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See, you don't understand IPv6, but you want to tell others that it is not bizarre. The MAC address scheme you're talking about (EUI-64 interface identifiers, an expansion of the 48 bit MAC address to 64 bits) is not why ARP isn't used with IPv6. The IPv6 equivalent to ARP is neighbor discovery (ND). Lots of things about IPv6 feel like the result of design-by-committee, because they are, and some of it is the worst kind: academic design-by-committee. It's a text book example for second-system syndrome.

I don't differentiate you from the other bullies. Note "other". Verbal and textual abuse are never acceptable, and that includes the abuse in the post I'm referring to.

Things to do:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/games...
(B1 applies to all Internet posts)

Things not to do:
https://groups.google.com/foru...

I doubt you, or any other troll, will read any of this, or care even if you do. Why should you? If nothing matters and nothing exists, then netiquette just means better quality nothing.

Getting serious for a moment, the problem is that people seem to have forgotten the Robustness Principle http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc793.html (section 2.10) is a good rule for human intercourse as well as computer intercourse. Jon Posted captured it in writing for the Internet RFCs, but I think it existed long before that.

As a side note, isn't it a characteristic of bullies that they take offense at small slights so that they have the opportunity to pummel people? Perhaps those who take offense too quickly are bullies at heart.

A retcon is exactly what it was.
When Wine began life it was explicitly an abbreviation of windows emulator.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/windo...
Then the naming fairy did a 180 turn and WineHQ started pretending "windows emulator" never happened.

Is this like when KDE originally stood for "Kool Desktop Environment", but now they claim it is just "KDE" and it doesn't stand for anything because "Kool Desktop Environment" sounded to dickish?

Cane we re-write history in that manner?

It appears so. and really, who cares?

A retcon is exactly what it was.
When Wine began life it was explicitly an abbreviation of windows emulator.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/windo...
Then the naming fairy did a 180 turn and WineHQ started pretending "windows emulator" never happened.

You may be thinking of OWS, the "fractal compression program". The "compressed" file was nothing more than a list of blocks on the disk that the original file occupied. You could test it by compressing a file, deleting the original, then decompressing (=undeleting) it.

But if you copied it to a floppy and took it to your friends house, it mysteriously failed...

Here is a mention of it here on slashdot back in 2006: https://slashdot.org/comments....

And a very brief mention in the compression FAQ: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compr...

Internet references to it are spotty. It got passed around on BBSs and sneakernet back before home PCs really started connecting to the internet in a big way.

You may also be thinking of WIC, which I didn't encounter, so I tend to assume that it didn't achieve as wide a distribution as OWS. The mechanism described for WIC sounds more like what you are describing. Either way, you are off by about 10 years. They were in the mid 90s, not the mid 80s.

RFC 1925 states the following:

With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead.

More or less since the first signal we blasted out for tv and radio where omni-directional , count about 1/r^2 decay in intensity. A few hundred AU at most a few light year (e.g. we are almost not detectable if we had a SETI outpost placed on our nearest neighbors). Basically what our SETI is trying to detect , is intentional unidirectional powerful "we are here" signal sent by an ET civ, like we did in direction of Gliese or M13. There is a nice table with all signals including TV and maximum range : http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astro... scroll to "Table 1 Detection ranges" for assumption and detection range. Basically the only signals ET could detect beyond 10 LY, is our own intentional signals sent from various folk in the last 4 decades, and those maximum are around a few hours duration top.

Intel's a member of BAPco, the SYSmark organization, and AMD isn't.
https://bapco.com/about/

On the other hand, if it's really a big deal to AMD, they should be able to find $100K or so to join BAPco and tilt the deck in their favor - total annual budget only seems to be $400K.
http://www.faqs.org/tax-exempt...

Just check the status of the evil bit:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc35...

".test" is a reserved test domain. There are others, including ".example", and ".invalid". I remember there being a two-letter one (".xy" I think), and a 63-letter one, but I can't find rhe RFC for those.

I've used ".test" for years, both for test URLs and test servers.

... which last I checked stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator?

...and which first I checked stood for Windows Emulator
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/windo...

It's an IDE drive. See http://www.faqs.org/faqs/pc-ha... An IDE to USB adaptor would be best. Make sure you have a way to power the drive as some adaptors don't provide power.

Not really. Neither the JPEG compression standard nor the usual JFIF container format support tansparency: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part1/section-12.html

There is a way to add an alpha channel, but it's a hack. That's the reason browsers don't support it.

Congestion does have a way of becoming problematic. I suggest you read the paper that explains the issue that underlies the net neutrality dust-up in detail. The point is rather that without even recognising that, we don't have good arguments capable of bringing the discussion to a functional end, and so we can keep on arguing ad nauseam.

Of course, endless quarreling on pointless aspects of some bigger issue while its two (always precisely two) sides have long since fossilised their stance is what American politics is made of, but there's the rest of the world that would like a functioning internet too, you know.

What the Chinese authorities missed is that this event was being used as cover for circumventing the Great Firewall of China using RFC 1149: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc11...

UX is about more than just UI.

Most of the "weighing in" so far is about, among other things, not screwing over your customers with a bloated sysadmin nightmare of an init program. The closest you're going to get to a study is The Art of Unix Programming .

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How is that a point? Yes, it's a design decision, obviously it's one. So what? Weren't you trying to point out why in your opinion database-stored configuration is superior over text files -- i.e. why you think the design decision should be done in favor of binary files?
BTW in the unix-like world, the UNIX philosophy gives a pretty definite rationale behind the design decision made in this context.
Please, take the time and read this

And Unix is defined by being simple. Which Linux, it no longer is.

They should worry less about authenticating who contributes, and then finding the scapegoat to blame for the mess ups, but instead they should try to go back to core principles, and clear up the mess and establish a system where mess ups are impossible. It's not the individual programmers who are messing up, but the leadership at the top who fails to implement core principles, who have allowed themselves to stray far from them, under the pressure of features, and patching the patches that patch the patches that patched we don't even remember what anymore. The herd simply just follows the command of the shepherd through his dogs. You can't blame the ewe. You can't blame the dogs. If both the ewe and the dogs each follow command as they are supposed to. That's how a military works. Chain of command. Battle of Jutland is a good read on military and controlling chaos into musical and dance-like order. Jellicoe's formation of the ships, where they almost hit each other while assuming positions, "flying" by each other at only a few miles per hour. Battle about turn to starboard, by Scheer, a motion by complete mess-prone chaotic-prone beings executing it in unison, from prior practice. That is the way to beat down chaos, in middle of a messy battle, which by definition is chaos itself. Top down chain of command, following orders, everyone moving in unison.

The basic problem with Linux is complexity. I've stopped using Linux ever since kernel 2.6.26 or so, anything new that boots does just way way too much. It's obvious what a hopeless mess it is just from the boot up messages. Damn Small Linux is trying to get back to core principles, but it's hopeless with the present code size of the kernel. The basic principle of Unix is the KISS principle. Quoting from the Wikipedia page:

The principle most likely finds its origins in similar concepts, such as Occam's razor, Leonardo da Vinci's "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication", Mies Van Der Rohe's "Less is more", or Antoine de Saint Exupéry's "It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away". Colin Chapman, the founder of Lotus Cars, urged his designers to "Simplify, and add lightness". Rube Goldberg's machines, intentionally overly-complex solutions to simple tasks or problems, are humorous examples of "non-KISS" solutions.

An alternative view - "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - is attributed to Albert Einstein.
That is a warning that even the KISS principle should not be abused, though maximized as much as possible.

I did a google search on "core principles of unix," and I came up with this:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/...
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action...
http://people.fas.harvard.edu/...
etc, etc.

In all of them the basic principle of Unix is simplicity, clarity, modularity, human readability, beating complexity down with a club anywhere you can, if you can find clever ways to get something accomplish, forget about it, it's too complex, do it cleanly, neatly, simply, and even brute force. Don't be clever, be stupid, and expect everyone to be stupid. In Unix, every program does one thing, and does it extremely well. If you need features, you write a different program. Then these programs come together and interact through extremely simple interfaces, and this soup of experts interacting simply to accomplish any needed complex task in the world is what you call Unix. The swiss army knife of software. Which also goes for C, as C and Unix are the same thing.

The first thing the Linux developers have to accomplish is to beat down the complexity mess they've created, to gut the whole thing to bare bones, throw awa

Another one:
5. You are learning skills that will likely be useful for decades.

Unlike GUIs, the *nix shell hasn't changed that much since the nineteen-seventies. [1] [2]

Thanks to the Unix Philosophy [3], the system is more future-proof than other operating systems.
I don't think it would be unreasable to expect it to still look, feel, and work similar in, say, the fifties.

[1] Screenshot of Unix Version 6, released 39 years ago in 1975
[2] This site will let you emulate Unix V6 in your browser
[3] "Basics of the Unix Philosophy"

As much as I love forwarded X11 apps, its rarely efficient over moderate to slow links. I can't justify using over 1Mbit of uplink traffic just to use my editor over the wire when even a VNC session is more efficient.

1Mbit? Back in the day, we ran X11 over dialup modems, and we liked it. Or at least thought it was semi-OK.

There has been plenty of time since the Patriot Act was passed to read and revisit it. Other than relatively minor tuning it is still on the books. Although it is possible that candidate Obama was misleading the country on his intent, it could be that his views evolved with new information.

Ubuntu also turns their nose up at a perfectly workable init script system. In the case of Ubuntu this takes the form of Upstart rather than Systemd. One can argue the merits of all three (and there are others), but Ubuntu is doing the same type of thing as Gnome in this context.

If you prefer the real Unix philosophy, you probably want BSD or a Solaris spinoff or even OSX, not Linux. That's not meant as a knock against Gnu/Linux. Gnu/Linux works damn well. But if, for example, you spend effort throwing out proven, comprehensible and conceptually simple subsystems like init scripts and X11 and syslog in favor of massive elaborate replacements, some would say that's not where the effort should be spent.

http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20120046795

Wrong. Under the Berne convention certain industries are specifically excluded from all IP laws

Berne is solely concerned with copyright law. Not trademarks, not utility patents nor design patents.

Lululemon v Calvin Klein.
Nike v Walmart
List of Under Armor patent applications

The presence of a "pulsatile" or time-varying signal will indicate the presence of a pulse and will also indicate the heart-rate and the oxygen saturation level of the blood. Using different wavelengths would allow for the measurement of CO_2 levels or of CO (carbon monoxide) levels also. This type of measurement is routinely done on neonates (newborns), intraoperatively, and in the post-surgical unit on patients coming out of anesthesia. I just studied some of it when I went on my hospital shadowing visits with my mom the doctor (!).

The presence of a "pulsatile" or time-varying signal will indicate the presence of a pulse and will also indicate the heart-rate and the oxygen saturation level of the blood. Using different wavelengths would allow for the measurement of CO_2 levels or of CO (carbon monoxide) levels also. This type of measurement is routinely done on neonates (newborns), intraoperatively, and in the post-surgical unit on patients coming out of anesthesia. I just studied some of it when I went on my hospital shadowing visits with my mom the doctor (!).

The presence of a "pulsatile" or time-varying signal will indicate the presence of a pulse and will also indicate the heart-rate and the oxygen saturation level of the blood. Using different wavelengths would allow for the measurement of CO_2 levels or of CO (carbon monoxide) levels also. This type of measurement is routinely done on neonates (newborns), intraoperatively, and in the post-surgical unit on patients coming out of anesthesia. I just studied some of it when I went on my hospital shadowing visits with my mom the doctor (!).

I nominate http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090176437 for being absolutely ridiculous, as far as patents are concerned...

I have to get back to improving porcine aerodynamics

This is not necessary, ref RFC 1925 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1925.html (See Fundamental Truth #3)

Assuming this will not be my day job, that the local populace is rather poor, and that because of the hills, line-of-sight service will be difficult, how could I set myself up as an ISP? I have considered WiFi mesh networking, and even running wires on the power/telephone polls, but the required licensing and other issues are foreign to me. What would you do?"

Dear hawkeye,
Please consider following RFCs relevant for your situation: RFC 1149, RFC 6217, and don't forget RFC 6214 because the Internet is switching over to IPv6.

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If people only used standards, then even multi-decades old avian-datagrams could route around the blockage of chimneys and continue onward! ;>)

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The RFC even discusses encryption and tactical issues: ``Security Considerations Security is not generally a problem in normal operation, but special measures must be taken (such as data encryption) when avian carriers are used in a tactical environment.'' This BBN place sounds like a fun place to work if they've got this much time on their hands!

http://www.faqs.org/espionage/Lo-Mo/Microwave-Weaponry-High-Power-HPM.html

I agree that it is better to use testing data over testimonies, however there is evidence to suggest that passing drugs tests isn't a guarantor of not being doped. Consider: -His competitors and team mates admitted to doping, without testing positive -He had doctors on his team that were convicted of being heavily involved in doping http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/18788834 Having doctors on your side would help enormously in the planning of getting a clean test -Athletes in other sports, eg the BALCO scandal, tested clean in many races before being caught - I agree the tests in the 90s were a joke, and (I imagine - see the quote) only testing out of competition became the norm during Armstrong's winning streak: "The rise to prominence of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in the late 1990s was a significant stimulus to the development of established and transparent out-of-competition testing practices" - I couldn't find exactly when out-of-competition testing became the norm in cycling http://www.faqs.org/sports-science/Mo-Pl/Out-of-Competition-Testing.html#b What the East Germans used to do, before going to international competition, was to test every athlete. Those that tested positive were withdrawn with an "injury". So even though he has tested clean - he had doctors that helped with doping, and teammates who were either convicted / admitted to doping. In this case the science is unfortunately all that its cracked up to be, hence the added weight to testimonial evidence I have a friend who is a big cycling geek, and a great source of info is this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Breaking-The-Chain-Drugs-Cycling/dp/0224061178

Not run by an "emulation" system like WINE -> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/windows-emulation/wine-faq/ which IS a "WINdows Emulator"...

* Now, "cry" *all-you-like*, still - facts, are FACTS, & quite "unassailable"... JUST like ME, lol!

(When you have to play "catch up ball"/"me too" tactics, you're not innovating, you're imitating, & that's what WINE is which of course, adds layers of complexity (which usually means SLOW DOWNS or mistakes + less than ABSOLUTELY FULL NATIVE COMPATIBILITY also).

You fail... you know it, I KNOW IT, & now? Everyone, knows it... & so does Linux on that account, as well as MacOS X!

APK

P.S.=> Additionally, I'd doubt it runs "the latest/greatest" version-build of DirectX as well (but, that I am NOT 110% certain of, I just knew Windows could do MORE, & thus, is superior (not only in marketshare, but ability))... ... apk

Not run by an "emulation" system like WINE -> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/windows-emulation/wine-faq/ which IS a "WINdows Emulator"...

* Now, "cry" *all-you-like*, still - facts, are FACTS, & quite "unassailable"... JUST like ME, lol!

(When you have to play "catch up ball"/"me too" tactics, you're not innovating, you're imitating, & that's what WINE is which of course, adds layers of complexity (which usually means SLOW DOWNS or mistakes + less than ABSOLUTELY FULL NATIVE COMPATIBILITY also).

You fail... you know it, I KNOW IT, & now? Everyone, knows it... & so does Linux on that account, as well as MacOS X!

APK

P.S.=> Additionally, I'd doubt it runs "the latest/greatest" version-build of DirectX as well (but, that I am NOT 110% certain of, I just knew Windows could do MORE, & thus, is superior (not only in marketshare, but ability))...

... apk

Not run by an "emulation" system like WINE -> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/windows-emulation/wine-faq/ which IS a "WINdows Emulator"...

* Now, "cry" *all-you-like*, still... facts, are FACTS, & quite "unassailable"...

(When you have to play "catch up ball"/"me too" tactics, you're not innovating, you're imitating, & that's what WINE is!

APK

P.S.=> Additionally, I'd doubt it runs "the latest/greatest" version-build of DirectX as well (but, that I am NOT 110% certain of, I just knew Windows could do MORE, & thus, is superior (not only in marketshare, but ability))...

... apk

Maybe Google should require malicious apps to set require an evil permission?

Anyway, this indicates a major problem with the domain name system. One which could be solved by a simple, careful and widespread application of OpenPGP. That is, if everyone encrypted emails for recipients, people like this would not be able to read them.

How would OpenPGP know which recipient to encrypt for?
As far as I know, most mail-clients with PGP/GPG-support, use the recipient address when looking up the public key.

For those of you, like me, who weren't sure what UDRP meant, it means Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy and ICANN has a page on it.

Anyway, this indicates a major problem with the domain name system. One which could be solved by a simple, careful and widespread application of OpenPGP. That is, if everyone encrypted emails for recipients, people like this would not be able to read them.

Also, if I were this "security researcher" I would set up legitmate looking websites at the various domains. Perhaps giocondolaw.com could be a website for Grand International Operations. ConDoLaw., a website trying to put together a convention about law for lay peoples, run by GIO, an organisation setup by our hero... Or something. You know, it doesn't even have to be clever, just appear to actually have a real use for the domain name. In the case of the lockheedmartun.com website well, maybe a shell company called Lockhe, which makes an editor (ed) called Martun, Lockhe Ed Martun. Perhaps repackage and sell (for only $5000 a seat, this wonderful software, complete with source code, and what we won't tell you unless you buy it, is that it's just GNU EMACS or perhaps VIM (depending on what you hate the least).

Please don't let anyone do dot-web. I'd prefer to leave that for fictional websites like 555 is for phone numbers.

You had better update your fictional URLs, then. The fine manual (RFC 2606) does not list .web as a reserved name.

Muslim law recognizes the age of consent starting at 7 years old. So does Christian law, as explained in this article [faqs.org] that cites its sources:

In the Islamic tradition following Muhammad, betrothal could take place earlier than PUBERTY, perhaps as early as seven, but the marriage was not supposed to be consummated until the girl menstruated and was of age. In medieval Europe, Gratian, the influential founder of Canon law in the twelfth century, accepted the traditional age of puberty for marriage (between 12 and 14) but he also said consent was "meaningful" if the children were older than seven. Some authorities said consent could take place earlier.

It's true that "All religion is poison but some are worse than others.", but in this case Islam is no more or less poisonous than is Christianity. It's true that more Christians today respect females better than do Muslims (by percentage and by headcount). But it's also true that Muslims until recently overall respected females more than did Christians.

Privileges taken by Mohammed were not common among Muslims, nor are they now, any more than are privileges taken by Christian popes, kings and other lords throughout European history.

Muslim law recognizes the age of consent starting at 7 years old. So does Christian law, as explained in this article that cites its sources:

In the Islamic tradition following Muhammad, betrothal could take place earlier than PUBERTY, perhaps as early as seven, but the marriage was not supposed to be consummated until the girl menstruated and was of age. In medieval Europe, Gratian, the influential founder of Canon law in the twelfth century, accepted the traditional age of puberty for marriage (between 12 and 14) but he also said consent was "meaningful" if the children were older than seven. Some authorities said consent could take place earlier.

That's the cost including the share of the fixed annual cost - I.E., an accounting fiction, not the actual amount that would be in the budget. As with any source, you have to be aware of the accuracy and assumptions behind it.

See: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/space/controversy/ for more information, or google about for "cost to add a shuttle flight to the manifest".

Not at all welcome. The "open secret" of NATO's plans for USSR attack on Finland was to use tactical nukes to cripple the country's infrastructure. Basically to backstab the country that tries to defend itself at the critical moment.

On one hand your "open secret" is absolute baloney, i.e. nonsense. On the other, it is beautiful, absolutely beautiful, a textbook example of:

Disinformation

Disinformation is mostly commonly described as false information created by governments in wartime for military purposes and by totalitarian governments for political purposes in peacetime. Rumors, lies, and other forms of disinformation were made public by the Soviet Union to discredit the United States, the latter being the context in which the word is generally applied. The KGB coined the Russian word dezinformatsiya ; it came into the English language as disinformation. The technique of disinformation goes back at least to 1918 with the end of World War I. Disinformation as a KGB weapon began in 1923 when I. S. Inshlikht, deputy chairman of the GPU, then the name of the KGB, proposed the establishment of a special disinformation office to conduct active intelligence operations.

Soviet active measures. Soviet active measures refer to the influence operations organized by the Soviet government. These include white, gray, and black propaganda, as well as disinformation. White propaganda was created by the Information Department of the Communist Party and included those publicly identified Soviet channels as Radio Moscow, Novosti, and pamphlets and magazines as well as official Soviet government statements. Gray propaganda was organized by the International Department of the Communist Party and used such channels as the foreign Communist Parties and the network of international Soviet fronts. Black propaganda was prepared by the KGB and included agents of influence, covert media placements, and until 1959, assassinations. Forgeries and disinformation were used by the Soviets in all modes. The first effective disinformation campaign was during the Korean Conflict. This was a major Soviet disinformation campaign that generated media attention. The Americans were accused of going into Korean villages during the Korean conflict (1950–1953) and shooting villagers, or killing them with biological weapons and chemical warfare. In fact, the Soviets used anthrax in Korea to kill men, women, and children, and then blamed it on the Americans. . . .

A sensational disinformation story appeared with allegations that the United States deliberately created AIDS in the laboratory to use it as a weapon. The KGB started the story in 1985 with placements in both Soviet and foreign newspapers; by September, 1986, it became a major campaign when an English language paper that actually originated in East Berlin carried the story. "AIDS: Its Nature and Origin," was distributed at the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Harare, where it contained pseudo scientific verbiage, but the only evidence linking the origin of AIDS to U.S. military laboratories was the following unfounded statement: "The first appearance of AIDS exactly coincides with the opening of a P-4 laboratory at Fort Detrick [Maryland]—taking into account the incubation period. This is also indicated by the fact that the spreading of AIDS to the world emanated from New York, a city in the neighbourhood of Fort Detrick. The assumption that AIDS is a product of the preparation of biological warfare can therefore quite plainly be expressed."

The Soviet disinformation campaign accused the U.S. government of creating the AIDS virus as a weapon against black people and the story quickly appeared worldwide, despite U.S. protests that Fort Detrick, in Maryland, was hundreds of miles from New York. In April 1987, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop advised the Soviets that if this campaign continued, "direct U.S

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1178.html

read it, understand it. thinks like "mailserver" or even "x101" or "debian-mail" are bad ideas ...

I find it amusing that the incomplete 1971 ancestor to RFC561, RFC196 "A Mail Box Protocol", already includes the concept that instead of a full mail program you might just telnet somewhere and speak the mail protocol to that.

I would also add "The Art of UNIX Programming" to that list. This book isn't just about programming in UNIX. It is more about the philosophy behind UNIX, which in turn describes properties of any sustainable software system.

It can be found online here: http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/

One of my favorite parts is on transparency and discoverability: http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch06s02.html

I would also add "The Art of UNIX Programming" to that list. This book isn't just about programming in UNIX. It is more about the philosophy behind UNIX, which in turn describes properties of any sustainable software system.

It can be found online here: http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/

One of my favorite parts is on transparency and discoverability: http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch06s02.html