Anything that uses clear-text passwords has been removed. That is a very clear red-line. Also, anything that uses weak encryption, like P2PTP has also been removed, but a few versions ago. And the ssh defaults are tightened up almost every point release. As soon as a cipher becomes known as "weak", Apple pulls it.

And yet we still get a 11 year old version of Bash. :-)

Of course, but th We are all system components. The comment was referring to user installed applications and preventing no that if they are insecure. How is the system supposed to know that a user installed application uses clear text passwords?

Given that Apple Stores average about $5000/sq ft in revenue, it would be big waste to have that space taken up by software engineers.

You can purchases strata title triple A class office space in Vancouver for less than that.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/unprecedented...

> It was easier in those days to find NOC phone numbers and network engineers generally like to fix problems.

Yes, it is super hard now. It took over 5 seconds to find the Cogent support numbers:

http://www.cogentco.com/en/customer-service/support-desk

It if hadn't found anything after 10 seconds, I would have given up and gone back to watching Youtube.

And if I call those numbers I get the people in charge of running the network (which the conversation was about), or a helpdesk that can't do anything directly?

I don't get why Houston wants to spend $400M on a reservoir. Sure they need a reservoir, but they need all of the other stuff too. Perhaps if they had $4B budget, they could actually fix everything that needs to be fixed.

Houston needs to get to the point that they can handle 60+ inches of rain in a 24 hour period. Token efforts might keep their budget balanced and the voters appeased until the next election, but they're getting 100 year storms so frequently now, they'll have to stop calling them that.

Climate change is great and all, but even if you sharply cut carbon emissions today, it would take a years before 100 years storms went back to their previous frequency.

The project is a number of years old now. The cost of construction projects tend to increase by 15% per year in western countries.

I'm not aware of any routers that can forward IPv4 in hardware, but pass IPv6 to the control plane.

Even the discontinued Catalyst 6500, which was used (and still is) by a lot of ISPs with the SUP720 supervisor, can do native IPv6.

I think you are completely wrong about this. Routers with native IPv6 were available 15 years ago, and are already getting pulled out to be replaced by the new stuff.

The reality is that, that ISP tier 1s use either Juniper MX or Cisco ASR9000 routers. These routers have good IPv6 performance.

Off the top of my head, Cisco routers with the PXF chipset (7304/NSE-100) had this problem for much of their service life

That is generally the opposite of reality. IPv6 is generally faster than IPv4.

I don't know what "a couple of years ago" is, but all tier-1 ISPs have IPv6 backbones. There should be no reason for your access ISP to have to tunnel anything to get to a tier-1.

Your statement "Most ISPs (including mine) are using 6rd gateways to get their customers onto the IPv6 backbone" is kind of a red flag. If ISPs aren't connected to a backbone, can you even call them an ISP?

Some ISPs (I don't know if it's accurate to say most) have last-mile or middle-mile equipment that does not support IPv6 and they can't afford to upgrade it, hence kludges like 6rd. Of course good ISPs don't use kludges, but then you're getting into no true Scotsman territory.

This is the experience I had with CenturyLink, they support IPv6 via 6rd and it sucks. It's annoying I don't have native IPv6 support with CableOne either (and they're too cheap to bother upgrading anything beyond the DOCSIS head-ends to charge you more money), but I'd rather use a Hurricane Electric tunnel if my ISP can't give me native v6 in the first place.

AT&T has deployed 6RD instead of native dual-stack. I can get close to gigabit on IPv4, but max out at 80mbps if I use their 6RD gateway.

It also crashes some of their modems! Every few hours through normal traffic, in under a minute if I quickly visit many IPv6 addresses.

AT&T has some areas on native dual-stack now. I gather they are working on moving away from 6rd.

I think you're conflating "backbone" with metro distribution. I'm pretty sure that all of the big US ISPs have native IPv6 on the backbone, but very few can bring native IPv6 to your home.

Most of the big US ISPs are using 6rd: AT&T, CenturyLink, and Cox. As far as I know, Comcast is the only one with true IPv6 to the curb but I might be wrong about that.

Comcast and Charter both have native IPv6 which is about 50% of the US market.

Bullshit. A Google search for "socialist news" returns wsws.org as the #2 response. #1 is socialistworks.org, a competing site.

> the company instructed its search evaluators to flag pages returning “conspiracy theories” or “upsetting” content unless “the query clearly indicates the user is seeking an alternative viewpoint.”

"Socialist news" would be one of the searches that "indicates the user is seeking an alternative viewpoint."

The relevant search terms that have been downgraded are "socialism", "socialist", etc. Obviously, if you search WSWS or socialist website or socialist news you will get the WSWS. It is the more general terms that are at issue. These used to (up to April, just before the new policy was unveiled) return the WSWS very prominently. Now they do not.

Except for DLC. A AAA title will need to ship at least 4 x DLCs over a 12 to 18 month period. And no doubt the DLC development will expose serious bugs along the way, so the DLC will have to contain patches as well.

The lifespan of AAA titles is longer now that most are purchased digitally.

When you submit a zero day to a bank, maybe let us know. I this case, you submitted a zero-day to a trader-broker, not a bank.