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cones688on Uber and consumer choice in London

This is in response to a proposed strike by London "Black Cabs" which are licensed to be hailed. I think they are a little worried as Uber is nearly as quick as hailing and much quicker than getting a cab through a private hire company (sometimes called minicabs) which are booked through usually calling a central operator who then dispatches the cab.

http://www.ltda.co.uk/campaigns/planned-taxi-demonstration/

cones688on Ask HN: How Do You Securely Share Passwords in Teams?

Large enterprises usually use PIMs (Privileged Identity Managers), web based consoles where you check out credentials for the task. I have seen IBMs and it has some pretty creepy (if you are the dev)/powerful (if you are CISO) features like session recording etc [0], does allow you to see who used what at what time and rotates passwords for the systems required between use..

[0] http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/pim/

edit: video demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CITq80gf6Hk

cones688on 40th anniversary of the Rubik's Cube

Same here, Fedora 20 with Chrome v 34.0.1847.137

cones688on How Wall Street recruits so many Ivy League grads

> In previous lives, I've worked as a tennis-camp counselor, a juice bar barista, and a Biblical slave for a bestselling author. (Long story.) I've also written for magazines like GQ, Esquire, ESPN: The Magazine, and SPIN. I live in Berkeley, California.

Interesting the author has no finance experience ever, which makes me question his motives.

cones688on HP Makes $1 Billion Bet on Open Cloud

> so maybe things have improved

4 Clicks takes you to http://devstack.org/ and installs with 2 commands... git clone https://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack.git then cd devstack && ./stack.sh

cones688on Talk of an Internet Fast Lane Is Already Hurting Some Startups

I am based in the UK and it is exactly how it is charged for on the consumer side, I can choose how fast I want my delivery to be (1mb/s -> 80mb/s) and also the monthly total consumption (10GB -> 20GB -> 40GB -> "unlimited").

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/broadband/pac...

cones688on Apple on medical tech hiring spree

Whose premise has been around for years but its called TPM... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module

The "secure enclave" is nothing new at all.. its even more annoying they didn't just use the existing standard.

cones688on When Hitting ‘Find My iPhone’ Takes You to a Thief’s Doorstep

We already have this in the UK and its run by the British Police forces.

https://www.immobilise.com/index.php

cones688on Use a config file to SSH into a server

Does osx not use Openssh Package? On Fedora here so had always wondered why all these setup guides included this step.. the osx thing might explain it.

cones688on Use a config file to SSH into a server

Why does no one ever mention ssh-copy-id?! Is part of Openssh and copies across your default pub key to the server in question.

ssh-copy-id user@server

Edit: Add more info

cones688on AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat Bluff

> benefits of a "fiber optic signal" somehow going to my house over copper

This is what is sold in the UK a lot, its called fibre to the cabinet (FTC) and does indeed make a difference, if your cabinet is on the street corner (100m) that beats the 1 mile maybe to the actual exchange as a lot of internet speed is dictated by the decay one gets with copper signals.

[0] http://www.thinkbroadband.com/guide/fibre-broadband.html

cones688on Most of the Amazon SES IP blacklisted by SpamCannibal

It is also part of UK law for Marketing folk

cones688on Avow-CI Is No More

Also when nearly all mid-sized corps and above have in their employment contract that all knowledge/output etc whether on company time or not, is property of the company.

cones688on 900 social insurance numbers stolen from Revenue Canada via Heartbleed

Most enterprise security tools could pick this up the night it became a CVE, or IBM QRadar could.... http://securityintelligence.com/heartbleed-vulnerability-sec...

cones688on First Look – AWS WorkSpaces

It's against Apples ToS to allow virtualization of OSX, though would love to seem them do with with Fedora or something. ChromeOS but with more power!

cones688on Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

> I would but I love APT

As a near 100% RHEL/Fedora user I am always wondering if there is anything but a material difference between apt and yum?

From using Ubuntu extensively a few years ago they seem to have near identical feature set?

cones688on MozDef: The Mozilla Defense Platform

That's an IDS, a specific security measure, akin to firewalls, AV, IPS, Vuln Scanners.

MozDef seems to be trying to make a relevant/niche ticketing system to run over the top of a SIEM (Security Information and Event Manager) which in turn runs over the top of IDS/IPS/AV/FW etc etc this allows single view and correlation between events i.e remote login from contracter over VPN using chinese IP address, escalating privileges on a unix box, new admin account on DB, increase in data flow outbound from DB, none of these events is individually significant but together its pretty obvious something might be wrong, thats why you pay good money for a SIEM.

The issue most companies face is they have awesome security intelligence platforms or SIEMS but then have to translate it into awful business process ticketing systems (like Remedy or Jira) not designed to handle such critical and quick moving issues.

cones688on MozDef: The Mozilla Defense Platform

> "defenders" (sic: developers (?) )

Defenders are usually companies or a consultancies ERT (emergency repsonse team) or in their SOC (Security Operations Center) to monitor real time security threats to their business and Triage, mitigate, investigate, block etc.

Some of the enterprise tools (QRadar, Arcsight, EnVision) for these are really advanced but run into the 100's of thousands cost, so I think MozDef is an open sources initiative for smaller teams who don't have the resources for the above.

cones688on MozDef: The Mozilla Defense Platform

That's what the SIEM does, see ones such as IBM QRadar [1]; aggregates all the logs and network flows from across your estate and then uses rules/algorithms to determine threats and security events.

From my limited understanding MozDef is more targeted at ticketing/following through from intelligence gleaned from a SIEM as most times, people then just stick it in Remedy or Jira.

[1] http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/wgd03021usen/WGD...

cones688on Tech Job Scotland

Shame about the timing with all the uncertainty around Scotland's commitment to United Kingdom.

cones688on Quantifying the value of BitCoin

It is technically a dogma, as there is non-consistent opposing schools of thought and no clear way to prove, mainly due to human influence which is mostly unpredictable and random.

cones688on How I resurrected my MacBook Pro by putting it in the oven

Thinkpads?

cones688on My life in London's houseboat slums

> These boats are rare. I mean really rare. This is not the norm. The boats and the moorings are damn expensive so this doesn't make sense even for the landlords. Even crappy moorings cost.

My Girlfriend lives on a house boat in battersea and its beautiful and bigger than most flats we have looked at. The moorings are crazy expensive though hers is a bout 650 per month of sunk cost - then obviously plus the cost of the boat and cost of oil to heat it (no gas to central heat).

I feel sorry for this guy but as someone points out, there is council accommodation exactly for this reason (wage =/= rent).

cones688on Why is broadband more expensive in the US?

to repeat what Dasmoth calls out - BT Infinity is just fibre laid by Openreach it is available to any operator (Sky etc), BT have just a great job of branding it like you can't get fibre on other providers - except you can.

http://www.sky.com/shop/broadband-talk/fibre-optic/ https://sales.talktalk.co.uk/product/fibre http://www.plus.net/home-broadband/package-guides/fibre-opti...

cones688on Why is broadband more expensive in the US?

Or control the infrastructure on which it relies.

Here in the UK we have a wholesale company (BT OpenReach) which is strictly regulated that provides all telephone lines, providers can then "rent" off those cables. This allows for a massive variety of competition and broadband packages from £5 a month.

This also allows a funnel for the govt to invest if required, say laying fibre to remote communities rather than having to rely commercial interests to, who never would.

cones688on Questions People Ask When I Tell Them I Own an Airplane

http://jetsuite.com/suitedeal

They hire out the return legs for trips which are empty

edit: The prices quoted are for the whole plane, all 4 seats so usually about 150$ each

cones688on HP to begin charging for firmware updates and service packs for servers

I had a thought about this that a lot of growing economy are using second hand kit to run vast virtualised environments, HP could be trying to shut the door on people buying old enterprise kit instead of their shiny new ones?

cones688on HP to begin charging for firmware updates and service packs for servers

Totally agree with you, the low margin x86 servers whose focus is SMB or even personal (in the case of N40L) are the ones who are most affected by.

Even most of the Proliant range comes with 3yrs service/support/warranty so its only really the microservers which are really affected.

cones688on IT consultant paid £2,000 a day to cover civil servant's job

Who doesn't pay for food, transport costs, schooling, accommodation, nannys and other staff.... His/Her salary is a token gesture.

cones688on IT consultant paid £2,000 a day to cover civil servant's job

Did you read the article? This is for the CIO... the C.I.O of the MoD she isn't some project management office admin clerk, she has previously been the CIO of the Post Office too, so is well qualified in the matter.