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That's probably a majority of the point. Falsely report that some interesting ports are open and he'll spend time on them and potentially trigger alerts or blocks.

Fake open ports aren't something a normal user would bother with or understand, but with all the tools available in the nefarious side, it makes sense to have options that make their job harder if you're willing to use them.

Maybe what you're referring to is along the lines of a port being open but the software on the other side of it not sending acknowledging responses?

At a guess, you might tell the difference between some benign scan and an attempt to actually take advantage of the port, perhaps to use as a trigger to automatically ban an ip address? or a way to divert malicious resources to an easy looking target so they are less available in other areas?

The difference between someone scanning for open ports and someone attacking a port they find open seems significant enough to at least track and watch for patterns... Whether that's useful for the majority of users or not is rarely why a feature is implemented.

That's like 1-2 adapters tops.

Really weird way to phrase that if talking about a penis....unless you're talking about a flaccid one which is even more weirdly specific.

not to justify bad behavior, but your points are rather off base. Thinking you're superior to something doesn't mean you hate it.....One might consider themselves superior to plants and not hate them. One might consider Ford superior to Chevy and not hate Chevy. A woman can be misogynistic and consider males superior without hating females. Just because the 2 other points often come along for the ride doesn't mean they are part of the definition and shouldn't be asked.

Not really debatable, that's the actual rule. An before words that start with a vowel sound.

Because an precedes a word that starts with a vowel sound, not just because they start with a vowel letter

A free printer might be awesome if it's laser...a free ink jet printer is like saying you got stabbed 'for free'. I mean, yeah, it was free.

Yeah, he was basically telling them to stop, or maybe more generally he was telling them to take a look at whether they really need to print things.

Brother printers were the last straw in throwing away they last inkjet I ever hope to own.

Want to scan something into your computer, you say? Sorry, can't do that because you're low on magenta!

No idea if their laser printers try the same crap, because I avoided that brand when it came to picking one out, but holy crap what an off-putting experience.

Thing is, they don't have to believe it to feel justified in saying it. Just like some cultures accept/encourage otherwise negative behavior like cheating or lying as long as it's at the expense of the 'enemy' (unlike some cultures who would consider those acts dishonorable in themselves), Republicans are easily at that point in their culture where as long as it somehow owns (or just bothers or creates extra work for) liberals, and internally they can wink wink, nudge nudge each other and be on the inside of the joke, it's perfectly fine to say one thing and think another.

The problem is that they aren't particularly good at it, so there isn't really a solid line and, find themselves on both sides of the lines as far as being the insiders and also the mark, they don't fully know how to function. Just watch the lower level people in interviews...they have no idea what the end game plan is, just some talking points, so when you ask them about two counter-intuitive assertions, they just fall back to pouting and anger. It's really no difference for the top-level players like Trump and Guiliani. They just know that the lies work, and some people are letting them get away with them, and everyone else can't keep up with the speed with which it's spewing from their collective mouths, so they follow that prayer, the say it, they know they have to say it half convincingly, and in the process, end up believing in some of it, laughing about most of it, and generally confused about which half is which.