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by pktgen 10y ago
This is caused by bufferbloat, which you can read more about at https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Introduction... . The good thing is it's easy to fix. On your upstream side (i.e. data you s
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by pktgen 10y ago
You should read Naked Capitalism's excellent 5-part series about Uber's viability: Part 1: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-deliver... Part 2: http://www.nakedcapitalism.co
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by pktgen 10y ago
> ... the Naked Capitalism post about their inevitable doom is gaining attention ... Not only am I glad that post is gaining attention (the entire series is excellent), I'm glad Naked Capitalism is getting attention. It's my fa
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by pktgen 10y ago
Hansmeier actually got into ADA trolling after the porn thing dried up. Of course, he couldn't even do that "honestly" (if there was such a thing): https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131110/23180225
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Prenda Law “copyright trolls” Steele and Hansmeier arrested(arstechnica.com)
225 points by pktgen 10y ago|79 comments
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by pktgen 10y ago
> "Have no money to pay it back" applies to many companies (including many banks) that borrowed money and to many house owners, too. Would you conclude they have no intention of paying it back, too? The question isn't whet
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by pktgen 10y ago
That's my thinking as well. He would have known that there wasn't a chance in hell he could ever pay that back, nor could he reasonably have believed this situation might change in the future. I would expect this, combined with th
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by pktgen 10y ago
> He did nothing to defraud the bank or mislead it. He simply had access to a large line of credit, and used it. If the bank wants it's money back, that's a civil matter, not a criminal one. It's their responsibility to as
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by pktgen 10y ago
In addition to OLPC, Open Firmware was used on PowerPC Macs.
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by pktgen 10y ago
> $3,000/month plus extra traffic costs. As if their existing margins on bandwidth aren't high enough.
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by pktgen 10y ago
> 1. Those customers who were stolen from will get to participate in the mother of all class-action lawsuits. The settlement will be outlandish. Juries hate huge corporations that screw the little guy, and the lawyers on both sides know
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by pktgen 10y ago
> Customers which the article goes on to name as Google and Facebook. Although, I cannot find any corroborating evidence to support this claim. Supercomuting 16 is now over, and I see no other articles detailing how "Intel is playin
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by pktgen 10y ago
> The bandwidth costs are so far out of line with what the network transfer actually costs, it just feels like price fixing between the major cloud players that nobody is drastically reducing those prices, only storage prices. Yes, it ma
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by pktgen 10y ago
> From our perspective: yes, we don't feel comfortable letting untrusted users run side by side without a sandbox. That's what I figured. I still wonder what other large providers (SoftLayer, OVH, etc.) do about this. Unfortuna
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by pktgen 10y ago
I was about to write the same thing. The CPU won't be damaged, but it may underperform. The bigger concern would be other components, especially motherboard VRMs which seemingly tend not to have any thermal failsafe (on occasion, the
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by pktgen 10y ago
> We wouldn't give someone a raw, unfettered machine in our datacenter (and I hope you wouldn't either!). I think you're alluding to security issues with renting bare metal hardware to potentially untrusted customers, righ
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by pktgen 10y ago
I assume you mean Parallels in the first paragraph? I use Fusion and have never seen an ad in it.
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by pktgen 10y ago
> The positive I see in the so-called gig economy is far more flexibility in employing underutilised labour. That flexibility is nothing more than shifting risk from the employer, who is most able to handle it, to the employee, who is le
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by pktgen 10y ago
> This was by no means an accident. Thank you for pointing this out. I keep seeing comments to the effect of "Wells doesn't make any significant profit from opening bogus accounts (unused accounts are typically unprofitable to
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by pktgen 10y ago
Thank you for providing what information you can. I'm a game server operator. I'm not currently running anything, but I probably will in the future. We used to receive volumetric L3/L4 floods all the time from booters. The go
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by pktgen 10y ago
I realize Krebs seems to be using Shield, not vanilla GCP, but I'd like to know the answer to this as well. Krebs' article describes two attack methods, fake HTTP requests and a simple volumetric flood of GRE packets. L7 mitigatio
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by pktgen 11y ago
The far more significant cause of the Great Recession was outright fraud. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClfBxWPkBKU and other videos featuring William Black (a former bank regulator from the S&L crisis days).
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by pktgen 11y ago
Some Intel NICs (at least the 10G ones, but some Googling suggests some 1G as well) support SCTP checksum offload. Also, the checksum is a CRC32C and the SSE4.2 CRC32 instruction can calculate these really fast.
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by pktgen 11y ago
Do something like Google's new authentication process - rather than asking for the username and password on a single page, ask for the username only with a "continue logging in" button. There's no need to actually ask fo
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by pktgen 11y ago
Yep. Basically, the ones who use it incorrectly are subsidizing the ones like myself who (ab)use it correctly.
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by pktgen 11y ago
Credit Karma's scores and "recommendations" like that are jokes. Of course Credit Karma wants you to have 20 credit cards - they hope you get them through their affiliate links!
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by pktgen 11y ago
Yep. I just applied for a few, and here's what I got: - 70,000 Marriott points which I estimate to be worth about $700, based on the equivalent cash price I'd have paid for the hotel rooms (which I do have plans for) - $890 in cas
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by pktgen 12y ago
Why wouldn't an IRS-prepared return do the same? You'd still have to look at the numbers and handle your payment/refund.
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by pktgen 12y ago
Most taxpayers don't have enough deductions to itemize, cash jobs, or side business income. You'd still have the option to file a return if there's additional income or deductions the IRS doesn't know about. Also, I beli
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by pktgen 12y ago
It's clear they have significant influence on this matter.

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