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> I wish I did. I think programmers deserve a little more than managers, because the work is harder.

Let me guess, you're a programmer.

> The fact that cloudflare was defeated shows it was a ddos and not a reboot.

How?

We don't need OSS in this case, we need open protocols so anyone can use any other client, proprietary or not.

I think Op is some parody / troll account. It's too unhinged and it's trying too hard to offend. I don't see any other explanation.

> I don't see anyone below a certain tax bracket playing the fashion game.

How do you know they are in certain tax bracket though? Do you ask everyone on the street about their taxes? Or maybe you're assuming their tax bracket on how they dress? :)

Interestingly enough, every time I visited the US in summer I had to wear a jacket indoors and just a T-Shirt outdoors.

Google TSB / Banc Sabadell

And yet we accept it all the time.

Like every party on every election at every level. Even though I share the outrage about it, we can't deny that lying is not uncommon.

> The entire point of 'sound money' is not actually to help the general population survive or prosper, it is specifically to limit the power of government

Isn't the point of limiting the power of government to actually help the general population to survive and prosper though?

> If Libra is an oligarchy, closed financial systems are dictatorships

You are on the right path, don't stop there :-)

Great name that's not going to create any confusion in those Spanish speaking countries that call the Pound "Libra" (hence the £ as the sign, by the way).

How so?

This outage is a great example. I can ping Google Calendar servers and I get an HTTP response. SSL also works like a charm.

And yet everybody agrees it's down.

My Samsung from late 2017 works a charm. The apps and the interface in general are snappy. It comes with the classic remote and a new one with only a few buttons that's pretty amazing (and has a mic to help the CIA on getting the sound too lol).

I paid £750 for the 55" version. I would never buy something like a Toshiba because of the software and I'm keeping a very close eye to Samsung to see for how long I can keep using the integrated software to watch Netflix, Prime Video, NowTV, Disney, etc without a Chromecast or Fire stick or Apple TV (and with only one remote for everything, including my BT set and the Xbox!)

I would say the plan is unlikely to continue unless Ada really really really wants it and she's ok dropping something else instead (I was going to cheekily say she might drop her righteous crusade against CIEs, but she dropped it as soon as she won 4 years ago, sadly)

Right-wing parties, such as C's, that she needs to pass on anything, are against superblocks. Her left-wing rivals on the indy side would probably be against it too just for the sake of leverage.

Depends on your traffic, but in general terms you might want to instead drop packets with low MSS.

I'm guessing an MX sees mostly server to server traffic, so I kind of expect that; however for services used by consumers around the world it might be a very bad idea to disable SACK.

The bigger impact will be for users far away, with increased risk of packet loss and higher latency.

It's too easy to drop packets with very low MSS and, unless you've got specific needs (someone mentioned IOT), there's no reason to not drop packets with MSS < 536 or so. I believe Window's smallest MTU (MSS + IP and TCP headers) size is 576 bytes for example.

That's very interesting. I have only seen those defaults in some... "special" satellite links.

I understand your frustration, but I also think they have a point.

What you're telling us is all based on your educated guesses as to how they might have pulled this. There are things that feel a bit weird and I'm guessing you have no evidence to prove them, such as the scammer shipping the real SIM back to Atlanta in time before you realise the issue.

How did you realise the SIM card you were handed was fake? Couldn't it be that they instead duplicated your SIM whilst you weren't looking?

IMHO the police (or FBI or whatevs) in the US should conduct the investigation as that's were the fraud happened. They'll evaluate if it's worth it contacting their counterparts in the UK to move forward. However I also think it is good that you've given a heads up to the UK local authorities.

Do you remember what company was offering the local SIMs? I've seen mostly Lebara, but not in Heathrow...

> There are all sorts of things you can buy that have crappy-to-nonexistent customer service.

But that doesn't contradict the point of the comment you were replying to, does it?

Edit: You should reply instead of just downvoting.

Yeah, good point.

What I had in mind is this traffic being redirected for massive surveillance, traffic patterns, etc - which TLS would not fully solve, but it adds extra security or even partial obfuscation over your traffic patterns.

You gotta tell me where do you buy your crystal balls mate, mine doesn't allow me to publicly assume the level of knowledge someone has over a protocol and infrastructure, specially when that person hasn't made a single comment about it.

But going back to the main topic: None of this would happen if everyone was a nice person and we loved each other, either. Alas, it happens and you better add layers of defence.

One more reason to TLS all the things although it might not be enough to discourage these practices.

A VPN would not change much unless the exit node is ran by an ISP/Hosting provider not affected by the route hijacking.

He wasn't denied a visitor visa, he's been banned for life and that can't be overturned. Quite different. He also has a girlfriend in the US, so that's over for him. That's life changing.

BTW, he doesn't exactly need a visa, he was on an ESTA.

I think Op referred to /list

Bigger buses, trains.

There'll be a thousand challenges before "all paths are taken".

> Do you mean first to arrive at the station? Then that's a drag on the economy as workers waste time being at the station early so they can get a seat on a train.

Charging more so poor people have to choose sub-optimal routes also forces them to wake up way earlier in the morning because their "cheaper" routes take longer to get to their destinations.

First come first served works and, if people are getting anxious because there might not room in the bus/train, increase the frequency. If the costs keep going up then we might want to stop subsidising private companies by transporting their employees to the place of employment for free, i.e. tax them to cover the costs of public transport.

There are many simple solutions to that, from cameras and image recognition to creating semi-public companies that handle the bus lines. If the private companies are happy to commit fraud to increase their benefits no one should be surprised when they lose their contracts.

If that was true you would've started a Kickstarter instead of writing a post (title?) in HN :-)