Most sane datacenters will be extremely proactive about dealing with abuse complaints about spam, to say nothing about botnets, since they're the ones providing the IPs to the customers.
Capitalism typically makes it hard on the baddies here: datacenters do NOT want to lose saleable IPs to long-lasting blocks.
It's not like it would have been hard for them to acknowledge that it's just "popular myth" or something, and keep all the rest of their little attention-drawing page as it is.
People like idle little bits of trivia, even if they know there's no scientific basis.
"A+ people are pretty! Like me!" et cetera.
I use Steganos LockNote (GPL, http://www.steganos.com/us/products/for-free/locknote/overview/), it's essentially a self-contained AES encrypting Notepad.
And it's extremely stand-alone/portable, so you can just stick it on a USB stick.
I just use my American-hosted server as an SSH proxy to watch Hulu.
While the impact of this is no big deal, it's still kind of scary that the people running a decently-sized ccTLD would make such a novice mistake on their zonefile.
Petabit backbones still won't be enough to keep 4chan online through all those DDoSes they suffer.
Careful viewers will notice that there is no engine installed in the Bel Air.
I don't think the test is particularly enlightening, based on this fact. Sure, the engine block would still end up in the cabin, but its mass would have helped slow the crumpling of the hood.
All in all, an underwhelming "experiment".
If anyone's interested, there's an old Flash game with a similar mechanic here. Clever little diversion, and time can be both a fun and non-gimmicky mechanic.
Where the hell is Perl?
Oh, right; if they had it listed, there'd only be half the options.
Mod parent up, toilet failure was the dilemma in the excellent sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
We seriously need to find a middle ground for this issue. And by middle-ground, of course, I mean improving the keyboard and leaving controllers in the dust!
Touch sensitivity is such a great feature that gaming keyboards should include it.
Why can't they just have a warning before the images, like the "spoilers ahead" tags?
I imagine the savings have more to do with switching from Sun hardware to HP hardware than switching to Linux.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
