I think the next law we should pass, in fact the next law that every country should pass is to make it illegal to negotiate any international agreement in secret. Also I believe this law should make any international treaty or agreement that results from secret negotiations should automatically be null and void, or at the very least automatically subject to referendum, with a 3 month lead up period and that failure to approve should automatically trigger national elections.
My superstition is that not having a 13th floor is bad luck, since after all what is proping up the 14th floor? Magic? Though, whatever you do, don't try proving the fact that the 14th floor is the 13th, since this will lead to confusion and mass hysteria, and may even brand you as some sort of heretic.
The simplest solution would probably be to enter a random key sequence before the pass key phase. At that point it would be harder tell which keys were used for the pass key and which were random.
The main advantage is that this can be retrofitted via software fairly easily.
You could do a kickstarter or just start preparing an open firewall rules list, that could be used by one of the open source routers or possibly by Windows itself?
We could ask Microsoft to be transparent about what the OS phones home for and what else is shared beyond the network.
If any of these countries are part of the Eurozone and this is preventing someone from one part of the EU using something from another part of the EU, then Xerox will have some answering to do. EU laws, from my understanding, make this sort of thing illegal within its territory.
If you are region locked to the whole Eurozone, then that is okay. Of course it doesn't change that this is a dick move, on the part of Xerox, IMO.
Oh how easily this would be solved if NTP was proprietary technology and Father Time could ask a small royalty for every piece of software that uses NTP. I just mean that by making things open source you are intentionally taking the risk that there can be problems with arranging well-rounded funding.
Maybe, but the challenge with business owned closed source is that the owners then want to find extra ways to monitise the resource. The alternative would be to keep it open source and charge for support or simply encourage sponsorship from anyone using it in commercial hardware?
Then again these 'features' aren't limited to FF. My current pieve is later 'fad' of 'simplified URLs' in the address bar that strip the protocol and other useful information.
When was the last time that a plane had to make an emergency landing or a flight delayed because the plane simply weighed too much due to obese travelers?
There's probably some other unknown reason why they are doing this.
One reason I would imagine is due to passengers shifting weight from checked-in baggage to their carry on or themselves. Combine that with trying to reduce fuel costs and you find yourself with airlines wanting to eliminate as many of the unknowns as possible. Carrying extra fuel just in case also adds to the fuel cost, since that weight must be accounted for in extra burn.
The risk with too much over-optimisation is that the risk of failure increases if any one of the values is slightly off. The truth is, it is almost impossible to have all the variables accounted for, especially once the plane is up in the air and subject to external factors.
$2 million for 2 million licenses? It means $1/yr for Oracle license? I have hard time believing it.
Indeed. If that is the real number, then I don't know where the complaint is? I suspect somewhere the numbers are wrong or what they represent has been miscommunicated?
We need to get this Sith Lord out of office. The problem is that we really depend on the non-voting 45% and have no Jedis. Hopefully those who voted conservative last time will realise the ugly truth of their choice.
The USA will face a different problem: inability to vote connect to new services that only exist on IPv6. Maybe some of the big players, such as Google and Facebook could add some features that you only get through IPv6 and then leak the info about it. I wonder how much noise will then occur on the web?
If the ISP is able to get one IPv4 address, then they can NAT64 the rest of their network. Sure there will be a lot of software that breaks, but that is going to be a growing reality for many people.
IPv4 should just go away already. Linux, Mac, and WinDOS had had IPV6 forever. Whatever doesn't support IPv6 should just go away as well. All that old shit is hackable virus prone garbage anyway.
The problem is that numerous companies haven't invested the time or money in ensuring their network can speak IPv6 or to the IPv6 world. The main issue has probably been that it was cheaper to do business a usual. Until major services do an IPv4 blackout day or ARIN raises the prices of the remaining IPv6, companies will be dragging their feet.
One site amongst the feet draggers is/. Sure there was a bug in some of the Perl code used by/. a number of years back, that apparently prevented supporting IPV6, as an excuse, but should that still be a reason today?
I am wondering whether at this point ARIN would be justified to raising the price for remaining IPv4 addresses and offer IPv6 addresses at a lower cost? And then raise cost as a ratio of remaining IPv4 addresses available to hand out? I am sure this would change business perspective on how much to delay IPv6 adoption?
hardware firmware is commonly buggy. Device drivers often have to work around buggy hardware, so blacklisting devices for various functionality is not at all unusual.
If the code seems to work with other devices and breaks with a new device, then the first instinct is going to be to assume the new device is doing something wrong.
Another way of seeing things, is even if the bug is in the kernel, black listing still prevents damage to data on said vendor's hardware. When it comes to data corruption the first thing to do is limit damage, no matter who is it at fault. Afterwards, you can work together to try to isolate source of problems. Having unhappy users and customers is never good, unless you are the competition.
The vast percentage of roads in the UK have no Street Lights at all and cars that use these roads do not crash due to there being no street lights because CARS have LIGHTS.
Alot of the Motorway network has no lights and cars are crashing all over the place because they can not see.
Turn all street lights off and save the world and SAVE CASH
Cars aren't the only users of our streets. There are these things called pedestrians./s
Cars certainly have lights, but sometimes they are overly bright, such as the xenon based ones and are enough to stun a pedestrian, but again the car is not the only entity benefiting from street lights. Also, in town pedestrians are wanting to be aware of obstacles or other risk factors, without having to resort to flash-lights - the population density warrants the use of street lights, where it might be the case out of town.
One of the problems with traditional street lights is they take a while to warm up. If street lights are replaced with LED based ones, would having them fitted with movement sensors be practical, such that they only stay on while they sense movement and then after that either dim down or turn off?
I would be curious whether there are any off the shelf solutions, for retrofitting existing light sockets? This would be useful for apartment buildings and court yards, such that they don't need a complete overhaul.
This so called article is simply scaremongering of the highest order. You should be ashamed!
Myself I would say yes, on the condition it has been cleared by the Japanese health and safety regulators. If it shown to be bio-equivalent, then why should we be worrying? I would say this of food from any source.
The problem is probably not the regulation, but people buying drones who arent aware of the regulations. The onus is on the drone operator to get informed, but until there is an education campaign, people are going to do whatever they think is okay.
One thing I would like to see come out of this is open data airspace data. Currently you need to pay a hefty fee for this, but allowing drones to benefit from this data would help make better next generation drone, IMHO. It should be optional to use it, but encouraged.
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I think the next law we should pass, in fact the next law that every country should pass is to make it illegal to negotiate any international agreement in secret. Also I believe this law should make any international treaty or agreement that results from secret negotiations should automatically be null and void, or at the very least automatically subject to referendum, with a 3 month lead up period and that failure to approve should automatically trigger national elections.
The current explanation, pins this on the Acacia Tree and this only happens when the antelope population is too large.
I couldn't find full articles that weren't behind paywalls, so this will have to do as reference: http://arthurmag.com/2010/01/0...
My superstition is that not having a 13th floor is bad luck, since after all what is proping up the 14th floor? Magic? Though, whatever you do, don't try proving the fact that the 14th floor is the 13th, since this will lead to confusion and mass hysteria, and may even brand you as some sort of heretic.
Just curious how you setup your home network to protect yourself
I am wondering whether a combination of http proxy & firewall rules is the way to go, and then tally the logs for suspicious activity?
The simplest solution would probably be to enter a random key sequence before the pass key phase. At that point it would be harder tell which keys were used for the pass key and which were random.
The main advantage is that this can be retrofitted via software fairly easily.
You could do a kickstarter or just start preparing an open firewall rules list, that could be used by one of the open source routers or possibly by Windows itself?
We could ask Microsoft to be transparent about what the OS phones home for and what else is shared beyond the network.
If any of these countries are part of the Eurozone and this is preventing someone from one part of the EU using something from another part of the EU, then Xerox will have some answering to do. EU laws, from my understanding, make this sort of thing illegal within its territory.
If you are region locked to the whole Eurozone, then that is okay. Of course it doesn't change that this is a dick move, on the part of Xerox, IMO.
Oh how easily this would be solved if NTP was proprietary technology and Father Time could ask a small royalty for every piece of software that uses NTP. I just mean that by making things open source you are intentionally taking the risk that there can be problems with arranging well-rounded funding.
Maybe, but the challenge with business owned closed source is that the owners then want to find extra ways to monitise the resource. The alternative would be to keep it open source and charge for support or simply encourage sponsorship from anyone using it in commercial hardware?
On the bright side at least FF will feel right at home in Windows 10 with this behaviour.
Then again these 'features' aren't limited to FF. My current pieve is later 'fad' of 'simplified URLs' in the address bar that strip the protocol and other useful information.
When was the last time that a plane had to make an emergency landing or a flight delayed because the plane simply weighed too much due to obese travelers?
There's probably some other unknown reason why they are doing this.
One reason I would imagine is due to passengers shifting weight from checked-in baggage to their carry on or themselves. Combine that with trying to reduce fuel costs and you find yourself with airlines wanting to eliminate as many of the unknowns as possible. Carrying extra fuel just in case also adds to the fuel cost, since that weight must be accounted for in extra burn.
The risk with too much over-optimisation is that the risk of failure increases if any one of the values is slightly off. The truth is, it is almost impossible to have all the variables accounted for, especially once the plane is up in the air and subject to external factors.
$2 million for 2 million licenses? It means $1/yr for Oracle license? I have hard time believing it.
Indeed. If that is the real number, then I don't know where the complaint is? I suspect somewhere the numbers are wrong or what they represent has been miscommunicated?
We need to get this Sith Lord out of office. The problem is that we really depend on the non-voting 45% and have no Jedis. Hopefully those who voted conservative last time will realise the ugly truth of their choice.
Netflix does use AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/solutio...
Ah but then we could just bomb the bridge. Wouldn't be an effective use of the bridge, granted.
The USA will face a different problem: inability to vote connect to new services that only exist on IPv6. Maybe some of the big players, such as Google and Facebook could add some features that you only get through IPv6 and then leak the info about it. I wonder how much noise will then occur on the web?
BTW Netflix supports IPv6 via AWS.
If the ISP is able to get one IPv4 address, then they can NAT64 the rest of their network. Sure there will be a lot of software that breaks, but that is going to be a growing reality for many people.
IPv4 should just go away already. Linux, Mac, and WinDOS had had IPV6 forever. Whatever doesn't support IPv6 should just go away as well. All that old shit is hackable virus prone garbage anyway.
The problem is that numerous companies haven't invested the time or money in ensuring their network can speak IPv6 or to the IPv6 world. The main issue has probably been that it was cheaper to do business a usual. Until major services do an IPv4 blackout day or ARIN raises the prices of the remaining IPv6, companies will be dragging their feet.
One site amongst the feet draggers is /. Sure there was a bug in some of the Perl code used by /. a number of years back, that apparently prevented supporting IPV6, as an excuse, but should that still be a reason today?
I am wondering whether at this point ARIN would be justified to raising the price for remaining IPv4 addresses and offer IPv6 addresses at a lower cost? And then raise cost as a ratio of remaining IPv4 addresses available to hand out? I am sure this would change business perspective on how much to delay IPv6 adoption?
They should also put checks to see if you are narrow minded. That should catch some of the politicians.
hardware firmware is commonly buggy. Device drivers often have to work around buggy hardware, so blacklisting devices for various functionality is not at all unusual.
If the code seems to work with other devices and breaks with a new device, then the first instinct is going to be to assume the new device is doing something wrong.
Another way of seeing things, is even if the bug is in the kernel, black listing still prevents damage to data on said vendor's hardware. When it comes to data corruption the first thing to do is limit damage, no matter who is it at fault. Afterwards, you can work together to try to isolate source of problems. Having unhappy users and customers is never good, unless you are the competition.
AA, what do they know!!
The vast percentage of roads in the UK have no Street Lights at all and cars that use these roads do not crash due to there being no street lights because CARS have LIGHTS.
Alot of the Motorway network has no lights and cars are crashing all over the place because they can not see.
Turn all street lights off and save the world and SAVE CASH
Cars aren't the only users of our streets. There are these things called pedestrians. /s
Cars certainly have lights, but sometimes they are overly bright, such as the xenon based ones and are enough to stun a pedestrian, but again the car is not the only entity benefiting from street lights. Also, in town pedestrians are wanting to be aware of obstacles or other risk factors, without having to resort to flash-lights - the population density warrants the use of street lights, where it might be the case out of town.
One of the problems with traditional street lights is they take a while to warm up. If street lights are replaced with LED based ones, would having them fitted with movement sensors be practical, such that they only stay on while they sense movement and then after that either dim down or turn off?
There is certainly research going into this: http://www.gizmag.com/motion-s...
I would be curious whether there are any off the shelf solutions, for retrofitting existing light sockets? This would be useful for apartment buildings and court yards, such that they don't need a complete overhaul.
Yes, yes I would.
This so called article is simply scaremongering of the highest order. You should be ashamed!
Myself I would say yes, on the condition it has been cleared by the Japanese health and safety regulators. If it shown to be bio-equivalent, then why should we be worrying? I would say this of food from any source.
The problem is probably not the regulation, but people buying drones who arent aware of the regulations. The onus is on the drone operator to get informed, but until there is an education campaign, people are going to do whatever they think is okay.
One thing I would like to see come out of this is open data airspace data. Currently you need to pay a hefty fee for this, but allowing drones to benefit from this data would help make better next generation drone, IMHO. It should be optional to use it, but encouraged.