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by pieter 16y ago
If you just want a quick and dirty VPN to tunnel your TCP traffic through, it's probably easier to launch a random EC2 image and run shuttle [1] on your client. https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle
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by pieter 16y ago
The 20% efficiency is, as stated in the other comment, about correct for a plant without thermal storage. See far example [1]. What happens with the higher efficiency ratings is that they put more mirrors on the tower, or have a smaller tur
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by pieter 16y ago
I guess that means that 370MW is the nominal optimal generating power? From what I read, thermal solar has a capacity factor of only about 20% [1], which means this solar farm will average out to about 70MW, which isn't that much. Coal has
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by pieter 16y ago
On the one hand I'm really impressed we've managed to do this. On the other hand I'm disappointed that 50 years after the fact, this is still something special.
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by pieter 16y ago
This fairly accurately describes the current IPv6 situation. For his specific points: * Hardware: this is a huge problem. Apple's routers support IPv6 just fine, but most of the other stuff is a mess. D-Link supports it in some revisions of
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by pieter 16y ago
You're right, and I heard it's also enabled by default on OS X Lion. It's already enabled by default in the newer iOS builds.
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First look: Adobe Color Lava, Adobe Eazel, and Adobe Nav(macworld.com)
1 points by pieter 16y ago|0 comments
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by pieter 16y ago
That doesn't really make sense. Apple has the same access to GPU's as Android manufacturers have, so there really aren't any 'Android GPU's' they should have a look at. Their problem with Android is that the hardware they're building for is
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by pieter 16y ago
Hah, I had expected this to be an announcement on discontinuing Buzz, but apparently they have a multi-year plan ready.
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Cable-backed anti-muni broadband bill advances in North Carolina(arstechnica.com)
68 points by pieter 16y ago|30 comments
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by pieter 16y ago
Wait, what? The iPad 2 costs the same as the original iPad. It differs a bit in different countries, but that's mostly due to exchange rate differences, and Apple has always 'corrected' those when releasing product updates.
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by pieter 16y ago
_I’m told that Verizon, for example, has two /16 blocks (128K addresses in all) that are external addresses assigned to internal nodes like printers. Those could all be recovered since they are being misused, or Verizon could sell them for
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Major Canadian ISP admits throttling World of Warcraft(arstechnica.com)
93 points by pieter 16y ago|32 comments
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IPv6 transitioning protocols, part 2(potaroo.net)
2 points by pieter 16y ago|0 comments
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by pieter 16y ago
The crucial point is that you can still have multiple VPS's on a single machine, but you're guaranteed they'll all be yours. That is, the only difference with the dedicated instances is that there won't be an instance of someone else runnin
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by pieter 16y ago
It says in the article that their IP space is from a legacy block, which means it's has never been given by IANA to any RIR, so ARIN can't make a claim on it. Not sure how they'd get 666k addresses out of legacy space though :).
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by pieter 16y ago
I wonder what Microsoft is going to do with the block. If you have a valid use for addresses, you can still get them pretty much for free right now, though that'll change in a few months. Perhaps they're just hoarding them for the future al
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by pieter 16y ago
I tried to get some free coins through the bitcoin faucet to a newly generated address (18YTP3wEbaiNX2QaQ4k1Gi89JgXntxAiff), but so far haven't received anything. Might be a problem on my end, or the transactions might just be slow, or they
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by pieter 16y ago
One of the things that annoys me slightly is that while our news is loaded with the nuclear accidents, I haven't heard any mainstream media talk about this refinery fire caused by earthquake which had been raging for 10 days, putting who kn
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by pieter 16y ago
It's back up now: • Amazon Appstore is only available to customers located in the United States So I guess you're right :(
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by pieter 16y ago
The store is down for everyone right now, so if it just redirects to the homepage you should try again later..
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by pieter 16y ago
My guess it's mostly due to regulations and labor / material costs in Finland. Moving a reactor really isn't easy, the things are made of tons of concrete, and need a pretty huge foundation. That said, there probably is a market for portabl
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by pieter 16y ago
I guess a knee-jerk reaction can be expected in a country where nuclear power is currently pretty controversial.
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by pieter 16y ago
Not really. Uranium price has very little, if any, effect on operational costs at a power plant.
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by pieter 16y ago
> $4 billion is about the cost of one of the new 1.5 GW nuclear power plants, which would generate 12 TWh/year In China maybe, but not in the western world. The EPR for example, is 1.65GWe, and is projected to cost €6.4 billion, or almo
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Transitioning Protocols (for IPv6)(potaroo.net)
2 points by pieter 16y ago|0 comments
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by pieter 16y ago
Perhaps someone can tell about about the perception of nuclear reactors in Japan after the earthquake. Is there any knee-jerk reaction calling for the demolition of all existing reactors and stopping of all plans, or do most people have the
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by pieter 16y ago
Yes, they are, that's how most of those systems work.
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by pieter 16y ago
I don't get it. What's the difference between using Square, swiping a customer's credit card and storing the data, or using a POS system, swiping a customer's CC and storing the data from that? A lot of those packages consist of a windows/m
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by pieter 16y ago
No, the fix is really easy: you drop the magnetic strip and only use chipped credit card (or similar). And this is what all the CC have been moving to already.

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