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by smountcastle 14y ago
Most large service providers disallow ICMP (which prevents these types of ping attacks), unfortunately that also messes with path MTU discovery. One potential way of dealing with these bot nets forging source IPs is to perform an analysis o
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by smountcastle 14y ago
Excellent! I'd love to see more companies follow suit. I have a bunch of 'logowear' and it annoys me greatly when a company puts TM or R after its logo on shirts, hats, jackets, etc. It seems absurd to me to need to protect their mark so vi
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by smountcastle 14y ago
DNSSEC-signed responses can be very large. Here's an example of turning a 31 byte request into a 3974 byte response: http://dnscurve.org/amplification.html That's ~128x amplification -- with a 100Mbps connection, roughly 12.8Gbps of resp
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by smountcastle 14y ago
I wonder how much profit there is to create loops? Company outsources to India which outsources to the US which outsources back to India which outsources back to the US, etc. I guess they make it work by finding cheap labor in the US (compa
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by smountcastle 14y ago
I did this but was expecting more from Google. As an example, it was easier to add two factor auth to my Blizzard account (and install their authenticator) than it was for Google. These are the steps for Google: - Add mobile phone to accoun
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by smountcastle 14y ago
Ok, that makes sense. When I saw 'Year to 30 June' I thought January 1, 2012 to June 30, 2012.
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by smountcastle 14y ago
How come only ~1.3x annualized revenue (the press release said: Year to 30 June 2012, Matasano revenue was $5.0m)? That seems like a very low multiplier -- are consulting companies treated differently from product companies in this regard?
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by smountcastle 14y ago
Based on the tweet below from the conversation I think it's Pneumatic Tube Transportation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube https://twitter.com/PandoDaily/status/223611501255213057
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by smountcastle 14y ago
I agree with the author; most people don't bother cracking the case on any computer they own. We're in the minority on this one and as the author said, I'd rather have a MBP with Retina Display than an easy to service/upgrade previous gener
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by smountcastle 14y ago
I think if you combine Ruby on Rails and 'Ruby on Rails Token' it's larger than PHP. It's strange to me that they track this by their own detection algorithm instead of aggregating based on framework.
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by smountcastle 14y ago
Yes, but even after funding the project could still fail and at that point Kickstarter won't refund your money.
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by smountcastle 14y ago
This seems like an interesting concept and the LEDs should make it easier to see which strings need to be played. I'm curious how it compares to the Rocksmith video game which is played with a real guitar (which I haven't tried). There is c
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by smountcastle 14y ago
Isn't the pump considerably cheaper than li-ion batteries? I think Tesla was quoting $40k.
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by smountcastle 14y ago
Be careful. "Now I have another Rails project lined up for a NYC fashion site that pays about 15% more per hour than my day job" Contracting is vastly different than being an employee. Your employer pays considerably more than 15% more per
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by smountcastle 14y ago
So do these batteries still suffer from the same problem of permanent damage if completely discharged? That's the biggest thing that scares me away from buying a Tesla (well, that and the high price of Tesla Motors models).
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by smountcastle 15y ago
This is really difficult sometimes. I wholeheartedly agree with Jason about giving new ideas some time (and thought). Most people are resistant to change and their immediate reaction is to reject new and/or novel ideas. Some ideas take days
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by smountcastle 15y ago
They are asking for code or a brief description of how you proceeded through the steps. If you're going to take the time to document the process (correctly) then it shouldn't matter that you have the root password. Presumably you'd get stuc
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by smountcastle 15y ago
For those who were as confused as I was, the prices are in Swedish Krona. Currently 1 Swedish krona == 0.1503 US dollars.
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by smountcastle 15y ago
I can't find a number from the SSA regarding how much a billionaire (or millionaire) would receive. But this report states that from 2004-2009 $9B was paid out to millionaires in social security benefits: http://www.coburn.senate.gov/publi
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by smountcastle 15y ago
From: http://www.ssa.gov/history/hfaq.html Q20: Are Social Security numbers reused after a person dies? A: No. We do not reassign a Social Security number (SSN) after the number holder's death. Even though we have issued over 453 million
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by smountcastle 15y ago
Verisign cannot do that anymore since they no longer operate a registrar (Network Solutions was spun-off/sold-off).
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J. C. Penney's Transformation Plans Revealed(sacbee.com)
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The New Math of Technology I Expected By Now(theatlantic.com)
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by smountcastle 15y ago
Mac OS X 10.7.2 It has all of my favorite Unix tools as well as the best Mac apps for development.
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by smountcastle 15y ago
Our library system (Fairfax Co., VA) allows checking out e-books through a system called OverDrive: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/dbsremote/resource/eboo... I've only tried it once to test it out and it appeared to work fine (I don
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by smountcastle 15y ago
How many of your book donations show up in the stacks, available for check out? I've stopped donating books to my local library because they would just turn around and sell all of them at the next book fair. I was even buying new books whic
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by smountcastle 15y ago
This is truly sad. When I visit my local library all of the public user computers are continuously utilized and there is a waiting list -- I assume these folks either don't own their own computer or need to be able to use a public one. I ap
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by smountcastle 15y ago
While this sounds like an interesting and ambitious project, I don't think it will ever get off the ground. I use Emacs daily for 80% of my work and its performance is not an issue. The author seems a bit too optimistic that a GCC plugin ca
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by smountcastle 15y ago
New revenue stream for LivingSocial!
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by smountcastle 15y ago
Is the contract published somewhere? What if something unexpected comes up, say their spouse develops cancer and they need to move to another state to get the best treatment possible? Probably a poor example as Living Social would let that

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