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We have these old glass grids in the sidewalks along College Ave up here in Fort Collins as well. Some are even still in use by restaurants to load inventory from the Cysco / Shamrock trucks.

I used to work for HP and someone explained to me a select few companies got /8's when the internet was still young. HP got one, Compaq had one which HP now also owns. I was basically told if you had a /8 you didn't give it up because of how valuable and rare they now are (this was around 2010, too). GE, Kodak, Apple, and Microsoft were a few other names that came up in that discussion as well.

This was my favorite response in the whole Twitter thread.

> No one has the capacity to store everything

Don't be so sure about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

Just curious, why single out Paint.NET exclusively? These types of ads have a long history all over the Internet, even on more popular sites than this - isn't this more of a Google issue than an individual website operator?

Certain parts of the list of subnets avoided by Hajime strikes me as rather interesting...

Some countries:

- Ukraine; Region Vinnyts’ka Oblast’ /16

- Iran, Islamic Republic of; Region Tehran /16

- Germany Virtela Communications Inc Amsterdam, NL POP /16

- South Africa; Region Gauteng /16

Then:

- General Electric's /8

- both Hewlett-Packard's /8

- US Postal Service's /8

and finally all of the US Department of Defence (obviously)

I would have thought HP would be a goldmine seeing as they put anything and everything on public, proxied IP's. And why not avoid Xerox, Apple, and CIA subnets too while you're at it?

Krebs has a more detailed writeup on this for anyone interested in reading more: https://security.rapiditynetworks.com/publications/2016-10-1...

Hajime is Japanese for 'beginning' - just saying.

This was my impression as well, especially since the Speedtest.net screenshots show each test was done on WiFi. It seems to me the author has a very loose technical understanding of WiFi and networking in general. I'll usually be among the first to criticize Comcast, but this was just a waste of time.

I'm not sure I understand their use of "large edge providers" in this context - are they insinuating that backbone providers such as Level 3 are already collecting my web traffic when they peer with my ISP? Or is that just a odd reference to "the largest email, search, and social media companies" mentioned further on? The article goes on to talk about common carrier status, so it feels like they mean the former but that just doesn't make sense.

Either way, I think you hit the nail on the head with this statement: "there is greater potential for ISPs if left unchecked and harder for users to avoid."

The CTIA's logic here can be reduced to "they do it so we want to do it too", seemingly framed within their long-time disposition of not considering themselves the "dumb pipes" that they are. Giving residential ISP's access to use this information, combined with what they already have on file for accounting purposes, is a situation just ripe for abuse. The article then goes on to say "What's less clear is whether the FCC will have any authority over ISPs' privacy practices after the rules are eliminated" - so there there may very well be no recourse whatsoever through either the FCC or FTC if or when widespread abuse were to occur. And of course, that's not even to start the age-old discussion about how & where the data is stored (plaintext on an insecure FTP server), who has access to it (all employees & contractors), etc.

I am confident that this change from the FCC will only serve to screw over individual people at the gain of large corporations.

I think what it's trying to convey is that there's absolutely no legal recourse in any capacity for the CIA at this point to try and do any sort of damage control.

> The car behind didn't show turn signal

Watch the video again; the little red car turns on their blinker and does a very slow shift to the right before clipping that stopped SUV. You're right that he wasn't paying attention, but his reaction time is incredibly slow - it looks like that car had just enough time to slam on their brakes or swerve to the right, yet they did neither.

I had no idea this is a widespread concern. Over the course of years, I have kept every box and the shipping materials under the presumption that I would reuse it all at some point. Only flaw in my logic is that I order way more stuff than I ship out. This, combined with my laziness, has resulted in a spare room in the house now being known among friends and family as "The Box Room", which was full wall to wall, floor to ceiling with empty boxes and hundreds of those air cushions of varying style and size.

I've gotten Amazon packages like this here in the US, but it's not a frequent occurrence. I prefer this method because aside from the shrink-wrap, everything else is recyclable cardboard.

Seems possible, check this out:

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/criminals/

"To reach an appropriate sum the Charity Commission proposed asking grief-stricken parents ‘exactly how close were you to your child?’; those found not to have been close to their children would not be compensated."

I have no words for this...

Edit: My god, it just gets worse:

"Mercifully, the proposal was never acted upon. The NCB initially offered £50 before raising it to the "generous offer" of £500. A more substantial sum, it was advised, would have destroyed the working class recipients not used to large amounts of money"

This analogy also gave me quite a pause. I'm going with the latter, personally.

> Do police pay for damages in cases where a raid is excessive force?

As one example, this happened near me last year: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/paramilitary-thugs-colorado-...

In fact, the whole story is a great representation of the concerns expressed in your comment - the PD literally blew up a house to catch a suspected shop lifter.

Edit: Looks like PD offered him $5,000 after the incident, and then he had to take them to federal court. Looks like the court proceedings are still going; how utterly insulting.

http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/03/homeowner-sues-greenwoo...

My experience is the same, also in telecom/networking. One of our vendors' serial numbers, when entered into Excel, get converted to something else entirely (not sure what exactly), and setting the fields to "text" or "numbers" doesn't seem to do much, consistently.

Something like those battery powered Finger Pulse Oximeters that doctors use comes to mind; they use light to measure oxygen levels and heart rate, and they're super cheap at $10-$30.

> and they only upgrade when the device no longer meets their needs.

I think you hit the nail on the head here. My HTC M7 GPE is only just beginning to show its age in terms of performance. My SO's Samsung S4, however, has been literally unusable for months now: battery performance issues, only able to run ~3 apps at once (low RAM), unable to update any apps because there's no free space despite having around 50 less apps than me and also despite having an SD card, overall performance is laggy & slow, certain apps won't even run now, the list goes on.

These phones came out within months of each other in 2013, and in spite several hardware advantages the Samsung is no longer meeting its users needs compared to my M7. Of course, my SO has no idea why this is, like you said she barely knew what kind of phone she has (lol), but the end result is that she's having to upgrade the phone (early, I might add), and the differences can largely be boiled down to software and updates.

I used to have a LS120 SuperDisk drive in my computer. I really liked the idea but it was useless because no one else had them. I think I still have the drive and several disks stashed away somewhere.

The problem with this is, generally speaking, it doesn't cost an ISP much more for everyone to be using their connection versus everyone not. All the infrastructure runs 24/7 regardless if you're using it or not (if you really get into the math, yes it costs slightly more electricity for equipment to use more hardware resources, but again it's pennies). The real costs come from upgrading the infrastructure to keep up with your top demand, and paying humans to maintain it all.

This is a fantastic point that I don't see brought up enough. I have some anecdotal experience of my own to help illustrate what an issue this really is.

Our ISP has recently enacted data caps. The first time they threatened to disable our account for going over, I pointed out to them that:

- My firewall has logged tens of gigabytes of dropped/rejected traffic.

- That if I ran a TCPDump on our WAN interface, could see management and broadcast traffic for neighboring CPEs (modem).

- That I know for a fact (I used to work for them in a previous iteration) that their network isn't built in a way that would allow them differentiate their management and monitoring traffic from individual customer traffic.

- And finally, that the Layer 2 & 3 statistics of that WAN interface were nowhere close to their own statistics for the account.

They have yet to respond to that complaint, despite going to the FCC. I really wonder what would happen if one were to take their ISP to court with the proper documentation.