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IPv6 Flaw Could Greatly Amplify DDoS Attacks
tygerstripes writes "The Register has a story about the discovery of a flaw in part of the IPv6 specification which has experts scrambling to have the feature removed, or at least disabled by default. From the article: 'The specification, known as the Type 0 Routing Header (RH0), allows computers to tell IPv6 routers to send data by a specific route. Originally envisioned as a way to let mobile users to retain a single IP for their devices... RH0 support allows attackers to amplify denial-of-service attacks on IPv6 infrastructure by a factor of at least 80.' Paul Vixie, president of the Internet Systems Consortium, described the fault bluntly. 'It can be exploited by any greedy Estonian teenager with a $300 Linux machine.'"
Spoken like a true American.
There's a world out there! Get to know it!
Well, Mr Globalist Hotshot:
Do you know where, say, the Yakima reservation is? Or the Washoe? Or the Blackfoot? Or the Navajo? Or any of more than a couple hundred others, owned and occupied by a nearly-as-large number of recognized tribes? (And that's just within the lower 48 states...)
Those tribes are all sovereign nations, with their own laws, and (depending on treaty terms) usually with their own law enforcement and sometimes with their own armies. (The Iroquois Confederacy, for instance, separately declared war on Germany during WW I - and jumped right into WW II because they'd never signed a peace treaty to end it.)
Until you are able to recite the names and locations of the North American tribes you have nothing to snoot about when some Americans don't concern themselves with the names and locations of all of yours.
Then only reason many of yours rate as "important" to us is your multi-century track record of getting into tribal warfare and then sucking us in to bail you out. You've been making such wars for millennia. Much of the current population of the US are descendants of people who came here to get AWAY from all that - and figure out how to live together in peace without tyrannical rulers and enforced, draconian, social homogenization.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
I have found an extremely high correlation between people who think Americans don't have a grasp of geography and people who don't know a damned thing about geography outside their own continent.
So, I'd like to ask you a question. Lately I've been thinking about making a quick geography quiz, so that when someone says something like this, I could ask them to take it. I haven't made that quiz; you're safe. Still, I write video games for a living, so I know how to make such a thing fun, and I certainly wouldn't make it easy. Furthermore, I would go to my best effort to make sure it wasn't biassed towards one or another continent to prevent after-the-fail crying of unfairness, though I'm sure whichever continent scored most poorly would insist I'd failed.
My question to you is this. Please answer it honestly, because I'm going to ask several people in similar situations to yours, and use that to determine whether to spend the time making the test.
If someone gave you that test after you said something like "omg no American can find China on a map with both hands and a tutor," and the test was written in such a way that you knew, up front, that you could not hide the score you received if you took it, would you take it?
By the way, if you say yes, I'll have that test ready for you before this story's off the front page, so please consider your answer carefully.
The reason I ask: Indeed, I did make one such test on (ahem) some dating site I'm on, and I took the time to write down scores according to what country they came from (it's a dating site, so it's easy to tell what city they're in.)
I see a bigger variance between different parts of the US than I see between the US and various other first world nations (oddly, Spain is doing very poorly, but then I only have a few Spanish samples, so it's probably just because of the poor data set.) Unsurprisingly, Americans do better at their own continent. So do Europeans. So do Asians. I only have one response from Africa, but she scored excellently - far above the average for any nation in the list, though I expect that's more about the person than anything.
What I do see is a clear correlation between score and age. However, I see something else. Almost every phobe - xenophobe, homophobe, oligophobe, theophobe, whatever - scores significantly poorer than the average. If the word Aryan is in the nick and isn't a first name, the average score is a hair over 30% lower. If the word Nazi is there, nearly 38%. KKK, 27%. Gang members are around 20-25% down, depending as far as I can tell primarily on the age at which they entered the gang.
People who say things like "dumb Americans" and "dumb Europeans," on the other hand, have an average score nearly 43% lower than the norm. Indeed, it appears that xenophobes are, at least at this dating site in my small sample, dumber than any other branch of humanity. (There seems to be an exception with "dumb Canadians," where people who say that are actually smarter than the average, but none of them are being serious; I think it's just that smart people who like to make hate jokes know Canada's essentially the safest possible target. Still, that's guesswork, and it might be a legitimate exception.)
So, really. If I make this test for you, and ask you to take it, will you, without cheating? Nobody would be able to compare you to Americans, since you'd be the first person to take the test, so there would be no embarrassment for a poor score (like I said, it wouldn't be easy.) However, since you seem to be so certain that all us Yanks are clueless buffoons, you would have the ability to look back in a month, and find out whether your stereotype actually held merit.
He said "raise your hand if you know where that is" because Estonia is three steps behind the ass
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