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> This is a perfect example of why a monopoly is infinitely better than having competition

This is a grossly over simplified assumption that does not stand on its own. The type of monopoly that Google has was not handed to it, but resulted from "nasty" competition. Google (currently) is literally too competent to beat in the search engine space. Perhaps Lyft will die off or by purchased by Uber, but it's not a given that it should, or even that it will.

More importantly, what happens when there is no competition between companies for drivers? Are we assuming that once (Uber|Lyft) has the market wrapped up they're going to benevolently maintain favorable driver pay rates? Are we really assuming that in the absence of incentives to do so that (Uber|Lyft) will favor drivers or riders instead of its own bottom line? Since this flies in the face of common sense and a mountain of empirical evidence to the contrary, why in this case is a monopoly preferred to competition?
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If you look on the back of your wifi gear, you'll likely see a stamp that says something to the effect of:

"This device complies with FCC part 15 and will not cause harmful interference".

The argument could be made that by using the device to send lots of deauth packets, that Marriott had modified the device beyond it's original scope, and was now using it to cause harmful interference (to other wifi devices).
It's not really intellectual property that is the issue, it is the contract Canada signed with the company. It's really no different than if Canada contracted with a food distributor and the distributor was dragging its feet. The issue there wouldn't be food property rights, it's picking the shitty distributor.
Jamming signals in the US is a federal crime. CFR Title 17 is pretty clear that the FCC thinks it's a heinous offense.
I work conferences, and this is totally true about unrealistically high pricing. Although I've never seen paid WiFi... there's usually 2 sets, a public Wifi, and a Wifi for internal for demos.
I guess. In this particular case it was intended as a genuine gift by an exec in a (non tech) company so they just didn't understand. Plus since its an SD adapter + SD card I still got at least a SD card out of it.
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I appreciate this response. You have brought us to the chicken and egg situation. I do believe Israel has reason to respond to artillery. I will also admit that Israel does not have the leverage South Korea does or EU/US do in the examples I gave. The lack of leverage is however partially their doing. 60+ years of occupation can do this. They took away the option of destroying their enemies economy because they already did that. They took away the option of removing their freedom of movement and sense of self-sufficiency because they have already done that. Finally they took away their ability for basic survival as they already starve the citizens of Gaza. So it is likely all they have left is to bomb. I have issue with the false pretence and escalation and I would have expected Israel to have reserved killing human shields for some later escalation.

it is not a "human shield" if you shoot anyway.
It's just a dead body.
https://twitter.com/Tolstoved/status/493177973810294784

The stats concerning collateral damage in the previous war are astounding. Looking at only the percentage of children and women killed in comparison of the over all total, one has to be gobsmacked at any excuses. I seem to remember this number alone being more than 50% of all deaths. Considering that they were all likely not "combatants" one should also assume that a significant portion of the male deaths were also not combatant. I highly doubt Israel intended to kill so many innocent people but can't see any other explanation other than just turning a blind eye. It was, without a doubt, grotesque.
I'd rather not have a built in tip as a customer. I don't want to tip someone who doesn't do their job well. I want to tip someone who does an exceptional job, and I may even tip them exceptionally.

Granted I've never used a service like Uber, so I can't directly understand where you're coming from.
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The boss, the VC or the customer is ultimately people you have commitments to. You can always decide not to comply to their request and see what happens.
If your product is great, the customer might frown but will stay, and you'll be fine. The same thing with your boss, if you're a stellar employee, your boss won't be pleased but your job will probably be safe. In any case, you measure and take risks.
The main difference in my opinion is you see your boss almost everyday, she gives you guidance and tells you if things go bad. With customers, you have to proactively get the feedback, or anticipate their needs.
> Spriting, data-inlining, domain sharding, and concatenation. These hacks are indications of underlying problems in the protocol itself.

While this is true, I don't think HTTP/2 will or should negate some of these. Precomputing things like minification and concatenation will certainly reduce load and always increase capacity. Human-readable code is only useful for humans, and during transfer, storage, parsing, etc., it's just plain inefficient. Also, with spriting and concat, fewer files means more of the information you know you need is at the same place in disk or memory, speeding access at a low level.
So legally Marriott was wrong, but from a technical implementation standpoint does this policy lead to fewer users being able to connect to Wifi at a conference?

Are the regulations in this case meeting the end goal of the FCC - that good use is being made of the RF space?
That's not my point. There is no need for this to be mandatory. When company is ready they should be able to present at another demo day, etc.

I also think the founders know better where the time needs to be spend and at what stage they should focus on PR.

Cookie cutter approach does not work for everybody.
Part-way through a trip from D.C. to Boston I ordered a sandwich and a can of ginger ale on the train. I did not specify a brand of ginger ale, but the clerk told me that they were out of Schweppes, and that he didn't want to bother charging me for Canada Dry, so he gave it to me for free.
That is pretty damning. Blocking wifi signal is one thing, fraudulantly deauthing is like... fuck these people.
Their rationale/justification was that because WiFi at scale (40k attendees, couple hundred exhibitors) the MiFis and other hotspots are using the bandwidth that the exhibitors have paid (a lot of money) for and caused issues with their demos (which the attendees paid entry fees to see).

These high-end WiFi systems are expensive to install and administer. But that those prices they were charging, they've paid for the system in, like, the first day. Maybe by lunch time.

Conference stuff in general is crazy.
It will happen eventually. There are use cases and postgres can do more to address them. The existence of third-party solutions is evidence of that.

What makes it really hard is solving the problem in a way that doesn't lead people into a trap. MongoDB offers solutions for some users, but a lot of users walk away very disappointed when the "solution" didn't do what they think it would do (often after running into problems in production).

But it still needs to be done. A general solution is impossible, so we need specific solutions. Each of those will need to be designed in a way that the user knows as early as possible whether it will work for them, or they need to use one of the other approaches.

What's happening right now is work on very powerful infrastructure for logical replication. Postgres invested in binary replication before, and the results have been great. But binary replication is not a good foundation for multi-master; so now there's investment in logical. There is also early-stage investment in parallel query, which I believe can pay off with mutli-machine parallelism, which is another form of scale-out.
I don't think voices have unique signatures. Voices vary widely but they can still share identical properties and be imitated.
Awesome! But may I suggest that you loose some of the animated stuff on the front page. My eyes hurt :(
So long as it's legal to operate in this way, if Uber + Lyft do combine and raise rates, what's to stop a new company from coming in and undercutting them on price? I think that, barring any laws preventing companies from using this business model, we're now in a race to the bottom on price, which seems to be what the medallion system was all about preventing.
I think $600,000 for this incident makes the net venture still profitable. I'd bet that $1,800,000 for each future incident (assuming treble damages because they'd already been penalized for this once) would make it very unprofitable very quickly.
I don't mind the binary protocol that much, but the apparent assumption that every endpoint is a fat stateful cache (push, multiplexing) is madness.

Have they actually worked out how to implement a HTTP/2 front end cache in the face of ill-behaved clients, crashy servers, and the way wireless breaks a lot of the assumptions that would make "one big TCP session" a good idea in the first place?

If TCP+TLS handshakes are so expensive, wouldn't it be a better investment of everyone's resources to work on an L3 protocol for setting up a fast second session? Leave the multiplexing to packet people.
It's actually about optical discs. But "CD" is the vernacular for optical discs. Kind of like "hard drive." Modern laptops don't have hard drives--they have solid-state drives, but people still refer to their storage as a "hard drive."
Many devices have internal hubs as well. My notebook chains one external USB interface through two nested internal hubs (the deepest of which also controls the mouse and keyboard) before it even gets to the physical port, the other USB port goes through yet another hub. There's three total hubs in the system before even plugging in anything external. A rule like this would kill all of my existing HID devices except for my webcam, which is the only device on directly connected to the USB host.
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I stayed at a Hilton in the UK and they had a 1L bottle of water on the desk in the room, with a little price tag on it: £3.95 (~$6.50). I thought it was very sneaky - guests are used to paying for things in the fridge but not those left out on the desk.
I actually believe that technologists can't ethically remain aloof from politics, global geopolitics, or even military systems. There are too many lives at stake.

I urge technologists who are concerned about this humanitarian crisis to look at a map of the area in question and research propaganda and global geopolitics in general.
> When I don't exercise (for me that means also practicing Ashtanga Yoga) for like a week because of external reasons, I experienced a deep slash of depression

Yep, that's the flip side. It helps fight depression, but it also has an addictive side to it. Fortunately it's really not as time consuming as you'd think, but taking a whole week off is almost out of the question
This is really interesting - the college I went to used this kind of technology to prevent students from spinning up rogue hotspots. In fact, it is a pretty common practice. Anyone know if this law extends to that use case or if Marriot was doing something different?
The fine was for one location. I imagine it put a dent in their p&l. Likely would've been bigger if they settled on multiple locations.
"...if someone unknown knocks on the door, I don't answer without having a gun in my hand."

Holy crap. Do we live on the same planet? Being murdered by an unknown assailant who knocks on my door is so far down my list of risks and fears that it doesn't even register. I'm far more worried about being hit by a bus as I cross the street, or my car spontaneously catching fire in my garage. Sure, it could happen, but so could a meteor that obliterates my house, and it hardly seems worth any effort.
Yup, conventions are the world of $100 to vacuum a 10'X10' space.
Whenever you have tables of data where users should only have access to certain rows and want that enforced at the DB layer rather than the app layer.

It probably only makes sense if your users also have user accounts on your postgres server.
I think you're ignoring the context of the parent post. The topic of the post Multics was commenting on wasn't "Is DPR a sketchy dude?" It was closer to "Supporting operations like Silk Road is inherently immoral. Look at all the bad juju around this. Surely anyone who isn't against drugs is evil, agreed?"
I wish people would actually say what the issue is instead of the vague "IP" monicker. We're talking about patents. Just patents. Not trademarks. Not copyrights. Not design patents. Not regional designation. Not integrated circuit designs. Just patents.

Now that we know what we're talking about, let's have a coolheaded discussion about pharmaceutical patents and only pharmaceutical patents, without comparing them to any other irrelevant law. In particular let's question the situation of the Canadian Crown being able to hold patents.
I've filed the issue here: https://code.google.com/p/webrtc/issues/detail?id=3892
> an online class is way better than an amphitheater

Maybe if you're sociophobic.
Maybe Uber also faked the 10% pay cut Lyft announced for their drivers in LA too?!
It sounds like they were only blocking connections at one specific property (Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee), which changes the math a bit.

Also, don't forget the cost of doing compliance audits across all of their properties for the next three years, which is not going to be cheap either.
of course it can.

patents has been protecting corporate profits for a very long time.

how is this any different from the old and powerful sending the young and disposable away to distant wars to suffer and die?

this stuff is baked into humanity.
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The worse the epidemic gets the more money they stand to make, so they don't really have much incentive to start shipping the vaccine now. Especially since it sounds like they're the only vaccine with enough doses to do large scale trials.
You might be right, technically, but I'd much rather have the situation where no parties are allowed to interfere and manufacturers have incentive to develop sharing-friendly systems (spread spectrum, etc.), than the situation where entities can block my Internet access for their own convenience.

Were that not the case, I could enter an arms race with my neighbors where we all compete for the strongest Wi-Fi blockers so that our own signal is strongest, perhaps to the point that one of us might get a business-class connection and start allowing paid access to it. "Too bad our block can't use Wi-Fi. Say, neighbor, for $100 a month I bet I could let you share mine."
Sure you can.

Your access to the TS network is the same regardless of your location and that's the important part.
Aside from the specifics of wifi, this is the way hotels work. Going higher up the chain means you get more employees, better location, better fixtures, and better amenities. Those amenities might include a real health club, a real restaurant, and a real bell hop instead of a room with a treadmill, a counter full of grocery store pastries, and a cart with wheels on it. In order to stay cost competitive, the fancy hotels don't necessarily charge everybody to use the amenities, they just charge those who use them. (You could substitute "overcharge" in that last sentence depending on how you feel about hotel chains.)
> Trust me, your description is orders of magnitude more confusing to the layman.

Fundamental physics tends to do that to laymen. A lot.
There is a clear difference between the two.
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Would a USB drive be able to 'know' what the ID of another USB device is? As I'm seeing the explanation:

1. User plugs in USB drive and keyboard.
2. USB drive obtains the ID of the keyboard.
3. Later, it looks when the keyboard is not plugged in and changes it's ID to that of the keyboard.
4. Now the computer thinks when the USB drive is an authorised keyboard, and can type whatever malicious commands it wants.

Is that right? Apart from keyboard, what other devices could it exploit?
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DNS doesn't work everywhere. If I'm filling out Cisco IOS configuration, not every device has a DNS name. It's gotta be the IP address. If I'm filling in the IPAM, it's gotta be the IP address. Putting addresses into the SIEM? Gotta be the IP address. Telling someone what IP address to use for a server they haven't set up yet? There's no server, so there's no DNS name. Gotta be an IP address.

Saying "you don't need IP addresses because you've got DNS" is like saying you don't need gears because it's an automatic transmission. A mechanic would disagree with you on that. DNS is an abstraction. Why is Linux written in C when we have Javascript?
You never want node failover to be transparent or automagic. Doing that is begging to end up in a "split-brain" scenario, and have fun cleaning up from that.

EDIT: Yes I'm simplifying; saying "never" overstates somewhat. If your cluster management tool can account for STONITH, you're probably safe — or at least safer. If you don't know what STONITH is without googling, you shouldn't be playing with multi-master, highly available databases and failover betwixt them.
> the MiFis and other hotspots are using the bandwidth that the exhibitors have paid (a lot of money) for

EDITED: In the U.S., all RF bandwidth is administered by the FCC for the benefit of the public. AFAIK, even if there's a "traffic jam" in the local WiFi spectrum, private parties don't get to unilaterally block off the WiFi bandwidth and charge for access. That'd be like a shopping mall's dealing with its Black-Friday traffic jams by setting up toll booths to block the adjoining public highways and charging vehicles to go through.

(My original comment referred to cell-service bandwidth, which of course isn't the only problem, as @coleca correctly points out.)
Voices do have a unique signature. The technology do identify it is called Speaker Identification. See for instance http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/whisperid

> Each person's voice is different. Some sounds, like "s", sound about the same no matter who says them, but other sounds, like vowels, tend to differ a lot from person to person. We use a special way of representing sound, the cepstrum, that captures lots of information, including the characteristic way you pronounce your vowels. Of course, someone could imitate the way you talk; fortunately, the cepstrum also captures certain fundamental characteristics of voices that are impossible to change. For instance, the length of your vocal tract -- the place where sound is produced in your body -- cannot be changed, and different length vocal tracts tend to produce cepstra with different characteristics. By identifying both the way you talk, and the way your body produces sound, WhisperID can do a great job of figuring out who you are.
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I take the strategy that I will customize and learn tools that are free to use and deploy anywhere. That way I can effectively work in any environment that doesn't dictate 100% of the terms.

That said, I've only being through 2 applicable jobs, so whether long term this is a good strategy, I dunno.
Others have stated that it was only one Marriott location. In that case, $600k would hurt quite a bit.
Now try replacing IP with personal property.
>Similarly, Salt Lake City was hardly a city before 2002...

What? Salt Lake City hardly changed with the Olympics. The ski resorts were already there, the hockey arena was already there, the Olympic stadium was already there. The main things that was added were some cool signage, a few Olympic monuments and some roadway improvements which were already in progress. One of the biggest things built, the Olympic Park - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Olympic_Park, isn't even in Salt Lake, it is in Park City.

Attributing Salt Lake City becoming what it is today because of the Olympics is causation/correlation. Maybe the Olympics came to Salt Lake because of what it was?
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IIRC, during one of the recent influenza pandemics Indonesia (a hot spot then) refused to supply virus samples to the CDC because they feared that they would be charged full fare for any vaccine that would be developed. Who can find fault with that?
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>> I would have expected Israel to have reserved killing human shields for some later escalation.

More of your "facts". :-(

The Israelis talked a lot and made videos about "knocks on roofs", calling civilians and about not shooting where there were civilians.

If that is wrong, you need better references than your last ones...

But assume you are right -- maybe, possibly the Israeli side lowered themselves to the Hamas level in some cases.

Come on, tell me you don't have different standards. :-)

Never mind, bad fact errors in two comments.

Enough.

Please don't destroy HN. :-(
I always thought that the statement "give the devil the benefit of law" meant that we should be especially careful to follow the law to the letter, __even__ when dealing with people that we think Deserve To Be Punished (because they're bad! They're evil!), because doing otherwise is a slippery slope towards treating other people with less than the utmost care for following the rules.
It may help to rewrite those in your head to, "as an experienced systems administrator who knows how these particular config files work" or perhaps "how config files work in general".

These are all questions of basic fact and they are all easily testable.

What do courts do when this situation comes up? Do they play warring experts, when (at least) one side definitely wants to perform a test, because they are confident that their interpretation is correct?

(ed: 'questions of basic fact' like, whether a server with this configuration is hittable from non-allowed IPs)
Wow. This is super exciting. What does this mean for multi tenant applications? Does this mean we can push our multi-tenancy logic down to the DB (if not logic, at least the last line of "data defence"). Can we create one DB user for each app-level account, ensure that all tables have the account identifier, and then enforce (at a DB level), that one account should be unable to access another account's data?

What does this mean for DB pooling? Is it possible to maintain a set of open DB connections where the account credentials can be applied, query executed, and the account credentials removed, with the connection going back into the pool?