phillipsjk: mircea_popescu, I disagree with the premise that wealth correlates strongly with intelligence. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs predicts that people will largely ignore trying to gain Esteem while being pre-occupied with finding food, shelter and companionship. ( http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html?PageSpeed=noscript )

phillipsjk: Of course, that hiearchy is not rigid in real life. Anarcho-socialists may simply skip gaining status, instead prioritizing "8. Transcendence needs - helping others to achieve self actualization."

phillipsjk: so in a word yes, I know the fixed hierarchy is largely fiction.

phillipsjk: Sometimes I think mental illness is a rational response to life events.

phillipsjk: I accept that some people are smarter than others. That does not automatically imply that the goal of all smart people is to gain wealth and status.

phillipsjk: asciilifeform, it nicely illustrates that there are priorities other than wealth/status.

phillipsjk: good point.

phillipsjk: I also wanted to comment that behavior that seem stupid from the outside is sometimes completely rational. Quoting MP: 'last time we diagnosed [the DDOS bot] it was mostly unpnp pwnt routers that yielded it. long known as a problem, little to do about it because "must have lusers on the internet"' http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-01-2015#997218 (as an example) ☝︎

phillipsjk: The users installing those routers probably don't even play with computer networks as a hobby. It is the manufacturers, not the end-users' fault that UPnP is exposed to the Internet.

phillipsjk: Exposing UPnP to the internet defies all common sense. Add to that, many of the Pwnt routers appear to be in China, I am going to call it a deliberate back-door on the part of the manufacturer.

phillipsjk: There is even evidence this is required by law in China: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/01/30/1514245

phillipsjk: "Technology companies that want to sell equipment to Chinese banks will have to submit to extensive audits, turn over source code, and build “back doors” into their hardware and software, according to a copy of the rules obtained by foreign companies already doing billions of dollar worth of business in the country. The new rules were laid out in a 22-page document from Beijing, and are presumably being put in place so that the Chin

phillipsjk: ese government can peek into computer banking systems."

phillipsjk: Incidentally, leaving the back-door open to the public gives the Chinese Government plausible deniability if they decide to attack this humble channel.

phillipsjk: That reminds me, I noticed the logs have comments from "noisy" people trimmed.

phillipsjk: Oh maybe I did not search back far enough, Was referring to this: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-01-2015#997251 ☝︎

phillipsjk: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-01-2015#997252 ☝︎

phillipsjk: yes I found relevant text on the log from the 21st.

phillipsjk: I am not sure it was a true amplification. I suspect it was a flase positive because the addresses ended in .255

phillipsjk: All 3 addresses I mentioned were from /16 netblocks.

phillipsjk thinks we are talking past each other.

phillipsjk: My router reported a "smurf" attack, but I think it is a mis-diagnosis.

phillipsjk: I did not look too closely, but saw UDP fragment flood with some ICMP messages (to try to track my connectivity?).

phillipsjk: decimation, sure. Would have to be tomorrow though. Would like 50MB be enough? (Ie: before I switched out the 10Mbps hub)

phillipsjk: I think this counts as "tradition": http://www.hystericalfeminisms.com/consent/

phillipsjk would have to check how much space his web-host allows him to use.

phillipsjk: I can probably make it any size you want.

phillipsjk: night all