From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neal Murphy Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ipset 6.13 released Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 18:59:42 -0400 Message-ID: <201207011859.42373.neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu> References: <201207011730.07810.neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu> Reply-To: neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org, Jozsef Kadlecsik , Mr Dash Four , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, Patrick McHardy To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: Received: from MAIL1.WPI.EDU ([130.215.36.91]:43409 "EHLO MAIL1.WPI.EDU" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754766Ab2GAW7y (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jul 2012 18:59:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sunday 01 July 2012 17:55:32 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Sunday 2012-07-01 23:30, Neal Murphy wrote: > >Picture yourself standing in the middle of a (shallow) river. By Mr. > >Dash Four's logic, upstream (where the water comes from) is the > >destination and downstream (where the water is going) is the source; > >it's rather non-sensical. > > Must be a physicist thing. Electrons, those little but important things > giving us juice on the mains (which in most practical cases are solid > conductors), have also been declared to be negative. Just because. Physicists *are* known to have warped senses of humor. :) Electricity's the only current flow I know of that is counter-intuitive on the surface. The flow of electron *holes* defines current (+ to -), while electrons flow from - to +.