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  1. Re:Carriers on Ask Slashdot: What Should We Do About the DDoS Problem? · · Score: 1

    yup, attacking someone else is illegal hacking. The ISP should be required by law to prevent them from being on the Internet until clean.

    What I can't understand is all the people defending the people launching DDoS attacks from their PC. Knowingly or negligently doesn't matter to me.

  2. Re:Irrelevant on United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info · · Score: 1

    In a "free market" the price for everything should be cost-plus. If they are charging demand-based pricing, someone else should enter the market and undercut them.

  3. Re: tfa says carry-on, one-way on United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info · · Score: 1

    You buy a ticket from JFK to LAX (with a stop in PHX). You get off the first flight in PHX. You get on in PHX for the return. Long ago, they'd let you do that. Then they stopped letting you get on for leg-2 of a 2-leg trip. Then they stopped you taking a return trip when you didn't complete all the outbound legs. But now, you can still buy two one-way tickets. JFK to LAX (stop in PHX) and PHX to DC with a stop in JFK. In all cases flying only between PHX and JFK.

    This article is about suing someone who assists in the last case.

  4. Re:Luggage? on United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info · · Score: 1

    Traveling Internationally with a stroller, it gets put in the regular hold, given back only at the final destination.

  5. Re:Gate check like a stroller on United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info · · Score: 1

    Not traveling internationally, but I've found that the case flying domestically.

  6. Re:Luggage? on United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info · · Score: 1

    Strollers and wheelchairs are gate-checked, and (if you aren't flying internationally) returned at the landing gate. When traveling internationally, I couldn't get the stroller returned at the gate, which would have been nice with long layovers.

  7. Re:Much like MTU handling on Ask Slashdot: What Should We Do About the DDoS Problem? · · Score: 1

    Heuristics don't exist anymore? DDoS doesn't look like regular traffic. They usually use spoofed IPs, SYNs without FINs and such. When the IDS counts 10,000,000 open connections, it would be able to deduce a DoS is being executed. Almost no DDoS's rely on the participants sending large amounts of valid traffic, and everything else is trivially detectable.

  8. Re:Told you so on Early Bitcoin Adopters Facing Extortion Threats · · Score: 1

    my original comment is that in the 2002-2014 period, the Euro went to over double of its original value against the US Dollar, then down a bit.

    And how did the Euro perform against the AUD and GBP? Comparing two things doesn't prove one is more stable than the other. The USD fell against the Euro, then rose. It's the USD that's unstable. Compare them to the price of commodities.

  9. Re:hmmm...no. on CIA on UFO Sightings: 'It Was Us' · · Score: 1
    It doesn't matter how bad the recording would be, but there would be some. The end of film in the hand of consumers ended the era of UFO footage. Why is that?

    By your logic, if cell phone recording was the only way to establish something's reality, commercial aircraft don't exist either.

    Lots of aircraft crashes are caught on cell phone. I'm not going to bother to LMGTFY, because you are willfully ignorant. But there are thousands (if not millions) of clips of aircraft on YouTube. You assertion otherwise just shows insanity, not a reasonable argument.

  10. Re:That's revolutionary on Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? · · Score: 1

    I'm just pointing out that you chose a really poor example.

    You are naively optimisic if you think that was an accident. I think he deliberately chose it to make it look like a bad idea. How many homes per person is it? My home weighs more than 20 lbs.

  11. Re:No group "owns" any day on the calendar. on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    God rest ye merry, gentlemen
    Let nothing you dismay
    Remember, Christ, our Saviour
    Was born on Christmas day

  12. Re:Told you so on Early Bitcoin Adopters Facing Extortion Threats · · Score: 1

    Where did I advocate the USD? Oh, I didn't, and you are lying? Try again when you are willing to read what's written, and not what's convenient for you to strawman.

  13. Re:Told you so on Early Bitcoin Adopters Facing Extortion Threats · · Score: 1

    No, I didn't know that. How much energy does it take to print and distribute a paper bill?

    I buy and earn in USD, but haven't seen paper money in 7 years, aside from a $2 bill I keep around as a curiosity. So your assertion that paper (or coin) is required for the USD to be useful is provably false.

  14. Re:4 years ago? on NSA Says They Have VPNs In a 'Vulcan Death Grip' · · Score: 1

    That's always been a known "vulnerability" of real-time VPN. A 4069 bit encryption would be "safer" but the delays/processing power would decrease usability. 256 bit is "good enough" for 99.9%. For more than that, you can have stronger encryption.

    One of the ideas behind the "weak" VPN is that decrpyting it 2 years later will not help anyone. The US government is good at forensics, but worthless for prediction.

  15. Re:Carriers on Ask Slashdot: What Should We Do About the DDoS Problem? · · Score: 1

    I've already convinced them all to use BGP. ISPs world-wide use standards, and adopt new ones all the time. It's not hard. You just don't want to stop DDoS. Why?

  16. Re:Carriers on Ask Slashdot: What Should We Do About the DDoS Problem? · · Score: 1

    ISPs can cut off offenders trivially. Upstream providers can cut off offending ISPs trivially.

  17. Re:Much like MTU handling on Ask Slashdot: What Should We Do About the DDoS Problem? · · Score: 1

    AI? IDS isn't AI and does a good job of distinguishing. The problem is that the attacked entity can't use it. Only the ingress ISPs can implement it. Easily, cheaply, and effectively. With tech available for 15+ years. And Tier-1s don't interconnect with anyone that doesn't do this and enforce it on all they peer with.

  18. Re:you need to kill the botnets on Ask Slashdot: What Should We Do About the DDoS Problem? · · Score: 1

    Most DDoS from compromised computers is easily detected by the ingress ISPs. Block it at the ISP level and it goes away.

  19. Re:Carriers on Ask Slashdot: What Should We Do About the DDoS Problem? · · Score: 0

    I've never seen a consumer ISP without the ability to detect such activities at the origin. It should be a crime for an ISP to allow attacks from within its network. Black-holing internantional ISPs that don't, and sending US CEOs to jail if they don't, and DDoSs will stop tomorrow. Doesn't matter if they are from dedicated boxes, AWS, or distributed home users. Stop it at the source, and it ends.

  20. Re:Carriers on Ask Slashdot: What Should We Do About the DDoS Problem? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wrong answer. What can the carrier do to block the sending of DDoS, not keep up customers being DDoS'd? Customers participating in DDoS attacks should be disconnected. Anything else is negligence by the carriers. But ISPs make more money leaving them on and defending from attacks, rather than stopping the attacks. It's criminal, and should be treated as such.

  21. Re:No group "owns" any day on the calendar. on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    Based on the Bible, it seems like he went into stasis as a baby, and emerged a full grown man 30 years later. All the books describing Jesus as a human were "erased" from the Bible.

  22. Re:Told you so on Early Bitcoin Adopters Facing Extortion Threats · · Score: 1

    Did you not read? If you add trust, then you get trivial computations. The system for bitcoin is no more secure. The network can be attacked with "fake" transactions relatively easily. Any nation-state could take over and collapse bitcoin for liss than 1/100th the "value" of all the bitcoins on the planet. Sure, there'd be a fork and things would "change" but the damage would be done.

    If the US really wanted to take down bitcoin, they should build $10B of mining gear. Then push through piles of fraudulent transactions stealing all the bitcoins they can. The only problem with that is if they get sued for illegal taking.

  23. Re:I'm not saying it was aliens... on CIA on UFO Sightings: 'It Was Us' · · Score: 2

    Say what you will, but at the very least there is tech flying/floating around this world that no Government is yet admitting to having.

    Since about 1917, that has been true every day. Though more so since the 1950's.

  24. Re:anonymous! on Early Bitcoin Adopters Facing Extortion Threats · · Score: 1

    They are, so long as you create an infinite number of wallets, and transfer them randomly around them to "launder" them.

  25. Re:May want a disclaimer here... on Putting a MacBook Pro In the Oven To Fix It · · Score: 1

    700 for 340 minutes wouldn't cause a fire call out, unless you are in an apartment and open the door to the hall, setting off the building fire alarm. So long as the oven itself doesn't fail at those temperatures empty, fires in an oven won't hurt it. I've done it before. Just ignore it, unless you are wanting to salvage the food after it's already on fire.