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by woodrow 16y ago
Comcast seems to be working hard on it: http://comcast6.net/
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by woodrow 16y ago
This doesn't use $ISP's DNS resolver -- it's totally based on your own machine (essentially /etc/hosts shared by BitTorrent as trotsky notes below) and appears as encrypted BitTorrent traffic. Certainly, $ISP could block all BitTorrent traf
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by woodrow 16y ago
Comcast responds, seeming to claim that Level 3 wants CDN peering with a tier-1 peering agreement: http://blog.comcast.com/2010/11/comcast-comments-on-level-3....
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by woodrow 16y ago
If we can set aside the "Comcast is inherently evil" mindset for a moment, this to me reads simply that Comcast notified Level 3 that they were terminating a previously agreed upon settlement-free peering [1] agreement where Comcast and L3
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by woodrow 16y ago
It's a mailing list (which anyone at MIT can create), and I can assure you it's real.
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by woodrow 16y ago
Cisco sells way more than just routers these days, perhaps as part of their hedge strategy after 2001. Mostly through acquisitions maybe, but it's still impressive. Examples that come to mind include Linksys (home networking), Scientific At
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by woodrow 16y ago
USPS provides first class mail service to all Americans for the same cost (whether that letter is addressed to down the street or across the country) and provides mail service to almost everywhere people live in the United States, whether i
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by woodrow 16y ago
I remember hearing some apocryphal story about a tech being frustrated that the numpad on your keyboard doesn't have a-f or ':' keys. Another way in which it doesn't fit with the way we do things in v4. More to your point, I think this illu
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by woodrow 16y ago
Renesys has written about this twice with more facts and less speculation: http://www.renesys.com/blog/2010/06/two-strikes-i-root.shtml , http://www.renesys.com/blog/2010/03/fouling-the-global-nest.... The gist of things it that the main
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by woodrow 16y ago
Thanks to NAFTA it's relatively easy for citizens of the United States and Mexico to obtain temporary work permits if you have a profession on this list [1] and the credentials to back it up. This includes "Computer System Analyst" and "Eng
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by woodrow 16y ago
The email note and notice in the elevator says "THEORY COLLOQUIUM: Open to the Public".
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Axioms of Internet Governance: Why we've failed so far(cukier.com)
1 points by woodrow 16y ago|1 comments
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by woodrow 16y ago
The law referenced in the article, from the complaint, regarding the "right" to build cellular towers: The [Telecommunications] Act contains five enumerated limitations to State and local zoning authority. See 47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7). A
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by woodrow 16y ago
No one has mentioned what seems to be one of other most seemingly positive developments of this -- the App Review Board [1]: "We’ve created the App Review Board to provide you the opportunity to appeal the rejection of an application if you
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Experiment briefly disrupts Internet routing(renesys.com)
1 points by woodrow 16y ago|0 comments
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by woodrow 16y ago
In case you're curious like me, the story about the intern is here: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/how-hard-could-it-be-th... TL;DR: They gave him 10k shares in Fog Creek stock if he returned to work at Fog Creek full time after gra
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by woodrow 16y ago
In case this wasn't clear or you didn't read the article, 4sq is using HTTP Basic authentication: >>> base64.decodestring("dXNlckBleGFtcGxlLmNvbTpwYXNzd29yZA==") 'user@example.com:password'
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by woodrow 16y ago
BGP, the Internet routing protocol, was sketched out similarly, on three napkins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAOVNYSnL7k#t=5m35s
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Google responds: Facts about our network neutrality policy proposal(googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com)
108 points by woodrow 16y ago|124 comments
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by woodrow 16y ago
There's confusion here between services being offered over IP and services offered via/from the Internet. Your access connection from $ISP, especially if it's DOCSIS or fiber, typically has more capacity than the bandwidth of the Internet c
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The Making of a Design Thinker(metropolismag.com)
1 points by woodrow 16y ago|0 comments
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by woodrow 16y ago
This article http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/08/google_and... paints a slightly different picture -- it claims GOOG was negotiating with VZ to prevent others negotiating non-neutral deals on wireline communications: "Spec
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by woodrow 16y ago
Site is down. Text from Google Cache: === Not all MBAs suck at startups. Learn how to spot Durant MBAs. I've been meaning to write this post for awhile--since I originally started this blog actually. When I originally warned startups to be
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by woodrow 16y ago
This is a useful interactive feature from the article that lets you look at various countries' debt over time and by type -- financial, government, household, etc.): http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2010/06/indebtedne... Particul
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by woodrow 16y ago
This is being presented at Black Hat on Wednesday ( https://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-us-10/bh-us-10-briefings.ht... ), so presumably more details (and hopefully less spin) will be forthcoming or available then.
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Apple reveals iPhone geolocation data collection policy(itworld.com)
1 points by woodrow 16y ago|0 comments
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by woodrow 16y ago
This advice won't be very helpful if your phone requires a PIN to unlock. Consider changing your wallpaper to contain emergency information (i.e. http://atmac.org/put-emergency-information-on-your-iphone-wa... for iPhone) in this case.
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by woodrow 16y ago
Legacy Locker, while solving a different problem (how do you transfer your online presence to your inheritors?), has a process to deal with this involving death certificates and trusted verifiers: http://legacylocker.com/features/verifiers
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by woodrow 16y ago
IANAL, nor am I an expert in this area, but I'm also an international student and have been thinking about these kinds of things. While still a student, options for working are pretty limited. You could apply for what USICE calls "Curricula
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DNSSEC makes progress: the root is signed(dnssec-deployment.org)
2 points by woodrow 16y ago|1 comments

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