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+ - DreamHost System-wide Outage: DDoS on single site-> 0

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capnal

on Sunday May 01, 2011 @09:38AM

capnal writes "DreamHost suffered an outage multiple times over a period of hours last night. A DDoS attack on a single website, 4chon.net, hosted on Dreamhost's servers was the cause according to updates and comments on the DH status page. 4chon is now moving hosts (after being refunded their hosting costs) and the attackers have won. What bigger implications does this have for the net, web hosts, and sites with potentially objectionable user generated content?"
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Comment: Of course it is. (Score 0) 85

by capnal on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @09:41PM (#35959410) Attached to: DirecTV Plans Netflix Competitor

Of course it is.

+ - Are Hackerspaces Going Viral? -> 0

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Shareable

on Friday February 18, 2011 @11:15PM

Shareable writes "Seems that hackerspaces are following a similar trajectory as coworking spaces, up and to the right fast. Both are crucibles where work and our economy are being reinvented. I see them as nodes in an emerging global economic network that's run by free agents and small enterprises that embrace sharing, collaboration, inclusiveness, and sustainability as core values. They're also one of the few places where the values and practices of net culture are lived out in the real world day in and day out."
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Comment: Re:hm (Score 1) 314

by capnal on Wednesday September 08, 2010 @08:23AM (#33507218) Attached to: Dual-Core CPU Opens Door To 1080p On Smartphones

With faster download speeds and greater bandwidth streaming video is an option-- no need for huge amounts of storage past room for a decent sized buffer.

Comment: Re:Government has bad lawyers? (Score 1) 485

by capnal on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @02:13PM (#33127272) Attached to: FBI Instructs Wikipedia To Drop FBI Seal

Pay attention to the end of that paragraph: "except as authorized under regulations made pursuant to law". It's public commons. It's authorized.

Comment: Re:Quality of the video streaming (Score 1) 134

by capnal on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @01:53AM (#24095849) Attached to: 2008 Beijing Olympics as a Media Test-Bed

Agreed. Not only is low-latency a problem, but not crashing your seed when one million people try to start watching a feed all within a few seconds is probably a problem. Not to mention if you want HD, too!