And for the post-1980s noobs, the original idea was that the first octet would be the network part and the last three would be the host part. Since 250 or so networks was 10 times what was expected. Classful addressing is a jonny-come-lately.
And yes, the fact that IP was expandable from 250 subnets to the present day shows that the initial engineering was phenomenal, but we're well past time for the next version of IP. If people spent a quarter of the time they spend complaining about IPv6 just implementing it, we'd be in a much better Internet.
And freedom of speech was (and is) used by both the KKK and the civil rights movement. Just because some rights are abused doesn't mean that they are bad or should be removed.
It's a triumph of capitalism. Insert yourself as a parasite, move revenue from those doing the actual work towards yourself. And the obligatory "well, it's okay since the marks^Wusers agreed to it in an unreadable EULA."
Best of all, the complaints go to the web sites you're stealing from, not to yourself. Brilliant!
There are a lot of reasons why a tablet is $500+. Good touchscreens are much more expensive than cheap LCD plus cheap keyboard. Fitting a 10 hour battery (plus screen and everything else) in a tablet form-factor is so difficult and expensive that few devices get that long a battery life.
Though the best proof is in the market. If it were so easy, then you are arguing that every single tablet manufacturer is either very incompetent, or intentionally walking away from a huge money-making opportunity, I trust most companies to be both mostly-competent and greedy.
Brilliant! Or, I know... Apple has actually invented time travel! And they hate Samsung so much that they went into the future, stole Samsung's designs, based their iDevices off them, and are now suing them. Wow, that's eeeeevil!
It certainly seems more likely than the silly idea that Apple designed a wildly popular smartphone and tablet; most other manufacturers followed the leader (and the money), adding their own personal touches; and Samsung decided to just skip the personal touches.
Well, if I got a choice between my kids dying of malaria this year, or potential deaths by starvation in the next 10 years, I'd say killing the mosquitoes would help my family! Unless you have a peculiarly fatalistic definition of "help".
That's all true, but so what? Are people allowed to wander along a road, trying all of the doors, and entering when one is unlocked? Voicemail PINs, like locks on luggage, will never be terribly effective; they're to keep the honest people from making honest mistakes. When someone dishonest tries to break the system, the correct action is legal plus jail time.
Interesting. The headline says "sells", but the article sounds like this is just the usual judicial warrants and subpoenas. Any evidence that this is something else?
The justice department requested millions of requests; AOL, MSN and Yahoo said "here it is!", and Google said "nope, we don't think this subpoena is valid so we'll fight it."
I'm not claiming they're perfect, but this seems like a promising sign.
assuming they would have sold just as well as iPad2 units, and send iPad2 customers an optional coupon to exchange their purchased iPad2 during that time for a Galaxy tab, at Apple's expense.
So you're saying that in places where both Samsung tablets and iPad2s are on sale without restrictions, Samsung tablets are selling just as well as iPads?
Citation needed. Please show a single case where Google has sold user info or actions.
Google collects info and actions, and uses them to target ads. They sell ads, not info.
CarrierIQ collects user actions and sends to the cell providers. I don't trust them at all, but that distrust is based on years of Baby Bells mistreating users and their data, not on random fantasies of an evil Google coming to steal my soul.
Perhaps. And if the iPhone suddenly cost $700 with contract, and the iPad cost $1000 base, so people started only buying the Andriod and Windows mobile devices (still made in China), would that solve economic problems? Even Apple fans have a limit to what they'll spend.
So we could then force everyone to make their devices in the US. So devices would cost twice as much, and people would start buying a lot fewer of them, so we'd have to cut manufacturing jobs.
As for "90% of economists" thinking that ARRA was too small, the group of economists composed of former Enron advisor Paul Krugman and other lackeys of George Soros does not make up 90% of all economists (in other words, any economist who resides in the real world, and is not willing to lie for their political masters, recognizes that ARRA made things worse).
Okay then, 90% of economists who said before 2007 that bad economic policies, and lack of regulation on the government side, plus poor risk models and short-term thinking on the Wall Street side would cause a problem. Those guys are the ones to listen to, and those guys are the ones saying the stimulus was way too small.
Or you can listen to he other side, who said that removing regulation and Glass–Steagall would let the Free Market be truly free (and now say that the stimulus was and is bad). Though since they didn't predict this mess, I don't really know why, beyond religious fervor, anyone would listen to them now.
I always wonder how those poor defenseless global corporations can possibly make any money when that mean, evil government makes those nasty regulations. I mean, both Bush junior and Clinton were famous for adding more and more regulation, more than at any time since the Great Depression. If only the people in the government in charge of regulation somehow understood Wall Street.
So in the list of people involved with the loans:
* homeowner
* mortgage company employee
* loan approval officer
* mortgage security trader
* investor
* ratings company employee you want to blame, for the collapse of our economy, the one person who has no financial training nor any responsibility beyond their one tiny loan? That's taking "blame the victim" to new levels.
There are lots of books which try to explain all the problems leading up to the recession; I recommend "All the Devils Are Here". Please read one or more before you try to blame the crisis on any one group or on any simple cause. It took lots of effort by many many people who knew better to cause it.
Close. If it's not totally over the top and blown out of all proportion, very few people will buy the magazine/watch the show/click the link. Blame where blame is due. The media does what makes them money; we the people make the choices.
Where did you hear that? I've never heard "as reliable as cable" except from a few of my managers who should know better. The basic premise is "more convenient than cable" which it usually is.
The "assertion"-problem is only tip of the iceberg.
If an assertion fails, this usually means that someone managed to make the code behave in an unintended way.
Except that the assertion isn't the problem. The problem is that BIND allows bad data into its cache. The assertion detects this and crashes BIND before the bad data becomes an exploit.
Now, there still may be a way to execute code using this method, but the assertion has alerted everyone to this problem so I expect this particular problem to be solved quickly. And thanks to the assertion-crashes, people will be forced to upgrade rather than running a vulnerable version for the next 5 years.
I'd prefer software without bugs, but since that's impossible, I'll happily take BIND.
Sorry, where can I download the complete database of AP locations?
I seem to recall that there are a number of war-driving sites which have fairly large databases of APs. And they don't provide an opt-out method. Neither does Apple nor any of the geolocation companies which collect this info. So once again, Google leads in privacy. And for their pains, gets blasted by many commentators (not you, but many others) who complain about Google but not about any of the others. Hell, I bet the loudest complainers were happy when the first wardrivers started publishing their databases.
I do the exact same thing. This was hell in english class way back in school; we'd have quizzes about names and places where I'd score 2/10 despite having read the book.
The way it works here in Australia is any time a business sells anything to to a customer, they are required to provide an invoice stating how much tax was collected. If they do not provide an invoice, or if they collect the wrong amount of tax, or if they try to pretend they are not a business when they really are, they will be sent off to prison.
Ah, that's your problem. Here in the USA we don't put tax cheats in prison. Instead we call them "Job Creators" and worship them by taxing them even less. We know it works because our economy is booming!
I guess the fact that higher education costs are spiraling out of control even as the jobs these degrees are supposed to help you to get have all but disappeared means nothing to you?
This means that there is a problem with higher education costs. How do you make the logical leap that the (primary? only?) cause is the Federal Student Loan Program?
What percentage of students are in the program? Unless it's "most", it seems unlikely that the program is the main cause of higher education costs.
If the government stopped the program, why would private banks not start up a similar one? And how would that not cause the same problems? (Answers should not assume that a magical hand will sprinkle free-market pixie dust and make all college prices lower, since that doesn't seem to happen in reality much.)
No surprise. Everyone always thinks that scaling is easy, and then spends months dealing with a long series of choke points and cache overflows. This is bearable if you can scale slowly, but not if all the traffic Is dumped on you from day one.
The question is, will it still suck in three months? Will their IT folks learn?
So, the government passes a law making hacking illegal; a company designs an insecure web portal; the company sues a researcher who tips them off about their insecurity; and you think it's the government's fault? Huh? How does that make any sense at all?
Sure, the law is likely imperfect (though I have no idea how to write a law to punish hackers and absolve researchers 100%), but I somehow think that the company may bear a wee bit of responsibility for this.
"Squirrels built a nest in my chimney again. Damn government!"
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And for the post-1980s noobs, the original idea was that the first octet would be the network part and the last three would be the host part. Since 250 or so networks was 10 times what was expected. Classful addressing is a jonny-come-lately.
And yes, the fact that IP was expandable from 250 subnets to the present day shows that the initial engineering was phenomenal, but we're well past time for the next version of IP. If people spent a quarter of the time they spend complaining about IPv6 just implementing it, we'd be in a much better Internet.
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And freedom of speech was (and is) used by both the KKK and the civil rights movement. Just because some rights are abused doesn't mean that they are bad or should be removed.
It's a triumph of capitalism. Insert yourself as a parasite, move revenue from those doing the actual work towards yourself. And the obligatory "well, it's okay since the marks^Wusers agreed to it in an unreadable EULA."
Best of all, the complaints go to the web sites you're stealing from, not to yourself. Brilliant!
There are a lot of reasons why a tablet is $500+. Good touchscreens are much more expensive than cheap LCD plus cheap keyboard. Fitting a 10 hour battery (plus screen and everything else) in a tablet form-factor is so difficult and expensive that few devices get that long a battery life.
Though the best proof is in the market. If it were so easy, then you are arguing that every single tablet manufacturer is either very incompetent, or intentionally walking away from a huge money-making opportunity, I trust most companies to be both mostly-competent and greedy.
Brilliant! Or, I know... Apple has actually invented time travel! And they hate Samsung so much that they went into the future, stole Samsung's designs, based their iDevices off them, and are now suing them. Wow, that's eeeeevil!
It certainly seems more likely than the silly idea that Apple designed a wildly popular smartphone and tablet; most other manufacturers followed the leader (and the money), adding their own personal touches; and Samsung decided to just skip the personal touches.
Well, if I got a choice between my kids dying of malaria this year, or potential deaths by starvation in the next 10 years, I'd say killing the mosquitoes would help my family! Unless you have a peculiarly fatalistic definition of "help".
That's all true, but so what? Are people allowed to wander along a road, trying all of the doors, and entering when one is unlocked? Voicemail PINs, like locks on luggage, will never be terribly effective; they're to keep the honest people from making honest mistakes. When someone dishonest tries to break the system, the correct action is legal plus jail time.
Interesting. The headline says "sells", but the article sounds like this is just the usual judicial warrants and subpoenas. Any evidence that this is something else?
A counter-example: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/technology/20google.html?pagewanted=all
The justice department requested millions of requests; AOL, MSN and Yahoo said "here it is!", and Google said "nope, we don't think this subpoena is valid so we'll fight it."
I'm not claiming they're perfect, but this seems like a promising sign.
Odd, I thought that Apple fans were supposed to be the deluded pretentious elitists.
assuming they would have sold just as well as iPad2 units, and send iPad2 customers an optional coupon to exchange their purchased iPad2 during that time for a Galaxy tab, at Apple's expense.
So you're saying that in places where both Samsung tablets and iPad2s are on sale without restrictions, Samsung tablets are selling just as well as iPads?
Citation needed. Please show a single case where Google has sold user info or actions.
Google collects info and actions, and uses them to target ads. They sell ads, not info.
CarrierIQ collects user actions and sends to the cell providers. I don't trust them at all, but that distrust is based on years of Baby Bells mistreating users and their data, not on random fantasies of an evil Google coming to steal my soul.
Perhaps. And if the iPhone suddenly cost $700 with contract, and the iPad cost $1000 base, so people started only buying the Andriod and Windows mobile devices (still made in China), would that solve economic problems? Even Apple fans have a limit to what they'll spend.
So we could then force everyone to make their devices in the US. So devices would cost twice as much, and people would start buying a lot fewer of them, so we'd have to cut manufacturing jobs.
Methinks its a bit more complex than you think.
As for "90% of economists" thinking that ARRA was too small, the group of economists composed of former Enron advisor Paul Krugman and other lackeys of George Soros does not make up 90% of all economists (in other words, any economist who resides in the real world, and is not willing to lie for their political masters, recognizes that ARRA made things worse).
Okay then, 90% of economists who said before 2007 that bad economic policies, and lack of regulation on the government side, plus poor risk models and short-term thinking on the Wall Street side would cause a problem. Those guys are the ones to listen to, and those guys are the ones saying the stimulus was way too small.
Or you can listen to he other side, who said that removing regulation and Glass–Steagall would let the Free Market be truly free (and now say that the stimulus was and is bad). Though since they didn't predict this mess, I don't really know why, beyond religious fervor, anyone would listen to them now.
I always wonder how those poor defenseless global corporations can possibly make any money when that mean, evil government makes those nasty regulations. I mean, both Bush junior and Clinton were famous for adding more and more regulation, more than at any time since the Great Depression. If only the people in the government in charge of regulation somehow understood Wall Street.
So in the list of people involved with the loans:
* homeowner
* mortgage company employee
* loan approval officer
* mortgage security trader
* investor
* ratings company employee
you want to blame, for the collapse of our economy, the one person who has no financial training nor any responsibility beyond their one tiny loan? That's taking "blame the victim" to new levels.
There are lots of books which try to explain all the problems leading up to the recession; I recommend "All the Devils Are Here". Please read one or more before you try to blame the crisis on any one group or on any simple cause. It took lots of effort by many many people who knew better to cause it.
Close. If it's not totally over the top and blown out of all proportion, very few people will buy the magazine/watch the show/click the link. Blame where blame is due. The media does what makes them money; we the people make the choices.
Where did you hear that? I've never heard "as reliable as cable" except from a few of my managers who should know better. The basic premise is "more convenient than cable" which it usually is.
The "assertion"-problem is only tip of the iceberg.
If an assertion fails, this usually means that someone managed to make the code behave in an unintended way.
Except that the assertion isn't the problem. The problem is that BIND allows bad data into its cache. The assertion detects this and crashes BIND before the bad data becomes an exploit.
Now, there still may be a way to execute code using this method, but the assertion has alerted everyone to this problem so I expect this particular problem to be solved quickly. And thanks to the assertion-crashes, people will be forced to upgrade rather than running a vulnerable version for the next 5 years.
I'd prefer software without bugs, but since that's impossible, I'll happily take BIND.
Sorry, where can I download the complete database of AP locations?
I seem to recall that there are a number of war-driving sites which have fairly large databases of APs. And they don't provide an opt-out method. Neither does Apple nor any of the geolocation companies which collect this info. So once again, Google leads in privacy. And for their pains, gets blasted by many commentators (not you, but many others) who complain about Google but not about any of the others. Hell, I bet the loudest complainers were happy when the first wardrivers started publishing their databases.
I do the exact same thing. This was hell in english class way back in school; we'd have quizzes about names and places where I'd score 2/10 despite having read the book.
Very unusual fonts slow me down for a bit until my brain learns to map them. Fonts where all the letters are the same height always suck.
The way it works here in Australia is any time a business sells anything to to a customer, they are required to provide an invoice stating how much tax was collected. If they do not provide an invoice, or if they collect the wrong amount of tax, or if they try to pretend they are not a business when they really are, they will be sent off to prison.
Ah, that's your problem. Here in the USA we don't put tax cheats in prison. Instead we call them "Job Creators" and worship them by taxing them even less. We know it works because our economy is booming!
I guess the fact that higher education costs are spiraling out of control even as the jobs these degrees are supposed to help you to get have all but disappeared means nothing to you?
This means that there is a problem with higher education costs. How do you make the logical leap that the (primary? only?) cause is the Federal Student Loan Program?
What percentage of students are in the program? Unless it's "most", it seems unlikely that the program is the main cause of higher education costs.
If the government stopped the program, why would private banks not start up a similar one? And how would that not cause the same problems? (Answers should not assume that a magical hand will sprinkle free-market pixie dust and make all college prices lower, since that doesn't seem to happen in reality much.)
No surprise. Everyone always thinks that scaling is easy, and then spends months dealing with a long series of choke points and cache overflows. This is bearable if you can scale slowly, but not if all the traffic Is dumped on you from day one.
The question is, will it still suck in three months? Will their IT folks learn?
So, the government passes a law making hacking illegal; a company designs an insecure web portal; the company sues a researcher who tips them off about their insecurity; and you think it's the government's fault? Huh? How does that make any sense at all?
Sure, the law is likely imperfect (though I have no idea how to write a law to punish hackers and absolve researchers 100%), but I somehow think that the company may bear a wee bit of responsibility for this.
"Squirrels built a nest in my chimney again. Damn government!"