Humanoid: having appearance of a human but not being one Planetoid: non-stellar body which does not qualify as a planet Android: robot in the configuration of a human, but not being human Factoid: assertion that looks like a fact but is not so.
> will soon be filtered out and go out out of business.
The main environments in which such filtering would occur are libraries, schools and workplaces. Somehow I doubt there is much demand for porn originating from those environments anyway, at least not much money-raising porn.
According to a recent article in the Economist, porn browsing is growing fastest on smartphones. The.xxx domain wouldn't be blocked on those devices unless attached to a corporate network.
Do you hold a BL Reader Pass? Actually they're also now available to undergraduates, but since I am 20 years out of Uni that's not much help to me either
> You don't accept the possibility that your research justifiction might have been insufficiently scholarly?
"A history of astro-navigation" may not be Earth-shatteringly exciting, but who are the BL to judge its merit? I had a case for research work, I showed that pamphlets they held were not available elsewhere but my application was denied for no reason other than the secretary was grumpy that day. She could provide no objective explanation.
The BL blows on about adding to "our shared heritage" but the truth is that they are notoriously fickle and arbitrary about issuing Reader's Passes to actually use their collection.
I have had my application for a pass refused as my research justification was deemed "insufficiently scholarly", even after I had spent 10 minutes being interviewed by the secretary. The average man on the street who wanders in to their London campus will be in for a rude shock.
Even if the staff judge you to be worthy enough to view their precious possessions you have to jump through hoops just to reserve the item.
Whenever I finally publish the fruits of my work I will happily flout the Legal Deposit Libraries Act and refuse to provide BL a copy.
FOIA exists for a reason and that reason is not to make flippant and pointless enquiries.
There are already plenty of threats to rescind or curtail FOIA inthe UK and nonsense like this, which wastes time and money, will only lend credence to those calls.
I have native IPv6 connectivity at home due to an enlightened ISP.
However, my employer has no interest in IPv6, despite repeated cajoling. I believe this to be common in the workplace. Why spend money until it's a crisis?
This "World IPv6 Day" will be a flop and will set back adoption.
> Referring to him as Mr. is an insult to him and probably motivated on some level by racism.
You'd better inform The Economist of that fact, then. Everyone, regardless of class or creed, is referred to as <prefix>.<surname> in that rather respected organ.
> Anyone looking on Amazon is going to buy from X because their price is lower.
Not necessarily, you are assuming that all offers are equivalent and are differentiated only by price.
I have often passed-over the cheapest offer on Amazon because of;
1. Condition of the item being sold; 2. "Postage" policy ( our wee country is not part of the mainland ); 3. Seller feedback ratings; 4. Poor grammar in an item description ( correlates with seller's attitude ); 5. Prosaic reasons, such as the higher-priced item being sold by a charity.
I happily pay a little more to deal with a vendor that cares about the sale.
By your logic I am also contributing to the destruction of the "world economy" because I don't watch films or TV programmes. I don't deliberately listen to music.
I don't buy such media and I don't "pirate" it.
I have neither interest in nor plans for fixing the segment of the economy injured through my inaction.
So, am I as bad as a "pirate" or does your argument fail at this point?
At least my ISP uses its money to try to ensure that they are never the bottleneck on the circuit, rather than subsidising someone's music downloads...
I have now removed Comodo as a trusted CA on my systems, and have advised colleagues of the three known occasions on which they have failed to act as a responsible CA. The game is up.
We reserve the right to not include a particular CA certificate in our software products. This includes (but is not limited to) cases where we believe that including a CA certificate (or setting its "trust bits" in a particular way) would cause undue risks to users' security...
I hope that Mozilla now review the inclusion of Comodo's cert.
1. Why was a key-gen server connected to the Internet? Shouldn't certificates be delivered out-of-band, such as on a CD delivered to the indicated registered address?
2. Why exactly do we still trust Comodo as a CA, when the like of cacert.org cannot meet the "requirements" to be added as a CA in Mozilla products?
I don't think people who are paying £7.50 ( $13 ) or less per month for their Internet connection should be particularly surprised if they are subject to throttling and blocking. Do they really think that is a realistic price?
Mainstream broadband in the UK has been commoditised to such a degree that it is now "cheaper" than a month's worth of tabloid papers. That should illustrate how many people here think.
If one looks at other UK ISPs that do not throttle, block or cap they usually cost upwards of £30 per month. Even then I'm sure margins are thin.
> The bridges for early adopters are known to be flakey.... >...anybody trying to push people to adopt IPv6 before the tools are robust is kidding themselves.
I'm sorry, but that is utter tripe.
My ISP has been routing native IPv6 for eight years. Not tunnelling, but routing natively right from the CPE. It works, it is robust and latency is often lower than v4 routing.
About 95% of the traffic egressing my site is v6 ( yes the ISP does provide the tools to monitor this ). The remainder of traffic comes from v6-unaware apps that I am working to remediate.
This comment was brought to you by the ISP's NAT64 gateway, I do not have a v4 connection open to Slashdot.
If you think that v6 is still in the early adoption phase then you'll need to wake up, soon. IPv6 is the *current* IP standard. Leaving your adoption any later will just mean you have to take the past decade of operational experience and cram it into a few months.
All the "apps" ( IRC, newsreader, SSH client, Jabber, Ogg player etc ) on my ancient-but-functional Nokia E61 were developed by people in their spare time and downloaded from "their webpages".
There was a vibrant community of cross-compilers targeting various platforms before the "App Store" concept came along and obliterated them.
The purpose of a tender is to find a solution to a problem, not to minimise outlay.
Wouldn't a more rational approach be to sort the bids by their ability to satisfy the terms of the tender, without reference to price?
Once this order is established the prices could be assessed. If the price of the vendor that best meets the requirements is considered excessive *then* one would have to justify picking a cheaper but less satisfactory vendor.
My tip for long-haul flights: phone ahead of time and book the vegetarian meal ( regardless of whether or not you are a veggie ) . Not only is it usually more extensive and of much better quality than the "standard" meals but it is often cooked first, so you can be tucking-in to some decent nosh whilst the other passengers' stomachs are still rumbling.
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> Facebook are a company. Facebook are singular.
First, British English uses the plural to refer to companies.
Second, what does the word company actually mean? Correct, a collection of people. Plural.
"Factoid" does not mean small piece of data.
Humanoid: having appearance of a human but not being one
Planetoid: non-stellar body which does not qualify as a planet
Android: robot in the configuration of a human, but not being human
Factoid: assertion that looks like a fact but is not so.
Hello McFly? HELLO?
> Get your resume up to date.
The POINT is that once you're stuck in the twilight zone of corporate assembly-line coding, there is NOTHING "up to date" to put on the resume.
One cannot even obtain an interview let alone entertain your ideas of jumping into "exciting" new industries.
As if defence or medical coding is any more exciting than insurance or banking anyway...
You're living in fairy land. You're probably still at university.
> will soon be filtered out and go out out of business.
The main environments in which such filtering would occur are libraries, schools and workplaces. Somehow I doubt there is much demand for porn originating from those environments anyway, at least not much money-raising porn.
According to a recent article in the Economist, porn browsing is growing fastest on smartphones. The .xxx domain wouldn't be blocked on those devices unless attached to a corporate network.
So who exactly will be blocking this?
> Just because a company is ad funded, doesn't allow a free-pass to provide
> crap service, whether that be search, or a social network.
Yes it does, if the alternatives are ( 1 ) no service or ( 2 ) a paid-for service.
You and I would likely pay for a search engine tailored to our needs, with Alta Vista-style boolean logic and no ads.
Joe Public won't, so we're landed with the crapfest that is Google and Bing search results.
Joe Public will be content with a craptastic Facebook experience just because it is free.
Joe Public will be happy with Google harvesting his e-mail content because IT IS FREE.
Hi there,
Do you hold a BL Reader Pass? Actually they're also now available to undergraduates, but since I am 20 years out of Uni that's not much help to me either
> You don't accept the possibility that your research justifiction might have been insufficiently scholarly?
"A history of astro-navigation" may not be Earth-shatteringly exciting, but who are the BL to judge its merit? I had a case for research work, I showed that pamphlets they held were not available elsewhere but my application was denied for no reason other than the secretary was grumpy that day. She could provide no objective explanation.
> And nothing of value was lost, I suspect.
Exactly the attitude expressed by the BL.
The BL blows on about adding to "our shared heritage" but the truth is that they are notoriously fickle and arbitrary about issuing Reader's Passes to actually use their collection.
I have had my application for a pass refused as my research justification was deemed "insufficiently scholarly", even after I had spent 10 minutes being interviewed by the secretary. The average man on the street who wanders in to their London campus will be in for a rude shock.
Even if the staff judge you to be worthy enough to view their precious possessions you have to jump through hoops just to reserve the item.
Whenever I finally publish the fruits of my work I will happily flout the Legal Deposit Libraries Act and refuse to provide BL a copy.
FOIA exists for a reason and that reason is not to make flippant and pointless enquiries.
There are already plenty of threats to rescind or curtail FOIA inthe UK and nonsense like this, which wastes time and money, will only lend credence to those calls.
In other words: wise up.
I have native IPv6 connectivity at home due to an enlightened ISP.
However, my employer has no interest in IPv6, despite repeated cajoling. I believe this to be common in the workplace. Why spend money until it's a crisis?
This "World IPv6 Day" will be a flop and will set back adoption.
> Referring to him as Mr. is an insult to him and probably motivated on some level by racism.
You'd better inform The Economist of that fact, then. Everyone, regardless of class or creed, is referred to as <prefix>.<surname> in that rather respected organ.
You can start with this article about Mr Reagan.
The payroll for the people you'd need to employ to design this, let alone build it, would be in the millions per annum at a minimum.
Medical experts in each field, electrical engineers, programmers, testers...
How is $10 million meant to be an incentive?
For a real-world example, Space Ship One cost Rutan ( actual Paul Allen ) around $25 million to develop and won then a $1 million prize. Whoopeee.
> Anyone looking on Amazon is going to buy from X because their price is lower.
Not necessarily, you are assuming that all offers are equivalent and are differentiated only by price.
I have often passed-over the cheapest offer on Amazon because of;
1. Condition of the item being sold;
2. "Postage" policy ( our wee country is not part of the mainland );
3. Seller feedback ratings;
4. Poor grammar in an item description ( correlates with seller's attitude );
5. Prosaic reasons, such as the higher-priced item being sold by a charity.
I happily pay a little more to deal with a vendor that cares about the sale.
By your logic I am also contributing to the destruction of the "world economy" because I don't watch films or TV programmes. I don't deliberately listen to music.
I don't buy such media and I don't "pirate" it.
I have neither interest in nor plans for fixing the segment of the economy injured through my inaction.
So, am I as bad as a "pirate" or does your argument fail at this point?
How about the Soviet Energia? It launched Polyus and Buran.
35,000 kN at lift-off versus 34,000 kN for a Saturn V. 100 tonnes to LEO.
At least my ISP uses its money to try to ensure that they are never the bottleneck on the circuit, rather than subsidising someone's music downloads...
I have now removed Comodo as a trusted CA on my systems, and have advised colleagues of the three known occasions on which they have failed to act as a responsible CA. The game is up.
The Mozilla inclusion policy for maintaining CAs in the default list states that:
I hope that Mozilla now review the inclusion of Comodo's cert.
1. Why was a key-gen server connected to the Internet? Shouldn't certificates be delivered out-of-band, such as on a CD delivered to the indicated registered address?
2. Why exactly do we still trust Comodo as a CA, when the like of cacert.org cannot meet the "requirements" to be added as a CA in Mozilla products?
I don't think people who are paying £7.50 ( $13 ) or less per month for their Internet connection should be particularly surprised if they are subject to throttling and blocking. Do they really think that is a realistic price?
Mainstream broadband in the UK has been commoditised to such a degree that it is now "cheaper" than a month's worth of tabloid papers. That should illustrate how many people here think.
If one looks at other UK ISPs that do not throttle, block or cap they usually cost upwards of £30 per month. Even then I'm sure margins are thin.
> How many isps or carriers now are giving ipv6 as an option
Some ISPs of which I know:
Free.fr in France
AAISP in the UK
XS4All in the Netherlands
And those are just those with which I have had personal contact.
Most academic networks such as HEANet and Janet are also fully-v6.
> The bridges for early adopters are known to be flakey.... ...anybody trying to push people to adopt IPv6 before the tools are robust is kidding themselves.
>
I'm sorry, but that is utter tripe.
My ISP has been routing native IPv6 for eight years. Not tunnelling, but routing natively right from the CPE. It works, it is robust and latency is often lower than v4 routing.
About 95% of the traffic egressing my site is v6 ( yes the ISP does provide the tools to monitor this ). The remainder of traffic comes from v6-unaware apps that I am working to remediate.
This comment was brought to you by the ISP's NAT64 gateway, I do not have a v4 connection open to Slashdot.
If you think that v6 is still in the early adoption phase then you'll need to wake up, soon. IPv6 is the *current* IP standard. Leaving your adoption any later will just mean you have to take the past decade of operational experience and cram it into a few months.
> Thanks to the crew of Challenger, Columbia and Apollo 1.
And Soyuz 1, Soyuz 11 and all the astronauts and engineers of whom we seldom hear who are listed here but who all gave their lives for the cause.
All the "apps" ( IRC, newsreader, SSH client, Jabber, Ogg player etc ) on my ancient-but-functional Nokia E61 were developed by people in their spare time and downloaded from "their webpages".
There was a vibrant community of cross-compilers targeting various platforms before the "App Store" concept came along and obliterated them.
The purpose of a tender is to find a solution to a problem, not to minimise outlay.
Wouldn't a more rational approach be to sort the bids by their ability to satisfy the terms of the tender, without reference to price?
Once this order is established the prices could be assessed. If the price of the vendor that best meets the requirements is considered excessive *then* one would have to justify picking a cheaper but less satisfactory vendor.
So essentially your local "library" has re-invented itself as a free-for-all Blockbuster store?
What happened to the dissemination of knowledge to the public?
My tip for long-haul flights: phone ahead of time and book the vegetarian meal ( regardless of whether or not you are a veggie ) . Not only is it usually more extensive and of much better quality than the "standard" meals but it is often cooked first, so you can be tucking-in to some decent nosh whilst the other passengers' stomachs are still rumbling.