No it isn't. TCP is a protocol that is layered on top of IP. You can do useful stuff on an IP network without TCP (by, for example, using UDP instead).
Looking at the TCP header definition on Wikipedia, it looks like, technically, you could do TCP without having IP underneath it - you could use some other protocol for delivery of TCP segments.
Yes you're right. The problem is totally insurmountable. Nobody has ever written a debugging tool to render a binary protocol in human readable format ever....... oh wait, that's completely false.
The mechanism for spanning multiple lines is starting continuation lines with white space. If you read a line feed afollowed by a non white space character, you know the current header is over and the next one is starting.
The 6502 was a 1MHz machine and floating point operations and even integer multiplication had to be done in software. How can a spreadsheet program designed for CPUs more than 2000 times faster with specialist floating point hardware be too slow? It must be shitty code.
Quite recently, a colleague editing a CSS file that he had not backed up and had not been committed to the SCM for several days. Inevitably, he trashed it by accident. This would have been career ending but for the fact that one of the other developers had a copy of it in his browser cache.
The "specific technology" one is a big one though.
That's not really fear though, it's diva behaviour. For instance, you may not like Java, but that doesn't mean it isn't usable. Developers that don't like the technology selected for a particular project should either suck it up or get a new job.
Gatwick to Murcia, tomorrow on Easyjet: £105 and that's with two humans at the yokes. What percentage of that £105 do you think goes into the pilots' salaries?
So we have a bunch of pilots sitting in an office building somewhere controlling all the flights. The terrorists' target is no longer the cockpit on the actual plane but the building the pilots are in, or the comms link between the two. The difference is that taking over or destroying the building (which would be admittedly difficult) allows the terrorists to take over hundreds of planes.
We can reduce the risk by distributing the pilots in pairs in small offices all over the country. Even better, put them in mobile offices. Even better, put them in mobile offices attached to the front of aeroplanes.
She would have lost her job fairly quickly anyway. One of the qualifications of being a booth babe is being young.
Using booth babes objectifies women, although, if you are a woman wh's prepared to put up with that for whatever the money they pay, I guess I'm OK with that. But using booth babes also shows contempt for men. It's saying "my product may be good or bad, but that doesn't matter because I can make you think with your dick".
Take the theory of evolution. It sounds good, but outside of a few simple examples (real life encounters replicated) it has not been proven.
Nothing in science is proven. There's only varying degrees of evidence for and against. The evidence for Newton's Theory of Gravity was looking pretty strong until 1859 when it was noticed that Mercury's orbit couldn't be explained by Newton. General relativity is looking pretty good right now, but that doesn't mean some observation won't come along that shows it is wrong.
Yes we see the bones, but for all purposes this could be creationism. Before you yell, that is BS, the question is how do you know it is BS?
Because the evidence for evolution is not just bones. Even if there were no fossils at all, evolution could be inferred from DNA, geographical distribution, morphology etc.
Don't believe me in this? Look back at the theory of tectonics. Until about 60 years science believed A, and kept on believing A. Even when presented with other facts science believed A. Then somebody came along and said B in a very strong manner, and people had to admit that A was wrong even though their science said it was right. This is an example where we need more critical and rational thinking skills.
Plate tectonics became accepted because the evidence became overwhelming. It wasn't because somebody "said B in a very strong manner".
In regard to science, there is a very famous quote
In general we look for a new law by the following process. First we guess it. Then we compute the consequences of the guess to see what would be implied if this law that we guessed is right. Then we compare the result of the computation to nature, with experiment or experience, compare it directly with observation, to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is – if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it.
You might not be able to regulate the wind, but you can regulate people who use the wind to transport goods. For instance, you could regulate the makers, traders or owners of sailing boats.
Similarly, if bitcoins are to have any value, people must be able to exchange them for goods, services and other forms of money and it's quite possible to regulate the institutions and software that make those transactions possible.
Having said that and having looked at the Bitcoin Foundation's web site for two minutes, I find it hard to see how they have been engaged in money transmission except to transmit people's donations to the developers of software. If this is illegal without a licence, many organisations and individuals must be guilty of the same offence. Only the other day, my brother transmitted some money to me for an old laptop and I'm quite sure he has no money transmission licence. Still the law might be different in the UK.
In a sense, it would have been better for Apple to do that. The hotspot password is displayed directly below the switch that turns the hotspot on. If I had seen it said "1234567890" the first time I used personal hotspot, I would have immediately changed it to a reasonably strong password.
However, the password that was displayed was "mucked3879" which I just assumed was generated randomly and didn't change until I first heard about this vulnerability.
Even if you were paying 8 policemen (which seems like an awful lot of policemen)
365 days in a year. You can probably get 200 8 hour days per policeman which is less than 70 24 hour days. So, you need six policemen just to have one person on site at all times. You probably need to watch the front and back doors, that's 12. Then you need two at each station to actually make the arrest in case force is required. We're now at 24. Then you need a third person in each team so that that one of the other two can go and take a leak or have lunch. That's 36. Then you need support staff, plus you have other resources tied up like surveillance equipment and transport plus somebody to be in charge.
They're not doing it for the USA, it's Sweden that has asked us for extradition. In spite of there being a perfectly good extradition treaty between the USA and the UK, the USA has not asked for Assange to be extradited yet.
I would love to hear the justification put forth when the London police force asks for more money from their government to patrol the streets because all their manpower is tied up guarding a guy in an embassy.
He's a fugitive from justice, having jumped bail, and is accused of rape. I, for one, want to see him face the music.
Yes and I found the always on requirement for Diablo 3 intensely annoying because it meant I couldn't play it when I was on the train, in spite of the fact that it has a single player mode. Fortunately, intense annoyance turned to intense boredom after about two or three weeks and I no longer had the desire to play it on the train.
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No it isn't. TCP is a protocol that is layered on top of IP. You can do useful stuff on an IP network without TCP (by, for example, using UDP instead).
Looking at the TCP header definition on Wikipedia, it looks like, technically, you could do TCP without having IP underneath it - you could use some other protocol for delivery of TCP segments.
Yes you're right. The problem is totally insurmountable. Nobody has ever written a debugging tool to render a binary protocol in human readable format ever.... ... oh wait, that's completely false.
The mechanism for spanning multiple lines is starting continuation lines with white space. If you read a line feed afollowed by a non white space character, you know the current header is over and the next one is starting.
Visicalc on the Commodore Pet.
The 6502 was a 1MHz machine and floating point operations and even integer multiplication had to be done in software. How can a spreadsheet program designed for CPUs more than 2000 times faster with specialist floating point hardware be too slow? It must be shitty code.
It really bugs me when people conflate OO with anti-pattern x. In what world does OO mean the same as "use lots of threads"?
Assuming you have cloned the patient.
Quite recently, a colleague editing a CSS file that he had not backed up and had not been committed to the SCM for several days. Inevitably, he trashed it by accident. This would have been career ending but for the fact that one of the other developers had a copy of it in his browser cache.
The "specific technology" one is a big one though.
That's not really fear though, it's diva behaviour. For instance, you may not like Java, but that doesn't mean it isn't usable. Developers that don't like the technology selected for a particular project should either suck it up or get a new job.
There is nothing to fear about technology.
but WebSphere itself.
I stand corrected.
And if a pilotless airliner has "a glitch in the system" and auto-lands in the Pacific, or the Alps?
Gatwick to Murcia, tomorrow on Easyjet: £105 and that's with two humans at the yokes. What percentage of that £105 do you think goes into the pilots' salaries?
So we have a bunch of pilots sitting in an office building somewhere controlling all the flights. The terrorists' target is no longer the cockpit on the actual plane but the building the pilots are in, or the comms link between the two. The difference is that taking over or destroying the building (which would be admittedly difficult) allows the terrorists to take over hundreds of planes.
We can reduce the risk by distributing the pilots in pairs in small offices all over the country. Even better, put them in mobile offices. Even better, put them in mobile offices attached to the front of aeroplanes.
She would have lost her job fairly quickly anyway. One of the qualifications of being a booth babe is being young.
Using booth babes objectifies women, although, if you are a woman wh's prepared to put up with that for whatever the money they pay, I guess I'm OK with that. But using booth babes also shows contempt for men. It's saying "my product may be good or bad, but that doesn't matter because I can make you think with your dick".
You can do that already. For example, since 1.6, Java has had built in scripting support for Javascript.
Take the theory of evolution. It sounds good, but outside of a few simple examples (real life encounters replicated) it has not been proven.
Nothing in science is proven. There's only varying degrees of evidence for and against. The evidence for Newton's Theory of Gravity was looking pretty strong until 1859 when it was noticed that Mercury's orbit couldn't be explained by Newton. General relativity is looking pretty good right now, but that doesn't mean some observation won't come along that shows it is wrong.
Yes we see the bones, but for all purposes this could be creationism. Before you yell, that is BS, the question is how do you know it is BS?
Because the evidence for evolution is not just bones. Even if there were no fossils at all, evolution could be inferred from DNA, geographical distribution, morphology etc.
Don't believe me in this? Look back at the theory of tectonics. Until about 60 years science believed A, and kept on believing A. Even when presented with other facts science believed A. Then somebody came along and said B in a very strong manner, and people had to admit that A was wrong even though their science said it was right. This is an example where we need more critical and rational thinking skills.
Plate tectonics became accepted because the evidence became overwhelming. It wasn't because somebody "said B in a very strong manner".
In regard to science, there is a very famous quote
In general we look for a new law by the following process. First we guess it. Then we compute the consequences of the guess to see what would be implied if this law that we guessed is right. Then we compare the result of the computation to nature, with experiment or experience, compare it directly with observation, to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is – if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. That is all there is to it.
Richard Feynman.
I want an empty post with just my sig in it, but Slashdot won't let me.
You might not be able to regulate the wind, but you can regulate people who use the wind to transport goods. For instance, you could regulate the makers, traders or owners of sailing boats.
Similarly, if bitcoins are to have any value, people must be able to exchange them for goods, services and other forms of money and it's quite possible to regulate the institutions and software that make those transactions possible.
Having said that and having looked at the Bitcoin Foundation's web site for two minutes, I find it hard to see how they have been engaged in money transmission except to transmit people's donations to the developers of software. If this is illegal without a licence, many organisations and individuals must be guilty of the same offence. Only the other day, my brother transmitted some money to me for an old laptop and I'm quite sure he has no money transmission licence. Still the law might be different in the UK.
It seems to me that clause applies to individual states. It doesn't say anything about what can be done at federal level.
Good luck with that 60 watt supply. MacBook Pros need an 85 watt supply. The old MAcBooks and possibly the Air can get away with less.
"Open" does not mean free as in beer any more than open source software or Free software has to be free as in beer.
In a sense, it would have been better for Apple to do that. The hotspot password is displayed directly below the switch that turns the hotspot on. If I had seen it said "1234567890" the first time I used personal hotspot, I would have immediately changed it to a reasonably strong password.
However, the password that was displayed was "mucked3879" which I just assumed was generated randomly and didn't change until I first heard about this vulnerability.
No it's worse than posting text on the Internet, he's accused of rape.
Stupid block quotes! Sorry
Even if you were paying 8 policemen (which seems like an awful lot of policemen)
365 days in a year. You can probably get 200 8 hour days per policeman which is less than 70 24 hour days. So, you need six policemen just to have one person on site at all times. You probably need to watch the front and back doors, that's 12. Then you need two at each station to actually make the arrest in case force is required. We're now at 24. Then you need a third person in each team so that that one of the other two can go and take a leak or have lunch. That's 36. Then you need support staff, plus you have other resources tied up like surveillance equipment and transport plus somebody to be in charge.
They're not doing it for the USA, it's Sweden that has asked us for extradition. In spite of there being a perfectly good extradition treaty between the USA and the UK, the USA has not asked for Assange to be extradited yet.
I would love to hear the justification put forth when the London police force asks for more money from their government to patrol the streets because all their manpower is tied up guarding a guy in an embassy.
He's a fugitive from justice, having jumped bail, and is accused of rape. I, for one, want to see him face the music.
He skipped bail. He's a fugitive.
Or sell or lend out anything you carry in it.
Yes and I found the always on requirement for Diablo 3 intensely annoying because it meant I couldn't play it when I was on the train, in spite of the fact that it has a single player mode. Fortunately, intense annoyance turned to intense boredom after about two or three weeks and I no longer had the desire to play it on the train.