nicksuan

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by nicksuan 13y ago
Mages have three different specializations, which affect their play style: Arcane, Fire and, of course, Frost
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by nicksuan 14y ago
He is mostly correct, since the only work being done in a computer system is the motion of the fans and hard disks.
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by nicksuan 14y ago
Yes, on a machine where you do analysis like that, you typically monitor all outgoing and incoming connections.
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by nicksuan 15y ago
When you inevitably unbox your new iPad, though, just remember that Apple has done little more than cram a bunch of bits inside a slick tablet chassis; bits that, except for the display, aren’t very exciting at all. I feel this statement
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by nicksuan 15y ago
It doesn't seem that surprising. Just digging around in the passive DNS database at work, I see CloudFlare has their name servers in the NS records of several 10's of thousands of domains. I'm fairly sure that given the scope of the sources
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by nicksuan 15y ago
In my experience many ISPs do the exact opposite, and inflate cached TTLs up to a week. Makes migrations a pain in the ass.
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by nicksuan 15y ago
I wouldn't be so sure: http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/privacy/2316022...
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by nicksuan 15y ago
Using a VPN (or a proxy) just moves the argument from your ISP, to the ISP where the VPN endpoint is located.
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by nicksuan 15y ago
Not surprising. There's at least one collection project that had already been running several years at that time: http://wigle.net/
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by nicksuan 15y ago
Some of those numbers don't look correct at all. For example I can't find any host name that takes longer than ~500ms to do DNS resolution over 3G. (That's almost worst case scenario, where everything except the TLD is uncached.)