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Anything that uses clear-text passwords has been removed. That is a very clear red-line. Also, anything that uses weak encryption, like P2PTP has also been removed, but a few versions ago. And the ssh defaults are tightened up almost every point release. As soon as a cipher becomes known as "weak", Apple pulls it.

I don't get why Houston wants to spend $400M on a reservoir. Sure they need a reservoir, but they need all of the other stuff too. Perhaps if they had $4B budget, they could actually fix everything that needs to be fixed.

Houston needs to get to the point that they can handle 60+ inches of rain in a 24 hour period. Token efforts might keep their budget balanced and the voters appeased until the next election, but they're getting 100 year storms so frequently now, they'll have to stop calling them that.

Climate change is great and all, but even if you sharply cut carbon emissions today, it would take a years before 100 years storms went back to their previous frequency.

The project is a number of years old now. The cost of construction projects tend to increase by 15% per year in western countries.

I'm not aware of any routers that can forward IPv4 in hardware, but pass IPv6 to the control plane.

Even the discontinued Catalyst 6500, which was used (and still is) by a lot of ISPs with the SUP720 supervisor, can do native IPv6.

I think you are completely wrong about this. Routers with native IPv6 were available 15 years ago, and are already getting pulled out to be replaced by the new stuff.

The reality is that, that ISP tier 1s use either Juniper MX or Cisco ASR9000 routers. These routers have good IPv6 performance.

That is generally the opposite of reality. IPv6 is generally faster than IPv4.

I don't know what "a couple of years ago" is, but all tier-1 ISPs have IPv6 backbones. There should be no reason for your access ISP to have to tunnel anything to get to a tier-1.

Your statement "Most ISPs (including mine) are using 6rd gateways to get their customers onto the IPv6 backbone" is kind of a red flag. If ISPs aren't connected to a backbone, can you even call them an ISP?

Bullshit. A Google search for "socialist news" returns wsws.org as the #2 response. #1 is socialistworks.org, a competing site.

Except for DLC. A AAA title will need to ship at least 4 x DLCs over a 12 to 18 month period. And no doubt the DLC development will expose serious bugs along the way, so the DLC will have to contain patches as well.

The lifespan of AAA titles is longer now that most are purchased digitally.

When you submit a zero day to a bank, maybe let us know. I this case, you submitted a zero-day to a trader-broker, not a bank.

I think it is important to note that Rackspace got into AWS and Azure services, because the dedicated physical servers business was dead man walking. While Rackspace did introduce virtualization and other services running on their own hardware, they would never be able to touch Amazon's industry sized scale.

There is a probably a consumer device that has a GRE listener running, and it is possible to send it a small packet, and it will return back some sort of error response. So classic amplification.

Thought given the moderate amount of traffic, maybe it isn't a hugely effective DDoS method.

Even if a consumer device doesn't use GRE, it doesn't mean it isn't there. GRE is often included in Linux kernels.

So "space" is some magical place where measurement error does not exist?

Low earth orbit isn't perfect either. You still have micro gravity. And the experiment requires a lot of power, and very sensitive instruments to measure the phenomenon. How do you get sensitive instruments which are expected to be operating near their error threshold into orbit without damaging them?

Orbital experiments will have to be smaller, and use less power, so the effects will even be smaller. But the instruments will have to be tough enough to withstand 5G. And the apparatus could still be introducing other errors, like coolant momentum, which also isn't magically eliminated by being in space.

Yes, but they can be flooded as well. Every system is going to have a finite capacity. And if the capacity is exceeded, the system will slow. If the capacity is significantly exceeded, it will become unreachable itself.

So if the capacity of your system is X Gbps, then it will start to have problems if the attacker sends X + 1 Gbps. And will probably be completely unreachable if the attacker sends X * 2 Gbps.