Spoken like a mere user. Those of us who've had to connect NATed enterprise networks via VPN, having to find common unused IP spaces, NATing around both ways to get machines from both ends to talk to each other, having to implement DNS zones, know just how wrong this is. IPv6 is a godsend, solving one hell of a lot of problems those of us actually working in networking have. Now, if only more of the management guys listened to us, we'd have moved on to IPv6 for quite a while.
Once again the EU tries to impose it's laws on the rest of the world.
Which is worse than the usual imposition of US views on the world because...?
Chances are this won't pass (in this form) anyway.
Just ignore the EU.
... at your own risk.
There have been many occasions when the european view was much saner than the US one. The thing about weapons of mass destruction in Irak comes to mind...
I wondered who built the thing. Well, according to Wikipedia, the satellite was made by Lockheed Martin, with this Advanced Baseline Imager being from Harris.
Do you recall the round mouse that came with that first iMac? Ergonomically, it was absolutely catastrophic. I never could use it for any length of time. Thankfully, the iMacs were few, and the labs had more decent Macs around (for when we had to use those rather than PCs or Unix workstations).
Also, the fixation on USB back then was... courageous, as there weren't yet many devices around.
I never could stomach those integrated PCs/screens, much preferring separate, exchangeable, upgradeable parts (obvious exception for portable stuff).
Does that number include all of the nuclear stuff? AFAIK, most of that runs under the Department of Energy, not the DoD, and would have to be added to your "measly" 630 billion bucks. I wouldn't be surprised if some other departments also had budgets that would go towards military spending.
Even at the cited number, the USA are still at more than the next several most spending countries together.
There's a hell of a lot of good stuff available from french or belgian authors. I'm quite sure you'd find translations at least for the more common ones, if needed.
Think of classics like Tintin, Asterix, Spirou, Valerian for the extremely well knowns. There are so many others.
Ummm... since you're old enough to remember - there was no actual web around outside CERN before 1991. My own first encounters were rather around '92 or '93, with MOSAIC on some lab Macs (in Switzerland, thus close to the web's birthplace). Outside of academia, Internet access went through the likes of Compuserve or AOL, ISPs mostly came later.
Back then you'd find pr0n rather on Usenet (binaries groups) than the web, or maybe on some FTP servers. That changed quickly, of course.
What, you never heard of Stephen Baxter, Greg Bear, Ben Bova, David Brin, Cory Doctorov? All these are in those first 500 names. You seriously need to update your reading list.
So who all of a sudden gets to decide of FB, et al are "good for democracy". As an informed, educated and interested citizenry, that is OUR job.
Umm... from what we Europeans get from the state of the USofA, the US populace is very misinformed, is largely badly educated, and interested in Kim Kardashian, $DEITY and Mammon. Thus, badly done job. For a much better example, go look at the Swiss.
I know - the classic/. contributors, being geeks and nerds, are not that - but then again, a lot has changed here since the millenium...
Exactly... I still own a Pentium 90 with FDIV bug, couldn't manage to get it replaced. As I recall, it took Intel quite a while to acknowledge the seriousness of the FDIV issue, before they caved and opened a rather complicated exchange program. A pre-condition was to give them your credit card number... which, as a youth, I didn't have then. Also, I couldn't exactly wait out a weeks-long procedure (sending back the CPU and getting a fixed version back) without a working PC. When I first went to the shop where I bought that computer, they didn't have an exchange program yet, the next time it supposedly was already past... all BS.
Afterwards, I've been a long-time AMD customer (K6-2 350, Athlon 800, Athlon64 X2), going back to Intel for my more recent acquisitions (laptops, netbook, more recently a low-power server). I guess my next box will be a Ryzen...
Some companies have started so small that they couldn't afford insurance, they just bet all on the launch succeeding. Have a look at the early history of SES - their very first satellite, Astra 1A, went up without insurance. Had the Ariane rocket exploded, nobody would be talking about SES, and chances are sat TV would have developed quite differently.
I watched through the first episodes of STD (or whatever the short for Discovery is, STD sure feels fitting) as well as The Orville. In my opinion, The Orville may not bear any of the names from ST, but has all the spirit. Discovery has it backwards - pure action without soul.
If you are launching a 5 billion dollar GSO comsat, you will go with ULA. If you want to dump a van load of cubesats designed by high school science clubs into LEO, you go with SpaceX.
I suppose those expensive GSO sats (TV & comm) that SES, largest commercial sat operator, is having launched by SpaceX, even on refurbished SpaceX launchers (SES being first commercial customer), must be cubesats... NOT!
SES being a for-profit corporation, they run the numbers... and they don't seem to do much business with ULA (as compared to SpaceX, Arianespace, Proton...).
If you want a law to stay a law, have it ratified by the LEGISLATIVE branch, not the EXECUTIVE branch.
Um, sure. That went out the window when the Tea Party took control of the GOP and denied any and all compromises with the opposition (including within the party).
That's just not how a legislative branch works, everybody needs to compromise to arrive at a sane solution, somewhere in the middle - and extremist positions shouldn't count.
Go have a look at other countries, usually with more than two meaningful parties. Somehow, they often are much better managed.
"Some ISPs opted to use this software, which apparently had some bugs and failed to download and install the new KSK,"
I used to work DNS at my ISP, several years ago. Back then, I did the first setup of the DNS resolvers using DNSSEC, testing with both bind and unbound. Neither of those, back then anyway, would automatically handle KSK change, the key resided in a plain file in the server configuration. I sure hope the people that took up DNS there after I left upgraded the server software used, and are keeping an eye on the subject.
I know where to get DNS resolving in case the ISPs servers cause problems... other customers would be in deep trouble.
Btw unbound used to have a different interpretation of the RFCs (for some more subtle points) than the bind guys, this made for a few... surprises. I hope it's gotten better since.
Indeed, those fines, punishing those misbehaving, go straight into the EU budget.
Benefitting everybody, instead of only the lawyers.
That's indeed the european way.
Intel - who's misbehavior is not in doubt - will still get punished, the question is about a rather small detail and will only weigh on the lump sum to be paid.
Biggest European satellite corporation is based in Luxembourg (SES Astra).
Actually, make that the largest satellite corporation, no other qualifier - SES is biggest, worldwide. And yes, they did conceive their first satellite from Luxembourg. Many space-oriented companies are based in Luxembourg, around SES.
Luxembourg may be a tiny country, but regarding space, they are a big player. And these space mining laws being put in place are there to attract more know-how to Luxembourg, not some mailboxes to siphon money.
You only have one set of eyes, don't be foolish about this.
Chances are that non-certified stuff has deficiencies in UV/IR filtering, so while you may be able to look into the sun for much longer than usual, your eyes still may get an unhealthy dose of radiation. No protection at all will at least have you turn away in time (unless you're foolish enough to look at the sun through an unprotected telescope, binoculars or tele lens).
As an amateur astronomer, I use Baader visual solar filter film, adapted to my different scopes and lenses. An A4 sheet (you could make a load of sunglasses from this) comes at 25EUR, which is very cheap compared to other options for observing the sun. Most of all, it's safe!
Just to be clear, vote fraud is when someone casts a ballot when they aren't supposed to. Election fraud is things like passing ID requirements to vote.
... and election hacking is also manipulating voters into voting in a certain way - e.g. false news, unverified and biased social media posts, specially timed release of real information, etc. It doesn't necessarily mean attacks on the actual voting machines or tabulation process, or ballot stuffing.
This just for completeness sake, as all too many/. posters don't seem to "get it", or willfully ignore it.
I feel quite nostalgic about the 2600 - it was our first and only gaming console, followed later by a Dragon 32, then by an Atari ST and then PCs. Now having kids of my own that get to be about old enough to start gaming, I might get them this console... provided the price is right, and provided it's got some sort of chance of enduring against the big players (Sony, Nintendo,...). Still, I prefer them playing outside or with some sensible hands-on games rather than sitting in front of a screen. Oh well...
Toyota had just about convinced the world that if you wanted a hybrid you could pretty much kiss goodbye to the concept of fun.
Well, early 2009 I was in the market for a station wagon, after the birth of my first child and finding out that a small car or a coupé aren't exactly optimal in that context. I did try the Toyota Avensis with the biggest diesel engine, no hybrid. No fun. Whatsoever. It was like sleeping at the wheel, the thing wouldn't move even when pushed. I didn't expect anything sporty, just... for it to move when it should. The next car tested was a VW Passat. The test vehicle also had a diesel engine, less power than the Toyota (and yes, most probably one of the emission cheaters). Wow, that thing just drove. Fun driving. On a straight line, it wasn't that far even from my E46 BMW 330Ci. Needless to say, I ended up buying a Passat... gas engine though.
Based on hat, I'm sorely tempted to say that Toyota makes boring cars (not just hybrids), with the possible exception of the GT.
As for the BMW i8 - well, fun to drive is their motto. It would be an extreme disappointment if one of their (expensive) flagships were boring. Even then, I wouldn't be surprised if their mass-market (and ugly as hell) i3 were much less interesting.
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So, are they going to sue those $MARINE_LIFE when they reproduce?
It is seriously f*cked up that patents would be granted on discoveries instead of inventions.
Oh, "a company" -> BASF is not exactly an unknown. Far from it.
Spoken like a mere user. Those of us who've had to connect NATed enterprise networks via VPN, having to find common unused IP spaces, NATing around both ways to get machines from both ends to talk to each other, having to implement DNS zones, know just how wrong this is. IPv6 is a godsend, solving one hell of a lot of problems those of us actually working in networking have. Now, if only more of the management guys listened to us, we'd have moved on to IPv6 for quite a while.
Once again the EU tries to impose it's laws on the rest of the world.
Which is worse than the usual imposition of US views on the world because...?
Chances are this won't pass (in this form) anyway.
Just ignore the EU.
... at your own risk.
There have been many occasions when the european view was much saner than the US one. The thing about weapons of mass destruction in Irak comes to mind...
I wondered who built the thing. Well, according to Wikipedia, the satellite was made by Lockheed Martin, with this Advanced Baseline Imager being from Harris.
Do you recall the round mouse that came with that first iMac?
Ergonomically, it was absolutely catastrophic. I never could use it for
any length of time. Thankfully, the iMacs were few, and the labs had
more decent Macs around (for when we had to use those rather than
PCs or Unix workstations).
Also, the fixation on USB back then was... courageous, as there
weren't yet many devices around.
I never could stomach those integrated PCs/screens, much
preferring separate, exchangeable, upgradeable parts (obvious
exception for portable stuff).
Does that number include all of the nuclear stuff? AFAIK, most of that runs under the Department of Energy, not the DoD, and would have to be added to your "measly" 630 billion bucks. I wouldn't be surprised if some other departments also had budgets that would go towards military spending.
Even at the cited number, the USA are still at more than the next several most spending countries together.
There's a hell of a lot of good stuff available from french or belgian authors. I'm quite sure you'd find translations at least for the more common ones, if needed.
Think of classics like Tintin, Asterix, Spirou, Valerian for the extremely well knowns. There are so many others.
if you assume the web, pre-1989
Ummm... since you're old enough to remember - there was no actual web around outside CERN before 1991. My own first encounters were rather around '92 or '93, with MOSAIC on some lab Macs (in Switzerland, thus close to the web's birthplace). Outside of academia, Internet access went through the likes of Compuserve or AOL, ISPs mostly came later.
Back then you'd find pr0n rather on Usenet (binaries groups) than the web, or maybe on some FTP servers. That changed quickly, of course.
Also, HUD is where it should be - within the car, no distraction to others around it.
Imagine if everybody projected $WHATEVER onto the road... overlapping, rendering things unreadable anyway.
Beamers are nice gadgets, but I don't see a sensible use for them around a car, most
especially when it's moving in traffic.
Sun before they were folded into Oracle indeed.
I'd also add HP pre-Carla Fiorina, and DEC pre-Compaq.
Also, how about the SkunkWorks that created the SR-71 spyplane?
What, you never heard of Stephen Baxter, Greg Bear, Ben Bova, David Brin, Cory Doctorov? All these are in those first 500 names. You seriously need to update your reading list.
So who all of a sudden gets to decide of FB, et al are "good for democracy". As an informed, educated and interested citizenry, that is OUR job.
Umm... from what we Europeans get from the state of the USofA, the US populace is very misinformed, is largely badly educated, and interested in Kim Kardashian, $DEITY and Mammon. Thus, badly done job. For a much better example, go look at the Swiss.
I know - the classic /. contributors, being geeks and nerds, are not that - but then again, a lot has changed here since the millenium...
Exactly... I still own a Pentium 90 with FDIV bug, couldn't manage to get it replaced. As I recall, it took Intel quite a while to acknowledge the seriousness of the FDIV issue, before they caved and opened a rather complicated exchange program. A pre-condition was to give them your credit card number... which, as a youth, I didn't have then. Also, I couldn't exactly wait out a weeks-long procedure (sending back the CPU and getting a fixed version back) without a working PC. When I first went to the shop where I bought that computer, they didn't have an exchange program yet, the next time it supposedly was already past... all BS.
Afterwards, I've been a long-time AMD customer (K6-2 350, Athlon 800, Athlon64 X2), going back to Intel for my more recent acquisitions (laptops, netbook, more recently a low-power server). I guess my next box will be a Ryzen...
Some companies have started so small that they couldn't afford insurance, they just bet all on the launch succeeding. Have a look at the early history of SES - their very first satellite, Astra 1A, went up without insurance. Had the Ariane rocket exploded, nobody would be talking about SES, and chances are sat TV would have developed quite differently.
Mod parent up!
I watched through the first episodes of STD (or whatever the short for Discovery is, STD sure feels fitting) as well as The Orville. In my opinion, The Orville may not bear any of the names from ST, but has all the spirit. Discovery has it backwards - pure action without soul.
I suppose those expensive GSO sats (TV & comm) that SES, largest commercial sat operator, is having launched by SpaceX, even on refurbished SpaceX launchers (SES being first commercial customer), must be cubesats... NOT!
SES being a for-profit corporation, they run the numbers... and they don't seem to do much business with ULA (as compared to SpaceX, Arianespace, Proton...).
Um, sure. That went out the window when the Tea Party took control of the GOP and denied any and all compromises with the opposition (including within the party).
That's just not how a legislative branch works, everybody needs to compromise to arrive at a sane solution, somewhere in the middle - and extremist positions shouldn't count.
Go have a look at other countries, usually with more than two meaningful parties. Somehow, they often are much better managed.
"Some ISPs opted to use this software, which apparently had some bugs and failed to download and install the new KSK,"
I used to work DNS at my ISP, several years ago. Back then, I did the first setup of the DNS resolvers using DNSSEC, testing with both bind and unbound. Neither of those, back then anyway, would automatically handle KSK change, the key resided in a plain file in the server configuration. I sure hope the people that took up DNS there after I left upgraded the server software used, and are keeping an eye on the subject.
I know where to get DNS resolving in case the ISPs servers cause problems... other customers would be in deep trouble.
Btw unbound used to have a different interpretation of the RFCs (for some more subtle points) than the bind guys, this made for a few... surprises. I hope it's gotten better since.
Indeed, those fines, punishing those misbehaving, go straight
into the EU budget.
Benefitting everybody, instead of only the lawyers.
That's indeed the european way.
Intel - who's misbehavior is not in doubt - will still get
punished, the question is about a rather small detail
and will only weigh on the lump sum to be paid.
This sounds quite like Desertec, or at least a small variant or part thereof.
I'd hope for such a project to bring some more stability to the region, if it ever goes anywhere.
Biggest European satellite corporation is based in Luxembourg (SES Astra).
Actually, make that the largest satellite corporation, no other qualifier - SES is biggest, worldwide. And yes, they did conceive their first satellite from Luxembourg. Many space-oriented companies are based in Luxembourg, around SES.
Luxembourg may be a tiny country, but regarding space, they are a big player. And these space mining laws being put in place are there to attract more know-how to Luxembourg, not some mailboxes to siphon money.
You only have one set of eyes, don't be foolish about this.
Chances are that non-certified stuff has deficiencies in UV/IR filtering, so while you may be able to look into the sun for much longer than usual, your eyes still may get an unhealthy dose of radiation. No protection at all will at least have you turn away in time (unless you're foolish enough to look at the sun through an unprotected telescope, binoculars or tele lens).
As an amateur astronomer, I use Baader visual solar filter film, adapted to my different scopes and lenses. An A4 sheet (you could make a load of sunglasses from this) comes at 25EUR, which is very cheap compared to other options for observing the sun. Most of all, it's safe!
This just for completeness sake, as all too many /. posters don't seem to "get it", or willfully ignore it.
I feel quite nostalgic about the 2600 - it was our first and only gaming console, followed later by a Dragon 32, then by an Atari ST and then PCs. Now having kids of my own that get to be about old enough to start gaming, I might get them this console... provided the price is right, and provided it's got some sort of chance of enduring against the big players (Sony, Nintendo, ...). Still, I prefer them playing outside or with some sensible hands-on games rather than sitting in front of a screen. Oh well...
Well, early 2009 I was in the market for a station wagon, after the birth of my first child and finding out that a small car or a coupé aren't exactly optimal in that context. I did try the Toyota Avensis with the biggest diesel engine, no hybrid. No fun. Whatsoever. It was like sleeping at the wheel, the thing wouldn't move even when pushed. I didn't expect anything sporty, just... for it to move when it should. The next car tested was a VW Passat. The test vehicle also had a diesel engine, less power than the Toyota (and yes, most probably one of the emission cheaters). Wow, that thing just drove. Fun driving. On a straight line, it wasn't that far even from my E46 BMW 330Ci. Needless to say, I ended up buying a Passat... gas engine though.
Based on hat, I'm sorely tempted to say that Toyota makes boring cars (not just hybrids), with the possible exception of the GT.
As for the BMW i8 - well, fun to drive is their motto. It would be an extreme disappointment if one of their (expensive) flagships were boring. Even then, I wouldn't be surprised if their mass-market (and ugly as hell) i3 were much less interesting.