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by signifiers 14y ago
Didn't think I'd ever see a .gov page officially referencing: a) a ballot initiative, b) marijuana and c) Cheetos & Goldfish, but here you go: http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagenam...
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by signifiers 14y ago
Key line of the article: “Since Netflix focuses on making sure services can handle individual instance failure and since we avoid using EBS for data persistence , we still did not see any impact to our service.” As an architecture design,
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by signifiers 14y ago
Too true. Today when Google's App Engine failed hard, they flat out said: "App Engine is currently experiencing serving issues – Python, Java, Go … Oct 26 2012, 07:30 AM-11:59 PM … Current Availability: 55.90%" and showed read/write I/O met
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by signifiers 14y ago
I could not agree more, and have had zero downtime since the fleet-wide reboot last December from any of 20+ instance-backed VMs in US-East. Joe Stump of SimpleGeo and Sprint.ly and many others have come to the same conclusion. While we
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Ubuntu 12.10 proxies users' file searches to Amazon in plaintext(markshuttleworth.com)
4 points by signifiers 14y ago|2 comments
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Verizon ships its iPhone 5 unlocked(arstechnica.com)
7 points by signifiers 14y ago|3 comments
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by signifiers 14y ago
Unknown? Rutkowska has done some of the most interesting security research in virtualization security, including most famously the "Blue Pill" and "Red Pill" demonstrations - escalating privileges to Dom0 (and detection of presence of a hyp
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by signifiers 14y ago
Look again. LUKS is used for all filesystems. Qubes was specifically engineered to block the Evil Maid scenario and similar vectors for notebooks. See pg. 31 from http://qubes-os.org/files/doc/arch-spec-0.3.pdf : "There are several thin
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Service Level Disagreements(blog.b3k.us)
1 points by signifiers 14y ago|0 comments
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Laptop with 55K cancer patient records stolen(ibj.com)
1 points by signifiers 14y ago|0 comments
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US general: We hacked the enemy in Afghanistan(boston.com)
6 points by signifiers 14y ago|0 comments
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by signifiers 14y ago
Part of the mindset is that any Prime returns are dramatically easier than independent merchants, particularly new/relatively new sellers. If it's a trivial purchase, fine, but if I'm spending $100+, for me, it's usually worth a couple ext
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by signifiers 14y ago
Research article here: http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/4/140/140ra86.abstract
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Prostate-specific cancer drug engineered from Mediterranean "death carrot" weeds(gazette.jhu.edu)
1 points by signifiers 14y ago|1 comments
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by signifiers 14y ago
The particular finding in the article is just the most recent insight from next generation DSI computational modeling breakthroughs. The article highlights the hardware/device engineering, but the real news is that by using these new modeli
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Brain scans reveal simple 3D grid structure (nih.gov)
105 points by signifiers 14y ago|16 comments
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by signifiers 14y ago
I just ran the numbers on the new EC2 instance, and I'm pretty skeptical about the benchmarks above. I'm not sure that, for example, a half second of dd /dev/zero really tells us much. When interpreting any benchmarks on EC2, it's import