You're right, Slashdot is not UK-based. It's also Slashdot. Which means most of us probably don't follow sports celebrities.:)
Now that you've got me actually reading the linked blog, I see Andy Smith gives a "Round of applause for today’s Sunday Herald for identifying the footballer who is trying to sue a Twitter user for identifying him, in violation of a court order." But does he dare say the name, himself?
i readily admit conspiracy theories are real. its just that they are exceedingly rare because they are so hard to pull off in airtight secrecy. (giggle)
I think you need to understand the difference between conspiracy theories and actual conspiracies. Of course theories are real; many people have them. Are they valid? That's a different question.
It has been discussed elsewhere that their suicide rate is actually less than their normal population, not just among industrial workers. But that's not sensational reporting.
As an aside, if you have any machines running OSX these days, you should look into getting Little Snitch. Love it; it's been eye-opening to see how often and where browsers call home when they're started, now, for instance.
So I went from one solid server, good backups, maybe a hot backup, and talented staff running the show to outsourced to 3 different clouds with hour-long hold times with some Amazon support monkey? Genius.
I hope that one good server is in a disparate geographical location from its hot backup, using a separate transit provider, each server has redundant power supplies, and your talent has a bus factor of (#servers)+1 or more. You're gonna need backup for any load balancing as well, and whether that should be in yet another location is, well, something to consider.
Cloud services should give you the redundancy you need, as well as being easily scalable. Why are you trying to say the whole concept is bad just because Amazon's implementation is flawed?
From the description in the bug report, it sounds like certain services (dhcp client I should think) are halted or disabled. It seems to restart when web browsing activity is initiated. This seems to indicate that it was halted when the machine was initially locked -- my guess would be to save battery. After all, DHCPing all the time would burn battery.
I wonder what the best solution would be? When locking to release the DHCP lease before suspending the DHCP client? I wonder if my Vibrant has the same issue?
Actually, the report specifically states that this bug should not be classified as a problem with DHCP when sleeping. The Princeton guy did extensive testing and found that even with active use, the device fails to renew the lease and continues using the IP after the lease has expired.
Well yes, but Google should not be judging a site's quality as such, they should be indexing the web. There is significant overlap in those concepts, sure, but currently their algorithm for indexing is broken - demonstrably so - and they are trying to do too much too soon.
I'm confused; are you in the index or not? If you're in the index, then your complaint is really about the ranking you're being assigned. But you just said you don't want them to judge quality (though earlier you argued that your quality is what differentiates you from your competition). How else should they be judging your content?
Utopia? Or merely a gilded cage? Is anyone really stupid enough to believe that the rule making process would be non political and unbiased? The cage would be filled with nice, fat sheep ripe for shearing, or slaughter.
Plenty of people wouldn't care, as long as the bias is in their favor. Consider how many people would willingly live in theocracies right now around the world if the chance were offered to them. Praise [diety], I'll only have neighbors like me.
Or, except when I don't get money for it or unaffiliated companies use my image and reputation to make a quick buck without asking permission or setting up some sort of royalty agreement.
Looks like it could be a parody. Which ought to make things more interesting from a legal standpoint.
I can't undertand why we can't ask legacy holders to give some accounting for their space usage. Take the US Postal Service, for example. Give each of the estimated 43,000 ZIP codes out there its own IP address, and that won't even fill a/16. And yet they have 56/8? Surely they don't need that much. Is there language in these old distributions that prevents the possibility of them being audited and revoked? And even if we don't go after mismanaged/8 space, registries certainly have an obligation to go after "portable space" assigned to companies which are now defunct or whose IP space has otherwise gone unused and even unannounced for a significant period of time.
Never had it try to automatically install a toolbar in my Firefox or my Chrome in OS X. Doesn't look like it stuck anything in Safari, either, but since I never use that, I wouldn't care.
If you can build a 5-band handset, a 6-band handset is really only incrementally harder. Even a 12-band handset is only incrementally harder when you factor in electronically tunable antennas into the mix.
I haven't heard of a 5-band phone, but I think even my first cellphone in 2001 was a triband gsm, the Timeport p7389 by Motorola, and my second was a quadband I've forgotten the name of. And I've heard of CDMA/gsm hybrids, too. (Google them, they've been around a few years.) Thing is, companies keep building out to these different standards precisely because consumers let themselves be locked into one or the other, and didn't demand portability. By continuing to build out 3G and now 4G on top of these platforms, companies are maintaining proprietary lock-in over their customers. Really, the only reason this whole thing got started like this over here is that the non-business consumer loves the idea of a "free" or "cheap" phone, with the true cost spread over the contract term. Especially when you're trying to build marketshare by going after lower income people in an economy where people spend instead of save. Who on a small budget is going to pay $200 for a phone up front, and then $30 a month for 2 years, when they could pay nothing for the phone, and $40 a month for the 2 years? Even though the latter costs more in the end? (And when I got started, monthly bills were more like $20 before tax, not 30)
But, you know, you could really not worry about CDMA and buy yourself a nice unlocked quadband gsm phone today, and have multiple carriers of various tiers you could connect to, here in the US. And since that's what they're using in most of Europe, I think that's definitely what you want if you're traveling internationally on business. (Unless you need one in Japan or China) Speaking of, if you're with a GSM carrier, you should call them up and ask them to unlock your phone. Tell them you're considering extensive European travel and you need your phone. They'll do it. If you go overseas, you can easily pick up a cheap prepaid SIM instead of paying international roaming from your American carrier. Modern ones usually include some data or at least sms access as well. And then when your contract is over, you can dump your carrier at home, too, if you see a better deal.
This is not a detailed guide on building your own Hackintosh; it's a description of my personal experience building one, and how the result compared with my existing Mac Pro. If you want to build your own Hackintosh, there are many comprehensive resources on the Web. I've found Insanely Mac to be very useful.
I'll take limp home mode over being stranded 100 miles from civilization, any day of the week.
A better car analogy would be having to drive your car in hot weather without air conditioning vs. being able to turn on air conditioning at the cost of your car abruptly slowing to 5 miles an hour. And then having the brakes start pumping themselves.
I don't mind so much paying for "Gold level." What I do mind, however, is that they still feel the need to stick all kinds of ads in the service. In fact, they now have motion/sound ads that start when you scroll to the line it's on. At this point, if it wasn't for my family using it to stream Netflix, I'd probably just let it lapse.
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You're right, Slashdot is not UK-based. It's also Slashdot. Which means most of us probably don't follow sports celebrities. :)
Now that you've got me actually reading the linked blog, I see Andy Smith gives a "Round of applause for today’s Sunday Herald for identifying the footballer who is trying to sue a Twitter user for identifying him, in violation of a court order." But does he dare say the name, himself?
...my password manager should fill the buffer at the same rate every time.
They all make use of Reality Distortion Fields.
The greater fool theory, in a tulip-bubble of expectation.
i readily admit conspiracy theories are real. its just that they are exceedingly rare because they are so hard to pull off in airtight secrecy. (giggle)
I think you need to understand the difference between conspiracy theories and actual conspiracies.
Of course theories are real; many people have them. Are they valid? That's a different question.
Since it's within the Goldilocks zone, I'm guessing that the Starbucks serves oatmeal not too hot, and not too cold.
It has been discussed elsewhere that their suicide rate is actually less than their normal population, not just among industrial workers.
But that's not sensational reporting.
As an aside, if you have any machines running OSX these days, you should look into getting Little Snitch. Love it; it's been eye-opening to see how often and where browsers call home when they're started, now, for instance.
Oh crap, I need a license to perform Math?
Where's George Frankly and Kate Monday when you need them?
So I went from one solid server, good backups, maybe a hot backup, and talented staff running the show to outsourced to 3 different clouds with hour-long hold times with some Amazon support monkey? Genius.
I hope that one good server is in a disparate geographical location from its hot backup, using a separate transit provider, each server has redundant power supplies, and your talent has a bus factor of (#servers)+1 or more. You're gonna need backup for any load balancing as well, and whether that should be in yet another location is, well, something to consider.
Cloud services should give you the redundancy you need, as well as being easily scalable. Why are you trying to say the whole concept is bad just because Amazon's implementation is flawed?
From the description in the bug report, it sounds like certain services (dhcp client I should think) are halted or disabled. It seems to restart when web browsing activity is initiated. This seems to indicate that it was halted when the machine was initially locked -- my guess would be to save battery. After all, DHCPing all the time would burn battery.
I wonder what the best solution would be? When locking to release the DHCP lease before suspending the DHCP client? I wonder if my Vibrant has the same issue?
Actually, the report specifically states that this bug should not be classified as a problem with DHCP when sleeping. The Princeton guy did extensive testing and found that even with active use, the device fails to renew the lease and continues using the IP after the lease has expired.
Funny, seems like the same group reported that iOS has had the same problem: http://www.net.princeton.edu/announcements/ipad-iphoneos32-stops-renewing-lease-keeps-using-IP-address.html
Wonder why only Android was mentioned for this story?
Well yes, but Google should not be judging a site's quality as such, they should be indexing the web. There is significant overlap in those concepts, sure, but currently their algorithm for indexing is broken - demonstrably so - and they are trying to do too much too soon.
I'm confused; are you in the index or not? If you're in the index, then your complaint is really about the ranking you're being assigned. But you just said you don't want them to judge quality (though earlier you argued that your quality is what differentiates you from your competition). How else should they be judging your content?
Utopia? Or merely a gilded cage? Is anyone really stupid enough to believe that the rule making process would be non political and unbiased? The cage would be filled with nice, fat sheep ripe for shearing, or slaughter.
Plenty of people wouldn't care, as long as the bias is in their favor. Consider how many people would willingly live in theocracies right now around the world if the chance were offered to them. Praise [diety], I'll only have neighbors like me.
Or, except when I don't get money for it or unaffiliated companies use my image and reputation to make a quick buck without asking permission or setting up some sort of royalty agreement.
Looks like it could be a parody. Which ought to make things more interesting from a legal standpoint.
wow, that was awful. Never knew he ended up like that.
...but this is the first time I've seen rainbow flags used in this manner.
Fabulous idea :)
You know, "self-declared" means that he has declared himself a god. As far I know he has not done so.
-dZ.
Then you don't know Steve.....
[citation needed]
...then the answer is no.
So what's "ethical" is not only fixed, but something everybody must intuitively know.
Certainly begs the question as to why his column is needed, useful, or desired.
All of the replies I've read to this seem to be assuming I'm arguing against a speedy IPv6 rollout or something. I wonder why?
I can't undertand why we can't ask legacy holders to give some accounting for their space usage. Take the US Postal Service, for example. Give each of the estimated 43,000 ZIP codes out there its own IP address, and that won't even fill a /16. And yet they have 56/8? Surely they don't need that much. Is there language in these old distributions that prevents the possibility of them being audited and revoked? And even if we don't go after mismanaged /8 space, registries certainly have an obligation to go after "portable space" assigned to companies which are now defunct or whose IP space has otherwise gone unused and even unannounced for a significant period of time.
Never had it try to automatically install a toolbar in my Firefox or my Chrome in OS X.
Doesn't look like it stuck anything in Safari, either, but since I never use that, I wouldn't care.
You people and your OS centricism.
If you can build a 5-band handset, a 6-band handset is really only incrementally harder. Even a 12-band handset is only incrementally harder when you factor in electronically tunable antennas into the mix.
I haven't heard of a 5-band phone, but I think even my first cellphone in 2001 was a triband gsm, the Timeport p7389 by Motorola, and my second was a quadband I've forgotten the name of. And I've heard of CDMA/gsm hybrids, too. (Google them, they've been around a few years.) Thing is, companies keep building out to these different standards precisely because consumers let themselves be locked into one or the other, and didn't demand portability. By continuing to build out 3G and now 4G on top of these platforms, companies are maintaining proprietary lock-in over their customers. Really, the only reason this whole thing got started like this over here is that the non-business consumer loves the idea of a "free" or "cheap" phone, with the true cost spread over the contract term. Especially when you're trying to build marketshare by going after lower income people in an economy where people spend instead of save. Who on a small budget is going to pay $200 for a phone up front, and then $30 a month for 2 years, when they could pay nothing for the phone, and $40 a month for the 2 years? Even though the latter costs more in the end? (And when I got started, monthly bills were more like $20 before tax, not 30)
But, you know, you could really not worry about CDMA and buy yourself a nice unlocked quadband gsm phone today, and have multiple carriers of various tiers you could connect to, here in the US. And since that's what they're using in most of Europe, I think that's definitely what you want if you're traveling internationally on business. (Unless you need one in Japan or China) Speaking of, if you're with a GSM carrier, you should call them up and ask them to unlock your phone. Tell them you're considering extensive European travel and you need your phone. They'll do it. If you go overseas, you can easily pick up a cheap prepaid SIM instead of paying international roaming from your American carrier. Modern ones usually include some data or at least sms access as well. And then when your contract is over, you can dump your carrier at home, too, if you see a better deal.
It even says on the first page,
I'll take limp home mode over being stranded 100 miles from civilization, any day of the week.
A better car analogy would be having to drive your car in hot weather without air conditioning vs. being able to turn on air conditioning at the cost of your car abruptly slowing to 5 miles an hour. And then having the brakes start pumping themselves.
I don't mind so much paying for "Gold level." What I do mind, however, is that they still feel the need to stick all kinds of ads in the service. In fact, they now have motion/sound ads that start when you scroll to the line it's on. At this point, if it wasn't for my family using it to stream Netflix, I'd probably just let it lapse.