Swannie

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by Swannie 11y ago
Storage != Networking. Storage is an end-point. You can control almost all the variables inside. Networking is in the middle. You can control almost none of the variables.
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by Swannie 11y ago
Player was crippled, to prompt purchase of Workstation. Many people I know who were serious about managing their VMs virtual networks were using Virtual Box.
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by Swannie 11y ago
What's shocking is the lack of a clear explanation by the so-called experts contacted in this article. My explanation as to what is likely happening: "Every WiFi router has a special unique number - think of it as serial number -
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by Swannie 11y ago
Serving up HTML from Stored Procedures was a thing back in the late 90's/early 2000's as enterprise vendors made the shift to web apps. In fact quite a popular thing for client-server app's where the server was built in
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by Swannie 11y ago
I doubt it. Even if you are relatively fit, many of these escalators are equivalent to 2 - 3 flights of stairs, after sitting standing in a hot carriage for 30mins plus. The speed that you are expected to ascend as a "walker" is h
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by Swannie 11y ago
Stop conflating backdoors and lawful intercept. Lawful intercept is a specific method of viewing traffic passing through a network device. It would be straightforward to build something, without it being a standard feature of vendor network
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by Swannie 11y ago
Unlikely, as the relationship between short term time use, and long term pay off is poorly linked.
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by Swannie 11y ago
I've seen this idea expressed multiple times in this thread, and wonder how it is that HN users' are so out of touch with the gaming crowd. Almost all serious PC gamers I've ever known upgrade their graphics cards every 9 - 1
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by Swannie 11y ago
You've created a false dichotomy, leaving out a major "Startup" class: get acquired. There are also many other options. "Startups" in this context exist to get VC's an acceptable exit.
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by Swannie 11y ago
"> Tech employees need to wake up about common vs preferred shares" The important distinction is employee vs founder. You mention founders in your comment. Founders typically would hold a double-digit percentage of common share
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by Swannie 11y ago
A good start. If you want to improve it, please add information about how to consume HTTPS services in a secure way. Also potentially add an aside for self-signed/enterprise CA, as most web developers will encounter internal systems so
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by Swannie 11y ago
Because running your own CA, on the internet, with correct support for revocation, and correctly securing it, is not easy.
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by Swannie 11y ago
Brit here, with many years driving experience in the UK and Australia, and multiple months driving in the USA and Israel. The depressing thing about "Defensive Driving" is that it is essentially good driving sense. Reading about d
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by Swannie 11y ago
It might make sense if a unique private key was generated each time the application was downloaded. For example, a user wishing to use the Azure web services either supplies their own cert/public key to Azure, OR requests Azure to gene
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by Swannie 11y ago
I used to be enough to get lots of big boats: Larry Ellison; Oracle: http://www.superyachtfan.com/larry_ellison.html (including his Americas Cup yachts) James (Jim) Clark; Silicon Graphics, Netscape: http://www.s
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by Swannie 11y ago
So that a program could use this Cert + Key to create arbitrary signed certs for google.com, facebook.com, etc. etc. This is what the Superfish software did.
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by Swannie 11y ago
Surely in testing this device, NASA will develop techniques in how to test the efficacy of similar extremely low power propulsion devices? Or put another way, in testing this device, NASA are refining their ability to conduct a "contro
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by Swannie 11y ago
Absolutely. This is also well known in the amateur caving community too, who follow similar practices to those outlined by yourself. I too find this crazy. As they say in the diving industry about water and confined spaces: a deceptively ea
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by Swannie 11y ago
As the tree grows, the weight distribution changes, and things move. Trees grow from the leaves. Leaves are not just at "the top".
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by Swannie 11y ago
"The fact that "power users" are making so much money from Airbnb indicates just how poorly hotels serve travelers" There are plenty of well ran boutique hotels that serve travellers very well. "Power users" ar
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by Swannie 11y ago
Yes, I assume that a store could very easily link WiFi MAC addresses to CC numbers, and then loyalty cards. The probability that someone checks out and leaves the store at the same time that you do is high. But two times in a row? Lower. 5
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by Swannie 11y ago
From: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-importexport-snowball-t... "...The data will be 256-bit encrypted on the host [running the Snowball client?] and stored on the appliance in encrypted form. The appli
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by Swannie 11y ago
Depends on your definition of trust. But yes, if you assume this device is treated as malicious at both ends - just like an unfiltered internet connection, but 10x worse - and that the client software that is doing the load/verificatio
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by Swannie 11y ago
I assume named after the fact that a snowball is a lump of cloud matter, in a flight ready state?
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by Swannie 11y ago
Tamper detection won't prevent anything. It would just be an indicator that something appears to have happened. The software load that is wiped every time is a first, and extremely basic, line of defence. Realistically I'd hope
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by Swannie 11y ago
This is 100% the scenario I was just imagining. Obviously this device has been designed to be a multi-time use device. Amazon definitely do NOT have physical control over this box. They would need to do a complete low level reflash of every
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by Swannie 11y ago
Assuming you mean the non-memristor version of the machine? Microsoft are not a hardware company by any stretch. There are a few hardware engineers in small areas (Xbox, handsets, Surface), but almost none in server. Apple mostly make consu
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by Swannie 11y ago
Why has this been downvoted? It's an important argument. Which open source projects have deterministic builds, with a verifiable source of signature information - be that concensus or a source of truth that is verfied by concensus, so
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by Swannie 11y ago
This requires an older version of a Cisco router that will accept un-signed firmware. Newer IOS versions will only load Cisco signed code.
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by Swannie 11y ago
Thank you for posting that. I read this paragraph and the weak language instantly made me wonder this was doing on HN. I would not consider those two "types" of cells. I don't understand how this passes for publishable materi

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