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New Denial-of-Service Attack Is a Killer
ancientribe writes "Hacker RSnake blogs about a newly discovered and deadly denial-of-service attack that could well be the next big threat to the Internet as a whole. It goes after a broadband Internet connection and KOs machines on the other end such that they stay offline even after the attack is over. It spans various systems, too: the pair of Swedish researchers who found it have already contacted firewall, operating system, and Web-enabled device vendors whose products are vulnerable to this attack." Listen to the interview (MP3) — English starts a few minutes in — and you might find yourself convinced that we have a problem. The researchers claim that they have been able to take down every system with a TCP/IP stack that they have attempted; and they know of no fix or workaround.
Yep, I get the 5 minute restriction all the time, especially when I am actively reading and posting. I agree it sucks. I also am a fast typist and get the "you must wait X seconds between hitting reply and posting" all the time. Presumably those restrictions are forcing me to be more thoughtful about my responses, and thus clutter the threads less with offtopic, trollish or redundant posts.
I want numerical karma back too.
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It's always been two minutes for me, which I find infuriating. If it were five minutes, I'd probably quit /. altogether.
It _should_ be 15 seconds between hitting "Reply" and "Submit" and one minute between comments. Some people can think and type quickly. But don't complain because /. is the way it is and it's not changing.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Yeah, it would be nice if nobody crapflooded /. ever, so they didn't have to come up with such restrictions...
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