Google on pig monkey cork and you'll find many versions. None come close to the true and awful tale, of course. There was a cover-up, in the end, and the government was behind it.
Oh, forgot to mention that I've seen individual Bit Torrent clients keep trying for over 18 hours. (No response, refusal on the port, "FOAD!" respose, etc.) I'm not sure what their upper limit is because I switch the machine off when I go to sleep.
I'm not sure that clients with stale lists are the main problem. On Monday I got bombarded by people (Gnutella-based)looking for bits of Dawn of the Dead (2004), and individual clients would give up after a while (especially when I gave them 404 responses), but others kept arriving. I think whatever layer of the net that keeps the list of who has what doesn't get any feedback from the clients that tried and failed, so it keeps passing stale IPs to new clients searching.
It's certainly not exactly a critical problem -- yet. However when you have a huge number of machines running clients and protocols that have (in many cases) been jury-rigged up from previous versions, misdirecting even a tiny part of the claimed 35% of Internet traffic (for BitTorrent alone) could cause havoc. Eventually someone is going to attempt to cause that havoc by inserting bogus information into P2P networks.
If you can, could you make your client quicker to timeout on trying a particular IP address when they disconnect and DHCP reassigns the IP to someone else? (P2P software for all protocol is awful in that respect.)
It's a little annoying to have swarms of people try for days afterwards. I almost feel like writing a program to answer and provide a fuxor response to them.
The nice part is that you can check biometric data without exposing the actual data outside the card. For example, you plug the card into a fingerprint reader and the reader gives the print data to the card. The card compares it to the stored data, and if it's a close-enough match, says OK and unlocks access to other data.
If it wasn't "smart", an outside system would have to have access to the real data to compare against the finger or password attempt.
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Actually they tried zapping it with their electric death rays.
What? That could make him go blind. Get the poor thing some good quality anti-freeze!
With Tom Cruise, they could just ID him with an Elron-Meter.
Google on pig monkey cork and you'll find many versions. None come close to the true and awful tale, of course. There was a cover-up, in the end, and the government was behind it.
Obviously that kid with his lemon-aid stand web site was a tougher fight than they expected.
US Patent No. 6,460,020 and I swear this was covered in Slashdot before. (2002 is a little long to shout Dupe! however.)
"I'll never forget the look on that poor monkey's face as it tried to put that cork back in." (from that pig joke)
Oh, forgot to mention that I've seen individual Bit Torrent clients keep trying for over 18 hours. (No response, refusal on the port, "FOAD!" respose, etc.) I'm not sure what their upper limit is because I switch the machine off when I go to sleep.
It's certainly not exactly a critical problem -- yet. However when you have a huge number of machines running clients and protocols that have (in many cases) been jury-rigged up from previous versions, misdirecting even a tiny part of the claimed 35% of Internet traffic (for BitTorrent alone) could cause havoc. Eventually someone is going to attempt to cause that havoc by inserting bogus information into P2P networks.
"Always two there are, a Master and an apprentice.".
It's a little annoying to have swarms of people try for days afterwards. I almost feel like writing a program to answer and provide a fuxor response to them.
They were supposed to get a lot of money from a licensing agreement with Roman Inc, but they got burned on the deal.
Getting rediculous?
True, but at least it's not as messy as cutting off the finger or eyeball on a stick...
We get signal. It says "Woof woof woof!" We think Timmy's fallen down a Martian well.
Call me Mr. Silly, but wouldn't be easier just to drop all TCP port 80 SYN packets going into China?
I do it with VB to SQL Server on IIS. uh. Massively Microsoft Online Gaming, right...?
I figured it was Captain Archer's dog on Enterprise.
Since some of the phishing sites are in China, that could get interesting.
"George Lucas is your re-master now, he will show you the true meaning of the edit."
When you creamated Sam McGee, was it coffee cream, half-n-half or whipping cream? :)
Great. Rule by Geek. We'd probably end up with an overclocked Guillotine.
ITYM nano-technology stem-cell for fighting terrorists.
If it wasn't "smart", an outside system would have to have access to the real data to compare against the finger or password attempt.
Looks .. card-sized!