I feel like the odd man out (reading these comments)—and the article doesn't explicitly state what is anti-competitive—but if you're familiar with how Windows Server licensing goes, you might agree. Microsoft's Windows Server licensing (or maybe the whole suite of their software taken together) is as complex as Oracle's and nearly as draconian.

Just as one example, Windows Server's generally licensed based on the physical machine that hosts any virtualized Windows workloads (iirc, they *recently* begun offering VM licensing). Depending on how you build your hypervisors or cloud environment (and I'm being very short), this can add up significantly for hyperscalers or the smaller outfits. Doesn't take a MBA to see the potential sales opportunities Azure may afford by subsidizing Windows VM licensing.

After finishing the article, SuperKendall, I more so appreciate your point... The game is arguably a communal MLM, but it seems to lack that general component (I'm sure there's some in-game reward for inviting or recruiting people, but that's beside the point). Definitionally, I do think a Ponzi scheme involves explicit fraud by hiding the mechanism of payouts.

When I think of a Ponzi scheme, the investors are unaware of the underlying system (which require new participants); with MLMs, their structure is similarly Ponzi-like, yet transparent in that manner and expressed as if it doesn't ultimately rely on new participants.

I've done plenty of silly shit via keyboard, but I don't think I've ever accidentally pressed the Backspace key outside focus. I only mean I've had a very different experience than other posters—I've lamented scrambling for some button other than a mouse click to move back only to remember it's tied to Alt+Left these days. Huzzah. Now that y'all mention it, it does seem like a horrible button choice for 'back'.

So, in this next year where many colleges are reeling over whether they should shift entirely to online courses... Will anyone be attending classes?

When I think of Cloudflare, I don't think "privacy offender". Other than the 8chan decable a few months ago, which was questionable, I can't think of anything else. My point is that Cloudflare may be the best public option (resolver, DNS proxy, etc.). If I'm wrong, please let me know!

This is the most common issue I face when using a Linux desktop (P.S. we're mostly all aware of the mental models and technical functions of memory over here). Windows users rarely see this issue with the same severity; minute-long stalls due to your favorite RAM-hungry app of the month make the evangelism significantly harder. Glad that there's some positive discussion on the kernel mailing list.

Microsoft has recreated their Disk Cleanup tool and integrated it into OneDrive while calling it Storage Sense. If you're using Windows 10, you've already accepted a lack of control over your computer, but this should only affect OneDrive storage (for now!!).

I use Fedora was my workstation, and I love it. There's little a user can't do with Fedora or Linux (outside of playing non Unity-based games; Valve's encouraged many more games to be cross-platform ultimately though).

What would I change? Whatever regression bugs have been added to and/or existed in GNOME 3. I prefer GNOME over other DEs aesthetically, but after two or more days, the performance of GNOME, especially on modal overlay drawings, is horrific. A reboot is required with Wayland (AFAIK).

This is something I'd never experience with Windows, and these sort of niggling bugs hold me back from pushing normies into Fedora land.

No mod points available, but excellent synopsis. Thanks.

But I wasn't interested at all when it released. Big media circle jerk. I bought it this Friday post-patch and have loved the experience. Best not let your expectations get away from you.

I agree, an intelligent firewall or IPS should be able to handle this sort of attack. Reductive and higher level, HAProxy (etc.) could handle this. Perhaps I'm naive on internal traffic element, but if you protect the gateways into your system I'd monitor that traffic at most.

Like Robert Graham describes in http://blog.erratasec.com/2017..., it's a type of attack that can be perpetrated against any service on the internet.

Solutions:
- Build a proxy service (per the article) that parses input before passing it to $SERVICE.
- Do not put it on the internet (i.e. firewall).

Is SMB open by default in Windows Firewall anyway? If anything, pooh-pooh Redmond for that. I know, I know, millions of affected hosts.

"McCombs School of Business"
"nearly 800"

With all due respect to both of them, I get it. Who's directing this?