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How Interesting is Your IP Address?
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!
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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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It happens all the time. See: http://diggvsdot.com/