1
      Funny? Yes.

      Intentionally invalid? Perhaps.

      Maybe this is the modern equivalent to the 555-xxxx numbers often spouted by TV shows. You don't want the TV show watchers to be hammering someone's real IP address. Would have been interesting if they used the IP address mapped to whitehouse.gov or something.

      If Chloe connected to Palmer's internal network, a 192.168.x.x reference would have sufficed. I guess the 292.x.x.x address gets around whatever firewall Palmer was behind. :D

    9. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by SleepyHappyDoc · · Score: 1

      Probably intentionally invalid, learning from past mistakes. Last season, a prop cellphone number was briefly shown onscreen, and apparently the phone rings constantly in the prop room. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_(television)#Fan_p hone

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    10. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by barawn · · Score: 1

      They've always put invalid IP's in the show

      Are they invalid, or reserved ones? I hate it when shows use invalid ones (300.631.42.12 or something like that) when they could just as easily use a reserved IP address. It'd be easy enough to ask any geek "give me an IP address that sounds random, but won't actually be anything", and give them 172.18.101.84 or something similar. (does anyone use the 172.16-31.x.x block?)

    11. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by tholomyes · · Score: 1

      Veering offtopic here, but: NP can certainly be used to refer to the order of magnitude of the runtime for the algorithm. Simply put, all of the problems in the NP-Complete class don't (currently) have precise solutions for anything less than a superpolynomial time requirement relative to their input-- and hence the need for faster, sloppier heuristics and approximations.

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    12. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by Durandal64 · · Score: 1
      Veering offtopic here, but: NP can certainly be used to refer to the order of magnitude of the runtime for the algorithm. Simply put, all of the problems in the NP-Complete class don't (currently) have precise solutions for anything less than a superpolynomial time requirement relative to their input-- and hence the need for faster, sloppier heuristics and approximations.
      Well personally, I've never heard it used to describe running time. Nor have I ever heard the term "NP-safe" or have any idea what it could mean. Anyway, I don't think Chloe was referring to running time in the quote. When was the last time you told someone to use an "O(log N)" algorithm for something? It's generally implied that you want to use the fastest algorithm allowable within constraints.

      And would facial recognition even fall into the NP domain?
    13. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by Durandal64 · · Score: 1

      Yep. My school uses 172.16.x.x for our internal printers.

    14. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by WWWWolf · · Score: 1
      Could have made an inside joke out of it by saying his address was 192.168.1.1

      In Antitrust they had a bunch of IPs that were random numbers in the 10.*.*.* range... A grin-worthy moment seeing that in a movie =)

    15. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by tholomyes · · Score: 1

      I have heard "NP" used in the context of runtime, but not outside of academia, and I've never heard the term "NP-safe", but I would guess it means "the version of the algorithm that isn't NP and won't take forever to complete". Because sometimes you want to be fast, and sometimes you want to be 100% certain. But I work in security, so certainty is more important, I don't hear much talk about "big O" anymore.

      As for whether or not facial recognition is NP: It certainly could be, if your algorithm is "try every face in the database, and see which one is the single best fit". A heuristic could cut down the sample search size, but might inadvertently discard the best match with some arbitrary criteria.

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    16. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by jb.hl.com · · Score: 1

      They once used KDE as well. KDE 2.something (ridiculously old) but still...

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    17. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 1

      Probably some guy at Fox just realized after all these years that it's cheaper to use ACTUAL computers when filming without bothering to have the prop department (or whatever) mock-up a fake GUI.

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    18. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by ZERO1ZERO · · Score: 1

      http://www.sylviaimports.com/ 24 already did something similar. That URL is from Season 3. Saunders says that near the end of the series.

    19. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My 2wire router assigns IPs in that block...

    20. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by qqaz · · Score: 1

      I use 172.16.23.0/25 on my home network just to be weird.

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    21. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by JahToasted · · Score: 1

      Also, Apple probably gave them a bunch of money for product placement.

    22. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by idonthack · · Score: 1
      Mistakes? It looks like they did that on purpose. In fact, they did it a second time.
      This phone number was repeated in the episode where Jack attempts to recover the nuclear football; he gives his cell number to a man and his wife fleeing from Marwan.
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    23. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by SleepyHappyDoc · · Score: 1

      The mistake was underestimating the volume of calls. Given how rabid 24 fans are, whatever machine connected to the stated IP (had it been a potentially possible one) would have burst into flames in real time. At least a cell phone is limited to only one call/connection at a time.

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    24. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by Durandal64 · · Score: 1

      Obviously not enough. CTU has moved to Dells for seasons 4 and 5. In season 3, they had G5's. :)

    25. Re:Well, according to the writers of TV's 24 by pneumatus · · Score: 1

      Talking of invalid IP addresses, i've not found one to beat 251.251.223.223 yet :)

      For anyone that doesn't immediatly recognise this as invalid, IANA have 240.0.0.0/4 reserved

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  37. My IP is super special! by IceRa · · Score: 1

    No matter what IP my ISP gives me - it always contains only 0's and 1's - in binary.
    Am I special now? *putting tinfoil hat on*

    Besides, shame on you slashdotters - shashing all the dots out of this poor server is just not fair!

    Greetings, Ice

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  38. Alnost??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It is slashdotted and dugg.

  39. that's odd... by netcrusher88 · · Score: 1

    My IP has been dugg/slashdotted!

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  40. Your IP is V6 by netrangerrr · · Score: 2, Funny

    I tried browsing using an IPv6 connection.
    Got a message saying that "we've been slashdotted"...
    Shouldn't that be slashcoloned?

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    1. Re:Your IP is V6 by orclevegam · · Score: 1

      I tried browsing using an IPv6 connection.
      Got a message saying that "we've been slashdotted"...
      Shouldn't that be slashcoloned?
      Nope, because slashdot is refering to the url, not the IP. Slashdot, even on IPv6 would still be slashdot.

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    2. Re:Your IP is V6 by MintyGreen · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Shouldn't that be slashcoloned?

      Ow. I'd see a doctor about that if I were you.
    3. Re:Your IP is V6 by JamesTRexx · · Score: 1

      Shouldn't that be slashcoloned?

      Congratulations, you just explained how big a pain in the ass a slashdotting is to a webserver.

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  41. Chuck Norris' IP Address by Himring · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thank god my IP is a full house

    Chuck Norris' IP address is a round house....

    Yes, mod this down plz....

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  42. Re: it's now slashdotted ... by Emil+Brink · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sure, that's a reference to the page being featured on Digg.com. Not sure if it actually has been, haven't checked. But if it has, it wouldn't be the first time Slashdot and Digg post the same stories.

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  43. Your Sig by Slashpope · · Score: 0

    Ironic that you can't see anonymous cowards as anonymous cowards can't see sigs...

    1. Re:Your Sig by Southpaw018 · · Score: 1

      It's more targeted at those who have a login and regularly comment but always post as AC anyway to avoid the repercussions of their unconstructive (non-contructive? sp) comments.

      I'd like to think that with an educated demographic, a community like /.'s would have a reduced rate of this kind of thing, but apparently it's more common than I realized. That's what sparked my sig.

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  44. Wondr! by darthservo · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's another wondr of Web 2.0! [/sarcasm]

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    Prove it.

    1. Re:Wondr! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Um... you're retarded.

  45. Am I... by NaeRey · · Score: 1

    Special? The site's not working... it just displays a blank page. Full white. Is that my IP description? That it's totally white?

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  46. Doubly screwed by grendel_x86 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The site is the first article on /. & digg, their server is probably melting down the rack about now.

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  47. Hell, isnt' 10.10.10.10 interesting? -Damn NAT... by Glasswire · · Score: 1

    ...not doubt many of the really interesting ones are obscured...

  48. Proof that all counting numbers are interesting. by pavon · · Score: 1
    For best effect read this joke in the accent of a drunk scottish math professor.

    Suppose that there were some uninteresting counting numbers. They would be ordered, and would be greater than zero. Therefore there must be a first uninteresting number.

    Well now, that's pretty interesting.

    So that site is obviously wrong :)
  49. What would happen by cra · · Score: 1

    Has anyone tried to enter /.'s IP address and see what the result was?

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    1. Re:What would happen by genner · · Score: 1

      Score: 1
      Your IP is 66.35.250.150 which resolves to host: slashdot.org.
      IP as a bitmap

      Which does not look much like anything. think it does?
      (0)
      The country this IP is from (USA) is part of the G8 (+1)
      Your IP address as a poker hand:
      Ace of Clubs
      Three of Diamonds
      Four of Spades
      Jack of Hearts
      Six of Diamonds

      You have nothing (0)
      IP address as a colour (0)

      Your IP address has scored: 1. This is ranked #26717 of the 28965 IP's spotted so far.

      Think your IP is more interesting than this score suggests? Tell us why
      Comments for this IP

    2. Re:What would happen by cra · · Score: 1

      It should be more interesting, simply because it is slashdot. The number one server killer.

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  50. All IP addresses are interesting by lildogie · · Score: 1
    Here's an old saw.

    (The _Devil's_DP_Dictionary_ states that this only serves to prove the converse, that all numbers are uninteresting.)

    1. Re:All IP addresses are interesting by Caspian · · Score: 1

      What's so interesting about a set of numbers having a least element? O_o

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  51. Re:Slashdotted... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It was pretty much fucked before it was posted on slashdot as it's been on digg (and other "social" sites) for a while today. Anyway my score was 0 when I checked earlier.

  52. Re:Slashdotted... by theparag0n · · Score: 0

    Welcome to alphabetical order.

  53. Cool! My IP was DUGG... by GecKo213 · · Score: 0

    Whatever that means... Slashdotted I understand, but I've never heard the term Dugg before for going down...

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    1. Re:Cool! My IP was DUGG... by bungeejumper · · Score: 1

      It's from the site www.digg.com, which also has a slashdot-like effect on websites.

  54. 42! by OneSeventeen · · Score: 1

    If it takes in the sever name, I should be high up there, I have a webserver named "Marvin" with an IP that ends in 42!

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    1. Re:42! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So.... what was the question?

  55. Who has 69.69.69.69? by BiggRanger · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now that would be a million dollar web page!

    1. Re:Who has 69.69.69.69? by leo_llew · · Score: 1

      nj-69-69-69-69.sta.sprint-hsd.net Administrative Contact: Domain Administrator (NIC-1533363) Sprint Communications Company L.P. MAILSTOP: KSOPHT0101-Z3380 6391 Sprint Parkway Overland Park KS 66251-3380 US domain.names@mail.sprint.com +1.8665052385 Fax- +1.8773880408

    2. Re:Who has 69.69.69.69? by caluml · · Score: 1
      Or even with formatting.
      OrgName: Sprint DSL Network
      OrgID: SDSL
      Address: 500 N New York Ave
      City: Winter Park
      StateProv: FL
      PostalCode: 32789
      Country: US

      NetRange: 69.68.0.0 - 69.69.255.255
      CIDR: 69.68.0.0/15
      NetName: SDSL-NET5-03
      NetHandle: NET-69-68-0-0-1
      Parent: NET-69-0-0-0-0
      NetType: Direct Allocation
      NameServer: DNS1.UTELFLA.COM
      NameServer: DNS2.UTELFLA.COM
      Comment:
      RegDate: 2003-08-05
      Updated: 2003-12-02
      Doesn't respond to ping though.
      I wonder who on Slashdot has the lowest publically accessible IP address.
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    3. Re:Who has 69.69.69.69? by WWWWolf · · Score: 1
      I wonder who on Slashdot has the lowest publically accessible IP address.

      Depends on how you define "lowest", but there's plenty of big organizations with small first IP address octet and a whole /8 (or many of them) to play with. 1.*.*.* and 2.*.*.* seem to be reserved, 3.*.*.* is General Electric, but the lowest ones I've personally seen messing around publicly in Wikipedia are Level 3 customers with IP addresses in 4.*.*.* range...

  56. oh noes! by rebug · · Score: 1

    My computer is broadcasting an IP address!

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    1. Re:oh noes! by Aadomm · · Score: 1

      Oh noes! Mine too! Someting must be done!

      (sound of footsteps retreating into the distance)

      *** Quits: Aadomm (No route to host)

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  57. Mine is the best: by Hosiah · · Score: 1
    It's got an ordered royal flush, it's prime, and the bitmap is a fire-breathing dragon, Japanese style. It can also be broken into three groups of digits, such that group z=group(x**2)*(group(y**2). It is also a sequence found naturally within the first thousand digits of pi.

    .

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    .

    . OK, I'm lying. The site's still Slashdotted. But really, what's the difference?

  58. Better than CSI:Miami! by dimer0 · · Score: 1

    ... last night, I noticed they tracked down a blog entry to an IP address that started with a number in the mid 300s.

  59. Naughty 69.241.25.13 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I did this earlier this morning when it was on Digg and the counter was only up to 299. I got bonus points for having a naughty number (69) and a prime number (13).

  60. Spoofed Slashdot's IP Address by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Just my luck, no sooner do I set up my system to spoof Slashdot's IP address then the dang site gets Slashdotted. Any thoughts on what rating the /. address would get?

  61. "Your computer is broadcasting your IP address" by adnonsense · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every time you connect to the Internet, send email or access a web site, you are broadcasting this unique address. With this address, someone can immediately begin attacking your computer. Aware of this, reputable software manufacturers such as Microsoft have taken steps to mitigate this issue by making it more difficult to access the internet. However there are still many sites which use deceptive techniques such as "rewards" of "interesting information" to persuade innocent surfers to reveal their IP address and thus open themselves up to "hacking" attacks.

    As a responsible Slashdotter I'd therefore like to proposed a new community-based "vigilante scheme" to tackle such sites. If everyone who is confident their IP address is invulnerable to hacks accesses this kind of site all at once, we can put them out of action and thus protect innocent web surfers with weaker or lower-quality IP addresses. We could call this action "Slashdotting".

  62. General Electric by PhraudulentOne · · Score: 1

    pwnz you!

    IP: 3.1.33.7

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  63. what about home by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    192.168.0.100 is all I see...

  64. Ahh.. Yes... Transform! by dep01 · · Score: 1

    The transformation from Slashdot to Digg is nearly complete!

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  65. Wouldn't this be a nice feature for ... by da.phreak · · Score: 1

    grokster.com ?

  66. Re:Proof that all counting numbers are interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    But the first uninteresting number would therefor be interesting because it has nothing interesting about it!

  67. Bah... by aj50 · · Score: 1

    My ISPs proxy scored more than I did :(

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  68. Apparently the creator doesn't play Poker? by f(x)+is+x · · Score: 1

    http://www.ipspotting.com/?IP=65.212.151.113 or http://ws3.dessol.com/?IP=219.95.244.199 Since when does a royal flush have a 3?

  69. Beat This!!!` by Deadlee · · Score: 1

    As a Poker Hand I got :- 3d,5c,6s,7h,9c (i.e. Nothing) Colour :- 0 (outlined in a crappy shade of blue) Bitmap :- No discernable image....couldn't even make a Rorschach Blot out of it! and was ranked as....??? Your IP address has scored: 0. This is ranked #5743 of the 5740 IP's spotted so far. Can anyone do worse? Deadlee

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    1. Re:Beat This!!!` by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Your IP address has scored: -1. This is ranked #7151 of the 7150 IP's spotted so far.

  70. 128.237.247.166 by Poleris · · Score: 1

    Wow, I got a -1 and am ranked last.

  71. Keep the slashdotting alive! by stinerman · · Score: 1

    They moved the script here.

    Don't let them try and escape us!!!

  72. Unaware of proxy... by pe1chl · · Score: 1

    Like so many "your IP address is..." pages it gives me the outgoing IP address of my provider's proxy server, even though that proxy inserts an "X-Forwarded-for" header.

  73. Lucky bastard. :-) by Richard+Steiner · · Score: 1

    This is what I see:

    57.250.242.249
    Your IP address has scored 0. This is ranked #5531 of the 5531 IPs spotted so far.

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  74. Re: it's now slashdotted ... by Ruphuz · · Score: 0

    It's the past form of the verb, I guess:

    To slashdot, slashdotted, slashdotted.

    To digg, dugg, dugg (like 'to dig, dug, dug').

    Quite correct to me.

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  75. Here's a better one! by hedge_death_shootout · · Score: 1

    How interesting is you credit card number and billing address?:

    www.cardfraud.com

  76. Another great fun game by LodCrappo · · Score: 1
    I would like to annouce the Super Magic Fun Rate Your Bank Account Number game.

    Please email me your complete checking account number and PIN, and I'll give you a really fun rating to compare how special your account was compared to all the other ones I've collected. Who knows, you could be the winner!!

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  77. Minus one, sinff, sniff. by Anonymous+Freak · · Score: 1

    Yup. I get +1 for being in the US (G8), and -2 for cheating and having the same card twice in the poker hand (Ace of Clubs.) Zero points in every other category.

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    The purpose of that site was not known.
  78. You get +5 for World Cup by lzmbr · · Score: 2, Informative

    The country this IP is from (Brazil) has won the World Cup 5 times (+5) heh.

  79. Geography isnt a strong point by ActionJesus · · Score: 1

    Your IP is [blah] which resolves to host: [moreblah].cable.ubr03.dund.blueyonder.co.uk.

    The country this IP is from (England) has won the World Cup 1 times (+1)

    Since when is dundee in england?

    (oblig note for all the non-brits: dundees in scotland)
    (oblig note for all the americans: scotlands not in england either)

  80. Not interesting? by Busy · · Score: 1

    It said mine wasn't interesting at first, but when I reloaded it gave me the breakdown/score. Must be related to the slashdotting.

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  81. Lowest! by penguinboy · · Score: 1

    Your IP address has scored: -1. This is ranked #14727 of the 14727 IP's spotted so far.



    I'm insulted!
    1. Re:Lowest! by kometes · · Score: 1

      Bah: Your IP address has scored: 0. This is ranked #19673 of the 19671 IP's spotted so far.

  82. Re:Proof that all counting numbers are interesting by Shano · · Score: 1

    This was actually set (although I'm not sure it counted towards the grade) on a 1st year maths tutorial sheet here. It was a vaguely silly question related to induction: prove that all natural numbers are interesting.

    As far as I'm aware, the lecturer wasn't drunk at the time, but was probably Scottish. Being in Scotland, many of them are.

  83. Hah! I win..... by Zen · · Score: 1

    Your IP address has scored: -1. This is ranked #15126 of the 15126 IP's spotted so far

    +1 for being part of the USA, and -2 for cheating at poker by having two identical cards in my hand, thus a net score of -1 making me currently listed as dead last.

    Go go gadget DSL address!

  84. Re:It's dead, jim. by crmartin · · Score: 1

    Um, you're dead too.

  85. Poker Hand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I don't know how the poker hand is computed, but here was mine:
    # Your IP address as a poker hand:
    Six of Diamonds
    King of Hearts
    Four of Diamonds
    King of Hearts
    King of Hearts

    You cheat! You have 3 identical cards! (-3)

    1. Re:Poker Hand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hi someone in the range of 151.200.252.240-243 :)

    2. Re:Poker hand by SolitaryMan · · Score: 1
      Anyone know how the bitmap or poker hand was calculated?

      The poker hand is like this:
      1. Last two bits are discarded.
      2. 30 bits are split into 5 groups 6 bits in each -- cards
      3. In each group, first two bits is the kind: 11 - hearts, 10 - diamonds, 01 - clubs, 00 - spades
      4. In each group, last 4 bits is the value, starting from ace (0000) and cycling.
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  86. Get Married in October! by TeamSPAM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since the site is /.'d, I can't see how my address ranks. For my home network, I use the private IPs from the 10 net. This allows me to have my wedding aniversary as the first 3 octets of the IP address.

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  87. Re: it's now slashdotted ... by Helios1182 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It happens all the time. See: http://diggvsdot.com/

  88. oblig by omahajim · · Score: 1

    In Korea, only old people's IP addresses are interesting.

  89. Upload an image ... humph! by taniwha · · Score: 1
    My image looks like a sexual act that's illegal in some countries and they want me to upload a picture that is similar .... I spy a US DoJ trap ...

    The +1 for living in the G8 is pretty bogus too (or is it a clue?)

  90. My IP adress is the worst in the world? by zz99 · · Score: 1

    Your IP is 212.32.155.xxx which resolves to host: xxx
    * 155 is the maximum break in snooker if you have a free ball (+1)
    * IP as a bitmap
    Which does not look much like anything. think it does? (0)
    * Your IP address as a poker hand:
    Six of Hearts
    Three of Spades
    Three of Spades
    Queen of Clubs
    Three of Hearts
    You cheat! You have 2 identical cards! (-2)
    * IP address as a colour (0)
    Your IP address has scored: -1.
    This is ranked #26180 of the 26179 IP's spotted so far.
    Someone please submit a lousier IP adress! :)

  91. I got a 29 can someone beat that by genner · · Score: 1

    Woo two pair for the poker hand , and my IP has a prime number in it.
    Total score 29!
    This is the kind of pointless victory that makes life worth living.

  92. Oh dear... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...I don't think Scots, even if they get an extra point for it, will be happy with "[t]he country this IP is from (England) has won the World Cup 1 times (+1)". Can anyone say "Faux Pas"?

  93. www.ccspotting.com, www.ssnspotting.com by gheidorn · · Score: 1

    Hmm ... how about a site where you send me your credit card number and I'll tell you if it's interesting or not? Or your SSN? It'll be fun and quirky!

  94. Next they'll fen shui the IP address by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Uh some needs something to do. Can some enterprising Chinese person create Fen Shiu my IP address(es)... hey! I am one so if I really have nothing to do I can create program to do that. Nothing to do... HA!

  95. That's actually funny. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Mod parent funny LOL

  96. Challenge! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    Dont't look at the bottom of this post - only the top!


    Calculate your hand from your IP (cards ..)


    Now, see if you beat my hand. But don't beat anything with yours.. :P



    ###

    ***

    @@@

    %%%

    &&&

    ///

    Ace of Hearts
    Six of Spades
    Ten of Hearts
    Ten of Spades
    Two of Spades - 2 pair (10's), Ace high

  97. wrong! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    oh yes, clearly brilliant..

    damn thing tells me I live in England, and that England have won the world cup once..

    Regarding the former, I live in Scotland, and, given that nearly 40 years later the English still won't bloody shut up about nineteen-sixty-fucking-six, I am perfectly aware that they have won the world cup once...

    In sum, yes, my IP address was right = 1 point for correct, 0 points for interesting (do you think I dont know my own bloody IP?)
    no, I'm not in England = 0 points, neither correct nor interesting..
    1 out of 4 means the site is 75% crap, I'm afraid..

  98. Loved it! Check out my by HishamMuhammad · · Score: 1

    The country this IP is from (Brazil) has won the World Cup 5 times (+5)

    This means by the end of the year, my IP score will be one point higher! ;-)

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  99. Level 3 DNS is best by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can't get much better than 4.2.2.2 for ease-of-remembering ...
    and you get a five PING Royal Flush (under 14ms for most ISPs)

  100. My obligatory score post -- ranked 24/35177 by pro-mpd · · Score: 1

    128.211.xxx.210

    Score: 43
    Your IP is 128.211.xxx.210 which resolves to host: pal-179-210.itap.purdue.edu.

    (okay, okay... it's a DHCP address... have fun h4xxing the next sucker who gets this address!!)

            * 211 is prime (+12)
            * xxx is prime (+10)
            * IP as a bitmap

                dotdotdotdotdotdot
                dotdotdotdotdotdot
                dotdotdotdotdotdot
                dotdotdotdotdotdot
                dotdotdotdotdotdot
                dotdotdotdotdotdot

                Which does not look much like anything. think it does?
                (0)
            * The country this IP is from (USA) is part of the G8 (+1)
            * Your IP address as a poker hand:
                Ace of Diamonds
                Two of Spades
                Three of Spades
                Four of Hearts
                Five of Hearts

                You have a straight (+20)
            * IP address as a colour (0)

    Your IP address has scored: 43. This is ranked #24 of the 35177 IP's spotted so far.

  101. Cry me a river! by sean.peters · · Score: 1
    Your IP address has scored: -1. This is ranked #36509 of the 36519 IP's spotted so far.

    As if that weren't lame enough, I also appear to be involved in a contest to see whose IP address is the lamest...

    ***shoots self***

  102. Re:Proof that all counting numbers are interesting by njh · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

  103. I got a 0! by SlightOverdose · · Score: 1

    Your IP address has scored: 0. This is ranked #39349 of the 39349 IP's spotted so far. Mmmm. I feel special.

  104. I'm crushed! by techno-vampire · · Score: 1

    My own IP has a score of ten; localhost (127.0.0.1) gets 12. *Sigh!*

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  105. Absolute 0 by DJBnJack · · Score: 1

    Your IP address has scored: 0. This is ranked #42125 of the 42122 IP's spotted so far. Even worse than last place...

  106. FYI - I Cracked the Poker Game by 2obvious4u · · Score: 1

    The poker game is done in binary as follows:

    These are the first two bits:
    [ 0 0 ] Spades
    [ 0 1 ] Clubs
    [ 1 0 ] Diamonds
    [ 1 1 ] Hearts

    Followed by four more bits for the card value:
    [ 0 0 0 0 ] ACE
    [ 0 0 0 1 ] 2
    [ 0 0 1 0 ] 3
    [ 0 0 1 1 ] 4
    [ 0 1 0 0 ] 5
    [ 0 1 0 1 ] 6
    [ 0 1 1 0 ] 7
    [ 0 1 1 1 ] 8
    [ 1 0 0 0 ] 9
    [ 1 0 0 1 ] 10
    [ 1 0 1 0 ] J
    [ 1 0 1 1 ] Q
    [ 1 1 0 0 ] K
    [ 1 1 0 1 ] 2
    [ . . . ] ...

    The final two bits are ignored, so ip address 0.0.0.0, 0.0.0.1, 0.0.0.2 and 0.0.0.3 all return 5 aces of spades.

    Anyway, Now you can find the IP's with the best hands.

    My next trick will be to make a smilely face in the bitmap.

    1. Re:FYI - I Cracked the Poker Game by belloc · · Score: 1

      And if you're morally opposed to having a poker hand with five aces of spades (or five of any single card rank, since they can't come from one deck of cards), here's one address that will give you a legitimate royal flush (this one happens to be in spades, and is in ascending order, from the ten of spades to the ace of spades):

      36.162.204.3

      Royal flushes in the other suits are left as exercises for the reader. ;)

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    2. Re:FYI - I Cracked the Poker Game by 2obvious4u · · Score: 1

      One fun thing I did after craking the poker game is to figure out how many prime numbers I could put in the IP address and still get a royal flush. Even with the Royal Flush I could get above a score of 64 for interesting IP's.

  107. Other Big Number Getters: by 2obvious4u · · Score: 1

    251 - the largest prime number and will get you 14 points.

    0.0.0.0 will give you +10 points for having the "Golden String" in other words having a Fibonacci sequence (181.181.173.173 - will also get a golden string - However 0.0.0.0 isn't really a fibonacci sequence is it?).

    Palindromes will also get you +10 points. (but it doesn't always recognize them.
    You can also get binary palindromes as well.

  108. Great by Koragnar · · Score: 1

    "Your IP address has scored: -2. This is ranked #47899 of the 47909 IP's spotted so far." should I feel lucky or pathetic? 2.? 3. PROF- oh fuck it, I just dont have the energy anymore.. damn ip adress.... sucking all the time...

  109. TOR by MrSnivvel · · Score: 1

    Heh. When I saw my IP address, I immediately thought, "WTF??? That ain't my IP." Then remembered, I'm running TOR on this box.

    TOR
  110. Just Great by quantaman · · Score: 1

    Your IP address has scored: -1. This is ranked #56112 of the 56122 IP's spotted so far.

    As if I'm not insecure enough already!!

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    I stole this Sig
  111. Thanks Comcast! by madstork2000 · · Score: 1

    Comcast just renumbered me a short while ago. Now my IP is Top 10 material. That made my day!

    -MS2K

  112. here's a cracker.. last place by Squigley · · Score: 1

    158.125.210.6

    Your IP address has scored: -1. This is ranked #57433 of the 57443 IP's spotted so far.

    strangely though..

    158.125.210.63

    Your IP address has scored: -2. This is ranked #57597 of the 57607 IP's spotted so far.

  113. G8? by ZigMonty · · Score: 1
    "The country this IP is from (USA) is part of the G8 (+1)"

    How the fuck is that interesting? Most of the internet population is from a G8 member! +1 should go to the guy on his C64 in Afghanistan.

  114. who go 59343-59352? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    'You cheat! You have 2 identical cards! (-2)'

    'Your IP address has scored: -1. This is ranked #59342 of the 59352 IP's spotted so far.'
    awww :( the silver lining is that 10 people have an ip address score less than -1 and i still have those people to laugh at while 59341 people can laugh at me

  115. How come... by meme_police · · Score: 1

    ...every address I've hit this from has scored a 7? Huh, huh?

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  116. Am I boring or waht? by Kadmos · · Score: 1

    Can it get any more exciting than this?

    Your IP address has scored: 0. This is ranked #61427 of the 61437 IP's spotted so far.

  117. This isn't fair.. by KeiichiMorisato · · Score: 0
    Just went on and this is what I got.

    This IP is ranked #63656 of the 63666 IP's

    Great!

  118. 10th lowest by DJ+Rubbie · · Score: 2, Funny

    I punched in the current IP address of my server... and...

    Your IP address has scored: -1. This is ranked #64524 of the 64534 IP's spotted so far.

    That hurt =/

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  119. Very interresting!!! by sebastinator · · Score: 0

    That's cool to see that there are some people to code some stuff like that. It's useless but it may gives a lot of fun to the good owners of good score for their Ip's... Thanks to you to provide me a lot of fun too! I'm in the average but i didn't get a good hand with my IP... Is anyone get a royal flush???? Thanks...

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  120. Would Ramanujan's number be more interesting? by aqk · · Score: 1

    Since everyone is discussing "interesting numbers" (and I say this subjectively)...

    Perhaps Ramanujans street address (1729) could have some play here?
    It's not exactly in IPV4 format, but maybe it could be fitted into an IPV6?

    -Tony (aqk) www.tonyking.tk

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    F U /. illiterates.
  121. Re:oops! Ramanujan's number - HARDY'S TAXICAB? by aqk · · Score: 1

    OOPS! Sorry! It's Hardy's TAXICAB number. I had to go and post from memory without first reading the whole wiki!
    Why doesnt /. have a correction/self-editing feature ?

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  122. Re:FYI - I Cracked the Bit Map too.... by 2obvious4u · · Score: 1

    The bit map is as follows:

    [ X][ 1][ 2][ 3][ 4][ X]
    [ 5][ 6][ 7][ 8][ 9][10]
    [11][12][13][14][15][16]
    [17][18][19][20][21][22]
    [23][24][25][26][27][28]
    [ X][29][30][31][32][ X]

    So for the smilely face I promised yesturday you would use the IP address: 4.146.2.31

    And yes I'm being a bad programmer.. I should have started counting from 0 instead of 1.

  123. Re:FYI - I Cracked the Bit Map too.... by 2obvious4u · · Score: 1

    This IP address (148.128.133.38) for a smilely face will show a graphic of a smilely and give you +50 points!