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Wait wait wait...so, a company that has something like 60-70% of the market in total monopoly now has successfully ransomed another company who depends on their services?

Motherfuckers.
I must concede that your point (a) is (sometimes) correct; I had overlooked that.

Meanwhile I'm trying to imagine how deathly a conference conference would be...
This is what I use to justify my need.

http://security.stackexchange.com/a/33684/9897

As I said in another post, use adaptive hash function (bcrypt, scrypt or pbkdf2). And if you do it with limited computing power, my preference is to use PBKDF2 over bcrypt (scrypt is of course out of question).
Interesting idea. A motivated hacker could turn this into a git wrapper that could act as an intermediary to the real McCoy and make proper subrepo support baked into the commands.
It's interesting to see that he promotes the app by mentioning the status feature, which is rarely used nowadays (at least in my experience).
There are significant differences in the strength of Flash's sandbox between browsers. Which browsers does this affect?
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230483470...

I think links with Google as a referrer show you the whole article.
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http://bit.ly/NoS35l Just google the headline, they allow access to requests with google referrers.
I'd say my internet provider is fucking me over in failing to provide me with reliable connectivity I'm paying for. But that's just me.
I guess they had to pick between Lawyers vs Comcast.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/02/netflix-is-paying-co...
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I highly doubt that this particular bug was due to a shadowy government agency or that type of collusion. It's more likely that someone fucked up, it can happen to anyone. You have to look at it from a game-theoretic perspective. Assuming there is collusion between Apple and NSA, it would at least __look__ intentional.
Local Cable companies are not a free competitive market; they are state-sanctioned local monopolies.
That's not what I see... http://oi57.tinypic.com/205rx9i.jpg
If find it silly that someone can defend spam as a legitimate "business". Spam is always undesired and must die. In general all advertising over email is just noise.
With a monopolist ISP? How are they arguing that one?
Yes it is. Flash is one entity that runs across several browsers. By definition it's more popular than each one of them.

If there's a bug in Chrome, it affects only 30 percent of the browsing market - the Chrome market. If there's a bug in Flash, it affects 95 percent of the browsing market.

That's why it would've been much better if Adobe open sourced Flash a long time ago, because then each browser could do their own implementation of Flash, just like they do with many other open specs today, and then if there was a bug in Chrome's Flash, it would've only affected the Chrome market.

It's too late to open source Flash now, but we're doing that instead with alternatives like the HTML5 video tag and WebGL (for animations).
Newsflash: we're doing something wrong as a society. Because socially we're not going to accept that people should be working less—not because they need to work more, but because idle hands offend.
This is actually good for Netflix and terrible for any competition. While Netflix probably has to hand over a bit of money, they are in a much better position to do so than any of their competitors as they're the biggest. In effect this creates a massive entry barrier into the video streaming market. You will now likely need to set up a massive infrastructure and pay massive bribes to various internet providers to be able to compete. So this is probably a smart move by Netflix by creating entry barriers that they should be able to easily pass on to consumers if they can achieve market dominance.
I think DDG primarily uses Yandex. They at least often put a "Powered by Yandex" logo along the side.
Well now every other ISP is considering doing what Comcast just did.
In cases like this I use a binary comparison tree:

Task a vs task b: if I don't have an opinion about which I should do, I flip a coin.

Task c vs task d, task e vs task f, task g vs task h.

Then winner ab vs winner cd, winner ef vs winner gh.

Then winner abcd vs winner efgh.

I almost never make it all the way to the end as by round 2 ive considered the urgency and value of every task and the winner is usually obvious.

In the cases where I truly don't have an opinion about any of them, the coin flipping only takes a few seconds and getting started on somehing now is often better than spending the time trying to gather enough evidence to form an opinion.

The trick is in forcing relatively easy binary comparisons vs hard absolute or exhaustive evaluations. Our brains have lots of good hardware to make binary and trinary decisions, but we have to use software once we pass 4 or so competing choices.

It works for me. Ymmv.
The answer explains this. The number should be (p - 1) x 2 where p is the number of prisoners. (23-1) = 22 * 2 = 44
How about a registration page instead? Are you going to not tell the user whether the registration worked or not? I've never seen a site that does that.

I've seen tons of sites that tell you "invalid username or password" but will happily tell you if the username is registered if you try to register it. It adds no security and just inconveniences users.
"The gravy-train has ended." -Major ISPs

So much for net neutrality. Now ISPs have another way to make more $$. Keep those profits higher - push smaller streaming services out.
Firefox and Chrome (not sure about other browsers) have click-to-flash built in. It means you need one extra click to load flash, and about 1% of legit sites won't work (which you can manually whitelist). It's much better than the alternative of your computer only being as secure as the flash sandbox.
As much as I hate the ISPs, calling them terrorists is a bit too much.
..and you think being polite is going to stop the powers that be from messing with him when he re-enters the country? Interesting...
Speculation, but it makes me wonder if there’s a part of the story we’re not hearing yet.

Because yes, why not even hold the iOS fix for a day or two until they can both be pushed together? Obviously that’s not good, but isn’t it better than basically making an implicit irresponsible disclosure against your own operating system?

Maybe this bug is being exploited in the wild already and that’s the reason for the urgency?

Again, not that this should not be urgent, but why help your iOS users and at the same time potentially harm your OS X users? It just seems like a really weird decision.
That's what key derivation functions, and hashing algorithms like bcrypt do, they have a #rounds, or a cost factor which adds a non-trivial amount of computation time. Fast enough that it doesn't impact "human time" but slow enough that "computer time" is impacted.
And so the precedent is set. This is the direction I see things going:

For $70 a month from Comcast you can get Amazon, Google, and Facebook. For only $10 more a month you can add Netflix and Spotify. Want Pandora? Sorry, you'll have to switch to AT&T for that.

The broadband providers are used to this type of packaged service given their history as cable television providers. It's how they make their money beyond providing simple connectivity. Their future expansion and profits are linked to their ability to create exclusivity and extract revenue based on targeted demand.

I don't see any other way around this. Absent regulations prohibiting packet discrimination, I'm not sure I would do any different if I were in Comcast's shoes.
Facebook does have a sales team, contrary to popular belief. They're easier to contact than Google is.
Link without paywall: http://www.google.com/#q=Netflix+Agrees to+Pay+Comcast+to+End+Traffic+Jam&btnI
Since there's a password article on the front page too...

This problem is very clever, and there is a very clever way to solve this, assuming everyone plays nice. However, that solution assumes perfect collusion. These are prisoners we're talking about, so at least in some cases, we have to assume there may be bad actors involved. I mean this is a cute problem assuming the following:

1. All the prisoners have perfect memory (for this problem)

2. All the prisoners actually want to live.

3. The warden is telling the truth

4. The guards are all honest.

These are all the type of assumption that gets websites hacked. So what is the attack surface here?

* One of the prisoners decides this is a fun way to suicide

* One of the prisoners is in gang A, and one is in gang B. They value gang honor above their own life, and need to take out the other.

* A guard has decided that this is a great way to off some "scum"

* A prisoner forgets the algorithm, or hits the wrong switch, or other form of human error.

* As if_by_whisky points out: someone dies before the full run.

* The warden just wants to mess with people before feeding them to alligators, and just states "wrong" whenever someone declares all have visited.

* A prisoner can't handle the stakes, and cracks and makes the declaration early.

* The leader messes up the count.

There are probably a lot more.

Further, the warden is making assumptions that we can't be sure are true. Prisons are notorious for being bad at doing the actual security thing. Are there ways for prisoners to collude and do extra error checking on their end? Can a guard be bribed to help share state? Is there a way to get other prisoners involved in message passing, even if they manage to prevent direct collusion between the selected 23?

I don't know a way around all of these. In fact I'm pretty sure there a some combinations where everyone is just fucked. But, what can be done to add robustness to this problem? It seems pretty silly for prisoners (likely malicious actors as a generalization) will follow the rules and stay within the constraints the warden sets out.

I ask, because I've solved plenty of things in a nice elegant way, that were trivially broken by not assuming everything will play nicely in the environment. Similarly I've broken plenty of "awesome solutions" by asking questions about assumptions. The difference between the algorithmic solution and the real world is sometimes surprisingly large. Just some food for thought :)
Oh this doesn't bode well.
> Also it's not "fun".

But it is fun. It's called "working for hack value"!
Yeah, that sounds like the market I'm familiar with.
Actually they are natural monopolies.
Or you could just use an existing CDN that's already paying the bribes.
If it weren't posted on HN and I found it on the web in general, I'd probably pass over it. Unlike DigitalOcean, their website doesn't indicate what virtualization they're using. On the lowendtalk link that amjd provided, they mention that it's KVM, but there are so many providers offering cheap VPSs that are oversold using OpenVZ or something. Similarly, lowendtalk mentions that they're using SSDs, but there's nary a mention of that on their website. It feels like Vultr bought a ready-made template for a cloud host and put in their logo.

DigitalOcean's online presence earns a lot of trust. Their website makes clear what they're offering, the mentions of developers and popular open-source technologies makes them seem like they know the score, and their ever-expanding library of how-to guides shows a certain involvement and investment. Vultr might be a great service, but their website makes it seem like the loads of cheap, oversold VPS solutions out there who have just bought some dedicated servers and are renting them out. If they want to combat that perception, they should be offering information. Their website is buzz-word ready with "powerful infrastructure" and "high speed performance", but that isn't going to win over developers. That's like a new database product saying that it "automatically scales". If you're going to make the claim, you need to explain how.
I'm just using a metaphor. It's all business, but the game theory version is that by even engaging with them here, you legitimize the tactics and have to continue to pay up every time anyone comes calling.

Kipling has a cogent explanation of it in poetry form:

http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/dane_geld.html
"I wonder how much longer..."

This may help: http://xkcd.com/936/
Not so much established and highly capitalized competition (like Amazon), but disastrous for startups and new entrants. It adds a major barrier to entry in the form of a b2b paywall before you can reach consumers.
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Ha, mostly because I didn't know about it. The big feed is not all that discoverable.
Actually, the way I see it, further inflation in the word 'terrorist' can only be good.
While many make reference to the mythical creature Net Neutrality, I think at best this will be mostly a way for Comcast to enjoy some time for extra revenue and perhaps a chance to develop a closer partnership with a company like Netflix. They could use the extra revenue to improve their network and the relationship to give them a fighting chance when local access monopolies are broken through new access options.
+1. I wish double-opt-in were written into federal law. I'm so sick of John's, Jack's, Julian's, and Justin's newsletters :-/
That is why I limit my Flash use to Chrome and there with the Browser's click to play function only

Thanks to Apple, Flash has almost become irrelevant. I usually see it only in the GUI of my ZyWALL (and only after activating it through click to play).

(Check out http://www.ghacks.net/2012/07/21/configuring-chromes-click-t... if you do not use click to play in Chrome yet. In Firefox, it is accessible via about:config.)
I think what I'm seeing is that Netflix doesn't really care about neutrality beyond its ability to enable their business. Which is basically what we as consumers should have assumed from the start.
What you described is quite close to how I manage my own depression. And it's working flawlessly, btw.

But, at least in my case, obsessively pushing myself into doing something I wouldn't ever 'normally do' had the opposite effect. I realized that there was/is probably a reason why I never tried it before, the chance that I will somehow magically start liking it now is too slim, and the only thing I was doing at that time was wasting energy that I could had otherwise spent on doing something I would've enjoyed.

The only thing that's left to add is to never push yourself into doing something you don't enjoy in hopes of finding somehow happiness. (I guess a lot of people fail here, or at least I did)
Netflix could also be seeing declining engagement or subscription metrics for customers on Comcast.
Any competition other than Comcast.
This is kind of funny as I just started reading "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Kahnemann.

In those terms, this article is very much about "type 2" processes, which is conscious and slow monitoring of the more intuitive type 1 processes.

A consequence is that following this advice will result in "ego depletion". By exerting your willpower in one area, you deplete a common store of it, and thus you're more likely to overeat, act lazily, think lazily, etc. in other areas.

I think this probably manifests in people who work too hard getting fat, since they don't want to watch what they eat or exercise (if those things require willpower; for some people may not)

Note that "conscious willpower" is the opposite of a "flow state". And flow is what is necessary to write good software.

Like all things, there has to be a balance. You have to exert your willpower, and all new things involve this pain, but you can also set your life up so it isn't a constant problem.
Great response. I just can't help but imagine an upperclass of immortals being extremely protective of their prospective infinite existence to the point that a large group of them would have no problem committing genocide to keep it that way. After all, it would be easy to cast mortals as a lesser being in a future in which others have become almost god like.

Hopefully there will be some sort of colonization of space at that point and they can at least leave Earth to us mortals.

Ultimately I just don't read enough sci-fi to have all the debate points down. I'm just trying to apply to marxist concepts to something which perhaps will have completely eclipsed Karl's reality.
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> I don't see any other way around this.

Vote with your feet.
Possibly.

Some sites will tell you "Email not on account."

I've seen a few that say "We've emailed you instructions on resetting your password."
Yandex is Russian, not Chinese.
If an attacker already has access to your user's table (as is implied by most of the situations in this article), then they probably have your whole database. What else is there to lose? Why would an attacker bother to use any method to match passwords to hashes? Don't they already have everything they could want?
How would Net Neutrality help here? Comcast wasn't throttling Netflix vs. other content, they were refusing to build bigger pipes to Cogent.
Motivation is such a complex issue but it's quite apparent that you can't view it in isolation. I don't see how a hypothetical motivation pill will do much better than an anti-depressant drug.

What I find interesting though is this stigma around depression, lack of motivation and laziness. There's nothing unbecoming, wrong or unnatural about any of these states. We don't need to stamp it out completely.

Winston Churchill had severe depression but he was arguably one of the most productive people in the 20th century. Lazy people often come up with brilliant inventions (in order to do less work). And lack of motivation can often be addressed by life style changes.

Maybe for one person the lack of motivation is because the work they engage in isn't meaningful to them. For another person, the work may be meaningful but they are missing connection from other people. The next person might not be leading a healthy lifestyle so they are not providing their body an environment in which they can thrive (not enough nutrients/sun light etc). And yet another person may simply be experiencing a natural oscillation between being motivated and unmotivated. All of these things can be addressed in some way or another.

Personally, I found the education system a factor in robbing me of motivation and questioning my drive. I didn't get really motivated about learning until I got out of it and picked topics I was truly curious about. But up until that point I would almost have considered myself as kind of broken because I was doing the bare minimum to pass tests when I could be doing so much more. The only thing that changed for me to tap into my drive was the conditions I set. Now I learn because I'm driven by curiosity and a drive to make things.

It would be a pity if people start taking pills without addressing these other things (at least in conjunction).

Having said that, for specific treatment alternatives, I think the future is much brighter with neuro/bio feedback technologies. And it's getting cheaper by the year.
The weirdest shit is that people are okay with it, at least enough to not do anything about it.
'Gardening' is quit a bit different than breaking your back to pick 200 bushels of oranges for 14 hours in 90 degree heat.
It did not look like Adobe would render this pdf in my lifetime so I gave up.
Back then, that's all it had. At the start, you could update your current status and see all your contacts' statuses. When iOS added push notifications, it got updated so you could get notifications of friends' status updates without opening the app. It wasn't until version 2.0 (at least a couple of months after the forum post linked here) that the messaging functionality was added.
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> The only other explanation is that they may actually like this, because they know it would slow down a lot of their smaller competitors coming after them.

There ya go.
No, they do not. Maybe an important person's password hash gets leaked and they want to extract the password to check other sites for reuse to get into other systems. Now you say reuse is dumb, and I agree, yet a lot of people do it because they're lazy. This is just an additional stepping stone to make a malicious hacker's life harder.
I would be very, very, very careful here. Not sure what country you're in, but you're setting yourself up for possible legal action, even though your intentions are good.
They could use the money to improve their network...but likely won't.

I recall the federal government providing billions to the cable companies in the 90s for high speed broadband that never materialized.
It could simply be a way that they're limiting losses - and will sue them later to change it, get money back, etc..
That's not an option for entirely too many people to be meaningful.
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Most people seem to have tolerated the massive quality drop in OSX since Tiger (easily their peak version)

I would say that Snow Leopard was their peak, even though it did follow Leopard.
Beyond looking at the implications for Net Neutrality (since we don't really know the implications of this deal going forward in relation to this); for people who are wondering why this has happened, this looks like this is part of Netflix's Open Connect Project[1] which is a single-purpose CDN network - and is essentially a paid-peering deal.

As part of the Open Connect Project, Netflix has deployed servers which are hundreds of terabytes in size in strategic locations all over the work and they contain ~60-90% of the data required for that particular country.

These devices either live in the ISP (which is what Netflix wanted to happen with Comcast) or live in an internet exchange where multiple ISPs can connect to the Open Connect devices.

There are 3 core benefits in doing this:

- Better Streaming due to fewer hops to the client

- Netflix avoids rate limiting (if they're inside the ISP Network)

- Peering is free (usually) and is essentially where two ISPs connect their infastructure and agree to maintain their own sites without bandwidth charges. It's common throughout the industry and content-providers are always looking to peer with ISPs to drive down their overall costs of operations.

[1] http://openconnect.netflix.com
The cabling is a natural monopoly. Who is allowed to service you over it is not. Thats why many countries have some degree of unbundling of service and provision of wires, eg I can get many providers of ADSL here over the same phone lines that are owned by a monopoly provider. Alas not for fibre though yet (UK).
That is not going to happen. The onus is not on the consumer, it's on the service provider. The service provider may transfer the costs onto the consumer but Comcast won't directly charge the consumers a premium. That would be a bad move and Comcast would lose out its customers to competitors.
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> negotiate with the terrorists?

The term you should be looking for is “paying the danegeld”:

That if once you have paid him the Danegeld,
you never get rid of the Dane.

— Dane Geld, Rudyard Kipling
For purposes of easy clicking, here's the same link without the space: http://www.google.com/#q=Netflix+Agrees+to+Pay+Comcast+to+En...
I can't stress enough how important sunlight and exercise (any exercise, even walking) is. It's ridiculous how many doctors don't prescribe this before drugs.