The theory is that an ISP should have a fat upsteam pipe of cost X and N thin downstream pipes of cost Y and price Z, such that X + N.Y < N.Z + some reasonable profit margin. The practice is that market forces want Z to be below what can be sustained because it kills off the competitors, provided you don't mind providing a degraded service. The catch is that so many customers are happy with degraded service that the ISPs aren't killed off and Z stays below what the infrastructure can tolerate.
I only use open-source router firmware. The stuff normally provided has no worthwhile support for IPTables (or replacements thereof), IPv6, Multicast, Dynamic DNS, honeypots, IPSec, SK/IP, AQM, or indeed anything much that Linux has.
There are multitudes of experiences, yes, and I've seen most of them. You have yet to crawl out of your mother's basement. Does she keep you chained there or do you like the whips?
Let's cover the offensive/inflamatory bit. Personally, I would have no objection if you jerks went on a one-way trip to investigate that gas cloud being consumed by a black hole. It would not only reduce the noise levels on Slashdot but would also solve the world's overpopulation crisis.
You ACers create sock puppets anyway, so what the f* is the difference if you have to do so versus getting to do so? Well, aside from reducing the trolls that can't be bothered. At worst it would have no impact on the spam we see, at best it would reduce it to those who actually put effort into their vitriol, which is almost none of you to judge from the low grade of vitriol you spew.
Next up, I've worked at CERN, NASA and the US Navy. Not an overweight geek in any of them. Don't recall any in any of the divisions at Intel, CSC and only one at SRC. Not known any at the Universities of Glamorgan, Manchester, Cambridge or Oxford. Don't recall seeing any at SC05, the various PCI Express conferences I've been to or even most of the regular computer shows.
There've been more overweight people at the Doctor Who conventions than in the computing industry, and I can think of only three at the the last DWAS meet I was at.
Sure there are people who are grossly overweight. Over 2/3rds of America could do with shedding 3/4rs or more of their body mass. Oh, and getting a brain transplant. I suspect you're one, since you're obsessed about it and generally it's the obsessed who overeat, and you're certainly 52 cards short of a full deck. Almost nobody who is actually any good at computing is an overeater - the two don't mix. Being good at computing requires a personality that is hyperfocussed and I challenge you to find a single OAer who remotely comes close to that.
If you post a reply to someone, it's... well... generally a reply to the person. Dunno if you comprehend that, but apparently not. Your grasp of English seems pretty bad.
To make sense, a manned mission has got to have goals that cannot utilize robots. So, any mission requiring ad-hoc methods -or- environments that are hostile to computers but well within the tolerances of humans. (Medium-to-high radiation where shielding can't be used, for example. So long as the human(s) involved are willing to undertake the risks and there's plenty of donor organs, humans actually aren't too bad in such environs.)
A good example of an ad-hoc mission would be a Mars mission that created a sub-surface colony. Most of the water is underground, the ground's a great shield against both the Martian dust storms and the hard radiation, there's plenty of subsurface methane for fuel, and we already know that there are plenty of massive subsurface caverns that can be exploited. The problem with a robot mission there is that it's also shielded from radio contact, the terrain is totally unknown and we've zero notion of how the subsurface geology will dictate what can and cannot be done. Humans don't need radio, don't care about a few rocks, and can study the geology in a way that no AI can currently handle.
Europa, although an "obvious" choice, is problematic. You don't just need water, you need lots of other resources and Europa isn't a good candidate for supplying those in a way that an exploration can easily use.
Once you're past the moon, fuel isn't an issue. You can slingshot to any planet with about the same fuel budget. Time is the only resource that matters. That makes the inner planets potentially more interesting as the gaps increase dramatically as you go further out. Mercury's rotation is such that you could have a short-term manned mission to the dark side without risking frying anyone and the geology there is sufficiently weird that you might well want someone on the ground.
That makes sense. The bottleneck defines the upper limit of performance. If you do go back to working with UDP, I do suggest grabbing either the NRL's NORM (snapshot version since they don't produce official releases any more for some reason) or FLUTE, since those give you the libraries you want for no effort. Both are listed on Freshme....sorry, Freecode. (That new site name STILL sounds too much like Freescale, the Motorola chip spinoff.)
Uhhhh. Ok. This tells me that Anonymous Coward postings should probably be disposed of, but not much more than that. It's certainly not applicable to either me or any other geek I know, where anorexia is commonplace.
PXE, et al, use TFTP, if I remember rightly. In principle, there's nothing to stop the files being delivered by multicast FTP (yes there are at least three, they use Scalable Reliable Multicast, FLUTE or NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast respectively). Since OS images and the games themselves don't differ between machines, if you have N machines you get file delivery about N times as fast. (About because lost packets are resent, so it's not truly linear improvement.)
Perhaps, but the certs were at least genuine. In the long-run, losses due to fraud are bound to swamp the savings of the cheaper (but useless) certs currently out there.
Ah yes. Microsoft enforcing security protocols. A fascinating idea. Yes, you said "it is hoped", but I have to wonder who is left with that much hope. It's well beyond the hope budget of most individuals.
The CAs shut down or investigated were added since the relaxation of the tiered certificate scheme. The CAs that have integrity now are the ones that had integrity then. Thawte was cheap when there were few CAs and have raised their prices as CAs have been added. Do explain.
Seems like Go Daddy and a number of other CAs don't do much beyond check your Who Is entry in the way of integrity checking, don't actually generate a full key pair (they just sign the public key, which means they don't know who actually generated it, and no signature is placed on the private key which they never see, so the installer of the private key can't know that the private key is the key corresponding to the public key they're offering).
That's really, really, really bad design. Especially if you remember the problems with NULLs being added to strings, the ability to add arbitrary data to files without altering the MD5 hash, etc. I would never trust a signed cert if no individual in the chain could actually certify that one end-point matched the other. That's asking for a MITM.
There was an agreement, way back when, which involved multiple levels of certs and a general understanding of what level of integrity each level of cert offered. It wasn't hard-and-fast, certainly no standard, but it was generally accepted and generally used. Then people wanted certs cheap and now, not something high levels of integrity checking really allow for, so what agreement did exist simply went up in smoke as vendors pandered to customers over and above common sense.
Judaism is probably closer to 4,200 years old since many of the references simply don't make sense otherwise. The region has been embroiled in war for a lot longer. The Sumerians recount barbarians from the mountains conquering most of the cities and then leaving them to rot. The Babylonians were a Semitic people who invaded Sumeria somewhat later, not only deposing the locals and destroying much of the culture, but also suppressing them politically. When the Sumerians re-asserted power, they were utterly crushed beyond recognition by an invasion from the south. Both the Babylonians and the Sumerians were savagely butchered by the interlopers and it's around this time that history of the region goes from being documented to being mostly folk-tales. However, the most viable theory is that the Judaic people are descended from the mystics of Ur (Chaldees translates not only to a specific empire but also to "mystic" and it is the latter translation that makes a lot of oral traditions make a lot more sense).
However, 2,200 BC is modern for the region (we have written histories back to 5,500 BC and proto-writing + archaeology going back to 8,000 BC), and the mystics (likely a mix of Canaanites - we know those were mystics from spells and incantations written in Egyptian tombs - and Babylonians, as Sumeria had nothing that resembled a mystery tradition) are hardly ancient as people in the Middle East go.
And, yes, I've pretty much all the lit on Sumerian and Babylonian, including the dictionaries, mythologies, grammars and assorted translations of other texts. You have....?
The monarchy was installed by the US. Read up a bit more. Hitler and Mussolini were heavily involved in the Middle East - main reason that the region mostly sided with the Axis powers. Again, read. It's very healthy. I promise you won't die of text.
Can we half beat them up, then? Concluding that 1+1=2 because it rained on Saturday is not logical and a good clip round the lughole might actually help, even though the conclusion is indeed correct.
They are. The reports are also of NEW events, not events back then. The IAEA reports demonstrate very clearly a strong correlation between covert warfare and covert defense spending. This should not be a surprise. Name a war in which the country on the defensive has NOT invested in R&D.
You make a great case......if I'd been persuaded by the manifsto George Orwell described. Killing is the problem, the number simply doesn't matter. War is NEVER Peace, no matter how small the casualty list is. Kill one, kill millions, you're still a killer. The total should not matter. Fire a car bomb, fire a nuclear bomb -- you're still firing a bomb. Justification by comparison is naive because no matter what you do you will ALWAYS be able to find a comparison that makes you look good.
Destruction is destruction. Killing is killing. A spade is a spade is a spade. A war, hot or cold, is a war. Enough of the yammering, the excuses, the pathetic attempts at making the ugly look pretty.
Unelected bureaucrats (the House of Lords, the British Advertising Standards Authority, the BBC, Linus Torvalds) have a rather better score when it comes to democracy than the elected ones (who, in the case of the US, are blatant about how bribeable and corruptible they are). This is partly because the US (and the UK) use highly corrupt forms of "democracy", but also because the US (and UK) have poorly-educated, easily-manipulated segments of the population doing the voting. It's interesting to note that a large number of States (on both sides of the spectrum) are also now enacting laws to disenfranchise legitimate voters who might vote the wrong way.
Sorry, but a broken system is a broken system. A merely dysfunctional working system at least works and we're better off with it. The key is the "working" bit. Unelected systems don't guarantee to be working, and often don't, but elected systems if you've blind, deaf, dumb and brain-dead sheep doing the electing are guaranteed to never work. And since nobody in the US wants functional education, as Texas has so wonderfully demonstrated, those are the only voters the US has.
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The theory is that an ISP should have a fat upsteam pipe of cost X and N thin downstream pipes of cost Y and price Z, such that X + N.Y < N.Z + some reasonable profit margin. The practice is that market forces want Z to be below what can be sustained because it kills off the competitors, provided you don't mind providing a degraded service. The catch is that so many customers are happy with degraded service that the ISPs aren't killed off and Z stays below what the infrastructure can tolerate.
I only use open-source router firmware. The stuff normally provided has no worthwhile support for IPTables (or replacements thereof), IPv6, Multicast, Dynamic DNS, honeypots, IPSec, SK/IP, AQM, or indeed anything much that Linux has.
Occupy X.500, it has a classier name and more features.
There are multitudes of experiences, yes, and I've seen most of them. You have yet to crawl out of your mother's basement. Does she keep you chained there or do you like the whips?
Clippy: I see you are trying to reach a verdict.
Let's cover the offensive/inflamatory bit. Personally, I would have no objection if you jerks went on a one-way trip to investigate that gas cloud being consumed by a black hole. It would not only reduce the noise levels on Slashdot but would also solve the world's overpopulation crisis.
You ACers create sock puppets anyway, so what the f* is the difference if you have to do so versus getting to do so? Well, aside from reducing the trolls that can't be bothered. At worst it would have no impact on the spam we see, at best it would reduce it to those who actually put effort into their vitriol, which is almost none of you to judge from the low grade of vitriol you spew.
Next up, I've worked at CERN, NASA and the US Navy. Not an overweight geek in any of them. Don't recall any in any of the divisions at Intel, CSC and only one at SRC. Not known any at the Universities of Glamorgan, Manchester, Cambridge or Oxford. Don't recall seeing any at SC05, the various PCI Express conferences I've been to or even most of the regular computer shows.
There've been more overweight people at the Doctor Who conventions than in the computing industry, and I can think of only three at the the last DWAS meet I was at.
Sure there are people who are grossly overweight. Over 2/3rds of America could do with shedding 3/4rs or more of their body mass. Oh, and getting a brain transplant. I suspect you're one, since you're obsessed about it and generally it's the obsessed who overeat, and you're certainly 52 cards short of a full deck. Almost nobody who is actually any good at computing is an overeater - the two don't mix. Being good at computing requires a personality that is hyperfocussed and I challenge you to find a single OAer who remotely comes close to that.
If you post a reply to someone, it's... well... generally a reply to the person. Dunno if you comprehend that, but apparently not. Your grasp of English seems pretty bad.
To make sense, a manned mission has got to have goals that cannot utilize robots. So, any mission requiring ad-hoc methods -or- environments that are hostile to computers but well within the tolerances of humans. (Medium-to-high radiation where shielding can't be used, for example. So long as the human(s) involved are willing to undertake the risks and there's plenty of donor organs, humans actually aren't too bad in such environs.)
A good example of an ad-hoc mission would be a Mars mission that created a sub-surface colony. Most of the water is underground, the ground's a great shield against both the Martian dust storms and the hard radiation, there's plenty of subsurface methane for fuel, and we already know that there are plenty of massive subsurface caverns that can be exploited. The problem with a robot mission there is that it's also shielded from radio contact, the terrain is totally unknown and we've zero notion of how the subsurface geology will dictate what can and cannot be done. Humans don't need radio, don't care about a few rocks, and can study the geology in a way that no AI can currently handle.
Europa, although an "obvious" choice, is problematic. You don't just need water, you need lots of other resources and Europa isn't a good candidate for supplying those in a way that an exploration can easily use.
Once you're past the moon, fuel isn't an issue. You can slingshot to any planet with about the same fuel budget. Time is the only resource that matters. That makes the inner planets potentially more interesting as the gaps increase dramatically as you go further out. Mercury's rotation is such that you could have a short-term manned mission to the dark side without risking frying anyone and the geology there is sufficiently weird that you might well want someone on the ground.
That makes sense. The bottleneck defines the upper limit of performance. If you do go back to working with UDP, I do suggest grabbing either the NRL's NORM (snapshot version since they don't produce official releases any more for some reason) or FLUTE, since those give you the libraries you want for no effort. Both are listed on Freshme....sorry, Freecode. (That new site name STILL sounds too much like Freescale, the Motorola chip spinoff.)
Uhhhh. Ok. This tells me that Anonymous Coward postings should probably be disposed of, but not much more than that. It's certainly not applicable to either me or any other geek I know, where anorexia is commonplace.
PXE, et al, use TFTP, if I remember rightly. In principle, there's nothing to stop the files being delivered by multicast FTP (yes there are at least three, they use Scalable Reliable Multicast, FLUTE or NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast respectively). Since OS images and the games themselves don't differ between machines, if you have N machines you get file delivery about N times as fast. (About because lost packets are resent, so it's not truly linear improvement.)
Release early, release often. I thought that was the way we're supposed to work.
In that case, Lindesfarne Mead would surely be the tipple of choice.
Perhaps, but the certs were at least genuine. In the long-run, losses due to fraud are bound to swamp the savings of the cheaper (but useless) certs currently out there.
Ah yes. Microsoft enforcing security protocols. A fascinating idea. Yes, you said "it is hoped", but I have to wonder who is left with that much hope. It's well beyond the hope budget of most individuals.
You are supposed to say Nawt Sekkond.
The CAs shut down or investigated were added since the relaxation of the tiered certificate scheme. The CAs that have integrity now are the ones that had integrity then. Thawte was cheap when there were few CAs and have raised their prices as CAs have been added. Do explain.
Seems like Go Daddy and a number of other CAs don't do much beyond check your Who Is entry in the way of integrity checking, don't actually generate a full key pair (they just sign the public key, which means they don't know who actually generated it, and no signature is placed on the private key which they never see, so the installer of the private key can't know that the private key is the key corresponding to the public key they're offering).
That's really, really, really bad design. Especially if you remember the problems with NULLs being added to strings, the ability to add arbitrary data to files without altering the MD5 hash, etc. I would never trust a signed cert if no individual in the chain could actually certify that one end-point matched the other. That's asking for a MITM.
There was an agreement, way back when, which involved multiple levels of certs and a general understanding of what level of integrity each level of cert offered. It wasn't hard-and-fast, certainly no standard, but it was generally accepted and generally used. Then people wanted certs cheap and now, not something high levels of integrity checking really allow for, so what agreement did exist simply went up in smoke as vendors pandered to customers over and above common sense.
Judaism is probably closer to 4,200 years old since many of the references simply don't make sense otherwise. The region has been embroiled in war for a lot longer. The Sumerians recount barbarians from the mountains conquering most of the cities and then leaving them to rot. The Babylonians were a Semitic people who invaded Sumeria somewhat later, not only deposing the locals and destroying much of the culture, but also suppressing them politically. When the Sumerians re-asserted power, they were utterly crushed beyond recognition by an invasion from the south. Both the Babylonians and the Sumerians were savagely butchered by the interlopers and it's around this time that history of the region goes from being documented to being mostly folk-tales. However, the most viable theory is that the Judaic people are descended from the mystics of Ur (Chaldees translates not only to a specific empire but also to "mystic" and it is the latter translation that makes a lot of oral traditions make a lot more sense).
However, 2,200 BC is modern for the region (we have written histories back to 5,500 BC and proto-writing + archaeology going back to 8,000 BC), and the mystics (likely a mix of Canaanites - we know those were mystics from spells and incantations written in Egyptian tombs - and Babylonians, as Sumeria had nothing that resembled a mystery tradition) are hardly ancient as people in the Middle East go.
And, yes, I've pretty much all the lit on Sumerian and Babylonian, including the dictionaries, mythologies, grammars and assorted translations of other texts. You have....?
The monarchy was installed by the US. Read up a bit more. Hitler and Mussolini were heavily involved in the Middle East - main reason that the region mostly sided with the Axis powers. Again, read. It's very healthy. I promise you won't die of text.
Can we half beat them up, then? Concluding that 1+1=2 because it rained on Saturday is not logical and a good clip round the lughole might actually help, even though the conclusion is indeed correct.
They are. The reports are also of NEW events, not events back then. The IAEA reports demonstrate very clearly a strong correlation between covert warfare and covert defense spending. This should not be a surprise. Name a war in which the country on the defensive has NOT invested in R&D.
You make a great case... ...if I'd been persuaded by the manifsto George Orwell described. Killing is the problem, the number simply doesn't matter. War is NEVER Peace, no matter how small the casualty list is. Kill one, kill millions, you're still a killer. The total should not matter. Fire a car bomb, fire a nuclear bomb -- you're still firing a bomb. Justification by comparison is naive because no matter what you do you will ALWAYS be able to find a comparison that makes you look good.
Destruction is destruction. Killing is killing. A spade is a spade is a spade. A war, hot or cold, is a war. Enough of the yammering, the excuses, the pathetic attempts at making the ugly look pretty.
Unelected bureaucrats (the House of Lords, the British Advertising Standards Authority, the BBC, Linus Torvalds) have a rather better score when it comes to democracy than the elected ones (who, in the case of the US, are blatant about how bribeable and corruptible they are). This is partly because the US (and the UK) use highly corrupt forms of "democracy", but also because the US (and UK) have poorly-educated, easily-manipulated segments of the population doing the voting. It's interesting to note that a large number of States (on both sides of the spectrum) are also now enacting laws to disenfranchise legitimate voters who might vote the wrong way.
Sorry, but a broken system is a broken system. A merely dysfunctional working system at least works and we're better off with it. The key is the "working" bit. Unelected systems don't guarantee to be working, and often don't, but elected systems if you've blind, deaf, dumb and brain-dead sheep doing the electing are guaranteed to never work. And since nobody in the US wants functional education, as Texas has so wonderfully demonstrated, those are the only voters the US has.
And this surprises you why?