This just in from the ‘no shit, that’s the way the internet works dept.’: The Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) tool that is used by members of 4Chan’s /b/ board doesn’t do any IP address spoofing so your address is in the header of every packet sent to the target. You really shouldnt be using this tool if you don’t know what it is you are doing.  If you don’t know how the internet works, and how the...

The Academicalism Blog has a great couple of Tweet-sized notes that everyone concerned about copyright reform in Canada and the ACTA treaty should send along to Tony Clement and James Moore.  Remember, sending mail to your representatives is FREE.  No stamp is required.  Take out two slips of paper, HANDWRITE one of these statements on each and stuff them into their own envelopes and toss them in the nearest mailbox (c/o House of...

The office has been surprisingly void of dumb today, mostly because it is half empty, so here is a Dumb from Days Past: At a past gig I was one of the two systems administrators for the office of a manufacturing and sales company.  During one of our frequent outages of our IP link between offices the VP stormed into our office shouting and complaining about the link being down – which was always a carrier issue and out of our...

U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk has added Canada to the USTR’s “Priority Watch List” of copyright offenders, along with 11 other pirate havens such as China and Russia, as part of its annual Special 301 Report.  Industry trade group the Entertainment Software Association promptly issues a statement applauding the decision made by President Barack Obama’s administration. “Canada’s weak laws and...