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Comment Denyhosts (Score 1) 497

I use 'denyhosts' which actively monitors and blacklists based on failed login attempts. I usually set it to ban anyone that tries to login as root more than once since root logins are disabled anyway no one should be trying that. And to ban anyone trying to login as an unknown user. Valid users are allowed a lot more leeway, 10 retries I think.

Comment I dont buy their conclussions.... (Score 1) 430

They probably using a "Mortality" number that is based on the people that are already sick. "Mortality of those With Influenza" => Number of people that are ALREADY sick, that DIE from the disease "Incidence" => Number of people that ACQUIRE the disease. If you vaccinate people you reduce the number that are infected, but those that get infected anyway still have the same risk of dying. This DOES NOT mean the vaccine is ineffective, you are still reducing the number of infections in the general population and hence removing them from the risk of dying from that disease. So the "Mortality rate" is not affected but the "Incidence Rate" IS affected by around 50-60% (IIRC) which is significant. There's also something called "herd immunity" which basically means that if a lot of people around you are immune and you are not immune your chances of acquiring the disease are lower since your peers cannot transmit it to you. So if you make enough people immune to a certain disease the rate of infection drops a lot more than you would expect, the reverse is also true... if people stop using vaccines ( say for Measels ) the risk of large outbreaks increases significantly.
Operating Systems

MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux 696

Noodlenose notes a thread up on the Ubuntu forums, where a user is questioning the practices of hardware manufacturer Foxconn. The user describes how his new Foxconn motherboard caused his Linux install to freeze and fire off weird kernel errors. He disassembles the BIOS and concludes that a faulty DSDT table is responsible for the errors. Even though the user makes Foxconn aware of the problem, they refuse to correct it, as 'it doesn't support Linux' and is only 'Microsoft certified.' The user speculates darkly on Foxconn's motives. Read the forum, read the code, and come to your own conclusions. "I disassembled my BIOS to have a look around, and while I won't post the results here, I'll tell you what I did find. They have several different tables, a group for Windows XP and Vista, a group for 2000, a group for NT, Me, 95, 98, etc. that just errors out, and one for LINUX. The one for Linux points to a badly written table that does not correspond to the board's ACPI implementation.' The worst part is Foxconn's insistence that the product is ACPI compliant because their tables passed to Windows work, and that Microsoft gave the the magic WHQL certification."
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Submission + - The Pirate Bay About To Relaunch Suprnova.org 3

kungfujesus writes: The Pirate Bay crew has been working on this secret project for quite some time now. Back in April they wrote a cryptic post on their blog announcing that something was coming. In a response to this announcement TPB admin Brokep told TorrentFreak: "The past, the present and the future. It's all the same, but one thing's for sure, we will radiate for weeks", today it became clear that he was referring to the resurrection of Suprnova. Article Here

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