Just a guess, but maybe widespread adoption of Carrier Grade NAT might have given IPv4 a bit of a longer shelf life. It's either that or the kind of fun and games that I once read that Hutchison (Orange) was doing on their mobile network, with no less than seven separate instances of the 10/8 network being juggled around at once.
Still, even ARIN is now starting to tighten the screws on the size of netblocks they are assigning out, so I suspect providers are being a lot more careful about how they subnet and assign out IP addresses than they used to be. I suspect that just moving stuff like DB servers and other backend infrastructure onto private IP space instead of just dumping them in the DMZ for convenience has helped a bit too, not too mention being a better security practice.
A proper cost/benefit analysis is needed, before we decide to forcibly relocate everyone back to caves.
But that's just it. If climate change brings about a global rise in sea levels then some people, like those in Indonesia, would just love to have a cave because at least it's drier than the ocean they'll have been relocated back to.
When is the last time you watched the original Cosmos? There are a lot--and I mean A LOT--of scenes featuring Carl sitting on a beach or in a meadow looking off into the distance with pontificating voice-overs that kinda ramble.
Yeah, there were a lot of scenes like that and some of the editing of the rest could perhaps have done with being a little more tight, but the series got the job done well and I've never failed to enjoy re-watching it. To that end I'm planning on watching it next week and the week after, once I've finished watching my Game of Thrones S3 discs. That way, when I inevitably compare the new series with the original I'll be doing so against a fresh impression and not some rose-tinted view of greatness. Regardless of how it compares though, as long as it gets a sizeable proportion of the current crop of adolescents at least interested in STEM, that's going to be a good enough result, I think.
Just what it sounds like. You can produce an MP4 and license the video itself (the "content") under a free license like Creative Commons, but the software required to play back that CC licensed video content is patent-encumbered and cannot be freely re-licensed.
Laziness on behalf of end user ISPs, mostly, but also because BCP38 / RFC2827 is harder to implement for larger customers that do their own routing from multiple subnets and might legitimately start to send traffic from an IP allocation you have no idea about and thus have blocked because one of their upstream links with a different provider went down. Still, there's no real excuse for not doing this on the edge of networks that are only ever going to have a single known block of IPs behind them though. Just taking out the potential for home and SoHo users from spoofing source addresses would have a huge impact on the ability to perform amplification based attacks on this kind of scale.
Nothing to stop a suitibly inclined end user fixing up their own network though, just in case they do get compromised. Line #1 in my router's egress rules is always "if source IP != my subnet, drop the packet & log to syslog".
It also needs to take into account that methane released into the atmosphere, while having a larger impact than CO2 tonne for tonne, breaks down over a relatively short period (a half life of several years), at which point its impact on warming falls to near zero, whereas CO2 lingers for centuries with a much larger cumulative impact. Lots of anti-fracking FUD going around at the moment, both from the NIMBY and established traditional big-oil industries, that's covering similar ground to this.
Depends on the varient of the theory. One of those is that there were multiple diasporas of early humans out of Africa, but most of the early explorers died out in the ice ages or other calamities, while others may have survived longer to become the various off shoots of the human tree found in the fossil records. I'd say that idea doesn't really suffer from this find, if anything it strengthens it and establishes that humans must have started expanding out of their ancestral homelands much sooner than many may have thought and certainly doesn't prevent all of us current humans from from being decended from a much more recent Mitochondrial Eve that lived in Africa approx 100,000-200,000 years ago.
I'm sure most people are wishing that Beta was a 404, but I think you misunderstood the "when tomorrow's strip gets posted" bit - I'm guessing that Randall might well be taking a swipe at DICE in the next XKCD strip, which won't be posted for a few hours yet.
Or, better yet, put a "Beta" discussion topic on the main page - like they should have been done hours ago when all this first kicked off. At least the comments there will be on topic.
Oh, and anyone care to bet that this will be the "obligatory XKCD" link when tomorrow's strip gets posted?;)
That the AK47 and 74 rifles that the Russians would sell to others would have a chamber that was slightly too small so that if they picked up rounds from dead Russian soldiers they would not work in the foreign soldiers rifles.
So, what you are saying is that some rounds might be more equal than others...?
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I'm guessing NFC is not too dissimilar to a network interface, so why wouldn't it be in the kernel? I would assume that it compiles to a module by default, but could also be compiled directly into a stripped down kernel for a dedicated use installation, so it's not likely to be using resources unless needed.
I actually tend to side with Snopes, "Status undetermined" on this, and we'll probably never know for certain. That said, a lot of the key components of the story are demonstrably true, making for an awful lot of coincidences that all add credibility to it, including a retelling on Philips' own website and marketing materials of the time specifically mentioning the Furtwangler recording. Here's a link to a story by one of Philips' own engineers on the development process, documenting a sudden (and quite drastic) design change from Sony that had to have been triggered by something. All in all, I think there probably is some truth behind it, but were it a court of law most of the "evidence" would probably be classed as circumstantial, and I also suspect it may have been exaggerated after the fact by the marketing departments of Sony and Philips; it's a nice story, after all.
You joke, but I'm not so sure there may not be some element of truth in that. When the specs for the audio CD were being thrashed out CBS/Sony president (and later CEO and chairman) Norio Ohga all but forced Philips into changing the format to accomodate his favourite piece, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, in its entirety. Before the change to 12cm diameter disks, Philips had been proposing 11.5cm and a playing time of one hour exactly, but the longest running version of Beethoven's 9th was Furtwangler's 1951 Bayreuth Festival recording at 74 minutes, requiring the extra 0.5cm. If Sony's audio division could use the length of pieces to dictate technology specs, then why not the video division?
Because all the systems like those you cite consist entirely of automated vehicles, so in theory it should be entirely predictable what is going to be happening at any given time, which vehicle is where, and so on leaving little to no margin of error in where the cause and any blame for an accident lay. Self-driving vehicles are almost certainly going to have to share the roads with other users, including cyclists and vehicles driven by humans some of which will be idiots, plus they have to deal with the various conditions that can arise spontanously like a child running out into the road, many of which are far more likely to happen on a public road than a managed mass-transit system. While in many cases the response from the self-driving vehicle is likely to exceed that of a human in the same situation, probably saving more lives in the long run, when it comes to blame nobody wants to accept any that they can avoid and since there *will* be fatal accidents involving self-driving cars someone is going to have to accept that risk.
The Russians have sent tourists to the ISS, so why not Virgin Galactic? They could build and send up a habitation module for their tourists in return for allowing the regular crew to use it when they are not, perhaps with a guarantee that would be at least a given percentage of a year. Likewise, I suspect that there are plenty of commercial enterprises would love access to a true zero G lab, and not just those interested in space directly - pharma and metamaterials companies for instance - investing in the ISS in return for a certain amount of lab time, possibly even providing the lab, might be something they could get behind. There is a lot of commercial interest in space already, and it's growing all the time, so just because it hasn't been done yet doesn't mean it won't or shouldn't be.
It is a collaborative effort, and all this does is extend the US' funding for another four years, which I would imagine is a significant chunk of the total costs so this is indeed welcome news. However, the withdrawal of US funding might not actually mean the end of the ISS, it would just fall on the remaining four space programmes in the consortium to continue to support and fund it. One obvious way of doing that would be to bring on board additional partners, whether national space programmes like China (whose involvement in the ISS the US vetoed previously) and India, or even commercial endeavors like Space-X, Virgin Galactic and so on.
A cult that demands its adherents donate increasingly large amounts of money to the "church" and employs dubious legal tactics, manipulation of the media and outright intimidation to keep its opponents and wayward members in check? Yep. Sounds like we have a winner!
The article doesn't actually mention costs at all, so I don't think that's an issue so much as people soaking up the scarce bandwidth when others are trying use the connection for its primary intended purpose; schoolwork. If it were a problem, then I'd have expected the question to have included asking for advice on caching proxies and such like to save bandwidth. If there's no cap, then QoS would be a good part of a solution for this as it lets you make maximum use of your circuit, while avoiding degrading the experience for people just surfing the web.
I don't see the problem here. The price of Windows 8 is not more than Windows XP. And if the price is still a problem, just use a cracked copy like they did with huge amount of XP installations.
China had a discounted cost, feature limited, licensed copy of Windows XP and Windows 7 available (if you could find them - good luck with that!) in a mostly futile attempt to bring the endemic mass piracy of software under control. The Windows 7 version was discontinued with the launch of Windows 8, so the only legitimate option left in China is to buy or upgrade to a version of Windows 8.x that costs significantly more than new Windows XP/7 basic licenses used to cost.
I think that reintroducing that option for Windows 8 is probably Microsoft's best tactic here - extending XP support again just postpones the inevitable repeat because China and South Korea *still* won't have cut their ties to XP by the new date, and will no doubt ask for another extention, and then another... It generates some revenue and throws the general Chinese populace a bone, for everything else they should have been planning the move to an alternate platform (Windows or otherwise) along with almost everyone else in the world with any clue of what's going to happen when support stops. Failing that, they can pay through the nose for Microsoft's extended support of XP option, or make available some third party tool to try and secure Windows XP as best they can, perhaps in conjunction with some support from that Great Firewall we keep hearing about.
It's currently quite visible to the naked eye, if you can get away from any significant light pollution. You'll need to look due East just before dawn for the best views; ISON is currently passing by Spica in the constellation of Virgo. If you've got a reasonable camera that can do manual exposures and a tripod, then you'll get a much more impressive image by using a longer exposure and a mid-telephoto focal length; a 70-200mm range is currently ideal depending on how much of the tail you want to try and capture, or go for a longer length if you just want to capture the quite spectacular coma. Open the lens to the widest aperture, manually focus to infinity (I use a bright star for this), keep the exposure down to about 20s and adjust the ISO to suit.
Let's say they present 10 options for each GOTCHA. That means that I could pick an option at random and have a 10% chance of getting it right. I could have 10 machines on my botnet try the same sign-up post and statistically one of them should guess the right answer, which for a sufficient number of attempts is more or less providing a known success rate. How is the system supposed to tell which of all those unique IPs giving correct answers are my guessing bots and which are real people? I'm also pretty sure that a fully automated 10% hit rate via a bot is going to be a lot quicker and cheaper at getting past the system than paying people a few cents an hour in some third world country to manually process the current CAPTCHA system.
Sorry guys, but not withstanding all the issues with people who are colour blind or have perception issues with inkblot images, I don't think this is going to improve the situation at all.
Sure, this would a good PR move. Probably tied up in all sorts of operational, constitutional and legal red tape that would prevent it from ever happening, but it's a nice idea. Maybe if we presented it as a kind of challenge, kind of like an Internet equivalent of the Space Race...
First nation to use their online surveillance technology / great firewall / legions of state sponsored hackers to bring a clear and demonstrable reduction in online crime wins. Go!
This is probably rooted in anthropomorphism; mankind has been attaching personal human-style connections to inanimate objects since before recorded history; animals, ships, deities, whether imaginary sky gods or natural objects such as sacred lakes, rocks and trees, the list goes on. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was a strong correlation between the depth of feelings felt for the machine and the degree to which the operator had established a human-style connection to the it. Once operators start assigning pet names, applying custom paint jobs and taking photos of themselves with their robots, then it's only to be expected that there is going to be a stronger reaction when it gets damaged or destroyed.
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Just a guess, but maybe widespread adoption of Carrier Grade NAT might have given IPv4 a bit of a longer shelf life. It's either that or the kind of fun and games that I once read that Hutchison (Orange) was doing on their mobile network, with no less than seven separate instances of the 10/8 network being juggled around at once.
Still, even ARIN is now starting to tighten the screws on the size of netblocks they are assigning out, so I suspect providers are being a lot more careful about how they subnet and assign out IP addresses than they used to be. I suspect that just moving stuff like DB servers and other backend infrastructure onto private IP space instead of just dumping them in the DMZ for convenience has helped a bit too, not too mention being a better security practice.
But that's just it. If climate change brings about a global rise in sea levels then some people, like those in Indonesia, would just love to have a cave because at least it's drier than the ocean they'll have been relocated back to.
Yeah, there were a lot of scenes like that and some of the editing of the rest could perhaps have done with being a little more tight, but the series got the job done well and I've never failed to enjoy re-watching it. To that end I'm planning on watching it next week and the week after, once I've finished watching my Game of Thrones S3 discs. That way, when I inevitably compare the new series with the original I'll be doing so against a fresh impression and not some rose-tinted view of greatness. Regardless of how it compares though, as long as it gets a sizeable proportion of the current crop of adolescents at least interested in STEM, that's going to be a good enough result, I think.
Just what it sounds like. You can produce an MP4 and license the video itself (the "content") under a free license like Creative Commons, but the software required to play back that CC licensed video content is patent-encumbered and cannot be freely re-licensed.
Laziness on behalf of end user ISPs, mostly, but also because BCP38 / RFC2827 is harder to implement for larger customers that do their own routing from multiple subnets and might legitimately start to send traffic from an IP allocation you have no idea about and thus have blocked because one of their upstream links with a different provider went down. Still, there's no real excuse for not doing this on the edge of networks that are only ever going to have a single known block of IPs behind them though. Just taking out the potential for home and SoHo users from spoofing source addresses would have a huge impact on the ability to perform amplification based attacks on this kind of scale.
Nothing to stop a suitibly inclined end user fixing up their own network though, just in case they do get compromised. Line #1 in my router's egress rules is always "if source IP != my subnet, drop the packet & log to syslog".
It also needs to take into account that methane released into the atmosphere, while having a larger impact than CO2 tonne for tonne, breaks down over a relatively short period (a half life of several years), at which point its impact on warming falls to near zero, whereas CO2 lingers for centuries with a much larger cumulative impact. Lots of anti-fracking FUD going around at the moment, both from the NIMBY and established traditional big-oil industries, that's covering similar ground to this.
Depends on the varient of the theory. One of those is that there were multiple diasporas of early humans out of Africa, but most of the early explorers died out in the ice ages or other calamities, while others may have survived longer to become the various off shoots of the human tree found in the fossil records. I'd say that idea doesn't really suffer from this find, if anything it strengthens it and establishes that humans must have started expanding out of their ancestral homelands much sooner than many may have thought and certainly doesn't prevent all of us current humans from from being decended from a much more recent Mitochondrial Eve that lived in Africa approx 100,000-200,000 years ago.
I'm sure most people are wishing that Beta was a 404, but I think you misunderstood the "when tomorrow's strip gets posted" bit - I'm guessing that Randall might well be taking a swipe at DICE in the next XKCD strip, which won't be posted for a few hours yet.
Or, better yet, put a "Beta" discussion topic on the main page - like they should have been done hours ago when all this first kicked off. At least the comments there will be on topic.
;)
Oh, and anyone care to bet that this will be the "obligatory XKCD" link when tomorrow's strip gets posted?
So, what you are saying is that some rounds might be more equal than others...?
I'm guessing NFC is not too dissimilar to a network interface, so why wouldn't it be in the kernel? I would assume that it compiles to a module by default, but could also be compiled directly into a stripped down kernel for a dedicated use installation, so it's not likely to be using resources unless needed.
Up until this month's patch batch that was apparently to check to see if there was an update to IE and nail the CPU for an hour or so.
I actually tend to side with Snopes, "Status undetermined" on this, and we'll probably never know for certain. That said, a lot of the key components of the story are demonstrably true, making for an awful lot of coincidences that all add credibility to it, including a retelling on Philips' own website and marketing materials of the time specifically mentioning the Furtwangler recording. Here's a link to a story by one of Philips' own engineers on the development process, documenting a sudden (and quite drastic) design change from Sony that had to have been triggered by something. All in all, I think there probably is some truth behind it, but were it a court of law most of the "evidence" would probably be classed as circumstantial, and I also suspect it may have been exaggerated after the fact by the marketing departments of Sony and Philips; it's a nice story, after all.
You joke, but I'm not so sure there may not be some element of truth in that. When the specs for the audio CD were being thrashed out CBS/Sony president (and later CEO and chairman) Norio Ohga all but forced Philips into changing the format to accomodate his favourite piece, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, in its entirety. Before the change to 12cm diameter disks, Philips had been proposing 11.5cm and a playing time of one hour exactly, but the longest running version of Beethoven's 9th was Furtwangler's 1951 Bayreuth Festival recording at 74 minutes, requiring the extra 0.5cm. If Sony's audio division could use the length of pieces to dictate technology specs, then why not the video division?
Because all the systems like those you cite consist entirely of automated vehicles, so in theory it should be entirely predictable what is going to be happening at any given time, which vehicle is where, and so on leaving little to no margin of error in where the cause and any blame for an accident lay. Self-driving vehicles are almost certainly going to have to share the roads with other users, including cyclists and vehicles driven by humans some of which will be idiots, plus they have to deal with the various conditions that can arise spontanously like a child running out into the road, many of which are far more likely to happen on a public road than a managed mass-transit system. While in many cases the response from the self-driving vehicle is likely to exceed that of a human in the same situation, probably saving more lives in the long run, when it comes to blame nobody wants to accept any that they can avoid and since there *will* be fatal accidents involving self-driving cars someone is going to have to accept that risk.
The Russians have sent tourists to the ISS, so why not Virgin Galactic? They could build and send up a habitation module for their tourists in return for allowing the regular crew to use it when they are not, perhaps with a guarantee that would be at least a given percentage of a year. Likewise, I suspect that there are plenty of commercial enterprises would love access to a true zero G lab, and not just those interested in space directly - pharma and metamaterials companies for instance - investing in the ISS in return for a certain amount of lab time, possibly even providing the lab, might be something they could get behind. There is a lot of commercial interest in space already, and it's growing all the time, so just because it hasn't been done yet doesn't mean it won't or shouldn't be.
It is a collaborative effort, and all this does is extend the US' funding for another four years, which I would imagine is a significant chunk of the total costs so this is indeed welcome news. However, the withdrawal of US funding might not actually mean the end of the ISS, it would just fall on the remaining four space programmes in the consortium to continue to support and fund it. One obvious way of doing that would be to bring on board additional partners, whether national space programmes like China (whose involvement in the ISS the US vetoed previously) and India, or even commercial endeavors like Space-X, Virgin Galactic and so on.
A cult that demands its adherents donate increasingly large amounts of money to the "church" and employs dubious legal tactics, manipulation of the media and outright intimidation to keep its opponents and wayward members in check? Yep. Sounds like we have a winner!
The article doesn't actually mention costs at all, so I don't think that's an issue so much as people soaking up the scarce bandwidth when others are trying use the connection for its primary intended purpose; schoolwork. If it were a problem, then I'd have expected the question to have included asking for advice on caching proxies and such like to save bandwidth. If there's no cap, then QoS would be a good part of a solution for this as it lets you make maximum use of your circuit, while avoiding degrading the experience for people just surfing the web.
China had a discounted cost, feature limited, licensed copy of Windows XP and Windows 7 available (if you could find them - good luck with that!) in a mostly futile attempt to bring the endemic mass piracy of software under control. The Windows 7 version was discontinued with the launch of Windows 8, so the only legitimate option left in China is to buy or upgrade to a version of Windows 8.x that costs significantly more than new Windows XP/7 basic licenses used to cost.
I think that reintroducing that option for Windows 8 is probably Microsoft's best tactic here - extending XP support again just postpones the inevitable repeat because China and South Korea *still* won't have cut their ties to XP by the new date, and will no doubt ask for another extention, and then another... It generates some revenue and throws the general Chinese populace a bone, for everything else they should have been planning the move to an alternate platform (Windows or otherwise) along with almost everyone else in the world with any clue of what's going to happen when support stops. Failing that, they can pay through the nose for Microsoft's extended support of XP option, or make available some third party tool to try and secure Windows XP as best they can, perhaps in conjunction with some support from that Great Firewall we keep hearing about.
Might as well post the other traditional obligatory here too. After all, we all know that the launch code isn't the most important field any more!
It's currently quite visible to the naked eye, if you can get away from any significant light pollution. You'll need to look due East just before dawn for the best views; ISON is currently passing by Spica in the constellation of Virgo. If you've got a reasonable camera that can do manual exposures and a tripod, then you'll get a much more impressive image by using a longer exposure and a mid-telephoto focal length; a 70-200mm range is currently ideal depending on how much of the tail you want to try and capture, or go for a longer length if you just want to capture the quite spectacular coma. Open the lens to the widest aperture, manually focus to infinity (I use a bright star for this), keep the exposure down to about 20s and adjust the ISO to suit.
I'm guessing not.
Let's say they present 10 options for each GOTCHA. That means that I could pick an option at random and have a 10% chance of getting it right. I could have 10 machines on my botnet try the same sign-up post and statistically one of them should guess the right answer, which for a sufficient number of attempts is more or less providing a known success rate. How is the system supposed to tell which of all those unique IPs giving correct answers are my guessing bots and which are real people? I'm also pretty sure that a fully automated 10% hit rate via a bot is going to be a lot quicker and cheaper at getting past the system than paying people a few cents an hour in some third world country to manually process the current CAPTCHA system.
Sorry guys, but not withstanding all the issues with people who are colour blind or have perception issues with inkblot images, I don't think this is going to improve the situation at all.
Sure, this would a good PR move. Probably tied up in all sorts of operational, constitutional and legal red tape that would prevent it from ever happening, but it's a nice idea. Maybe if we presented it as a kind of challenge, kind of like an Internet equivalent of the Space Race...
First nation to use their online surveillance technology / great firewall / legions of state sponsored hackers to bring a clear and demonstrable reduction in online crime wins. Go!
This is probably rooted in anthropomorphism; mankind has been attaching personal human-style connections to inanimate objects since before recorded history; animals, ships, deities, whether imaginary sky gods or natural objects such as sacred lakes, rocks and trees, the list goes on. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was a strong correlation between the depth of feelings felt for the machine and the degree to which the operator had established a human-style connection to the it. Once operators start assigning pet names, applying custom paint jobs and taking photos of themselves with their robots, then it's only to be expected that there is going to be a stronger reaction when it gets damaged or destroyed.