When it comes to technology, most people are 'kiddies'. They just want something that works and it easy to use. They follow the script like any kiddie. Most people what something that works and does something useful - they're not interested in how it works.
An iPhone app that can read the ink is special to them because it's available and works.
You have a link local address AND a different global address. It's the global address that will be routed.
Link local addresses are useful locally. There's even a link local system for IPV4 but hardly anyone seems to know about it. From Wikipedia and various RFCs - "In IPv4, the block 169.254/16 is reserved for this purpose, with the exception of the first and the last/24 subnet in the range. "
This would allow the IPv6 world to talk to all of the IPv4 world but does nothing to allow the IPv4 to talk to the full IPv6 world.
How would an IPv4 user connect to a new IPv6 service that did not also have a corresponding IPv4 address? You'd have to limit the IPv6 address space size to that of IPv4 which rather defeats the object!
Am I the only one who is pleased about the news?
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I remember (long, long ago etc) when AOL users were let lose on USENET with the alphabetical listing of all the news groups and the buggy interface software that posted articles multiple times.
I look forward to the time when USENET is the preserve of knowledgeable tekkies!
Can you imagine if a few per-cent of mobile TV viwers get motion sickness on the train or bus? It's not going to be fun finding if you, or the person sitting next to you gets motion sickness.
Hydrogen Peroxide (high test peroxide or HTP I assume is a pretty good fuel for this sort of game. It can be burnt using a catalyst and by pumping kerosene in you get a pretty simple yet powerful engine. Good for sub-orbital lobs.
One of the big differences between cars and computers is that if a car has a design or safty fault the maker has to do a recall and fix them. It's not the case with computers.
We've long accepted that most people cannot maintain and ensure the seafty of their own car so we should not be surprised that cannot look after their computer either.
Having first used VAXClusters in 1987 eveything else I've come across seems toy in comparison. A VAXCluster gave us disk that worked just like a local disk but was shared across the cluster. No one VAX 'owned' it (no LAVC here!). It's peer to peer disk sharing with all the lockin problems sorted. We ran a navigational database (VAX RMS) over the VAXCluster with 3 VAXes and hundreds of users.
If VAXCluster technology is lost then it's a tragic waste of a good technology.
To my mind of the attractions of F/OSS is that support for older products does not go away in the same way as it does for commercial products. If you download FreeBSD (for example) and install it you have no support and that's not going away. Sure, you have to be able support it yourself but hopefully you're not going away either!
If you have the source and some programmers then you're self supporting and can control your own destiny.
Has the US Federal Reserve (who I assume are responsible for printing US Bank notes) not started putting a thin metal stip in the notes? UK bank notes have done this for some time now.
A metal strip would have the same effect in a microwave as tin foil or any other piece of metal.
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Indeed. A V1 style buzz bomb engine has ignitors like a spark plug to ignite the fuel/air mixture. The pulse detonation engine uses the pressure from the previous pulse to detonate the next load of fuel.
It's like a petrol vs diesel. They both have pistons and cranks but the way the fuel is made to burn is very different.
Having lived in a house that was started in 1200...
One needs to start with good materials and look after them. The original oak timbers were cut and used green and allowed to season over the years. Kept dry they became very strong, hard but not brittle. Where the timbers entered the ground there was rot but this was cut away and new timber installed. This style of maintenance will allow the building to go on for ever if you want.
A case of my grandfathers trusty old axe; three new heads and four new shafts!
At $8 per share is it enough to cover the discount on all the share options given to staff? What happens when people start cashing in their share options? Will MS have enough cash to meet the demand?
I use an online bank in the UK which can and does
issue one time credit card numbers. When issued they are set to expire at the end of the month (delta it being near the end of the month) and the transaction value is capped.
The transactions appear on my normal CC bill so I don't have to manage lots of CC numbers.
Working for a different courier company as I do...
A lot of stuff we carry is of low intrinsic value. Sure, the legal documents relate to high value transactions but the value of the documents is no more than the re-cycling value of the paper. The finiancial loss is minimal.
Anything with an intrinsic value (PCs or diamonds) should always be insured. While the risk of loss is low the effects on the individual can be considerable.
The terms and conditions of carriage usually indemnify (sp?) the carrier against loss... The expectation being that insurance will be taken out on valuable goods.
Here's a recent case posted on the RISKS Forum by a chap called Steve of a small company DOSing themselves. It was put down to the use of SETI@home clients on company PCs...
There is an interesting little article on Sun's best practices site, titled, "Network Wedged by Little Green Men"
It covers how a small firm's network kept on slowing down to a halt. The problem was tracked down to Seti@home screen savers repeatedly trying to connect to the Seti servers, which were inaccessible due to attempted cable
theft (as noted in past RISKS).
The local firm's Internet access used NAT address translation, and each screen saver made multiple attempts to
connect. Each connection attempt used a NAT assignment, an assignment which
took a while to be cleaned up. Before long the company had exhausted their
pool of 128 NAT addresses, even though only six people were present.
Only
through router interrogation was the problem identified.
The article closes by saying the problem was "solved" by increasing the
number of available NAT addresses, although of course that didn't fix the
problem, merely caused it to 'go away'. A real solution would be to have the
screen-saver software implement incremental backoff and other mechanisms
designed to gracefully handle a complete loss of remote server access.
One would hope that the authors of the next generation of distributed
computation applications take heed of the lessons of the current batch.
It's not quite like a radar set-up with a single
transmitter and multiple receivers or vice versa.
All the stations are transmitters and receivers and there is a mesh of communication going on between them. The network is pretty busy.
As a stealth plane flies though the mess of conversations it will scatter or absorbe the RF energy disrupting communication. Exactly which comminucations get disrupted, when and for how long depend on where the stealth aircraft is. QED...
Is the US law is similar to UK law, it often is, then there is a legal difference between individual facts and a collection of those facts.
Each individual fact may be in the public domain but a collection of those facts can be a protectable work. It's the act of collection that gives rise to something that may be protected.
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You'll need to buy a license key on line.
This disk will just be a distribution for large files (not every one has high speed broad band yet) and advertising medium.
When it comes to technology, most people are 'kiddies'. They just want something that works and it easy to use. They follow the script like any kiddie. Most people what something that works and does something useful - they're not interested in how it works.
An iPhone app that can read the ink is special to them because it's available and works.
You have a link local address AND a different global address. It's the global address that will be routed.
Link local addresses are useful locally. There's even a link local system for IPV4 but hardly anyone seems to know about it. From Wikipedia and various RFCs - "In IPv4, the block 169.254/16 is reserved for this purpose, with the exception of the first and the last /24 subnet in the range. "
This would allow the IPv6 world to talk to all of the IPv4 world but does nothing to allow the IPv4 to talk to the full IPv6 world.
How would an IPv4 user connect to a new IPv6 service that did not also have a corresponding IPv4 address? You'd have to limit the IPv6 address space size to that of IPv4 which rather defeats the object!
I remember (long, long ago etc) when AOL users were let lose on USENET with the alphabetical listing of all the news groups and the buggy interface software that posted articles multiple times.
I look forward to the time when USENET is the preserve of knowledgeable tekkies!
I shall now run and hide (or duck and cover)!
Can you imagine if a few per-cent of mobile TV viwers get motion sickness on the train or bus? It's not going to be fun finding if you, or the person sitting next to you gets motion sickness.
Hydrogen Peroxide (high test peroxide or HTP I assume is a pretty good fuel for this sort of game. It can be burnt using a catalyst and by pumping kerosene in you get a pretty simple yet powerful engine. Good for sub-orbital lobs.
More at http://www.spaceuk.org/htp/htp.htm
Of course, any controlled explosion can become uncontrolled...
One of the big differences between cars and computers is that if a car has a design or safty fault the maker has to do a recall and fix them. It's not the case with computers.
We've long accepted that most people cannot maintain and ensure the seafty of their own car so we should not be surprised that cannot look after their computer either.
I think you'll find that people are sheep.
Having first used VAXClusters in 1987 eveything else I've come across seems toy in comparison. A VAXCluster gave us disk that worked just like a local disk but was shared across the cluster. No one VAX 'owned' it (no LAVC here!). It's peer to peer disk sharing with all the lockin problems sorted. We ran a navigational database (VAX RMS) over the VAXCluster with 3 VAXes and hundreds of users.
If VAXCluster technology is lost then it's a tragic waste of a good technology.
To my mind of the attractions of F/OSS is that support for older products does not go away in the same way as it does for commercial products. If you download FreeBSD (for example) and install it you have no support and that's not going away. Sure, you have to be able support it yourself but hopefully you're not going away either!
If you have the source and some programmers then you're self supporting and can control your own destiny.
The BBC covered this pretty well recently in their pop-science program Horizon:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/hori
What's the biggest mistake (design, paradigm, API) you've made that we're still suffering from. And I don't mean leaving the e off creat()!
A metal strip would have the same effect in a microwave as tin foil or any other piece of metal.
No RFID plot here!
The xfree86 V4.4 license adds
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution, and in the same place and form as other copyright, license and disclaimer information.
3. The end-user documentation included with the redistribution, if any, must include the following acknowledgment: "This product includes software developed by The XFree86 Project, Inc (http://www.xfree86.org/) and its contributors", in the same place and form as other third-party acknowledgments. Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the software itself, in the same form and location as other such third-party acknowledgments.
vs.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html
All the worlds mistyped URLs must be hitting their servers...
Indeed. A V1 style buzz bomb engine has ignitors like a spark plug to ignite the fuel/air mixture. The pulse detonation engine uses the pressure from the previous pulse to detonate the next load of fuel.
It's like a petrol vs diesel. They both have pistons and cranks but the way the fuel is made to burn is very different.
In the UK the digital cable STBs (Pace 1000s, 2000s and 4000s) use the IRDA 115.2Kb/s signal rate but not the IRDA data signalling system.
TiVo in the UK have released a 'dongle' or IRDA adaptor which allows the TiVo to control the digital cable STB by converting the TiVo signal to IRDA.
One needs to start with good materials and look after them. The original oak timbers were cut and used green and allowed to season over the years. Kept dry they became very strong, hard but not brittle. Where the timbers entered the ground there was rot but this was cut away and new timber installed. This style of maintenance will allow the building to go on for ever if you want.
A case of my grandfathers trusty old axe; three new heads and four new shafts!
At $8 per share is it enough to cover the discount on all the share options given to staff? What happens when people start cashing in their share options? Will MS have enough cash to meet the demand?
The transactions appear on my normal CC bill so I don't have to manage lots of CC numbers.
Not a total solution but helpful none the less.
Working for a different courier company as I do...
A lot of stuff we carry is of low intrinsic value. Sure, the legal documents relate to high value transactions but the value of the documents is no more than the re-cycling value of the paper. The finiancial loss is minimal.
Anything with an intrinsic value (PCs or diamonds) should always be insured. While the risk of loss is low the effects on the individual can be considerable.
The terms and conditions of carriage usually indemnify (sp?) the carrier against loss... The expectation being that insurance will be taken out on valuable goods.
There is an interesting little article on Sun's best practices site, titled, "Network Wedged by Little Green Men"
http://dcb.sun.com/practices/devtales/network_wedg ed.jsp
It covers how a small firm's network kept on slowing down to a halt. The problem was tracked down to Seti@home screen savers repeatedly trying to connect to the Seti servers, which were inaccessible due to attempted cable theft (as noted in past RISKS).
The local firm's Internet access used NAT address translation, and each screen saver made multiple attempts to connect. Each connection attempt used a NAT assignment, an assignment which took a while to be cleaned up. Before long the company had exhausted their pool of 128 NAT addresses, even though only six people were present.
Only through router interrogation was the problem identified.
The article closes by saying the problem was "solved" by increasing the number of available NAT addresses, although of course that didn't fix the problem, merely caused it to 'go away'. A real solution would be to have the screen-saver software implement incremental backoff and other mechanisms designed to gracefully handle a complete loss of remote server access.
One would hope that the authors of the next generation of distributed computation applications take heed of the lessons of the current batch.
All the stations are transmitters and receivers and there is a mesh of communication going on between them. The network is pretty busy.
As a stealth plane flies though the mess of conversations it will scatter or absorbe the RF energy disrupting communication. Exactly which comminucations get disrupted, when and for how long depend on where the stealth aircraft is. QED...
Each individual fact may be in the public domain but a collection of those facts can be a protectable work. It's the act of collection that gives rise to something that may be protected.