only members of parliament can be ministers of Her Majesty's government.
Nonsense. The prime minister (who doesn't necessarily have to be an MP either) chooses his cabinet.
Wikipedia has been known to be wrong before, but it appears to confirm what I've always been told:
The Government Ministers are all members of Parliament, and are accountable to it. [...]
For most senior Ministers this is usually the elected House of Commons rather than the House of Lords. There have been some recent exceptions to this [...]
I'd love to hear otherwise from a reliable source.
his appointment to the House of Lords is a strong argument in favour of getting rid of the undemocratic House of Lords, or at least making it an elected body.
So you say that only professional politicians should be able to hold government positions?
For anyone who's lost -- the United Kingdom has this strange political system where you need to be a member of the legislative branch in order to serve on the national executive: only members of parliament can be ministers of Her Majesty's government. This would appear to imply that it is impossible to appoint a specialist as minister, since only professional politicians have a chance to be elected to parliament; in practice, appointment to the Lords is used as a workaround.
You call that a large country with a lot of rural areas?
By European standards, France is a large country (roughly 1000km across), with some rather sparsely populated areas (the Northern Alps and the Massif Central). France also has a strong tradition of massive, nation-wide infrastructure projects (we've had a comprehensive high-speed train network since the 1980s), so a nation-wide broadband infrastructure is a natural thing to do.
Now this is a large country with a lot of rural areas!
You might be misunderstanding. Persians and Americans are actually natural allies: we both want a stable Persian Gulf region, and together could provide it, as we did prior to 1979.
You are aware that the CIA put the Iranian dictator into power in 1953, toppling Iran's democratically-elected government in the process? The 1979 "Islamic Revolution" merely replaced a dictatorship controlled by the USA with one that wasn't.
Whats the worm traffic (ssh and other) on the IPv6 internet?
According to the network administrators I've spoken to (admittedly a biased sample), almost all the malware traffic they're seeing is over IPv4. They say they'll deal with IPv6 malware when it appears.
NAT has never ever had any packet inspection in it's specification.
The closest thing to a NAT specification is RFC 2663, an informational RFC that was published a good four years after NAT got deployed. It explicitly speaks about deep packet inspection:
One of the most popular internet applications "FTP" would not
work with the definition of NAT as described. The following
sub-section is devoted to describing how FTP is supported on NAT
devices. FTP ALG is an integral part of most NAT
implementations. Some vendors may choose to include additional
ALGs to custom support other applications on the NAT device.
What matters is not that every site adopt IPv6, but that enough sites adopt it that having an IPv6 connection gets you useful value.
It's natural that people should be focusing on the web, but the web is really a non-issue -- we know how to proxy HTTP efficiently, so HTTP sites staying on IPv4 is at worst a minor inconvenience.
What urgently needs to move are protocols that are difficult to proxy, either because they have a complex structure (BitTorrent, SIP) or because the added latency hit is problematic (SIP, Skype, most online games). You really want enough of your BitTorrent peers to implement IPv6 support, so you can get your Linux distributions fast.
I've had some success getting young people interested in reliability and congestion control using tcptrace. See pages 3 and 4 of this document for screenshots.
Since it's not clear from your post, the Surface (even the RT version) can do all of that.
Since it's not clear from your post, the Surface (especially the crippled RT version) cannot do most of that.
I don't think any of the current editors support syntax highlighting for it [...]
There is not yet a LaTeX compiler available for RT [...]
you need a dongle
See?
On the other hand, sometimes more productivity makes it worthwhile.
Thanks for your concern, but I'm quite productive on my cheap netbook — the battery lasts over 8 hours, and the keyboard is good enough for a sustained 65wpm. The only reason I'd consider a tablet is the weight: the netbook weighs 1.1kg, which is 400g more than a lightweight tablet. But I wouldn't consider anything as crippled as the Surface.
The netbook I currently use on trips cost €220. Since it's fully encrypted, it means that having it stolen or leaving it on the train is a fairly minor annoyance (I've had one stolen already).
Since I have a nice laptop at home and a nice desktop at work, I'd gladly replace it with a tablet, as long as I can encrypt the flash, view PDFs, run LaTeX, and plug in a projector. But not at that price.
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it's nice to see GNU Emacs finally bothering to catch up to these ten-year-old XEmacs features.
They might be waiting for the tech savvy slashdot folks to lead the way...
$ host -t aaaa lwn.net
lwn.net has no AAAA record
$ host -t aaaa arstechnica.com
arstechnica.com has no AAAA record
$ host -t aaaa tomshardware.com
tomshardware.com has no AAAA record
$ host -t aaaa phoronix.com
phoronix.com has no AAAA record
$ host -t aaaa smallnetbuilder.com
smallnetbuilder.com has no AAAA record
The real power is (and has always been) with the European Council
Hear, hear.
While the Commission is no more democratically elected than the Council, at least they are serious about transparency. The Council holds a disproportionate amount of power, and they are completely opaque.
I deeply desire to have a Symbolics machine of my own some day—or at least a version of OpenGenera that boots properly.
You won't have one properly licensed, since the courts were unable to agree who owns the copyrights to Genera. On the other hand, that means you cannot be sued by the copyright holders, since nobody is quite sure who the copyright holders are.
Setting it up requires a little bit of work (you'll need to set up a local NFS server and to tweak your X server's modifier mappings), but I warmly recommend it -- it's complete enough to do some real work in Emacs, and the full sources and documentation are there for your greater enjoyment.
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Nonsense. The prime minister (who doesn't necessarily have to be an MP either) chooses his cabinet.
Wikipedia has been known to be wrong before, but it appears to confirm what I've always been told:
I'd love to hear otherwise from a reliable source.
As a dual British citizen, I can only say this:
his appointment to the House of Lords is a strong argument in favour of getting rid of the undemocratic House of Lords, or at least making it an elected body.
So you say that only professional politicians should be able to hold government positions?
For anyone who's lost -- the United Kingdom has this strange political system where you need to be a member of the legislative branch in order to serve on the national executive: only members of parliament can be ministers of Her Majesty's government. This would appear to imply that it is impossible to appoint a specialist as minister, since only professional politicians have a chance to be elected to parliament; in practice, appointment to the Lords is used as a workaround.
SMBC
Has anyone checked how correctly OpenSMTPd implements the SMTP protocol? The OpenBSD project has an unfortunate history of caring more about simplicity of implementation than correctness (see also this discussion).
...but how do you pay for the Journal?
What is there to pay for?
So what remains is the salary of the editor and some administrative overhead, which should not be too onerous for even a minor institution.
You call that a large country with a lot of rural areas?
By European standards, France is a large country (roughly 1000km across), with some rather sparsely populated areas (the Northern Alps and the Massif Central). France also has a strong tradition of massive, nation-wide infrastructure projects (we've had a comprehensive high-speed train network since the 1980s), so a nation-wide broadband infrastructure is a natural thing to do.
Now this is a large country with a lot of rural areas!
That thing is continent-sized, not country-sized.
You might be misunderstanding. Persians and Americans are actually natural allies: we both want a stable Persian Gulf region, and together could provide it, as we did prior to 1979.
You are aware that the CIA put the Iranian dictator into power in 1953, toppling Iran's democratically-elected government in the process? The 1979 "Islamic Revolution" merely replaced a dictatorship controlled by the USA with one that wasn't.
Comcast did the transition anyway, because, as I understand it, it made good business sense for them other reasons.
Could you please explain?
Whats the worm traffic (ssh and other) on the IPv6 internet?
According to the network administrators I've spoken to (admittedly a biased sample), almost all the malware traffic they're seeing is over IPv4. They say they'll deal with IPv6 malware when it appears.
NAT has never ever had any packet inspection in it's specification.
The closest thing to a NAT specification is RFC 2663, an informational RFC that was published a good four years after NAT got deployed. It explicitly speaks about deep packet inspection:
(ALG means "Application Layer Gateway".)
Its that like Military grade NAT and Combat ready NAT?
Yes, it should have been called ISP-side NAT (as opposed to the more usual customer-side NAT), but the marketing people thought otherwise.
--jch
What matters is not that every site adopt IPv6, but that enough sites adopt it that having an IPv6 connection gets you useful value.
It's natural that people should be focusing on the web, but the web is really a non-issue -- we know how to proxy HTTP efficiently, so HTTP sites staying on IPv4 is at worst a minor inconvenience.
What urgently needs to move are protocols that are difficult to proxy, either because they have a complex structure (BitTorrent, SIP) or because the added latency hit is problematic (SIP, Skype, most online games). You really want enough of your BitTorrent peers to implement IPv6 support, so you can get your Linux distributions fast.
The most impressive thing is that we can actually measure this minute effect
According to Wikipedia, it's 8.74×10^10 m/s^2. If you integrate that over fourty years, that's 17000 km, or 55 ms light-speed delay, which should not be too difficult to detect.
--jch
--jch
Since it's not clear from your post, the Surface (even the RT version) can do all of that.
Since it's not clear from your post, the Surface (especially the crippled RT version) cannot do most of that.
I don't think any of the current editors support syntax highlighting for it
[...]
There is not yet a LaTeX compiler available for RT
[...]
you need a dongle
See?
On the other hand, sometimes more productivity makes it worthwhile.
Thanks for your concern, but I'm quite productive on my cheap netbook — the battery lasts over 8 hours, and the keyboard is good enough for a sustained 65wpm. The only reason I'd consider a tablet is the weight: the netbook weighs 1.1kg, which is 400g more than a lightweight tablet. But I wouldn't consider anything as crippled as the Surface.
- too expensive
Compared to what?
Compared to a laptop.
The netbook I currently use on trips cost €220. Since it's fully encrypted, it means that having it stolen or leaving it on the train is a fairly minor annoyance (I've had one stolen already).
Since I have a nice laptop at home and a nice desktop at work, I'd gladly replace it with a tablet, as long as I can encrypt the flash, view PDFs, run LaTeX, and plug in a projector. But not at that price.
it's nice to see GNU Emacs finally bothering to catch up to these ten-year-old XEmacs features.
I've always wondered why FSF Emacs couldn't implement a package system...
They might be waiting for the tech savvy slashdot folks to lead the way...
$ host -t aaaa lwn.net
lwn.net has no AAAA record
$ host -t aaaa arstechnica.com
arstechnica.com has no AAAA record
$ host -t aaaa tomshardware.com
tomshardware.com has no AAAA record
$ host -t aaaa phoronix.com
phoronix.com has no AAAA record
$ host -t aaaa smallnetbuilder.com
smallnetbuilder.com has no AAAA record
Stil, I'm not sure it's a good idea to make all devices directly accessible over the internet, it's kind of like begging for a wormpocalypse.
You're expected to have a stateful firewall at the very same place where you have a NAT right now. This is described in RFC 4864.
Imidacloprid is better known as Bayer's Gaucho, at least in Europe.
The real power is (and has always been) with the European Council
Hear, hear.
While the Commission is no more democratically elected than the Council, at least they are serious about transparency. The Council holds a disproportionate amount of power, and they are completely opaque.
could you create an encryption method that generates a new encryption key for every new message.
Yes, modern cryptosystems do that. It's called an Initialisation Vector.
I deeply desire to have a Symbolics machine of my own some day—or at least a version of OpenGenera that boots properly.
You won't have one properly licensed, since the courts were unable to agree who owns the copyrights to Genera. On the other hand, that means you cannot be sued by the copyright holders, since nobody is quite sure who the copyright holders are.
You'll need:
Setting it up requires a little bit of work (you'll need to set up a local NFS server and to tweak your X server's modifier mappings), but I warmly recommend it -- it's complete enough to do some real work in Emacs, and the full sources and documentation are there for your greater enjoyment.
have written most of OpenNTPD.
And you admit it?
I am sick and tired of wasting energy on each and every unfounded accusation someone posts somewhere.
Please show me where the OpenNTPD code computes the dispersion and root delay that it sends to clients, and I will retract my claim.
I don't know if the NTP protocol does [have a leap second provision].
Yes it does -- that's what the LI (Leap Indicator) field is for.