I don't want to use some company's cloud service. I want to store my data on my own NAS. I do want the convenience of accessing that information from anywhere though which is what cloud services offer. The reason I can't do this myself is that there is no eco-system for private clouds. What would a private cloud eco-system look like? Well it would consist of some opensource protocols for syncing from any device and a fixed IP with some storage attached to sync to. But fixed IPs are expensive because IP4 addresses are minimal. So the killer app for IPv6, it seems, is the private cloud. IPv6 => lots of private fixed address => private cloud to sync data to.
If we all stopped eating meat would there be more/fewer cows in the world? If we stopped using trees for paper would there be more/fewer trees in the world? We aren't cutting down rain forests for paper (at least not in my country) - they tend to come from managed forestry that would just get turned over to grazing land if paper wasn't required any more.
There was an interesting trade dispute that South Africa had with the European Union. The fact that South Africa made port and sold it as port and had been doing so since before the days of Napolean was contentious as the EU had decided that the word "port" was a piece of intellectual property owned by Portugal. SA had to change their naming to "fortified wine" if they wanted a trade agreement with the EU. Same goes for "champagne". In pretty much the whole world, "champagne" is recognised as a piece of intellectual property owned by the champagne region of France. The US does not abide by these rules and allows sparkling american wine to be labelled as champagne. Now I disagree with the back-dating of trademarks like "port" and "champagne" but I find it amusing that the US holds itself up as the world-wide champion of intellectual property and other countries should fall in line when that seems to only apply to US made products.
This made me laugh. From TFA: " IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and can support approximately 4.3 billion individually addressed devices on the Internet. IPv6, on the other hand, uses 128-bit addresses and can support so many devices that only a mathematical expression -- 2 to the 128th power -- can quantify its size. "
When Javascript was submitted to ECMA and became an open standard I didn't hear of loads of people saying "Don't use it, its a trap, Sun will pull the plug any day now and sue you for using their (now standardised) language". But loads of people say that about the ECMA standardised.NET. What's the difference? I'm sure you're about to tell me.
"The ANC anti-Apartheid movement under the white South African government was labelled a terrorism"
Umm... would that maybe be because they blew stuff up? I can understand the outrage at calling open source developers terrorists but, regardless of how just the cause may be, using bombs to achieve political objectives might deservedly lead to the label "terrorists".
I recall seeing an outstanding bug list for TF2 that said a major bug existed where blue engineers could build teleport entrances inside the spawn locations. This could be enough to give a small advantage to blue. Even if this has been solved it could be responsible for the skew in stats.
I think 1984 is rather like the movie "Jaws". Jaws created shark paranoia and put back years of shark conservation work. People slap the label "1984" on anything that involves a camera and declare it the end of the conversation. No thought required, no debate, no reasoning - just write "1984" and you don't have to motivate anything.
I think I know the problem that a national ID card helps solve but nobody ever mentions it: tax evasion. The government is aware that we're moving to a cashless society where people can pull income from any source and that income won't be taxable by nature of the fact that its just bits on some computer in some country. So the in the short term, the government needs to try and make sure that people respect national and state boundaries for moving money around by, for example, making cross border gambling illegal. But this won't last. In the long term, they need to be able to match income flow to people in a way that ensures that I can't just open up a second bank account in a fake name and claim that the money isn't mine. We're moving to a place where every flow of money can be tagged with the identity of the receiver and the payer. The government will justify this as preventing money laundering but really it's to prevent tax evasion.
Yup - I already sent an email to my MP to complain about this. Artists knew exactly what the rules of the game were when they created their music fifty years ago. I dare say that some artists, like John Lennon, would look forward to sharing their music freely with the world. But now that music is being privatised without my permission and without John Lennon's permission. I think we're both a bit pissed off.
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I don't want to use some company's cloud service. I want to store my data on my own NAS. I do want the convenience of accessing that information from anywhere though which is what cloud services offer. The reason I can't do this myself is that there is no eco-system for private clouds. What would a private cloud eco-system look like? Well it would consist of some opensource protocols for syncing from any device and a fixed IP with some storage attached to sync to. But fixed IPs are expensive because IP4 addresses are minimal. So the killer app for IPv6, it seems, is the private cloud. IPv6 => lots of private fixed address => private cloud to sync data to.
99% of the legal profession exists outside of jury trials.
... working for Oracle.
If we all stopped eating meat would there be more/fewer cows in the world? If we stopped using trees for paper would there be more/fewer trees in the world? We aren't cutting down rain forests for paper (at least not in my country) - they tend to come from managed forestry that would just get turned over to grazing land if paper wasn't required any more.
BTW, Nexus was the name of the project producing replicants (or androids in the book) in Blade Runner. Roy Batty was a Nexus 6.
The article contains major factual errors. I remember firefox coming out in 1982. http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0083943/
There was an interesting trade dispute that South Africa had with the European Union. The fact that South Africa made port and sold it as port and had been doing so since before the days of Napolean was contentious as the EU had decided that the word "port" was a piece of intellectual property owned by Portugal. SA had to change their naming to "fortified wine" if they wanted a trade agreement with the EU. Same goes for "champagne". In pretty much the whole world, "champagne" is recognised as a piece of intellectual property owned by the champagne region of France. The US does not abide by these rules and allows sparkling american wine to be labelled as champagne. Now I disagree with the back-dating of trademarks like "port" and "champagne" but I find it amusing that the US holds itself up as the world-wide champion of intellectual property and other countries should fall in line when that seems to only apply to US made products.
This made me laugh. From TFA:
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IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and can support approximately 4.3 billion individually addressed devices on the Internet. IPv6, on the other hand, uses 128-bit addresses and can support so many devices that only a mathematical expression -- 2 to the 128th power -- can quantify its size.
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When Javascript was submitted to ECMA and became an open standard I didn't hear of loads of people saying "Don't use it, its a trap, Sun will pull the plug any day now and sue you for using their (now standardised) language". But loads of people say that about the ECMA standardised .NET. What's the difference? I'm sure you're about to tell me.
Murphy? As in Robocop? Oh, I get it - sufficiently complex... Analogous to "alive"... Springing up and causing trouble.
Your name isn't "Clarence" by any chance?
Wow, This Feels Weird. To Fund Withdrawal The Feds Will Tax Far Worse. This Furore Will Take Forever!
"The ANC anti-Apartheid movement under the white South African government was labelled a terrorism"
Umm... would that maybe be because they blew stuff up? I can understand the outrage at calling open source developers terrorists but, regardless of how just the cause may be, using bombs to achieve political objectives might deservedly lead to the label "terrorists".
I recall seeing an outstanding bug list for TF2 that said a major bug existed where blue engineers could build teleport entrances inside the spawn locations. This could be enough to give a small advantage to blue. Even if this has been solved it could be responsible for the skew in stats.
I think 1984 is rather like the movie "Jaws". Jaws created shark paranoia and put back years of shark conservation work. People slap the label "1984" on anything that involves a camera and declare it the end of the conversation. No thought required, no debate, no reasoning - just write "1984" and you don't have to motivate anything.
I think I know the problem that a national ID card helps solve but nobody ever mentions it: tax evasion. The government is aware that we're moving to a cashless society where people can pull income from any source and that income won't be taxable by nature of the fact that its just bits on some computer in some country. So the in the short term, the government needs to try and make sure that people respect national and state boundaries for moving money around by, for example, making cross border gambling illegal. But this won't last. In the long term, they need to be able to match income flow to people in a way that ensures that I can't just open up a second bank account in a fake name and claim that the money isn't mine. We're moving to a place where every flow of money can be tagged with the identity of the receiver and the payer. The government will justify this as preventing money laundering but really it's to prevent tax evasion.
Yup - I already sent an email to my MP to complain about this. Artists knew exactly what the rules of the game were when they created their music fifty years ago. I dare say that some artists, like John Lennon, would look forward to sharing their music freely with the world. But now that music is being privatised without my permission and without John Lennon's permission. I think we're both a bit pissed off.