In other words, when the "experts" are protecting me from the hackers, who is protecting me from the "experts"?
Me. I use data from IP flows passing through routers to reverse-engineer their closed, invite-only mailing lists, to ensure they're not snooping on anyone's e-mail.
The problem with blacklists is that -- the guy who recently had a story on spam here, at acme.com, put it nicely -- blacklists start off good, but always turn corrupt and start blacklisting excessively.
Suppose a "distributed" blacklist were created. I could blacklist the whole Internet, but I'd be the only one, so it wouldn't mean a thing. On the other hand, if 75,000 people have blacklisted an IP, there might be something there.
It needn't be totally distributed, I don't think. A community-run site, where, whenever you get obvious spam, you post the originating IP, could work. You'd post it, and that IP would have, say, 10 "points." The rating would "decay" by one point a day, so a site listed, but that went clean, would quickly leave the list: in ten days, each rating would be down to zero.
You could then simply query the site for a given IP, and it'd return the "points" a site had. This also allows you a lot more customizability: if you were obsessed with blocking all potential spam, you could block anything with more than 5 points. If you wanted to be careful, you might set it to, say, 1000 points.
Unless the people running the site keeping track of the ratings begin blatantly making up ratings, this idea means that a blacklist is much less immune to being "bad." And it allows IPs to "fade" out of the list over time.
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I've got a Natural keyboard on my desktop, and just use the keyboard on my laptop. After a while using the Natural keyboard, going back to a non-Natural one made me feel a little cramped, but I was able to type just as well: I just didn't feel as comfortable.
It seems like you can switch between Dvorak and QWERTY pretty brainlessly, which surprised me. I set my keymap in Windows to Dvorak a while ago, and was extremely frustrated to find that I could change it for each application: without meaning to, I had some applications that used Dvorak, and some that used QWERTY. I could easily jump to either one of them and start typing in the correct keymap without thought. (Well, except for when I wasn't sure which keymap I was using.)
Does anyone else find that phrase to nicely sum up the state of online translators? It's amazing that they can do as much as they do, but the results are sometimes a little, well, durchwachsene.
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One division of M$ will infect software from another divsion while a 3rd division tries to clear it off.
What are you talking about? It's pure genius on their part!
They'll sell you an OS laden with spyware already, and then, as an additional accessory, sell you an anti-spyware tool. It'll double their sales!
Actully it's Bonzi Buddy.
You have to admit, though, Bonsai Buddy would be interesting to see.
But didn't your teachers and parents always tell you it was better to read a book than to watch a movie or TV?
Googlepedia?
You can be more rebellious, doubly so since you're a senior.
OTOH, if you're a senior, you'd better be damned careful to not blow four years of work a few weeks before you graduate.
I went from a 2.4 GPA in highschool to operating a nucleap power plant in two years.
That's almost as scary as going from a C student with a drinking problem to President of the United States!
Frankly, that joke was terrible.
There was a story not too long ago claiming that BitTorrent accounted for like one-third of all Internet traffic, wasn't there?
It seems hard to believe, I'd think HTTP+SMTP would account for like 90% of all traffic. But I'm pretty sure that intuition is nowhere near correct.
Let me know when it's up, so I can have first post.
In that case, the article summary is completely different from the actual article.
Then again... Should I be surprised?
In other words, when the "experts" are protecting me from the hackers, who is protecting me from the "experts"?
Me. I use data from IP flows passing through routers to reverse-engineer their closed, invite-only mailing lists, to ensure they're not snooping on anyone's e-mail.
Might encourage the financial institution to be a little less carefree with their lending policies.
Or a little more strict in their security policies.
You don't have to be an a-whole about it. ;)
The problem with blacklists is that -- the guy who recently had a story on spam here, at acme.com, put it nicely -- blacklists start off good, but always turn corrupt and start blacklisting excessively.
Suppose a "distributed" blacklist were created. I could blacklist the whole Internet, but I'd be the only one, so it wouldn't mean a thing. On the other hand, if 75,000 people have blacklisted an IP, there might be something there.
It needn't be totally distributed, I don't think. A community-run site, where, whenever you get obvious spam, you post the originating IP, could work. You'd post it, and that IP would have, say, 10 "points." The rating would "decay" by one point a day, so a site listed, but that went clean, would quickly leave the list: in ten days, each rating would be down to zero.
You could then simply query the site for a given IP, and it'd return the "points" a site had. This also allows you a lot more customizability: if you were obsessed with blocking all potential spam, you could block anything with more than 5 points. If you wanted to be careful, you might set it to, say, 1000 points.
Unless the people running the site keeping track of the ratings begin blatantly making up ratings, this idea means that a blacklist is much less immune to being "bad." And it allows IPs to "fade" out of the list over time.
El Presidente de the United States? On Slashdot?!
I guess I misunderestimated your geekiness.
I've got a Natural keyboard on my desktop, and just use the keyboard on my laptop. After a while using the Natural keyboard, going back to a non-Natural one made me feel a little cramped, but I was able to type just as well: I just didn't feel as comfortable.
It seems like you can switch between Dvorak and QWERTY pretty brainlessly, which surprised me. I set my keymap in Windows to Dvorak a while ago, and was extremely frustrated to find that I could change it for each application: without meaning to, I had some applications that used Dvorak, and some that used QWERTY. I could easily jump to either one of them and start typing in the correct keymap without thought. (Well, except for when I wasn't sure which keymap I was using.)
I know. Most of the jokes here blow.
Doesn't anyone have a sense of humor that doesn't suck?
Real geeks program their computers with 8 switches and leds
That's eight bits, while the rest of the world is moving towards 64.
Real geeks program their computers with 64 switches and LEDs.
How about a cache of their cache just to be paranoid?
not one character can be added to the 304,805 letters of the Torah's text
So just add two or more characters. One character wouldn't be that helpful in uniquely identifying the scroll anyway.
You know you've been on Slashdot too long when your initial reaction is to think that the "IE" in the TLD was what you meant by the offensive part.
they furnished rather durchwachsene [??] results.
Does anyone else find that phrase to nicely sum up the state of online translators? It's amazing that they can do as much as they do, but the results are sometimes a little, well, durchwachsene.
Well aren't you in luck! I work with the scamm... bank. Just post your info and I'll do it for you!
No, actually, I didn't know, and can't find a lot to support your claim.
And uber-ubergeeks have a slide rule function on their punchcards!