I'm surprised more ISPs (particularly foreign ones where bandwidth is pricey) haven't looked at ways to bias traffic to share internally. I know i talked with some ISP in the UK and tried to convince them to let their cable modems run much faster but to apply the traffic caps at their network boundary. Unfortunately it didn't seem practical to do that on that scale at that time.
If comcast were to double or triple the upstream available when staying within their network then i'm sure p2p tools would start exploiting it.
This case is egregious, unless she was living in cave then she had to know that something she believed she'd developed was being widely used.
However, there are plenty of things that you'd struggle to even know were in use. What if it were some new modulation strategy to make the construction of multi-band cellphones easier; there could easily be millions of them in the market before it ever came to your attention.
There are a number of advantages to a comprehensive type library, it does do a decent job of defining interfaces that external libraries can use.
One example I came across recently was that I was able to couple one visualization library (that rendered to an on screen canvas) to a pdf library (that implemented the standard Graphics2D interface). With little more than a few lines of code, the full vector-based visualization appeared in a pdf file. Granted, I'm not a C++ programmer, but I doubt you could have glued together two libraries at that level.
The.Net framework does seem worse than the Java one, if only because it's documentation seems poorer than suns.
I expect some mass-market ISP will be the first to make the switch to IPv6. Most of their customers couldn't tell an IP address from a hole in the ground, so it might be the perfect testbed. Particularly if AOL could go on to sell their now free IPv4 allocations.
I thought the whole industry was supposed to be on hold while they figured their union shit out. I do wonder if they'll have to start importing british shows to fill the dead air that's left when they've rerun every episode of friends and sex in the city.
Wma files are just awful, it's absolutely hit or miss whether even my laptop will have the right license files to play one. I've didn't succeed in getting my playsforsure player to do anything (until I found fairuse4wm).
These were first seen in the late 1800s around the period that Krakatoa erupted.
I think people underestimate the level of science that was performed then. I'm quite confident that stargazers of the time would indeed notice something new and unseen.
Now it's possible they've appeared in the distant past, gone away and come back, but that's a different story
Where does this fear of opening source code come from? Is there really a concern that some competing software vendor will copy their "tally up the votes" routine. I can see why banks and private companies want closed source, but why here?
The only answer I can see is that the machines are badly programmed or they have been rigged in some way.
I suppose the bar must be fairly low for "investigative news reporter" particularly if you are a freelance one. Still to have missed the whole open source boat is quite a spectacular omission.
I expect you'd have better results guessing fark passwords than hacking their servers.
I don't buy the "he was framed" explanation either. It would carry much more weight to do the hack from news corporations corporate offices, and would probably be just as easy.
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Sounds like fun.
It's really not very hard; there's certainly no need to steal the fark code:)
Completely off-topic but...
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I've always been a fan of your posts on k5, fark and here and would love to see you over on bannination.
It's got to be a cover
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I put up an aggregator for a myself and a few other disaffected farkers and it was coded from scratch in about a day, and even to date has probably less than two man weeks of coding in it.
I'm not sure how you could be smart enough to set up a trojan to gather passwords but not either run your own OS forum or code one from scratch.
it's not rocket science
Stealing the fark source code
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Really... is there anything remarkable about the source code that runs sites like fark or slashdot. I hand-rolled my own similar aggregator in a few days and it's evident that the users make the community and not the software.
Short of collecting personal information, I can't see what value is there.
If the result varies signifcantly from the exit poll then one party is very likely to demand a paper recount. When the two don't line up the vendor will come under pretty intense scrutiny.
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Isn't that the perfect network model?
I'm surprised more ISPs (particularly foreign ones where bandwidth is pricey) haven't looked at ways to bias traffic to share internally. I know i talked with some ISP in the UK and tried to convince them to let their cable modems run much faster but to apply the traffic caps at their network boundary. Unfortunately it didn't seem practical to do that on that scale at that time.
If comcast were to double or triple the upstream available when staying within their network then i'm sure p2p tools would start exploiting it.
This case is egregious, unless she was living in cave then she had to know that something she believed she'd developed was being widely used.
However, there are plenty of things that you'd struggle to even know were in use. What if it were some new modulation strategy to make the construction of multi-band cellphones easier; there could easily be millions of them in the market before it ever came to your attention.
500kg of mercury is less than 10 gallons and that's the same as 100,000,000 CF bulbs.
If you eat 11oz of Yellowfin each week, you'll consume the same amount of mercury as eating 1 CF lightbulb each year, or 4oz of swordfish each week.
Laptop: Can I have an address on your network?
Router: Sure... also, if you'd like, here's a default router and a couple of dns servers
I wonder what would happen if you actually produced the dhcpcd logs in court, i cant see how the case would stand.
The biggest plus to working in Java is that the documentation Sun provide is comprehensive (and once you figure your way around it) easy to access.
Microsoft is getting better but, for a framework that's quite clearly a java rip-off, they could have ripped its documentation style too.
There are a number of advantages to a comprehensive type library, it does do a decent job of defining interfaces that external libraries can use.
.Net framework does seem worse than the Java one, if only because it's documentation seems poorer than suns.
One example I came across recently was that I was able to couple one visualization library (that rendered to an on screen canvas) to a pdf library (that implemented the standard Graphics2D interface). With little more than a few lines of code, the full vector-based visualization appeared in a pdf file. Granted, I'm not a C++ programmer, but I doubt you could have glued together two libraries at that level.
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Is there a technical reason why you can't do NAT over IPv6?
I can't see any reason it wouldn't work.
I expect some mass-market ISP will be the first to make the switch to IPv6. Most of their customers couldn't tell an IP address from a hole in the ground, so it might be the perfect testbed. Particularly if AOL could go on to sell their now free IPv4 allocations.
I thought the whole industry was supposed to be on hold while they figured their union shit out. I do wonder if they'll have to start importing british shows to fill the dead air that's left when they've rerun every episode of friends and sex in the city.
Wma files are just awful, it's absolutely hit or miss whether even my laptop will have the right license files to play one. I've didn't succeed in getting my playsforsure player to do anything (until I found fairuse4wm).
These were first seen in the late 1800s around the period that Krakatoa erupted.
I think people underestimate the level of science that was performed then. I'm quite confident that stargazers of the time would indeed notice something new and unseen.
Now it's possible they've appeared in the distant past, gone away and come back, but that's a different story
Where does this fear of opening source code come from? Is there really a concern that some competing software vendor will copy their "tally up the votes" routine. I can see why banks and private companies want closed source, but why here?
The only answer I can see is that the machines are badly programmed or they have been rigged in some way.
The great refreshing taste of Pepsi. The preferred Cola of 1 out of 1 CowBoy Neals!
We're still chipping away at the graphic design, but i'm very happy with the underlying code and how it's scaling.
I'm thinking the anonymous posting feature is probably one we shouldn't have implemented.
Should be working fine, though it sometimes takes 5 mins for the email to get through.
As always check you spam bin and if you don't see it then let me know and i'll activate it manually.
I suppose the bar must be fairly low for "investigative news reporter" particularly if you are a freelance one. Still to have missed the whole open source boat is quite a spectacular omission.
I expect you'd have better results guessing fark passwords than hacking their servers.
I don't buy the "he was framed" explanation either. It would carry much more weight to do the hack from news corporations corporate offices, and would probably be just as easy.
Sounds like fun.
:)
It's really not very hard; there's certainly no need to steal the fark code
I've always been a fan of your posts on k5, fark and here and would love to see you over on bannination.
I put up an aggregator for a myself and a few other disaffected farkers and it was coded from scratch in about a day, and even to date has probably less than two man weeks of coding in it.
I'm not sure how you could be smart enough to set up a trojan to gather passwords but not either run your own OS forum or code one from scratch.
it's not rocket science
Really... is there anything remarkable about the source code that runs sites like fark or slashdot. I hand-rolled my own similar aggregator in a few days and it's evident that the users make the community and not the software.
Short of collecting personal information, I can't see what value is there.
I know I can't walk into a US Apple store and buy a new motherboard... is something different about the African ones?
If the result varies signifcantly from the exit poll then one party is very likely to demand a paper recount. When the two don't line up the vendor will come under pretty intense scrutiny.
I'm sending something showing that the file is already expired (since it's completely dynamic) and apparently that still gets an F.
Not too impressed
If you put the links to the CSS at the very top of the head section then that grade will jump from an F to an A.
I doubt moving them above title makes any noticeable difference in the real world though.