samplonius

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by samplonius 9y ago
Anything that uses clear-text passwords has been removed. That is a very clear red-line. Also, anything that uses weak encryption, like P2PTP has also been removed, but a few versions ago. And the ssh defaults are tightened up almost eve
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by samplonius 9y ago
Given that Apple Stores average about $5000/sq ft in revenue, it would be big waste to have that space taken up by software engineers. You can purchases strata title triple A class office space in Vancouver for less than that. http:&#
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by samplonius 9y ago
> It was easier in those days to find NOC phone numbers and network engineers generally like to fix problems. Yes, it is super hard now. It took over 5 seconds to find the Cogent support numbers: http://www.cogentco.com/
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by samplonius 9y ago
I don't get why Houston wants to spend $400M on a reservoir. Sure they need a reservoir, but they need all of the other stuff too. Perhaps if they had $4B budget, they could actually fix everything that needs to be fixed. Houston nee
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by samplonius 9y ago
The project is a number of years old now. The cost of construction projects tend to increase by 15% per year in western countries.
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by samplonius 9y ago
I'm not aware of any routers that can forward IPv4 in hardware, but pass IPv6 to the control plane. Even the discontinued Catalyst 6500, which was used (and still is) by a lot of ISPs with the SUP720 supervisor, can do native IPv6. I t
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by samplonius 9y ago
That is generally the opposite of reality. IPv6 is generally faster than IPv4. I don't know what "a couple of years ago" is, but all tier-1 ISPs have IPv6 backbones. There should be no reason for your access ISP to have to
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by samplonius 9y ago
Bullshit. A Google search for "socialist news" returns wsws.org as the #2 response. #1 is socialistworks.org, a competing site.
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by samplonius 9y ago
Except for DLC. A AAA title will need to ship at least 4 x DLCs over a 12 to 18 month period. And no doubt the DLC development will expose serious bugs along the way, so the DLC will have to contain patches as well. The lifespan of AAA ti
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by samplonius 9y ago
When you submit a zero day to a bank, maybe let us know. I this case, you submitted a zero-day to a trader-broker, not a bank.
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by samplonius 10y ago
I think it is important to note that Rackspace got into AWS and Azure services, because the dedicated physical servers business was dead man walking. While Rackspace did introduce virtualization and other services running on their own hard
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by samplonius 10y ago
There is a probably a consumer device that has a GRE listener running, and it is possible to send it a small packet, and it will return back some sort of error response. So classic amplification. Thought given the moderate amount of traffi
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by samplonius 10y ago
So "space" is some magical place where measurement error does not exist? Low earth orbit isn't perfect either. You still have micro gravity. And the experiment requires a lot of power, and very sensitive instruments to meas
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by samplonius 10y ago
Yes, but they can be flooded as well. Every system is going to have a finite capacity. And if the capacity is exceeded, the system will slow. If the capacity is significantly exceeded, it will become unreachable itself. So if the capacit
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by samplonius 10y ago
There is an incentive: it is the cost of transit. However, there usually are not a lot of zombies per single ISP for the access level ISP to even see any abnormal traffic. The best thing is that access ISPs need to implement BCP38 ( https
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by samplonius 10y ago
You are not the first to come up with this idea. This same thought has been posted every year for the past 20 or so years in mailing lists, forums or Usenet (thought lately, not too often to Usenet). I think prevention should be emphasized
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by samplonius 10y ago
Click bait title? Theranos withdrew their application to the FDA for the test. So "Theranos Halts New Zika Test" is technically accurate, but it suggests that the test was actually being performed.
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by samplonius 10y ago
He doesn't get to "keep every penny". There is such a thing as personal income tax, and in Canada is going to be over 50%. Hopefully, the deal was structured with some stock, or paid to a corporate entity. Because if he rec
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by samplonius 10y ago
If there are 90GB of static files, and 60GB are in the Varnish cache, cache busting will be pretty ineffective.
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by samplonius 10y ago
It is actually a really good name for search engines, as it is completely invented word.
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by samplonius 10y ago
Please laws over ride TOS? Can you add a item to the ToS that says: Vendor is allowed to kill customer at any time during contract term? Maybe that is a bad example, since assisted suicide is basically that.
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by samplonius 10y ago
It is not that Netflix is being access, but what on Netflix is being accessed. Netflix does not publish viewership information. But a large ISP could run DPI on Netflix traffic to determine what content is being viewed. And since many ISP
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by samplonius 10y ago
It also assumes the future people will be even dumber than the present population? But also isn't it a treasure trove? Nuclear waste can be reprocessed into fresh fuel. The waste has a large amount of useful energy left.
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by samplonius 10y ago
The solution was found already: keep reprocessing the nuclear waste into new fuel.
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by samplonius 10y ago
The plan in the US was to enrich waste in breeder reactors, mix in some fresh fuel, and re-use it. It was the nuclear fuel cycle. Lots of resources on the technology. There were two problems. The use of breeder reactors had some prolifer
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by samplonius 11y ago
Yes, those damn peer reviews are so annoying. I recommend using journals that don't bother to verify anything. - Ranjit Chandra ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranjit_Chandra )
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by samplonius 11y ago
I debate whether multicast has any use case in gaming. When online gaming started, it was fairly common to send the entire world state to all clients. Multicast helps when you are sending the same data to everyone. but online gaming start
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by samplonius 11y ago
Most video streaming today is not served by UDP, but by TCP. Only live video uses UDP. Stored video (ex. Netflix) is all sent via TCP.
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by samplonius 11y ago
Riak has the same sort of concept: http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/theory/concepts/Eventual-C... I think Riak is richer in this area than Cassandra, because if the inconstancy can not be resolved, Ria
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by samplonius 12y ago
Why would it make sense to encrypt queries and replies from a public data source? Signing the data is all that is needed.

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