Good luck with that, I suppose. Botnets can have thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of infected hosts that will endlessly scan everything on the interwebs. Many of those infected hosts are behind NAT’s and your abuse form would be the equivalent of reporting an entire region for a single scan.
But hey! Change the world, amirite?
That comment is pure gold and I am archiving it for future use.
I don’t want to go so far as to tell you how to think, but as long as we are talking about how to visualize IP addresses, you may want to check out subnets and subnet masking.
The notation of IP addresses starts to make sense when you think about the early days of TCP/IP when all IP addresses were public and NAT’ing wasn’t really required yet. Basically, there needed to be ways for networks to filter traffic by IP blocks that were applicable. (It was [in part] a precursor to collision avoidance, but absolutely not the full story.) We still use addressing and masking today, but it’s more obvious when it’s local. (Like in data centers, where it’s super practical to mask off a block of addresses for a row or rack of servers.)
To your point, yeah. IP addresses are probably more comparable to the Dewey Decimal System rather than actual numbers and thinking of them as strings is probably easier.
255
Small correction, but an important one: 0 is a number too.
In terms of IP masking and broadcast addresses, the max is 255.255.255.255
For those who are still confused, ping works with 32 bit unsigned integers. While there certainly are more uses, it’s a much more convenient method for storing IP address in a database as it’s easier to sort and index than 4 numbers separated by 4 periods
http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/IP2Integer.jsp?ipAddress=1.1.1.1
Amazon Prime Video‘s Mr. & Mrs. Smith is moving to the west coast for Season 2 production.
The second season will be filmed in Los Angeles County, sources tell Deadline, with exact production details still being sorted.
Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed the series would be relocating to California on Wednesday while touting the recently approved $750M in funding for the state’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program. Season 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Smith was primarily filmed in New York with a few locations in Italy, including Lake Como and the Italian Dolomites.
Though the series was granted an incentive within the last three cycles, it is not clearly listed on the California Film Commission‘s list of approved projects. Sometimes, high-profile productions are listed under different, more discreet names.
Just last week, the commission approved 48 new films for $96M in tax credits.
The state’s production community has been sounding the alarm on runaway production for years. Calls for action reached a fever pitch earlier this year in the wake of the devastating Los Angeles fires, which were preceded by a tough few years for the industry from the coronavirus-related production shut downs to the 2023 dual strikes.
California is also competing with other states like New York, which just allocated even more money to its own tax credit program, as well as international territories whose incentives have lured production away from the Golden State.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith‘s relocation is seemingly a win for Newsom and the California film and television industry, because it signals that big budget productions would be interested in shooting in the state with the right incentives in place. It joins Prime Video’s Fallout as two of the highest profile series to move production back to California recently.
While production in California has become more scarce, there is a promising slate of television productions cropping up across the state as of late, including HBO Max’s The Pitt, Hulu’s Paradise, and CBS’ NCIS: Origins.
Created by Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane, Season 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Smith followed two lonely strangers (Glover, Maya Erskine) who have to pose as a married couple as they both begin new careers as spies, taking on new aliases, Mr. and Mrs. John and Jane Smith. Now hitched, John and Jane navigate a high-risk mission every week while also facing a new relationship milestone. Their complex cover story becomes even more complicated when they catch real feelings for each other. What’s riskier: espionage or marriage?
Season 2 will have new leads, played by Mark Eydelshteyn and Sophie Thatcher. Sloane returns as executive producer and showrunner; Glover is back as executive producer. Mr. & Mrs. Smith is produced by New Regency and Amazon MGM Studios.
(The adblock notice and the text blurring was dumb.)
I looked into that and the only question I really have is how geographically distributed the samples were. Other than that, It was an oversampled study, so <50% of the people were the control, of sorts. I don’t fully understand how the sampling worked, but there is a substantial chart at the bottom of the study that shows the full distribution of responses. Even with under 1000 people, it seems legit.
In this study, we conducted a survey (n = 742) including a representative U.S. sample and an oversample of gender minorities, racial minorities, and disabled individuals to examine how demographic factors shape AI attitudes.
I have been using 6ghz for about a year or so now and I found it to be quite fast. MLO can be super weird sometimes and seems to get confused, but it works. (It’s probably just a driver I haven’t updated.)
Effort vs Reward vs Ability vs Inital investment
In most cases, think of this kind of thing like a legitimate business. Same concepts. I’ll grade a few scenarios based on what I have seen over the last 20 or so years. (The ratings are arbitrary and just trying to explain my point.)
Do you have the means to rent a botnet and phish a few million people for lots of credit card numbers? Can you manage that kind of data, test all those numbers and maybe end up just selling that data? Low Risk/Moderate Reward (“Selling shovels” analogy is probably a better scheme than actually renting the botnet, IMHO)
Could you setup a “call center” in India and run a scam ring like an 8-5 business? Are there enough people you can hire to do this work? That requires training, infrastructure and time. You also may need to “work with” law enforcement to ensure your scam isn’t busted by legitimate cops. Moderate Risk/Moderate Reward.
Are you part of a small group with an insane amount of skill that has the time to pull off an extortion scheme against a Fortune 500 company for a few million bucks? High risk/High reward
Those are all normal scenarios above and it’s based on profitability and initial investment. Risk/Reward is always a balance.
(Sorry. I pulled a “wHellll aKshUallY” when you said it’s not worth the time for the small targets.)
There seems to hundreds of studies on that and there seems to be a fairly uniform “Yes” and “More than you would guess”, etc.
Here is one: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3233/ADR-220062
B is for Buy n Large (and billionaire) your very best friend.
Total car payments for a single family? Cars or trucks? Does Texas just have reeealy bad loan rates? (Sure, I would like to say that the difference is because of oversized trucks, but reality is sometimes surprising.)
You got three sentences correct.
This has been a thing for years now. While I am sure it might annoy some pirates, it’s likely aimed at easily executed malware.
I deal with spam filtering on a daily basis and about 90% of it originates from Gmail. Most of that is just fishing/fraud. It would really suck if my users could easily detonate malware attachments, so this Gmail policy is a good thing for me.
Lick me.
I agree, it seems that you have enough room for the length of the card.
For compute-only GPUs, you just plug them in any way you can if your power supply has enough wattage to support it. You can even get 16x to 1x pcie slot adapters for just that purpose. 16x vs 1x basically means slot length, in our context. (It’s commonly done for Bitcoin mining.) Compute is different as it generally doesn’t have the low latency requirements that a game would. PCIe is very robust when it comes to backward compatibility.
When it comes to running and AMD card and NVIDIA card together, I know windows handles it OK. I am not sure about Linux compatibility or what issues you may see.
Ok, I wasn’t expecting a server-class card but it should be fine without its support bracket. Generic cases generally wouldn’t have a place to connect the support to. (Some might, but I can’t see the rest of the case. Your picture doesn’t actually show how much space you have to insert a longer card.)
The dimensions of the P100 is 10.5 inches in length and 4.4 inches in height, so you should be able to measure for clearance. My 7900 XTX is 11.3in, and it will fit in many towers so I have confidence that the P100 will fit in yours.
Still, It’s a long card so you might want to look around for a generic GPU support bracket to keep it from sagging over the long-term.
DIMMs (dual inline memory modules) are your ram sticks, yes. Typically, they run in pairs for best performance. So, generally, you would populate slot B and slot D for the first pair and slot A and C for the second pair. Regardless, the PC will generally still run with mismatched pairs, but it will clock itself down to the speed of the slowest module installed and may run in single-channel mode. This, in turn, slows the performance of the entire PC down by creating a bottleneck on the memory bus.
Edit: I haven’t thought about slot height in a while, but standard cases are going to be full-height cards. Half-height cards are more niche.
My general attitude is similar to yours. Let OP figure out that the reporting and blocking is basically just creating more noise that has to gets filtered out and bot supply is basically infinite.
“It’s a learning experience.”