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Except said "competitor" is most likely Comcast who is no different.

You can also get 5% APY in FDIC-insured accounts if you're willing to do a bit of work. Rewards checking accounts and prepaid card savings accounts (Mango is offering like 6% on up to $5k).

The swatting incidents were in the US.

T-Mobile, I'm guessing, as I have the same plan. Look at http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans. It's near the bottom, under "Pay by the day" even though it's a monthly plan.

$30/mo. for 100 minutes, unlimited text, 5 GB LTE data, throttled to 2G but unlimited with no overages after reaching 5 GB. And their LTE is fast as hell, I have pulled 30/10 on it which is faster than my Qwest/CenturyLink DSL (at the fastest speed they'll sell me).

Just for anyone else who sees that and thinks "WTF": it's 20M PPS across two ports. (14,880,952 is the max for 10GbE.)

> The fact that a large number of people have had five-figure payments forfeited under this agreement (sufficient to afford and warrant evaluating options like this), yet none of them have invalidated the contract in a courtroom thus far AFAIK, is pretty good evidence that there's nothing so unconscionable present that a court would void the contract.

I'm curious if it hasn't happened or if Google has simply settled them all to avoid having their contract challenged in court.

Sue them in small claims court. The filing fee is usually low so you're not risking much. Just because the contract says "Google can fuck you in the ass" doesn't mean that will actually hold up in court.

I hope the person who lost $40,000 consulted an attorney as well, as that easily passes the "worth paying for an hour of one's time" threshold.

Couldn't you use a credit card or other unsecured credit line? Even at a sky-high 20% APR, you're talking under 2% per month.

Seriously, if someone (a bank or whoever) was calling me _12 times a day_, they would never get a single penny back from me. There's a line between "trying to contact someone to find out what's going on" and harassment.

> The problem is usually not the software, but the hardware.

It's both. The hardware is slow and the software (in the cases you mentioned, the Linux network stack) is slow and inefficient.

The ERL uses hardware acceleration to avoid all this. It's capable of routing 1M PPS and the latest beta build does this with PPPoE as well. (In other words, it'll support Google Fiber connections well, for the lucky few.)

Would he still owe them if he hasn't sold or otherwise used the coins for anything?

Tarsnap: Our costs just went down, so we're lowering our pricing for customers too!

Comcast: Our costs just went down. Effective immediately, we are adding a new cash management fee to your bill to cover our costs of handling all this new cash.

IMO, you would probably be best speaking to an attorney. They may also be able to get more cooperativeness from the FBI.

They don't use Amazon for streaming videos.

It's always a matter of capacity. If there is absolutely no attribute you can distinguish it by, you have no choice but to handle it like normal.

In practice, there is. If we're talking about an HTTP flood, the other endpoint address is always validated (due to the 3-way handshake) so it's plausible to rate limit and block individual addresses. (But without validated client addresses, the rule is to NEVER create state off those, because spoofing is too easy.)

OVH uses Peakflow as one component of its mitigation system.

I've upvoted you because this seems like what they should have done. I didn't think about the criminal aspect.

Not defending MS at all but what is the alternative for them? What people want is the judicial oversight. But can Microsoft really go to a court and say "hey judge, we're Microsoft, we want a warrant for Microsoft to provide this"?

Charlie of SA used to write for The Inquirier. He has some damn good sources. I cannot recall a time when he was ever wrong, and he's broken some big stories (things like the Nvidia 8800/9800 GPU failures).

Out of all such rumor sites (Fudzilla and BSN being two other large ones), SA is the only one worth taking seriously.

SemiAccurate is always accurate. One of my favorite sources.

Throwing the tech companies under the bus...

If Tomnod updates to include the latest areas, couldn't Google just link to Tomnod on their home page? It doesn't make sense to duplicate the effort IMO.

Of course, they'd need to talk to Tomnod first to make sure they're ready for that kind of traffic, as it seems they've already had scaling issues, but hopefully this doesn't pose too many problems.

Isn't Tomnod doing this already (although I don't think they've updated their images to the newest area)?

Tomorrow's headline: no mangosteens in cargo.

Everything in this post is accurate. L7 protection at the endpoints (use 10GbE ports if necessary), L3/L4 protection in the network. And although I've never heard of the company, nenolod knows what he's doing.

Suggestion for them: improve your site, fix the colocation 404, provide info about your locations (perhaps it's available if I register for your client portal, but I don't want to do that until I know it would otherwise meet my needs), provide info about your network (transit and peering).

> If a passenger jet entered their airspace and ignored the towers, what would have happened?

I would expect them to send fighter jets. They probably wouldn't blow it out of the sky without further reason, but I am sure they would stay with it until it leaves their airspace.

I'm not sure, but if that's the case I wonder why Karpeles didn't go there (again presuming this attempt was made before the theorized 2011 theft).

I'm curious if this is due to Mt. Gox not trying hard enough. Recently a Bitcoin startup was able to obtain insurance from Lloyd's: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/01/backed-by-lloyds-of-....

If this theory is true, presumably Karpeles would not have done this after the 2011 hack, because that would be insurance fraud (falsely obtaining insurance on the theft of coins that have already been stolen). It's possible that it would have been more difficult at that point because of Bitcoin being less mature.

Go is advertised as a systems language but certain things like the lack of manual memory management say otherwise.

Would love to hear the answer to this as well. For the types of thing C is used for, I do not know of another language that can _practically_ be used for the same thing, while maintaining the same level of performance. Rust looks promising but is not mature yet.