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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 versi…

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…

> 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 s…

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 actual…

The project is a number of years old now. The cost of construction projects tend to increase by 15% per year in western countries.

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 I…

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 b…

There is a lot of money in sex. Patreon is basically "will undress for money".

Bullshit. A Google search for "socialist news" returns wsws.org as the #2 response. #1 is socialistworks.org, a competing site.

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 wi…

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.

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 …

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…

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 po…

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 excee…

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…

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 to…

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…

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 pa…

If there are 90GB of static files, and 60GB are in the Varnish cache, cache busting will be pretty ineffective.

It is actually a really good name for search engines, as it is completely invented word.

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…

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 …

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 h…

The solution was found already: keep reprocessing the nuclear waste into new fuel.