Comment Missing option (Score 1) 462
Keep DST, but remove the mandatory biannual whining. Seriously, year round, nobody cares, but twice a year without fail, people bitch about it, and then forget it.
Comment Re:24h clock (Score 1) 309
Efficiency?
Comment Re:/etc/hosts jokes aside (Score 1) 216
I set up my own DNS server, that way all subdomains get blocked in one go. (I use maradns, it was pretty easy to set up.)
Comment Re:THIS DOESN'T WORK (Score 1) 506
On Windows, you can switch caps lock and ctrl with a registry hack. I always set it up like that to help combat RSI. You most probably the same on Linux, but I don't use Linux enough to know how.
Comment Re: The American way ... (Score 1) 427
Think of all the optimization and inventions we'll do by making so many rockets! It's a win-win situation!
Comment Re:I skim RT daily (Score 1) 254
To learn from the best, of course. How else is GP going to take over the world?
Comment Re:So its come to this...... (Score 1) 413
That only works for next-door neighbours - not people across the street or on the other side of a river. And if your next-door neighbour doesn't get it, but the d00d one house further does, you need some way to connect around your neighbour's house. Etc, etc.
Comment Re:meme responses (Score 1) 425
But did it pay for the electricity you used?
Comment Re:What the chirp is wrong with people? (Score 1) 226
It's not just xkcd. When there was a post about Megatokyo's VN, /.'s thread was just a bunch of people whining that it wasn't a gag joke comic any more, even though it hasn't been that since 2002. I'd guess /. is just filled with bittervets?
Comment Re:Priority Failure. (Score 1) 338
But IPV4 was never going to run out! There were so much new blocks to free up, nobody could've seen this coming!
Comment Re:Lack of necessity (Score 1) 737
It doesn't matter if it's "better," the biggest threat to a new invention is a current solution that is sufficient.
Comment Re:I had a server doing this for years. (Score 1) 179
Same here, we got a call from the hosting company just last week about a huge bandwidth use. Luckily I heard about these style attacks before, so once I noticed them I knew how to stop them. Somewhere out there is a DDoS now with 20 MB/s less. Just our $0.02 I guess.
Misconfigured Open DNS Resolvers Key To Massive DDoS Attacks 179
msm1267 writes with an excerpt From Threat Post: "While the big traffic numbers and the spat between Spamhaus and illicit webhost Cyberbunker are grabbing big headlines, the underlying and percolating issue at play here has to do with the open DNS resolvers being used to DDoS the spam-fighters from Switzerland. Open resolvers do not authenticate a packet-sender's IP address before a DNS reply is sent back. Therefore, an attacker that is able to spoof a victim's IP address can have a DNS request bombard the victim with a 100-to-1 ratio of traffic coming back to them versus what was requested. DNS amplification attacks such as these have been used lately by hacktivists, extortionists and blacklisted webhosts to great success."
Running an open DNS resolver isn't itself always a problem, but it looks like people are enabling neither source address verification nor rate limiting.
Comment Re:I'm sorry, what? (Score 1) 221
You can always get blown up. That's what shoulder-based missile launchers are for.
Comment Re:Download Linux (Score 1) 224
And Spotify.
