There's a Simon and Garfunkel song with an interesting comment on culture or lack thereof but I'd likely wind up in jail if I quote it so you'll have to find a copy and listen to it yourself. ("A Simple Desultory Phillippic, or How I was Robert McNamara'd into Submission", IIRC)
I recall being taught that most of the wear on a power supply happens when you turn it on or turn it off. So factor in the energy used to make the new power supplies you'll need more often. Lessee, how many watt-seconds does it take to turn ore into a pound of copper wire?
(Joking: I've been wishing that a couple of boxes would produce *more* heat last weekend, when we had 2F at 30mph hitting that northside room they're in. Hey, resistance heat is 100% efficient. Guess I should install SETI@Home or folding or some such.:-)
Ah, well, I don't mind them sending ad.s if they're *prompt*. When an adfarm begins to cause serious delays, I add it to/etc/hosts mapped to 127.0.0.1 and it's no longer a problem.:-}
Gotta be careful with averages. What's the *distribution* of those densities? The population density of Antarctica is either tiny or huge, depending on how you treat large areas where *nobody* lives.
Actually it's the other way 'round. Television and the Internet are mostly carried by the telcos' networks (whether you know it or not). ATM doesn't care what it carries, and it just looks like a wire to packets and video.
Actually I think I could *save* money on the monthly service with SBC by switching from dialup to ADSL.
Now, in the early days, *installation* cost was a factor. The provider wanted to send an installer to run wires all over your house, plus rip open your computer to install their one-and-only approved DSL card and their advertising-stuffed software, for a couple HUNDRED dollars. Nowadays some will sell you just the signalling and you provide your own CPE, although they will sell you their choice (bundled with the same unnecessary adware, of course) as a separate item. And a plain-Jane ADSL modem can be had at middling analog modem prices now. So the setup cost is going down.
Come to think of it, the costs are converging so much that it's about time for them to cook up some new scheme to give us all upgrade fever once more.
One of my minor reasons is that on dialup I can hang up when I'm done, and *know* that nobody is cracking in while I'm not watching. That sounds like "just don't want it".
I uninstalled the Flash plugin -- it was too distracting. I find that sites which *depend on* Flash are sites I don't need to see. Either they are focused exclusively on a market segment I'm not in, or they have other offensive practices as well, and in either case I won't be doing business with them. So recognizing a Flash-heavy site is a time-saving bozo-detector for me.
Simple cure: once you've handed over the forms, the banker hands you a diskette containing a cert. for the bank and a cert. for you to use in communicating with the bank. Cost: about a dollar. If it "comes from you" but isn't signed with your private key, they don't honor it. If it "comes from the bank" but isn't signed with their private key, you don't believe it. The service agreement states explicitly that unsigned communications are not binding on either party.
Of course, this would've been greatly facilitated if the browser designers had thought for 1/2 second and put in a "must match specific certificate" list.
I requested a cert. for a 100% non-bogus site and it was held up for a week while the CA satisfied themselves that the division ordering the cert. was related to the division that manages our domains. They really do check this stuff. This guy very likely had a legitimate claim on the domain; he just has more brass than a pipe factory.
They can have three pieces of information about me if I can have three pieces of (not very public) information about *them* and challenge them whenever I call or am called by them.:-) It's called mutual authentication.
The ID check by the CA is supposed to be a deterrent, not a guarantee. They don't know *what* you are, but they have a pretty good idea of *who* you are. Imagine that a thief moves to a new city, and the first thing he does is go to the police station, give them his name and address, and ask them to file a fingerprint card on him. That's approximately what happened here. It worked because "nobody would be that stupid."
Wouldn't the best use of resources be to actually check these claims when processing the employment application? That way the work is spread out over time (and many annual budgets). Yet it always gets done, and *before* embarrassing consequences ensue for the agency.
Sure. You can build a case and apply to the PUCs where you operate for a rate increase, showing them the evidence that Sony is making money on their products which happen to require electricity and saying this proves that your product is underpriced. Hilarity ensues.
If you weren't a regulated monopoly, you could just raise your price. You're free to do so. If you're not a monopoly, though, people are free to buy from someone else who's selling his cheaper, and others are free to sell theirs cheaper. The way you know what your product is worth is to see how your volume changes when you change the price.
The people who don't care will be switched without knowing it, as soon as their suppliers decide that they want to or have to. If Microsoft decides that every XP user should have IPv6 enabled for some reason, the fix will come along through MS Update and you'll get it whether you know what it is or not. If your ISP decides that IPv6 is necessary, it'll be enabled whether your client requests an IPv6 address or not. When both have happened, hey presto! you have IPv6 and you didn't click a single button. Home-router manufacturers will lure most of their customers to swap out their old routers for new somehow...otherwise profits aren't sustainable...and IPv6 will come along for the ride when the vendor decides it's good for him.
"Consumers won't do it" is irrelevant. Consumers won't be asked. The few who never patch or upgrade will eventually find more and more applications dying or getting cranky, or they won't care because they never use new stuff and the old stuff still works okay.
Win2k was released almost *seven years ago* and hasn't seen a whole lotta development since; that effort went into XP, 2003, and (regrettably) ME. It's not surprising that 2k's IPv6 stack is not much better than it was when it came out at the end of the last century as a "taster". There's no money in patches; they want you to buy the upgrades.
XP's IPv6 support is decent. If they would just integrate the management tools properly I'd upgrade that to "good". It interworks well enough with Linux 2.6's IPv6 that I don't notice which I'm getting. At work I'm getting ready to propose that we tune up our workstations and internal servers for v6, and eventually remove the servers' v4 addresses.
Adoption of IPv6 is small because MS Windows doesn't turn it on by default, and (for good or ill) MS Windows is judged "good enough" by many many buyers. Come back six months after Vista ships (whenever that happens) and tell us again how IPv6 is never going to take off.
Or the game (or other application) designer needs to be led out of his cubicle to be introduced to the Real World and the way networks are actually run in it.
"NAT firewall" is two features, not one. NAT is an ugly hack made necessary by the way ISPs are run. Firewalls are a not-so-ugly measure made necessary by the immaturity of some netizens. One of those needs could change at any time, while the other is likely with us for the foreseeable future. Even if the two features share some logic, don't muddle them.
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Yeah, you guys who use distributions can do something like that.
Design *before* coding? Blasphemy!
:-)
You probably think that 100,000 lines of comment-free code is not all the documentation anyone should ever need, too. Heathen.
I'm just amazed by how many synonyms people can come up with for "subroutine library".
There's a Simon and Garfunkel song with an interesting comment on culture or lack thereof but I'd likely wind up in jail if I quote it so you'll have to find a copy and listen to it yourself. ("A Simple Desultory Phillippic, or How I was Robert McNamara'd into Submission", IIRC)
Now try to download OpenOffice from the official site. Last time I was there, all you could get was a pointer to a torrent.
I recall being taught that most of the wear on a power supply happens when you turn it on or turn it off. So factor in the energy used to make the new power supplies you'll need more often. Lessee, how many watt-seconds does it take to turn ore into a pound of copper wire?
:-)
(Joking: I've been wishing that a couple of boxes would produce *more* heat last weekend, when we had 2F at 30mph hitting that northside room they're in. Hey, resistance heat is 100% efficient. Guess I should install SETI@Home or folding or some such.
"What about ifconfig eth0 down?"
If I want to go totally incommunicado, that would work. I don't. I just want to disconnect the Internet from my local network.
Ah, well, I don't mind them sending ad.s if they're *prompt*. When an adfarm begins to cause serious delays, I add it to /etc/hosts mapped to 127.0.0.1 and it's no longer a problem. :-}
Gotta be careful with averages. What's the *distribution* of those densities? The population density of Antarctica is either tiny or huge, depending on how you treat large areas where *nobody* lives.
Actually it's the other way 'round. Television and the Internet are mostly carried by the telcos' networks (whether you know it or not). ATM doesn't care what it carries, and it just looks like a wire to packets and video.
Actually I think I could *save* money on the monthly service with SBC by switching from dialup to ADSL.
Now, in the early days, *installation* cost was a factor. The provider wanted to send an installer to run wires all over your house, plus rip open your computer to install their one-and-only approved DSL card and their advertising-stuffed software, for a couple HUNDRED dollars. Nowadays some will sell you just the signalling and you provide your own CPE, although they will sell you their choice (bundled with the same unnecessary adware, of course) as a separate item. And a plain-Jane ADSL modem can be had at middling analog modem prices now. So the setup cost is going down.
Come to think of it, the costs are converging so much that it's about time for them to cook up some new scheme to give us all upgrade fever once more.
One of my minor reasons is that on dialup I can hang up when I'm done, and *know* that nobody is cracking in while I'm not watching. That sounds like "just don't want it".
I uninstalled the Flash plugin -- it was too distracting. I find that sites which *depend on* Flash are sites I don't need to see. Either they are focused exclusively on a market segment I'm not in, or they have other offensive practices as well, and in either case I won't be doing business with them. So recognizing a Flash-heavy site is a time-saving bozo-detector for me.
"Do you honestly think that phising sites are going to cause a halt to all online commerce?"
It will as soon as a Senator is successfully phished.
Simple cure: once you've handed over the forms, the banker hands you a diskette containing a cert. for the bank and a cert. for you to use in communicating with the bank. Cost: about a dollar. If it "comes from you" but isn't signed with your private key, they don't honor it. If it "comes from the bank" but isn't signed with their private key, you don't believe it. The service agreement states explicitly that unsigned communications are not binding on either party.
Of course, this would've been greatly facilitated if the browser designers had thought for 1/2 second and put in a "must match specific certificate" list.
I requested a cert. for a 100% non-bogus site and it was held up for a week while the CA satisfied themselves that the division ordering the cert. was related to the division that manages our domains. They really do check this stuff. This guy very likely had a legitimate claim on the domain; he just has more brass than a pipe factory.
They can have three pieces of information about me if I can have three pieces of (not very public) information about *them* and challenge them whenever I call or am called by them. :-) It's called mutual authentication.
The ID check by the CA is supposed to be a deterrent, not a guarantee. They don't know *what* you are, but they have a pretty good idea of *who* you are. Imagine that a thief moves to a new city, and the first thing he does is go to the police station, give them his name and address, and ask them to file a fingerprint card on him. That's approximately what happened here. It worked because "nobody would be that stupid."
Kinda like finding the safe open and nothing inside but a card: "burgled by John Smith, 123 Miscreant Lane, Your Town. 555-1212. Thursdays."
Wouldn't the best use of resources be to actually check these claims when processing the employment application? That way the work is spread out over time (and many annual budgets). Yet it always gets done, and *before* embarrassing consequences ensue for the agency.
Sure. You can build a case and apply to the PUCs where you operate for a rate increase, showing them the evidence that Sony is making money on their products which happen to require electricity and saying this proves that your product is underpriced. Hilarity ensues.
If you weren't a regulated monopoly, you could just raise your price. You're free to do so. If you're not a monopoly, though, people are free to buy from someone else who's selling his cheaper, and others are free to sell theirs cheaper. The way you know what your product is worth is to see how your volume changes when you change the price.
The people who don't care will be switched without knowing it, as soon as their suppliers decide that they want to or have to. If Microsoft decides that every XP user should have IPv6 enabled for some reason, the fix will come along through MS Update and you'll get it whether you know what it is or not. If your ISP decides that IPv6 is necessary, it'll be enabled whether your client requests an IPv6 address or not. When both have happened, hey presto! you have IPv6 and you didn't click a single button. Home-router manufacturers will lure most of their customers to swap out their old routers for new somehow...otherwise profits aren't sustainable...and IPv6 will come along for the ride when the vendor decides it's good for him.
"Consumers won't do it" is irrelevant. Consumers won't be asked. The few who never patch or upgrade will eventually find more and more applications dying or getting cranky, or they won't care because they never use new stuff and the old stuff still works okay.
Win2k was released almost *seven years ago* and hasn't seen a whole lotta development since; that effort went into XP, 2003, and (regrettably) ME. It's not surprising that 2k's IPv6 stack is not much better than it was when it came out at the end of the last century as a "taster". There's no money in patches; they want you to buy the upgrades.
XP's IPv6 support is decent. If they would just integrate the management tools properly I'd upgrade that to "good". It interworks well enough with Linux 2.6's IPv6 that I don't notice which I'm getting. At work I'm getting ready to propose that we tune up our workstations and internal servers for v6, and eventually remove the servers' v4 addresses.
Adoption of IPv6 is small because MS Windows doesn't turn it on by default, and (for good or ill) MS Windows is judged "good enough" by many many buyers. Come back six months after Vista ships (whenever that happens) and tell us again how IPv6 is never going to take off.
Or the game (or other application) designer needs to be led out of his cubicle to be introduced to the Real World and the way networks are actually run in it.
"NAT firewall" is two features, not one. NAT is an ugly hack made necessary by the way ISPs are run. Firewalls are a not-so-ugly measure made necessary by the immaturity of some netizens. One of those needs could change at any time, while the other is likely with us for the foreseeable future. Even if the two features share some logic, don't muddle them.