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>they refuse to conduct proper studies on it out of sheer stupidity and stubbornness Not stupidity and stubbornness. There is exactly zero money to be made from fasting. Much bette…

Now it seems they have also added fake lag to TCP port 80. hlds@machine:~$ tcptraceroute -f 128 -m 128 thepiratebay.se 80 Selected device venet0, address 5.9.249.8, port 41774 for …

It's fake but his analysis is wrong. TPB is still somewhere in Europe. Otherwise you couldn't have 50ms RTT to thepiratebay.se TCP port 80 from within Europe. I explained here how …

Exactly. Here is a collection of route-servers and looking glasses which tell you what path a route from ISP x to IP y will take. http://www.bgp4.as/looking-glasses You will see th…

First type traceroute thepiratebay.se Then tcptraceroute -f 128 -m 128 thepiratebay.se http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5319720 for explanation how they did it.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5319720 AS Paths can be modified pretty easily http://blog.ioshints.info/2008/02/bgp-essentials-as-path-pre...

fale@machine:~$ tcptraceroute -f 128 -m 128 thepiratebay.se Selected device venet0, address 5.9.249.8, port 40771 for outgoing packets Tracing the path to thepiratebay.se (194.71.1…

Hetzner's Xeon offerings with ECC aren't that expensive either: http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex6 I would expect Softlayer to be more reliable than Hetzner as a…

They're about to get some competition soon from Google. GDrive ( http://www.geekwire.com/2012/google-drive-wild-screenshot-lo... ) CSS sprites are already on Google Docs: https://d…

I think it's a bit ironic given the nature of the talk that the link on the video page to seomoz.org has rel="nofollow" while comments down below don't have. No link juice for thos…

Earlier comment I wrote on another HN discussion: Assuming DNS resolvers work as they should, most bitflips on the wire shouldn't result to anything else than a failed DNS query si…

It's already possible for amateurs to use an RC plane/drone without a line of sight, it's called FPV(first person view) piloting. They have a videocamera onboard and transmit the v…

I think the decision by Google to not buy Skype is great. Skype uses supernodes/decentralized address book and other trickery to keep the most of the load off their servers/NAT pro…

No one mentioned Mixrank in the comments, I like the idea. Maybe someday it will be one of those essential marketing tools like SEOmoz. I for one, am lazy and would prefer just mim…

Linux has tsocks and proxychains which override the connect() method with a LD_PRELOAD library and force traffic to go through a socks proxy. Easier than iptables since at least pr…

Just a quick note. Make sure your VPS is Xen/KVM/Vmware and not OpenVZ or some other container based virtualization if you want to use OpenVPN since it needs access to tun/tap devi…

Assuming DNS resolvers work as they should, most bitflips on the wire shouldn't result to anything else than a failed DNS query since DNS packets include the original requested FQD…