KiwiFlare

BULLY HUNTER_78 said:
My personal theory is Josh has already been successful in his lovequest and he's just not advertising his personal life like a lolcow. I base this on how confidently he said girls swoon over history buffs. He said it with the certainty of someone with direct personal experience.
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Josh is already married, her name is the iNTERNET
 
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Bucka said:
Flares are defensive countermeasures used by aircraft to defend against missiles. Therefore flare is a valid metaphor for DDOS mitigation.
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Yes, that is the idea behind the name. Being a metaphor doesn't make it a generic term. In the aircraft countermeasures industry, flare is a generic term. Is it one in the data networks industry? My guess would be no, Cloudflare's lawyers' assertion will be no.

My uneducated non-trademark lawyer opinion is that it's fine as a jab at CF. Null is stating, "Fine! I'll just make my own Cloudflare with lolcows and trannies." but selling a service with that name is asking for a C&D. Trademark law is the most "make it up as you go" and the USPTO is more than happy to give out bad trademark registrations and leave it to the courts to solve. The system is centered around lawsuits. With trademarks it is rarely about who is right and more often about who has the most money for lawyers. There's an arugment to be made that it isn't an infrignement. It just has to be made by expensive lawyers and corrupt judges. So it isn't really worth "what if"ing over.

Regardless of trademark considerations, my thought is the name should change because it does not flow well when spoken. Maybe consider, Washington Redskins. That's a good sounding name without any trademark issues.
 
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How exactly does this stuff prevent DDoS? Does it prevent the requests getting past the front door by forcing them all to complete the math problem (which would obviously require a lot of processing power from one system)?
 
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100GecsNasheed said:
How exactly does this stuff prevent DDoS? Does it prevent the requests getting past the front door by forcing them all to complete the math problem (which would obviously require a lot of processing power from one system)?
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Yes. It also has a rate limit that will trigger another test if you try to solve it and then pummel the site. The mechanism is also pretty flexible so it'd be hard to offload the work to a more sophisticated server. A lot of compromised computers are very old.

My main issue right now is something happens where the fucking thing locks up after a few hours and starts sending white pages out. I don't know what's causing it.
 
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Quoting from the Technical Grievance thread in case it gets missed there
KingFrampt said:
People in Telegram are complaining that using Google Chrome / Chrome browsers causes a white screen, can confirm it's also happening to me
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