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Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by adrianN »

toper-centage wrote: post #112
userbinator wrote: post #73

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I find the CFC situation to be rather interesting because it not only made it illegal to intentionally release them into the atmosphere (which would, if anything, just cause people to release them from things like old fridges and ACs even more frequently so as not to be caught with the "prohibited substance"), but by stopping production and keeping it legal to continue to use, created a market for recovering/resellin…

Can we do that with carbon? It's rare and valuable, let's try to contain it as much as possible! We're basically releasing TONS of what is basically black gold to the sky!!

Unfortunately coal is not rare and not very valuable and pricing in the massive externalities to make it so is "bad for jobs".

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by GordonS »

LilBytes wrote: post #65
GordonS wrote: post #45

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Your first point is definitely correct. Your second point though... really? Do you have any sources for anyone, anywhere being charged for using ping?

With regards to the second point, definitely. Quite a few years ago the security team of the organisation I worked at didn't have our internal vulnerability scanning services automated. It relied on them capturing the IPv4 addresses (specifically the /32's, not the subnets) and manually entering them into the engine. Our security team mistyped a handful of these addresses and instead of the scan running across our in…

Scanning for known vulnerabilities isn't the same as a simple ICMP ping though.

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Post by edoo »

distances wrote: post #108
paulmd wrote: post #80

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US prison sentences are ridiculously long in general. In principle the key word is supposed to be "up to", the judge is supposed to use their discretion. In practice , it's used as a lever to force plea deals. If you waste the government's time and money with a trial, you probably still won't win, but now you will be doing up to 20 years. Sign here and spare us the trial and you'll get 5 years. Of course then you hav…

> There is also the view that extreme prison sentences are supposed to be a deterrent and thus are unfair by nature. If know you are at risk of spending 20 years in jail, you won't do the crime. Of course in many cases criminals do not really consider the risk of getting caught, and likely wouldn't know the exact penalties for a given crime anyway... I'm pretty sure it has been proven multiple times over that harsher…

The prison industry is huge. The prison guard union even lobbied against decriminalization, it is nuts. Most every jail releases inmates right after midnight so they can charge the state for a full extra day. It is a business.

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Post by TeMPOraL »

jlarocco wrote: post #99
luckydata wrote: post #85

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You are in serious denial. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/climate/biodiversity-exti... What's happening right now is absolutely unprecedented and it will kill a lot of people. It's demoralizing how even within a crowd that's supposed to value science we have people waving away what's happening right now.

On the other hand, humans driving ourselves extinct might be the best long term scenario for the rest of life on Earth. Realistically, the universe doesn't care one way or the other about us.

Yes, and so what? There's nothing else in the known universe that's capable of caring. The only good outcome seems to be us surviving.

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Post by johnr2 »

kebman wrote: post #118
sundvor wrote: post #100

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Fair point, and an important one! As we're running out of time we ideally need both to happen, but it's good that green tech is becoming increasingly more financially viable. As a little gem, just about all reports from the SA Tesla battery installation make for simply fantastic reading.

Cars are a red herring. Even gasoline and diesel car aren't really contributing that much to world pollution compared to the real culprits, such as ocean liners and huge cargo ships. These ships alone pollute more than all the cars on Earth. What do you think about going after the things that are actually harmful, instead of following a red herring? I mean, sure, cars should of course be dealt with also, but if you r…

> These ships alone pollute more than all the cars on Earth.

Do you have a link to figures that show this?

Re: Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

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Post by semyonsh »

freedomben wrote: post #35
alexpotato wrote: post #29

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This reminds me of a conversation I had with the AC repairman last year. Backstory: we have an old AC unit that uses freon. The repairman mentioned that freon is no longer available for new AC units. I asked if you could still buy freon and he said yes, existing supplies were grandfathered in. I then commented that the price of freon must have sky-rocketed and he said: "yes, it did for a while but then it became chea…

I had an 88 Chevy Pickup Truck that used the old style freon (R12). Man that stuff worked so good. In 100 degree heat that truck would stay nice and cold. It took over 20 years before the alternatives were competitive.

I used to work at a company that recovered and decommissioned freon. If some tech came by with a cylinder filled with R12 it would many times mysteriously disappear from storage. Probably because it sells for an insane price and is very rare in my region.

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Post by pjc50 »

jokoon wrote: post #107
gscott wrote: post #60

I once applied for a position at what I found out to be a spam marketing company. In order to send their spam they worked with a local hosting company that would take unused legacy ip addresses and put them in their router so the spam could be sent over them. They would just burn the ip's and move on to the next set. My job would be to update their firewall with the new ips, update their mailing software with the cur…

I wonder if governments could somehow vouch for emails addresses being a little like verified twitter accounts, so that we can have a good whitelist of legit email addresses. Right now it seems gmail is benefiting from the chaos because they have the training data that allows them to know if a mail is spam. I just wish that the internet could adopt more security standards and processes. You can't trust only google no…

Email addresses aren't relevant, because they're not authenticated unless DKIM/SPF etc are in place. It's the IP addresses that matter.

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Post by pjc50 »

jlarocco wrote: post #95
sundvor wrote: post #66

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Yet initiatives like Carbon tax have been shot down (Australia) by big money, putting dangerous delays into the schedule.

I think carbon taxes are the opposite of what the OP is talking about. Carbon taxes are artificial barriers to using fossil fuels. On the other hand, when technology improves so that electric cars cost less per mile than gasoline cars, people won't necessarily buy them to be green, they'll buy them because they're a cheaper form of transportation that happens to be greener. Same with wind and solar power. When a sola…

> When a solar farm on 10 acres of land can produce more energy than a coal plant on the same 10 acres

This is energetically impossible, I'm afraid. Even if you count the area of the plant plus the area of its corresponding mine and the transport links between them. Because the energy density of coal is so incredibly high.

On the other hand, now that Drax has switched to burning wood, you might get more energy efficiency from the same (huge) area of woodland by direct solar farming instead. Annoyingly I can't find any numbers, other than an estimate that if Drax was limited to domestic wood (rather than importing it from the US, using oil-fired shipping) it would consume every tree in the UK within a year.

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Post by pjc50 »

kebman wrote: post #117
daveFNbuck wrote: post #101

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Carbon taxes aren't artificial barriers. There are real costs to emitting carbon. Putting a price on negative externalities helps align incentives properly so the people making the coal plant have to consider the full costs of their actions.

Why not talk to the coal plant owner directly? Or how about the other 100(!) private citizens living around the world who control the companies that are responsible 70% of the greenhouse emissions of the entire Earth?

> Why not talk to the coal plant owner directly?

Well, merely talking to them isn't going to achieve any change, so the plan is to tax them?

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