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  1. Re:Still sucks on Verizon Dropping Data Rates, But Current Customers Have To Call · · Score: 1

    It could have to do with the expense of putting towers up all over the place. France doesn't exactly have the wide open spaces we have in the US, or the high population density of US cities.

  2. Re:Coren22 = "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" on Twitter CEO: "We Suck" At Dealing With Trolls, Vows To Kick Them Out · · Score: 1

    Giving up on trying to explain the basics of the internet is not the same as losing.

    DNS servers don't use hosts files, you know why? They don't need to convert from a name to an IP, because they are already having a conversation with an IP.

    I have explained several times why what you said was wrong, you can continue to try and win the argument if you like, but you are wrong.

    If you want to have a civilized discussion about how name resolution works, perhaps you could try to stop posting attacks and constantly trying to "win" an argument.

    If I'm such a big talker, and all I do is talk, why did I post numerous links backing up what I say. I even tried to teach you, but I guess winning is too important. Have fun with your hosts file, I will continue actually working in the field.

  3. Re:Waste of money on Craters Pop As NASA's Dawn Probe Approaches Ceres · · Score: 2

    We already know Europe harbors life. Some of that life even posts on /.

  4. Re:Please no more freeze peach. on Twitter CEO: "We Suck" At Dealing With Trolls, Vows To Kick Them Out · · Score: 1

    I think the AC was a troll, not someone who holds the beliefs they are espousing.

    It is however difficult to tell the difference sometimes.

  5. Re:Please no more censorship. on Twitter CEO: "We Suck" At Dealing With Trolls, Vows To Kick Them Out · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I had a lot of fun the last couple of days poking holes in the cut and paste he uses, but it got kind of boring as he doesn't seem to understand how TCP/IP actually work.

    I like the poem though, good work.

  6. Re:Please no more censorship. on Twitter CEO: "We Suck" At Dealing With Trolls, Vows To Kick Them Out · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I am stunned at how well that was executed, and rather disturbed that there are people out there that would genuinely feel this way, as there seem to be.

  7. Re:Please no more censorship. on Twitter CEO: "We Suck" At Dealing With Trolls, Vows To Kick Them Out · · Score: 1

    Perhaps if Twitter could use some unique identifier to be able to block this person. I think I heard about these things called IP addresses once that might work, but I'm not sure.

    If instead of blocking accounts, they start blocking IPs, maybe the person will get the hint eventually.

  8. Re:Please no more censorship. on Twitter CEO: "We Suck" At Dealing With Trolls, Vows To Kick Them Out · · Score: 2

    Perhaps someone should create a filter that filters everyone using this filter as they are the pro censorship crowd rather than the pro stopping troll crowd.

    Disagreeing is not trolling.

    Also, if you have a problem with the behavior of the pro GG crowd, I have to ask, do you have a problem with the behavior of the anti GG crowd too? The anti GG crowd used the same tactics against the pro GG people that were used on them. Heck, the female developer at the center of the whole thing (I don't remember her name), doxxed people herself, and called up some guys work repeatedly to get him fired for the temerity to disagree with her.

  9. Re:Be careful how you define Troll on Twitter CEO: "We Suck" At Dealing With Trolls, Vows To Kick Them Out · · Score: 2

    So how would you handle the Gamergate thing? The female programmer was Doxed, I guess her Doxers should be banned, but she also Doxxed, Harassed, and even got one guy fired. Shouldn't she get a ban too?

  10. Re:Counterclockwise? on The Strangest Moon In the Solar System · · Score: 1

    Down is pretty consistent as it is always towards the center of gravity.

  11. Re:Oddly enough on Photosynthesizing Sea Slugs Steal Genes From Algae · · Score: 1

    I believe it is the mechanism they discovered, not that it happened.

  12. Re:Not stealing, stole. on Photosynthesizing Sea Slugs Steal Genes From Algae · · Score: 1

    It could turn you blue...never know.

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

  13. Re:All your base are belong to us on Photosynthesizing Sea Slugs Steal Genes From Algae · · Score: 1

    I can't wait till we can take a pill to do this!

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

  14. Re:Gimme FUD! on DOT Warns of Dystopian Future For Transportation · · Score: 1

    http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy...

    If you can find a newer version of this document, feel free to link it.

    It seems we are throwing more and more money into a pit here. What is wrong that we have doubled the amount of adjusted money we throw into DOT, but they still want more money, where is the money going? I would love to see a version of that table with modern numbers, as well as all the way back to the highway system being built.

    Now, ignorance is to keep throwing money at a problem that appears to not be a funding issue. Being a douchbag is what your comment is. Stop attacking people and address their comment. People who disagree with you are not automatically douchbags.

    Now, as far as I have seen in Maryland, pot holes get fixed every year, as they are generated every year by the salt, ice, snow and shovel trucks. I haven't seen any significant maintenance issues on the roads, the stuff just gets fixed as it does every year. Where is this money going? If the head of DOT is demanding more money, he needs to come up with where the money went he has gotten that keeps going up year on year.

  15. Re:How long before everybody does it? on New Chinese Regulations Require Real Name On Internet · · Score: 1

    Not likely, as this type of thing does happen, and has never been tried as terrorism. It would be destruction of property or possibly theft.

  16. Re:Fraudulent herbal supplements? on Major Retailers Accused of Selling Fraudulent Herbal Supplements · · Score: 1

    Except that Monsanto may be evil, but has never claimed that. They sued a guy who intentionally took crops along the line with his neighbor and killed all his own corn so only the GMO was left, then planted that seed. This wasn't contamination so much as intentional concentration of the GMO for profit. The GMO came from seed that spread too far from the seed planting of his neighbor.

  17. Re:FCC on New Chinese Regulations Require Real Name On Internet · · Score: 1

    Imagins all the SWATing increases when you have the person's real name rather than having to figure out who they are.

  18. Re:You're not supposed to ask that on Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? · · Score: 1

    I don't consider an advertisement for that crap to be malware. Are we gonna start calling Google Search malware because you might be directed to a malware site?

    Who installs apps from advertisements in apps anyways?

  19. Re:You're not supposed to ask that on Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the majority of Android users don't consider advertising as equivalent to malware?

  20. Re: You're not supposed to ask that on Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? · · Score: 1

    There is malware in the Apple garden too, it is just that the reality distortion field prevents people from seeing it.

    http://www.cnet.com/news/resea...
    http://www.zdnet.com/article/d...

    Granted, there has not been much of it, but according to the second link, they don't allow security software either (I stopped supporting Apple 3 years ago, so it could have changed though), so if something gets through the app store, or the browser, or however else, there is nothing out there to protect you.

  21. Re:National Cryptologic Museum was different on Alan Turing's Notes Found After Being Used As Insulation At Bletchley Park · · Score: 1

    Still the same. My dad took me there during a snow storm once when I was a kid. Having the curator to yourself is quite an experience as they really know their stuff.

    The three wheel enigma is still on display for kids to type away on. It amazingly still works.

    https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryp...

    Another neat one is the National Electronics Museum just up 295 off Nursery Rd

    http://www.nationalelectronics...

    They have displays on electronics concepts and quite a bit of old hardware used in radar, communications, satellites, whatever. Was great when the kids were younger, and still great as they are becoming teens.

    BTW, don't be put off by all the NSA security, the National Cryptologic Museum is easily accessible without going through the checkpoints (you turn left before the checkpoints to reach it). They also both have cool gift shops, at the NCM one, you can get NSA merchandise, as well as neat gadgets like a "spy tool" combo compass, binocs, mirror device and other kid kind of stuff.

  22. Re:Why different in America? on Ask Slashdot: Pros and Cons of Homeschooling? · · Score: 1

    You can feel free to read all about it, the stuff is available online. I tried to look for specific examples of what I dislike about it from assisting with homework, but was unable to find it in the few minutes I can dedicate to it.

    It seems like times tables were lost, and instead it is teaching kids hacks to do the math quickly. When they get older and get into more advanced math, it will slow them down as they will still end up trying to do

    20 x 30
    +
    6 x 3
    +
    20 x 3
    +
    6 x 30

    to get the answer to 26 x 33, rather than just knowing the answer from memorization.

    http://ictm.org/presenter%2F49...

    But yeah, I could just be quoting political FUD about the common core rather than having to deal with it doing homework with my own kids.

  23. Re:Coren22, serverside, what port is used? on Google, Amazon, Microsoft Reportedly Paid AdBlock Plus To Unblock · · Score: 1

    In DNS amplification attacks, party A sends packet to DNS server B which causes a huge amount (70x) traffic to flow to party C. The connection being DDoSed (party C, not server B) receives the traffic reguardless of how their name resolution is setup. This isn't server side, this is your connection being flooded. This has no effect on the DNS server as they have far better pipes than you do. This causes your router to be a smoking crater, hosts file or not.

    I am looking at this from a client perspective, the one who is getting DDoSed by a DNS amplification attack. You seem to be looking at it from the uninterested party perspective of person D, where it generally won't matter anyways as you will notice DNS being slow and switch to another one.

    I am not sure exactly what you mean by port, https://technet.microsoft.com/... the TCP sessions happen from source port 53 to any port. When doing a DNS amplification attack, the DNS server is being spoofed into sending massive amounts of traffic to a third party, these servers usually have very large connections as they are the lifeblood of the Internet, so they don't go offline during an attack, but the victim is the one that has issues due to DNS amplification, my 75Mbit connection won't hold up against 7Gbit of traffic from a DNS amplification attack

  24. Re:Why different in America? on Ask Slashdot: Pros and Cons of Homeschooling? · · Score: 1

    Terrible public schools. No ability to cause change in the program where it is really needed. Common Core.

  25. Re:Anarcho-capitalism out of control? on Novel Fluorinated Compounds Discovered In Firefighters' Blood · · Score: 1

    Wow, that last sentence was awful... so um

    s/either/