As a cogent customer, it's *really* not their fault, IMHO. I gather L3 pulled the same stunt with XO last week.
Yeah, Level 3 is really out of line in my opinion. It's not that they shut down the peering link. That wouldn't be that big of a deal. The traffic would just flow through other providers on less efficient routes. It's not as though every single backbone carrier peers with every other. But I just checked my BGP sessions, and Level 3 is not advertising the Cogent route at all. And you know for a fact that Level 3 is receiving the Cogent route from many of it's other peers. But it appears that they are intentionally filtering out the Cogent route. Which is pretty much not playing by the rules. It's one thing to shut down a peering agreement. It's something else entirely to refuse to accept that route from any of your other peers.
'Lisp' also refers to a type of speech impediment which results in people pronouncing 'ess' sounds like 'thh'. The irony of course being that people with a lisp have a hard time saying 'lisp' rather than 'lithp'.
My geology is a little rusty. If the big line is a fault, could the "chicken footprint" be where geologic activity caused some underground caverns to collapse?
Absolutely. And when I say that, I mean that my geology isn't rusty, it's non-existant. But it sounds good to me. What I find fascinating about all of this is that many of these moons are obviously more interesting than our own, which really just seems to be a big dumb rock in comparison.
The JPL page says the straight line is probably a fault or other geological feature, but the absence of any others in that area is a little suspicious.
Actually, if you look at the Hi res TIFF version you can see several more of them. None as large and obvious, but I found at least five or so linear formations in that picture. There is a cluster of three at the bottom beneath the obvious one.
Campaign donations are the ultimate form of free speech. Money does not corrupt a politician; unlimited power to tax, regulate and spend is the problem.
That may well be one of the more quaintly naive things I've read in a while. "money does not corrupt a politician"? Do you really believe that?
1. Repeal all donation restrictions and dismantle the FEC 2. Allow anyone (including foreigners and corporations) to finance any candidate in any amount 3. Restrict politicians to their minimum Constitutional powers, so that money has no effect since they're virtually prevented from helping their donators. 4. Allow any candidate that can get on a ballot to join in any government-funded debate.
Now the second two I whole heartedly agree with. But the first two are just misguided. If anything, the second is one of, if not the primary, driver for the third. Do you really think making it easier for the rich and powerful to give money to politicians it will somehow make politicians less likely to enact laws that favor those donors? By what logic do you arrive at that conclusion?
No, I think he's saying that writing working SSL code is slightly harder than writing non-SSL socket code. And depending on the language/environment it is harder.
but is there something about the chip industry that makes it immune to this specialization idea? What am I missing?
Probably the vast amount of specialization in the chip industry? In the grand scheme of things, the server/laptop/desktop is a single niche. In many cases, people are running the exact same programs on all three. And really, people want many of the same things out of all three. People want laptops which don't burn their legs, and admins want servers which can be be put in a 1U chassis without frying. You'll still have some specialization in this area. Chips with a lot of cores will end up in servers, and chips with only one or two will end up in laptops. But this is really just the x86-compatable niche.
But that leaves out the array of other processors which are available. In all sorts of sizes and capabilities. The one in your PDA. In your cell phone. In your watch. In your supercomputer. On the space shuttle. In your car. Your car's stereo.
You buy insurance in both cases, making a bet that you won't have a car accident or get sick, respectively. Maybe full understanding of that would put Las Vegas into perspective for those who like to think that gambling is an evil vice.
Actually, aren't you betting that you are going to get sick or get in an accident? And the insurance company is betting you won't? Which really just makes your point seem even more twisted when you think about it.:-)>
Anybody else think that the primary driver behind this ruling is CALEA and not "competition" at all? Just think how much easier it will be to implement the new wiretap requirements without having to deal with the hundreds or thousands of local ISPs. Some of which may be owned by people who may have moral objections to wiretaps. Or may be small enough that the operators actually know their customers and may be tempted to tip them off.
Instead they can deal with maybe a dozen or so mega corporations. The size of which helps to ensure an amoral compliance. Most (all?) of which are already under FCC regulation which helps ensure the government has a suitably free hand to punish them should they step out of line. Where every customer is nothing more than a number which the corporation has no allegence to.
It's not like this would be the first time those in power were less than honest about their motivations behind a policy.
Half of me thinks this guy is right and that he does deserve to be paid for the performance of his compositions (but EVERY time - insert credit card into CD player before pressing play?) But half of me thinks he is, in his own way, still living in the 20th century.
All of me thinks he's full of shit. The vast majority of people do not get paid repeatedly for work already performed. They get paid once. The guy who built my car doesn't expect to get paid every time I drive it. The guy who built my washer doesn't expect to get paid every time I do a load of laundry. The guy who designed my car and washer doesn't expect to get paid for every car that gets built. I've said it before. If you want to continue getting paid you can continue working. If you're not willing to do that, you're just a lazy ass in my opinion.
Cisco's has a new 6509E chassis in the Catalyst line. It's main new feature? Power supplies at 6KW and 9KW capacities. You can get high density PoE. You'll pay for it. But it's available. Even a current 6509 with 2500W supplies will power quite a few phones.
This looks like a nice form factor to be a remote for a freevo or jukebox system with the right software. And the price is right to play around with. Much more reasonable than buying a Zaurus or something to use as a remote. It looks pretty tempting. Linux. WiFi. Flash-able. Under $100. Very tempting.
forced. verb. To compel through pressure or necessity.
The airlines were forced. Plain and simple. If telling a company "do this or we will drive you out of business" doesn't meet the definition of the word, what does? It's like saying the government doesn't force me to pay taxes because nobody actually shows up and puts a gun to my head every April.
I'll never understand content companies. When it comes to dealing with pirated content, it's not enough that the legitimate product costs more. It also needs to be less reliable and have fewer features. What kind of moronic CEO's are these? It's like they do everything in their power to encourage people to spurn legitimate content and turn to pirated content. Where do these idiots come from?
Seems like as good a guess as any. The hive mind seems to think it was in the spring, and that's my birthday. We'll go with 04/20/1995. Or is that 20/04/1995?
That makes sense. That's not really a LILO bug, as it sounds as though updating the kernel parameters in lilo.conf would have fixed it. That's kind of a nasty change, unless the upgrade script could detect at runtime which drives were on SATA and update lilo.conf/fstab/etc. appropriately.
Suddenly apt-get dist-upgrade didnt do anything good, I had to do an apt-get -f install multiple times until the dependancy stuff was sorted out. In the process, some packages (notably apache and ftpd) were simple de-installed and I had to re-select them manually.
I can't say for sure that it would have helped, but the instructions specifically say to use aptitude because it handles dependencies better that apt. So while I feel your pain, I'm not sure it's a valid complaint.
fail on boot because Lilo barfed a kernel panic on root mount.
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. Lilo properly loading the kernel and the kernel mounting the root fs are quite different operations. I had a box fail to reboot cleanly after upgrading, but that's because I failed to re-run LILO after upgrading. Duh. But what exactly happened in your case?
Eventually that dollar dominance will evaporate and we'll realize that we transferred huge amounts of wealth and industrial power to foreign countries, all based on an ideology of greed and "free" trade.
Yeah, let's seem them collect on that debt from the most powerful military force the planet has ever seen. Muhahahaha!!!!
The sad part is, I don't know if this should be moderated 'funny', 'insightful', 'troll'. Probably all three.
Actually if you read the agreements through which that documentation is avaliable, you'll notice that they are provided with the intent of allowing you to create SWF, not play it.
That point is in the article as well. But I have to admit, it makes no sense at all to me. As I understand it, Macromedia sells the Flash creation software. And they are perfectly OK with you using their specs to develop free competition for that product. And they give away the player, but if you develop a free competitor to that, they'll get pissed. WTF? That makes no sense at all to me. Can anybody think of a reason why they would structure the agreement that way?
Are there any sites which have torrents to legal video? I would think the Prelinger Archives for example would be interested in BitTorrent. Looking at the current home page shows the top downloads totalling in the neighborhood of 1,000,000 downloads at maybe 10MB a piece. That's a significant bandwidth charge there. It would be nice to be able to easily find alternative video to watch in lieu of the MPAA's crap.
I would think that existing data (the census for example) would make it quite easy to study this correlation further. If some parents really do have a strong bias towards having children of one gender or the other, then shouldn't the occurance of M-M or F-F siblings be higher than M-F siblings? This data should be just waiting to be extracted out of census results providing a huge sample size. For that matter, it may already be in one of the publically available datasets.
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As a cogent customer, it's *really* not their fault, IMHO. I gather L3 pulled the same stunt with XO last week.
Yeah, Level 3 is really out of line in my opinion. It's not that they shut down the peering link. That wouldn't be that big of a deal. The traffic would just flow through other providers on less efficient routes. It's not as though every single backbone carrier peers with every other. But I just checked my BGP sessions, and Level 3 is not advertising the Cogent route at all. And you know for a fact that Level 3 is receiving the Cogent route from many of it's other peers. But it appears that they are intentionally filtering out the Cogent route. Which is pretty much not playing by the rules. It's one thing to shut down a peering agreement. It's something else entirely to refuse to accept that route from any of your other peers.
'Lisp' also refers to a type of speech impediment which results in people pronouncing 'ess' sounds like 'thh'. The irony of course being that people with a lisp have a hard time saying 'lisp' rather than 'lithp'.
My geology is a little rusty. If the big line is a fault, could the "chicken footprint" be where geologic activity caused some underground caverns to collapse?
Absolutely. And when I say that, I mean that my geology isn't rusty, it's non-existant. But it sounds good to me. What I find fascinating about all of this is that many of these moons are obviously more interesting than our own, which really just seems to be a big dumb rock in comparison.
The JPL page says the straight line is probably a fault or other geological feature, but the absence of any others in that area is a little suspicious.
Actually, if you look at the Hi res TIFF version you can see several more of them. None as large and obvious, but I found at least five or so linear formations in that picture. There is a cluster of three at the bottom beneath the obvious one.
Campaign donations are the ultimate form of free speech. Money does not corrupt a politician; unlimited power to tax, regulate and spend is the problem.
That may well be one of the more quaintly naive things I've read in a while. "money does not corrupt a politician"? Do you really believe that?
1. Repeal all donation restrictions and dismantle the FEC
2. Allow anyone (including foreigners and corporations) to finance any candidate in any amount
3. Restrict politicians to their minimum Constitutional powers, so that money has no effect since they're virtually prevented from helping their donators.
4. Allow any candidate that can get on a ballot to join in any government-funded debate.
Now the second two I whole heartedly agree with. But the first two are just misguided. If anything, the second is one of, if not the primary, driver for the third. Do you really think making it easier for the rich and powerful to give money to politicians it will somehow make politicians less likely to enact laws that favor those donors? By what logic do you arrive at that conclusion?
No, I think he's saying that writing working SSL code is slightly harder than writing non-SSL socket code. And depending on the language/environment it is harder.
but is there something about the chip industry that makes it immune to this specialization idea? What am I missing?
Probably the vast amount of specialization in the chip industry? In the grand scheme of things, the server/laptop/desktop is a single niche. In many cases, people are running the exact same programs on all three. And really, people want many of the same things out of all three. People want laptops which don't burn their legs, and admins want servers which can be be put in a 1U chassis without frying. You'll still have some specialization in this area. Chips with a lot of cores will end up in servers, and chips with only one or two will end up in laptops. But this is really just the x86-compatable niche.
But that leaves out the array of other processors which are available. In all sorts of sizes and capabilities. The one in your PDA. In your cell phone. In your watch. In your supercomputer. On the space shuttle. In your car. Your car's stereo.
You buy insurance in both cases, making a bet that you won't have a car accident or get sick, respectively. Maybe full understanding of that would put Las Vegas into perspective for those who like to think that gambling is an evil vice.
:-)>
Actually, aren't you betting that you are going to get sick or get in an accident? And the insurance company is betting you won't? Which really just makes your point seem even more twisted when you think about it.
Anybody else think that the primary driver behind this ruling is CALEA and not "competition" at all? Just think how much easier it will be to implement the new wiretap requirements without having to deal with the hundreds or thousands of local ISPs. Some of which may be owned by people who may have moral objections to wiretaps. Or may be small enough that the operators actually know their customers and may be tempted to tip them off.
Instead they can deal with maybe a dozen or so mega corporations. The size of which helps to ensure an amoral compliance. Most (all?) of which are already under FCC regulation which helps ensure the government has a suitably free hand to punish them should they step out of line. Where every customer is nothing more than a number which the corporation has no allegence to.
It's not like this would be the first time those in power were less than honest about their motivations behind a policy.
Half of me thinks this guy is right and that he does deserve to be paid for the performance of his compositions (but EVERY time - insert credit card into CD player before pressing play?) But half of me thinks he is, in his own way, still living in the 20th century.
All of me thinks he's full of shit. The vast majority of people do not get paid repeatedly for work already performed. They get paid once. The guy who built my car doesn't expect to get paid every time I drive it. The guy who built my washer doesn't expect to get paid every time I do a load of laundry. The guy who designed my car and washer doesn't expect to get paid for every car that gets built. I've said it before. If you want to continue getting paid you can continue working. If you're not willing to do that, you're just a lazy ass in my opinion.
Cisco's has a new 6509E chassis in the Catalyst line. It's main new feature? Power supplies at 6KW and 9KW capacities. You can get high density PoE. You'll pay for it. But it's available. Even a current 6509 with 2500W supplies will power quite a few phones.
This looks like a nice form factor to be a remote for a freevo or jukebox system with the right software. And the price is right to play around with. Much more reasonable than buying a Zaurus or something to use as a remote. It looks pretty tempting. Linux. WiFi. Flash-able. Under $100. Very tempting.
forced. verb. To compel through pressure or necessity.
The airlines were forced. Plain and simple. If telling a company "do this or we will drive you out of business" doesn't meet the definition of the word, what does? It's like saying the government doesn't force me to pay taxes because nobody actually shows up and puts a gun to my head every April.
I'll never understand content companies. When it comes to dealing with pirated content, it's not enough that the legitimate product costs more. It also needs to be less reliable and have fewer features. What kind of moronic CEO's are these? It's like they do everything in their power to encourage people to spurn legitimate content and turn to pirated content. Where do these idiots come from?
Seems like as good a guess as any. The hive mind seems to think it was in the spring, and that's my birthday. We'll go with 04/20/1995. Or is that 20/04/1995?
That makes sense. That's not really a LILO bug, as it sounds as though updating the kernel parameters in lilo.conf would have fixed it. That's kind of a nasty change, unless the upgrade script could detect at runtime which drives were on SATA and update lilo.conf/fstab/etc. appropriately.
Suddenly apt-get dist-upgrade didnt do anything good, I had to do an apt-get -f install multiple times until the dependancy stuff was sorted out. In the process, some packages (notably apache and ftpd) were simple de-installed and I had to re-select them manually.
I can't say for sure that it would have helped, but the instructions specifically say to use aptitude because it handles dependencies better that apt. So while I feel your pain, I'm not sure it's a valid complaint.
fail on boot because Lilo barfed a kernel panic on root mount.
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. Lilo properly loading the kernel and the kernel mounting the root fs are quite different operations. I had a box fail to reboot cleanly after upgrading, but that's because I failed to re-run LILO after upgrading. Duh. But what exactly happened in your case?
Eventually that dollar dominance will evaporate and we'll realize that we transferred huge amounts of wealth and industrial power to foreign countries, all based on an ideology of greed and "free" trade.
Yeah, let's seem them collect on that debt from the most powerful military force the planet has ever seen. Muhahahaha!!!!
The sad part is, I don't know if this should be moderated 'funny', 'insightful', 'troll'. Probably all three.
How about Silicon on Saphire (SoS)?
I thought that sounded familiar. Boy, The Clash sure was ahead of their time on that one!
That sounds like as good a guess as any. Thanks!
Actually if you read the agreements through which that documentation is avaliable, you'll notice that they are provided with the intent of allowing you to create SWF, not play it.
That point is in the article as well. But I have to admit, it makes no sense at all to me. As I understand it, Macromedia sells the Flash creation software. And they are perfectly OK with you using their specs to develop free competition for that product. And they give away the player, but if you develop a free competitor to that, they'll get pissed. WTF? That makes no sense at all to me. Can anybody think of a reason why they would structure the agreement that way?
take a deep breath and relax - cancer isn't going away anytime soon.
Whew, thanks for clearing that up. I was starting to get worried!
Are there any sites which have torrents to legal video? I would think the Prelinger Archives for example would be interested in BitTorrent. Looking at the current home page shows the top downloads totalling in the neighborhood of 1,000,000 downloads at maybe 10MB a piece. That's a significant bandwidth charge there. It would be nice to be able to easily find alternative video to watch in lieu of the MPAA's crap.
I would think that existing data (the census for example) would make it quite easy to study this correlation further. If some parents really do have a strong bias towards having children of one gender or the other, then shouldn't the occurance of M-M or F-F siblings be higher than M-F siblings? This data should be just waiting to be extracted out of census results providing a huge sample size. For that matter, it may already be in one of the publically available datasets.