Bull - you can do Gig-E (IEEE 802.3ab) perfectly fine up to the 100 meter spec over regular old CAT-5 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_ethernet. You don't need CAT-5e or CAT-6 unless you have incredibly shitty cable, splices, runs approaching max length, or too many patch panels along the route (IE, a crappy install in the first place).
Now, I personally use shielded CAT-6 for everything, but I believe in overkill:)
Considering modern Mig's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan_MiG-35) can reach approximately 62,000 feet already, having a missle go the extra distance from there would be relatively trivial. Not like this thing is going to be very speedy and even if it has no heat signature as you would expect, it still is going to be a massive not-so-moving target to hit at relatively close range...
It's quick, it's dirty, it's easy, and developers are lazy. I have seen many embedded products that use FAT just out of convenience for the developers (many of the embedded CPUs have reference bootrom code available from the CPU manufacturers and those generally support FAT partitioning and not EXT*).
Um, they cost nothing - it is offered to *anyone* that stays at the hotels for free (at least the Marriott program is, I assume the others are as well). As for perks/privileges, you can get free nights stay, room upgrades, cheaper room rates, expedited customer service, etc. Now, you can argue those "perks" should not be given to someone on government business, but I would disagree - they are offered uniformly to everyone, why discriminate here?
Small businesses on the Internet cannot afford the time or money lost to bookkeeping expenses.
I call bullshit. If the guy running a hotdog stand on the corner of any major city can collect and pay sales taxes, so can an Internet business. If it is 'cannot afford the time or money', then it shouldn't be in business in the first place. Hell, if they aren't already keeping accurate enough books that they could do this, they're probably already in a world of hurt when it comes to corporate tax (even a S-corp has to file) and personal income tax (or do you suggest they should get a free pass and be able to dodge those just because they're doing something magical with the Internet??!?)
Tell me about it! I did research for the Navy almost a decade ago on exactly this (distributed, autonomous intrusion detection system) - was unclassified and funded by NIST and NSA...never went anywhere at the time though, bummer:(
This is actually an incredibly good point....lets take this a few steps further and say I set up my home phone to call-forward to a 900 # or a number in Zimbabwe. Is the caller who called my (local) number liable for the charges incurred from the call now being forwarded to a possibly extremely expensive toll call destination??!? If so, I've got a new April Fools practical joke all lined up now:) This just seems wrong, the forwarding party, not the caller, should be liable for the billing (and therefore should be the one showing up on the AIN to the 800 #), not the original caller.
When days == 366 and IsLeapYear() evaluates to true, you loop forever on the while because you never decrement days internally to the loop under that exact condition.
Blocking based on IP is pointless on their part - it is trivial to get around (although the bandwidth available via proxies and Tor will suck for getting video streams, it is doable and people will find ways around the blocks).
I forsee a DDoS attack on Viacom servers by the masses of users redirected there by Time Warner. Funny actually, because it will drive up Viacom's costs if they have to bring additional servers or bandwidth on-line to handle the load (unless they do something draconian like block all Time Warner address blocks:)).
You are joking, you LIKED smit??!? We used to have bumper stickers that said "Smit Happens" on our doors where I worked a decade ago....the IBM guys REALLY hated those.
What I really want to know is how material on a.gov website can be copyrighted by anyone besides the government?
Government employees (not contractors) cannot initiate copyright on anything. Period. That's the law. However, it is legal for contractors (or corporations) to copyright something and then assign the copyright to the government.
Nothing is done in "zero time" - the overall average throughput may be the same, but LATENCY for a specific request will go up. This is the same for networking gear...
Ethernet already has flow control at the link-level - they're called stop frames (and since all modern switches give you dedicated links to end workstations and have some amount of hardware buffering, collisions/overrun aren't an issue). Now, since the world really runs on IP (doing raw ethernet would only ever work in the most local of LAN applications which is rather pointless in most deployments), and IP has TOS bits (which every real modern router can classify, queue, and throttle per-queue all in the hardware fast-path with no additional latency), I'm failing to see what they're proposing to solve since the problem is already solved. 1G/10G switches are used all over data centers and in HPC situations today (and have been for years)...
...that's been the name of my desktop box (whichever is the current one) for the last two decades. One of my just-out-of-school co-workers asked about "the wierd-ass machine name" of my box not too long ago and I had to dig out the old strips for him. Kids these days don't have any appreciation for the classics! Sigh. Oh, and get off my lawn!
Though, the funny thing was that I thought the US government was not able to hold copyright.
Government employees cannot initiate copyright (ie, create a work and claim it has a copyright), but copyrighted works (ie, those developed by contractors) can have the copyright assigned to the government (and may be required by contract to do so). Yes, it's a fine splitting of hairs, but that's the deal...
If the report is factual, we ought to hear it, and deal with those issues. Hiding the truth doesn't make it go away.
Do you have standing in this lawsuit or are you in any way directly involved or cited in the lawsuit? If not, YOU aren't owed anything until the judge decides it should be made public. The judge isn't "hiding" anything, she is proceeding with the lawsuit in an appropriate manner...
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Bull - you can do Gig-E (IEEE 802.3ab) perfectly fine up to the 100 meter spec over regular old CAT-5 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_ethernet. You don't need CAT-5e or CAT-6 unless you have incredibly shitty cable, splices, runs approaching max length, or too many patch panels along the route (IE, a crappy install in the first place).
Now, I personally use shielded CAT-6 for everything, but I believe in overkill :)
...without the coke I just spit all over it. Well played sir, well played...
http://xkcd.com/494/
http://xkcd.com/495/
http://xkcd.com/496/
http://xkcd.com/497/
http://xkcd.com/498/
One of my all-time favorite series...
Considering modern Mig's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan_MiG-35) can reach approximately 62,000 feet already, having a missle go the extra distance from there would be relatively trivial. Not like this thing is going to be very speedy and even if it has no heat signature as you would expect, it still is going to be a massive not-so-moving target to hit at relatively close range...
It's quick, it's dirty, it's easy, and developers are lazy. I have seen many embedded products that use FAT just out of convenience for the developers (many of the embedded CPUs have reference bootrom code available from the CPU manufacturers and those generally support FAT partitioning and not EXT*).
Um, they cost nothing - it is offered to *anyone* that stays at the hotels for free (at least the Marriott program is, I assume the others are as well). As for perks/privileges, you can get free nights stay, room upgrades, cheaper room rates, expedited customer service, etc. Now, you can argue those "perks" should not be given to someone on government business, but I would disagree - they are offered uniformly to everyone, why discriminate here?
New Jersey...
Small businesses on the Internet cannot afford the time or money lost to bookkeeping expenses.
I call bullshit. If the guy running a hotdog stand on the corner of any major city can collect and pay sales taxes, so can an Internet business. If it is 'cannot afford the time or money', then it shouldn't be in business in the first place. Hell, if they aren't already keeping accurate enough books that they could do this, they're probably already in a world of hurt when it comes to corporate tax (even a S-corp has to file) and personal income tax (or do you suggest they should get a free pass and be able to dodge those just because they're doing something magical with the Internet??!?)
Tell me about it! I did research for the Navy almost a decade ago on exactly this (distributed, autonomous intrusion detection system) - was unclassified and funded by NIST and NSA...never went anywhere at the time though, bummer :(
While you may be able to be in a boat next to the rig legally, you may be trespassing if you get up on the rig structure itself.
If you were in international waters, it would be a LOT harder to prosecute (if possible at all)...are rigs even flagged like ships?
This is actually an incredibly good point....lets take this a few steps further and say I set up my home phone to call-forward to a 900 # or a number in Zimbabwe. Is the caller who called my (local) number liable for the charges incurred from the call now being forwarded to a possibly extremely expensive toll call destination??!? If so, I've got a new April Fools practical joke all lined up now :) This just seems wrong, the forwarding party, not the caller, should be liable for the billing (and therefore should be the one showing up on the AIN to the 800 #), not the original caller.
When days == 366 and IsLeapYear() evaluates to true, you loop forever on the while because you never decrement days internally to the loop under that exact condition.
Blocking based on IP is pointless on their part - it is trivial to get around (although the bandwidth available via proxies and Tor will suck for getting video streams, it is doable and people will find ways around the blocks).
I forsee a DDoS attack on Viacom servers by the masses of users redirected there by Time Warner. Funny actually, because it will drive up Viacom's costs if they have to bring additional servers or bandwidth on-line to handle the load (unless they do something draconian like block all Time Warner address blocks :)).
You are joking, you LIKED smit??!? We used to have bumper stickers that said "Smit Happens" on our doors where I worked a decade ago....the IBM guys REALLY hated those.
There you go, not so hard: http://www.dotgov.gov/
Having a .gov domain means it's a tax payer funded government web-site.
Um, no it doesn't. http://www.dotgov.gov/
What I really want to know is how material on a .gov website can be copyrighted by anyone besides the government?
Government employees (not contractors) cannot initiate copyright on anything. Period. That's the law. However, it is legal for contractors (or corporations) to copyright something and then assign the copyright to the government.
The footer on their pages claim "Content copyright © 2008 by Obama-Biden Transition Project, a 501c(4) organization. All rights reserved.", so as long as the work was not done by official government employees (IE, ones drawing paychecks directly from the government), this is legit.
See, there's your problem....Emacs isn't a text editor, it's a development environment with a Turing-complete language in it.
Nothing is done in "zero time" - the overall average throughput may be the same, but LATENCY for a specific request will go up. This is the same for networking gear...
Slow??!? It's dead Jim.
Ethernet already has flow control at the link-level - they're called stop frames (and since all modern switches give you dedicated links to end workstations and have some amount of hardware buffering, collisions/overrun aren't an issue). Now, since the world really runs on IP (doing raw ethernet would only ever work in the most local of LAN applications which is rather pointless in most deployments), and IP has TOS bits (which every real modern router can classify, queue, and throttle per-queue all in the hardware fast-path with no additional latency), I'm failing to see what they're proposing to solve since the problem is already solved. 1G/10G switches are used all over data centers and in HPC situations today (and have been for years)...
...that's been the name of my desktop box (whichever is the current one) for the last two decades. One of my just-out-of-school co-workers asked about "the wierd-ass machine name" of my box not too long ago and I had to dig out the old strips for him. Kids these days don't have any appreciation for the classics! Sigh. Oh, and get off my lawn!
Though, the funny thing was that I thought the US government was not able to hold copyright.
Government employees cannot initiate copyright (ie, create a work and claim it has a copyright), but copyrighted works (ie, those developed by contractors) can have the copyright assigned to the government (and may be required by contract to do so). Yes, it's a fine splitting of hairs, but that's the deal...
If the report is factual, we ought to hear it, and deal with those issues. Hiding the truth doesn't make it go away.
Do you have standing in this lawsuit or are you in any way directly involved or cited in the lawsuit? If not, YOU aren't owed anything until the judge decides it should be made public. The judge isn't "hiding" anything, she is proceeding with the lawsuit in an appropriate manner...