Re:You are completely retarded.
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OK let's go over this one at a time:
1. Security. Not even the ipv6 zealots claim that ipv6 is somehow miraculously more secure.. you pulled that one out of your ass. 2. QoS. IPV4 has this. This is not 1970 (not that ISPs will *ever* let consumers control something like that - all major ISPs strip this information incoming from their customers and they will continue to do it with ipv6). 3. Transparent roaming. So what? This is exactly the *wrong* place to implement it. I move around with my IP enabled mobile phone all the time and have never felt the need for this, because it's implemented at the network level, where it should be. 4. Autoconfiguration. Never heard of DHCP? Don't start bleating about RA - like everything else about ipv6 they designed it without thinking properly about it. RA can't advertise DNS servers, time servers, wins servers, default domain search names, alternate routes, etc. etc. The kind of stuff you *need* to configure a machine. You still need to use DHCP for those - so just use that.. RA is pointless.
Re:NAT is the IPv4 version of segmented memory
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The analogy doesn't work. Segmented memory was a pain because you had to implement special measures to access it (in fact now we go one step further - using virtual memory there is no way to access the memory of another process).
OTOH with network devices 99.99% of them simply do not need to be accessed remotely - NAT is fine for them, and presents zero issues.
IPV6 has NAT, btw. It's an essential part of network infrastructure and is not going away. It's required to hide the real addresses from the world which is a part of the security policy of many companies.
Re:Am I just being overly simplistic...
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I always thought that could work... use an extra octet or two to reference the machines behind the NAT.
eg. you have 1.2.3.4, use a NAT router, and 'ipv4++' you get 1.2.3.4.0.0
The advantage is nobody needs to learn a new addressing scheme, the routers don't need to be changed (you keep the packets compatible) so it's dirt cheap to implement.. That's the big problem with ipv6 - no sane transition plan.. everyone needs to upgrade their routers overnight and it just aint gonna happen (you cannot buy a consumer off the shelf router that supports ipv6, and 'you can reflash a linksys' is not an answer that is going to work).
Of course shoehorning that data into ipv4 is a bit of a trick - TCP is easy (optional headers), but UDP I can't work out right now.
I know you're joking, but you're completely correct. Not only is IPv6 _not here_, it's not even halfway here. Not by anyone's measure that would make any more sense than (for example) "IPV6 is halfway here in the same way that the PS6 is halfway here."
ipv6 seems to be going backwards in fact, with the closure of the vast majority of tunnel brokers & no sign of any ISPs planning adoption (and many (most?) not supporting the anycast address any more). If it's halfway there it's facing in the wrong direction...
It's clear from the headline that if BL had had and AMD they definately wouldn't have ignored it. AMD don't pay *nearly* enough bribe money to get away with that.
Nothing that the browser doesn't send already really. Fingerprinting by the behaviour of your target is old.. heck, I even do it in some of my apps to enable special compatibility flags. nmap can do it just using random packets to determine your OS.
Indeed - if you want the internet to be left well alone then the UN is the *ideal* place to put oversight, because any change will take so long to get out of committee we'll all be grandparents by then.
At the moment ICANN is basically pulling random domains out of its ass (.museum?.travel? WTF do we need industry specific TLDs for? Just how many frikkin' museums *are* there that want their own domain anyway?) just in an attempt to make money. The *only* domains that should be created are the top level country TLDs and let the countries themselves handle everything below that (as they do at the moment).
How can the UN (which is made up of governments) be less accountable than the governments its made up of?
It's a collection of government representatives, designed to hammer out global treaties and generally avoid another world war.
The most powerful government in the UN *by far* is the US - so if it's corrupt you know exactly where to look.
(I saw a programme the other day in which they said the reason the US hates the UN so much is because it's run by fundies who are convinced that the UN is the antichrist & is about to force everyone to put barcodes on their head or something. Reading slashdot I can almost believe it...)
Nope, BSG season 1 was only slightly behind in the US (and I'm still sore that although Sky part funded it they didn't think to get the rights to show the HD version).
Currently no projected airdate for BSG season 3 in the UK at all... Bet that's in SD too..
ipod are beginning to get the advantage that a huge market share gives.
eg. my car stereo has an ipod connector on it. Not a zune connector. Therefore if I want a portable music player that's useful to me in my car I get an ipod (which suits me fine).
Walk into any shop and it's full of ipod goods. There are other mp3 players around - but only ipod has the mindshare.
Microsoft have been taking advantage of this kind of thing with windows for years - it's about time that they got a taste of it..
But first, you need to have somewhere to go. After you go through the 1,000 people on the planet that can afford to do this AND want to do this for fun
I just had an image of a slashdotter from last century saying the same thing to the wright brothers...
In my experience the goalposts move as you write the code... 'oh, that's possible? then can you also do this, and it would be nice if a widget popped up here, and...'
Writing the tests first means you're going to be forever updating them as the specs change.
It also breaks email, just like the old SiteFinder did.
eg. I just sucessfully sent an email to eguhrguh@rgherhithg.cm - something that my mailer would normally have picked up, and if not then the email server beyond it.
It's based on the same fallacy that sitefinder was - that the world is the web. Never mind email, ftp, ssh, sip, etc. etc.
I used to have a key I called my 'magic key'. It was a floppy disk holder key, and I found out it was just the right shape to open just about *any* floppy disk holder key. Then I found out it could open luggage, certain types of safe, all sorts of stuff. They didn't have voting machines then alas...
Basically if anyone lost a key and the lock looked about the right size, I'd whip out my magic key and be in it in seconds.
If as you say there are only a few combinations for that key type it explains why I had such success.
Yeah they can't use that name probably (definately not in the UK). Although ITV isn't a single entity (it's a group of regional companies providing the commercial side of terrestrial TV) they do trade in that name when selling programmes to places like the US - so it's an internationally known name... and being video related is close enough to cause confusion.
The IQ of the average person is 100, by definition..
The scary thought is that 50% of the population are more stupid than that (and 100 is no rocket scientist - I find I notice the stupidity below the mid 120's.. it makes it hard to have a decent conversation when the other side is a monosyllabic moron..).
It's not hard to RF shield electronics.. especially when there's that much money involved. I suspect it's fairly easy to get away with but you have to not be greedy.
Card games are easier since there's a bit of skill involved.. you know what has been dealt so the odds change and you can base your bets on that. No electronics needed, just reasonably math skill, and since it's basic math it's not cheating (unless they mandate that you have part of your brain removed on entry!). I've known a couple of people who have made money that way - although they had the advantage of photographic memory, which helps..
Precisely.. why should cheating at roulette be a matter of law? If they catch you they can eject you. If they don't.. well that's their problem - nothing the state should be worried about.
The one directory thing only works for strictly GUI apps. If your app needs to install libraries in/usr/lib and put itself somewhere where the command line can see it like/bin the only option is give the installer root priviliges. Even installing a service that runs on startup needs a small shell script run as root. A lot of the stuff that apple ships does this.. try installing xcode without root privs.
Don't get me started on the lack of an uninstaller (I've seen uninstall instructions for an app that ran to 3 pages due to this lack..)
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OK let's go over this one at a time:
1. Security. Not even the ipv6 zealots claim that ipv6 is somehow miraculously more secure.. you pulled that one out of your ass.
2. QoS. IPV4 has this. This is not 1970 (not that ISPs will *ever* let consumers control something like that - all major ISPs strip this information incoming from their customers and they will continue to do it with ipv6).
3. Transparent roaming. So what? This is exactly the *wrong* place to implement it. I move around with my IP enabled mobile phone all the time and have never felt the need for this, because it's implemented at the network level, where it should be.
4. Autoconfiguration. Never heard of DHCP? Don't start bleating about RA - like everything else about ipv6 they designed it without thinking properly about it. RA can't advertise DNS servers, time servers, wins servers, default domain search names, alternate routes, etc. etc. The kind of stuff you *need* to configure a machine. You still need to use DHCP for those - so just use that.. RA is pointless.
The analogy doesn't work. Segmented memory was a pain because you had to implement special measures to access it (in fact now we go one step further - using virtual memory there is no way to access the memory of another process).
OTOH with network devices 99.99% of them simply do not need to be accessed remotely - NAT is fine for them, and presents zero issues.
IPV6 has NAT, btw. It's an essential part of network infrastructure and is not going away. It's required to hide the real addresses from the world which is a part of the security policy of many companies.
I always thought that could work... use an extra octet or two to reference the machines behind the NAT.
eg. you have 1.2.3.4, use a NAT router, and 'ipv4++' you get 1.2.3.4.0.0
The advantage is nobody needs to learn a new addressing scheme, the routers don't need to be changed (you keep the packets compatible) so it's dirt cheap to implement.. That's the big problem with ipv6 - no sane transition plan.. everyone needs to upgrade their routers overnight and it just aint gonna happen (you cannot buy a consumer off the shelf router that supports ipv6, and 'you can reflash a linksys' is not an answer that is going to work).
Of course shoehorning that data into ipv4 is a bit of a trick - TCP is easy (optional headers), but UDP I can't work out right now.
I know you're joking, but you're completely correct. Not only is IPv6 _not here_, it's not even halfway here. Not by anyone's measure that would make any more sense than (for example) "IPV6 is halfway here in the same way that the PS6 is halfway here."
ipv6 seems to be going backwards in fact, with the closure of the vast majority of tunnel brokers & no sign of any ISPs planning adoption (and many (most?) not supporting the anycast address any more). If it's halfway there it's facing in the wrong direction...
It's clear from the headline that if BL had had and AMD they definately wouldn't have ignored it. AMD don't pay *nearly* enough bribe money to get away with that.
Nothing that the browser doesn't send already really. Fingerprinting by the behaviour of your target is old.. heck, I even do it in some of my apps to enable special compatibility flags. nmap can do it just using random packets to determine your OS.
Try hacking *my* browser...
$ telnet www.google.com 80
Host: www.google.com HTTP/1.1
Get /
Not a great name.. maybe you don't know what 'ming' means
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mi
Indeed - if you want the internet to be left well alone then the UN is the *ideal* place to put oversight, because any change will take so long to get out of committee we'll all be grandparents by then.
.travel? WTF do we need industry specific TLDs for? Just how many frikkin' museums *are* there that want their own domain anyway?) just in an attempt to make money. The *only* domains that should be created are the top level country TLDs and let the countries themselves handle everything below that (as they do at the moment).
At the moment ICANN is basically pulling random domains out of its ass (.museum?
How can the UN (which is made up of governments) be less accountable than the governments its made up of?
It's a collection of government representatives, designed to hammer out global treaties and generally avoid another world war.
The most powerful government in the UN *by far* is the US - so if it's corrupt you know exactly where to look.
(I saw a programme the other day in which they said the reason the US hates the UN so much is because it's run by fundies who are convinced that the UN is the antichrist & is about to force everyone to put barcodes on their head or something. Reading slashdot I can almost believe it...)
Nope, BSG season 1 was only slightly behind in the US (and I'm still sore that although Sky part funded it they didn't think to get the rights to show the HD version).
Currently no projected airdate for BSG season 3 in the UK at all... Bet that's in SD too..
ipod are beginning to get the advantage that a huge market share gives.
eg. my car stereo has an ipod connector on it. Not a zune connector. Therefore if I want a portable music player that's useful to me in my car I get an ipod (which suits me fine).
Walk into any shop and it's full of ipod goods. There are other mp3 players around - but only ipod has the mindshare.
Microsoft have been taking advantage of this kind of thing with windows for years - it's about time that they got a taste of it..
But first, you need to have somewhere to go. After you go through the 1,000 people on the planet that can afford to do this AND want to do this for fun
I just had an image of a slashdotter from last century saying the same thing to the wright brothers...
You really want every other post to be goatse?
No thanks.. I'll stick to text.
In my experience the goalposts move as you write the code... 'oh, that's possible? then can you also do this, and it would be nice if a widget popped up here, and...'
Writing the tests first means you're going to be forever updating them as the specs change.
It also breaks email, just like the old SiteFinder did.
eg. I just sucessfully sent an email to eguhrguh@rgherhithg.cm - something that my mailer would normally have picked up, and if not then the email server beyond it.
It's based on the same fallacy that sitefinder was - that the world is the web. Never mind email, ftp, ssh, sip, etc. etc.
I used to have a key I called my 'magic key'. It was a floppy disk holder key, and I found out it was just the right shape to open just about *any* floppy disk holder key. Then I found out it could open luggage, certain types of safe, all sorts of stuff. They didn't have voting machines then alas...
Basically if anyone lost a key and the lock looked about the right size, I'd whip out my magic key and be in it in seconds.
If as you say there are only a few combinations for that key type it explains why I had such success.
Yeah they can't use that name probably (definately not in the UK). Although ITV isn't a single entity (it's a group of regional companies providing the commercial side of terrestrial TV) they do trade in that name when selling programmes to places like the US - so it's an internationally known name... and being video related is close enough to cause confusion.
The IQ of the average person is 100, by definition..
The scary thought is that 50% of the population are more stupid than that (and 100 is no rocket scientist - I find I notice the stupidity below the mid 120's.. it makes it hard to have a decent conversation when the other side is a monosyllabic moron..).
I really don't buy their margins are low.
A CD on itunes still costs more than a CD on the high street - and they have the physical costs of running a store, shipping costs for the media, etc.
Hash? Why would your computer be smoking weed?
It's not hard to RF shield electronics.. especially when there's that much money involved. I suspect it's fairly easy to get away with but you have to not be greedy.
Card games are easier since there's a bit of skill involved.. you know what has been dealt so the odds change and you can base your bets on that. No electronics needed, just reasonably math skill, and since it's basic math it's not cheating (unless they mandate that you have part of your brain removed on entry!). I've known a couple of people who have made money that way - although they had the advantage of photographic memory, which helps..
Precisely.. why should cheating at roulette be a matter of law? If they catch you they can eject you. If they don't.. well that's their problem - nothing the state should be worried about.
Admin is people in the sudoers list (well, a badly configured sudoers list where all the admins can run *any* command).
My problem with that is it's like giving root multiple passwords, all of which work. Once you know one you can rape the system.
The one directory thing only works for strictly GUI apps. If your app needs to install libraries in /usr/lib and put itself somewhere where the command line can see it like /bin the only option is give the installer root priviliges. Even installing a service that runs on startup needs a small shell script run as root. A lot of the stuff that apple ships does this.. try installing xcode without root privs.
Don't get me started on the lack of an uninstaller (I've seen uninstall instructions for an app that ran to 3 pages due to this lack..)
Of course nobody will do that. They'll see yet another dialog asking for their password and enter it blindly. Instant hacked system.