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by rfugger 16y ago
The source of the comparison is that the main thrust of both SCTP and SPDY is multiplexing multiple independent data streams on a single connection.
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Six-country study concludes media piracy is a failure of market, not law(ssrc.org)
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by rfugger 16y ago
Mozilla's plan is to implement IndexedDB on top of SQLite, and then encourage developers to re-implement SQL in Javascript on top of that . https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis... Sounds to me like a ludicrous hoo
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by rfugger 16y ago
A list of merchants that accept bitcoin: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade
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With financial meltdowns and labour protests, is it the springtime for Marx? (theglobeandmail.com)
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by rfugger 16y ago
The cryptographic problem is finding a nonce that, when concatenated with current transactions, gives a SHA256 hash below a certain value. Not sure about quantum vulnerabilities.
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by rfugger 16y ago
Which sums up nicely why MS doesn't use them.
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by rfugger 16y ago
What is this G-WAN and how does it manage to serve files so much faster than other servers? I could not find technical docs on its site.
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by rfugger 16y ago
Why not just release the documents and let them speak for themselves? The fact that he feels the need to hype their release makes me suspicious that the extent of fraud might not be that great, thus the need to hype it ahead of time to mak
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by rfugger 16y ago
In the article, Paypal's letter doesn't say you're not allowed to be an aggregator, just that you're not allowed to be an aggregator that lets merchants get around Paypal's acceptable use rules. Maybe Airbnb has assured Paypal that it does
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by rfugger 16y ago
And as open source slowly eats into their proprietary products, they have less and less to differentiate themselves from any other software company, and it becomes harder to lock customers in to their platform.
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Allowing Human Nature To Work Successfully(wallsofsilence.com)
1 points by rfugger 16y ago|0 comments
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Canadian ISPs have no plan for IPv6 deployment(theglobeandmail.com)
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by rfugger 16y ago
Hosted in Canada (netelligent.ca) might buy them some time...
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by rfugger 16y ago
I hope he gets enough donations to countersue.
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by rfugger 16y ago
I don't understand the comic. Can someone explain?
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by rfugger 16y ago
Reminded me of this brilliant configuration for avoiding left turns at freeway interchanges: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diverging_diamond_interchange
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by rfugger 16y ago
Not a very informative video. Better link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichloroacetic_acid
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by rfugger 16y ago
Nice coworking space in Vancouver: http://bootup.ca/garage/
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by rfugger 16y ago
So Intel chooses Linux for its mobile devices, and Microsoft takes revenge by poaching its mobile partner?
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by rfugger 16y ago
This is a good counterpoint to the steady stream of articles touting the benefits of new technologies developed to serve massive-scale sites spanning thousands of servers. Very few startups will ever need to deal with that kind of scale, a
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What would a fair Internet payment system look like? (theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by rfugger 16y ago|0 comments
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by rfugger 16y ago
Good description of Google's defense, but light on detail of Oracle's claims.
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by rfugger 16y ago
I'm working on the next version of my payment system at http://ripplepay.com . Need a design. ryan@ripplepay.com. Thanks!
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by rfugger 16y ago
Bell will sell you extra usage for $0.125/GB if you buy it in advance.
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by rfugger 16y ago
Cost isn't cost to transfer the next GB though, it's the cost to build an infrastructure that can provide decent QoS to all the Netflix users. It's a much different equation.
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by rfugger 16y ago
Well, obviously everyone can't download at full speed at once and expect any kind of performance from the shared network, so some kind of sharing arrangement is needed. The usual method is to price the scarce resource somehow. The spectre
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by rfugger 16y ago
Yes, I believe that you can have a functional society where everyone follows his or her passion, but to see it, you have to realize two things: 1. The current allocation of labour isn't set in stone. Just because we have a certain number o
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by rfugger 16y ago
Right, so this decision changes nothing for Bell's own customers, who will still face UBB, unless competition from 3rd party ISPs forces Bell to change its billing structure.
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by rfugger 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

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