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by sveiss 11y ago
One thing which is missing from his rule is the cost of losing multiple things at once. For example, if I were to lose my coffee maker I could replace it easily. If I were to lose my computer, replacing it would be financially painful, but
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by sveiss 11y ago
So you could run services on the end of your residential xDSL or cable line. Getting multiple IP addresses from your ISP makes it easier (good luck with that!), but you could just set up port forwarding from your router. That would techni
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by sveiss 11y ago
The shared resource argument is a good one, but why are only taxis limited? There are other approaches (for example, congestion charging as used in London) which can be more closely tailored to whatever outcome the regulator is trying to im
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by sveiss 11y ago
Heh. Simple solutions! I wonder if they also use something like Digimarc for a non-visible watermark? They could publicly credit the visible watermark as a distraction from the real technique.
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by sveiss 11y ago
You could, but modifying the receiver firmware then becomes an attractive target. A Sky STB is just an embedded Linux device, after all. Doing the overlay in the smartcard would make it a harder target, if the smartcard has the processing p
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by sveiss 11y ago
Multiple channels displaying different codes, targeted to different groups of receivers. Even with only two channels, I expect you could binary search it down to a single receiver over the course of a single season of matches.
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by sveiss 11y ago
I think there's probably a perception issue at play too. Buying a pirate decoder card from a shady dealer is 'obviously' wrong, while using a subscription that you've already paid for in a different location is a differe
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by sveiss 11y ago
I expect that Sky broadcast multiple copies of the sports channels simultaneously (at a minimum, one with and one without the pint glass logo). Home subscribers are set up to tune[1] to the channel without the logo, the more expensive pub s
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by sveiss 11y ago
Sky is a satellite system, not cable; it's trivial to take the receiver and smartcard from one address to another and plug it into the dish there.
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by sveiss 12y ago
The rules aren't written in a particularly clear way, but in general the idea is that NHS eligibility is residence-based, and people who aren't ordinarily resident are entitled to urgent treatment only. Flying back just to pick up
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by sveiss 12y ago
I'm really more interested in packet loss/reliability than speeds when I'm in a hotel. 5Mbps, 50Mbps, or 500Mbps, all are fine if they work reliabily. When they don't, they're all equally bad. Trying to use Skype or
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by sveiss 12y ago
Llama+Impala isn't quite ready for prime time in my experience. The biggest issue is the reliance on Impala's query size estimates to determine how many resources to request from Yarn. We find that these estimates are frequently a
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by sveiss 12y ago
The third-party addon story for Asheron's Call, a MMO which pre-dated WoW by around five years, was like a dark, gritty crapsack world version of that parallel universe. There was no supported add-on mechanism; instead, a player-writte
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by sveiss 13y ago
I agree with the issues around OCSP and soft-fail, but I don't think shipping a subset CRL list of 'important' revocations is ideal, either. I've just re-keyed certificates I'm responsible for as a precaution after
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by sveiss 13y ago
Good catch, thank you! I've just deployed a fix for this.
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by sveiss 13y ago
The EU may not be a state, but it can still have citizens. http://ec.europa.eu/justice/citizen/
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by sveiss 13y ago
The keys aren't stored on Google's servers, only locally on your phone. Closing your Google account wouldn't affect them.
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by sveiss 13y ago
After the first term, I mostly stopped buying books and used the library instead. The books I did buy I've hung on to. Today, I mostly regret not living close enough to an academic library to visit when I want.
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by sveiss 13y ago
That was the first thing which came to my mind when I read this, too. Of course, Asheron's Call didn't have an (official) real-money trading system to deal with too. A nightmare scenario for the developers in both cases.
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by sveiss 14y ago
I've always had an excellent experience when dealing with Linode one-on-one, via email or support ticket, but their one-to-many communication sometimes seems to be lacking. I'm glad they posted a more detailed update regarding this issue pu
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by sveiss 14y ago
This is an interesting analysis, but some context can probably explain the outliers. For local-authority funded residential care, there's a standard set of prices the council will pay based on geography and the level of care required. It's
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by sveiss 14y ago
We performed a forced password reset on the users with compromised hashes. The old password will not work on Scribd, and those users will need to go through the password reset flow to regain access.
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by sveiss 14y ago
This is slightly tempting for the teenagers I wrangle -- mostly for the embarrassment factor.
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by sveiss 14y ago
Not theft, but entering into a loan contract with no intention of paying it back may be fraud.
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by sveiss 14y ago
(Disclaimer: not a tax expert or an accountant, but I have spent too many hours researching this stuff as it applies to my own situation.) IR35 only applies when there's an intermediary -- usually when you're providing services via a limite
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by sveiss 14y ago
Email delivery over SMTP works on a store-and-forward model: when you send an email, it first goes to your outgoing mail server, which then connects to a mail server at the destination domain and sends the message to it. The mail server at
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by sveiss 14y ago
I used it for uni for our intro to data structure/algorithms course, and later on for a real time control systems course. In both cases it was a good fit and the language was fairly pleasant to use, if a bit verbose and pedantic to my Ruby-
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by sveiss 14y ago
Yup. The day I got a bunch of Netflix traffic sent to servers I was running thanks to ELB and caching resolvers not honoring TTL values was great fun. (That was also the day we learnt that our 500 page was actually really expensive to rende
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by sveiss 14y ago
I had my UK MacBook with a cracked case repaired twice now, once while in the US. I did have to wait a few days that time, but I think it's a little more reasonable for US keyboards to be in stock in the flagship London store, vs UK keyboar
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by sveiss 14y ago
Salts aren't meant to be secret (or rather, no more secret than the password hashes themselves). The goal is to prevent a precomputed brute force attack. If you store straight unsalted hashes, you can precompute the hash for every likely pa

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