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by Swannie 11y ago
The suggestions was the it could be in YouTube's interest to create a team that sends out DMCA notices on the behalf of their top contributors. This would give YouTube a unique feature that would keep their content producers hosting co
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by Swannie 11y ago
:-) The slight tone of sarcasm was there if you were looking for it. Ultimately it comes down to "Trust us". Unless you are well versed in computer security, anything other than what I wrote, is meaningless. Even the rootkit stuff
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by Swannie 11y ago
Q: Is it secure? A: No. Q: What do you mean "No"? A: We believe we have done a good job in securing it. Q: So did you do a good job? A: We hope so! Q: You "hope so", what sort of answer is that? A: Trust us. It's se
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by Swannie 11y ago
I read the books 15 years ago (IIRC, the first 4 or 5), and need to revisit. But my enduring memory was of a flawed young man becoming overly enamoured with his new messianic role, and making some choices that were questionable.
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by Swannie 11y ago
No, it really does not. It prohibits an exploit hosted on an unknown site from running. That is quite different from protecting against JS browser vulnerabilities. Now, if NoScript added JS sandboxing of some advanced variety employing heur
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by Swannie 11y ago
IANA engineer... Only if the vehicles are self propelling from the ground, and if you refer back to trains really they are just pushing air in front of them, with some air escaping past them. If there were not ventilation systems to allow t
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by Swannie 11y ago
> The thing is that it's a damn hard lifestyle, if one doesn't have the right mindset/(self)education/upbring. And budget. To do properly requires a pretty good budget for good quality protein sources, vegetables, etc
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by Swannie 11y ago
Microsoft, IBM, GE, Siemans, and even companies like Cisco, Rockwell and others have all been making moves here. Nice to see Google finally joining the rest of the tech industry ;-) I have to assume this was prompted by the sort of standard
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by Swannie 11y ago
Inmarsat's Global Xpress system is geostationary. http://www.inmarsat.com/service/global-xpress/ No specifics on the site about the exact altitude, but probably in order of those listed here.
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by Swannie 11y ago
I was shocked to read a EAL4 summary for a product that I know to be extremely hard to secure. But of course, if you follow all the steps, that only the vendor knows, it can be EAL4. Just don't miss one of the 100s of settings... :&#x2
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by Swannie 11y ago
You're diagramming your network. Typically network engineers like using a tree layout - core devices at the top, flowing down to aggregation devices, down to access devices, down to the end devices. Hence traffic to the North was to th
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by Swannie 11y ago
Indeed. But the view of the NetSec team is that you server is not trusted to secure itself. If every service in your ecosystem implemented ipfw rules (or equivalent) then that's great. But if your box got popped, then can I be sure tha
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by Swannie 11y ago
They note the mobile chips - but those are sold cheap. More importantly is the fact that Broadcom's switch chips have pretty much become the de-facto chipsets used in data center switches from most vendors. They are quickly becoming th
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by Swannie 11y ago
This is a widely repeated anecdotal statement - the lifecycle for all online social destinations has typically been 8 - 10 years. The only somewhat useful exception is Yahoo! and they have reinvented themselves many times. Yes, anecdotal, b
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by Swannie 11y ago
Ditto. Yet I still have this conversation with self styled "network architects" who want to blanket block all ICMP. It's depressing.
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by Swannie 11y ago
Indeed. My total compensation package has elements covered by NDA. Technically even disclosing this fact could be considered a breach of my NDA. My salary figure is an important part of my compensation, but it's a long way from telling
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by Swannie 11y ago
Mhh. I was never very impressed. It started when they initially refused to credit RepRap with all the open-source stuff they included in MakerBot. They then proceeded to bury the credit when they finally gave it. They claimed they were putt
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by Swannie 12y ago
My question isn't really about stabilising the platform, as others have mentioned that should be off the shelf marine tech. But this isn't exactly landing a helicopter on a ship/platform. I'm expecting a rocket to be a f
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by Swannie 12y ago
There are. Cisco and others are getting into the small cell space. Not that many people realize that Samsung are in to building base stations. Cisco have always been in the back haul, core mobile routing space, along with Juniper, and some
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by Swannie 12y ago
When you can place yourself in the position of a colleague/customer/supplier, you often understand "they did the best they could given their resources" - be those financial, emotional, intelligence, etc. Often I see more
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by Swannie 12y ago
Oracle are also notoriously litigious. My large corp experience is that you are expected to paste a similar disclaimer on all external communications, during your employment, where your employment with that company is relevant to the conver
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by Swannie 12y ago
Also available in some commercial distro's of OpenStack, like Metacloud. I always cringe when people believe VMware HA == HA solution. No. It's part of a HA strategy, but 30 seconds to declare a node is dead, and then however long
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by Swannie 12y ago
Maybe true in pre to early 1980s. With SS7, widely deployed in Europe and then the rest of the world, probing (tapping) was quite straight forward when the SP complied with local lawful intercept regulations. http://en.wikipedia.
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by Swannie 12y ago
Getting a job in the City requires you have a job in the City. There are two normal routes into the City if you don't have an amazing CV - knowing someone, or working for a non-City firm on City projects (e.g. Accenture, KPMG, or many
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by Swannie 12y ago
Many of the large SV companies place many bets. You could walk into Cisco, VMware, EMC, Pivotal, etc. etc. and find yourself working with close to cutting edge tools, hard problems, etc - BUT have a stable salary, perks, training courses, h
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by Swannie 12y ago
That was exactly the point.
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by Swannie 12y ago
The scope of networking, at an introductory level, is large. It's increasingly important too, as more and more systems become distributed, and rely on the network. For example, HDD's with ethernet interfaces!
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by Swannie 12y ago
Let's assume reading and writing is to literacy as is suggested at the start of the article. I think that's not too contentious. Given that, there's an odd assertion in this article around Excel. To quote the article: "W
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by Swannie 12y ago
Excel works for numerical modeling. Try modeling a multi-actor process. It's representable, but not a model. Better to represent in a swimlane diagram.
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