Maybe we need something like a "scientist's walk of fame", for scientist who have achieved something great, in the same spirit as the stars laid down in hollywood. This would be a real world reminder of people who have made a difference.
Basicaly, nothing new or newsworthy happened here, except someone mistakenly referred to the compromised Linux servers as bots.
Well, you are assuming that calling a machine a bot is dependent on the fact it was infected. In many ways a bot is any machine that is doing the bidding of the people in control, no matter how control was achieved. Now whether the machine was 'infected' or 'hacked' is a different matter.
While this may not be a solution for everyone, even small scale manufacture could be enough to spur research to improvement of the technology. Maybe the wool industry should start investing in this?
We have been living beyond our means and will have to cut back,
I wish this were true. There are still many people living by the holy credit card and trying to keep up payments. There is still a mentality that many people have where they buy stuff with their credit card, for which they do not have an equal or greater amount in their bank account.
Alternatively convert some of your citizen to scientists, that ought to get you the space flight tech quicker.
Yes, but first make sure to move the funding slider from criminal justice to education first. Its funny how that option is often missed and people complain about things being broken in the forums;)
Because buying Soyuz wouldn't create many jobs in Florida and Texas. The manned spaceflight side of NASA is a jobs program which just happens to occasionally put some people into space.
Well, they could license the technology and built it themselves. Of course the alternative is to start talking to the retired NASA engineers and start documenting their knowledge, "for the good of mankind".
They should do it here in the US - dove season just opened in many states. Sure, you'll have a lot of packet loss, but the ones that make it thru will be going really really FAST
The truck is going to be more efficient in burst mode, but the T1 is going to be more efficient in sustained.
As to which is faster, then it is going to be the truck, on the condition you ignore the time to do the paper work, driver breaks, loading and unloading, so on and so forth.
If it works with IPv6 then a malicious site can have IPv6 address. When the user visits the site the code reads the source IP and implements the attack.
This is why in a properly configured network you can limit SMB to within your network, by use of a firewall. With IPv6 a firewall is pretty much mandatory. If you need to file share outside your network, then using something like webdav in HTTPS mode is probably better, since this helps make it clear that you are not within your network.
Actually thinking about it, it would be cool if there was a way to change the icon of the server to indicate that it is outside your network (based on the subnet mask or something of the sorts).
Well, perhaps I was just lucky that Fido was the nearest one?
Chances are you acted as if you knew what you were doing. I have an iPhone on the Fido network. The phone was given to me by a 'gadget-holic' friend who upgraded to the next model and I spent a while trying negotiate an acceptable plan (they even wanted to charge me $100 to move from my previous plan to the 'iPhone friendly' data plan), but I gave up after getting no where and just told them I would stick with my current plan and use wi-fi. Since then I have been doing exactly that. I am not going to reward a company any more than I have to. I would have considered switching network, but Rogers is essentially the same company as for the competition, well none of them offer GSM.
This is certainly not related to cutting back on HD, but simply cutting back on cost. An HD cable in every console is equal to $$$ if you consider the volume of sales both MS and Sony have. They probably figured that an HD cable is not really a selling point for the console. If someone wants HD, they can just buy the cable separately.
If both consoles have standard HDMI sockets, then you may well be right. MS and Sony save a few extra dollars, and the stores get to make a few extra dollars as they manage to sell you the cable. I suppose everyone, except the customer wins. Then again if the customer already had a HDMI cable, well this means one less cable in the cupboard.
I suppose stopping deforestation and planting more trees is beyond the top 1 issue.
Remember the three wise monkeys? Well that's the way we are approaching the solution. Most people are so enthralled in advancing blindly into the future and an eye on profit margins, that the future generations be damned. Then there are questionable solutions, which avoid the real issue and in fact worsen the problems, such a biofuels. Turns out road building are also doing more damage than expected:
Yes, planting more trees and deforestation are amongst the real solutions, but how do we convince the various governments to act when they are being offered dollar signs to act as monkeys.
Suggestion to anyone who is travelling overseas with a phone on roaming mode. Turn off ALL internet access. It will save you hundreds!
Just limit yourself to wi-fi access. There have been enough horror stories about huge data roaming bills, but it sounds like the message still hasn't been passed on to everyone.
What is the deal today with trying to get rid of the simple menu bar??
Note sure. If they had moved everything to intelligent contextual menus it is one thing, but I just find the easter eggs easier to find now than the options the menus provided. This is clearly a MS-Windows centric thing, since on MacOS X getting rid of the menu bar in application would sure look odd.
I would love to see an ARM netbook from Nokia, none of this Atom crap
So would I, but there are certain realities to take into consideration:
- most users still want to run MS-Windows
- MS-Windows is not ARM ready
- There are hardly any mainstream Linux distributions that are ARM ready.
Linux users aren't buying games because there aren't many available...
I doubt that is the only reason. I suspect many Linux users don't buy games even when they are available. The problem is by the time people have had their OS for free and all the essential programs for free, they suddenly get into the mentality "well I can get this game for free too". The other attitude issue is "this games costs too much so I'll pirate it", which doesn't look good if too many take the same attitude. You either buy it or you don't. If you play it then pay for it, otherwise stop complaining when your favourite games aren't made any more.
As to these "hard core gamers", well most of them I have met have MS-Windows based rigs or consoles.
If you are going to be a par of niche market, then you should support it by investing in it.
Could somebody please tell me whatever happened to the ipv6experiment.com ?
No idea, but there are a number of early IPv6 related web sites that no longer exist, simply because they don't need to any more. Some of these sites were set up as experiments, but as IPv6 is slowly creeping in the mainstream they achieved what they set out to do and passed on. For a starting point on IPv6 related sites (not complete), then start here:
Ask the people developing Slashcode what the IPv6 issues are and you get pointed to Perl libraries that aren't IPv6 ready. You ask the people at CPAN when they will fix the IPv6 issues and you find yourself hitting a wall. The experience I have had with CPAN makes me feel that Perl should be long dead, IMHO. The library at fault is libwww-perl. I see someone proposed a patch, but it appears to be slowly collecting dust.
The problem is that there are many people who recognise the IPv4 issue, like people recognised the Y2K issue, but it will only be on the eve of IPv4 exhaustion, and people running around like headless chickens, that we will see the remaining developers realising they have work to do.
Instead at the current situation you have to figure out how and were to get an IPv6 address, and either keep an IPv4 as well (and switch between the two as the situation demands) or work out how you are going to talk to the 90+% of the world that doesn't have an IPv6 address. Either of those require extra work, for every person trying to connect to the network.
The issue of where to get an IPv6 address is false one, unless you have an ISP who is dragging their feet. It is a short-term problem and once the infrastructure is in place the apparent issues will go away. Sure it is not IPv4, but no one said it was. There are plenty of solutions to give your computers names, so there should be fewer and fewer cases where you will need to access you machines using numbers.
For example of an ISP who is not dragging their feet, in France there is an ISP called free.fr that provides IPv6 to their customers at no extra cost. Once enabled the router (users are given modem-router hybrids) advertises the IPv6 subnet prefix to all the computers in the subnet. If the computers are IPv6 aware then they will self configure the address ( subnet prefix + MAC address ) and start routing all IPv6 addresses through the announced router.
If you have an ISP who is dragging their feet and you are behind a NAT, then you need to establish a tunnel to an IPv6 Tunnel broker. There are a number of places to do this, including but not limited to: Sixxs.net, Freenet6 and Hurricane Electric.
The only thing I would like to see now are more home router manufacturers providing IPv6 gateway/routers. Apple's Airport and the Fritz!Box are two of the few that do.
If you have your doubts about IPv6, then at least give yourself two months with it and then come back and tell me whether you are still of the same opinion.
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Maybe we need something like a "scientist's walk of fame", for scientist who have achieved something great, in the same spirit as the stars laid down in hollywood. This would be a real world reminder of people who have made a difference.
All programmers in Russia are permitted to work only a single 8 hour shift
Left or right, or should that be a rot?
Basicaly, nothing new or newsworthy happened here, except someone mistakenly referred to the compromised Linux servers as bots.
Well, you are assuming that calling a machine a bot is dependent on the fact it was infected. In many ways a bot is any machine that is doing the bidding of the people in control, no matter how control was achieved. Now whether the machine was 'infected' or 'hacked' is a different matter.
I wonder how well pigeons scale though. You might find you get pretty high packet loss if everyone starts using them...
Isn't this already documented in the specification for "Utilitarian Data Pigeons"?
Turns out that Melanin is a semiconductor. Here are some references:
- http://www.organicsemiconductors.com/
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/16014151_Semiconductor_properties_of_natural_melanins
While this may not be a solution for everyone, even small scale manufacture could be enough to spur research to improvement of the technology. Maybe the wool industry should start investing in this?
We have been living beyond our means and will have to cut back,
I wish this were true. There are still many people living by the holy credit card and trying to keep up payments. There is still a mentality that many people have where they buy stuff with their credit card, for which they do not have an equal or greater amount in their bank account.
Alternatively convert some of your citizen to scientists, that ought to get you the space flight tech quicker.
Yes, but first make sure to move the funding slider from criminal justice to education first. Its funny how that option is often missed and people complain about things being broken in the forums ;)
Because buying Soyuz wouldn't create many jobs in Florida and Texas. The manned spaceflight side of NASA is a jobs program which just happens to occasionally put some people into space.
Well, they could license the technology and built it themselves. Of course the alternative is to start talking to the retired NASA engineers and start documenting their knowledge, "for the good of mankind".
They should do it here in the US - dove season just opened in many states. Sure, you'll have a lot of packet loss, but the ones that make it thru will be going really really FAST
So this is just the avian equivalent of UDP?
The truck is going to be more efficient in burst mode, but the T1 is going to be more efficient in sustained.
As to which is faster, then it is going to be the truck, on the condition you ignore the time to do the paper work, driver breaks, loading and unloading, so on and so forth.
If it works with IPv6 then a malicious site can have IPv6 address. When the user visits the site the code reads the source IP and implements the attack.
This is why in a properly configured network you can limit SMB to within your network, by use of a firewall. With IPv6 a firewall is pretty much mandatory. If you need to file share outside your network, then using something like webdav in HTTPS mode is probably better, since this helps make it clear that you are not within your network.
Actually thinking about it, it would be cool if there was a way to change the icon of the server to indicate that it is outside your network (based on the subnet mask or something of the sorts).
So if a child has never been to school, you would also consider them a pre-schooler? Sigh.
Technically ;)
Well, perhaps I was just lucky that Fido was the nearest one?
Chances are you acted as if you knew what you were doing. I have an iPhone on the Fido network. The phone was given to me by a 'gadget-holic' friend who upgraded to the next model and I spent a while trying negotiate an acceptable plan (they even wanted to charge me $100 to move from my previous plan to the 'iPhone friendly' data plan), but I gave up after getting no where and just told them I would stick with my current plan and use wi-fi. Since then I have been doing exactly that. I am not going to reward a company any more than I have to. I would have considered switching network, but Rogers is essentially the same company as for the competition, well none of them offer GSM.
This is certainly not related to cutting back on HD, but simply cutting back on cost. An HD cable in every console is equal to $$$ if you consider the volume of sales both MS and Sony have. They probably figured that an HD cable is not really a selling point for the console. If someone wants HD, they can just buy the cable separately.
If both consoles have standard HDMI sockets, then you may well be right. MS and Sony save a few extra dollars, and the stores get to make a few extra dollars as they manage to sell you the cable. I suppose everyone, except the customer wins. Then again if the customer already had a HDMI cable, well this means one less cable in the cupboard.
Oh I thought it should have been:
"Warning: You are using Adobe Flash, are you sure this such as good idea? How about some nice Dynamic SVG?"
Not sure how. Every time I take my iPhone overseas I get a friendly SMS from AT&T listing the data charges ($20/MB!!) and suggesting I turn off data.
Well after hearing how many people weren't ready for the digital TV switch over, you realise that anything is possible.
I suppose stopping deforestation and planting more trees is beyond the top 1 issue.
Remember the three wise monkeys? Well that's the way we are approaching the solution. Most people are so enthralled in advancing blindly into the future and an eye on profit margins, that the future generations be damned. Then there are questionable solutions, which avoid the real issue and in fact worsen the problems, such a biofuels. Turns out road building are also doing more damage than expected:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327236.700-roads-are-ruining-the-rainforests.html
Yes, planting more trees and deforestation are amongst the real solutions, but how do we convince the various governments to act when they are being offered dollar signs to act as monkeys.
Suggestion to anyone who is travelling overseas with a phone on roaming mode. Turn off ALL internet access. It will save you hundreds!
Just limit yourself to wi-fi access. There have been enough horror stories about huge data roaming bills, but it sounds like the message still hasn't been passed on to everyone.
What is the deal today with trying to get rid of the simple menu bar??
Note sure. If they had moved everything to intelligent contextual menus it is one thing, but I just find the easter eggs easier to find now than the options the menus provided. This is clearly a MS-Windows centric thing, since on MacOS X getting rid of the menu bar in application would sure look odd.
I would love to see an ARM netbook from Nokia, none of this Atom crap
So would I, but there are certain realities to take into consideration:
- most users still want to run MS-Windows
- MS-Windows is not ARM ready
- There are hardly any mainstream Linux distributions that are ARM ready.
Linux users aren't buying games because there aren't many available...
I doubt that is the only reason. I suspect many Linux users don't buy games even when they are available. The problem is by the time people have had their OS for free and all the essential programs for free, they suddenly get into the mentality "well I can get this game for free too". The other attitude issue is "this games costs too much so I'll pirate it", which doesn't look good if too many take the same attitude. You either buy it or you don't. If you play it then pay for it, otherwise stop complaining when your favourite games aren't made any more.
As to these "hard core gamers", well most of them I have met have MS-Windows based rigs or consoles.
If you are going to be a par of niche market, then you should support it by investing in it.
Could somebody please tell me whatever happened to the ipv6experiment.com ?
No idea, but there are a number of early IPv6 related web sites that no longer exist, simply because they don't need to any more. Some of these sites were set up as experiments, but as IPv6 is slowly creeping in the mainstream they achieved what they set out to do and passed on. For a starting point on IPv6 related sites (not complete), then start here:
http://www.sixxs.net/wiki/Category:IPv6-specific_content
Ask the people developing Slashcode what the IPv6 issues are and you get pointed to Perl libraries that aren't IPv6 ready. You ask the people at CPAN when they will fix the IPv6 issues and you find yourself hitting a wall. The experience I have had with CPAN makes me feel that Perl should be long dead, IMHO. The library at fault is libwww-perl. I see someone proposed a patch, but it appears to be slowly collecting dust.
The problem is that there are many people who recognise the IPv4 issue, like people recognised the Y2K issue, but it will only be on the eve of IPv4 exhaustion, and people running around like headless chickens, that we will see the remaining developers realising they have work to do.
Instead at the current situation you have to figure out how and were to get an IPv6 address, and either keep an IPv4 as well (and switch between the two as the situation demands) or work out how you are going to talk to the 90+% of the world that doesn't have an IPv6 address. Either of those require extra work, for every person trying to connect to the network.
The issue of where to get an IPv6 address is false one, unless you have an ISP who is dragging their feet. It is a short-term problem and once the infrastructure is in place the apparent issues will go away. Sure it is not IPv4, but no one said it was. There are plenty of solutions to give your computers names, so there should be fewer and fewer cases where you will need to access you machines using numbers.
For example of an ISP who is not dragging their feet, in France there is an ISP called free.fr that provides IPv6 to their customers at no extra cost. Once enabled the router (users are given modem-router hybrids) advertises the IPv6 subnet prefix to all the computers in the subnet. If the computers are IPv6 aware then they will self configure the address ( subnet prefix + MAC address ) and start routing all IPv6 addresses through the announced router.
If you have an ISP who is dragging their feet and you are behind a NAT, then you need to establish a tunnel to an IPv6 Tunnel broker. There are a number of places to do this, including but not limited to: Sixxs.net, Freenet6 and Hurricane Electric.
The only thing I would like to see now are more home router manufacturers providing IPv6 gateway/routers. Apple's Airport and the Fritz!Box are two of the few that do.
If you have your doubts about IPv6, then at least give yourself two months with it and then come back and tell me whether you are still of the same opinion.
I meant a photo or video of an existing phone that does what you say - just so I can see what one really looks like.