> Truth is, I don't expect IPv6 to be widespread for about 10 years.
I don't know, 10 years are a long time. But the obstacles are clearly commercial in nature: all the big players have lots of IPv4 address, and these can become valuable capital. The transition to IPv6 would lower it in value. Therefore all existing players have a vested interest in delaying or even sabotaging IPv6. Plus the shortage of IPv4 creates a perfect market entry barrier for new competitors.
So I have come to the conclusion that the solution is legislation. We have left the transition so late that it is bound to be very very painful already. Any further delay and it may kill the internet as we know it, or at least parts of it.
Why? That's like saying we need showrooms to sell cars first, and we will build the roads later, once demand is established.
No, the transition has to start with the web sites, and it has to start now. Asia is moving IPv6 for the end customers - if you want to reach them, your web server needs to talk IPv6. Simple as that.
> Bunk! Websites are layer 7. IPv6 is layer 3. They are supposed to be completely independent.
Layers are ISO, this is ARPANET. It is *not* transparent, not by a long shot.
Possible, it certainly is a lame device and an even lamer (?) article.
The device is flawed, because as brutal as it is, it does very little to protect the data from being read again. You may need a laser to do it, but apart from whole it is still all there.
And the article is just terribly pointless. Pressure is not measured in tons. Pressure actually has no role in erasing hard disks - 30 kN is no better the 1 kN, or even 1 N. You can drill a hole with less, if you like...
Overwriting your hard disk once is still one of the best strategies, even if it is boring. If you need to be really sure that the data is gone, you have the choice of heat, a strong magnetic field, or pulverisation. Note how punching wholes is not an option.
> Most academic environments are pretty loose with the "rogue server" issues, and faculty usually get what they want.
In most academic environments, the service provided by IT is determined by an IT advisor board or something similar, and it tends to be much more of a lowest common denominator than a list of useful services. And a decent calendaring system is surprisingly rare in this environment...
I guess I should count myself lucky then - XP got rolled out long ago, and the transition to Windows 7 is about to happen, with XP support ending some time next year.
But on the other hand we are struck with McAfee, and the enterprise version with a paranoid configuration can bog down the faster supercomputer to a leisurely pace.
Especially since the best engines of today have just under 50% efficiency (VW blue motion TDI) or even just over 50% (Wärtsilä marine engines - very different beasts). 3 times that would give you 50% free energy, which I am just not prepared to believe. Even 90% efficiency would be quite unbelievable.
> Not sure how practical a PSU optimized for 277V input is for general use and the 450W max power is a bit tight for some Nehalem based configurations but overall it's pretty cool.
277V is perfectly fine. It gives about 400V DC, which maintains a decent safety margin to the absolute peak voltage of 600V for standard MOSFETs. And it should require only very minor changes from the standard 110-240V power supply.
450W are a decent amount, too, assuming you can actually load the PSU with 450W (and it does not burn out at 80% capacity, like some of the cheaper "1000W" models).
I am not sure the Xoom is a clear winner here. Yes, some of the technology is nice, but the iPad 2 has its share of advantages:
* it is on sale (at least in theory), whereas the Xoom is not yet here. * it has a larger (and better?) display * it is much slimmer * it looks better
But most of all we all know that Motorola support sucks. Apple will provide 2 or 3 years of updates for the Ipad, whereas with Motorola you would be quite lucky if you ever got an update (and even then it probably does not fix any of the annoying bugs). For this reason alone I would never ever by another item from Motorola. Been there, done that, not worth it.
> I watched that episode, and more so, I've had many many many conversations with people, who believe that the Tesla DID run out of power, and that they'd never buy it because of that.
That is called "Range Anxiety". It existed before Top Gear, and Tesla knows that it is one of the reasons why people don't like to buy an electric car. It is a mostly irrational fear, which is exactly why Top Gear is appealing to it:-)
that they are not getting better. The new Atoms are just as underpowered as the old ones. They lack most of the features of a modern CPU. They still have no gigabit ethernet, no USB3, no eSATA, no decent horizontal resolution. And Windows 7 Starter is even worse than Windows XP Home.
As a consequence, everybody who wanted a netbook has one, but there is no incentive to upgrade. They will sell again once they get better.
> Android brings people closer to Google, creating a barrier to using Bing instead.
It cuts both ways: Windows Phone brings people closer to Bing. There is nothing on Android that forces anybody to use Google - but there are clauses both from Apple and Microsoft that force apps to use their search, ad, and payment system.
> The part I don't get is how Android, Chrome and Chrome OS is "scorching the earth for 250 miles around Google".
It is the wrong image - they are just trying to be in on everything, not necessarily driving out the competition. But offering something for free can be hard to undercut.
On the other hand Google is perfectly happy for others to do the "job" of producing free ad based services. Angry birds? I doubt Google could do that, and yet it bring the clicks rolling in. Google doesn't care who does what, as long as they use Google search and Google ads:-)
> While there may be ways to do the same with bandwidth, metering bandwidth has no incentive to be accurate.
Mod up - that is exactly the problem. I have yet to find an internet provider that even tries to meter accurately. My current one includes the PPPoE overhead into the metering. That is a line encapsulation forced on me by the ISP - but it is not internet traffic, it will never ever make it onto the internet, and it should not cost me anything. But at least the metering is otherwise accurate, and if I find a difference to my numbers they err on the low side,
Am I the only one who thinks that IE9 is ugly as hell? It is nice to see that it gives you more vertical screen space, but the "everything bar" could look appealing, too, you know.
I was running xubuntu on on old laptop for quite a while. But XFCE has gone the same path as all the other desktops, and it is now too bloated to run on old hardware. Especially compositing is quite a strain on a old graphics card.
KDE 3 was fine, so I could still use trinity, but I ended up with LXDE. It does look like Windows 95, but it is light, fast, and not in the way. Perfect for running 4 lxterminals:-)
I do not really understand the story, or specifically why the blame should be pointing exclusively to Apple.
So 40% of purchases are fraudulent and therefore reversed. That seems like a high figure, but who is the victim, and who is responsible?
I honestly cannot see a game company being the victim - in game purchases cost them nothing, so fraudulent purchases are only a problem if they replace real purchases, and I cannot see that happening (unless there is a black market for in game items?). Maybe the reason fraud is so frequent is that the in game purchases are so expensive that nobody in their right mind would spend their own money on it? I wonder what the game companies are doing to discourage fraud? Looking at the stories, some may even be perps...
Apple has a problem, but first and foremost they are the victim here (together with the user). Maybe they should invest more in technology to prevent this - running the code themselves to acknowledge a transaction, for example. Obviously they cannot just trust the game companies... or maybe they just have to communicate better.
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> Truth is, I don't expect IPv6 to be widespread for about 10 years.
I don't know, 10 years are a long time. But the obstacles are clearly commercial in nature: all the big players have lots of IPv4 address, and these can become valuable capital. The transition to IPv6 would lower it in value. Therefore all existing players have a vested interest in delaying or even sabotaging IPv6. Plus the shortage of IPv4 creates a perfect market entry barrier for new competitors.
So I have come to the conclusion that the solution is legislation. We have left the transition so late that it is bound to be very very painful already. Any further delay and it may kill the internet as we know it, or at least parts of it.
> Support has to start at the ISP level.
Why? That's like saying we need showrooms to sell cars first, and we will build the roads later, once demand is established.
No, the transition has to start with the web sites, and it has to start now. Asia is moving IPv6 for the end customers - if you want to reach them, your web server needs to talk IPv6. Simple as that.
> Bunk! Websites are layer 7. IPv6 is layer 3. They are supposed to be completely independent.
Layers are ISO, this is ARPANET. It is *not* transparent, not by a long shot.
Possible, it certainly is a lame device and an even lamer (?) article.
The device is flawed, because as brutal as it is, it does very little to protect the data from being read again. You may need a laser to do it, but apart from whole it is still all there.
And the article is just terribly pointless. Pressure is not measured in tons. Pressure actually has no role in erasing hard disks - 30 kN is no better the 1 kN, or even 1 N. You can drill a hole with less, if you like...
Overwriting your hard disk once is still one of the best strategies, even if it is boring. If you need to be really sure that the data is gone, you have the choice of heat, a strong magnetic field, or pulverisation. Note how punching wholes is not an option.
> Most academic environments are pretty loose with the "rogue server" issues, and faculty usually get what they want.
In most academic environments, the service provided by IT is determined by an IT advisor board or something similar, and it tends to be much more of a lowest common denominator than a list of useful services. And a decent calendaring system is surprisingly rare in this environment...
> Five pages saying exactly nothing.
True. But if I also block CmdrTaco, there will not be anything left to read on Slashdot...
And to be fair, usually his stories are at least worth looking at.
> "FaceBook. The bank that Likes you."
Facebook - the first bank you don't want to trust, but you have to.
> Owning a smart phone with a data plan isn't a human right.
Not yet, but certainly in Europe universal service is currently being redefined as containing fast and affordable internet access.
I guess I should count myself lucky then - XP got rolled out long ago, and the transition to Windows 7 is about to happen, with XP support ending some time next year.
But on the other hand we are struck with McAfee, and the enterprise version with a paranoid configuration can bog down the faster supercomputer to a leisurely pace.
Especially since the best engines of today have just under 50% efficiency (VW blue motion TDI) or even just over 50% (Wärtsilä marine engines - very different beasts). 3 times that would give you 50% free energy, which I am just not prepared to believe. Even 90% efficiency would be quite unbelievable.
> Not sure how practical a PSU optimized for 277V input is for general use and the 450W max power is a bit tight for some Nehalem based configurations but overall it's pretty cool.
277V is perfectly fine. It gives about 400V DC, which maintains a decent safety margin to the absolute peak voltage of 600V for standard MOSFETs. And it should require only very minor changes from the standard 110-240V power supply.
450W are a decent amount, too, assuming you can actually load the PSU with 450W (and it does not burn out at 80% capacity, like some of the cheaper "1000W" models).
Let epsilon be zero.
Just use pwdhash and hash your password locally. It works like a treat, except for a few sites that have Byzantine password "complexity" rules.
I am not sure the Xoom is a clear winner here. Yes, some of the technology is nice, but the iPad 2 has its share of advantages:
* it is on sale (at least in theory), whereas the Xoom is not yet here.
* it has a larger (and better?) display
* it is much slimmer
* it looks better
But most of all we all know that Motorola support sucks. Apple will provide 2 or 3 years of updates for the Ipad, whereas with Motorola you would be quite lucky if you ever got an update (and even then it probably does not fix any of the annoying bugs). For this reason alone I would never ever by another item from Motorola. Been there, done that, not worth it.
You are both too late - the day is over, and anyway it is only funny in the morning.
> His user id is - 666
But that would take by definition at most 666 attempts to create...
The two good points are made, can we close the discussion now, before it gets ugly?
> I watched that episode, and more so, I've had many many many conversations with people, who believe that the Tesla DID run out of power, and that they'd never buy it because of that.
That is called "Range Anxiety". It existed before Top Gear, and Tesla knows that it is one of the reasons why people don't like to buy an electric car. It is a mostly irrational fear, which is exactly why Top Gear is appealing to it :-)
that they are not getting better. The new Atoms are just as underpowered as the old ones. They lack most of the features of a modern CPU. They still have no gigabit ethernet, no USB3, no eSATA, no decent horizontal resolution. And Windows 7 Starter is even worse than Windows XP Home.
As a consequence, everybody who wanted a netbook has one, but there is no incentive to upgrade. They will sell again once they get better.
> Android brings people closer to Google, creating a barrier to using Bing instead.
It cuts both ways: Windows Phone brings people closer to Bing. There is nothing on Android that forces anybody to use Google - but there are clauses both from Apple and Microsoft that force apps to use their search, ad, and payment system.
> The part I don't get is how Android, Chrome and Chrome OS is "scorching the earth for 250 miles around Google".
It is the wrong image - they are just trying to be in on everything, not necessarily driving out the competition. But offering something for free can be hard to undercut.
On the other hand Google is perfectly happy for others to do the "job" of producing free ad based services. Angry birds? I doubt Google could do that, and yet it bring the clicks rolling in. Google doesn't care who does what, as long as they use Google search and Google ads :-)
> While there may be ways to do the same with bandwidth, metering bandwidth has no incentive to be accurate.
Mod up - that is exactly the problem. I have yet to find an internet provider that even tries to meter accurately. My current one includes the PPPoE overhead into the metering. That is a line encapsulation forced on me by the ISP - but it is not internet traffic, it will never ever make it onto the internet, and it should not cost me anything. But at least the metering is otherwise accurate, and if I find a difference to my numbers they err on the low side,
Just imagine your banking taking a 2% cut from each cheque... how do you think that would go down?
Luckily in Europe wire transfers are regulated, and while they are not always fast, they are nearly always free.
Am I the only one who thinks that IE9 is ugly as hell? It is nice to see that it gives you more vertical screen space, but the "everything bar" could look appealing, too, you know.
I was running xubuntu on on old laptop for quite a while. But XFCE has gone the same path as all the other desktops, and it is now too bloated to run on old hardware. Especially compositing is quite a strain on a old graphics card.
KDE 3 was fine, so I could still use trinity, but I ended up with LXDE. It does look like Windows 95, but it is light, fast, and not in the way. Perfect for running 4 lxterminals :-)
I do not really understand the story, or specifically why the blame should be pointing exclusively to Apple.
So 40% of purchases are fraudulent and therefore reversed. That seems like a high figure, but who is the victim, and who is responsible?
I honestly cannot see a game company being the victim - in game purchases cost them nothing, so fraudulent purchases are only a problem if they replace real purchases, and I cannot see that happening (unless there is a black market for in game items?). Maybe the reason fraud is so frequent is that the in game purchases are so expensive that nobody in their right mind would spend their own money on it? I wonder what the game companies are doing to discourage fraud? Looking at the stories, some may even be perps...
Apple has a problem, but first and foremost they are the victim here (together with the user). Maybe they should invest more in technology to prevent this - running the code themselves to acknowledge a transaction, for example. Obviously they cannot just trust the game companies... or maybe they just have to communicate better.