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by topranks 9y ago
Good post. The only way to fight against drug cartels is to deal with the demand side. As long as there is demand for an illegal product people will supply it. As long as there are illegal markets people will restort to using violence to r
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by topranks 9y ago
Proper reverse path filtering would also work. The C&C servers should not be able to spoof the IP of the legitimate satellite internet user to reply to the eavsdropped packets. One day. https://tools.ietf.org/html&#x2F
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by topranks 9y ago
It is the interface (small, touchscreen) that is new, along with the wireless network connectivity. Other than that a smartphone is most definitely a personal computer though. There are many, less keyboard/mouse bound tasks that peopl
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by topranks 9y ago
This is a scarily realistic prospect.
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by topranks 9y ago
In fairness we all have access to the tools. Understanding and implementing them right can be tough though.
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by topranks 9y ago
I honestly don't think there is consumer demand TBH. The biggest driver of consumer demand for broadband speed is streaming video. Even 4k streams are only about 20-30Mbit/sec. So 200Mb would do numerous of these simultaneously
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by topranks 9y ago
The problem is dumping all that data to disk, or encoding on the fly and doing so. HDMI caps are mostly kind of shitty quality. Look at the UHD BluRay releases (smurfs excluded.)
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by topranks 9y ago
I'm not so sure. They now produce a ton of their own content which they may want to protect. That content is not broadcast with DVB, it's not distributed on BluRay. To that point if they can prevent there being a way to rip the ra
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by topranks 9y ago
Yeah they seem to be moving to newer, platform based security/drm models across the board. For instance my HTPC has an Nvidia 1050ti card and can do UHD colour 4k output. I can play UHD test files just fine. But the Netflix app won&#x2
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by topranks 9y ago
Seems to me that Whatsapp should be able to rate-limit these requests and work to secure the interface so only the legit website can actually pull the info? The initial website display comes from a QR code you can on your phone, which the w
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by topranks 9y ago
Thanks... I had heard improvements were on the way, thought it was next release and not crestors. Good tip on disabling Windows own ssh server too, sounds like I need to revisit this stuff see can I get it working again!
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by topranks 9y ago
You can use Conemu, ConsoleZ or a number of other console applications for Windows with it. As a network engineer it's almost useless to me, ping, traceroute, mtr etc don't work. Neither does ssh tunneling. No ssh server. Still u
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by topranks 9y ago
Wow you are a TD? On hacker news? Wonders never cease.
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by topranks 9y ago
Upvote for subsonic here too, great piece of software been using it years very robust.
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by topranks 10y ago
Well it was also possible as most European companies had state-run telephone monopolies into the 1980s. And when they were privatised the government's were in a position to impose rules on the newly created private companies - namel
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by topranks 10y ago
In most of Europe competition in last mile networks is enforced by law and ISPs don't have nearly the scope for all this nefarious stuff. If they block/throttle or charge premiums you can just go to one of their competitors. This
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by topranks 10y ago
It would need to be like TOR - if you just encrypted then they'd see who you were talking to, just not what you're saying.
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by topranks 10y ago
No you couldn't.
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by topranks 10y ago
Phones are already damn powerful, and will get more so. Why should we all have to buy another completely separate computer if we want to use a mouse/keyboard/monitor, when we already have phones?
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by topranks 10y ago
It did have a touch mode and desk mode ffs!
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by topranks 10y ago
Spot on, these were the major challenges that always faced the idea. Interesting to see the latest Samsung phones doing the same thing, but running Android and having Samsung behind it that attempt is much more likely to bear fruit. Fair pl
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by topranks 10y ago
In fairness it's handled quite well by Windows I feel, a lot of third party apps let it down. It's a bigger challenge on Windows than OSX. On OSX devs only have to target a small number of High DPI resolutions.
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by topranks 10y ago
Came here to say this. Expect was and remains extremely powerful. I've been using it for 15 years to automate network configuration deployment. Now that automation is all the rage in the industry it gets dismissed, but I find it is oft
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by topranks 10y ago
NAT is DEATH. IPv6 all the things.
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by topranks 10y ago
You're spot on. I downloaded quite a bit from private trackers and none of it showed up. Nada.
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by topranks 10y ago
EasyTAG works quite well for me on Linux for just that. Not sure if it has all the other features you need, and it's a standalone tagger, but works very well.
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by topranks 10y ago
Em I think you are failing to distinguish between Irish Travellers (Gypsies, often called Pikeys in the UK,) and Roma. Not to say that elements within either group haven't been responsible for some of the things you mention, or that th
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by topranks 10y ago
I think you might be a little alarmist. Anti-sensitism on the rise is no joke of course. Islamophobia is having a massive impact too. We are a long way away from the 1930s and 40s though, totally different time. Still we should be vigilant.
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by topranks 10y ago
That's not true when it comes to iOS though... can't run unsigned OS.

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