It is very clear that you are too fixated on violent fantasies to have understood the examples that were presented to you. How do you think Gandhi would have fared if it he packed heat, but only used it for "self-defense"?
Don't give them any ideas. They'll find some "evidence" in the koran that god doesn't want them to stop at the chador, but also requires foot binding and vocal cord removal for women.
if you have it set to "any avaliable ip" and the box has 2 ip's your client may request data on IPA:80 and get a reply from IPB:port
If a client sends a SYN to 10.1.1.1:80 and gets an SYN-ACK from 10.5.5.5:80 then the client will not associate the two as being related, and will keep waiting for a response from 10.1.1.1:80 until timing out.
You would need to have some sort of DNS arrangement that encouraged clients to make their requests to your various IPs. You can't just respond from a different IP than the client contacted.
unless you have the site bound to a specific host ip address (instead of using site headers - iis will respond on an alternate ip (if it has one) when another is out of ports
How would that be of any use? The client on the far end is directing incoming traffic based on source IP (among other characteristics). TCP packets that arrive from random IPs are discarded.
Many browsers will open more connections than this, resulting in "broken" image links on pages. I've tried all kinds of connection limits to protect against simple DOS attacks, but always have problems with corpororations whose standard desktop configs include IE/Firefox set to open way more connections than would be polite.
It becomes politically challenging to cause those users to have a problem, especially since they don't see it with other sites. The perception is always that my server has a problem, and it doesn't matter how clearly I explain what's actually happening and how inappropriate it is to have 1000 PCs all set to open 30 connections to each web site they visit.
Because Google Groups is a web interface, and hence a painfully slow and miserable experience unless you have never become spoiled by good dedicated newsreaders.
Well, diamonds aren't really scarce. People horde them to make it seem as if they are.
Unlike domain names, which are very scarce. Only one new DNS mine has come online since 2005, and the political situation in Angola has reduced production to a mere trickle.
Management of the system can be done with the VMWare infrastructure client GUI which runs on Windows.
This is one of the many reasons I gave up on VMWare - the management tools are primitive in that they only really work via the GUI and can't easily be scripted or accessed in an efficient manner. Trying to do significant management via the CLI was nigh unto impossible.
For people who have a Windows machine and excellent connectivity to the server room at all times, maybe that's okay.
For someone who is frequently out and about, it's not - using a prepaid SIM card on a Moroccan train I can easily reconfigure my Xen servers in the USA. With VMWare I haven't a prayer.
As a parent with a mentally disabled child, I do not agree.
As a parent with a mentally disabled child, you are talking about a situation that is more challenging and complex than the situation the rest of us are discussing. Apples and oranges.
Yes, because if one bad thing happens to one of seven billion people anywhere in the world, then it makes perfect sense to focus all your energies on making sure it doesn't happen to you.
More and more proof that the human brain just wasn't meant to comprehend societies as large as ours. The in-built statistical heuristics break down completely and start recommending the most irrational things.
With a name like the Yuckinator, I'd expect you to spend more time familiarising yourself with humourous (or purportedly humourous) internet memes and less time responding seriously to people riffing on them.
The state web sites are hosted in Japan (which is not China, even though the people there also have slanty eyes and buck teeth and eat rice while saying "so solly", so I can see why you'd be confused), and there are cell phones in North Korea, though they can't be used for international calls or calls to foreigners (who have numbers on a different prefix). Better luck next time.
The US is much more likely to enforce embargoes by disconnecting a countrie's domain than an international body. An international body such as the UN is much more inert.
Without your being able to point to a single example of the US "disconnecting a countrie's domain", I find it hard to take your claim very seriously.
The US federal government has in fact been quite nobly aloof in matters of international internet, even when it comes to "rogue states" and things it doesn't like, such as online gambling.
The ITU (UN telecoms body), on the other hand, has always been a least-common-denominator slave to national PTT monopolies, and has probably done more to hold back free and open communication around the world than any other body in existence. I would be very, very afraid if they got their filthy corrupt fingers anywhere near the internet.
Those IP-location databases are okay for ad targeting, but woefully inaccurate for anything that matters. For instance, I am in Kuala Lumpur, but Google thinks I'm in Germany.
Good point. Perhaps we should also all become heart surgeons, midwives, and bomb disposal technicians. After all, if every single person doesn't do every single thing to prepare for every single rare possibility, we are all totally and irrevocably doomed. DOOMED!
How do you feel about people who dare leave the house without carrying a cell phone at all? They are also unable to call 911. Do you spit in their faces as they pass, or just silently seethe at them, knowing they'll burn in hell for their negligence?
P.S. I don't believe any voluntarily non-vaccinated person had the thought process you describe. They don't do it because they think it'll make them sick, or that it will let the CIA read their thoughts.
Agreed, the 911 fixation is a pretty lame objection. What's the chance of being in an emergency situation where there is nobody else and no other phone around? In my many years I sure haven't seen it. I think this obsession with 911 availability that always crops up in voip discussions is just another consequence of the TV news-driven mass hysteria that's taken over the US psyche. The world really ain't that scary, folks.
Now, the battery life and the ungainly size, those are serious problems and I'd think they'd make it an obvious non-starter right out of the gate.
I have a netbook with wimax, and I use it when I go down to the corner bar to shoot the shit with the local drunkards but need to stay in touch with work (since work is an international call away and voip is cheaper than using my cell phone). The limited battery life is actually a good thing in this case; when the battery dies, it's time to pay up and go home.
Lots of people laugh at it but sitting at a table in a comfortable space it's fine. Trying to use it walking down the street or in a crowded shop would be absurd. You'd need a very particular kind of life to make this your primary phone.
Maybe I had some sampling error. I worked in three different buildings and they all had showers.
Each of them was a large building that was fully dedicated to one owner/tenant/agency. Perhaps mixed-tenant office buildings are different.
Guess I was just lucky living in DC where showers at the office are quite common.
I'd get up in the morning, read the news, have some breakfast, toss my work clothes in a bag, and hop on the bike. Anywhere between 10 and 60 minutes later (depending on where I was working at the time), I'd be at the office. Hop in the shower, change into my work clothes, run up the stairs, and there's my desk.
It was a delightful way to start the day. My 10-minute commute was downhill through town (OEOB); my hour-long ride was on a bike path through a park the entire way (Adams Morgan to NIH).
In addition to being relaxing, I was in great shape without any additional exercise. The bike cost me $400 ten years earlier. Total annual cost was about $200 for repairs and maintenance. No tolls, no parking, no insurance, no gas. Subtract the cost of a gym and I was making a profit.
I realize it doesn't work for everyone, but if it's an option, I definitely recommend giving it a try. The commute was the high point of my work day much of the time.
What would be wrong with having a designated calling area on a plane, similar to smoking areas?
A designated calling area would be fine. SQ18/19 (RIP), the greatest economy-class flight of all, had a stand-up lounge and snack area in the back that tended to concentrate the gabbers, which was good for everyone. What I'm worried about is someone sitting right behind me yakking for 22 hours on one of the Asia-America flights I have to do constantly.
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It is very clear that you are too fixated on violent fantasies to have understood the examples that were presented to you. How do you think Gandhi would have fared if it he packed heat, but only used it for "self-defense"?
Don't give them any ideas. They'll find some "evidence" in the koran that god doesn't want them to stop at the chador, but also requires foot binding and vocal cord removal for women.
If a client sends a SYN to 10.1.1.1:80 and gets an SYN-ACK from 10.5.5.5:80 then the client will not associate the two as being related, and will keep waiting for a response from 10.1.1.1:80 until timing out.
You would need to have some sort of DNS arrangement that encouraged clients to make their requests to your various IPs. You can't just respond from a different IP than the client contacted.
How would that be of any use? The client on the far end is directing incoming traffic based on source IP (among other characteristics). TCP packets that arrive from random IPs are discarded.
Many browsers will open more connections than this, resulting in "broken" image links on pages. I've tried all kinds of connection limits to protect against simple DOS attacks, but always have problems with corpororations whose standard desktop configs include IE/Firefox set to open way more connections than would be polite.
It becomes politically challenging to cause those users to have a problem, especially since they don't see it with other sites. The perception is always that my server has a problem, and it doesn't matter how clearly I explain what's actually happening and how inappropriate it is to have 1000 PCs all set to open 30 connections to each web site they visit.
Because Google Groups is a web interface, and hence a painfully slow and miserable experience unless you have never become spoiled by good dedicated newsreaders.
Unlike domain names, which are very scarce. Only one new DNS mine has come online since 2005, and the political situation in Angola has reduced production to a mere trickle.
Maybe my job requires it.
This is one of the many reasons I gave up on VMWare - the management tools are primitive in that they only really work via the GUI and can't easily be scripted or accessed in an efficient manner. Trying to do significant management via the CLI was nigh unto impossible.
For people who have a Windows machine and excellent connectivity to the server room at all times, maybe that's okay.
For someone who is frequently out and about, it's not - using a prepaid SIM card on a Moroccan train I can easily reconfigure my Xen servers in the USA. With VMWare I haven't a prayer.
I rest my case.
As a parent with a mentally disabled child, you are talking about a situation that is more challenging and complex than the situation the rest of us are discussing. Apples and oranges.
As a parent who's already posted in this thread, I can only say "+1000, insightful".
Yes, because if one bad thing happens to one of seven billion people anywhere in the world, then it makes perfect sense to focus all your energies on making sure it doesn't happen to you.
More and more proof that the human brain just wasn't meant to comprehend societies as large as ours. The in-built statistical heuristics break down completely and start recommending the most irrational things.
With a name like the Yuckinator, I'd expect you to spend more time familiarising yourself with humourous (or purportedly humourous) internet memes and less time responding seriously to people riffing on them.
The state web sites are hosted in Japan (which is not China, even though the people there also have slanty eyes and buck teeth and eat rice while saying "so solly", so I can see why you'd be confused), and there are cell phones in North Korea, though they can't be used for international calls or calls to foreigners (who have numbers on a different prefix). Better luck next time.
Without your being able to point to a single example of the US "disconnecting a countrie's domain", I find it hard to take your claim very seriously.
The US federal government has in fact been quite nobly aloof in matters of international internet, even when it comes to "rogue states" and things it doesn't like, such as online gambling.
The ITU (UN telecoms body), on the other hand, has always been a least-common-denominator slave to national PTT monopolies, and has probably done more to hold back free and open communication around the world than any other body in existence. I would be very, very afraid if they got their filthy corrupt fingers anywhere near the internet.
Those IP-location databases are okay for ad targeting, but woefully inaccurate for anything that matters. For instance, I am in Kuala Lumpur, but Google thinks I'm in Germany.
Good point. Perhaps we should also all become heart surgeons, midwives, and bomb disposal technicians. After all, if every single person doesn't do every single thing to prepare for every single rare possibility, we are all totally and irrevocably doomed. DOOMED!
How do you feel about people who dare leave the house without carrying a cell phone at all? They are also unable to call 911. Do you spit in their faces as they pass, or just silently seethe at them, knowing they'll burn in hell for their negligence?
P.S. I don't believe any voluntarily non-vaccinated person had the thought process you describe. They don't do it because they think it'll make them sick, or that it will let the CIA read their thoughts.
Agreed, the 911 fixation is a pretty lame objection. What's the chance of being in an emergency situation where there is nobody else and no other phone around? In my many years I sure haven't seen it. I think this obsession with 911 availability that always crops up in voip discussions is just another consequence of the TV news-driven mass hysteria that's taken over the US psyche. The world really ain't that scary, folks.
Now, the battery life and the ungainly size, those are serious problems and I'd think they'd make it an obvious non-starter right out of the gate.
I have a netbook with wimax, and I use it when I go down to the corner bar to shoot the shit with the local drunkards but need to stay in touch with work (since work is an international call away and voip is cheaper than using my cell phone). The limited battery life is actually a good thing in this case; when the battery dies, it's time to pay up and go home.
Lots of people laugh at it but sitting at a table in a comfortable space it's fine. Trying to use it walking down the street or in a crowded shop would be absurd. You'd need a very particular kind of life to make this your primary phone.
Maybe I had some sampling error. I worked in three different buildings and they all had showers. Each of them was a large building that was fully dedicated to one owner/tenant/agency. Perhaps mixed-tenant office buildings are different.
That's why REI (or any company wishing to avoid these situations) should insist that their security firm train its staff better.
Guess I was just lucky living in DC where showers at the office are quite common.
I'd get up in the morning, read the news, have some breakfast, toss my work clothes in a bag, and hop on the bike. Anywhere between 10 and 60 minutes later (depending on where I was working at the time), I'd be at the office. Hop in the shower, change into my work clothes, run up the stairs, and there's my desk.
It was a delightful way to start the day. My 10-minute commute was downhill through town (OEOB); my hour-long ride was on a bike path through a park the entire way (Adams Morgan to NIH).
In addition to being relaxing, I was in great shape without any additional exercise. The bike cost me $400 ten years earlier. Total annual cost was about $200 for repairs and maintenance. No tolls, no parking, no insurance, no gas. Subtract the cost of a gym and I was making a profit.
I realize it doesn't work for everyone, but if it's an option, I definitely recommend giving it a try. The commute was the high point of my work day much of the time.
A designated calling area would be fine. SQ18/19 (RIP), the greatest economy-class flight of all, had a stand-up lounge and snack area in the back that tended to concentrate the gabbers, which was good for everyone. What I'm worried about is someone sitting right behind me yakking for 22 hours on one of the Asia-America flights I have to do constantly.
Try walking across the road from the train station entrance; there's a free hotspot in the lobby of whatever hotel is over there.
It is for freelancers like me; it means I can earn back the cost of the flight.