There's this wonderful scene that I use often when a professor ask's me WHY I would prefer an open note test.
Indiana is driving a motorcycle.
His Dad is in the Side Car.
Indiana asks " Why do you need the book? Don't you remember what wrote?"
Professor Jones Replies " I wrote it down so I wouldn't HAVE to Remember it."
More or less that's what gets said, and that's why my memory isn't great. I use my memory to remember where I Put it, and I can remember a greater number of places than I can things stored in those places.
Later
BP
The ISS is 'run' by a redundant (in both computational hardware and connective wiring) system of radiation hardened 386 processors. No Redmond code. Period, the end. (All non hardened computational hardware usualy undergoes a reboot at least every 36 hours or so due ot radiation induced bit-flips (or whatever it's supposed to be called) in the volitile memory. All non-hardened hardware is non-station critical. while it may be mission critical for a partiular experiment or series of tests, air, water, and other 'Station Functions' are not controlled by this hardware in any critical manner)
In generic reference to the log non-disclosure, It's a bunch of hooey and someone needs to get a clue.
Later
BP
I already do this! For my semi-private website, Since I have not registered a domain name yet, I simply give out the IP. Now, here's the kicker, WHen people look at me funny, all I have to do is invoke the 'phone number' analogy. "Just think of it as my internet, or international phone number"
Reasons why this works
1. It looks like it could be an international phone number
2. It is already grouped in a memonic format (small groups of memorizable sets)
3. It is unique
4. 'Phone numbers' are not scary or intimidating to the uninitiated (My Mother n Law figured it out)
Future expansion
When IPv6 comes around, if a letter gets added to the phone number, well, people already understand that you can 'dial' a letter. The only new concept is that the 'letter' won't be equal to a number
I'm not saying that DNS is bad, go ahead and register names, but the underlaying system is still very appropriate. All that is required is the proper 'spin' on what they are. I fully expect to someday have a domain name registered which will lead one to my public site and contact channels, however I also fully expect to keep an unlisted 'number only' contact channel that is for semiprivate use. In this case, I will be simply handing out my 'internet phone number' in the form of the IP of my direct communications server.
Thanks for reading
Backpack
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There's this wonderful scene that I use often when a professor ask's me WHY I would prefer an open note test. Indiana is driving a motorcycle. His Dad is in the Side Car. Indiana asks " Why do you need the book? Don't you remember what wrote?" Professor Jones Replies " I wrote it down so I wouldn't HAVE to Remember it." More or less that's what gets said, and that's why my memory isn't great. I use my memory to remember where I Put it, and I can remember a greater number of places than I can things stored in those places. Later BP
The ISS is 'run' by a redundant (in both computational hardware and connective wiring) system of radiation hardened 386 processors. No Redmond code. Period, the end. (All non hardened computational hardware usualy undergoes a reboot at least every 36 hours or so due ot radiation induced bit-flips (or whatever it's supposed to be called) in the volitile memory. All non-hardened hardware is non-station critical. while it may be mission critical for a partiular experiment or series of tests, air, water, and other 'Station Functions' are not controlled by this hardware in any critical manner) In generic reference to the log non-disclosure, It's a bunch of hooey and someone needs to get a clue. Later BP
I already do this! For my semi-private website, Since I have not registered a domain name yet, I simply give out the IP. Now, here's the kicker, WHen people look at me funny, all I have to do is invoke the 'phone number' analogy. "Just think of it as my internet, or international phone number" Reasons why this works 1. It looks like it could be an international phone number 2. It is already grouped in a memonic format (small groups of memorizable sets) 3. It is unique 4. 'Phone numbers' are not scary or intimidating to the uninitiated (My Mother n Law figured it out) Future expansion When IPv6 comes around, if a letter gets added to the phone number, well, people already understand that you can 'dial' a letter. The only new concept is that the 'letter' won't be equal to a number I'm not saying that DNS is bad, go ahead and register names, but the underlaying system is still very appropriate. All that is required is the proper 'spin' on what they are. I fully expect to someday have a domain name registered which will lead one to my public site and contact channels, however I also fully expect to keep an unlisted 'number only' contact channel that is for semiprivate use. In this case, I will be simply handing out my 'internet phone number' in the form of the IP of my direct communications server. Thanks for reading Backpack