Comment Re:First english version? (Score 1) 28
Gedyr ah Emlyg?
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:Thank you (Score 1) 96
That should be:
I couldn't see any mention of C++11. I'd assume they would use the new standard. Anyone know?
Comment Re:Thank you (Score 1) 96
I couldn't see any mention of C++11. I'd assume they would. Anyone know?
Comment Re:Discovery and limitations (Score 1) 205
The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.
I'm not saying you're wrong. Just that people who have said similar things in the past have all been wrong.
Comment Re:Goodbye Anonymity (Score 3, Funny) 115
It's not going to work on me. I don't have any fashion style.
Comment Re:Life (Score 3, Informative) 80
Which is just 4 light-minutes away. Voyager 1 is 17 light-hours away, and has taken 35 years to get that far. The next nearest star system is Proxima Centauri, and that is 4 light-years away...
Comment Re:The idea of Teleportation (Score 1) 162
Until we understand consciousness, it's hard to say. Entanglement might have something to do with it. Duplication of a conscious state could be prohibited.
Comment Re:A tablet is (Score 2) 243
It's a shame you can't get a keyboard to go on the back of these surface devices. Starting with V, C, X, Z, etc. down the back left, and a couple of space buttons each side, but on the front.
Comment Re:The Invisible Unicorn Argument. (Score 1) 238
The argument there gets a bit more complex, but you can get the basic point by looking at entropy. An unordered system is not likely to become ordered over time, and it cannot do so over an infinite time, which it would need to (it would eventually degenerate into a final stable state, unlike the universe we see around us with non-homogeneous elements).
Why can't it do so over an infinite time-period? If it's unlikely to become ordered over [a finite] time, then over an infinite time-period it's a certainty. Why would there be a final stable state? No thermodynamic system has one.
Comment Re:Just (Score 1) 210
You'll want a RAID controller that supports TRIM.
Comment Re:Benchmarks don't mean much... (Score 1) 122
Very happy with mine. But the 830s are becoming harder to find since the 840 came out.
Comment Sample Size (Score 3, Interesting) 513
I wonder how big the sample size would need to be to get two 100% matches.
Comment Re:Desktop (Score 1) 285
You probably already have that many. Except they're in your graphics card.
Comment Re:commonly understood (Score 2) 153
There are Quasicrystals. These are ordered in space, but not periodic.
