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Re:Joro spiders likely to spread beyond Georgia on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @04:38PM (#30620351)
Not in GA but close enough. My guess is you saw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_aurantia
I especially want to understand the effects on developing immune systems. There are obvious no long term studies and kids are rarely seriously sick from the virus itself.
Re:Mēris botnet, climbing to the record on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:48AM (#28470992)
The main point of this article seems to be to highlight the 20 million requests per second arbitrary metric.

Otherwise the bullet points are about the functionality in place in the infected clients. The port is likely a detection metric for infected clients.

Re:Perfect Security on Thursday May 14, 2015 @10:53PM (#9548741)
One of my dad's favorite quotes was "Locks keep honest people out".

Even if you get a secure lock, are you also going to reinforce the door frame? If someone wants in they will get in. It just costs more if you want to make it harder to perform certain type of attacks against your home defense.

Re:3-character filename extensions on Monday July 14, 2014 @11:24PM (#8034601)
Or .... , but that one is fairly easy as long as you COPY from the CONsole to a <fileName>. And remember ^Z to save and quit.