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> Like their predecessor satellites, the Telstar 3 satellites operate at 6/4 GHz (C band). Simultaneous long distance telephone call capacity is 21,600. The satellites furnish voice, video, and high speed data services.

https://www.telcomhistory.org/resources/online-exhibits/scie...

If there was a Trump Doctrine, it was "apologize for nothing." The Biden Doctrine, as of today, is "Sucks to Be You."

Windows 95 was no great shakes, but it was way better than Windows For Workgroups 3.11, which is where I jumped off for OS/2 and then Slackware.

Tesla stockholders, not Tesla owners, but yes.

The title of the article suggests that a speed limit on the autobahn would reduce CO2 emissions.

The cruise ship industry emitted 21930000 tons of CO2 in 2017.

https://www.tourismdashboard.org/explore-the-data/cruise-shi...

Not within the same company, but yes. I felt like I had plenty of room to grow technically as an IC, and I didn't want to start the timer ticking on my career where I'd eventually be far enough away from current engineering practices as to find myself out to pasture well before retirement.

Had I stayed in management, my skillset would have ended at "light Ruby scripting and deep Asterisk VOIP knowledge."

I see a neat GUI application that looks straight-outta-92, though the author describes it as "modern."

At this point, I read "modern" in an application's description as a subtle way of saying "not old and busted like all of the shitty competing projects."

If HN had an NNTP gateway I'd be over the moon.

There's plenty of them, so long as it's 2005. Soekris and PCEngines come to mind.

Number one would be the unsanctioned daily lunch barbecue with my friends in the parking lot using a folding propane grill. Number two would be the bicycle commute.

If there's a way to interact with this tool using my email address instead of hooking into my Github account, I'm interested.

Well, kinda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_intervention_in_Angola

I think you're reacting to me saying "I've never seen ZFS in the wild" as "I've never seen a Solaris box in the wild." It sounds like we can agree that "explode" doesn't really cover the story of ZFS adoption.

And even if it's verifiable as a product of nature, that doesn't negate the possibility that it showed up in Wuhan as the result of a lab leak.

I worked in a Solaris shop from 1999-2000.

I'm not insecure, and I'm not mad at ZFS. I'm just pointing out that it showed up when Sun was already circling the drain.

Seamicro managed to pack 2000 cores into 10U. Cool. I've never seen of those, either.

"Explode" is a pretty strong word for a technology that was somewhat stillborn. Yeah, it showed up on Solaris as Solaris was winding down. I've never seen it used anywhere, and I've been doing this for awhile.

Don't know much about Segment, but whatever they're up to bought them a total block in uMatrix so this is un-readable in my browser.

Dell ca. 2000 had some great stuff. Optiplex desktops were good, Latitude laptops were good. Anything that they sold out of an insert in the Sunday paper was junk.

> For any question contact us on Discord.

Hard no.

If you depend on PGP, knowing that there's an incentive to break it, and that people are actively trying to do so is good news. It's in your interest for it to be very well tested. "I can break PGP and spoof Debian packages" is an interesting conference talk. "I can break PGP and save your business $40m in ransomware costs and only charge you $10m" is a business.

"breached data" doesn't matter to companies, as we've seen. "gone data" is an existential threat.

#infosec "thought leaders" with a cool-sounding military history who purport to be able to do underwater lockpicking but can't put together a for loop. Their shtick exists to sell services to clients and to sell recent graduates on a Special Forces Awesome Security Career that in reality will be QA at best, corporate compliance at worst.

so long as encryption-as-we-know-it holds-up, there's no rescue for orgs that repeatedly get hit and can't get their backup strategy together. Sure, you make a regulatory mis-step and you have friends in high places, they will look the other way. This indeed, is how the world works. If your entire infrastructure is encrypted into a solid block of nothingness it doesn't matter if your dad is a senator, you're done.

a steep climb in the short term that falls off a cliff in the not-so-short-term as those employers cease to exist.

^ ^ ^ If there's any Keanu-pill to swallow, it's this. Intelligence agencies don't "make us safe," they drive financial gain for insiders. I'd bet the ratio of effort spent on "market manipulation" versus "find the evil doers" to be 10:1.

6. You used to need to wonder: Have I been hacked? How bad? Now you get an invoice day-of.

Ransomware is great.

1. Creates a huge financial incentive to try and break PGP encryption.

2. Pushes aside all of the lame corporate compliance "infosec" people whose job it is get lied to about PCI compliance and bitch about version numbers that they don't understand.

3. Proves useless all of the "ex-special-forces" "red team" "master safecracker" Defcon LARPers.

4. Gives the insurance companies enough room to attribute attacks to nation-state actors, making them "acts of war," and thus uninsurable. If companies can't half-ass this stuff and let their insurer clean up the mess, they're going to stop half-assing this stuff.

5. Put an end to the "I dunno, I pulled it off Dockerhub" madness.

..and they put up a strong fight as newspapers were waning. The NYT was already garbage in 1999 when LAT was going strong and publishing stories about the primary function of the US intelligence establishment being economic espionage.