To have one company have total control over a food source is disturbing. They essentially have a monopoly and have risked destroying non GM crops through cross-contamination and I think it should be Monsanto that should be paying damages to farmers who do not want to deal with GM crops.
I think the whole concept of of dot word domains is botched. It doesn't really solve any problems and causes a whole bunch of new ones. In reality they will simply end up behaving as the.com domains without the.com suffix. Additional issues include being subject to the FBI's jurisdiction (just like the.com TLD) and confusing company names with country suffixes - for example what country is.hp? In reality this is a money grab by an organization that should not be making money its primary goal.
No problems, the plane is leaving 45:06:00 AM;) - just could resist normalizing the time to follow the US date logic. And while we are at it, how about making coordinates minutes,, degrees and seconds:p
I haven't read any of the treaties, but the fact the imperial system is still in place, is a worrying reminder. Move to the metric system and be finally rid the every day reminder of the Britsh empire.
I haven't seen anything about manually assigning a link local address and imam not even sure what the benefit would be, since it is essentially static for a given device?
When enough people start phoning up about IPv6, maybe the company will clue in that is cheaper to actually do something about proving IPv6 and the associated support staff training?
I wonder how a quick fix approach would have been accepted. Something simple like slapping another 32bits on an "extended" IPv4 address and assuming leading zeros on any packet with an old 32 bit address.
That would not have worked. Everything assumed an IP address was 32 bits. Any other solution would have had the same challenges as IPv6.
Could be Bell. They have a page on getting ready for IPv6 ( http://ipv6.bell.ca/ ), but there is no way to actually get IPv6 capability from them!? Though, is there any ISP in Canada providing means to natively get onto IPv6?
Also worth noting that fe80::/10 is self assigned and non-routable. This means you can just connects bunch of computers together with a switch and they will have an address to speak to each other with, but you won't be using it to speak to computers outside of the net. I suppose this is roughly equivalent to the IPv4 169.*, except the IPv6 equivalent is a bit more static.
Maybe fc00::7 was a fallback plan in case NATing became necessary? First I have heard of the prefix.
They need to be upgraded, but not all manufacturers are going to offer the option - though if it is recent you could always make some noise with the company. Ohers options include a new router or seeing if DDWRT can be installed.
Even outside of code anything instruction that can be misinterpreted will probably be, due to assumption of the person interpreting the instructions. In writing software we do our best to avoid misinterpretation, but given the amount of instructions, there is bound to be things that don't work well together.
Other domains where you run into similar issues and limitations: laws and medicine.
But they also ground you on price in the first place so much so that there was not enough room in the budget for proper testing / debugging. And don't forget that they changed the specs three times during development.
If a client wants software to be "BugFree" there's plenty of companies offering that level of service - IBM, WindRiver, etc.
Good, Quick, Cheap - Pick Two.
Even then there is no bug free software. What it is free from are bugs that testing would have discovered. Anything after is subject to the SLA (service level agreement)
Indeed, though a service level agreement is always worth having. That way everyone knows ahead of time where they stand and whether to end the relationship early if the terms are unacceptable to either party.
Always get the user to end user testing and to sign off on it. If they refuse to do so, then you should indicate that you aren't liable for bugs that could have been caught. Anything caught outside of the testing period is subject to the SLA.
As to source, big companies sometimes insist on either having the source or keeping it in escrow, in case you disappear, but having infinite life-time support for free is excessive. Is there anything in life that comes with type of deal?
Note, if a contractor fixes my roof then I have a guarantee against defects for 5 years. If it runs into problems that are due to their workmanship, then they have to take care of it.
How effective would methane generators be in small farming communities, which already produce methane as a by-product? If they work well, then they may be able to be off-grid completely?
I am a recent convert to Unison. I discovered this because I was trying out Google Drive, which I found worked well, but I don't want to keep more of my data in someone else's cloud if I have to. So far I have been using the Mac OS UI. With a solution with Unison you will need your own server with ssh access to the Internet. The downside is that you have to worry about backups or uptime, though you don't have to worry about some government taking the service offline permanently (or while they spends years trying to establish possible guilt).
The advantages with solutions like Drop Box or Google Drive is that you not have to worry about the server side. Depending on the amount of data you want to store you will have to choose between the basic paid access or the paid access, which gives you more storage.
BitTorrent is probably the worst solution here, since it only works well when the data is massively distributed. If you only ever have one peer, then you are better off with one of the solutions mentioned above.
Another approach would be for the pirate bay to start using IPv6 in addition to IPv4. It is always going be cat and mouse, so we just need to make sure the mouse is more techno savvy and uses technology to its advantage.
Which 33 countries surveyed is important, since percentages vary and also why people pirated is also important. You can't start fixing a problem until you understand the motive behind the act. For example Photoshop is probably heavily pirated amongst home users because of the $1000 price tag and they use it no more than a few days a year.
A partial standard, using your definition of one, isn't an actual standard at all.
-- BMO
Indeed. Until other companies start using this, then it is purely Apple centric. At least it falls back to SMS. In many ways if the phone service companies didn't charge so much for SMS, then this would never have been an interesting feature. I must admit I have started using Whatsapp in certain cases for this, but until it is standard on all phones, then it still feels like a kludge.
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To have one company have total control over a food source is disturbing. They essentially have a monopoly and have risked destroying non GM crops through cross-contamination and I think it should be Monsanto that should be paying damages to farmers who do not want to deal with GM crops.
I think the whole concept of of dot word domains is botched. It doesn't really solve any problems and causes a whole bunch of new ones. In reality they will simply end up behaving as the .com domains without the .com suffix. Additional issues include being subject to the FBI's jurisdiction (just like the .com TLD) and confusing company names with country suffixes - for example what country is .hp? In reality this is a money grab by an organization that should not be making money its primary goal.
What take does the IETF have on this circuis?
No problems, the plane is leaving 45:06:00 AM ;) - just could resist normalizing the time to follow the US date logic. And while we are at it, how about making coordinates minutes,, degrees and seconds :p
Actually you are still a British colony :)
Have you actually read those treaties?
I haven't read any of the treaties, but the fact the imperial system is still in place, is a worrying reminder. Move to the metric system and be finally rid the every day reminder of the Britsh empire.
With things like mDNS or routers athat uto register host names, it may be more effort than it is worth?
I haven't seen anything about manually assigning a link local address and imam not even sure what the benefit would be, since it is essentially static for a given device?
A /48 is what is normally assigned based on IETF recommendations. Now you are free to build your own Internet ;)
BTW you say your router doesn't support IPv6, but it using using a SixXS tunnel. Did I miss something?
Not only that but Windows 2000 had support though a dev pack.
On Windows XP you simply need to activate it and it will get a network prefix via rtadv.
When enough people start phoning up about IPv6, maybe the company will clue in that is cheaper to actually do something about proving IPv6 and the associated support staff training?
I wonder how a quick fix approach would have been accepted. Something simple like slapping another 32bits on an "extended" IPv4 address and assuming leading zeros on any packet with an old 32 bit address.
That would not have worked. Everything assumed an IP address was 32 bits. Any other solution would have had the same challenges as IPv6.
Could be Bell. They have a page on getting ready for IPv6 ( http://ipv6.bell.ca/ ), but there is no way to actually get IPv6 capability from them!? Though, is there any ISP in Canada providing means to natively get onto IPv6?
You could probably use a tunnel for now. Check out tunnel brokers such as Hurricane Electric or SiXXS.net.
Also worth noting that fe80::/10 is self assigned and non-routable. This means you can just connects bunch of computers together with a switch and they will have an address to speak to each other with, but you won't be using it to speak to computers outside of the net. I suppose this is roughly equivalent to the IPv4 169.*, except the IPv6 equivalent is a bit more static.
Maybe fc00::7 was a fallback plan in case NATing became necessary? First I have heard of the prefix.
Well RFQ 4941 addresses some of your concerns: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4941
Additionally if you at worried a privacy, then put all web traffic behind a web proxy and filter out certain cookies.
They need to be upgraded, but not all manufacturers are going to offer the option - though if it is recent you could always make some noise with the company. Ohers options include a new router or seeing if DDWRT can be installed.
Even outside of code anything instruction that can be misinterpreted will probably be, due to assumption of the person interpreting the instructions. In writing software we do our best to avoid misinterpretation, but given the amount of instructions, there is bound to be things that don't work well together.
Other domains where you run into similar issues and limitations: laws and medicine.
Also: Code 18 - issue is 18" from the screen.
Uh-huh.
But they also ground you on price in the first place so much so that there was not enough room in the budget for proper testing / debugging. And don't forget that they changed the specs three times during development.
If a client wants software to be "BugFree" there's plenty of companies offering that level of service - IBM, WindRiver, etc.
Good, Quick, Cheap - Pick Two.
Even then there is no bug free software. What it is free from are bugs that testing would have discovered. Anything after is subject to the SLA (service level agreement)
Indeed, though a service level agreement is always worth having. That way everyone knows ahead of time where they stand and whether to end the relationship early if the terms are unacceptable to either party.
Always get the user to end user testing and to sign off on it. If they refuse to do so, then you should indicate that you aren't liable for bugs that could have been caught. Anything caught outside of the testing period is subject to the SLA.
As to source, big companies sometimes insist on either having the source or keeping it in escrow, in case you disappear, but having infinite life-time support for free is excessive. Is there anything in life that comes with type of deal?
Note, if a contractor fixes my roof then I have a guarantee against defects for 5 years. If it runs into problems that are due to their workmanship, then they have to take care of it.
Maybe we could simply encourage the companies to put their code changes in a repo, such as GitHub and just provide a link to their profile?
How effective would methane generators be in small farming communities, which already produce methane as a by-product? If they work well, then they may be able to be off-grid completely?
I am a recent convert to Unison. I discovered this because I was trying out Google Drive, which I found worked well, but I don't want to keep more of my data in someone else's cloud if I have to. So far I have been using the Mac OS UI. With a solution with Unison you will need your own server with ssh access to the Internet. The downside is that you have to worry about backups or uptime, though you don't have to worry about some government taking the service offline permanently (or while they spends years trying to establish possible guilt).
The advantages with solutions like Drop Box or Google Drive is that you not have to worry about the server side. Depending on the amount of data you want to store you will have to choose between the basic paid access or the paid access, which gives you more storage.
BitTorrent is probably the worst solution here, since it only works well when the data is massively distributed. If you only ever have one peer, then you are better off with one of the solutions mentioned above.
Another approach would be for the pirate bay to start using IPv6 in addition to IPv4. It is always going be cat and mouse, so we just need to make sure the mouse is more techno savvy and uses technology to its advantage.
Which 33 countries surveyed is important, since percentages vary and also why people pirated is also important. You can't start fixing a problem until you understand the motive behind the act. For example Photoshop is probably heavily pirated amongst home users because of the $1000 price tag and they use it no more than a few days a year.
See, this is the thing...
A partial standard, using your definition of one, isn't an actual standard at all.
--
BMO
Indeed. Until other companies start using this, then it is purely Apple centric. At least it falls back to SMS. In many ways if the phone service companies didn't charge so much for SMS, then this would never have been an interesting feature. I must admit I have started using Whatsapp in certain cases for this, but until it is standard on all phones, then it still feels like a kludge.