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Comment 1Password FTW (Score 1) 615

Shameless plug follows...

Seriously, once you're free from having to remember your own passwords, you can make them as long and complex as you like, and you can use a different *truly random* password for every login, so one compromise won't lead to others. There are freeware workalikes, but none that match 1P's feature set (syncing, browser auto-fill/change plugins, etc). Highly recommended.

Comment Makes sense (Score 2) 627

I can't imagine how Macbook shipments would be affected, given the flaw only affected SATA ports beyond the first two. Presuming that SATA devices linked through Thunderbolt don't count either.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 290

Also, when that happens, it won't break the site completely, just cause a delay while the browser attempts to connect over IPv6, fails, then falls back to IPv4. That can take 10-30 seconds depending on the browser, however - far beyond most users' "the site is broken" thresholds.

That's the main reason Google, Facebook and Yahoo are all doing this on the same day - if only one site exhibits this issue, it's easy for a user to assume the problem is with that site. If multiple large sites are problematic, they'll call their ISP who will (hopefully) fix their IPv6 implementation, or (more likely) instruct the user on disabling IPv6 on their computers.

Comment Re:Opposite Experience with Adobe Download (Score 1) 348

From what I've heard from internal Netflix IT folks, it's extremely dysfunctional in there, which may explain why it's easier for them to just cut a check and have someone else do it.

Now, if someone with IT competency were to purchase Netflix (Google? I mean, their job is to organize the world's information, and movie content *is* information), I'm sure you'd see a swift internal CDN roll out occur.

I've heard similar, along with some highly visible departures in their systems/network engineering groups rumored to be due to exactly those decisions.

Speaking of cutting checks, has anyone noticed that the movies.netflix.com site is actually hosted by Amazon AWS?

macbook:~$ host movies.netflix.com
movies.netflix.com is an alias for merchweb-frontend-1502974957.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com.
merchweb-frontend-1502974957.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com has address 204.236.218.69

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