brandonsometig

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by brandonsometig 8y ago
UPNP can be an absolute security nightmare however, it's the sole reason so many IP cameras, NAS drives and IOT devices are internet accessible. It's your network of course but it would be the first thing I'd turn off.
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
What's the minimum they can charge?
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
Did you intentionally ignore the malware injection point?
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
HP Chromebooks are exactly the same. It's all down to the driver.
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
Could be because of the insane THC levels in street cannabis. At least if it was legalised it could be regulated to be under a certain level.
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
Port mirroring on most managed switches will allow you to pick up TCP packets for another device.
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
Miners don't have the ability to 'print' more Bitcoin. They can release blocks with whatever transactions they like in but they will simply be rejected by the network. The fact that there is 10,000 public bitcoin nodes (and p
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
You can make 1 Satoshi payments on the Lightning network already at a cost of $0.00007.
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
This especially does not work when you need a large network effect like Bittorrent does. People know how it works and how to use it and that is why it will be very difficult to overthrow, even if better technology comes along. It works per
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
They can borrow against the property at the stated rent instead of what the market would actually pay. As soon as they accept lower rents they can no longer claim it's worth as much in collateral.
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
> Which country came to the aid of Britain, and all those Western European nations when they were faced with the existential threat of Nazism? Russia mainly, from where an estimated 24 million people died. American also didn't wade
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
> BTW, Cisco and a few others have been forced to develop 'lawful intercept' technologies on their routers for the three-letter agencies for years, I think. There was a big controversy about this a few years ago. And you seem t
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
It's not end-to-end if Facebook can read them after they are delivered. Facebook only have access to the metadata.
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
Whilst creepy, I love the idea of a proof of work system like this, something that anyone can participate in. I just don't see how it could be achieved in a way that couldn't be gamed.
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
Without access to the data we don't know how useful it is full stop.
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
If they're using the T6 platform they will kit it out however they like.
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
That's like saying Linux hasn't figured out updates yet. It's a false argument.
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
You've reinforced my decision not to have kids, far too much responsibility.
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
To be in the position of being able to do a bitcoin 51% attack however you would have had to sunk enormous costs into buying ASIC miners. The minute everyone finds out that a 51% attack occurs you will have pressure to change the mining alg
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
Classifying produce only helps the consumer. You'd be a little annoyed if every week you went to the supermarket and they had a varying quality/size of produce but the price remained the same.
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
At which point you may as well put the transactions in a SQL database and call it Paypal.
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by brandonsometig 8y ago
You need a second layer(and possibly more on-top of that) for several reasons. How do you expect to propagate and store 1GB blocks (hell, even 100MB blocks) every 10 minutes for the foreseeable future. I understand that the cost of storage