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by oasisbob 12y ago
I just signed up, and my post-registration call to actions includes "Visit where to register to find the closest shop to register your bikes." Looks like you can't just register a bike on your own.
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by oasisbob 12y ago
Ahhh -- thanks for the link. I was just trying to dig up an old NANOG thread which discussed Gmail's use of the same technique. I noticed class E address space in my gmail activity log years ago, and a wink from a googler implied this
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by oasisbob 12y ago
Consumer liability limits are mandated for both. See regulation E for more details.
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by oasisbob 12y ago
The protections are the same. The primary difference is in the case of fraud on a debit card, you don't have access to the stolen funds until your financial institution issues a provisional credit. (They have a short statutory time fra
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by oasisbob 12y ago
Rackspace also doesn't support IPv6 if you use RackConnect, which is a bummer.
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by oasisbob 13y ago
For what it's worth, at least renters have some protection from the FCC (on paper, at least) when it comes to antennas: "The OTARD rule allows local governments, community associations and landlords to enforce restrictions that d
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by oasisbob 13y ago
The interview of the pilot Dennis Fitch by Erol Morris in the TV show First Person [1] is one of the most riveting interviews I've ever seen -- would highly recommend it. [1] First Person, Season 2 "Leaving the Earth"
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by oasisbob 13y ago
Whoa! I didn't realize that virtual hosting providers fall under 512(c). I figured they'd apply 512(a) (conduit provider). Anyone have any citations for case law where virtualized hosting falls under 512(c), and doesn't quali
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by oasisbob 13y ago
QUIC datagrams should be as spoofable as anything else using UDP. The _QUIC Crypto_ design doc contains a section that covers spoofing [1], and seems to push responsibility for DDoS mitigation to the server implementation: "[...] serve
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by oasisbob 13y ago
I'm guessing that Google's new "Reduce Bandwidth Usage" setting is helping to increase the IPv6 utilization metric. (It was released in January.) [1] eg, with the setting enabled (Chrome/iPhone), http://t
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by oasisbob 13y ago
I'm fairly sure that the "4.2.2.x was never meant to be public" line is a myth. Though the NANOG thread cited in that post is good historical background, it is contradicted by more modern sources: "[...] DNS infrastructu
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by oasisbob 13y ago
Eighth deadly sin: over pagination. Some particularly bad sites will break content into a ridiculous number of pages (eg page 1/12) with around a paragraph of text on each. I'm having a hard time finding an example -- IIRC, some C
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by oasisbob 13y ago
Slightly more expensive, an IKEA hack for a glass whiteboard: http://www.ikeahackers.net/2012/01/not-expensive-glass-white... More expensive than showerboard, but it's glass -- so it erases forever and looks
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by oasisbob 13y ago
RFC 3514 makes this easy: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
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by oasisbob 13y ago
As much as I love to see Rackspace roll out more highly-performing cloud servers, as a customer I'd rather see stability improvements to their core systems. Their current ("next-gen") cloud offering has had serious noisy-neig
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by oasisbob 13y ago
There's a university with a 192.16x.x.x allocation who has written about the confusion it's caused. Nothing that special about it from a CIDR point of view -- but is rather confusing to us humans when written as a dotted quad. Git
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by oasisbob 13y ago
Sounds like some of the new features are Windows-only? eg, I can't figure out how to activate darkroom mode on OS X.
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by oasisbob 13y ago
Similar: not every 192.x.x.x IP address is in a private (RFC1918) network.
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by oasisbob 13y ago
TCP doesn't care. IP and Ethernet care a lot. Layer2 attacks like this aren't clever, and can be very difficult to prevent because of the nature of communication at that layer. In a corporate/campus/hardline environment,
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by oasisbob 13y ago
It's chemically inert [...] so it works as a mechanical filter that adsorbs [...] Because adsorption is a consequence of surface energy and weak bonding, I believe it's considered to be a chemical process, not a mechanical one.
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by oasisbob 13y ago
In the demo video, there are some noises in the background, I'm assuming from his workstation -- rather pleasant and atmospheric. Anyone know what they are? Is it a transmission artifact? Feedback intended for the user (maybe related t
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by oasisbob 13y ago
Better quality, full: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
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by oasisbob 14y ago
A favorite example from personal experience that boggles the mind and helps explain things: A core financial platform used by many many hundreds of financial institutions in the US offers "encryption" of the online banking password, which i
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by oasisbob 14y ago
For RF, line-of-sight often isn't enough, one needs to worry about the Fresnel zone as well: http://www.zytrax.com/tech/wireless/fresnel.htm Links will work until something changes in the zone (trees grow, get wet, &c), then it might
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by oasisbob 14y ago
IPv4 address exhaustion might limit internet growth, but it will not cause the internet as it already exists to break suddenly. If the routing table grows too fast (eg, due to fragmentation of the available address space) there is a very
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by oasisbob 14y ago
there isn't, currently, any server that anybody cares about that you can connect to solely with ipv6 If a consumer-facing network with millions and millions of devices uses IPv6 exclusively for their management network to keep the service
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by oasisbob 14y ago
Change anything about IPv4, and you have to replace all the routers That's a broad oversimplification. Use the Cisco 6500 line as an example: it's a platform that's very long in the tooth, and through modularity is still functioning quite
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by oasisbob 14y ago
There are large companies pointlessly squatting on huge allocations; some of them assign routable IP addresses for every desktop in their network, despite (sanely) firewalling them off entirely from the Internet. Ptacek, I'm a bit surpris
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by oasisbob 14y ago
The AP has walked back that article -- headline now reads "Cellphone use heavy, but still operating in Boston". I don't see any note of a retraction or correction. Anyone know of any good resources to explain when news organizations find it
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by oasisbob 14y ago
Routers route packets between networks, regardless of the address space being used. Nothing about the use of a public addresses forces an extra hop in the way you suggest.

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