It was merely a poke at the average clue-level of college graduates and the assumption that if you are a college graduate that you must be a smart person.
"Kuro5hin and Slashdot have traditionally been enimies"
This is the largest fallacy you could purvey to the readers of this forum. This is entirely untrue. The phrasing of your statement implies that Slashdot (the company & the group of people that run it) somehow dislike Kuro5hin. This, among many other conspiracy-theory rumours, has been propogating throughout Slashdot for quite a while. However, it's been smacked down repeatedly by Slashdot authors and posters alike.
"it's time for Slashdot to take the lead again"
Your argument that Slashdot should implement a drastic change simply because it needs to "take the lead" is ludicrous. You don't make change for the sake of making change. You don't change things because there's a "new, more shiny feature" available.. you change it if that shiny feature is inherently better than the "old way." I think it's safe to say that Rob's perfectly pleased with the "old way," as are many Slashdot readers (myself included).
"Now it's time for Slashdot to provide a community post board."
I don't want another level of meta-discussion. I don't want to have to moderate the articles posted and I don't trust the average Slashdot reader with the responsibility of moderating article submissions. I trust Rob and the general direction he provides to his staff to give us a high level of interesting content on the web site. Note that I'm not addressing accuracy or timeliness of article postings.. because I don't think these issues are as unmanaged as some poeple would like you to think they are. I read about 10x the number of articles linked from Slashdot than I do on the average news site (e.g. CNN.com). Why does this matter? Because, even if an article is a hoax (like SETI PCI cards), it's often is interesting to read. And if you think that the level of hoax-ish articles or "this isn't news for nerds" articles will decrease by implementing this open submission queue, please allow me to go get you a clean needle. The only reason Kuro5hin was remotely handleable was because it hadn't become large enough to attract the troops of fools that Slashdot had gathered.
The level of clue on Slashdot has dropped exponentially for the last several months (at least). I don't care about all the morons who post on Slashdot. I can ignore them even when browsing at -1.
But, I don't want them picking the stories I read.
Ummm.. pardon my ignorance, but what the hell do people who buy lots of hamsters/gerbils do with them aside from feed them to their pets? That is, what is the seemingly obvious unethical usage of said animals that everyone is making innuendos to?
Well, sure, but I think the poster's point was that if someone merely had to develop a system that triangulated positions of objects based on radiation being emitted by this cold plasma (albeit it on a different frequency than radar), it probably wouldn't be a huge obstacle.
Your second guess was correct: static routes (with a default metric) are always favored over dynamic routes. Routes to directly connected devices are assigned a metric of 0, and static routes have a metric of 1. Dynamic routes start in the double-digits.
Routes learned through RIP have a metric of 110 (iirc). So, if you wanted to configure a secondary route statically, you would assign it an administrative distance of 200 (or something), so that if the route learned through RIP failed, it would fall back on the static route. This is a frequent way of using of static routes for Dial-on Demand Routing (DDR) where you can't run a routing protocol across a link (since it's usually not up), so you have to define the routes statically, but don't want them to be the default (yes, this sentence has two predicates, but that's okay).
I completely agree: null routes are the easiest way to ensure that you don't allow RFC 1918 ingress or egress traffic. Here's the key paragraph from the RFC:
Because private addresses have no global meaning, routing information about private networks shall not be propagated on inter-enterprise links, and packets with private source or destination addresses should not be forwarded across such links. Routers in networks not using private address space, especially those of Internet service providers, are expected to be configured to reject (filter out) routing information about private networks.
However, your subnet mask (as is the correction you posted) is goofy, although it makes a nice wildcard mask. Let's give the Cisco kids out there some useful syntax that they can cut-and-paste into their routers (as long as they're in privileged exec/enable mode):
ip route 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 null0 ip route 127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 null0 ip route 172.16.0.0 255.240.0.0 null0 ip route 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0 null0
Usage: For the prevention and treatment of the nausea, vomiting or dizziness associated with motion sickness.
Description: Dramamine Original Formula. Fast-acting Dramamine Original Formula is the most recommended motion sickness medicine ever. It quickly and effectively treats and prevents motion sickness regardless of the cause. Whether on land, sea, or in the air, you can count on Dramamine. Plus Dramamine Original Formula is safe for children, and contains the only medication approved for children aged 2-12. Dramamine. It takes the motion sickness out of travel.
Wow! Only $3.73 + S&H for those puppies.
On a more twisted note, this site is devoted to the hallucinogenic/deliriant drugs contained in over-the-counter motion sickness pills. And, of course, The Dramamine FAQ. Here's the only thing you need to know, though from the site:
"For most people, a dose of 8-12 tablets is about right."
(Just kidding.. I don't wanna hear about CmdrTaco OD'ing on motion-sickness tablets).
You said, "why not use intelligent filtering?". Umm.. in the future, please be more vague.
Like it or not, the RBL does a good job of stopping spam. The obvious problem is with how much other traffic it stops. So, "better" is pretty relative. It's a sliding bar -- do you want very very little spam to get through and also block lots of legitimate traffic or do you want some spam to get through and only block a little legitimate traffic, etc.
Anyhow, the discussion is not about whether the RBL is good or bad. I happen to think that it's got some rather fundamental flaws, but that's neither here nor there. The fact of the matter is that the RBL is, in every way, legal.
The Internet providers are the parties that are choosing what action to take based on what addresses are on the list. As long as you agree that the people that run the network own the network (they do), then it's obvious that those same folks have the right to say "no, I don't want my users to receive e-mail from these people."
Now, most of the reactions to this line of thinking are something like, "but the network admins shouldn't be able to control my e-mail, dammit!" -- this merely stems back to my original point: it's not about what you think is good or bad; it's about what is legal. These providers are well within their rights to make that choice. So, it follows that MAPS is doing nothing wrong, merely by publishing a list of potential offenders and letting people do what they will with it.
Dissecting the situation down to, "you are depriving your users of their freedom of choice!" is bordering in ignorance (or maybe just a severe case of over-simplification).
Why are we interviewing some kid who found a really lame hole in security software? That'd be like interviewing every individual that posts to BUGTRAQ with mind-numbing questions like, "Oh, so how'd you find the bug?" and "How many people did you tell?".. this is really contentless. Is this Slashdot editor new?
"Different CD drives, different sound cards, etc, will make small differences."
This is not true. Unless you're capturing the analog output of your CD-ROM through your sound card (go shoot yourself in the head), you're using digital audio extraction to read the bytes from the audio CD-ROM and encode those. What will change the signature of the audio file is the codec used (Fraunhoffer, Radium, etc.) along with the bitrate (128k, 160k, etc.) and sampling rate (44khz, 22khz, etc.). But, given that tons of Napster-folk use Fraunhoffer at 44khz/128k, it's safe to say that the vast majority of the duplicate tracks out there are going to have the same checksum. So, it's still pretty useful, but your point is taken with regard to it not being quite as simple as the originator of the idea had thought it was.
On your second point, I don't really see how any entity could say, "I own the rights to a stream of data with this md5 checksum; stop distributing it." That's only one step better than saying, "If the filename start with 'Metallica -' then it must be pirated music!"
Speak these words: "Steganography equals security by obscurity."
[Inflict one wound to torsoe with hammer]
Speak these words: "Security by obscurity is bad."
[Inflict one wound to torsoe with hammer]
Speak these words: "The encryption I use should be so strong that I should be able to give encrypted copies of my deepest, darkest secrets to anyone that asks for them, provide them with the software I used to encrypt it along with a whitepaper describing how my encryption method works, teach them how to use it, and be confident that they won't be able to read that document."
Prosecutor General's Office spokeswoman Natalya Veshnyakova said Thursday that federal prosecutors were not ready to comment because "we have no Internet access and have not seen the database."
I can't believe it. I didn't think I'd ever do one of those meta-posts about the person posting the story rather than the story itself.. but this is beyond belief.
The sad fact of it all is that if I were sitting around trying to make myself sound like an ignorant person, I might say something like this:
"
If video clips aren't viewable under Windows, I can't view them to consider them for posting."
I'm pretty sure that the general Slashdot population would feel okay about flaming the living daylights out of anyone who would say such a foolish thing. Quite possibly we'd merely dismiss them as a newbie.. as I think many of us were at the "Windows is kinda cool" stage, if only for a moment in our lifetime. Sure, some people would highlight the merits of Windows for a new computer user just as some would point out Linux's novel qualities. Do I think CmdrTaco is ignorant? Absolutely not. However, given this statement in an unknown context, the conclusion I'd come to is quite baffling.
Well, would anyone really expect a seasoned computer user with such a wide exposure to the many facets of a multitude of operating systems to say something such as,
"
If video clips aren't viewable under Linux, I can't view them to consider them for posting."
Maybe so.. but probably not. Oh, that our fearless leader CmdrTaco had not been kidnapped in his sleep. Why couldn't he have turned cookies off on his browser so that his mother wouldn't post stories under his handle?
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OpenBSD code never came from NetBSD, OpenBSD was forked from NetBSD
Umm.. hello? Anybody home?
There are several 1 & 2-player versions of Java Nibbles out there, as well.
Nibbles is great.
This comment explains to us all why this entire thread is worthless while educating us at the same time.
Wow. This isn't even a good troll post.. who the hell fell for that?
It was merely a poke at the average clue-level of college graduates and the assumption that if you are a college graduate that you must be a smart person.
The level of clue on Slashdot has dropped exponentially for the last several months (at least). I don't care about all the morons who post on Slashdot. I can ignore them even when browsing at -1.
But, I don't want them picking the stories I read.
Yes, or at least a committee of people with college degrees. :)
Ummm.. pardon my ignorance, but what the hell do people who buy lots of hamsters/gerbils do with them aside from feed them to their pets? That is, what is the seemingly obvious unethical usage of said animals that everyone is making innuendos to?
Well, sure, but I think the poster's point was that if someone merely had to develop a system that triangulated positions of objects based on radiation being emitted by this cold plasma (albeit it on a different frequency than radar), it probably wouldn't be a huge obstacle.
Your second guess was correct: static routes (with a default metric) are always favored over dynamic routes. Routes to directly connected devices are assigned a metric of 0, and static routes have a metric of 1. Dynamic routes start in the double-digits.
Routes learned through RIP have a metric of 110 (iirc). So, if you wanted to configure a secondary route statically, you would assign it an administrative distance of 200 (or something), so that if the route learned through RIP failed, it would fall back on the static route. This is a frequent way of using of static routes for Dial-on Demand Routing (DDR) where you can't run a routing protocol across a link (since it's usually not up), so you have to define the routes statically, but don't want them to be the default (yes, this sentence has two predicates, but that's okay).
However, your subnet mask (as is the correction you posted) is goofy, although it makes a nice wildcard mask. Let's give the Cisco kids out there some useful syntax that they can cut-and-paste into their routers (as long as they're in privileged exec/enable mode):
ip route 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 null0
ip route 127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 null0
ip route 172.16.0.0 255.240.0.0 null0
ip route 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0 null0
Drama mine Motion Sickness Tablets 12 ea
Usage: For the prevention and treatment of the nausea, vomiting or dizziness associated with motion sickness.
Description: Dramamine Original Formula. Fast-acting Dramamine Original Formula is the most recommended motion sickness medicine ever. It quickly and effectively treats and prevents motion sickness regardless of the cause. Whether on land, sea, or in the air, you can count on Dramamine. Plus Dramamine Original Formula is safe for children, and contains the only medication approved for children aged 2-12. Dramamine. It takes the motion sickness out of travel.
(Just kidding.. I don't wanna hear about CmdrTaco OD'ing on motion-sickness tablets).Wow! Only $3.73 + S&H for those puppies.
On a more twisted note, this site is devoted to the hallucinogenic/deliriant drugs contained in over-the-counter motion sickness pills. And, of course, The Dramamine FAQ. Here's the only thing you need to know, though from the site:
Enjoy!
With any luck, they'll port dramamine to Linux.
Umm.. obviously they would name it MoonHut.
You didn't read the article did you? That's okay, just read this post, and you'll quickly realize the solution to your pseudo-problem.
I agree with everything you said about the story and its implications. The interview was still lame.
You said, "why not use intelligent filtering?". Umm.. in the future, please be more vague.
Like it or not, the RBL does a good job of stopping spam. The obvious problem is with how much other traffic it stops. So, "better" is pretty relative. It's a sliding bar -- do you want very very little spam to get through and also block lots of legitimate traffic or do you want some spam to get through and only block a little legitimate traffic, etc.
Anyhow, the discussion is not about whether the RBL is good or bad. I happen to think that it's got some rather fundamental flaws, but that's neither here nor there. The fact of the matter is that the RBL is, in every way, legal.
The Internet providers are the parties that are choosing what action to take based on what addresses are on the list. As long as you agree that the people that run the network own the network (they do), then it's obvious that those same folks have the right to say "no, I don't want my users to receive e-mail from these people."
Now, most of the reactions to this line of thinking are something like, "but the network admins shouldn't be able to control my e-mail, dammit!" -- this merely stems back to my original point: it's not about what you think is good or bad; it's about what is legal. These providers are well within their rights to make that choice. So, it follows that MAPS is doing nothing wrong, merely by publishing a list of potential offenders and letting people do what they will with it.
Dissecting the situation down to, "you are depriving your users of their freedom of choice!" is bordering in ignorance (or maybe just a severe case of over-simplification).
Like it or not, the RBL is legal.
Why are we interviewing some kid who found a really lame hole in security software? That'd be like interviewing every individual that posts to BUGTRAQ with mind-numbing questions like, "Oh, so how'd you find the bug?" and "How many people did you tell?" .. this is really contentless. Is this Slashdot editor new?
On your second point, I don't really see how any entity could say, "I own the rights to a stream of data with this md5 checksum; stop distributing it." That's only one step better than saying, "If the filename start with 'Metallica -' then it must be pirated music!"
It isn't { operated by US citizens | operating on US soil | subject to US law }. Are you missing something?
[Retrieve hammer from hardware store]
Speak these words: "Steganography equals security by obscurity."
[Inflict one wound to torsoe with hammer]
Speak these words: "Security by obscurity is bad."
[Inflict one wound to torsoe with hammer]
Speak these words: "The encryption I use should be so strong that I should be able to give encrypted copies of my deepest, darkest secrets to anyone that asks for them, provide them with the software I used to encrypt it along with a whitepaper describing how my encryption method works, teach them how to use it, and be confident that they won't be able to read that document."
[Pin 1st place ribbon on chest; you've won!]
The sad fact of it all is that if I were sitting around trying to make myself sound like an ignorant person, I might say something like this:I'm pretty sure that the general Slashdot population would feel okay about flaming the living daylights out of anyone who would say such a foolish thing. Quite possibly we'd merely dismiss them as a newbie.. as I think many of us were at the "Windows is kinda cool" stage, if only for a moment in our lifetime. Sure, some people would highlight the merits of Windows for a new computer user just as some would point out Linux's novel qualities. Do I think CmdrTaco is ignorant? Absolutely not. However, given this statement in an unknown context, the conclusion I'd come to is quite baffling.
Well, would anyone really expect a seasoned computer user with such a wide exposure to the many facets of a multitude of operating systems to say something such as,Maybe so.. but probably not. Oh, that our fearless leader CmdrTaco had not been kidnapped in his sleep. Why couldn't he have turned cookies off on his browser so that his mother wouldn't post stories under his handle?
I am officially distraught.