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by skuhn 12y ago
I can't really speak to their quality, but I do find it interesting how different tiers of hotels price their in-room wifi. High end charges, low end is free or non-existent, and then there's a mid-range where it's specifical
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by skuhn 12y ago
Agreed, but I don't know if anything can really be done for 2.4GHz at this point.
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by skuhn 12y ago
I don't have any knowledge of contracts that hotels might have for wifi, but it strikes me as strange that this is the way the hotels are going about dealing with that situation. Hotels first started deploying wifi in what, 2002-4? How
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by skuhn 12y ago
There is a technical basis for concern, although ultimately the problem is of the hotel's own making. You simply cannot have 500 mifi-type devices transmitting data (along with the hotel's actual WAPs) in the same room without maj
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by skuhn 12y ago
It can be done (I'm doing it in production), but it is not thought out with this situation in mind. I forked the formula repo at some point in the distant past, and untar it onto each machine. Then I manually manage dependencies when I
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by skuhn 12y ago
From the outside looking in, it's hard to say how much of a human element there is. Certainly it must operate algorithmically (hands-off) most of the time, because Uber operates in way too many markets for someone to babysit each one (
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by skuhn 12y ago
Uber claims that New Years Eve is their highest traffic day. I could imagine they might override the surge algorithm (or give it a nudge) to provide a more consistent price based on their historical data. I've encountered a number of s
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by skuhn 12y ago
Personally, I would rather than Hollywood produce more $10 million movies that return $12 million.
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by skuhn 12y ago
Movie franchises and sequels also existed in the 30s and 40s, with series like The Thin Man and the Road to... cranking out new installments every year or so. They thrived for similar reasons to today's comic book movie franchises,
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by skuhn 12y ago
I don't totally agree. I think that factoring in the risk of exposure leaves a CA root with a worse price / performance ratio versus an individual cert. While you could use a faux CA root to sign faux certs for any site you want (
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by skuhn 12y ago
You're right, you definitely need significant single site capacity (2-3 sites with 100Gbit/s, not just the entire system, for instance), and you may even have to play routing games to move traffic around if that's not enough.
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by skuhn 12y ago
It's true, if you make certain compromises, you can save some money. In this case, $350 over 2 years isn't worth it to me, it would have to be some serious dough to get me to watch my minutes like a hawk. It is 2014 after all, and
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by skuhn 12y ago
I agree with you, there are only two kinds of companies with the kind of DNS infrastructure that could withstand a large scale DDOS: 1. DNS hosting companies (Dyn, Amazon, etc.) 2. Large Internet companies (Yahoo, Google, etc.) And for sure
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by skuhn 12y ago
It's simple except that you need to have capacity greater than what is achievable by people controlling the DDOS. I'm not up to date on what that number is these days, but a few years ago 100Gbit/s was the target. For an Anyc
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by skuhn 12y ago
It may also be analogous in that the game is rigged. Off-brand K-cups seem to sell for around $1.50-$1.70 each in a quick search. Official K-cups seem to sell for around $1.50-$1.80 each. Obviously there may be a non-price advantage to buyi
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by skuhn 12y ago
The portable version (for Linux and other OSes) is unmaintained and the last release is from 2006. I don't use it on that basis alone. Also, the last release of non-portable openntpd is from 2009.
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by skuhn 12y ago
less can do this: less +F /var/log/blah.log then ctrl-c to switch into regular less mode (for scrolling back or searching), and 'F' to go back into follow mode to watch changes roll in. You don't have to
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by skuhn 12y ago
Kind of. They periodically do despicable things (buying a stolen iPhone comes to mind), but there's enough of a lull inbetween that I sort of forget their true nature. I have to keep reading it for gems like this one: http:/&#x2F
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by skuhn 12y ago
I agree, law is a social construct and a fiction as you say. US laws certainly do not always agree with my own moral code. If you prefer, I find these attackers and their actions to be immoral, which is solely my own judgment. Saying that S
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by skuhn 12y ago
Gawker in particular has really turned my stomach with their extreme dedication to exploring every possible facet of the leaked e-mails. Yes, they're a tabloid, but rumors and tips are one thing and stolen, personal communication is an
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by skuhn 12y ago
I think the likelihood of a physical attack being carried out at these theaters is literally zero. It's one thing to compromise servers from anywhere in the world and it's quite another to build bombs and plant them in movie theat
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by skuhn 12y ago
I thought about mentioning the root kit as well, since a lot of people get schadenfreude-y over it. I greatly disliked the root kit and that whole approach to treating your customers like criminals (d/b/a DRM), but I don't se
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by skuhn 12y ago
It continues to baffle me that so many people are assigning substantial blame to Sony. Yes, their executives were uncouth in their private e-mails. However, these e-mails were literally stolen from them and made available publicly in a camp
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by skuhn 12y ago
I agree with the concept of buying a license to the actual content and then consuming it however you want, which ought to be the way the world actually works. However, if you don't actually stream the content from Prime / Netflix
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by skuhn 12y ago
You're right. 1kbit/s over a month would result in 2.47gbit of data transferred, which is a bit less damning. To get to 2.47tbit, you would of course need 1mbit/s transferred (which is still not that much!). However flawed my
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by skuhn 12y ago
95th percentile billing is not like the per-byte billing that ISPs and other parties try to enforce. 95th percentile billing uses your instantaneous bandwidth utilization, which directly correlates to how you have to size network equipment,
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by skuhn 12y ago
They might do that, but they have also bought this SSD. Everyone large has it and/or the S3700 hanging around somewhere. It's a really solid drive and the price / performance / reliability is hard to beat (as with its pr
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by skuhn 12y ago
nginx does have the minimum necessary support to handle shared session ticket keys. It would be nice if it did more for you out-of-the-box, but I'm more interested in practical solutions that work today. You can specify ssl_session_ti
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by skuhn 12y ago
Sprinklers are very common, mostly dry-pipe systems to avoid water leakage. There are some alternatives like HI-FOG, which uses less water and therefore may do less damage to the room's equipment. It is very undesirable for the equipme
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by skuhn 12y ago
You're right, there's no way to be completely certain. It's like the adage: "Two can keep a secret, if one of them is dead." When someone else has access to your data, there always exists the possibility that it can

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