I don't know if this guy is right or wrong, but calling him names in the absense of reasoned and responsive arguments isn't science, it is kindergarten.
Such methods might keep crackpots with wild new unsubstantiated theories out of science, but it will also help to keep those with wild old unsubstantiated theories in.
"For every Einstein-like breakthrough, there are hundreds of crackpot theories. A system is needed to sort through and separate the wheat from the chaff. Oh, wait, we have such a system: peer review and open publication."
The way to sort through any theory whether it be new or old is through reason, logic and physical test.
"The last problem is the DNS system still needs to be upgraded. It is true that most DNS servers can return AAAA records (ipv6 addresses), but not many of the registrars allow you to register glue records of authorative DNS servers with IPv6 addresses."
This seems to be a major problem. Once the DNS system changes to IPv6, then that will be the final "switch" to v6 since a computer looking up www.yahoo.com and receiving back a v6 address needs to know what to do with it. I don't think there is any way to make it a seemless transition, just have to make the switch and those people that refuse to upgrade are SOL.
Just because you have a Billion IP addresses available doesn't mean you can just get any one of those from the list and start using it. The IP addresses are assigned in blocks which correspond to networks. So to truely provide addresses for a global end-to-end IP network there are going to have to be a heck of a lot more addresses out there just to cover individuals not to mention all these devices people want to hook up. So, figure one or two IP addresses per person and we are already Billions short of the number needed. Figure more than that including remote sensing devices, routers, automated systems and oh yea businesses... then we are at a far greater shortage. Sure we can just add complexity and do some address translation, but are the conversion costs really that insurmountable as to make IPv6 out of reach? Most routers and computers have built in support for IPv6, but its seems that nobody is willing to ditch the old numbers and just use their IPv6 equivalents.
It is just like those mechanical booths that many of us are used to with little levers that you pull down next to the name of the candidate. Or like the machines that scan in the paper ballot to tally the votes.
This isn't some sort of massively networked remote internet voting system that would allow people to vote naked while they scrub off in their internet enabled showers.
So this system sounds much the same as the system in many US cities and towns which either use electronic or mecahnical tallying. But the whole picture ID thing is just a system of control. In the US you just have to show some proof that you live in a place and then they put your name on a list and then when you show up to vote they cross the name off the list. Simple.
Sure they could keep the list on computers and even take your picture and store it against the list, but please don't let us start to force people to carry little dogtags like a fucking cocker spaniel.
not just as rhetorical devices, but as moral guides... so for instance I have generalized that it is immoral to stereotype people based on some contrived grouping. Especially negatively stereotypes, but even positive ones lend themselves to corruption of reason and individual experience.
If by "you can make a killing doing freelance technical support." you mean that you might be able to survive paying $600 for housing and not much more than that for food while still collecting unemployment and working under the table, then sure I agree with that statement.
Technical support is very labor intensive and sporadic, so that even if you charge a lot for a call or visit, then you won't likely make an equivalently good salary considering the volume of calls and the travel time between clients. It is possible to make decent money by keeping your overhead low (do everything yourself), but a "killing" it wouldn't be.
If anything this is a time for Geeks to start thinking outside the box and perhaps start some sort of other small business that isn't directly computer related, but just use your computer skills to make the business run more efficiently.
" While a court could find that the DMCA allows the circumvention of protections on works in the public domain, the statute nonetheless prohibits trafficking in tools intended for use in circumventing controls on protected works. While those same tools could potentially be used to remove access or copy controls on works in the public domain, it may still be unlawful under the DMCA to traffic in them."... so you have a legal right to copy stuff but the ability to do so is illegal. Like saying you have freedom of speech, but it is illegal to open your mouth. Thanks.
"There are too many addresses. There are 16.7 million addresses per square metre of the earth's surface, including the oceans. This is overkill. The world does not need more than the 4 billion addresses available with IPv4, and I challenge you to come up with an application that requires that many."
How about the PC? Since there are around 6,306,837,471 people on the planet right now, so already there aren't enough addresses even theoretically possible for everyone to connect to the internet, forgeting all the servers and network routers. But the most limiting factor to giving out IP addresses is the fact that you can't just get an IP address from some guy in Egypt, because part of the address indicates what network you are on, so to imply that there are 4 billion globally available addresses is just dumb math and disregards the nature of IP routing. The only potential way for the wired Internet to remain as it was intended, an end-to-end international communication network, is for IPv6 to be deployed globally so that to say that you are connected to the real internet means an IPv6 internet.
Nobody serious is going to move to North Korea, but they might move to Australia or South Africa or some other country that has lots of airspace to play with and the willingness to do so.
This is a fundamental point, motivated individuals will find a way around regulation to accomplish their goals. The US government has historically been successful because those people avoiding burdensome laws and regulation have come to the US, mostly from Europe, but elsewhere. Also moving to another country is a big deal and investment, so one is not likely to return to their country of origin. In the short run burdensome regulation stifling innovation might protect the current interests of the US government and corporations, but in the long run it will only serve to put the US at a disadvantage.
It is a mistake of historic proportions to stifle development of transportation systems just because they can also deliver a weapon quickly and accurately. The complete focus must be tracking the nuclear materials and those that would assemble them.
Freedom of movement (even vertically) must be a fundamental right moderated by others right of way , but not corrupted with fear, otherwise we live in a world where everyone is forced to stay in their home waiting for the enemy.
I'm afraid it looks like we are stuck with the current services for a while. Companies have locked in a price structure based on bandwidth and with just a few large corporations with market control in certain local areas it seems unlikely that one of them would want to start a price/bandwidth war that would see their profits squeezed.
Hopefully there is enough competition in some markets between DSL and Cable to bring prices down gradually, but about $50 for a 1 Mbit download and 300k upload seems to be about what we can expect for the next while here in the US.
Sad really, since the technician that installed my first cable modem back in 1997 told me that the employees had their modems running at 10Mbits per second at home with the same equipment on the same network.
Seems the technology is more flexible than the business plan.
"I'm assuming you don't realize how many technologies you use on a regular basis that were developed by NASA"
As someone who has worked in a government lab, it seems that every invention or achievement that is even remotely associated with the lab they take credit for. I wonder how many of those technologies were really developed by NASA or really just developed by associated companies and institutions. NASA doesn't devise new technology, individuals that may or may not work for them do.
Regardless, developing consumer goods is not their mission and cannot be a measure of their success. Even if Tang is really good at removing stains.
What do you see as the governing reasons behind the intelectual property laws? And do you find any inconsistencies in reason or effect with the laws as written? Do you see any ways the laws might be changed to make them better? For example, would it make sense for lawmakers to better codify examples of fair use or is this best left in the hands of the courts?
I find it interesting that with the supposed glut of bandwidth and an apparent need for more bandwidth in business, that the telecoms are not offering faster data service at more reasonable cost. Seems that they have screwed themselves by locking in price structures that squeeze the largest of companies, but don't allow for any growth in the marketplace. Basically they have made big capital investmests laying fiber around the country and are going to sit on it charging the big corporations a premium.
Wouldn't economies of scale make more sense and deliver this service to more business? It has worked in the PC business. Why couldn't Moore's law work with telecom too. They too have billions of dollars in development costs to recoup and have found a way to spread that over enough customers. Seems the telecoms lack motivation or a clue. They look like cowardly penny-wise businessmen compared to the barrons of the computer business.
I think the SETI project has the SETI@Home Screensaver to thank, a project that provides both useful computational power and an indication of the public support that the program has. Although people might really just want a nice screensaver and don't expect to find little green men.
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I don't know if this guy is right or wrong, but calling him names in the absense of reasoned and responsive arguments isn't science, it is kindergarten.
Such methods might keep crackpots with wild new unsubstantiated theories out of science, but it will also help to keep those with wild old unsubstantiated theories in.
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although can one really waste something that is so indeterminate?
"For every Einstein-like breakthrough, there are hundreds of crackpot theories. A system is needed to sort through and separate the wheat from the chaff. Oh, wait, we have such a system: peer review and open publication."
The way to sort through any theory whether it be new or old is through reason, logic and physical test.
"The last problem is the DNS system still needs to be upgraded. It is true that most DNS servers can return AAAA records (ipv6 addresses), but not many of the registrars allow you to register glue records of authorative DNS servers with IPv6 addresses."
This seems to be a major problem. Once the DNS system changes to IPv6, then that will be the final "switch" to v6 since a computer looking up www.yahoo.com and receiving back a v6 address needs to know what to do with it. I don't think there is any way to make it a seemless transition, just have to make the switch and those people that refuse to upgrade are SOL.
Just because you have a Billion IP addresses available doesn't mean you can just get any one of those from the list and start using it. The IP addresses are assigned in blocks which correspond to networks. So to truely provide addresses for a global end-to-end IP network there are going to have to be a heck of a lot more addresses out there just to cover individuals not to mention all these devices people want to hook up. So, figure one or two IP addresses per person and we are already Billions short of the number needed. Figure more than that including remote sensing devices, routers, automated systems and oh yea businesses... then we are at a far greater shortage. Sure we can just add complexity and do some address translation, but are the conversion costs really that insurmountable as to make IPv6 out of reach? Most routers and computers have built in support for IPv6, but its seems that nobody is willing to ditch the old numbers and just use their IPv6 equivalents.
It is just like those mechanical booths that many of us are used to with little levers that you pull down next to the name of the candidate. Or like the machines that scan in the paper ballot to tally the votes.
This isn't some sort of massively networked remote internet voting system that would allow people to vote naked while they scrub off in their internet enabled showers.
So this system sounds much the same as the system in many US cities and towns which either use electronic or mecahnical tallying. But the whole picture ID thing is just a system of control. In the US you just have to show some proof that you live in a place and then they put your name on a list and then when you show up to vote they cross the name off the list. Simple.
Sure they could keep the list on computers and even take your picture and store it against the list, but please don't let us start to force people to carry little dogtags like a fucking cocker spaniel.
not just as rhetorical devices, but as moral guides... so for instance I have generalized that it is immoral to stereotype people based on some contrived grouping. Especially negatively stereotypes, but even positive ones lend themselves to corruption of reason and individual experience.
If by "you can make a killing doing freelance technical support." you mean that you might be able to survive paying $600 for housing and not much more than that for food while still collecting unemployment and working under the table, then sure I agree with that statement.
Technical support is very labor intensive and sporadic, so that even if you charge a lot for a call or visit, then you won't likely make an equivalently good salary considering the volume of calls and the travel time between clients. It is possible to make decent money by keeping your overhead low (do everything yourself), but a "killing" it wouldn't be.
If anything this is a time for Geeks to start thinking outside the box and perhaps start some sort of other small business that isn't directly computer related, but just use your computer skills to make the business run more efficiently.
" While a court could find that the DMCA allows the circumvention of protections on works in the public domain, the statute nonetheless prohibits trafficking in tools intended for use in circumventing controls on protected works. While those same tools could potentially be used to remove access or copy controls on works in the public domain, it may still be unlawful under the DMCA to traffic in them." ... so you have a legal right to copy stuff but the ability to do so is illegal. Like saying you have freedom of speech, but it is illegal to open your mouth. Thanks.
"This is our stadium, and we run the communications for it"
No, the FCC regulates radio communications. They have no right under existing law to control the radio transmissions on their property.
"There are too many addresses. There are 16.7 million addresses per square metre of the earth's surface, including the oceans. This is overkill. The world does not need more than the 4 billion addresses available with IPv4, and I challenge you to come up with an application that requires that many."
How about the PC? Since there are around 6,306,837,471 people on the planet right now, so already there aren't enough addresses even theoretically possible for everyone to connect to the internet, forgeting all the servers and network routers. But the most limiting factor to giving out IP addresses is the fact that you can't just get an IP address from some guy in Egypt, because part of the address indicates what network you are on, so to imply that there are 4 billion globally available addresses is just dumb math and disregards the nature of IP routing. The only potential way for the wired Internet to remain as it was intended, an end-to-end international communication network, is for IPv6 to be deployed globally so that to say that you are connected to the real internet means an IPv6 internet.
Nobody serious is going to move to North Korea, but they might move to Australia or South Africa or some other country that has lots of airspace to play with and the willingness to do so.
"They can always move to North Korea"
This is a fundamental point, motivated individuals will find a way around regulation to accomplish their goals. The US government has historically been successful because those people avoiding burdensome laws and regulation have come to the US, mostly from Europe, but elsewhere. Also moving to another country is a big deal and investment, so one is not likely to return to their country of origin. In the short run burdensome regulation stifling innovation might protect the current interests of the US government and corporations, but in the long run it will only serve to put the US at a disadvantage.
It is a mistake of historic proportions to stifle development of transportation systems just because they can also deliver a weapon quickly and accurately. The complete focus must be tracking the nuclear materials and those that would assemble them.
Freedom of movement (even vertically) must be a fundamental right moderated by others right of way , but not corrupted with fear, otherwise we live in a world where everyone is forced to stay in their home waiting for the enemy.
"/. is a great place for reading about clueless tech users. Let me be the first to inform you: you are equally clueless about the legal system."
And an great place for informed people to slap down the mistaken and uninformed with all due clarity and contempt.
"If there's one thing tech people do not understand, it is tort law."
Stereotypes are very useful for making yourself feel smarter than you are. But thanks for the nice explanation of sovereign immunity.
I'm afraid it looks like we are stuck with the current services for a while. Companies have locked in a price structure based on bandwidth and with just a few large corporations with market control in certain local areas it seems unlikely that one of them would want to start a price/bandwidth war that would see their profits squeezed.
Hopefully there is enough competition in some markets between DSL and Cable to bring prices down gradually, but about $50 for a 1 Mbit download and 300k upload seems to be about what we can expect for the next while here in the US.
Sad really, since the technician that installed my first cable modem back in 1997 told me that the employees had their modems running at 10Mbits per second at home with the same equipment on the same network.
Seems the technology is more flexible than the business plan.
"I'm assuming you don't realize how many technologies you use on a regular basis that were developed by NASA"
As someone who has worked in a government lab, it seems that every invention or achievement that is even remotely associated with the lab they take credit for. I wonder how many of those technologies were really developed by NASA or really just developed by associated companies and institutions. NASA doesn't devise new technology, individuals that may or may not work for them do.
Regardless, developing consumer goods is not their mission and cannot be a measure of their success. Even if Tang is really good at removing stains.
What is the annual budget for the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section and could you break down how the money is spent?
Also, do you rely on individual complaints or does your organization actively search for unreported intelectual property violations?
What is the Department of Justice's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section's annual budget?
What do you see as the governing reasons behind the intelectual property laws? And do you find any inconsistencies in reason or effect with the laws as written? Do you see any ways the laws might be changed to make them better? For example, would it make sense for lawmakers to better codify examples of fair use or is this best left in the hands of the courts?
I find it interesting that with the supposed glut of bandwidth and an apparent need for more bandwidth in business, that the telecoms are not offering faster data service at more reasonable cost. Seems that they have screwed themselves by locking in price structures that squeeze the largest of companies, but don't allow for any growth in the marketplace. Basically they have made big capital investmests laying fiber around the country and are going to sit on it charging the big corporations a premium.
Wouldn't economies of scale make more sense and deliver this service to more business? It has worked in the PC business. Why couldn't Moore's law work with telecom too. They too have billions of dollars in development costs to recoup and have found a way to spread that over enough customers. Seems the telecoms lack motivation or a clue. They look like cowardly penny-wise businessmen compared to the barrons of the computer business.
one word: Do not do it.
That's just funny
Maybe MensaBabe was just testing us
I think the SETI project has the SETI@Home Screensaver to thank, a project that provides both useful computational power and an indication of the public support that the program has. Although people might really just want a nice screensaver and don't expect to find little green men.
what cutbacks? NASA's budget hasn't gone down.
"Buildings have been providing services like this to the internet for years now"
It is is the "10 times as much" part of what you are saying that I think you understate the importance of.