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Domain names without dots(circleid.com)
1 points by woodrow 15y ago|0 comments
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by woodrow 15y ago
I have no experience with Canadian undergraduate business education, which is what the author of the article appears to be taking, but I don't doubt that it's less challenging than engineering. Canadian engineering programs have higher entr
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Wisconsin may force colleges to buy private Internet, withdraw from Internet2(chronicle.com)
3 points by woodrow 15y ago|3 comments
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by woodrow 15y ago
Just to be clear, this is presumably (judging by the filename) the private key associated with the SSL cert for https://www.certigna.fr/ , rather than the CA private key (which would hopefully be in a HSM), correct? Not that this make this
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by woodrow 15y ago
In the case of Hurricane Electric, I think this has also been a marketing/evangelism/thought leadership activity on their part. They're the experts I think of when I think about IPv6, largely because they've been doing this for a long time
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by woodrow 15y ago
I noticed the same thing, especially for current discussions. But then it changed. It looks like there's now a 5-day threshold for karma point exposure.
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by woodrow 15y ago
Some friends of mine were working on a project to make a non-GNU linux distribution (well maybe not actually for distribution) just to see if they could: https://github.com/burke/non-gnu-linux/wiki I don't think much has happened with it
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by woodrow 15y ago
+1. This would return searchyc.com to its former usefulness (with the same old caveat that comment scores may not be a good proxy measure for comment quality).
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by woodrow 15y ago
I'm actually kind of disappointed this wasn't more complicated, like actually hacking the system or altering cards ( http://web.mit.edu/zacka/www/mbta.html , http://tech.mit.edu/V128/N30/subway/Defcon_Presentation.pdf ) instead of just opp
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by woodrow 15y ago
> is the freedom promised in 1984 being revoked? This is incredibly ironic, given how expandable the original Macintosh was, as well as Steve Jobs' aversion to hardware expansion in the early days of the Mac: http://folklore.org/StoryV
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by woodrow 15y ago
Text from the site: At Google I/O today I have to admit it was comical when the presenter doing the WebGL track had to stop in the middle of his presentation because his laptop forcibly rebooted when Windows decided to apply a security upd
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by woodrow 15y ago
I think the Doozer people misunderstood Zookeeper. They claim that ZK is focused on providing locks, but ZK really just provides a consistent hierarchical datastore that can then be used to construct locks, perform leader election, etc. See
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by woodrow 15y ago
PiCloud ( http://www.picloud.com/ ) is an offering for Python.
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by woodrow 15y ago
Interesting that they're not using EBS to provide durable storage for Cassandra, but instead using S3 (along with S3-backed, or "ephemeral storage", AMIs). I wonder if that means they're batching up and writing their database logs to S3, pl
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by woodrow 15y ago
And this reminds me of the "More Magic" switch on a PDP-10 at the MIT AI lab: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
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Scale Fail or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the downtime(youtube.com)
2 points by woodrow 16y ago|0 comments
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by woodrow 16y ago
As the parent post mentions, it's also about moving your costs from a mix of capital and operating to 100% operating. This is one of the arguments that has motivated Netflix' move to AWS (and it makes sense for other SaaS): their costs scal
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How not to build a private cloud(perfcap.blogspot.com)
3 points by woodrow 16y ago|0 comments
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by woodrow 16y ago
Out of curiosity, what were titles of the books?
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by woodrow 16y ago
Is this legit? It doesn't look like it -- it just hammers (20 parallel connections) BinaryAge's ecommerce provider's site searching for all permutations of coupon codes.
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by woodrow 16y ago
Thankfully the decision of the court [1] suggests that they only believe that a DMCA violation has taken place, rather than the even more egregious claim that jailbreaking your PS3 violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act because the PS3 i
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Sony obtains restraining order against Geohot for PS3 jailbreak(arstechnica.com)
1 points by woodrow 16y ago|1 comments
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Netflix: ISPs who charge by the gigabyte are ridiculous(arstechnica.com)
96 points by woodrow 16y ago|50 comments
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Can Your Camera Phone Turn You Into a Pirate?(nytimes.com)
2 points by woodrow 16y ago|0 comments
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DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard in San Francisco)(wired.com)
334 points by woodrow 16y ago|213 comments
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by woodrow 16y ago
Somewhat relevant (and more amusing) is the story of Scigen[1], a tool that three MIT CS PhD students put together to generate fake but legitimate-looking papers in order to troll conferences with low/no acceptance standards. Their site als
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by woodrow 16y ago
Lawrence Lessig explains how he "lost the big one" here: http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/March-April-2004/story_le...
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by woodrow 16y ago
In case you're (like me) wondering what "attempted lynching" means in the context of the article, consider yourself enlightened by the California Penal Code: 405a. The taking by means of a riot of any person from the lawful custody o
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Ask HN: Usernames showing up orange occasionally?
11 points by woodrow 16y ago|5 comments
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by woodrow 16y ago
Milo Medin was involved early on in the @Home Network -- a profile: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999/01/17425

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