On an entirely different note, why does previewing a comment take the best part of a minute?
Next time watch your firewall log after you hit [Preview]. Slashdot does a crude port scan of your IP address. (Only about once per day per IP address, so it won't happen every time.) If your firewall is configured to ignore incoming connections then the probe will take a minute to timeout on all the TCP ports it tries.
The ability to spread malicious falsehoods about people is not a protected category of free speech; it is in fact a type of speech that has been prohibited for centuries.
Many many centuries, millennia even. From the code of Hammurabi, the earliest known code of written law: If anyone brings an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if a capital offense is charged, be put to death.
If you 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx' and wait for "out of space on device", then thereafter any read from any logical sector will only return all zeros. There may still be some old data left in spare sectors, but there is no way to get at them through the standard controller interface. Maybe with custom firmware. Maybe.
821 covers SMTP (HELO, RCPT, DATA, etc); 822 covers message headers (To, From, Cc, etc). 822 does not restrict the "To" header to a single recipient. No idea where GP may have gotten that idea.
As much as I would love to agree, this really isn't going to be a problem unless the human race starts breeding like rabbits and we end up with a population density so large that we need another twenty earths so that we can all just stand up at the same time.
Host address allocation has nothing to do with the number of humans, since humans aren't assigned IP addresses -- network nodes are. Who knows how many network nodes there might be in the future?
Aggressively self-replicating nanobots with networking capability could easily exhaust a badly partitioned 128-bit address space in only a few million years!
I spent 4 years at a small liberal arts university in the US getting my Bachelor of Science degree, and never saw (or even heard of) any professor taking attendance. This was about 20 years ago; maybe things have changed since then.
We absolutely positively do not need and must not have FCC regulation of the Internet.
We absolutely positively do need and must have strong regulation of the regional monopoly telecom providers. Without regulation they will form trusts like the railway operators of the 19th century did, using their monopoly control over the transit market to dominate many other markets. The telecom monopolies, if they are to continue to exist, must be made common carriers with no leeway to discriminate among their customers, and no ability to prefer their partners and subsidiaries over independents.
Sounds like everything worked out exactly as it should: The company misbehaved, got fined, and the owners of the company (i.e. you) paid the fine. If you don't like the way management is taking care of business, you and the other owners get together and sack the bastards.
a money-lending institution owned by its customers
Global warming is largely a red herring. The important and incontrovertible fact is that we're well on our way to doubling global atmospheric carbon dioxide content. The implications of this fact are varied, and climatic effects are perhaps the most interesting and obvious, but we really don't know what might be the worst-case scenario for this kind of large-scale disruption of natural environmental systems. Reasonable prudence dictates that we mitigate the effects by mitigating the cause, since we don't have a backup planet in case we fuck this one up beyond habitability.
Face it: Cheap easy fossil carbon fuel will run out some day and we will need alternatives. Why not switch to alternatives now and leave the rest of the carbon in the ground instead of adding it to the already polluted air?
Just because logic is opaque and incomprehensible to you, that doesn't necessarily mean you're mentally retarded. Most people have a hard time understanding simple logic. However, it does mean you're not a nerd, so why don't you go back to Facebook and Twitter and leave the technical discussions to those of us who are technically literate? KTHXBYE.
BTW, your apology-fu is very weak, but I get that you know you're wrong, so your apology -- however awkward and bumbling -- is still accepted. Have a nice day!
As an aside, I hate those signs saying stuff like "If you can't see my mirrors, I can't see you". They imply that if you can see the mirrors, then the driver can see you, which is absolutely not the case.
For all the mentoring my grandfathers gave me (diddly squat) I'd rather be able to say they volunteered for a suicide mission to explore Mars. That would have been awesome (and inspiring). Present fathers are important, grandfathers not so much.
Right now banks don't want to lend money to anybody for any reason. A few years ago, they could make more money with occult financial wizardry than by actual investment in real industry. A few years ago we also weren't quite at peak oil yet so people could keep pretending that the oil supply would continue to increase to meet increasing demand forever. A few years ago most people still believed that CO2 pollution wasn't a problem, and that nuclear power was the worse alternative. Nuclear power is expensive, and it is dirty and dangerous, so it's a hard business to get into. Maybe the situation will change but so far only entities with the long view toward public good (i.e. functional governments) have been willing to invest in it. Now, where can we find a functional government?
And the US economy was almost brought down by oil two years ago. No wait, that was easy credit, lax enforcement of law, and rent-seeking.
You've got to be kidding. The "crisis" of 2008 was a bookkeeping crisis, not a materials supply crisis. The only thing we "almost" ran out of was faith that debtors would pay back creditors. The Fed waved its magic wand to materialize an extra trillion dollars out of thin air and all was reasonably well again, because everything we actually need to live is still plentiful. Losing our supply of oil is a real crisis that no mystical financial mumbo-jumbo can fix.
If that's really your concern then they could mess with the USB stick in the middle of the night to log details.
Log what details? USB hosts don't leave fingerprints on storage devices. As far as the device is concerned, the host is totally anonymous.
MAC addresses are trivial to change, even in windows.
And USB-borne malware is trivially easy to avoid, even in Windows, which didn't stop dozens of people from posting "OH NOES, TEH VIRUS!!!!" in this discussion.
It means ISPs can't get new IPv4 address allocations to assign to new customers. They'll have to reduce their address demands somehow, by reclaiming extra static addresses from customers who have "too many", reusing addresses more quickly in dynamic pools, and perhaps using some sort of ISP-scale NAT. Businesses will have a very hard time getting new static IPv4 addresses from now on... they will become very very expensive until IPv4 can be deprecated, which will take at least five years.
30 years here, if you count BBS, sneakernets, and multi-user systems; only 20 years of real actual honest-to-Gore Internet connectivity, but you hardly need that to get rooted.
No antivirus, no "personal firewall", and no malware of any kind ever. (Unless you count Windows itself as a kind of malware, hurr hurrr.)
Just out of morbid curiosity I run a scanner like F-Prot on some of the Windows machines once a year or so to see if there could be some kind of infection too subtle for me to notice. Nope.
It may be entertaining, but it's not intellectual. Like all pop-art it's mostly dreck. The overinflated executive suit-filler I poked fun at would probably just chuckle about this, and he actually has a horse in the race; why is it such a big deal to you? Nerd-rage much?
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Next time watch your firewall log after you hit [Preview]. Slashdot does a crude port scan of your IP address. (Only about once per day per IP address, so it won't happen every time.) If your firewall is configured to ignore incoming connections then the probe will take a minute to timeout on all the TCP ports it tries.
Many many centuries, millennia even. From the code of Hammurabi, the earliest known code of written law: If anyone brings an accusation of any crime before the elders, and does not prove what he has charged, he shall, if a capital offense is charged, be put to death.
If you 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx' and wait for "out of space on device", then thereafter any read from any logical sector will only return all zeros. There may still be some old data left in spare sectors, but there is no way to get at them through the standard controller interface. Maybe with custom firmware. Maybe.
821 covers SMTP (HELO, RCPT, DATA, etc); 822 covers message headers (To, From, Cc, etc). 822 does not restrict the "To" header to a single recipient. No idea where GP may have gotten that idea.
Host address allocation has nothing to do with the number of humans, since humans aren't assigned IP addresses -- network nodes are. Who knows how many network nodes there might be in the future?
Aggressively self-replicating nanobots with networking capability could easily exhaust a badly partitioned 128-bit address space in only a few million years!
SFA? QQ? WTF?
It's absolutely not an excuse. Following orders to kill innocent strangers in order to protect your own children is evil.
I spent 4 years at a small liberal arts university in the US getting my Bachelor of Science degree, and never saw (or even heard of) any professor taking attendance. This was about 20 years ago; maybe things have changed since then.
We absolutely positively do not need and must not have FCC regulation of the Internet.
We absolutely positively do need and must have strong regulation of the regional monopoly telecom providers. Without regulation they will form trusts like the railway operators of the 19th century did, using their monopoly control over the transit market to dominate many other markets. The telecom monopolies, if they are to continue to exist, must be made common carriers with no leeway to discriminate among their customers, and no ability to prefer their partners and subsidiaries over independents.
Sounds like everything worked out exactly as it should: The company misbehaved, got fined, and the owners of the company (i.e. you) paid the fine. If you don't like the way management is taking care of business, you and the other owners get together and sack the bastards.
Global warming is largely a red herring. The important and incontrovertible fact is that we're well on our way to doubling global atmospheric carbon dioxide content. The implications of this fact are varied, and climatic effects are perhaps the most interesting and obvious, but we really don't know what might be the worst-case scenario for this kind of large-scale disruption of natural environmental systems. Reasonable prudence dictates that we mitigate the effects by mitigating the cause, since we don't have a backup planet in case we fuck this one up beyond habitability.
Face it: Cheap easy fossil carbon fuel will run out some day and we will need alternatives. Why not switch to alternatives now and leave the rest of the carbon in the ground instead of adding it to the already polluted air?
Just because logic is opaque and incomprehensible to you, that doesn't necessarily mean you're mentally retarded. Most people have a hard time understanding simple logic. However, it does mean you're not a nerd, so why don't you go back to Facebook and Twitter and leave the technical discussions to those of us who are technically literate? KTHXBYE.
BTW, your apology-fu is very weak, but I get that you know you're wrong, so your apology -- however awkward and bumbling -- is still accepted. Have a nice day!
Smauler's claim: (If you can't see my mirrors then I can't see you) implies (if you can see my mirrors then I can see you).
a = "you can see my mirrors"
b = "I can see you"
(~a -> ~b) -> (a -> b)
That is a textbook example of a basic logic error.
Apology accepted.
LOGIC ERROR
For all the mentoring my grandfathers gave me (diddly squat) I'd rather be able to say they volunteered for a suicide mission to explore Mars. That would have been awesome (and inspiring). Present fathers are important, grandfathers not so much.
Life is funny, once you get past it.
Right now banks don't want to lend money to anybody for any reason. A few years ago, they could make more money with occult financial wizardry than by actual investment in real industry. A few years ago we also weren't quite at peak oil yet so people could keep pretending that the oil supply would continue to increase to meet increasing demand forever. A few years ago most people still believed that CO2 pollution wasn't a problem, and that nuclear power was the worse alternative. Nuclear power is expensive, and it is dirty and dangerous, so it's a hard business to get into. Maybe the situation will change but so far only entities with the long view toward public good (i.e. functional governments) have been willing to invest in it. Now, where can we find a functional government?
You've got to be kidding. The "crisis" of 2008 was a bookkeeping crisis, not a materials supply crisis. The only thing we "almost" ran out of was faith that debtors would pay back creditors. The Fed waved its magic wand to materialize an extra trillion dollars out of thin air and all was reasonably well again, because everything we actually need to live is still plentiful. Losing our supply of oil is a real crisis that no mystical financial mumbo-jumbo can fix.
Log what details? USB hosts don't leave fingerprints on storage devices. As far as the device is concerned, the host is totally anonymous.
And USB-borne malware is trivially easy to avoid, even in Windows, which didn't stop dozens of people from posting "OH NOES, TEH VIRUS!!!!" in this discussion.
It means ISPs can't get new IPv4 address allocations to assign to new customers. They'll have to reduce their address demands somehow, by reclaiming extra static addresses from customers who have "too many", reusing addresses more quickly in dynamic pools, and perhaps using some sort of ISP-scale NAT. Businesses will have a very hard time getting new static IPv4 addresses from now on ... they will become very very expensive until IPv4 can be deprecated, which will take at least five years.
The REAL problem is that anybody anywhere ever takes anything about Facebook seriously.
30 years here, if you count BBS, sneakernets, and multi-user systems; only 20 years of real actual honest-to-Gore Internet connectivity, but you hardly need that to get rooted.
No antivirus, no "personal firewall", and no malware of any kind ever. (Unless you count Windows itself as a kind of malware, hurr hurrr.)
Just out of morbid curiosity I run a scanner like F-Prot on some of the Windows machines once a year or so to see if there could be some kind of infection too subtle for me to notice. Nope.
Hmm, I'd never heard of "Goldline" so I googled it and found their website which led me to their online store which lists 1 oz Krugerands for $1392 each. According to the 24 hour spot chart gold is currently at about $1309/oz. $1392/$1309 is about 1.06 -- a 6% markup.
Snooki is a recurring character on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" skit. She is a promiscuous Oompa-loompa from New Jersey. We're talking about her to flaunt our conspicuous ignorance of American pop culture.
It may be entertaining, but it's not intellectual. Like all pop-art it's mostly dreck. The overinflated executive suit-filler I poked fun at would probably just chuckle about this, and he actually has a horse in the race; why is it such a big deal to you? Nerd-rage much?