Why should they only prioritize known good traffic? Why not just throttle known bad traffic (when there's congestion)? At least then, unknown good traffic won't suffer.
Here's my anecdotal story.
Like a lot of people, I have a vanity domain. My desired domain was taken on all TLDs except for.mobi, so that's the one I chose. All was well until some people on Verizon complained to me that they couldn't send me mail--Verizon always came back with "invalid e-mail address." I thought that was kind of strange, so I started investigating. Went to a friend's house (he had Verizon) and tried to send mail--no dice. Sent raw SMTP commands to the server, and it turns out that Verizon just doesn't acknowledge that.mobi is a valid TLD.
Now that's just stupid. There's no need for Verizon to whitelist TLDs. None. DNS is here so that we don't have to micromanage things like that. The mail server should be looking up the domain name, getting the MX records, sending the message, and moving on. And Verizon is the only ISP I've been able to find doing anything like this. They probably made the whitelist before.mobi was created and just failed to keep up.
Just like an ISP might whitelist good protocols, but not keep up with the changing times, Verizon for some reason felt the need to enumerate TLDs and hasn't kept up. It's really quite irritating. Probably the most infuriating thing is trying to get in contact with someone who can actually/change/ it....
Failure to use words correctly leads to circumstances where people think that, for example, that the Theory of Evolution is comparable to the theory of Intelligent Design. Hey, they're both theories, right?
Put in the context of storage technology, if someone was providing a backup service in their data center, but really they just meant that the drives that they provide to you are RAIDed, you'd probably be pretty pissed off when they were unable to restore from backup.
If the cache really is measured in MiB as you posit, the label on the drive in the picture uses an incorrect label (it uses MB.) The issue here is that they are using the labels inconsistently.
And it's inconsistent with regard to what the OS reports, too, so people who get their 2TB drives and then plug it in and find out that the OS thinks that it's considerably less than that get angry.
Do your friends post your pictures on Facebook? Last I checked, the only way to prevent people from explicitly searching for you in pictures was to have an account and disable it.
Also, with an account, you can untag your pictures.
Unsuitable does not mean incapable. Strictly speaking, any language which is turing complete can compute any problem. That doesn't mean that Brainfuck (look it up) is suitable for anything at all.
Interestingly, if you go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN1S1LdkUeg you'll see that there is a "click to download" option. As far as I can see, all of this account's videos are downloadable.
Yup, you're right. I was using hearsay without backing it up with facts, and as it turns out, only about 38%-41% of Americans polled thought that Gitmo should be closed. Obama's going against the wishes of the people.
When loved ones die, people are often irrational. The problem is that pundits have been preying on this fear for far too long.
I think America has made its choice. More than half of us think that Gitmo was a bad idea. Hopefully, if any prisoners are released and come back to attack us, we'll remember that.
I don't think there's evidence, certainly. But I do think that trolls get tired of trolling eventually. People don't often get tired of voicing their actual opinions.
Yeah, Microsoft really shot themselves in the foot with that one. Memory used for cache should have been made perfectly clear to avoid (or rather, mitigate) this kind of FUD.
Now if you go look at the processes that Windows spawns by default, you'll still see that Vista uses more memory, but it's not by much. Certainly nowhere near what the FUD spouters would like you to believe.
You don't need semi-colons at the end of lines--you need them at the end of statements. And in Javascript, they're always required for the end of statements. What happens is that if the Javascript interpreter encounters an error condition in the parsing of the code, it will go in and see if adding a semi-colon would make the error go away. If so, it will automatically add the semi-colon for you.
This was a design decision that was implemented to make Javascript easier to use. It was also, by most accounts, a mistake. But then, when Javascript was created, I doubt that anyone ever expected huge libraries and programming tasks to be implemented with it.
Javascript gets a bad rap for a lot of reasons. Most notably is the fact that Javascript and the DOM are conflated in most people's minds, despite the fact that the DOM is not a part of the Javascript specifications--in fact, while Javascript can manipulate the DOM, it's the browser which provides the bindings. It's not Javascript causing the incompatibility, it's the browser. An analogue might be having incompatible implementations of libc--you wouldn't blame the C compiler for the problem, would you?
There's also a developer problem. People see the C-like syntax and start coding as they would in C. Javascript is functional language, and it makes use of that in significant ways. Worse, the expected semantics of block-level scope differ from C, and that's a very big gotcha for a new programmer.
That's not to say that Javascript is without problems. There are numerous quirks which I consider errors in the specification. Nonetheless, it's really quite an elegant language for the most part, and it's certainly possible to develop libraries to handle the quirky cases.
Well, the feds only specify that unclassified drives be wiped. Classified drives (that is, hard drives with classified material on them) must be destroyed.
Incidentally, a lot of data on hard drives is user-inaccessible due to the hard drive remapping bad sectors. Only a low-level format will touch that data--not application-level wiping tools.
No offense to Gabe, but I don't know him. I don't know if he's honest, or if his word is good.
I also don't know if the patches will be downloadable and will work offline or not. Will I ever be able to reinstall a Steam game (assuming I got the media version and not the downloadable version.) If I reinstall, will the patch work? What if it's buggy?
When there's code in place to specifically disable software, all bets are really off. If Valve is going under, I wonder how well the quality control for these patches (which, frankly, aren't going to be making them any money) will be.
I have the same apprehensions regarding online-DRM (e.g. Steam.)
People have tried to assuage my fears by saying that Steam's a huge company, and that they won't be going out of business any time soon, and that really, they have no reason to annoy their customers.
I point to closures like Circuit City and DRM fiascos like Wal-Mart (who did eventually cave to consumer pressure), Microsoft (who killed off one DRM scheme to implement another), and Google (who, due to a PR nightmare, gave people store credit for their digital purchases.)
No one is immune to economic pressures forcing closure. I still go back and play old games from companies who have gone out of business. Others do, too. A little over a year ago, for example, http://bloggingultima.blogspot.com/ was started by a guy who loves the Ultima series of games. Origin Systems closed up shop in 2004. If their games had required online activation, they likely would be unplayable today.
I've bought very few games like this, and it's always for a minimal amount of money. The most I've spent, I think, was on Mega Man 9, which cost $10.
Truthfully, I can understand where you're coming from. It's a fine line between different devices which are incompatible, and similar devices which are intentionally made incompatible. I personally believe that on one side of the line, Nintendo is impeding my rights.
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It's 6 of one, a half dozen of the other.
Why should they only prioritize known good traffic? Why not just throttle known bad traffic (when there's congestion)? At least then, unknown good traffic won't suffer.
Here's my anecdotal story.
Like a lot of people, I have a vanity domain. My desired domain was taken on all TLDs except for .mobi, so that's the one I chose. All was well until some people on Verizon complained to me that they couldn't send me mail--Verizon always came back with "invalid e-mail address." I thought that was kind of strange, so I started investigating. Went to a friend's house (he had Verizon) and tried to send mail--no dice. Sent raw SMTP commands to the server, and it turns out that Verizon just doesn't acknowledge that .mobi is a valid TLD.
Now that's just stupid. There's no need for Verizon to whitelist TLDs. None. DNS is here so that we don't have to micromanage things like that. The mail server should be looking up the domain name, getting the MX records, sending the message, and moving on. And Verizon is the only ISP I've been able to find doing anything like this. They probably made the whitelist before .mobi was created and just failed to keep up.
Just like an ISP might whitelist good protocols, but not keep up with the changing times, Verizon for some reason felt the need to enumerate TLDs and hasn't kept up. It's really quite irritating. Probably the most infuriating thing is trying to get in contact with someone who can actually /change/ it....
Failure to use words correctly leads to circumstances where people think that, for example, that the Theory of Evolution is comparable to the theory of Intelligent Design. Hey, they're both theories, right?
Put in the context of storage technology, if someone was providing a backup service in their data center, but really they just meant that the drives that they provide to you are RAIDed, you'd probably be pretty pissed off when they were unable to restore from backup.
Words have meaning for a reason.
Only they don't use the notation consistently.
If the cache really is measured in MiB as you posit, the label on the drive in the picture uses an incorrect label (it uses MB.) The issue here is that they are using the labels inconsistently.
And it's inconsistent with regard to what the OS reports, too, so people who get their 2TB drives and then plug it in and find out that the OS thinks that it's considerably less than that get angry.
Is that why they instituted download caps?
Did you read the part in the summary which said that Comcast VOIP was unaffected by this problem?
Do your friends post your pictures on Facebook? Last I checked, the only way to prevent people from explicitly searching for you in pictures was to have an account and disable it.
Also, with an account, you can untag your pictures.
Unsuitable does not mean incapable. Strictly speaking, any language which is turing complete can compute any problem. That doesn't mean that Brainfuck (look it up) is suitable for anything at all.
Ooh, Barracuda....
I've heard horror stories of Barracuda boxes falling over due to the overwhelming amounts of spam.
Interestingly, if you go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN1S1LdkUeg you'll see that there is a "click to download" option. As far as I can see, all of this account's videos are downloadable.
Yup, you're right. I was using hearsay without backing it up with facts, and as it turns out, only about 38%-41% of Americans polled thought that Gitmo should be closed. Obama's going against the wishes of the people.
The loved ones should blame the terrorist who chose to commit murder.
The loved ones will probably blame GWB or BHO, depending upon their own political leanings.
When loved ones die, people are often irrational. The problem is that pundits have been preying on this fear for far too long.
I think America has made its choice. More than half of us think that Gitmo was a bad idea. Hopefully, if any prisoners are released and come back to attack us, we'll remember that.
But probably not.
I don't think there's evidence, certainly. But I do think that trolls get tired of trolling eventually. People don't often get tired of voicing their actual opinions.
There's lots of behind-the-scenes work that's been done to improve performance, stability, and security.
Did NT have a software firewall?
Yeah, Microsoft really shot themselves in the foot with that one. Memory used for cache should have been made perfectly clear to avoid (or rather, mitigate) this kind of FUD.
Now if you go look at the processes that Windows spawns by default, you'll still see that Vista uses more memory, but it's not by much. Certainly nowhere near what the FUD spouters would like you to believe.
Whether or not we then illegally download a copy is an entirely different matter.
It's absurdity to presume that knowledge of this option does not affect one's opinion of the song's worth.
Let's get pedantic for a bit.
You don't need semi-colons at the end of lines--you need them at the end of statements. And in Javascript, they're always required for the end of statements. What happens is that if the Javascript interpreter encounters an error condition in the parsing of the code, it will go in and see if adding a semi-colon would make the error go away. If so, it will automatically add the semi-colon for you.
This was a design decision that was implemented to make Javascript easier to use. It was also, by most accounts, a mistake. But then, when Javascript was created, I doubt that anyone ever expected huge libraries and programming tasks to be implemented with it.
This is a design choice. You're trading flexibility for correctness if you implement type checking.
Javascript gets a bad rap for a lot of reasons. Most notably is the fact that Javascript and the DOM are conflated in most people's minds, despite the fact that the DOM is not a part of the Javascript specifications--in fact, while Javascript can manipulate the DOM, it's the browser which provides the bindings. It's not Javascript causing the incompatibility, it's the browser. An analogue might be having incompatible implementations of libc--you wouldn't blame the C compiler for the problem, would you?
There's also a developer problem. People see the C-like syntax and start coding as they would in C. Javascript is functional language, and it makes use of that in significant ways. Worse, the expected semantics of block-level scope differ from C, and that's a very big gotcha for a new programmer.
That's not to say that Javascript is without problems. There are numerous quirks which I consider errors in the specification. Nonetheless, it's really quite an elegant language for the most part, and it's certainly possible to develop libraries to handle the quirky cases.
Well, the feds only specify that unclassified drives be wiped. Classified drives (that is, hard drives with classified material on them) must be destroyed.
Incidentally, a lot of data on hard drives is user-inaccessible due to the hard drive remapping bad sectors. Only a low-level format will touch that data--not application-level wiping tools.
No offense to Gabe, but I don't know him. I don't know if he's honest, or if his word is good.
I also don't know if the patches will be downloadable and will work offline or not. Will I ever be able to reinstall a Steam game (assuming I got the media version and not the downloadable version.) If I reinstall, will the patch work? What if it's buggy?
When there's code in place to specifically disable software, all bets are really off. If Valve is going under, I wonder how well the quality control for these patches (which, frankly, aren't going to be making them any money) will be.
I have the same apprehensions regarding online-DRM (e.g. Steam.)
People have tried to assuage my fears by saying that Steam's a huge company, and that they won't be going out of business any time soon, and that really, they have no reason to annoy their customers.
I point to closures like Circuit City and DRM fiascos like Wal-Mart (who did eventually cave to consumer pressure), Microsoft (who killed off one DRM scheme to implement another), and Google (who, due to a PR nightmare, gave people store credit for their digital purchases.)
No one is immune to economic pressures forcing closure. I still go back and play old games from companies who have gone out of business. Others do, too. A little over a year ago, for example, http://bloggingultima.blogspot.com/ was started by a guy who loves the Ultima series of games. Origin Systems closed up shop in 2004. If their games had required online activation, they likely would be unplayable today.
I've bought very few games like this, and it's always for a minimal amount of money. The most I've spent, I think, was on Mega Man 9, which cost $10.
I tried that after reading the man page--I'll admit, I didn't try -cd together.
Worked on mine. Did you type it in correctly?
$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=200 count=1 | tr -c -d 'A-Za-z0-9!@#$%^&*()_+'; echo
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
200 bytes transferred in 0.000050 secs (3994575 bytes/sec)
(+ori4d@f5Fvea_g0wOj2c(brCJo1y*!rQlve_kuDjFKYrqm7Fh#s#DfvJ
Exactly.
Truthfully, I can understand where you're coming from. It's a fine line between different devices which are incompatible, and similar devices which are intentionally made incompatible. I personally believe that on one side of the line, Nintendo is impeding my rights.