Forgot your password?  Comment: Re:Fly me to Mars or even to the
Moon. (Score 1) 376  by Bogtha (#46498225) Attached to: NASA-
Funded Study Investigates Collapse of Industrial Civilization
Frankly, I think this is useful.  Sure, but that doesn't mean
NASA should be doing it. Get some other government body to do
it. Or set one up if there isn't anything suitable already
existing. Don't use money allocated for space research for
something other than space research.  Comment: What's the issue
here? (Score 1) 58  by Bogtha (#46462183) Attached to: Large
DDoS Attack Brings WordPress Pingback Abuse Back Into Spotlight
From the description of the issue, all that seems to be
happening here is that an attacker makes an HTTP request to a
third-party blog that supports Pingback, and that blog makes an
HTTP request to the target. As stated, there's no amplification,
so all this appears to be doing is masking the source of the
attack.  To what is he referring when he says that it amplifies
the "scale and reach" of the a