Algorithm: The Hacker Movie

Re:Algorithm: The Hacker Movie by KhalilK on Monday July 14, 2014 @07:19PM (#8033806)

The fact they considered an IP address to be ONE number grinded my gears..

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Re:Algorithm: The Hacker Movie by dm2 on Monday July 14, 2014 @07:24PM (#8033821)

Hahaha, in the right setting (on The IT Crowd for instance) that would be hilarious. "What is your IP address?" "Twelve."

The fact that they were being serious and the that it has very little to do with HN made me flag this post. Nothing to see here.

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Re:Algorithm: The Hacker Movie by NSCFType on Monday July 14, 2014 @07:42PM (#8033901)

Well, technically, IP addresses can be represented by a single integer:

2130706433 == 127.0.0.1

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Re:Algorithm: The Hacker Movie by shdon on Monday July 14, 2014 @08:53PM (#8034129)

And the cool thing is, you can just put http://3626153261 in your browser address bar and end up at slashdot.org (news.ycombinator.com is behind CloudFlare, which doesn't allow IP-based access for obvious reasons)

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Re:Algorithm: The Hacker Movie by gweinberg on Monday July 14, 2014 @08:09PM (#8033982)

Technically, anything you can name can be represented by a single integer.

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Re:Algorithm: The Hacker Movie by staz on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @04:53AM (#8035412)

Yeah but technically in the protocol it's just one number, we show it as 4 numbers because it's easier for humans to manipulate

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