Iran's not offline. Many Iranian sites (www.president.ir, www.tu.ac.ir) work fine. But instead of routing across the Atlantic it's routing across the Pacific, through links between California and Singapore. It's slower than it should be, but it's working.
To be fair, router1.iust.ac.ir isn't responding for me either. Oddly, though, www.iust.ac.ir responds fine. And VisualRoute is having no trouble with router1.iust.ac.ir.
ITR has only a single node in the Middle East, so it's not really going to tell us much about this picture.
Seeing as the PS2 does a shit job of playing DVD movies, I can't imagine PS3 is all that great at playing BluRay. If you bought a PS3 with the intention of playing BluRay, you're a cheap bastard at best, and a nutjob at worst.
Just like those nutjobs who insist that the PS1 is the best CD player ever made.
They also have a half-baked ticketing system that they promote alternatively as a PM tool or a bug tracker, which I narrowly avoided having to migrate to from Bugzilla.
Gotta love the woman who insists her christmas was ruined because her brother saw her political opinions that he didn't approve of. Is it Google's fault that her and her family has serious respect and acceptance issues? I could have seen if, perhaps, a boss saw this sort of thing, but not one's own brother. You'd expect Bro already knew she was whatever she was, and wouldn't have been surprised by her shared posts. It's not like Google forced him to read her share list, either. If she was hiding her politics from her family... geez, whose fault is that exactly? If her family is so unaccepting, the question of "why spend christmas with them?" comes to mind.
Given political developments lately, I for one would prefer that the US avoid being beholden to the Russian space program. It sucks that twenty years after the Cold War no one else has a viable option. The Shuttle is 25 year old technology and it's stunning that no one else (either political or industrial) besides Russia has been able to come up with a comparable solution. (What would Ron Paul say about that, I wonder? Three cheers for government research!)
Uninformed authority is inexcusable and scourge on the intelligence of society.
Authority is not a justification for itself. The simple state of being in power does not make you right.
Authority must have basis for its existence. Otherwise it is false, empty authority. Such authority deserves to be questioned and opposed.
This is why despite how we run (most) schools, workplaces, and militaries, we choose an open, questioning, democratic process, ostensibly, for the operation of our cities, states, and country, so that false authority can be challenged, and replaced with legitimate authority. This has led in many cases to stronger nations and other bodies where it has been applied.
But our kids don't get taught that in school -- instead, they are taught to follow rules, no matter what.
Things sure have changed in./land these days. Never would I expect so many people to insist that it is good and proper to blindly and dutifully follow bad rules.
The kid spoke truth to power. Power was stupid. Power won. Stupid won. Bad outcome. And the wags are defending it.
Note also that the complaint does not say "the student was told to use IE". No, the complaint says "the student was told to resume work". Which he was. The order the kid was given, as reported, was not actually refused. The order was underinformed and presumptuous.
Our public education system in this country has always horribly mis-served students who are brighter than their teachers. We also have one of the poorest educational systems in the developed world. Why anyone is surprised at this is beyond me.
The C64 is the one computer that I ever felt I was capable of completely understanding and came closer to doing so than with any other machine.
I remember writing random data to the character space, and then typing blind to enter hex in the right places to get readable 0-9A-F characters. I remember being surprised to find that there was 16K of memory space in the disk drive.
With enough time, you could learn every corner of the C64 and control the whole thing to do whatever you wanted. And so many people did.
19.190 doesn't say anything about bulk mail, in fact it specifically says "a" message, meaning a single email can be in violation. Nor do the definitions mention bulk messaging at all. It doesn't matter if you know the person or how many they send. Why didn't you point this out to the judge?
First, yeah, yeah, NU gets a lot of shit, some deserved but not a lot.
Second, actually, NU does place some momentum on turning research discoveries / inventions into real-world use, having built a landmark building on campus in 1998 for just that purpose (the Egan Technology Transfer Center). However, despite noteworthy work in computer science (e.g. this is the second NU prof to appear in a/. headline in as many years), NU focuses more on traditional engineering than on CS.
Buy an MP3 player and some headphones and shut the fuck up. This would be cheaper and more legal than a cellphone jammer, and would prevent you from deciding how other people should act in public. There are plenty of repressive countries in the world that you might feel more comfortable in, btw.
No, it was probably because, like so many other such projects who think that an online encyclopedia can be their lazy academic trash can, the articles were unsourced, based on original research, poorly written, unlinked, duplicated existing articles, and treated as if they were owned.
I dunno if you were being sarcastic, but I have to agree with that policy. Suddenly getting spammed with votes by fans who have no preexisting relation to Wikipedia (aside from maybe going out and fixing a few typos so they look like they are contributors) doesn't help matters at all. Fans should be able to establish significance in other ways than having their friends go make a few new WP accounts.
Nope. Nuke them from the face of the earth. Who cares if all the contributions were GFDL and sometimes even CC-BY? When you're the publisher, it's okay to control distribution of someone else's work.
That is a completely disingenuous reason for deletion. Time and time again I see "biased" or "badly written" as an argument for deletion. Deletion is the incorrect solution to these problems.
* If it's biased, add balance, and either remove or attribute praise. * If it's badly written, rewrite it to be better.
AFD is the lazy solution to these problems. Actually *improving* articles is the right solution. I know I've saved a few articles from AFD by simply, you know, *editing* them (and often, not much) to eliminate the issues of subjective BS AFD arguments, or doing a quick search and finding a few refs.
Wikipedia is about making a *good* encyclopedia, not a *small* one.
The admins (some of whom will carry out a deletion even when the discussion was really a no-consensus), and more importantly, the deletionists, don't listen to anyone, and that's largely the problem. If these guys haven't heard of it, it doesn't exist. I've stumbled upon many AFDs that were slated for deletion until someone like me stepped in and exposed that the problem wasn't a lack of notability, but a lack of familiarity of the relevant location or culture by the people who'd voted. AFD needs more eyes to ensure that cultural or regional ignorance (a lot of times it's Americentrism, but not always) doesn't lead to bad deletions, but the problem is that AFDs are at their highest rate ever. It's impossible to monitor them all these days.
It's also worth noting that the criteria for "speedy" i.e. no-discussion deletions have become broader in the last couple of years.
SMDs measure your speed based on the reflection of light waves traveling straight lines through short distances through clear air. GPS measure your speed by calculating the difference between points derived as the average of the intersection of between 3 and 12 paraboloids determined by light waves traveling through the atmosphere, weather, and possibly reflecting off of buildings, trees, hills, and the ground divided by the update interval.
Like it or not, the radar gun is a more accurate speed measuring device than a GPS.
The people who care most about net neutrality are content creators. Most people "on" the Internet these days are not content creators (save a few comments here and there, Yahoo Answers, social networkinc, etc.), therefore, they don't have any stake in the notion.
Which to me means that the Internet inasmuch as it is a public commons of communication, has failed, because people simply aren't interested in being content creators, at least not for anyone they don't know.
Also, most of these same people read only the top few portal sites and have little idea of the wealth of what is out there. 80%/20%: 80% of the people read 20% of the content that is out there. The sites that most people read are the sites that won't have much trouble shelling out for the priority routing.
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Iran's not offline. Many Iranian sites (www.president.ir, www.tu.ac.ir) work fine. But instead of routing across the Atlantic it's routing across the Pacific, through links between California and Singapore. It's slower than it should be, but it's working.
To be fair, router1.iust.ac.ir isn't responding for me either. Oddly, though, www.iust.ac.ir responds fine. And VisualRoute is having no trouble with router1.iust.ac.ir.
ITR has only a single node in the Middle East, so it's not really going to tell us much about this picture.
Seeing as the PS2 does a shit job of playing DVD movies, I can't imagine PS3 is all that great at playing BluRay. If you bought a PS3 with the intention of playing BluRay, you're a cheap bastard at best, and a nutjob at worst.
Just like those nutjobs who insist that the PS1 is the best CD player ever made.
They also have a half-baked ticketing system that they promote alternatively as a PM tool or a bug tracker, which I narrowly avoided having to migrate to from Bugzilla.
Am I really supposed to believe that Microsoft's help desk software was Y2K compliant in January 1998?
Gotta love the woman who insists her christmas was ruined because her brother saw her political opinions that he didn't approve of. Is it Google's fault that her and her family has serious respect and acceptance issues? I could have seen if, perhaps, a boss saw this sort of thing, but not one's own brother. You'd expect Bro already knew she was whatever she was, and wouldn't have been surprised by her shared posts. It's not like Google forced him to read her share list, either. If she was hiding her politics from her family... geez, whose fault is that exactly? If her family is so unaccepting, the question of "why spend christmas with them?" comes to mind.
Given political developments lately, I for one would prefer that the US avoid being beholden to the Russian space program. It sucks that twenty years after the Cold War no one else has a viable option. The Shuttle is 25 year old technology and it's stunning that no one else (either political or industrial) besides Russia has been able to come up with a comparable solution. (What would Ron Paul say about that, I wonder? Three cheers for government research!)
Uninformed authority is inexcusable and scourge on the intelligence of society.
Authority is not a justification for itself. The simple state of being in power does not make you right.
Authority must have basis for its existence. Otherwise it is false, empty authority. Such authority deserves to be questioned and opposed.
This is why despite how we run (most) schools, workplaces, and militaries, we choose an open, questioning, democratic process, ostensibly, for the operation of our cities, states, and country, so that false authority can be challenged, and replaced with legitimate authority. This has led in many cases to stronger nations and other bodies where it has been applied.
But our kids don't get taught that in school -- instead, they are taught to follow rules, no matter what.
What is the result? Discuss.
Things sure have changed in ./land these days. Never would I expect so many people to insist that it is good and proper to blindly and dutifully follow bad rules.
The kid spoke truth to power. Power was stupid. Power won. Stupid won. Bad outcome. And the wags are defending it.
Note also that the complaint does not say "the student was told to use IE". No, the complaint says "the student was told to resume work". Which he was. The order the kid was given, as reported, was not actually refused. The order was underinformed and presumptuous.
Our public education system in this country has always horribly mis-served students who are brighter than their teachers. We also have one of the poorest educational systems in the developed world. Why anyone is surprised at this is beyond me.
PS to kid: Next time, rename the binary.
What will happen when we reach a Hubbert Peak of uranium?
The C64 is the one computer that I ever felt I was capable of completely understanding and came closer to doing so than with any other machine.
I remember writing random data to the character space, and then typing blind to enter hex in the right places to get readable 0-9A-F characters. I remember being surprised to find that there was 16K of memory space in the disk drive.
With enough time, you could learn every corner of the C64 and control the whole thing to do whatever you wanted. And so many people did.
Yeah, it's not like arbitrators have an email list where they can chatter amongst themselves in private.
19.190 doesn't say anything about bulk mail, in fact it specifically says "a" message, meaning a single email can be in violation. Nor do the definitions mention bulk messaging at all. It doesn't matter if you know the person or how many they send. Why didn't you point this out to the judge?
First, yeah, yeah, NU gets a lot of shit, some deserved but not a lot.
/. headline in as many years), NU focuses more on traditional engineering than on CS.
Second, actually, NU does place some momentum on turning research discoveries / inventions into real-world use, having built a landmark building on campus in 1998 for just that purpose (the Egan Technology Transfer Center). However, despite noteworthy work in computer science (e.g. this is the second NU prof to appear in a
My vote is for the thick red flip switches on IBM XTs. They turned the whirring old hunk of magnets on and off with a satisfying *snap*.
Buy an MP3 player and some headphones and shut the fuck up. This would be cheaper and more legal than a cellphone jammer, and would prevent you from deciding how other people should act in public. There are plenty of repressive countries in the world that you might feel more comfortable in, btw.
No, it was probably because, like so many other such projects who think that an online encyclopedia can be their lazy academic trash can, the articles were unsourced, based on original research, poorly written, unlinked, duplicated existing articles, and treated as if they were owned.
Hear hear.
I dunno if you were being sarcastic, but I have to agree with that policy. Suddenly getting spammed with votes by fans who have no preexisting relation to Wikipedia (aside from maybe going out and fixing a few typos so they look like they are contributors) doesn't help matters at all. Fans should be able to establish significance in other ways than having their friends go make a few new WP accounts.
Nope. Nuke them from the face of the earth. Who cares if all the contributions were GFDL and sometimes even CC-BY? When you're the publisher, it's okay to control distribution of someone else's work.
That is a completely disingenuous reason for deletion. Time and time again I see "biased" or "badly written" as an argument for deletion. Deletion is the incorrect solution to these problems.
* If it's biased, add balance, and either remove or attribute praise.
* If it's badly written, rewrite it to be better.
AFD is the lazy solution to these problems. Actually *improving* articles is the right solution. I know I've saved a few articles from AFD by simply, you know, *editing* them (and often, not much) to eliminate the issues of subjective BS AFD arguments, or doing a quick search and finding a few refs.
Wikipedia is about making a *good* encyclopedia, not a *small* one.
The admins (some of whom will carry out a deletion even when the discussion was really a no-consensus), and more importantly, the deletionists, don't listen to anyone, and that's largely the problem. If these guys haven't heard of it, it doesn't exist. I've stumbled upon many AFDs that were slated for deletion until someone like me stepped in and exposed that the problem wasn't a lack of notability, but a lack of familiarity of the relevant location or culture by the people who'd voted. AFD needs more eyes to ensure that cultural or regional ignorance (a lot of times it's Americentrism, but not always) doesn't lead to bad deletions, but the problem is that AFDs are at their highest rate ever. It's impossible to monitor them all these days.
It's also worth noting that the criteria for "speedy" i.e. no-discussion deletions have become broader in the last couple of years.
SMDs measure your speed based on the reflection of light waves traveling straight lines through short distances through clear air. GPS measure your speed by calculating the difference between points derived as the average of the intersection of between 3 and 12 paraboloids determined by light waves traveling through the atmosphere, weather, and possibly reflecting off of buildings, trees, hills, and the ground divided by the update interval.
Like it or not, the radar gun is a more accurate speed measuring device than a GPS.
Shouldn't it be TPB that has the .org (non-profit) and IFPI that has the .com (money-leeching corporate union)?
The people who care most about net neutrality are content creators. Most people "on" the Internet these days are not content creators (save a few comments here and there, Yahoo Answers, social networkinc, etc.), therefore, they don't have any stake in the notion.
Which to me means that the Internet inasmuch as it is a public commons of communication, has failed, because people simply aren't interested in being content creators, at least not for anyone they don't know.
Also, most of these same people read only the top few portal sites and have little idea of the wealth of what is out there. 80%/20%: 80% of the people read 20% of the content that is out there. The sites that most people read are the sites that won't have much trouble shelling out for the priority routing.
Why doesn't it do this with, for example, =65535*1, =131070*0.5, or =32768*2-1 ?