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by Swannie 13y ago
I thought the problem was the recommended implementation of Dual EC PRNG that was broken - the specific point selection that was mandated to be suitable for government use - the one that RSA used?
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by Swannie 13y ago
Today JC's direct report more or less == Cisco Board. He really only has three: COO and Co-President Gary Moore, Co-President Sales & Development Rob Lloyd, and CFO Frank Calderoni. Pretty much all other C-level and EVPs report to
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by Swannie 13y ago
There are a lot of smart, innovative people at BT. But move above direct line managers and it's... not pretty. MBO's cause quarterly firedrills/death marches to get "something out" - objective reached! In the result
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by Swannie 13y ago
The price of which is regulated. It's still considered high by the ISPs that rent it.
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by Swannie 13y ago
Probably not so much. He'd probably have been hired by Atari and making a ton of cash, followed by disappearing into obscurity.
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by Swannie 13y ago
Wow. Learned a lot from the linked shared here. Thanks.
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by Swannie 13y ago
Well explained. Essentially becoming VAT registered turns you into a tax collector :-)
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by Swannie 13y ago
http://www.buzzfeed.com/autodesk/a-new-look-at-the-high-spee... From Aug 30th with some cool images and a like to the YouTube CGI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV7lbDcaCo4
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by Swannie 13y ago
It is a joke. Worldwide internet access is available today, for a high price, via satellite. Worldwide disease control is an incredibly hard problem. Just think that only 20 years ago the internet was not generally used to conduct business.
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by Swannie 13y ago
You're talking about telecommunications - not the internet. There is a difference. You don't need the internet for telecoms. You don't even need a mobile phone (though in today's Africa, generally a mobile will do a lot
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by Swannie 13y ago
Opportunity cost of screening the CV deluge, and interviewing all the people that have actively lied on their CV to get to interview stage? HUGE!
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by Swannie 13y ago
When you are dealing with multiple systems and sub-systems, it's not so easy.
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by Swannie 13y ago
In larger companies, it's not uncommon to offer a 3 month contracting trial period. That gives the prospective employee a more stable income, and gives the employer a much better idea of work performance. I've seen people that hav
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by Swannie 13y ago
Except where most larger companies do require you to declare outside work or advisory/consulting arrangements, and would hold you in breach of employment terms if you did not. USA labor laws are messed up!
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by Swannie 13y ago
Heavy? A lot of room in the handle? Nope... I'm stumped too, because I can't imagine there would already be a transformer in there for easy 5 - 12v power.
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by Swannie 13y ago
Caveat: this is info based on a quick chat with a BT WiFi engineer, backed up with random internet reading. It's set up in the router and BRAS, but it will only take that bandwidth away if you're watching IPTV. I should have used
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by Swannie 13y ago
In short, at BT, no way. Your IP is your LAN. Other users get different IPs. BT runs three SSIDs. Your network, BT-Wifi (FKA OpenZone), and BT-FON. Your network is your network. Private IP, different encryption. The packets leave your house
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by Swannie 13y ago
Yes.
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by Swannie 13y ago
Sure, but so will finding an appropriate cable landing site, getting a mini-substation built near that landing site, etc. Cable landing is a hard problem.
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by Swannie 13y ago
I know a number of colleagues (I work for a large global corp) who have moved to Spain from the UK for many of these reasons. We heavily embrace remote working through the use of online meetings and video-conferencing. If you need a high qu
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by Swannie 13y ago
Right, and if you want to live in a "leafy green" part of zones 4, 5 and 6, with good transport into central London expect to pay close to zone 2 prices (e.g. Richmond, Wimbledon, even Beckenham, etc.). A 2 bed in Richmond will se
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by Swannie 13y ago
Right. Add on places such as Moscow, Sydney, Zurich, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong - and you have some of the worlds most expensive cities (when converted to USD, not considering the relative costs of living). Even with the relative costs of
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by Swannie 13y ago
Yes... given they use the same connector on the HDD, I'm wondering if they actually need to change the hardware at all! The sprite breakdown identifies one core as managing the SAS commands, via DMA. Now how hard would it be to actuall
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by Swannie 13y ago
Universities are institutions of research, that also happen to teach. To many faculties, students are a necessary evil to fund research. In order to teach students about their research, they have to go through three years of basics, not-so-
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by Swannie 13y ago
Or you could just shift the processes to a newly commissioned, and therefore cheaper per cpu/ram/storage per dollar!
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by Swannie 13y ago
Here here! It would be lovely if vendors would bid based on their experience, and be compensated for it, at a time and materials basis. The more experience and better you prove to be, the higher we're willing to pay for a better outcom
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by Swannie 13y ago
All outsourced. GDS is trying to in-source a lot of work that should be controlled by a central publishing and transaction design group, and contracting out the relatively boring task of following their rules. Good idea, as long as their ar
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by Swannie 13y ago
I first learned of this world in popular non-fiction: Emergency by Neil Strauss. An excellent book if you want to know more about secrecy jurisdictions, state regulatory capture, the basics of transfer pricing, etc. is Treasure Islands by N
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by Swannie 13y ago
Actually, that's really really not true, outside of the USA. It's trivially easy to set up a USA corporation that is: managed by a laywer, that is is owned by a trust in the Caymans, or a similar secrecy jurisdiction, where the
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by Swannie 13y ago
Sure, it's valuable. But deeply? If the person wrote the code in such a way that no one else could understand that it was a breath-first search, is that valuable? If they didn't even leave comments when they write code? If they di

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