The LA Times has posted an amusing story on the current GSA auction for a giant invisible catamaran. …the U.S. Navy, which — after five years of trying and failing to donate the stealthy Sea Shadow to a museum — is now selling the ship for scrap metal in an online auction. All bids must … Continue reading $200M Sea Shadow Sent to the Chopping Block→
The BBC has a headline story on the second professional athlete to be seriously injured or die on a superpipe in Utah. The four-time Winter X Games champion crashed on the same superpipe where snowboarder Kevin Pearce suffered a traumatic brain injury during a training accident in late 2009. […] “There are inherent risks in … Continue reading Superpipe Deaths and Risk Tautology→
One of the great legacies of Roman Emperor Justinian the Great (527 to 565) was a uniform revision of law. It has remained the basis of civil law in many parts of the world. In his Byzantine IUSTINIANI DIGESTA of the year 533, for example, it was written: 22.3.2 Paulus libro 69 ad edictum Ei … Continue reading Naming names, BOF and the Chinese APT→
It has been nearly 20 years since VLANs were introduced. A move to make them virtual with VXLAN (Virtual Extensible VLAN) is now generating some interesting threads of resistance. A thread by Ken Duda tries to tease out architecture concerns. Denton: the simple way to think about VXLAN is that each neighbor VTEP [VXLAN Tunnel … Continue reading Encapsulation Risk and VXLAN→