Huh - DDoS traffic looks like a virus signature now?! An IDS filters traffic based on (pre-distributed) rules. They look for virusses. DDoS traffic is legit traffic, but just too much of it. I don't see how you could stop a DDoS on a router by turning it into an IDS.

I'm not saying it's the begin-all, end-all solution. I'm just saying that until you have an AI algorithm that can discriminate legit traffic from illegit traffic, you're forced to use something that will, in effect, transfer your firewall rules upstream. It would have to be combined with other measures (monitoring point-of-origin networks, anycast, ISP application specific logic (eg. TCP traffic shaping of ISP client hosts' SMTP traffic)).

Send some sort of ICMP message upstream that indicates your maximum capacity for handling traffic. It's a DOS vector in itself, but you could minimize it.

"Your center detector needs re-calibration (travel anywhere in the world outside the US). All media in the US is right to far-right."

Your rest-of-the-world detector also needs some recalibration: that's old school. The rest of the world is getting significantly more right-wing at the moment, while pubilications such as Slate thrive in the US.

It's much worse. If the NZ authorities fail to turn over Kim DC, the filming of the next Tolkien epic won't be allowed there.

If only it were free.

The only thing that foreign aid has helped accomplish so far (the last FORTY years!), is prop up dictators and help them balance their budgets, so as to keep their weapons-buying programs out of harms way. This article sounds like somebody has a cushy job to lose.

Eh.. yeah. But those countries were in Asia. And even there Putin won't be able to pull shit like that any longer, what with China breathing down his neck.

If there really was a 'George Bilt' from MIT leaking classified satelite images, you can bet your ass it would be all over the news. He'd be in Gitmo by now, and his wife would be slobbering over journalists.

Never mind that the fighter is at such a distance to the airplane, that it would crash into it in 2 - 3 seconds.

Since the attacks were anonymous, how is the victim to know whether or not she previously met them? And if you can't answer this, why do you discard situations where the perpetrator already knew the victim? And if you can't discard those situations, would you be very surprised if the answer to your question were 'last week'?

That's right. If you say 'dumb shit' about a very large online community, you should get rape and death threats, accompanied by your home address - that's just how it works. And if you get those death threats and you respond to them, you should just get more. It's the way of the universe, and totally justified. Oh, and those threats are really meaningless, everybody knows that. When people say 'I'm going to kill you', they're actually saying 'how are you doing'.

Everybody knows that. Right?

With a 70% death rate?

IIRC: the Fair Scheduler. In that instance, Linus wasn't disrespectful of a person - he just willfully ignored one of his henchmen (Ingo Molnar) being completely disrespectful of a person (that is, ignore the man and steal his ideas without any accreditation).

Every hierarchy pyramid has a level at which there are 100 people remaining until the top. His statement was irrefutable, but useless.