Comment How does one DDoS Zimbabwe websites? (Score 5, Funny) 115
Ping flood it from two 56k lines instead of just the one?
Ping flood it from two 56k lines instead of just the one?
Remember the days when posts like that would be dismissed as crackpot rambling? Good times.
Now that they've patented it, all the other big players won't be able to do it and it'll be easier to adblock from one central origin.
Open source code wasn't originally a feature, it was taken for granted. The perverse idea of "proprietary" software only gained a foothold much, much later.
IE had its zones feature several years before Firefox existed.
Nah, we're going to do this the right way. We're going to slashdot them.
Since you're so sure of yourself, you should have no problem explaining what's worse about it, right?
Go ahead and whine all you want. We'll be right over here using the language you pretend doesn't exist.
I tried looking at slashcode once, out of curiosity. It's a scary dark place and I'm not going back there again.
This has nothing to do with terrorists winning, and everything to do with people who are friends and associates of those that are in power, taking advantage of a fictitious threat scenario, and cashing in on it. It's greed, plain and simple.
I think you'll find that's the textbook definition of terrorism.
No, and for this reason.
How many tests do each have, and how many of those do they fail?
It's built in. Firefox is *the only major browser* that doesn't give its users more control over JS than a global on/off switch buried 3 menus deep. The relevant bug has been given the silent treatment for a decade, so it's safe to say they don't give a shit at this point.
Mine doesn't even know what IPv6 is. A few months ago they force-upgraded us to ADSL2 and sent everyone a replacement Netgear piece of trash with non-upgradable firmware and no debug mode backdoor.
The sort of people that buy iPhones in the first place
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.