You missed the biggest part.. or got it wrong. You upload a GIF (up to 50MB) and they convert it to MP4 and loop it. There is no standarization or anything else needed

Micro solved one issue that mini had.. Mini had the "flat" side on the cable and the prongs with pressure on the device. After multiple insertions, the prongs tend to lose alignment and eventually can start failing. Micro reversed that and put the prongs on the easily replacable cable and made the device-side…

The connections from the servers are 2 x 10G links, not 1.2Gbps... so it can do 20Gbps... 20 times what google fiber can do.

well... its NOT that far ;-)

There are no more "legacy" bikes in the copenaghen project. The e-bikes are the only available downtown, but, to be honest, are quite a failure. There are very few stations available and the bike had no lock, so if the station is full, you're hosed. I had to bike 20 minutes to get to the next empty station and ended…

Indeed... something is really wrong with the number!

I agree... walking around will be quite an exercise. Unless they go pentagon-style and provide bikes and very wide walkways. I don't know if the bikes at the pentagon are still available, or if they were for everyone use, but when I visited, pre-9/11, you saw a lot of people in bikes (especially tricycles) going…

Hi Alissa, see here for an overlay. I posted it in another comment but doesn't seem to show up...

At your service... seems like they are pretty much identical. the inner ring of the pentagon is smaller..

Actually, this looked like a co-lo facility. Meaning it was NOT ATT's datacenter but rather ATT rents space from the overall DC. And most DCs actually leave the USB port enabled as its the last resort access to the server (that's how you plug a keyboard and mouse to fix your server). The issue is that I've yet to see…

I didn't look if it was a destination IP or source, but having a localhost-based proxy is not that rare

I was in bangkok in 2004 and at the time there were more than 50 half-built skyscrapers all around town. All of them stopped in the '97 crisis. It was a very weird view. This is one of the few left unfinished now 10 years later...

No app here... but if you fly enough (I do 50 to 70 segments a year)... you still have some chances. Twice I've "met" someone on-board leading to some sort of involvement, and at least two other times I've met some girl I'm still in touch with but didn't get involved with. One of those two times actually let to quite…

I do the same... either that or spray-paint a "Its not your bag" thingy..

Likewise... thanks for the thoughtful talk.

single mode optics in residential systems are indeed bi-directional, but in long-haul systems that use intermediate amplification is always uni-directional. The issue is that there is a second set of uni-directional single-mode fibers which are normally not monitored and its the set running between the router and the…

For some reason my other post is not showing (its hidden). If they are tapping on the " client" side of the interface then the signal loss is mostly un-detectable as it is not monitored. Either the signal is "hot" enough to be detected or is not. A tap might add a 3db loss, which in most cases it should still allow…

You'd be surprised at how simple is the device to do the passive tapping. See above...

Indeed, they can be tapped by bending with no physical interruption of the signal. An alarm could be raised as the received level on the opposite side would lower slightly but could be ignored by the operators as it could be quite low.. just a few dB. The device to do the interception is this one:

The problem is that EMV cards actually encrypt the data so even after pin-entry they are still almost un-clonable. This is a "socially accepted" card cloner...