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Yacht hijacking shows potential of GPS spoofing(gcn.com)
1 points by rbc 13y ago|0 comments
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Snowden Asylum in Moscow Puts Obama-Putin Summit in Doubt(bloomberg.com)
2 points by rbc 13y ago|0 comments
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by rbc 13y ago
This kind of thing could encourage privacy advocates to go after the private sector about big data practices. It could turn into a big problem for some companies.
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NSA Spying Row Ushers in Debate Over Big Data(bloomberg.com)
2 points by rbc 13y ago|1 comments
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NSA Pilots 2-Person Rule to Thwart Leaks(govinfosecurity.com)
1 points by rbc 13y ago|1 comments
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by rbc 13y ago
Wow, a systems administrator becomes an obstacle to international relations. Impressive.
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Snowden Standoff Threatens Obama-Putin Moscow Summit(bloomberg.com)
4 points by rbc 13y ago|2 comments
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by rbc 13y ago
I'll guess it was because they are part of DHS and easy prey. Other than that it's kind of silly. FEMA is a federal backstop for state and local governments during disaster situations. I think anonymous picked the wrong agency.
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The DevOpsBlues (Written for Twelve-bar blues)
5 points by rbc 13y ago|0 comments
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by rbc 13y ago
I'm a fan of CFEngine and use it for the things that many use Puppet or Chef to do. I think the key advantage of some kind of system domain specific language, is it helps document how things are configured. The only way to figure out what's
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by rbc 13y ago
One think that I think may be oversubscribed at EC2 is the API layer for controlling things like instances, ELB's and autoscaling. This seems to be most obvious in Virginia. During the lightning storm in Virginia last summer, it seemed like
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by rbc 14y ago
I worked on a framework for managing stock and options positions based on feedback methods developed by Stafford Beer. It doesn't do the algorithmic/transaction part, but rather focuses on providing reporting and alerting for large hierarch
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Cloud Comparison of CFEngine and Puppet(blogcompiler.com)
5 points by rbc 14y ago|0 comments
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by rbc 14y ago
This is a shameless plug for my Smalltalk project, the Viable System Agent. It is a software implementation of the Viable System Model (VSM), a model for autonomous systems developed by Stafford Beer. It's most likely to be interesting for
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Implementation of the Viable System Model(home.rbcarleton.com)
1 points by rbc 14y ago|1 comments
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by rbc 14y ago
Here's my summary of their article. The whole event occurred because a developer ran an ELB purge job, thinking they were purging a non-production ELB meta-data database. It turned out that the configuration they were using, purged producti
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Summary of the December 24, 2012 Amazon ELB Service Event(aws.amazon.com)
2 points by rbc 14y ago|1 comments
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by rbc 14y ago
I started the infrastructure for this kind of thing a while ago. It's BSD licensed. It is a software implementation of the Viable System Model (VSM), a model for autonomous systems developed by Stafford Beer. It provides structure, communic
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Steve Jobs’ Superyacht(gcaptain.com)
1 points by rbc 14y ago|0 comments
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by rbc 14y ago
"EBS Optimized" instances dedicate an extra 1 GigE interface just for EBS IO. If your application causes contention between it's service and EBS IO, "EBS Optimized" instances may be for you. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any benchmarking on
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CalPERS bows out of venture capital(siliconvalley.com)
3 points by rbc 14y ago|1 comments
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Silicon Valley finds its heart in San Francisco(siliconvalley.com)
2 points by rbc 14y ago|0 comments
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Eastern Storms Disrupt Amazon.com Data Centers(online.wsj.com)
1 points by rbc 14y ago|0 comments
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by rbc 15y ago
These days, I'd have to say Smalltalk is my favorite. I think more modern languages are still catching up. Modern open source implementations like Squeak and Pharo make Smalltalk very accessible.
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by rbc 17y ago
This comparison of academic reactors to practical reactors is pretty old, being written by Hyman G. Rickover in 1953. Rickover was a primary force behind the U.S. Nuclear Navy. It makes an interesting read and compares academically create
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Rickover Compares Academic and Practical Nuclear Reactors(ecolo.org)
3 points by rbc 17y ago|1 comments
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Richard Clarke: War From Cyberspace(nationalinterest.org)
2 points by rbc 17y ago|0 comments
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RAND Releases Paper on Cyberdeterrence and Cyber War(rand.org)
1 points by rbc 17y ago|0 comments
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Clouds are gathering over the venture capital industry(siliconvalley.com)
1 points by rbc 17y ago|0 comments
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BlackBerry Spyware(siliconvalley.com)
1 points by rbc 17y ago|0 comments

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