Hi. I'm MrSmite. (No, I'm not related to that damned cow.) You're probably here to view my comment history. That's great! You'll find an assortment of sarcastic (but often truthful) commentary, some jabs, and boatloads of lighthearted fun. However, be warned: I've essentially stopped posting regularly as of late 2012 with occasional returns since. Mostly, this is because of the vitriolic nature of the average visitor and the emotional temperatures that tend to exceed reasonable levels on a variety of issues. It's okay though; I suspect it's a generational thing. I'm probably a bit older than much of the target demographic. I don't "get" much of the humor anymore, I don't watch television, I don't care for most movies, and the majority of highly visible quotes are those that repeat mindless pop culture drivel, memes, or other stupidly inane things that have no business being repeated. Thoughtful, insightful, and well-researched comments often sink to the bottom, no matter how much I upvote them. (And believe me, it isn't for lack of trying.) Simply put: It isn't fun anymore. And you know what? That's okay. I love Imgur for its disruption of the image hosting niche, and it is pretty impressive what they've accomplished with a fairly modest technology stack based on PHP and MySQL (then again, look at Facebook, right?). If you drop me a line on something I've posted, I may get back with you at some point in the near future. Or maybe not quite so near. My reply cycle is around the order of about 8 months. Sorry about that. Cheers, folks.
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Wish I checked Imgur more often. Most underrated reply ever.
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Does it count that I saw your reply 8 months late and you gave me a giggle there, mate?
(Sorry about the 6 month late reply--I check Imgur very infrequently.)
No, black and white. HP makes some inexpensive color ones with separate toner cartridges that do about 2k pages/cartridge.
You must've missed the recent news about ext4, SSDs, RAID0, and zeroed files.
Pity about the classic car market. But there's hope yet!
Here's hoping! I'm not quite that optimistic though. We never do anything until it's an outright emergency.
thatsthejoke, well, the point is that "I pinged the Internet" comes with the caveat that a huge chunk of the IPv4 Internet is inaccessible.
Here's one example that comes to mind: https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan (DROP rules won't slow such scans down.)
The point I was (hoping) to make in this case is that blocking ICMP is mostly pointless. Port scanning is cheap with surprising results.
One of the related things that annoys me is location-based services that use the MAC of your wireless AP. GMaps thought I was in Italy once.
Also true. I'm surprised that more people aren't aware of precisely how much IPv4 space is non-routable. Localhost being another big chunk.
Also, as a side note, the number and nature of attacks these days is really starting to infuriate me...
Oddly not surprising. That's the problem with treating WHOIS data as static. Address re-assignments happen.
We already have. The last /8s were assigned to each of the RIRs. ARIN is projected to run out in summer 2015.
So this should make you two buddies. Masturbation buddies. Masturbuddies?
I couldn't agree more. The whole idea is almost a disaster, what with how regularly some ranges exchange hands.
In that case, it's be even worse (in the sense of proportionality). Although Idaho v. Louisiana is approximately the same proportion.
~3200km between actual and reported location seems more absurdly inaccurate than, say, 150km. Thus pathological (used ironically).
...except I guess that distance is a bit more of a pathological extreme than "just" 150km. But you get the idea! :D
Same here in the US. A friend of mine lives in Idaho but his IP through WHOIS is in Louisiana. GeoIP databases might be more accurate.
Good thing it's not IPv6, right? :)
Not *quite*. Huge chunks of IPv4 address space are non-routable, private ranges (or localhost).
Minus localhost (/8) various non-routables (/8s, /16s, etc). There's not exactly 2^32 routable addresses to begin with.
I agree! Clearly this doesn't show the non-routable ranges and is missing localhost. ;)
Plus wherever your IP address is "located" gets the credit since regional ISPs often have their address ranges as their city of operation.
Not to mention that the RIR data (or geolocation service data) isn't very accurate. My address shows up in a completely different town.
^-- Also, not sure what I was thinking when I said that. Country/state/etc is shown. I just don't consider it very accurate.