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What would be the most common method of DNS zone hijacks, Kaminsky attacks?

Here's the paper from the research group's page: https://www.cyber-threat-intelligence.com/publications/IFIPN...

The few thousand copies is over the _entire_ lifetime of a book, not meant per year. Again, your College 101 book in Physics or Calculus will be used in large courses and thus sell a large volume, if it is being that used that is. There are also many competitors in the market, and yours might not see significant pickup.

So, let's suppose that you indeed sell 1,000 copies at $150 a piece. Your share is 6% of the net sales, so $8370. From this you need to pay services such as the person making the index, or pay royalty for pictures (yes, many publishing houses deduct this from the author's earnings).

Let's say your book has 700 pages, which is pretty normal volume size, and after you paid for additional services and expenses you are left with $7000. You are a good writer, so planning the book, writing it, creating examples, copy-editing and rewriting it, making reference solutions, etc. and you only spend on average 4h per page. You have made $2.50 / hour before tax. And you probably have a PhD in that topic.

No, almost nothing of the $200 actually goes to the author. A typical share goes like this: (concrete numbers for Germany) 50% of the sticker price goes to the book seller, 7% to tax, the remainder to printing, typesetting, logistics, the publishing house etc.

A typical author would get somewhere between 4-7% of the net sales. Most books, especially advanced science books, on the market (not your College 101, not NYT bestsellers) sell only in the order of hundreds, maybe a few thousand copies. The vast majority of books doesn't even earn the advance back. The reason why they are often not good, is that it takes months to write 500 pages of well-thought out, well-delivered material, and the incentive to do that for $5000 is relatively low.

IMO, Nature is not a representative case. In my area, editors are typically academics, none of them I know receives payment for what they do.

As an example, take a look at the 34 editors of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, all in academia or employed by a third party:

http://www.comsoc.org/tnsm/editorial-board

So depending on the rejection rate, which I think is ~95% in the case of Nature, you're paying for those other 19 papers to be checked.

Yes, the other 95% need to be checked, but reviewers are recruited from academics and typically do this task for free. The contribution that the publisher does at the stage of manuscript evaluation is marginal.

Yes, nearly everybody speak English, in companies it is however expected, or at least appreciated if you speak Dutch.

Also, the Netherlands changes tuition. The annual tuition fee at TU Delft for the BSc is 10 kEuro, 15 kEuro in the MSc program for non-EU citizens.

Site is still down. Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lV-uoZ8...

On rapiscan models (backscatter scans) it is basically software controlled, although the modularization makes it non trivial to be changed in a hack, as reported in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_f4HUrn-NA

With "special services" insufficiently defined, this opens up a lot of possibilities. Just today, Deutsche Telekom announced that "According to our [Deutsche Telekom] ideas, they [startups] pay for it as part of a revenue sharing of a few percent. That would be a fair contribution for the use of infrastructure."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10472765

With "video conferencing, online gaming, telemedicine automated traffic control and self-steering cars up to integrated production processes in the industry" as examples of users needing to pay, this goes a lot further than what has always been argued for by the commission.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has recently done a show summarizing the issue around Civil Forfeiture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks

$250 pa to Delaware, $300 as of July 1, 2014.

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerolinee_Itavia_Flight_870, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Rhodesia_Flight_RH825, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Rhodesia_Flight_RH827, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_902, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Arab_Airlines_Flight_114, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_3, T&G Aviation DC-7 and more shot down by fighter aircraft.

There are far more than a dozen incidents in the past decades.

That's for their DNS Small Business Plan only, plus $55 per Domain per Month for Geo-DNS (http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/home/compare/)

Typically lawyers get on the order of 30%, so about $3400 per employee.

This site lets you choose and call your MEP by country: http://piphone.lqdn.fr/campaign/call2/NetNeutrality-final-ap...

The vote by the Parliamentary Committee on Industry, Research and Energy already took place today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7421545.

The committee voted against strict network neutrality, and for the possibility of differentiated "specialized services". The bill now goes to the European Parliament for vote.

If you're flying from Amsterdam to the US, you do. They have usually blocked off the metal detectors and claim that you have to use the body scanners (you do have the right to opt out, but it's not stated there).

From their website, it seems that tarsnap can't be counted as OSS: "The Tarsnap client code is built around the open source libarchive archive handling library. While the Tarsnap code is not distributed under an open source license..."

Since it's latest update from end of March, MacGPG is fully compatible again with 10.8.

That's still possible, maybe not everywhere. At least this past Tuesday it still worked :-)

Frequent-flyer perks.

Given a certain level with the airline, United for example blocks the seat right next to you to offer you extra space (this can be overruled if the plane gets too packed). Thus, one passenger may be linked to more than one seat.