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21:02
@RоryMcCune She's a keeper!
@raz indeed :)
@raz Probably because it now has three deleted answers from new users.
@Gilles Yes, this. @raz
@raz This question is protected to prevent "thanks!", "me too!", or spam answers by new users. To answer it, you must have earned at least 10 reputation on this site.
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@Xander yeah I get it, it's just most of the protected ones I see are because the answers are useful, and haven't been closed.
So I personally equated "Protected" with "Useful"
@raz Gotcha. I'd say that most questions that end up protected are those that hit the super-collider, and draw a lot of views (followed by uneducated answers) from users of other SE sites.
@Xander the biggest is probably actually those that have keywords that spammers look for
if a few answers are flagged as spam, then it ends up protected as well
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21:20
Salami Attack, and a legit post.
Funny
 
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22:38
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Q: how to convert mac address to floating value

biniami want to change a mac address to floating point number. i tried using IEEE 754 converter online but it says "the value is out of range", how can i do it in a proper way?

this one returns lol
now that he got the answer, will he ask how to convert a floating value to MAC address next?
23:21
Why would you want to convert a MAC into a floating point....?
23:32
I have to say I'm pretty shocked that sec.SE hasn't figured out to pwn WinterBash and competely obliterate the other SE sites.
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@DavidFreitag Because he can't think of how to store it properly?
@Xander What, like an array of bytes perhaps?
@DavidFreitag Now that's just crazy talk.
@Xander Store it as a string. Done.
@Adnan How 'bout: Convert it to a floating point, and then convert that to a string, and then get the ASCII values for each character, and then store that as a CSV string?
@Xander Better yet, write it to the VGA buffer
23:43
@Xander Then hash it
To make it secure
and to protect against DDoS attacks
@Adnan Don't forget the salt
@Adnan Ha ha ha, yes, perfect.
@DavidFreitag No no, in this case you don't need salt. Layer-3 transport mechanism provides internal encryption protection
@Xander that is almost certainly doable. However, that would be cheating
Now give me my CISSP cert!
23:46
@Adnan lol
@RoryAlsop Wasn't the exam about the amount of buzzwords you can invent?
@Adnan I can't remember. It was so long ago.
@RoryAlsop Some say it was before time itself.
@DavidFreitag in the beginning, there was the (Buzz)word
what? I thought that was funny...sheesh
tough crowd
:-)
I chuckled :]
23:56
I think everyone else is asleep

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