That means you have to control at least one IP address.

It's also really hard to send e-mail without at least one domain of your own.

Reseller pricing of low-end certificates is about the same cost as a domain. From Namecheap and elsewhere.

That said, I didn't know about this, and forgot to set up SSL at one of my domains. I didn't much care, but my reaction to this is pretty much "Oh, so that's what Google is bitching about. Okay."

This is much ado about rather little.

I think that's ascribing too much competence. What are the odds? Unless they're doing this en masse - in which case we can try to find evidence of it - then I'm more inclined to take the story at face value. Have certainly seen my share of incompetent tech shops.

I use tmpfs for /tmp, but then it is a webserver with a rather large amount of database throughput.

By my benchmarks ext4 was about 25% faster than ext3 for my typical database loads, largely due to extents. This is on my twin RAID 1 10krpm drives.

I still use ext3 for my /boot partitions, but other than that there doesn't seem to be much reason to stick to ext3 at all.

> Why would China want to teach the USA a lesson? The Chinese already own most US debt.

No, they do not. China and Hong Kong combined don't crack 10%.

> The only reason the US could be justifiably paranoid about what China can/can't do to them, is if the US intends to default on China, stop paying interest, and pre-emptively attack China to get out of the situation.

Treasuries do not work that way. China can take advantage of the Federal Reserve's Quantitative Easing program in which a branch of the government effectively buys back said treasuries, but in treasuries are nothing more than pieces of paper that can be redeemed at a future date for a certain value, and these are bought and sold on a market just like any other commodity.

There is also the matter of users' hard drives basically being used as bitcoin hoarders' personal, no-cost banks. It's an ever-increasing externality as the size of the chain increases.

> Could someone explain how they would escape that spiral? I'm not an economist so I don't know if there are other routes of which I'm unaware.

Start a rival chain, don't make it crazy deflationary, possibly patch up a few of Bitcoin's technical flaws.

Ironically it might spur even more Bitcoin transactions as people move to the new chain.

And that's just it - all stars involved are shedding mass in different directions, at varying rates. You might have instances where a single figure-eight of sorts gets performed, but that means there's been a capture and likely a subsequent ejection. But unless you actually want to engineer this somehow, and have a means of keeping it stable (planetary thrusters go!) - it won't be seen. If we ever find something like that the first assumption is going to be aliens having fun, and that's what Occom's razor is going to boil down to.

It'll get ejected - that configuration isn't stable.

For Alpha Centauri A and B, the 'stable zone' is out to roughly Jupiter's orbit from each star - plenty of room for both to have habitable worlds.

> If the server or isp supports ip6, the attacker just needs a home that can use 100000000000 IP addresses, and on ip6 is easy.

All with the same /64 or, if you're lucky, a /60 or /56 prefix.

For my own CMS, I do ratelimits on /56 and /24 subnets. I track the hostmask on ipv6 for things like logins, but that's largely just because it's there.It's about as useful and relevant to me as your connecting port. And don't expect a site owner to treat it as any more unique.

> And criminals *will* find a way to strip that information from their videos. Does that flag it as illegal? Sure. But it was already illegal to begin with.

Worse, it's another framing incident begging to happen. Find some other poor schmuck's key, sign incriminating images with it.

The evaluation, however, is science. It's being used to, presumably, measure something. If it's being done faultily, then it needs to be corrected.

I'd like to continue feeling safe on the ground, thankyouverymuch.

This probably costs Google something like a few dollars per year per employee.

Insurance costs in general are cheaper for larger groups, on a per-person basis.

I routinely get 55x bounce messages from Hotmail on accounts with active users.

Better than Yahoo's 45x permabounces, but still annoying.

Gmail, GMX and AOL, on the other hand, are very pleasant to work with. I can even talk to humans at AOL.