Comment: Re:It was a movie--duh (Score 1) 133
She didn't gather the data, but she did the equations.
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Comment: download link? (Score 4, Insightful) 56
and we can get it where?
Comment: AT&T is next (Score 1) 311
Next up, AT&T is sued over a prank phone call. None of this could have happened if it weren't for those pesky kids, and the phone company!
Comment: Spike (Score 1) 119
Will these be with or with spikes?
Comment: Re:You were not hired to finish the project (Score 1) 308
If he makes it work, the original "respected" designer will jump in and claim all the credit....No-win situation. Leave now.
Well, that all depends really. Is he receiving a paycheck in the process?
Comment: Re:Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen (Score 2) 448
"In the real universe, the phone service rep is a minimum-wage worker in a foreign country, whose top priority is keeping down their time-per-call-resolution metric"
And I would call that problematic by design. Mr Hiroshima didn't chose this for Paypal's business model, and Paypal is ultimately responsible for this.
And I would call that problematic by design. Mr Hiroshima didn't chose this for Paypal's business model, and Paypal is ultimately responsible for this.
Comment: Re:Where are they? (Score 3, Insightful) 324
agreed, it sound theoretically possible minus the 8 mile claim.
Comment: Re:20 year old news? (Score 1) 521
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atheos
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Attached to: Ford Rolls the Dice With Breakthrough F-150 Aluminum Pickup Truck
exactly, this isn't THAT radical. My 10 year old Honda Insight is mostly aluminum.
Comment: Re:Fireworks in 3...2...1... (Score 5, Funny) 1251
no, not in the least. Satanists (in the minds of Christians) just help to validate the Christian world view. The Atheists will continue to be the ones primarily driving the evangelicals nuts. Us, and the new pope.
Comment: Re:So .... (Score 1) 178
overtime calculations don't work that way.
Comment: Re:That's stupid (Score 1) 559
"If Google is capable of doing it....."
How about you? Are you capable of doing it? Good luck with your startup.
Misconfigured Open DNS Resolvers Key To Massive DDoS Attacks 179
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Unknown Lamer
from the check-your-sources dept.
from the check-your-sources dept.
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:It's called the key (Score 1) 1176
I blame hollywood, since the "stuck accelerator" is a popular trope in film. I've had numerous discussions with people on this matter who had no idea that simply shutting off the ignition would bring your run-away car to a halt. Just don't trigger the steering wheel lock.
Comment: Re:One word: Lawsuits (Score 1) 253
the first time you need it, even if it's the only time in your life, you'll be glad you had it.
Comment: Re:Kudos (Score 1) 1061
"They have made MILLIONS off of suing people that attack them for their repugnant views."
I've heard this statement made frequently, can you provide a source to a list of these cases including any damaged that they have collected?
