"Users rarely visit their privacy settings, so Facebook will need to devise a way to get them to do so."
Easy! They can do it the same way they do now - tell one person so they update their status with "Do this or Facebook will delete your account! Re-post!!" and it'll spread like wildfire...
I mean, those are always legit communications from Facebook staff, right?
While cell phones not working in my house would be a little irritating, I would be very happy to have radio blocking on the outside walls - sure I couldn't use my wireless in the garden, but neighbors and passers-by wouldn't be able to use it either... AND, most important of all, it would block out my neighbor's networks which would allow my AP to actually use 40 MHz channels and give me closer to the advertised speeds!
Any "non-parents" that read/. and are replying to this thread aren't your average "non-parents" and very probably know more about computers and networking than their parents, which makes their situation VERY different from yours I'm sure.
I was incredibly disappointed with Dragon's Lair 3D. Being the first 1080i game released for the Xbox, I was very much looking forward to it. I think I managed to play it for all of about an hour before giving up entirely because it was such a disappointment.
I don't think this is the start of a Big Brother type project at all. The digial certificate will probably only be used when you are accessing government sites, not unlike when you put your bank card number in to do online banking.
As for online voting, good idea, but not until IPv6 if fully deployed Worldwide, or at least in Canada.
Although I can't find any useful information on their website because the product has been discontinued, Kenwood has already done this with their TrueX line of CDROM drives. If I recall they used 4 or 7 lasers and spun the disc much slower to make the drive quieter than most other CDROM drives. It looks like they hit 72x before they discontinued making them.
The reason for this is more than obvious. There are a lot of small ISPs and companies that do BGP over links as slow as T1s and fractional T1s. This recent M$ worm caused a lot of connectivity issues for a lot of people with links even faster than that. A company with just a few unpatched IIS boxes could easily produce more than 1.54 MB or traffic per second, which would cause massive latency and packet loss across their T1. This, in turn, would cause timeouts of TCP sessions like FTP downloads, web browsing, and yes, BGP sessions.
This would then cause the session to start flapping, the upstream provider to dampen the session and routes being advertised, and their address space being removed from the global routing table.
This doesn't mean that there was routing instability due to the worm, it just means that a lot of networks running unpatched IIS boxes became unreachable.
If the RIAA wins in getting ISPs to block access to OpenNAP and other Napster like services, it will set an absolutly disguesting president on what ISPs can, and are expected to do, that will very quickly effect our ability to do what we want online.
I mean what will be next? IRC? Pr0n sites? Binary newsgroups? Where will it end?
The purpose of an ISP is to give people and business access to the Internet, not to police the services availble through them.
The RIAAs attack on Napster was bad enough, but if they get away with this, it could be the beginning, of the end of the Internet as we know it.
Well, I can't speak for UUNet US, but I work for UUNet Canada, and the guy who takes care of spammers works in the same department as me, and I can say with 100% assurance, ANY spam complaint he recieves, is dealt with swiftly, and immediately.
I've seen him turn off a customer's 10 meg bustable ethernet connection before, just because they had an open SMTP server that was being used for spam, and until the customer fixed it, they remained disconnected.
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My car plays FLAC, my tablet and phone play FLAC, my receiver and Blu-ray player play FLAC.
For me the biggest flaw here is actually that it's a lossy format.
If you are worried about staying focused and motivated, working from home probably isn't for you ...
"Users rarely visit their privacy settings, so Facebook will need to devise a way to get them to do so."
Easy! They can do it the same way they do now - tell one person so they update their status with "Do this or Facebook will delete your account! Re-post!!" and it'll spread like wildfire ...
I mean, those are always legit communications from Facebook staff, right?
While cell phones not working in my house would be a little irritating, I would be very happy to have radio blocking on the outside walls - sure I couldn't use my wireless in the garden, but neighbors and passers-by wouldn't be able to use it either ... AND, most important of all, it would block out my neighbor's networks which would allow my AP to actually use 40 MHz channels and give me closer to the advertised speeds!
I use me@here.com. Have for years.
At that rate you could easily stream a DVD, or maybe some HD-WMA or HD .ts files over it. That would certianly impress me. :-)
Sorry for the broken link, I should really preview before submitting ...
Here is a working link.
Here is a petition with regard to consumer expectations for HD-DVD:
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http://www.petitiononline.com/cehddvd/petition.
Everyone should give it a look and sign if they agree.
Hopefully whoever wins the upcoming standards battle is aware of this petition and takes it into consideration.
Any "non-parents" that read /. and are replying to this thread aren't your average "non-parents" and very probably know more about computers and networking than their parents, which makes their situation VERY different from yours I'm sure.
A whole bunch of people keep saying "People over 21 using fake ID" and "... so people over 21 ..."
It's not 21 in Canada to drink people, it's 19 (18 in Quebec)!!!
Regarding your .sig :
I would say you have failed. Because you have failed to achieve your goal of failing.
On-demand UUEncoded email transfers! Yeah baby!
I was incredibly disappointed with Dragon's Lair 3D. Being the first 1080i game released for the Xbox, I was very much looking forward to it. I think I managed to play it for all of about an hour before giving up entirely because it was such a disappointment.
I don't think this is the start of a Big Brother type project at all. The digial certificate will probably only be used when you are accessing government sites, not unlike when you put your bank card number in to do online banking.
As for online voting, good idea, but not until IPv6 if fully deployed Worldwide, or at least in Canada.
Although I can't find any useful information on their website because the product has been discontinued, Kenwood has already done this with their TrueX line of CDROM drives. If I recall they used 4 or 7 lasers and spun the disc much slower to make the drive quieter than most other CDROM drives. It looks like they hit 72x before they discontinued making them.
The reason for this is more than obvious. There are a lot of small ISPs and companies that do BGP over links as slow as T1s and fractional T1s. This recent M$ worm caused a lot of connectivity issues for a lot of people with links even faster than that. A company with just a few unpatched IIS boxes could easily produce more than 1.54 MB or traffic per second, which would cause massive latency and packet loss across their T1. This, in turn, would cause timeouts of TCP sessions like FTP downloads, web browsing, and yes, BGP sessions.
This would then cause the session to start flapping, the upstream provider to dampen the session and routes being advertised, and their address space being removed from the global routing table.
This doesn't mean that there was routing instability due to the worm, it just means that a lot of networks running unpatched IIS boxes became unreachable.
If the RIAA wins in getting ISPs to block access to OpenNAP and other Napster like services, it will set an absolutly disguesting president on what ISPs can, and are expected to do, that will very quickly effect our ability to do what we want online. I mean what will be next? IRC? Pr0n sites? Binary newsgroups? Where will it end? The purpose of an ISP is to give people and business access to the Internet, not to police the services availble through them. The RIAAs attack on Napster was bad enough, but if they get away with this, it could be the beginning, of the end of the Internet as we know it.
Well, I can't speak for UUNet US, but I work for UUNet Canada, and the guy who takes care of spammers works in the same department as me, and I can say with 100% assurance, ANY spam complaint he recieves, is dealt with swiftly, and immediately. I've seen him turn off a customer's 10 meg bustable ethernet connection before, just because they had an open SMTP server that was being used for spam, and until the customer fixed it, they remained disconnected.
Quite true ... it will also probably be quite useful for laptop users.