Posts by perfgeek

Ohio bloke accused of torching own home after his pacemaker rats him out to cops

The Telltale Heart

Clearly. I'll get my coat...

Inside our three-month effort to attend Apple's iPhone 7 launch party

Re: Hopefully...

16 million IP addresses does indeed seem like a lot, but the amount of relief that might have provided had they managed to return say half of them to the overall pool would have been minimal. Only ever so slightly postponing the inevitable.

And in the case of Apple, they perhaps use a goodly chunk of those IPs not on a per-employee basis as much as in their cloud presence.

SpaceX lands another rocket

Re: Nearly boring

Rather ironic for Johnson to say something like that, given how his escalation of the US presence in Viet Nam was one of the driving forces behind the cutbacks in NASA's budget which meant not taking advantage of Apollo...

Mozilla 404s '404 Not Found' pages: Firefox fills in blanks with archive.org copies

Slash-dotting archive.org

Sounds like a good way to slash-dot or otherwise DDoS archive.org, and if not, bring it to the attention of the right-to-be-forgotten cabal.

Forget security training, it's never going to solve Layer 8 (aka people)

Layer 8 is Financial

Layer 8 is Financial, with Layer 9 being Political. I know because I've got the t-shirt :) (web search for 9-layer model site:isc.org) So, if anything, Human is Layer 10.

VC vampire: Peter Thiel wants to live forever

Don't Count on Gilroy

Alas, Garlic in Gilroy isn't what it used to be. 20+ years ago there were days you could smell the garlic in Gilroy all the way up in Sunnyvale. But since then garlic has been giving way to tract housing, so Gilroy may not be able to provide as much protection as you might think.

Captain Piccard's planet-orbiting solar aircraft in warped drive drama

Vin Fiz Mk II

So, basically, Solar Impulse 2 circumnavigated the globe in 2015-2016 at basically the same rate at which the Vin Fiz crossed the United States in 1911. Both in terms of average speed in the air, and average miles per day. Perhaps just a little slower actually. https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/wright-ex-vin-fiz

Revealed: How Dell can afford $67bn for EMC – by selling $650k laptops

Re: looks like they've taken a leaf out of Northrop Grummans business model

Shirley the F-35 is LockheedMartin?