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pyvpxon A Review of Time Series Databases

I dont understand the how/why it is, though. anyone have more information?

pyvpxon HP is buying Samsung’s printer business for $1.05B

HPE networking isn't terrible. it's certainly far and above what Dell is putting out.

pyvpxon How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension featuring 24k+ users

to be fair, for some parts of the eco-system, and for some values of investment, you can pay for support.

pyvpxon How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension featuring 24k+ users

so then hire 200 customer service people to handle the queries when the algorithms go awry? surely there is an algorithm they can devise that will identify when the other algorithms have made mistakes.

right? :-)

pyvpxon German Federal Intelligence Service BND Violates Laws And Constitution

considering in a democratic system the government is a representation of the will of the governed and, you know, us governed types don't expect us to lie to ourselves.

or something.

pyvpxon German Federal Intelligence Service BND Violates Laws And Constitution

assuming bread is property of the baker and all property is considered equal...then, yes.

pyvpxon Startups turning to a funding tactic used by oil and gas companies in the 1900s

how does one calculate the LTV/NPV of a customer?

pyvpxon Researchers Map Locations of Servers in Netflix’s Content Delivery Network

talk to the licensing lawyers and copyright holders. it has nothing to do with infrastructure and everything to do with licensing content.

pyvpxon Researchers Map Locations of Servers in Netflix’s Content Delivery Network

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/hardware/

I believe there are some slight differences between what Netflix uses and the OpenConnect machines placed inside ISP networks, but not by very much.

pyvpxon Israel deploys automated military robots

> Israel's R&D efforts

are also not made in an vacuum. substantial assistance and sharing with the US has certainly accelerated their abilities.

pyvpxon IBM's reputation at risk in wake of census bungle

IBM is best at writing iron clad contracts that mean precisely that -- no matter the outcome, they get paid.

pyvpxon Google Outpaces Facebook on Getting India Connected to Internet

a very important distinction that needs to be mentioned every single time

pyvpxon Xen exploitation part 3: XSA-182, Qubes escape

at what point do we all say "maybe Xen isn't the best hypervisor to work with for this sort of goal"?

pyvpxon FCC Reaches Settlement with TP-Link in Wi-Fi Router Investigation

pfSense is based on FreeBSD. there is no "pfSense hardware", just x86 machines.

pyvpxon FreeBSD Q2 2016 Status Report

on a somewhat related note: if you're reading this and you use OpenSSH, you really ought to donate to the OpenBSD project via their foundation. And you should band together with the rest of your technical team(s) who most likely also use OpenSSH, and get management to make a donation in kind.

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/

pyvpxon Cats, dogs starve as web-connected chow chute PetNet plays dead

the Powers That Be who regulate and approve such medical devices would surely have one or two things to say about a device whose functionality is dependent on connectivity to the internet.

pyvpxon BT fault hits broadband users and banks

sounds a bit like Deutsche Telekom.

pyvpxon BT fault hits broadband users and banks

despite best efforts, sometimes the generators don't kick in. sometimes not all of them kick in. sometimes one ATS in one feed in one section that just happens to house one half of an important switch chassis doesn't work as it did during tests last quarter.

pyvpxon Harnessing light for wireless communications

the article is easily digestible and you'll find that no, they aren't. not even close.

pyvpxon Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed

how did they come across these remote-friendly positions?

pyvpxon Wanted: Ninja Rockstar Code Monkey Hacker Unicorn

wouldn't you rather do that at home? or outside the office, at least? but since you're working 60 or more hours a week, I guess in the office is the only opportunity...

pyvpxon Show HN: Improved passive TCP/IP geolocation

it's far easier and more accurate to track someone based on browser fingerprinting and a few other features than any IP address -- period. IPv6 in no way makes this worse or better than IPv4.

pyvpxon How landlords get kickbacks to lock tenants into big Internet providers

in a MDU, the owner owns the common spaces. that includes risers and inside wiring. they're free to sell, lease, or restrict the rights to whomever they please.

just like wifi ratings for hotels have become a "thing", so must exclusivity agreements and broadband providers when it comes to apartment/housing hunting.

it would be extremely difficult bordering on impossible, in my opinion, for a law in the US to prohibit property owner rights in a fashion that prevents these kind of agreements. only a "market" solution would work here. and of course, that's very difficult on its own.

pyvpxon How landlords get kickbacks to lock tenants into big Internet providers

you designate an MPOE (minimum point of entry) and then have cabling/conduit installed from the MPOE to units/residences/NIDs. then your HOA owns the "inside wiring" and, with the right amount of lawyer magic, each unit can own/control the destiny of the cable/wire/conduit that goes from the MPOE to them.

then the real trick is getting the ISP you want to play ball. I know of a few instances where Comcast just won't entertain the setup whatsoever. Unfortunately, in telecommunications, largess is the name of the game...

pyvpxon How landlords get kickbacks to lock tenants into big Internet providers

this is called local-loop unbundling. there are various "hysterical raisins" (aka historical reasons) that cable companies are exempt from this regulatory requirement. the main one being their infrastructure was not publicly funded at any time (ignoring tax breaks and a bevy of other direct/indirect public subsidies)

there is also BSA or bitstream access where, in the case of DSL, the ATM circuit is provisioned and carried by the incumbent and then handed off to the competitive provider in a central location. of course, this isn't all that useful since it's still the incumbent who has to provision the circuit, maintain the copper and equipment, and generally muck up the customer experience despite not being the labelled provider.

pyvpxon Passive TCP/IP Geo-Location

CDNs mostly use network-level data to find the "closest" and/or highest performance cache, not geography. if your server is in Asia, most CDNs will be able to calculate that Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, etc. have a lower latency to you than a US one that more closely matches WHOIS data for your IP address.

pyvpxon Passive TCP/IP Geo-Location

they start with WHOIS data and add what they can from there to improve accuracy. Quite a few residential ISPs register blocks of IP addresses (subnets) to a city, town, neighborhood, etc.

pyvpxon iOS 10 and MacOS Sierra: Networking for the Modern Internet

that would be a middlebox thing, not a BGP peer thing.

pyvpxon Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass

I'm always intensely curious what residential (and these days, even business) customers want with a dedicated, publicly routable IPv4 address.

why were you disappointed?

pyvpxon Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass

if by discrimination you mean guarantees versus best-efforts. business class services, speaking generally, are less or not at all over subscribed while providing contractual guarantees to service performance and problem resolution.

residential is best effort. they'll do their best to keep it up and give you the speeds you pay for, but if it doesn't work out that way sometimes, well, they're sorry about that.