After a quick browse through the replies, I didn't see this mentioned -
If UTC is allowed to become out of sync with 'normal time', how do you calculate UTC on your PC? At the minute, its quite simple - its the number of seconds since 00:00 01/01/70. Easy.
If you no longer have leap seconds, UTC goes out of sync with the PCs clock - we would need to have software updates an OS patches to account for any gained leap seconds, and the point in time at which they occur(ed).
If I talk about a time in the future - how do I convert it from UTC to 'normal' time?
Of course I could have missed the point here, and leap seconds could be added to 'normal' time at regular intervals (there by making the calculation easy), but what if they are not?
True about the BER - dunno quite what I was thinking about. Still - when a bad packet is received, or one is dropped somewhere you still have the entire window to retransmit.
Increasing the receive window helps, but is not a complete solution by itself - when a dodgy packet is received, a large amount of data will have to be retransmitted (remember that this is a satelitte link, not a T1 - the BER is much worse for a satelitte).
By increasing the buffer size, I presume you mean increasing the TCP window size. Modifying the TCP slow start algorithm can make an improvement too.
Another common method for reducing the effect of a large latency on TCP is to place special proxies at either end of the satelitte link. These proxies will fake TCP ACKs in order to stop latency problems. The also handle any error recovery by buffering the packets they have received, until they receive the real ACK from the other side of the satelitte link. As far as I remember, there was some jiggery-pokery involved in dealing with all possible combinations of SYN and FIN flags but I cannot remember the details.
Your comment got me worried - what if some bastard put MY plate on his shirt and started walking around London?!
Fortunately, the Transport For London website has the answer in its FAQ:
What happens if the cameras get a number plate wrong?
All number plates identified as having been within the congestion charging zone without having paid the appropriate charge will be cross referenced with the photographed image to ensure that the cameras have not misread the number plate. If this check identifies that a number plate has been incorrectly read then it will be manually corrected or, if unreadable, the image will be deleted.
3.) "Except as otherwise permitted by the NetMeeting, Remote Assistance, and Remote Desktop features described below, you may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display or run other executable software residing on the Workstation Computer, nor may you permit any Device to use, access, display, or run the Product or Product's user interface, unless the Device has a separate license for the Product."
I guess this means that running Apache, or FTP is only allowed if you ensure that there are not.exe files available for download since you are not allowed to "permit any Device to use, access, display or run other executable software"
I guess this also could rule out synchronising your Palm or Wince PDA - the little helper application will execute the Outlook.exe inorder to get your email.
Yeah right, because the DCMA is enforceable outside of the US.
Also - what kind of copyright do you think your emails has? NONE! Maybe you could trademark your domain, but:
a. It would cost a BOMB for an internationally recognised trademark (remember - the world is bigger than the US). b. It would cost a BOMB to enfoprce it - you have to enforce it otherwise you lose it.
The best you can do is what everyone else does - only give your primary email address to people you trust. For mailing lists, etc. create email addresses with the various free email services out there.
According to another thread in the TiVo UK forum, the BBC cocked up. TiVo is NOT pulling our of the UK, just Thompson who make the UK version of the TiVo (though I guess this leaves the UK without a TiVo manufacturer for a while).
According to the thread this is not the first time this mistake has been made.
I saw a presentation from some guy about Interplanetary Internet (might have been called Interplanetary Network at the time), and found that their proposed DNS scheme was a little bigger than marsrover.co.mars.
Think more along the lines of marsrover.olympusmons.mars.sol.
The.sol bit made me laugh - what are we going to do when we set this thing up between galaxies eh? (additionally, ping times would be bad)
For those that are particularly worried about the new clauses in the license, why not simply ask Sun (politely) about them rather than letting the paranoia build up with every reply posted here?
You could contact your Sun rep, or use the contact method listed in the the legal and licensing FAQ, or even through the Sun JAVA Forums.
Better to ask first, rather than to jump to incorrect assumptions.
IANAL again, but the law that would be broken in Oz would be that of hacking a computer system. The US has laws against that (rather draconian ones now as well).
Does the get out clause for RIAA/MPAA apply? If the laws are now not reciprical, does this mean that the US cannot extradite an Australian for hacking into a computer system in the US?
Another thing I want to ask is if the new US law gives anyone the right to hack&remove material copyrighted by them, or just the MPAA/RIAA? Hasn't there been rumours of MS using portions of GNU software in Windows?
Has anyone else noticed the lack of windows (as in glass) for the pilots?
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I did my back in on one of those normal office chairs. I changed to a posture chair for a few months and my back sorted itself out.
Technically, my company could have been in a bit of trouble because they are responsible for my health and saftey at work.
The posture chairs are quite good - the look funny and need a bit of getting used to (mine looked a bit like this). Additionally, you also have a minor problem with the fact that you slowley lose the hairs on your shins!
However, what works for me might not work for you. Your best bet is to consult a specialist, otherwise you might damage your back further. Remember - your health and saftey at work should be your companies responsibility. Ask them to sort it out.
Scary that the websites need a license. Imaging trying to do that on a global scale. How many hours would it take to scan + license the pages in google?
I see that China Daily is licensed as number 20100000002731 - they actually put a scan of the license on the site.
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After a quick browse through the replies, I didn't see this mentioned -
If UTC is allowed to become out of sync with 'normal time', how do you calculate UTC on your PC? At the minute, its quite simple - its the number of seconds since 00:00 01/01/70. Easy.
If you no longer have leap seconds, UTC goes out of sync with the PCs clock - we would need to have software updates an OS patches to account for any gained leap seconds, and the point in time at which they occur(ed).
If I talk about a time in the future - how do I convert it from UTC to 'normal' time?
Of course I could have missed the point here, and leap seconds could be added to 'normal' time at regular intervals (there by making the calculation easy), but what if they are not?
Steve.
http://www.uruklink.net/iraq/
I can now use my TV remote from further away.
True about the BER - dunno quite what I was thinking about. Still - when a bad packet is received, or one is dropped somewhere you still have the entire window to retransmit.
Increasing the receive window helps, but is not a complete solution by itself - when a dodgy packet is received, a large amount of data will have to be retransmitted (remember that this is a satelitte link, not a T1 - the BER is much worse for a satelitte).
Steve.
By increasing the buffer size, I presume you mean increasing the TCP window size. Modifying the TCP slow start algorithm can make an improvement too.
Another common method for reducing the effect of a large latency on TCP is to place special proxies at either end of the satelitte link. These proxies will fake TCP ACKs in order to stop latency problems. The also handle any error recovery by buffering the packets they have received, until they receive the real ACK from the other side of the satelitte link. As far as I remember, there was some jiggery-pokery involved in dealing with all possible combinations of SYN and FIN flags but I cannot remember the details.
Steve.
...this isn't about free speech. Its about free listening.
People are just as free to speak as they are to listen, and should not be FORCED to listen to what they don't want.
Steve.
Your comment got me worried - what if some bastard put MY plate on his shirt and started walking around London?!
Fortunately, the Transport For London website has the answer in its FAQ:
What happens if the cameras get a number plate wrong?
All number plates identified as having been within the congestion charging zone without having paid the appropriate charge will be cross referenced with the photographed image to ensure that the cameras have not misread the number plate. If this check identifies that a number plate has been incorrectly read then it will be manually corrected or, if unreadable, the image will be deleted.
Steve.
3.) "Except as otherwise permitted by the NetMeeting, Remote Assistance, and Remote Desktop features described below, you may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display or run other executable software residing on the Workstation Computer, nor may you permit any Device to use, access, display, or run the Product or Product's user interface, unless the Device has a separate license for the Product."
.exe files available for download since you are not allowed to "permit any Device to use, access, display or run other executable software"
.exe inorder to get your email.
I guess this means that running Apache, or FTP is only allowed if you ensure that there are not
I guess this also could rule out synchronising your Palm or Wince PDA - the little helper application will execute the Outlook
Bugger eh.
Steve.
Yeah right, because the DCMA is enforceable outside of the US.
Also - what kind of copyright do you think your emails has? NONE! Maybe you could trademark your domain, but:
a. It would cost a BOMB for an internationally recognised trademark (remember - the world is bigger than the US).
b. It would cost a BOMB to enfoprce it - you have to enforce it otherwise you lose it.
The best you can do is what everyone else does - only give your primary email address to people you trust. For mailing lists, etc. create email addresses with the various free email services out there.
Steve.
According to another thread in the TiVo UK forum, the BBC cocked up. TiVo is NOT pulling our of the UK, just Thompson who make the UK version of the TiVo (though I guess this leaves the UK without a TiVo manufacturer for a while).
According to the thread this is not the first time this mistake has been made.
Lets look at this guys track record:
:)
Defending Napster: Failure
Representing Al-Gore: Failure
Anti-trust Against Microsoft: Failure
I'm shaking in my boots
Steve.
Had Ant Attack for my ZX Spectrum around 20 years ago. It was cool.
Steve.
I saw a presentation from some guy about Interplanetary Internet (might have been called Interplanetary Network at the time), and found that their proposed DNS scheme was a little bigger than marsrover.co.mars.
.sol bit made me laugh - what are we going to do when we set this thing up between galaxies eh? (additionally, ping times would be bad)
Think more along the lines of marsrover.olympusmons.mars.sol.
The
Steve.
McDonalds is now available in China.
Whereas is glows like millions of little light bulbs in visible light :)
Steve.
Imagine if sites dedicated to rounders were removed in the UK.....
Though plastic ones tend not to thrive, but rather remain constant (until some jerk starts pulling bits off of them).
For those that are particularly worried about the new clauses in the license, why not simply ask Sun (politely) about them rather than letting the paranoia build up with every reply posted here?
You could contact your Sun rep, or use the contact method listed in the the legal and licensing FAQ, or even through the Sun JAVA Forums.
Better to ask first, rather than to jump to incorrect assumptions.
Steve.
IANAL again, but the law that would be broken in Oz would be that of hacking a computer system. The US has laws against that (rather draconian ones now as well).
Does the get out clause for RIAA/MPAA apply? If the laws are now not reciprical, does this mean that the US cannot extradite an Australian for hacking into a computer system in the US?
Another thing I want to ask is if the new US law gives anyone the right to hack&remove material copyrighted by them, or just the MPAA/RIAA? Hasn't there been rumours of MS using portions of GNU software in Windows?
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure it would and I am pretty sure that Oz has an extradition treaty wiht the US.
Think of the reverse - if you live in Australia and hack into the Pentagon, I wouldn't consider yourself too safe from prosecution.
Has anyone else noticed the lack of windows (as in glass) for the pilots?
I did my back in on one of those normal office chairs. I changed to a posture chair for a few months and my back sorted itself out.
Technically, my company could have been in a bit of trouble because they are responsible for my health and saftey at work.
The posture chairs are quite good - the look funny and need a bit of getting used to (mine looked a bit like this). Additionally, you also have a minor problem with the fact that you slowley lose the hairs on your shins!
However, what works for me might not work for you. Your best bet is to consult a specialist, otherwise you might damage your back further. Remember - your health and saftey at work should be your companies responsibility. Ask them to sort it out.
Steve.
I see that China Daily is licensed as number 20100000002731 - they actually put a scan of the license on the site.
Steve.
Sellotape(R) is to the rest of the world what Scotch Tape is to the US.