Re:We need a Slashdot Case Mod Topic
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I think a case mod topic might be overkill... I mean does it really matter what the case looks like? I only ever look at the monitor and occassionally the keyboard (when I spill coffee on it...). Case mods are something that has caught on with gamers who take their machines from LAN party to LAN party... (not like I've EVER taken one of my pc's to a LAN party:grin:)
It's a sad commentary that at 02:22 PST when I first saw the story, that that site was already slashdotted. Don't we have anything better to do in the middle of the night than harrass some poor guy that is probably hosting this off of his frame-relay connection...
At least I wish I had something better to do than browse/. at work...
You could block what looks like private network traffic, but this could be at the expense of legitimate traffic from misconfigured unix users. Most ISP's do not support unix as a rule.
Any user that is spoofing a private network ip is probably smart enough to spoof a legitimate source address and bypass whatever ACL is put in place.
Additionally, processing ACLs is costly to hardware resources and would increase ISP infrastructure costs significantly.
That most ISP's don't own all of their network. They purchase a majority of their dialup network access from outside providers like UUNet, Gridnet, Level3, etc. These providers can be prone to changing ip addresses frequently.
Additionally most ISP's want their resources to be widely available. If you can't get your mail from both home and work because the ISP blocks access from your work ip address (on a frame-relay or dsl connection) you will most likely not want to continue doing business with that ISP.
Most routers do have ACL's that limit telnet access to certain ip's or subnets. Only a poorly configured router would allow telnet access to the router from any ip address.
I lucked out when I was in high school. I was in an accelerated program that was like its own school on the high school campus. We had our own administration and counselors. Every class I took was with people in the same range of intelligence and desire to learn as me. Still, we had some contact with the "regular" students. Those of us that participated in a sport were targeted by the jocks as nerds and by the nerds as jocks... but it was still better to be a jock among the nerds than a nerd among the jocks. My friends were all computer nerds, geeks and hackers.
High School should be a place where you learn to think freely and independently. We should not be teaching conformity and how to follow along with the herd. It is not our sameness that makes our society great, it is our differences
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I think a case mod topic might be overkill... I mean does it really matter what the case looks like? I only ever look at the monitor and occassionally the keyboard (when I spill coffee on it...). Case mods are something that has caught on with gamers who take their machines from LAN party to LAN party... (not like I've EVER taken one of my pc's to a LAN party :grin:)
-josh
It's a sad commentary that at 02:22 PST when I first saw the story, that that site was already slashdotted. Don't we have anything better to do in the middle of the night than harrass some poor guy that is probably hosting this off of his frame-relay connection...
/. at work...
At least I wish I had something better to do than browse
You could block what looks like private network traffic, but this could be at the expense of legitimate traffic from misconfigured unix users. Most ISP's do not support unix as a rule.
Any user that is spoofing a private network ip is probably smart enough to spoof a legitimate source address and bypass whatever ACL is put in place.
Additionally, processing ACLs is costly to hardware resources and would increase ISP infrastructure costs significantly.
I am not advocating pulling the plug on anyone...
That most ISP's don't own all of their network. They purchase a majority of their dialup network access from outside providers like UUNet, Gridnet, Level3, etc. These providers can be prone to changing ip addresses frequently.
Additionally most ISP's want their resources to be widely available. If you can't get your mail from both home and work because the ISP blocks access from your work ip address (on a frame-relay or dsl connection) you will most likely not want to continue doing business with that ISP.
Most routers do have ACL's that limit telnet access to certain ip's or subnets. Only a poorly configured router would allow telnet access to the router from any ip address.
-josh
I lucked out when I was in high school. I was in an accelerated program that was like its own school on the high school campus. We had our own administration and counselors. Every class I took was with people in the same range of intelligence and desire to learn as me. Still, we had some contact with the "regular" students. Those of us that participated in a sport were targeted by the jocks as nerds and by the nerds as jocks... but it was still better to be a jock among the nerds than a nerd among the jocks. My friends were all computer nerds, geeks and hackers.
High School should be a place where you learn to think freely and independently. We should not be teaching conformity and how to follow along with the herd. It is not our sameness that makes our society great, it is our differences