You're not being attacked, your ports are being scanned. Computers are checking if your network has any metaphorical doors left unlocked, and your router is pretending it's dealing with something dramatic by using the words "DoS attack" to describe it.
Sorry, but did you not think of asking your ISP or hitting Google before asking a major tech news site?
You know how you look down on those foreign types being all clueless and blindly believing in their corrupt governments and dear leaders? Well everyone's looking down on you for the same reasons:)
I was about to tell you to take advantage of the audio alternative offered by many services, then I went and tried a reCAPTCHA audio test to make sure I knew what I was talking about.
I apologise for even considering telling you to use those.
I thought the news was that someone who throws their religious opinions around so heavily was allowed a position of power to throw from? That seems a lot more shocking than a company sucking up to the decision-makers.
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You're not being attacked, your ports are being scanned. Computers are checking if your network has any metaphorical doors left unlocked, and your router is pretending it's dealing with something dramatic by using the words "DoS attack" to describe it. Sorry, but did you not think of asking your ISP or hitting Google before asking a major tech news site?
You know how you look down on those foreign types being all clueless and blindly believing in their corrupt governments and dear leaders? Well everyone's looking down on you for the same reasons :)
All your laziness has led to proprietary, closed-source services being dropped on the phone to cover your asses.
Do you also think that allergies are cured by consuming loads of the allergen?
I daren't reply to any threads for fear of a government recording a link between me and one of you crazy strangers.
Slashdot's may be functional, but try out a reCAPTCHA one - it sounds like too much salvia.
I was about to tell you to take advantage of the audio alternative offered by many services, then I went and tried a reCAPTCHA audio test to make sure I knew what I was talking about.
I apologise for even considering telling you to use those.
Are they trying to appease some paranoic video rightsholder?
Netflix seems to get a big say in these matters..
The same way you verify that the published final result matches the actual votes!
I thought the news was that someone who throws their religious opinions around so heavily was allowed a position of power to throw from? That seems a lot more shocking than a company sucking up to the decision-makers.