AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system

Re:AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, i... by scandox on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @04:53PM (#22950079)

I think this is a bit distracting. It's an ancient name. Probably a better paragraph to fixate on would be:

> Moloch has been used figuratively in English literature from John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) to Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1955), to refer to a person or thing demanding or requiring a very costly sacrifice.

I mean a project called Zeus would hardly founder on it's namesakes fetish for turning into a bull and assaulting human women.

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Re:AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, i... by HideousKojima on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @05:15PM (#22950275)

Zeus is known a bit better and for more things than Moloch

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Re:AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, i... by sildur on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @09:45PM (#22952052)

But today everyone knows about Zeus huge sex drive.

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Re:AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, i... by derptron on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @07:50PM (#22951406)

Am I the only one who thinks of Moloch aka Edgar Jacobi, the old villain in Watchmen dying of cancer?

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