Using a high port is one more thing you can do. To me, using it to filter out 90% of scanners is worth it even though it will still let through the 10% of people scanning high ports.
Exactly this.
Using a high port will not prevent a determined act of corporate espionage, but it probably will make J. Random Script-Kiddie move on.
Sorry, but soldiers need to understand that if government told them to shoot a child in the back of the head, they're supposed to do that.
No. They're supposed to disobey an unlawful order.
You think the guy that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima didn't know they were targeting kids? And yet he was completely fine with it.
Much can be said (and has been said) about the motives and morality of that particular event. Nonetheless, the guy who dropped the bomb knew that there was some moral difference between an intended target (the city) and collateral damage (kids).
This is simply not the kind of issue where you'd see a revolt. It is neither serious enough, well documented enough, or of consequence to a wide enough spectrum of people.
As a matter of curiosity, what would it take? Rounding up over 100,000 American citizens and relocating them in camps, perhaps?
It's been long rumored that Cardinal Vincent "Big Vinnie the Silencer" Mastrantonio will be the successor and be able to invoke the Holy Spirit to "keep those quiet who don't want their kneecaps busted in over here over there."
Clearly in the theological tradition of Pope Alexander VI, then.
Incidentally, I did just check on the Wayback Machine, and the "change your order" form is clearly there in the version from December 2007. It's not just my flaky memory.
Not until Zuck goes down. Then, we can talk about software patents. Yes, we all have a dog in this fight.
There's also a line of argument that since Zuck has all teh moneys at the moment, he currently has the responsibility to provide cover fire for the rest of us. In a few years' time, someone else will be passed the frivolous lawsuit patch pumpkin.
Note that this patent has been around for years. It was "Filed: November 2, 2009".
My milkman service (which also delivers bread, bagels, fruit, meat etc) has been doing Internet-based maintenance of both regular and irregular orders since 2007 at least. (That's when I started with them.)
I'm gonna wait until details are confirmed before deciding to buy it or not.
You do that. Personally, I'm gonna let them know now that I won't be buying it if these "features" are included.
I almost never buy new console games because of the "the value of the dollar might change some day" tax imposed on all software in Australia. Those that I do, I have played first, usually by renting them from the local DVD store (retro).
I agree with the point you're making; outside of the 20th century and very start of the 21st centuries, nobody is going to become mega-rich being a musical artist.
However, I do note one important caveat:
21st century: You're a musician. You get paid to perform. You perform to get paid. People on the other side of the globe can be exposed to your music.
There are a lot of Internet indie musicians (Zoe Keating is one of them) who have a world-wide following, but don't perform live in other countries because it's still uneconomical to do so, and the vast majority of fans would not travel to said artist's home country just to see them perform. And for quite a lot of music, especially classical (including neo-classical) and jazz music, recordings are a poor substitute for a live performance.
There are a lot of artists that I would pay good money to go and see, if they ever toured the country where I live, or the "one night only" performance was on a night when I could actually make it (kids, you know). The mega-quadzillion big-name acts who can justify multiple performances in the same place still have an advantage there.
Protip: C++ is basically a very fancy preprocessor for C.
Observation: No professional engineer has ever used the word "protip" non-ironically. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're trying to be snarky and you don't actually believe it. Nonetheless, there are newbies among us, so the record has to be set straight.
This is true in the same way that Ada is basically a fancy preprocessor for Pascal. Which is to say, it's true in the sense of having been almost true a long time ago, but today is completely untrue and extremely misleading.
For the benefit of anyone who hasn't written anything nontrivial in C++ in the last decade (not that I think you all should have, of course), C++ is a very different language from C.
FWIW, I used to think C++ was arcane, hard to understand, over-complicated and generally unnecessary. That was before I actually used it seriously. It's still not my favorite language, but for anyone who knows both, you can almost always get far more useful work done in C++ than in C.
Having said all that, C++ can indeed be used as a better C. Sometimes (e.g. on microcontroller-sized platforms), it's even a pretty good idea.
I'm not sure who you've talked to, but to everyone I've heard from who do not support gun rights, a gun nut is anyone who supports gun rights (whether they own guns or not).
It depends on precisely which "gun rights" you're talking about. IIRC, the majority of gun owners were in favor of the badly named assault weapons ban; whatever you think about that, I argue that it would be unreasonable to call such people "gun nuts".
But I do agree that gun ownership has an image problem. Part of the problem is that there really is no advocacy group for gun owners. The NRA is the closest thing there is, and it consistently and predictably campaigns against the interests of gun owners if it would hurt the interests of gun manufacturers.
It's a symptom of how sick the political process is, and how easy many people find it to demonize those with whom they do not agree.
Indeed. Of course, it goes both ways. The "Obama is going to try to get your guns" rhetoric doesn't exactly help.
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Most of the intrusion attempts on my machine are from APNIC. Is there a good way to block any attempt originating in Asia?
On behalf of Australia and New Zealand, I'd like to point out that you should be careful what you block. We might be interested in your web site.
Using a high port is one more thing you can do. To me, using it to filter out 90% of scanners is worth it even though it will still let through the 10% of people scanning high ports.
Exactly this.
Using a high port will not prevent a determined act of corporate espionage, but it probably will make J. Random Script-Kiddie move on.
I do not run anything on a high port, because to me that is security through obscurity.
I do, but not because it adds security. I do it for the same reason as you use blockhosts: it makes the logs less noisy.
Oh, it also saves traffic.
Sorry, but soldiers need to understand that if government told them to shoot a child in the back of the head, they're supposed to do that.
No. They're supposed to disobey an unlawful order.
You think the guy that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima didn't know they were targeting kids? And yet he was completely fine with it.
Much can be said (and has been said) about the motives and morality of that particular event. Nonetheless, the guy who dropped the bomb knew that there was some moral difference between an intended target (the city) and collateral damage (kids).
This is simply not the kind of issue where you'd see a revolt. It is neither serious enough, well documented enough, or of consequence to a wide enough spectrum of people.
As a matter of curiosity, what would it take? Rounding up over 100,000 American citizens and relocating them in camps, perhaps?
It's been long rumored that Cardinal Vincent "Big Vinnie the Silencer" Mastrantonio will be the successor and be able to invoke the Holy Spirit to "keep those quiet who don't want their kneecaps busted in over here over there."
Clearly in the theological tradition of Pope Alexander VI, then.
Roger that.
Incidentally, I did just check on the Wayback Machine, and the "change your order" form is clearly there in the version from December 2007. It's not just my flaky memory.
If you go by lines of code rather than package count, the largest contributor to a typical Linux desktop system is actually Mozilla.
Not until Zuck goes down. Then, we can talk about software patents. Yes, we all have a dog in this fight.
There's also a line of argument that since Zuck has all teh moneys at the moment, he currently has the responsibility to provide cover fire for the rest of us. In a few years' time, someone else will be passed the frivolous lawsuit patch pumpkin.
Note that this patent has been around for years. It was "Filed: November 2, 2009".
My milkman service (which also delivers bread, bagels, fruit, meat etc) has been doing Internet-based maintenance of both regular and irregular orders since 2007 at least. (That's when I started with them.)
You know, what I got from that is that steak might be a good material for ablative cooling. First one to the patent office wins.
That's okay, so did the shuttle.
I'm gonna wait until details are confirmed before deciding to buy it or not.
You do that. Personally, I'm gonna let them know now that I won't be buying it if these "features" are included.
I almost never buy new console games because of the "the value of the dollar might change some day" tax imposed on all software in Australia. Those that I do, I have played first, usually by renting them from the local DVD store (retro).
Judith Mossman is Caroline. You heard it here first.
I dunno. Have you seen Robert Patrick lately?
I'm cool, so I don't look at them.
I would consider JJ a high percentage batter. Lots of base hits, very few strikeouts.
For the benefit of the majority of Slashdotters who have no idea what the hell you're talking about, do you have a non-US-sport-related analogy?
62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan. HTH
That has to be the most entertaining broken window argument I've heard all week. Well done!
Who's whining?
I agree with the point you're making; outside of the 20th century and very start of the 21st centuries, nobody is going to become mega-rich being a musical artist.
However, I do note one important caveat:
There are a lot of Internet indie musicians (Zoe Keating is one of them) who have a world-wide following, but don't perform live in other countries because it's still uneconomical to do so, and the vast majority of fans would not travel to said artist's home country just to see them perform. And for quite a lot of music, especially classical (including neo-classical) and jazz music, recordings are a poor substitute for a live performance.
There are a lot of artists that I would pay good money to go and see, if they ever toured the country where I live, or the "one night only" performance was on a night when I could actually make it (kids, you know). The mega-quadzillion big-name acts who can justify multiple performances in the same place still have an advantage there.
Protip: C++ is basically a very fancy preprocessor for C.
Observation: No professional engineer has ever used the word "protip" non-ironically. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're trying to be snarky and you don't actually believe it. Nonetheless, there are newbies among us, so the record has to be set straight.
This is true in the same way that Ada is basically a fancy preprocessor for Pascal. Which is to say, it's true in the sense of having been almost true a long time ago, but today is completely untrue and extremely misleading.
For the benefit of anyone who hasn't written anything nontrivial in C++ in the last decade (not that I think you all should have, of course), C++ is a very different language from C.
FWIW, I used to think C++ was arcane, hard to understand, over-complicated and generally unnecessary. That was before I actually used it seriously. It's still not my favorite language, but for anyone who knows both, you can almost always get far more useful work done in C++ than in C.
Having said all that, C++ can indeed be used as a better C. Sometimes (e.g. on microcontroller-sized platforms), it's even a pretty good idea.
And The Church of the Subgenius. Oh, and the Church of Emacs.
The usual way to handle it is to remove dates completely from the stylesheet and just put the date in the title.
I'm not sure who you've talked to, but to everyone I've heard from who do not support gun rights, a gun nut is anyone who supports gun rights (whether they own guns or not).
It depends on precisely which "gun rights" you're talking about. IIRC, the majority of gun owners were in favor of the badly named assault weapons ban; whatever you think about that, I argue that it would be unreasonable to call such people "gun nuts".
But I do agree that gun ownership has an image problem. Part of the problem is that there really is no advocacy group for gun owners. The NRA is the closest thing there is, and it consistently and predictably campaigns against the interests of gun owners if it would hurt the interests of gun manufacturers.
It's a symptom of how sick the political process is, and how easy many people find it to demonize those with whom they do not agree.
Indeed. Of course, it goes both ways. The "Obama is going to try to get your guns" rhetoric doesn't exactly help.