Without poorly made Chinese IoT devices we wouldn't have the DDOS attacks that currently plague the internet. If you make them secure from DDOS you'll do just fine with national state attacks.

There are plenty of places you can earn six figures. Plenty of places with vibrant urban areas where a house/condo can be had for less than $1800/mo. The vast majority of programming happens outside San Fransisco.

The fact that TMO is owned by the germans it's not as alien for them to offer a tax/fee included rate.

After taxes and fees is it actually cheaper?

Accenture makes it money off outsourcing. There's a lot of companies out there that do outsourcing and consulting business. No matter who the consulting company is the market rate is the market rate for a position. Let's say the market rate for an IT position is $100/hour. If I work for a big company like Accenture I'll see maybe $50/hour for that work. If I work for a smaller local company with less layers of management I'll see $80-90/hour.

The Core Linux crap he leads doesn't innovate per se. It doesn't have to. It needs to be stable, consistent and performant. The work they do is important, but it's built on the shoulders of giants like Dennis Ritchie. What's innovative in Linux is the social and collaborative construct. But it's not like those are new ideas.

I agree. I pay the ISP (these days that's a Cable Company or Telco) money each month for transport to a tier 1 nexus point. The ISP costs to peer with Google/Netflix/etc is trivial. It's the cost to string a couple ethernet cables from one cage to another.

There seems to be this idea that Silicon Valley is the center of all things tech. It really only accounts for a tiny fraction of the Tech labor force. What makes it "special" is the access to venture capital. If you had a big idea and wanted to be the next Facebook or Instagram sure, Silicon Valley might be for you. If you want to be a computer programer you could stay in any big Midwest City, make $150K (Full Time W2)/200+K (1099 Contract), and pay less than $1000/mo for home mortgage.

Ask Matthew Keys. He went to jail for sharing credentials that ended up with a minor defacement of a news paper website.

There's no reason to turn him over right away. Wait until the US has some Russian Spies then do a swap. Snowden was always going to get fucked by the Russians. And frankly he was an idiot for trying to go to Cuba via Russia. The state department was even dumber revoking his passport. You see flights to Cuba from Moscow run directly over the United States East Coast. They would have demanded the flight land and pulled him off the flight.

I'll admit upfront I don't torrent and I don't use the sites. But I was under the impression that they just provide a small amount of meta-data about the file and where to find it. They don't actually host it. I would think the traffic was fairly low.... but they sites operate in a legal grey area and make a lot of money off ad revenue. They attract a lot of extortion via DDOS.

All these companies were born out of the fact that Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILEC) like Verizon couldn't cross LATA lines with their network. They had to pay third parties to do it. So, at one point most of these companies were Title II common carriers. Then Micheal Powell F'd everyone during the Bush Jr. era when he blew up Title II.

The question is does it still stand? I don't know if it's ever been tested. Most ISPs and Upstream Network providers operate as a common carrier because they want to be able to make the argument that they are a common carrier.

The only reason I could see them null routing the traffic is for DDOS mitigation. They can make an argument about overall traffic and network stability. But it's not clear if that's actually at play.

Since you want it explained like a five year old. The account belongs to Facebook, not you. None of the data resides on a device in the CPB area.

Let's say I'm at JFK and I have a key to front door of the Union Hall in Brooklyn. Is it legal for the CPB to take that key and drive to Brooklyn and start looking through the files at the Union Hall? No.

The US Gov't blocked Intel from selling their most powerful CPUs to China. Intel would like to roll that back since all it did was get China to create a high power domestic that they can now export to compete with Intel.

You're not searching my person. You're searching Facebook. It's not my account. It's Facebook's property located inside the United States.