The problem is that video, whilst being easy to understand, is complete bollocks made by a conspiracy theorist.
He completely (or deliberately) misunderstands how fractional reserve works. He's also the guy who's utterly convinced the US is about to drop the dollar and create the Amero.
As a starting point to understand that banking is a little more complex than most people understand, its OK. Beyond that I'd follow your advice and do your *own* research - you can start with the wikipedia entry on fractional reserve which corrects many of the errors in the video.
Standard competition law applies. Why would they be allowed to do this?
Lower house prices = More people can afford houses & cheaper mortgages = People have more disposable income = economic boost.
And yes there is *absolutely* no reason why the American Government (not people, they'll never see any of it) should be purchasing Wachovia. Either it survives on its own merits or it dies. That's the free market.
Exactly... banks should be allowed to fail, just like any other business. The deposits are protected anyway.
I love the way they're trying to say that banks will stop lending money. That's how they *make* money - a debt to us is a credit to the bank - the more loans they have the more asseets they have to play around with (provided they're loans to people who can pay them back.. but if a bank is loaning to someone who can't pay they didn't do their due dilligence and deserve everything they get).
Hell, in most companies that would get you fired. You *never* drop mail. Set up a gateway server (or a cluster of them, if load is that much of a problem) queueing the mail before it's ready to be processed by the mailserver. Disk space is dirt cheap - a 1Tb raid array can be had for next to nothing these days, and you can store a *lot* of mail on that.
Nobody is aborting foetuses simply to get stem cells. They're taking cells from foetuses who are *already* aborted and whose usefulness is otherwise to merely be thrown in the trash.
Your 'main question' is a complete strawman - we don't even harvest organs from executed prisoners even though that would save a lot of lives, because that question was asked and answered year ago.
Oh please. 38mpg on a diesel? I could probably get that on mine driving 70mph in second gear. Normal driving I can break 60mpg without any messing around with snake oil.
This is no innovation. They just need to get a car less than 10 years old.
My ISP gave me a/48. I use 6 addresses.. that's a lot of wastage. Also the bottom 64 bits of an IPV6 address are basically mapped to the MAC address of the network card, so they're predefined.
The/48 is big but it's only 65k times as big as a/32 - the numbers aren't as huge as some would suggest.. still big, but not *huge* big - I could see scenarios where it could run out.
You couldn't actually NAT that many devices... NAT has to dynamically reserve ports for the replies, so it knows that the reply from server x is due to go to client y (even if you match both on source IP and port consider the result of a few thousand connections to MSN). I'm sure someone's worked out a theoretical maximum, but it's going to be way lower than a country the size of china..
So what you're saying is you NAT the companies' phones:p
(and this is why NAT will stay around - for the same reason that exchanges with extensions will stay around - most companies don't *want* their employees to be directly contactable, via phone or anything else).
It gets fun when two greylisting servers start talking to each other..
Server 1: Hello Server 2: Go away for 5 minutes then come back to me Server 1: Go away for 5 minutes then come back to me Server 2: WTF? I said 5 minutes! Server 2: WTF? I said 5 minutes! etc. etc.
I kept two servers talking for *3 days* like that..
What about all the weather apps on the phone? Don't they compete with apple's weather app? Or the notes apps? Or the zillion map apps that duplicate the search functionalty of google maps?
Apple seem to be making an exception for mail.app - which one of the suckiest parts of the phone (second, next to the SMS app) and really needs a 3rd party replacement.
(a) You have to pay $100 a year. (b) The apple SDK is so locked down that you can't write the really innovative stuff anyway, hence the need to jailbreak.
Then again with those kinds of plans at least the underuse carries over.. with my DSL provider I've currently got 8.5GB of carry over and it's going up by about 2GB a month - should really think about reducing my plan...
Probably. These dongles pretty much all pretend to be serial modems and you just need to do some mucking around with AT commands and run pppd.
Some of them need some hackery (eg. the one I have needs a kick to switch from storage mode to serial mode) but you won't be the first to try it so there will be a HOWTO somewhere.
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The problem is that video, whilst being easy to understand, is complete bollocks made by a conspiracy theorist.
He completely (or deliberately) misunderstands how fractional reserve works. He's also the guy who's utterly convinced the US is about to drop the dollar and create the Amero.
As a starting point to understand that banking is a little more complex than most people understand, its OK. Beyond that I'd follow your advice and do your *own* research - you can start with the wikipedia entry on fractional reserve which corrects many of the errors in the video.
.. or you could just install the RAM in the machine and remove the need for swap at all. tmpfs takes care of the rest.
Ciscos do as well (much better than the apple jobbie too in my experience).
I remember that page reading pretty much identically over a year ago.. so it isn't new.
IMO it's just a practical joke to make people say 'free porn' and go to it. The dates say the last update was January this year.
If it *isn't* a practical joke.. if it really *does* take 18 months to setup an ipv6 web site, ipv6 is doomed.
Standard competition law applies. Why would they be allowed to do this?
Lower house prices = More people can afford houses & cheaper mortgages = People have more disposable income = economic boost.
And yes there is *absolutely* no reason why the American Government (not people, they'll never see any of it) should be purchasing Wachovia. Either it survives on its own merits or it dies. That's the free market.
Exactly... banks should be allowed to fail, just like any other business. The deposits are protected anyway.
I love the way they're trying to say that banks will stop lending money. That's how they *make* money - a debt to us is a credit to the bank - the more loans they have the more asseets they have to play around with (provided they're loans to people who can pay them back.. but if a bank is loaning to someone who can't pay they didn't do their due dilligence and deserve everything they get).
drop a percentage down to /dev/null?
Hell, in most companies that would get you fired. You *never* drop mail. Set up a gateway server (or a cluster of them, if load is that much of a problem) queueing the mail before it's ready to be processed by the mailserver. Disk space is dirt cheap - a 1Tb raid array can be had for next to nothing these days, and you can store a *lot* of mail on that.
email requires DNS lookups constantly... it also relies on getting proper responses... especially nowadays when anti-spam measures are so important.
ipv6 failover is commonly implemented by handling the DNS failure on the first request.
My 3G modem costs £5 ($10) a month for a 1gb cap, which is fine for out and about.. If I want more I plug it into the home connection.
For $50 a month I'd expect unlimited, personally.
Ideally, one you'd bought with cash. From a different town, A few years ago.
Nobody is aborting foetuses simply to get stem cells. They're taking cells from foetuses who are *already* aborted and whose usefulness is otherwise to merely be thrown in the trash.
Your 'main question' is a complete strawman - we don't even harvest organs from executed prisoners even though that would save a lot of lives, because that question was asked and answered year ago.
99% of 3G modems just show up as a serial modem running AT commands. It's just a tweak of wvdial to get them working with Linux.
The last one I had (Three) needed a kick to switch it into serial mode, but IIRC that was just an unmount of its virtual drive.
lol. The air?
Too big. Thin != small. A netbook should be small enough to fit in a bag.
*way* too expensive. A netbook should cost $400.
Other specs don't really matter. 3G built in would be nice (that's starting to happen) as the USB dongles look ugly sticking out of the side.
Oh please. 38mpg on a diesel? I could probably get that on mine driving 70mph in second gear. Normal driving I can break 60mpg without any messing around with snake oil.
This is no innovation. They just need to get a car less than 10 years old.
Except my car has most of those things (It doesn't perform sex acts, or at least I'm not sure which button it is) regularly gets 58-60mpg.
A hybrid getting 33mpg? Someone's having a laugh putting that into production...
Most of which is wasted, btw.
My ISP gave me a /48. I use 6 addresses.. that's a lot of wastage. Also the bottom 64 bits of an IPV6 address are basically mapped to the MAC address of the network card, so they're predefined.
The /48 is big but it's only 65k times as big as a /32 - the numbers aren't as huge as some would suggest.. still big, but not *huge* big - I could see scenarios where it could run out.
You couldn't actually NAT that many devices... NAT has to dynamically reserve ports for the replies, so it knows that the reply from server x is due to go to client y (even if you match both on source IP and port consider the result of a few thousand connections to MSN). I'm sure someone's worked out a theoretical maximum, but it's going to be way lower than a country the size of china..
My Networking teacher told us that you can stack NAT routers
Oh my god. I really hope he was either (a) winding you up, or (b) telling you so you never even *think* of doing that.
NAT I don't mind... Double NAT.. screw that. It's the kind of thing that keeps network admins awake at nights...
So what you're saying is you NAT the companies' phones :p
(and this is why NAT will stay around - for the same reason that exchanges with extensions will stay around - most companies don't *want* their employees to be directly contactable, via phone or anything else).
Vicious gangs of keep left signs.
It gets fun when two greylisting servers start talking to each other..
Server 1: Hello
Server 2: Go away for 5 minutes then come back to me
Server 1: Go away for 5 minutes then come back to me
Server 2: WTF? I said 5 minutes!
Server 2: WTF? I said 5 minutes!
etc.
etc.
I kept two servers talking for *3 days* like that..
What about all the weather apps on the phone? Don't they compete with apple's weather app? Or the notes apps? Or the zillion map apps that duplicate the search functionalty of google maps?
Apple seem to be making an exception for mail.app - which one of the suckiest parts of the phone (second, next to the SMS app) and really needs a 3rd party replacement.
There's two things wrong with that statement:
(a) You have to pay $100 a year.
(b) The apple SDK is so locked down that you can't write the really innovative stuff anyway, hence the need to jailbreak.
Then again with those kinds of plans at least the underuse carries over.. with my DSL provider I've currently got 8.5GB of carry over and it's going up by about 2GB a month - should really think about reducing my plan...
Probably. These dongles pretty much all pretend to be serial modems and you just need to do some mucking around with AT commands and run pppd.
Some of them need some hackery (eg. the one I have needs a kick to switch from storage mode to serial mode) but you won't be the first to try it so there will be a HOWTO somewhere.