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by dedward 16y ago
A private key (or client cert) is generally more of a "something you have" than a "something you know" credential. (unless you memorized your key - it's something you have, not something you know)
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by dedward 16y ago
Most phone calls back in the day were analog, and there was no reasonable expectation that anyone with a pair of alligator clips and a speaker couldn't listen in to their calls - but privacy laws still applied. Same deal here.
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by dedward 16y ago
Then again, anyone who works on md5 password "cracking" for a living would likely already have the set of all 5 character printed passwords hashed and sitting in a database ready for recall with no need to speedily crank through them.
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by dedward 16y ago
I'm not a bitcoins expert - but wouldn't any jump in the availability of bitcoins necessarily cause deflation, as with any currency? If someone finds a way to generate,say, 5x more bitcoins that what the average expected amount is - they ha
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by dedward 16y ago
Let's stop calling it brute-forcing - it's really not - or at least not calling it decrypting.
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by dedward 16y ago
Could just be a graphing anomaly, or that there aren't many people living on either side of the border in those areas.
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by dedward 16y ago
"but US labor law says assets created by employees using their employer's resources and time are owned by their employer." True - but trademark is not automatic like copyright, so it's a moot point.
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by dedward 16y ago
There seems to be a large misconception about the nature of the internet. It's not a circuit switched network. When you buy "20mbps" - why on earth would you think you were buying 20mbps to EVERYWHERE - that's just not feasible. There is
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by dedward 16y ago
That's odd - every datacenter (read: colocation facility) I've worked with had clear pricing for rack space, power, bandwidth, etc -I could use as much as I wanted, and I knew what I'd pay for it, and would re-negotiate if the regular usage
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by dedward 16y ago
What you want is easily available all over the place, at any scale you want. All of it is going to cost you more than Dreamhost's incredibly cheap prices - which are only possible because of it's police, as the guy stated. It seems unfair a
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by dedward 16y ago
It's not like viruses and antibiotics are the only thing keeping OTHER cells from taking over the planet - which seems to be the crux of the conjecture. I call shenanigans.
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by dedward 16y ago
They are fine for joe average who wants to play around and start a blog. They aren't fine if you want to deploy a web-scale infrastructure on top of them and make tons of money. That much should be obvious to anyone architecting such servi
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by dedward 16y ago
While they may very well win in court - their business will be destroyed. Why on earth was their CDN built around a single provider? Had they had multiple providers,this would have ended in reduced capacity, with buffer time to re-deploy el
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by dedward 16y ago
Did anyone with a mac NOT know that you could re-map keys from the keyboard syspref?
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by dedward 16y ago
If you had a botnet at your disposal, you did clear premedidated and pure WRONG regardless of whether or not we agree with who he used those stolen resources to attack. Getting the botnet itself was wrong.
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by dedward 16y ago
Sorry - if the guy was controlling a botnet, he can do his time just based on the massive numbers of computers he was illegal controlling. Sure we might feel some underdog sympathy for wikileaks right now, but the people doing these ddos at
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by dedward 16y ago
I would add - as a buyer (and possibly someone who's hell to a sales guy) - I usually ask to be put in touch with a sales engineer, and if he can't handle me, I very nicely explain I'd like to talk to the developers to get a feel for their
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by dedward 16y ago
Never negotiate with terrorists, right? THe thing is, this all depends on scale. If you are small scale, look at you cost per day. They won't attack you forever - their resources are limited. So if you're in that situation - okay, it sucks.
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by dedward 16y ago
They're both. Even with willing ISPs and countries on all sides, the attacks continue. Machines are far to insecure, which makes it far too easy for an individual or small group to harvest the resources of millions of machines and then hi
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by dedward 16y ago
AThere isa point where coding won't help you at all, and sheer bandwidth wins out. These guys can saturate 10gigs without worrying about it. If your business is really worth at least $1000/day then, a real-life protection service that prox
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by dedward 16y ago
Yes it has. Unfortunately I can't really say much about the parties involved or what happened (I wasn't the bad guy though, promise), but it absolutely has, and if I've seen it, then either I'm a unique little snowflake (yay!), or it's hap
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by dedward 16y ago
Amazon operates on a scale where they can handle this type of thing I don't mean automaticlaly, but they have the access points and gear in place to do it, and the levearage with the right ISPs. Buying a 10 gig link woulnd't be a distribute
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by dedward 16y ago
So the tech startup hasn't properly taken technical costs into consideration in their valuation - that could say something about the organisation itself. It is something you should be willing to quit over, but raise the issue appropriately
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by dedward 16y ago
Works okay as a portfolio, others have already hit on the design details that could probably be fixed. I'd say - having just looked at your site, it's not clear to me what you are selling - it's not clear to me how quickly or accurately you
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by dedward 16y ago
"In a dual model, all external contributors are required to re-assign their copyrights (and sometimes all of their IP rights) to the open source company." If it's GPL as usual - you are free to fork the project and do whatever you want with
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by dedward 16y ago
I recall in about grade 1 or so, my school bought a few TRS-80 model 3's. Each one had a name "FRED" "BERT" (I can't remember the real names) Interestingly, many years later when graduating from university, a load of old computer gear from
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by dedward 16y ago
Why would one post something like this publicly? Don't burn your bridges and all that. I swear, sometimes it seems like HN lives in this weird alternate universe where the rules of normal jobs don't apply.... It's fine if people want more m
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by dedward 16y ago
Buy full-fare tickets for each leg and you don't have this problem. Cancel at the last second, fly any day you want (as long as there is space). Change your plans on a whim. If you get a package deal though - it's a package. But nobody wan
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by dedward 16y ago
They don't under any circumstances WANT a cross-platform BBM. BBM is the one killer-app keeping people using blackberries due to the network effect. The only reason I still have a blackberry is because friends and family in far off countrie
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by dedward 16y ago
Normally, a retailer pays a wholesaler or producer money to get goods, then re-sells them to end users. Produces set the price, and retail outlets, with a markup, come up with a business strategy ot move that inventory to their customers. N

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