Slashdot won't be targeted. Only a fool would target slashdot and cause all the geeks in the world to have time in which they can stop an attack. Instead they will ensure slashdot is up and running so that there can be many posts about how this site or that site is down so if they are about to come back up they will be feeling the slashdot effect. So seriously if anything any organized DoS attack will have slashdot as their allie not make a front end attack.
You may want to think about why software isn't written in java. One when you write software you want to make it available to as large a group as possible. Most computers don't have the JRE installed on them. This causes the issue now the person who wants to use the software needs to download the JRE also.
As for it not-really-portability this is just nuts, I was part of a research grant that wrote a application in java. It was written on Solaris, run on Windows, Linux and we purchased a powerbook to check the platform independence and low and behold it ran on that also.
Phone numbers are only portable to geographic areas if you move to another state you can't change to another provider and take your number with you. Obviously the people involved in the portability of phone numbers realized that area codes would be destroyed if they allowed transfer of the number anywhere. It seems like taking your IP with you would also be limited by the fact that IP's aren't portable by design and to move IP's would damage the integrity of the internet.
I am not a lawyer but it seems the best way for the provider to fight this would be address the issue of IP addresses not being portable in design and would require restructuring the entire internet.
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Slashdot won't be targeted. Only a fool would target slashdot and cause all the geeks in the world to have time in which they can stop an attack. Instead they will ensure slashdot is up and running so that there can be many posts about how this site or that site is down so if they are about to come back up they will be feeling the slashdot effect. So seriously if anything any organized DoS attack will have slashdot as their allie not make a front end attack.
Long live the effects of slashdot.
You may want to think about why software isn't written in java. One when you write software you want to make it available to as large a group as possible. Most computers don't have the JRE installed on them. This causes the issue now the person who wants to use the software needs to download the JRE also. As for it not-really-portability this is just nuts, I was part of a research grant that wrote a application in java. It was written on Solaris, run on Windows, Linux and we purchased a powerbook to check the platform independence and low and behold it ran on that also.
Phone numbers are only portable to geographic areas if you move to another state you can't change to another provider and take your number with you. Obviously the people involved in the portability of phone numbers realized that area codes would be destroyed if they allowed transfer of the number anywhere. It seems like taking your IP with you would also be limited by the fact that IP's aren't portable by design and to move IP's would damage the integrity of the internet. I am not a lawyer but it seems the best way for the provider to fight this would be address the issue of IP addresses not being portable in design and would require restructuring the entire internet.