I haven't waded my way through more than a few before I realized I was supposed to be doing actual work instead of reading, but my comment is speculative of disclosing an agent in the field, comments fingering third-parties and general collateral damage.

I also agree with the reap-what-you-sow comment above, but I'm more interested in those third parties that may be caught in the cross-fire.

The real question is after many other countries digest the content, will there be any retaliation/action/bad stuff by the documented actors? Somehow I don't think foreign interests will give the US State Department a pass on this if it involves said interest.

I'm all for the "information wants to be free" mantra, but when it can come to a considerable cost to others, the disclosure can't wipe their hands completely of responsibility. Airing a politician's dirty laundry is one thing, but releasing documents that may have names of people that may be endangered unawares should be handled with some discretion.

I really don't like being on this side of the argument.. :-(

You seem to *gasp* at straws a lot...

select() sucked the life out of me in the 90s and I don't think I'll ever recover...

1/150 of 206 people = 1 whole person and ~.3733 of a person.
No doubt that could cause a bloody mess!

In all likelihood, Verizon merely just accidentally the entire site.

How sure are we that the resulting data from this service is accurate? Is there a pattern between the times and resulting countries because they're mistakenly parsing the date/time of the log instead of the actual IP address? Or if they're only parsing every 40th entry maybe they're injecting bursts of "wrong" data as part of a trial?

I see no reason to jump to any conclusion as long as there may be doubt about the validity of the data you/we are looking at.

Or "6" if you're standing on your head... Possibly "l" if you're a neighboring digit looking at your two-dimensional buddy on the same plane... Or if you're a surrealist, the answer could be "rutabega".

The author is all for pancakes, so this is relevant to my interests.

Fixed

I'd reply telling you it's not fake but I'm currently too busy oogling blue babe boobies (3B?) hovering in front of my face...

Someone said Avatar has smoking hot 10 foot tall alien women? I am SO there for that...

Why? If you think you're hung about average for someone who's average height (about 6 foot), how will you compare to their usual blue-headed monsters?

The answer to that question is curiously similar to the answer for this question:

Q: How can you tell when a woman has reached orgasm?
A: Who cares?

Wouldn't implementing this stop most external mailing lists from sending one of your user's email back to himself (or worse, that email from your user to another user of your system)?

My system has been receiving a bunch of spam as described looking like it comes from domain but the envelope is external. Several users (including myself) are active on various mailing lists, so it seems I have my hands tied unless I construct a white list - which would be high maintenance and piss users off until it hit critical mass.

MY MAC'S DEAD. I installed Security update 2009-005, rebooted, and now I have a spinning circle of death. FRAKKIN A!

I'M GOOD ENOUGH. I'm smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me. AL FRANKEN

Isn't it funny how some parents can't seem to let go after the child has grown, especially when they greatly exceed expectation?