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Comment Kickstarter for a PTP nanosecond clock (Score 1) 291

by HKcastaway (#51698911) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To "Atomic" Clocks?

GPS clocks have lots of vulnerabilities and can be attacked easily. If you are in a stock exchange you to run rife is you spoofed a GPS signal. They also have limitations as to where they can be placed. The antenna length has limited reach and can't be too long either.

I have an idea for a PTP clock that I think would cost less than US$100 to make and would be unbeatable in terms of accuracy and security. The device would be placed on a PCIe board for ease of integration.

Comment Re:The moral of the story... (Score 2) 59

by HKcastaway (#50181603) Attached to: Google Will Block Access To Its Autocomplete API On August 10

Using Google service carries such a risk, whether publish, or undocumented, actived, core or non core.... Google will pull the plug at any minute. Their technology is ideal if you want built in obsolescence you are delivering to a customer.

Use Google API/service
Deploy at customer
Wait until it gets cancelled.
Redo with something else
Profit$$$

Comment Untraceable Cisco equipment (Score 1) 296

by HKcastaway (#49297429) Attached to: To Avoid NSA Interception, Cisco Will Ship To Decoy Addresses

I use to trade a lot of cisco equipment either used or parallel channel.

All the equipment that we sold were untargetable, as we didn't place orders with CIsco. We bought what ever someone had in their warehouse, then we sold it to our customer. No one knows who our end user was.... sometimes not even us. some companies where very cagy telling us anything....

this is an easy problem to solve.

Comment Re:Multi wan router (Score 2) 206

by HKcastaway (#36767220) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Connect Scheme For a 2-ISP Household?

I've used PEPlink and they are good.... Recommend them, service was good, though they did bring me one which had a hardware problem.

They have some pretty good load balancing policies, but there was some wacky idea I had which it wouldn't do.

  If someone is looking for clever inbound traffic balancing without BGP google that in week or so... actually it is something similar to my DNS racing... (sorry my blog is currently down).
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Submission + - Oyster 800 Wave Energy Generator Unveiled Today (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by MikeChino
MikeChino writes: We've learned about Scotland's wave energy initiatives in the past, and just this morning the nation unveiled Aquamarine Power's next-generation Oyster 800 wave power plant. The new generator can produce 250% more power at one third the cost of the first full-scale 315kw Oyster that was installed in Orkney in 2009. The device’s shape has been modified and made wider to enable it to capture more wave energy, and a double seabed pile system allows for easier installation. Inhabitat has fresh photos and details from the unveiling.
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Submission + - Google Chromebook Lacks Luster And Purpose (infoworld.com) 1

Submitted by
snydeq
snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Neil McAllister takes an in-depth look at the Samsung Chromebook Series 5 3G and finds the device comparatively lackluster. 'The Chromebook is lightweight and inexpensive, and it offers a full-featured Web browsing experience. But its low-end hardware, lack of versatility, and primitive support for commonplace computing tasks such as printing, file management, networking, and media playback make it a poor choice for everyday use, particularly in a business setting,' McAllister writes. 'All in all, the Samsung Series 5 is an average-quality netbook with a large screen and a higher-than-average price tag, while Chrome OS itself feels more like a proof-of-concept project whose time has not yet come.'"
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Submission + - Zuckerberg quits Google+ over privacy concerns (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by ianpm
ianpm writes: Mark Zuckerberg has decided to leave Google's new social network because he "doesn't want to be tracked".

In other news, the Internet's irony meter has just exploded.

Robert Scoble is now the most followed person on Google+ according to The Inquirer.

Submission + - EVE Online Battle Breaks Records (And Servers) (kugutsumen.com) 2

Submitted by
captainktainer
captainktainer writes: "In one of the largest tests of Eve Online's new player sovereignty system in the Dominion expansion pack, a fleet of ships attempting to retake a lost star system was effectively annihilated amidst controversy. Defenders IT Alliance, a coalition succeeding the infamous Band of Brothers alliance (whose disbanding was covered in a previous story), effectively annihilated the enemy fleet, destroying thousands of dollars' worth of in-game assets. A representative of the alliance claimed to have destroyed a minimum of four, possibly five or more of the game's most expensive and powerful ship class, known as Titans. Both official and unofficial forums are filled with debate about whether the one-sided battle was due to difference in player skill or the well-known network failures after the release of the expansion. One of the attackers, a member of the GoonSwarm alliance, claims that because of bad coding, "Only 5% of [the attackers] loaded," meaning that lag prevented the attackers from using their ships, even as the defenders were able to destroy those ships unopposed. Even members of the victorious IT Alliance disappointment at the outcome of the battle. CCP, Eve Online's publisher, has recently acknowledged poor network performance, especially in the advertised "large fleet battles" that Dominion was supposed to encourage, and has asked players to help them stress test their code on Tuesday. Despite the admitted network failure, leaders of the attacking force do not expect CCP to replace lost ships, claiming that it was their own fault for not accounting for server failures. The incident raises questions about CCP's ability to cope with the increased network use associated with their rapid growth in subscriptions"

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