I agree with that. Next time someones house burns down because they didn't pay a 75 dollar fee for the service. I don't want to hear jack shit from people that this should be a right. Even if you don't live in the same town/township as the fire department.

Cut welfare. And cut fire fighting/police protection. I'll buy a gun and up my renters/home insurance.

I wrote a perl script that parse's my auth.log. I have a variable I use for a threashold on number of invalid login attempts. You cross that number, you are added to a firewall table and the table is refreshed. You use known service id's in your login attempt, doesn't matter how many tries you have made. You are added to the firewall table and it is refreshed. Sends out an email to me twice a day.

I store invalid attempts in a internal table which is retained for 24 hours. I have found when the attack is spread out over a large number of ip's, that they still rotate through those ip's for further attempts. And again this drive them over the threshold limit.

Is this a perfect solution? Nope, I still have to manually monitor my auth.log. But not as diligently as I use to.

With password authentication turned off, thats about all you need.

But then again, someone lose's their lap top. Their log in credentials very possibly now is known by the wrong people. Unless, the lap top is encrypted(which it should be at all times).

I read that article and did not read where he offered to pay the complete bill for the fire fighting. But, I have 20/200 vision so I can believe I missed that.

I will be honest. I can understand the fire department saying no to the 75 dollar payment offer. But to turn down full payment I find hard to believe.

Thank you for pointing out something I missed.

If I get robbed, and I don't have insurance. I lost everything. What the fuck is the difference.

This is his fault. He wasn't responsible. He is paying the price. Tough fucking shit.

I don't know. I have seen GUI generated firewall rules(PF). And for a learning process, I think it would a hell of alot easier than how I learned to build the rules. Especially sense these rules are built specifically for what your environment is. And not a text book example.

I still prefer building the firewall rules via a text editor. But my environment is not a large business environment. And I am sure there are better firewall gui's than what I am referencing. Firewall Builder is an easy-to-use GUI for creating and managing firewall rules for multiple platforms including iptables, pf and Cisco routers and Cisco ASA/PIX firewalls.

My point about most slash dot open source advocates(which I am one) is they will be the first to sick the lawyers on anyone they feel is not respecting the rights of the authors of said software. But they will be the first to disrespect the work of musicians, movie personnel, or game personnel by illegally downloading their content.

Don't you find it hypocritical that this thread like most threads do nothing but trash lawyers. But what profession do they automatically run to when they are pissed off over a specific subject and THEIR reading of the law?

Can't argue your point. You are quite correct. It just seems the hypocrites are the most vocal.

I stand corrected and apologize.

/.'rs are hypocrites. Just watch their arguments about rights when it comes to open source software. Than watch them support illegal downloading.

Actually, /.'rs have a lot in common with lawyers. They pretty much are disgusting cowards. Just look at you AC.

I provided links to prove my point. I made sure the links I provided were from a source that wouldn't be questioned with regard to political leanings.

You on the other hand made off handed remarks to dispute my links and position, but refused(was unable) to provide the same type of verification.

Who's winning. I just wanted to prove a point. You are unable to prove your position where I was able to.

I'll just chalk it up to you being a typical liberal. Lazy, Stupid, Arrogant, and a liar.

6 Android Websites You Should Check Out

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-android-websites-you-should-check-out/

That is a list 6 sites that sell android apps that do not include amazon. If you don't want to sell your apps on amazon, there are more than one alternative of where you can sell your app.

Yea, I do believe that the death I described should be one of the official penalties for hate crimes. Allow the victims to return the hate that has been directed at them in as vicious of a manner as possible.

Coporal punishment for hate crimes. And yes, I would pay to see him die in the method I described.

Closet bigot are you?