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by larrys 13y ago
This is actually a pretty big deal. I was around at the formation of ICANN. At the time I remember saying "the fix is in" as a result of the interactions between Network Solutions (the sole contractor prior to ICANN) and governmen
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by larrys 13y ago
This is actually a pretty big deal. I was around at the formation of ICANN. At the time I remember saying "the fix is in" as a result of the interactions between Network Solutions (the sole contractor prior to ICANN) and governmen
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by larrys 13y ago
I buy luxury brands and have for a long time. The dealer experience is pretty darn good. I took delivery on a new Porsche. The transmission had a problem. So they flew a new one in from Germany by Fedex at a cost of perhaps $8,000 (after a
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by larrys 13y ago
"Musk is massively disingenuous and rather insulting to our intelligence. But he's a heck of a salesman " Agree. And makes you wonder a bit about the marketing materials surrounding these cars, huh? He's trying to make a
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by larrys 13y ago
"An even bigger conflict of interest with auto dealers is that they make most of their profit from service, but electric cars require much less service than gasoline cars. There are no oil, spark plug or fuel filter changes, no tune-up
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by larrys 13y ago
"Moreover, it is much harder to sell a new technology car from a new company when people are so used to the old. Inevitably, they revert to selling what’s easy and it is game over for the new company." That's total BS. Any de
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by larrys 13y ago
No, I'm specifically talking about clients who have signed up entering in their ip address that they access from. "Just have your botnet do a few regular old requests to the network a few days before launching." Not talking a
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by larrys 13y ago
Wondering if, for a service like github, it would be possible to setup a whitelist of allowable ip addresses. If an attack was launched only that whitelist would be allowed until the attack was mitigated. So while certain legitimate traffic
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by larrys 13y ago
Hadn't hear of them. Good tip. Thanks.
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by larrys 13y ago
I'm curious how "xapo" is pronounced. Is it "zappo"?
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by larrys 13y ago
Without knowing the exact name and owner you have dealt with it's hard to speculate. That said being in this industry I can tell you: a) "I get asked regularly" - very common to claim others are interested and considered a go
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Will Verizon be allowed to break it's Fios promise to NJ?(philly.com)
1 points by larrys 13y ago|0 comments
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by larrys 13y ago
Details details. Well first they would need physical access and then they would also need to know which drive number was owned by which person (not super difficult for sure but a system could be designed where it was more "swiss"
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by larrys 13y ago
Raises an interesting idea. (At relatives house raises security questions..) A storage company which essentially takes a drive that you clone from your home machine (snapshot). Then they mount that drive in a data center. You then use rsyn
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by larrys 13y ago
Wait. Are you saying that he claims he paid a certain amount as the justification for the price he wants for the domain?
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by larrys 13y ago
While there could very well be something to back this up it could also be similar to the "Netscape Now" button that was very common back in the mid to late 90's. People doing it in other words because they are merely copying
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by larrys 13y ago
"He's shown no attempt to put the name to use and he's made no attempt to negotiate a reasonable price. If he increases the price after I've built the brand then I'd gladly spend $1500 on an ICANN arbitration hearin
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by larrys 13y ago
Looks like the link was killed. Can't find it anywhere.
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by larrys 13y ago
Summary of it is here: http://pagesix.com/2014/03/12/sergey-brins-affair-with-fello...
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O.K., Glass: Make Google Eyes(vanityfair.com)
14 points by larrys 13y ago|4 comments
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by larrys 13y ago
Here is a working link to pay taxes which I believe also includes franchise taxes: http://corp.delaware.gov/paytaxes.shtml
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by larrys 13y ago
"Our government has likely forked over millions of our tax dollars" Of course the cliche "shitty little photo sharing startup" runs perfectly all the time 24x7 no down time no code errors. How about checking back in a da
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by larrys 13y ago
Preface for anyone reading this: I don't have any technical degree only what I have picked up over time. That said: So in terms of the instructions "wrap the chicken" assuming the chicken were wrapped in a way that there was
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by larrys 13y ago
I've seen that as well. I'm wondering (from my own experiment) if it has something to do with angles vs. no angles [1] in terms of the metal in addition to the blocking by metal of the actual microwaves. [1] Same as with stealth
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by larrys 13y ago
"Came out" refers to when they became in widespread use. That was in the 70's. As far as low power I can find nothing that indicates that it was ever ok to put tin foil in however I do know that in some cases you might put me
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by larrys 13y ago
I grew up in a time when microwave ovens were first released. As such the very first thing you learned is no metal in the microwave oven. I'm wondering if people who are younger somehow think of this differently or aren't automati
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by larrys 13y ago
"Maybe he thinks pretty much all governments have been trying to spy on everyone they can for some time now and none of them have so far perceived significant legal, political, economic, or moral deterrents in doing so." I think t
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by larrys 13y ago
"Is this scummy or is it acceptable?" At the size you are at (you probably have a pretty small footprint?) I don't think it matters what you get as an answer from people on HN (or your friends or some blogger) but rather how
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by larrys 13y ago
"Sounds like a phototypesetter:" Wanted to add that to this day I can still remember the sound of the stepper motors spinning and manipulating the plastic font disks. A really cool sound. (Similar in a way to modem negotiation but
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by larrys 13y ago
Having gone through all this I definitely appreciated both the article posted as well as the parent comment. I will add my own anecdote about Quark from that time period. They had a total cocky shitty attitude. This was back at the time whe

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