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Comment · 7 months ago
Why don't we all have solar panels on our roof to generate electricity for ourselves?

Why don't we all have small farms on our properties, turning lawns into vegetable producing land for each household?

Why don't we have small datacenters on the property of each business, so the business users and IT folks can keep track of their own servers and data and applications?

Comment · 8 months ago
http isn't the internet. al gore created a series of tubes, and other folks built protocols to share information through those tubes. http is one protocol
Comment · 8 months ago
what would those companies do with the infrastructure in AZ? serve clients in other states? I imagine the AZ legislature would have some levers they could pull to make those existing datacenters less effective or more costly to run.

Also because the companies are beholden to shareholders and their financial best interest. cutting off millions of clients to make a political statement is not in the companies best financial interest and would likely result in a shareholder lawsuit.

Comment · 1 year ago
Does anyone know what crime is being investigated? It looks like the malicious activity was sending spam text messages and forwarding international phone calls. Is there a federal regulation against sending spam messages?

Is it somehow illegal to have many sim cards in the same place as having many radios?

The telco's are also capable of bringing down the network, and they are legally allowed to turn their services off. Its not government infrastructure, its a business. If the backbone ISP providers decided to turn off their services for an area for a time, thats fine, there are contractual provisions to deal with that. its not a crime.

There has been no mention of arrest, was this 'crime' perpetrated by the infamous hackerman in ablack hoodie?

Comment · 1 year ago
so the risk to the wallet holder is the exact same risk that exists for every single HTTPS connection right now?

Post quantum algorithms have been available. You can do it today. Why not for bitcoin?

In reality, there are very few current real world implementations. This article makes it seem that RSA is under active exploitation. If it is, bitcoin is not the first target IMO

Comment · 1 year ago
like cash?
Comment · 1 year ago
Loading up a single address with too many UTXOs degrades the entropy of a public-private key pair

does bitcoin or UTXO's somehow for some reason generate multiple PUBLIC keys for the same private key?

Comment · 1 year ago
LOL. Worms come up to eat food, go down and poop. Poop forces remaining food and wormpoop (compost) up to the top.

They aren't pushing the teabags to the top, they're digging to defecate.

Comment · 2 years ago
Gunshots at 1:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR3mv5SbAi4&t=17s Maybe a slamming door, why so many slams? Obvious barking dog, then the wicked desperate woman's scream
Comment · 2 years ago
How are they compensating you for the expected work? If you can earn 50-75% of that compensation while working 40 hours a week, why would you go YC?

Why are you focused on YC/startups? Are you interested in the stock options, as a get rich quick scheme? Or are you interested in working during your life and being employed.

Working 60-80 hours a week is above normal and should be compensated as such. Startup stock is a huge risk.

Are you curious why the founders of a company spend 24/7 working it, and why they expect you to do the same? Well there you go, its the only thing the founder thinks about, and they want people to support them in that.

HOW ARE THEY COMPENSATING YOU. Thats the only thing that matters. If you make $1mil/year plus bonus, 80 hrs a week seems more reasonable.

Comment · 2 years ago
The same government that divested DNS after owning it? For years, ALL DNS was run by the US government. They decided to hand it over to a handful of organizations so no one could control it. Now, it looks like we will all have different versions, the same activity can have hugely different outcomes.
Comment · 2 years ago
there are a handful of ranges in IPv4 that are NOT globally unique. You're describing a much smaller set of IP ranges that are designed to be used+reused but not routable.

if you take someone elses public IPv4 address and they're using it, neither one of you will be functional, and they will come knocking on your door.

Comment · 2 years ago
UTC Date + Time of flightplan takeoff
Comment · 2 years ago
There is an enormous issue here. A service provider committed crimes against customers and their justification is the customers were using a protocol to exchange something. The service provider has no idea what the something exchanged was.

It's similar to arresting someone because they are speaking French. I don't speak French and I don't like people who speak French because sometimes French people say stuff I don't agree with. I don't know what they're saying but I hate it.

Comment · 2 years ago
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/chinese-hackers-charged-in-...

It took 3 years but the FBI published the names of the fellows they believe are responsible for breaching equifax and stealing private data about half of americans

Wu Zhiyong, Wang Qian, Xu Ke, and Liu Lei

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