2^52 is the number of IP addresses after dividing by the number of stars.... so yes, he did take that into account... as you would have noticed if you'd actually read his posting. You must feel real silly now...:-)
Don't get me wrong... I was all for genetic research and modification. I was naive enough to think the scientists would only do ethical stuff, like growing chicken that lay cubic eggs for efficient storage and transportation, and solve the world hunger by engineering better socks.
But no! They just had to go for us professional nerds and geeks! They just had to attack the foundation of our daily life... this can't continue... research must stop!
Why would you need to be root in order to upload files?
I would never do that. I'd rather use either a temporary location and mv the files afterwards or temporarily change the owner or group of the destination directory.
... and the poor users whose email addresses got forged don't get bogged down with bounces and complaints from recipients, who don't realize that the from address was faked.
(It has happened to me a few times. The bounces were annoying, but the death-threats were just plain scary.)
... but how would you tell the difference? And you would still be able to use your email address as an identifier from anywhere, provided that you use the correct mail server.
It would also be very convenient if you could change the caller-ID of the phone you are dialling from to your home phone number, when dialling from a friend's house or from work...
This can be solved by using an authenticating SMTP server or some other way of routing the email through the mail server responsible.
The problem you mention is more political rather than technical. Or to quote the end of section 10.2 of the draft (emphasis added by me):
But as I saw from the comments on the first version of this draft,
people religiously insist on sending e-mail with their domain from
any computer with any IP address in the world, e.g. when visiting a
friend using her computer.
It appears to be impossible to convince
people that stopping mail forgery requires every one of them to
give up forging.
So it should be TLFC? -- Too Late For Comments.... or maybe RFC stands for "Rats! Forgot the Comments"
Which do you think came first?
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The acronym or the explanation...
I think its much more likely that someone began calling them bits, and then coined the acronym explanation aftewards. (BTW. is it BInary digiT, Binary dIgit og Binary digIT?)
Hey I have this simple programming language I'm thinking of calling "Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code"... Hey what a funny coincident! That spells "BASIC". How convenient.:-)
First of all, there's nothing wrong with this equation - except that you left out the concept of losing mass to energy creation. Since so much energy is contained in mass - it makes sense that you would be able to keep converting your material back and forth and getting energy; it's just that the material shrinks a la everything else in the world, ie: not free energy.
You forget the light part of the equation - you add more energy in the form of light.
By adding energy, the mass increases again. This is of cource not free energy - but we have this sun, you see...
... but you're right in that coal-plants don't burn the coal 100% efficiently, producing toxic by-products and such.
Unfortunatley the bacteria do not produce coal (nor do they produce pure carbon), but the sugars could be used to produce animal fodder. - And yes, that would release the CO_2 again... (and here's a funny idea:) But it would decrease the demand for grain, which (at least in Europe) would not result in decreased production because the EU buys all the surplus to keep the prices high. Thus the carbon will be locked up in EU's "mountain of grain":-)
Besides - isn't it the content, that matters, not fancy layout and using the latest (often overly hyped) technologies?
That's a nice thought but in the real world, consulting for Businesses, they like to see sharp, professional style layout. Especially in brochure ware - those marketing guys like to see pizzazz.
I'd rather think that preatty much describes the difference between a web-application and glitz-brochure-type "adwebtizement" - The irony is that the advertizer often needs to reach the most users/viewers, where as the web-application might have a clearly defined audience (as a corporate intranet, with a standardized web browser). Which means, that the feature-heavy, hard to port, commercial, brochure-like website often has more to gain from making it cross-browser compliant.:-)
I have. And although it is a bit of a pain to get advanced layout issues and thing as dynamic HTML to work, it is a sign of an inexperienced developer just to give up on making it cross-browser.
Besides - isn't it the content, that matters, not fancy layout and using the latest (often overly hyped) technologies?
... except because SSL has to know which hostname the client is connecting to, so it can fetch the right host key - and because the only way it has to do that is to do a reverse lookup on the IP-address. All this happens befor the client sends any data, so there's no host: header to look at.
By the way is this really a problem? Wouldn't you want a dedicated server anyway to host your site if it has to hanlde confidencial data? I don't like the idea of a Web-shop running on a 100+ site web-hotel, storing my credit card number - SSL or no SSL
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2^52 is the number of IP addresses after dividing by the number of stars.... so yes, he did take that into account... as you would have noticed if you'd actually read his posting. You must feel real silly now... :-)
Don't get me wrong... I was all for genetic research and modification. I was naive enough to think the scientists would only do ethical stuff, like growing chicken that lay cubic eggs for efficient storage and transportation, and solve the world hunger by engineering better socks.
:-P
But no! They just had to go for us professional nerds and geeks! They just had to attack the foundation of our daily life... this can't continue... research must stop!
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Why would you need to be root in order to upload files?
I would never do that. I'd rather use either a temporary location and mv the files afterwards or temporarily change the owner or group of the destination directory.
You mean as the "fast" in FFT, and the "quick" in quicksort?
Software and algorithms don't generally get faster and better... not in the same way as computer hardware.
Of course there's no one saying it can't be made even faster, but it's not as big a fallacy as you might think.
No, this is not another way to block open relays.
This is a way for domain owners to (eventually) prevent spoofing of email addresses comming from their domain.
It's the owner of the domain, that changes his DNS not the open relay operator.
... and the poor users whose email addresses got forged don't get bogged down with bounces and complaints from recipients, who don't realize that the from address was faked.
(It has happened to me a few times. The bounces were annoying, but the death-threats were just plain scary.)
... but how would you tell the difference? And you would still be able to use your email address as an identifier from anywhere, provided that you use the correct mail server.
It would also be very convenient if you could change the caller-ID of the phone you are dialling from to your home phone number, when dialling from a friend's house or from work...
This can be solved by using an authenticating SMTP server or some other way of routing the email through the mail server responsible.
The problem you mention is more political rather than technical. Or to quote the end of section 10.2 of the draft (emphasis added by me):
It's Latin, you foo... uh... or ... Ah-hah hah "Standard du jour" now I get it... sorry... :-)
Obviously it is either Bubble Sort or Select And Insert Sort.
How exactly does one ask a yes/no question and then give a multiple choice answer?
Like this:
Duhh.... :-
So it should be TLFC? -- Too Late For Comments. ... or maybe RFC stands for "Rats! Forgot the Comments"
The acronym or the explanation...
:-)
I think its much more likely that someone began calling them bits, and then coined the acronym explanation aftewards. (BTW. is it BInary digiT, Binary dIgit og Binary digIT?)
Hey I have this simple programming language I'm thinking of calling "Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code"... Hey what a funny coincident! That spells "BASIC". How convenient.
The discussion reminded me that Monty Python's Holy Grail was originally announced as the picture that made Ben Hur look like an Epic....
:-)
I guess it's all relative
... so my slashdot age is negative?
... which is not the same as the Open Source movement... so how can GPL be the Open Source movement's weakest point when it's not even a part of it?
.... and your response makes you sound like you don't understand sarcasm. :-)
You forget the light part of the equation - you add more energy in the form of light. By adding energy, the mass increases again. This is of cource not free energy - but we have this sun, you see...
... but you're right in that coal-plants don't burn the coal 100% efficiently, producing toxic by-products and such.
Unfortunatley the bacteria do not produce coal (nor do they produce pure carbon), but the sugars could be used to produce animal fodder. - And yes, that would release the CO_2 again... (and here's a funny idea:) But it would decrease the demand for grain, which (at least in Europe) would not result in decreased production because the EU buys all the surplus to keep the prices high. Thus the carbon will be locked up in EU's "mountain of grain" :-)
The Windsor family is the british royal family. - Just FYI...
Wouldn't it just be easier to give Skåne back to Denmark?
That's a nice thought but in the real world, consulting for Businesses, they like to see sharp, professional style layout. Especially in brochure ware - those marketing guys like to see pizzazz.
I'd rather think that preatty much describes the difference between a web-application and glitz-brochure-type "adwebtizement" - The irony is that the advertizer often needs to reach the most users/viewers, where as the web-application might have a clearly defined audience (as a corporate intranet, with a standardized web browser). Which means, that the feature-heavy, hard to port, commercial, brochure-like website often has more to gain from making it cross-browser compliant. :-)
Besides - isn't it the content, that matters, not fancy layout and using the latest (often overly hyped) technologies?
> Fine. Just DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT FREE STUFF
Uhhh... pardon me but isn't he complaining about 'non-free stuff', like mp3?
By the way is this really a problem? Wouldn't you want a dedicated server anyway to host your site if it has to hanlde confidencial data? I don't like the idea of a Web-shop running on a 100+ site web-hotel, storing my credit card number - SSL or no SSL
Actually it is more likely it originates from "shell" + "bang" - as it specifies a shell interpreter.
BTW. I've heard it originally was a machine instruction on the PDP-11...