One of the things that Iran wants is Israel destroyed. Do you really want to give Iran what it wants, as this is why it has a nuclear program to begin with?
No, hosts files to not prevent DNS amplification attacks. These attacks do not depend whatsoever on the configuration of your computer. These attacks are performed from outside your network. Here's how it works:
1. I send a packet to a DNS server on the internet, lets say 8.8.8.8, this packet requests a large amount of data, like a request for the whole DNS database. This packet also has spoofed your address as the requesting address. 2. You receive large amount of data. 3. You have just been taken off the Internet due to repeated use of this attack. Congratulations, your hosts file is now useless as you have been DDOSed, and if you are lucky, your Internet router hasn't fried from the overload.
This is not a benefit of hosts files. Take it off your list. DNS amplification attacks are not attacks against a DNS server, they are DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service in case you didn't know) against an internet connection. Your hosts file will be utterly useless when your ISP is receiving 7 Gbit of traffic destined for you, not many people have that kind of connection.
If you aren't a security professional, don't act like you know what you are talking about, as it makes you look very foolish. If you are a security professional, read up on this stuff, as it could save your career.
DNS amplification attacks were recently replaced by NTP amplification attacks. These attacks can take down even large ISPs. Your hosts file won't help you there either. Recent NTP amplification attacks can and have pushed more than 100Gbit of traffic using just a few NTP servers.
You should probably remove that from your list of things hosts files do, a host file cannot block traffic originating on the internet, only your own name resolution traffic. If you would like to test it out, I am sure the Lizard Squad would be more than willing to test it for you.
That would set off the weight balance of the football and could make throwing or kicking it different. I am sure someone could come up with something though...
By chance can you post the profile? I tried to learn Tasker, but haven't quite grasped it yet. I attempted to make a profile that said:
When bluetooth device (car media) connects: Turn off WiFi Turn up Volume . . .
But I could never find the first step in the selection criteria, most likely I just didn't look into it enough. I really miss the Smart Actions I had on the Moto Razr M, I wish it had been ported into Android stock as it was damn useful and easy to use.
Silly, arrogant oversimplication, maybe. Correct, yes. This mosquito is an invasive species, therefore it already upset the equilibrium. Removing the species should reset it to where it was if it didn't already cause an extinction.
I don't know that you could call anyone in Chinese government truely socialist anymore. The only socialist programs I can think about is the big projects they do, and their central planning (power, infrastructure....).
I will take a look, but is this the autoplay issue or the one song repeat issue, or the volume warning issue?:)
It looks like in Pandora, there is a setting that allows it to be the autostart, and it is checked, I will take a look to say if Play has the same setting so I can turn it off.
I have to say, that posting looks totally legit. The wolf fits in really well with the whole myspace layout in use, oh, and animated GIFs used as line separators...
Though the mouse itself is a pretty cool idea, that posting itself would turn me off ever bidding on it.
Out of curiosity, could you pass this message along to whoever maintains the correct section of code?
When listening to music over bluetooth (my car stereo, not bluetooth headphones), I have to max out the volume every time or it is too quiet and the stereo has to be cranked instead. Defaulting to 80% volume (most every Android I have touched does this), then bitching about hearing loss when I try to turn up the volume makes no sense unless someone is using plugged in headphones. If it would default to 100% when using internal speakers and bluetooth devices named "Car Media", or stop with the stupid popup about hearing damage, it would be a really good thing.
Also, do you have any idea how to get Google Play Music to randomize through songs rather than repeating the same song over and over and over? It is silly that when my phone connects to my car, it autostarts Play Music, which then always plays the same song, on repeat. I have to pick up my phone, unlock it, start Pandora, relock, and put the phone down. This happens every time I get in my car, and often it is annoying enough to get the phone out of my pocket, I get out of the car to do so.
Some of the behaviors of Google's software just seem rather silly, they don't match actual usage. For instance, a couple updates ago, in Navigation, you would start the app, click navigate to, select destination and off you go, the two most recent version instead require somewhere around 10 clicks, and 5 minutes to get it to start navigating. As this is an application I am sure many people use when driving, adding additional steps to start navigation is just asking for someone to get in an accident (not everyone pulls over to restart the GPS when it crashes mid trip, though I do).
Just some pet peeves, overall I love Android and am on my 4th phone. I bought both my kids Android phones, and they are both on their second phones. This isn't an overall criticism of Android, but little details that bug me every single day.
The government always grows. It just grows in different areas under each side of the political coin.
The budget tends to shrink under Repubs, and grow under the Dems, this is for various reasons, but mostly the Dems saying they have to take from the rich and give to the poor causes larger tax income and corresponding larger outlays. The Repubs tend to try to reduce budget and taxes, causing smaller government overall, usually at the expense of social programs which they feel is an unfair redistribution of wealth.
Many people shooting for an informative post. I was asking a rhetorical question, I know exactly how far as I have family up there, the point I was making however was that it seems as though the New Yorkers making the big deal about the storm missing them must not realize how very close the storm was, and that the Mayor probably saved many lives on Long Island (including Queens and Brooklyn) that did get significant snowfall.
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One of the things that Iran wants is Israel destroyed. Do you really want to give Iran what it wants, as this is why it has a nuclear program to begin with?
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7.) Protect vs. DNS amplification attacks
No, hosts files to not prevent DNS amplification attacks. These attacks do not depend whatsoever on the configuration of your computer. These attacks are performed from outside your network. Here's how it works:
1. I send a packet to a DNS server on the internet, lets say 8.8.8.8, this packet requests a large amount of data, like a request for the whole DNS database. This packet also has spoofed your address as the requesting address.
2. You receive large amount of data.
3. You have just been taken off the Internet due to repeated use of this attack. Congratulations, your hosts file is now useless as you have been DDOSed, and if you are lucky, your Internet router hasn't fried from the overload.
This is not a benefit of hosts files. Take it off your list. DNS amplification attacks are not attacks against a DNS server, they are DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service in case you didn't know) against an internet connection. Your hosts file will be utterly useless when your ISP is receiving 7 Gbit of traffic destined for you, not many people have that kind of connection.
More information:
http://www.watchguard.com/info...
If you aren't a security professional, don't act like you know what you are talking about, as it makes you look very foolish. If you are a security professional, read up on this stuff, as it could save your career.
DNS amplification attacks were recently replaced by NTP amplification attacks. These attacks can take down even large ISPs. Your hosts file won't help you there either. Recent NTP amplification attacks can and have pushed more than 100Gbit of traffic using just a few NTP servers.
http://www.darkreading.com/att...?
But CCP makes Eve Online, they couldn't possibly be evil.
As omnichad indicated, hosts files will not help you prevent DNS amplification attacks as the requests are not coming from your network.
https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/a...
You should probably remove that from your list of things hosts files do, a host file cannot block traffic originating on the internet, only your own name resolution traffic. If you would like to test it out, I am sure the Lizard Squad would be more than willing to test it for you.
If you post on hosts where they apply, why are you posting about hosts on a telomere article? Who is offtopic?
AC won't be happy until we ship the power down from the moon.
That would set off the weight balance of the football and could make throwing or kicking it different. I am sure someone could come up with something though...
Funny, cause neither of those made any sense to say I couldn't prove him wrong. Heck, the second link I wasn't even in.
Why do you think I am trying to prove anything?
Also, you seem to not understand what a sockpuppet is. If you believe I am a sockpuppet, what is my main account?
Reusable orbital entry vehicles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
http://www.gizmag.com/otv-3-x-...
Yeah, they're doing it.
By chance can you post the profile? I tried to learn Tasker, but haven't quite grasped it yet. I attempted to make a profile that said:
When bluetooth device (car media) connects:
Turn off WiFi
Turn up Volume
.
.
.
But I could never find the first step in the selection criteria, most likely I just didn't look into it enough. I really miss the Smart Actions I had on the Moto Razr M, I wish it had been ported into Android stock as it was damn useful and easy to use.
Silly, arrogant oversimplication, maybe. Correct, yes. This mosquito is an invasive species, therefore it already upset the equilibrium. Removing the species should reset it to where it was if it didn't already cause an extinction.
I don't know that you could call anyone in Chinese government truely socialist anymore. The only socialist programs I can think about is the big projects they do, and their central planning (power, infrastructure....).
I will take a look, but is this the autoplay issue or the one song repeat issue, or the volume warning issue? :)
It looks like in Pandora, there is a setting that allows it to be the autostart, and it is checked, I will take a look to say if Play has the same setting so I can turn it off.
Brand new sock puppet? I think you have poor estimating skills as my account is around 5 years old.
Yeah, and when you get a SD card with the silk screening saying 64GB while the card just writes 1MB over and over....
I have to say, that posting looks totally legit. The wolf fits in really well with the whole myspace layout in use, oh, and animated GIFs used as line separators...
Though the mouse itself is a pretty cool idea, that posting itself would turn me off ever bidding on it.
I'm a sockpuppet? That is interesting. Who am I a sockpuppet for?
Out of curiosity, could you pass this message along to whoever maintains the correct section of code?
When listening to music over bluetooth (my car stereo, not bluetooth headphones), I have to max out the volume every time or it is too quiet and the stereo has to be cranked instead. Defaulting to 80% volume (most every Android I have touched does this), then bitching about hearing loss when I try to turn up the volume makes no sense unless someone is using plugged in headphones. If it would default to 100% when using internal speakers and bluetooth devices named "Car Media", or stop with the stupid popup about hearing damage, it would be a really good thing.
Also, do you have any idea how to get Google Play Music to randomize through songs rather than repeating the same song over and over and over? It is silly that when my phone connects to my car, it autostarts Play Music, which then always plays the same song, on repeat. I have to pick up my phone, unlock it, start Pandora, relock, and put the phone down. This happens every time I get in my car, and often it is annoying enough to get the phone out of my pocket, I get out of the car to do so.
Some of the behaviors of Google's software just seem rather silly, they don't match actual usage. For instance, a couple updates ago, in Navigation, you would start the app, click navigate to, select destination and off you go, the two most recent version instead require somewhere around 10 clicks, and 5 minutes to get it to start navigating. As this is an application I am sure many people use when driving, adding additional steps to start navigation is just asking for someone to get in an accident (not everyone pulls over to restart the GPS when it crashes mid trip, though I do).
Just some pet peeves, overall I love Android and am on my 4th phone. I bought both my kids Android phones, and they are both on their second phones. This isn't an overall criticism of Android, but little details that bug me every single day.
My guess is that the parent is taking a jab at IE, not Chrome.
Maybe that will be when they sell lead sintering printers.
That couldn't possibly be a real APK post, it was entirely too short, and didn't have enough random Bold CAPSLOCK text.
Maybe that was the meaning behind the title, s/he was stating that the following comment was dumb.
I have 75/75 from FiOS in the suburbs of Baltimore, and ONLY pay $90/mo for it.
The government always grows. It just grows in different areas under each side of the political coin.
The budget tends to shrink under Repubs, and grow under the Dems, this is for various reasons, but mostly the Dems saying they have to take from the rich and give to the poor causes larger tax income and corresponding larger outlays. The Repubs tend to try to reduce budget and taxes, causing smaller government overall, usually at the expense of social programs which they feel is an unfair redistribution of wealth.
Many people shooting for an informative post. I was asking a rhetorical question, I know exactly how far as I have family up there, the point I was making however was that it seems as though the New Yorkers making the big deal about the storm missing them must not realize how very close the storm was, and that the Mayor probably saved many lives on Long Island (including Queens and Brooklyn) that did get significant snowfall.