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byVihai
2025 @04:55AM
(#65682194)
Attached to: Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Peaks At 22 Tbps and 10 Bpps
Learn the proper use of units of measurement, for god's sake!
179107574
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byVihai
2025 @08:23AM
(#65648240)
Attached to: Hackers Hijack npm Packages With 2 Billion Weekly Downloads in Supply Chain Attack
Thus 2839 packages give you 283.9% chance one is compromised?
174110537
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byVihai
01:58PM
(#64538697)
Attached to: SpaceX Hopes to Eventually Build One Starship Per Day at Its Texas 'Starfactory'
The whole Starship's body is lift-producing, that's how they maintained altitude for the first half of the re-entry deceleration.
171938043
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byVihai
3 @10:29AM
(#63893907)
Attached to: European Telecom Groups Ask Brussels To Make Big Tech Pay More For Networks
Because the ISP already interconnects for free with the OTT networks. And they need that interconnection. Thus if they ask for money the OTT may simply reply "then we don't interconnect here, pay someone else to bring your connectivity to us".
The telcos are ALREADY paid by their subscribers to bring traffic to OTT networks. OTT networks are already paying their network. Telcos want to be paid twice.
171867250
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byVihai
2023 @06:31AM
(#63865190)
Attached to: French Drillers May Have Stumbled Upon a Mammoth Hydrogen Deposit
At -5000 m the free gas pressure i 1.5 bars, thus, technically you may well have 150% of hydrogen with respect to pure hydrogen at sea level :)
171713592
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byVihai
@07:09AM
(#63802890)
Attached to: Japan Says Seawater Radioactivity Below Limits Near Fukushima
Tritium is almost chemically indistinguishable from hydrogen. A biological process that would be able to separate and accumulate tritium is very, very improbable.
171241888
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byVihai
02:09PM
(#63631368)
Attached to: China's Experimental Molten Salt Reactor Receives Operating Licence
Proponents of Thorium MSRs also explain why the thorium road has ever been taken and the explanations are at least reasonable. You should at least acknowledge their existence and if you want to start a discussion you should start by refuting those with some argument.
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byVihai
3 @02:29PM
(#63251507)
Attached to: EU Weighs Proposal To Charge Data-Heavy Streamers for Telecom Upgrades
And that is part of what they customers are paying fully for. The last mile and backhauling infrastructure. The transport to a cache or the closest NAP is relatively cheap.
169922088
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byVihai
23 @07:14PM
(#63178138)
Attached to: Internet Providers Warn Against EU Plans To Make Big Tech Cover Telcos Costs
Also, it is more a matter of *control* than money. They want to have a contractual relationship that they are not having now.
169921920
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byVihai
23 @07:05PM
(#63178108)
Attached to: Internet Providers Warn Against EU Plans To Make Big Tech Cover Telcos Costs
Yeah, I am the network administrator of a small ISP and I agree. The network cost is paid the users up to the closest IX, then those companies pay to bring their network to the IX.
The network costs are already paid.
Moreover some operator like Netflix do lend cache boxes to the ISPs that originate enough traffxc, to be put *within* their network.
Asking operators to pay again is racketeering, under the threat of blocking, throttling or impeding traffic to go through.
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byVihai
22 @05:54PM
(#63044457)
Attached to: Microsoft Brings Helicopters, Gliders and the Spruce Goose To Its Flight Simulator
I'll stick with my real glider. It has very good realism, including occasional death.
167562047
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byVihai
22 @11:52AM
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Attached to: Astronomers Find a Black Hole in Our Cosmic Back Yard
Black holes usually WERE a star, thus to have another star nearby it would have been a binary system. Not something I would describe as "its own star", anyway.
167377599
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byVihai
22 @03:57AM
(#63023583)
Attached to: New Hampshire Set To Pilot Voting Machines That Use Open-Source Software
You would never be able to prove, at the voting booth, that the black box you have in front of you actually runs the software and only the software, plus the hardware it CLAIMS to be running.
With paper voting YOU could VERIFY the process up to the ballot box (which does the anonymization) and then EVERYONE can verify the process.
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byVihai
2 @05:41AM
(#62677394)
Attached to: Switzerland's 20 Million kWh 'Water Battery' Is Now Operational
Pumped hydro storage is a good and efficient energy storage technology. Unfortunately it is available only in specific mountain terrain, and nearly all basins have been used.
It is not an ideological position. Yours, on the other hand....
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byVihai
04:42AM
(#62594194)
Attached to: Will Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Generate More Waste Than Conventional Ones?
Do the same for all energy sources, remove subsidies, priority of dispatchment, and let's see which one would be preferable.
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