> And they thought it was a good idea to not release the Metro userland for Windows 7! > I think that's the original sin, Metro software could have run in floating windows back in > 2012 on the OS people actually use. Breaking forward compatibility, and so > early to boot was a dickish move.
If they had released Windows 7 with the Metro/tiles abortion, people would've been compaining about Windows 7 and hanging on to Windows XP. Instead, people ended up compaining about the Metro/tiles abortion in Windows 8 and hanging on to Windows 7.
Dear idiot developers. I know that your "usability testing" confirms that a desktop oriented GUI *SUCKS* on a smartphone. But have you ever considered that maybe, just, maybe, a smartphone-oriented GUI also *SUCKS* on a desktop PC? I am *NOT* going to streatch my hand out 2 feet to tap on a URL, let alone compose this post on Slashdot. The idiots at Microsoft has made the same mistake as the idiots at Mozilla, and tried to ram a smartphone GUI down the throats of desktop users. The Atrocious^H^H^H^H^H Australis GUI did to Firefox on the desktop what Metro/tiles did to Windows on the desktop.
The same GUI does *NOT* work on both desktops and smartphones. You need different GUIs for those platforms... deal with it.
> "It works by comparing photographs to profile pictures on Vkontakte, > a social network popular in Russia and the former Soviet Union"
> This makes no sense to me, didn't the USSR dissolve in 1991?
You missed the comma right after the word "Vkontakte". I parse the phrase as meaning that Vkontakt is *NOW* popular in Russia, and in other countries, that were *FORMERLY* part of the Soviet Union.
> I can speak against the government, royalty, etc, elected politicians and appointed > government officials, say that same sex marriage is needed if we truly believe in equally, > that churches should not try to impose their beliefs on others and they should pay taxes, etc.
You're "allowed" to parrot the party line... whoopee. Try contributing to and speaking up for "the wrong side" of a referendum in California, and then getting a job as Mozilla CEO.
Not only email, but the linux version *DEMANDS* "cups", i.e printer support. My current Gentoo setup already has Pale Moon and Opera 12.16 installed, and any dependancies they require. Installing Vivaldi would download 83,318 KiB of files, of which 43,955 KiB is actually Vivaldi. The rest would be...
qpdf and poppler seem to be for in-browser pdf-rendering. Other browsers allow me to pass pdf files to "helper applications", like mupdf. Screw this noise.
Operation Choke Point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is an illustration of what can happen. Porn actors, gun auctioneers, and other people that the government didn't like, suddenly found themselves denied bank accounts. The government's flimsy excuse was that these *MIGHT* be doing something illegal. This is on par with the IRS going after conservative non-profits.
At least for now, people can still put cash under their matresses. Even so, the police often seize cash from individuals carrrying large amounts. But imagine what happens when there is no cash option. You can't get paid because you have nowhere to deposit your "money".
Just because you're not a porn actor, or gun auctioneer, doesn't mean you're safe. "First they came for the porn actors, but I wasn't a porn actor... etc". Be very, very afraid.
With UBER, taxi companies are fighting back by lobbying cities against "unlicenced taxis". A self-driving car can... * drive from a parking lot to pick you up at location X... JUST LIKE A TAXI * drive you over to location Y and drop you off... JUST LIKE A TAXI
But the corporation will argue that it's actually a car rental business, renting the car to you on an hourly+milage basis, sorta like Zip-Car http://www.zipcar.com/
> i honestly can't understand why americans are so aggressively against phone calls on > public transport. why is it ok to talk to the person sitting next to you but not to somebody > over the phone? it really puzzles me. i've never seen this in any european country.
I live in Canada, sometimes described as the 51st state. I understand the hate. Some @##holes *YELL AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS* when talking on a cellphone. If they have the same conversation in person, with somebody sitting next to them, they talk in a normal tone of voice. That's the difference.
>> 4.8.0 release was released on 15 December 2008. Our next full release will >> be 4.9.0, and is expected to be released in the summer/winter of 2009
[...deletia...]
> How's that working out for you?
In case you missed it, there was an internal revolt inside the XFree86 group, and XFree86 code was forked as Xorg, which is the current implementation. The last person to leave the XFree86 project forgot to turn off the lights.
XFree86 is passed on! This project is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it'd be pushing up the daisies! Its metabolic processes are now history! It's off the twig! It's kicked the bucket, It's shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PROJECT!!
See the current Xorg location http://www.x.org/wiki/ It actually has stuff from late last month, rather than late last decade.
> Remember when Mozilla did a bunch of stupid things and the Firefox fork was an attempt to purge > the idiocy? Firefox became popular enough that Mozilla was forced to replace their blunders with Firefox.
I remember doing manual builds of Mozilla 0.9.x. IANAP (I Am Not A Programmer) and I had to blindly follow instructions. The original Mozilla was an all-in-one webbrowser-cum-webpage-composer-cum-email-client. The Phoenix project (which changed its name to Firebird and then Firefox, beacuse of IP issues) basically took the Mozilla codebase, and only built the webbrowser portion. The result was a lean/mean webbrowser.
Then they got into "featuritis"...
* spell-check... another feature that pulls in multiple library dependancies on linux, bloats the program, and eats more ram. Why? At the very least, they could've made it an option instead of hard-coding it in.
* SQLite... why? grep (and yes, there are Windows/Mac/whatever equivalants) is faster unless you have a few million bookmarks. SQLite is a database. To guarantee that stuff gets written, it locks things, and Firefox comes to a screeching halt for a second or 2 or more, depending on your machine's cpu speed and RAM. That's just the way database engines work, so I'm not ranting against the SQLite devs. I'm ranting against the Firefox devs who chose to use an 18-wheeler-semi-tractor-trailer where a 1/2-ton-pickup would be sufficient.
* Abortion^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Awesome Bar. With FF2.x, I could type in "sla" in the URLbar, and "http://www.slashdot.org" was the default suggestion. In FF3, I'd get "http://bad.example.com/ifduifusla" which "matched". Yes, after 3 weeks it was "trained" to give "http://www.slashdot.org" somehere in the top 6 results, but for the better part of a month, it was painful to use.
* The Atrocious^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Australis interface was what finally drove me away. Yes, a desktop PC GUI on a smartphone or tablet sucks; I get it. But a smartphone/tablet GUI on my desktop PC sucks just as badly. The final straw was the decision to get rid of text on the menu (e.g. "File Edit View...") and replace it with heiroglyphics. And the much-vaunted "simpler customization" is so simple that it can't restore the the text items. A Google search turned up a gazillion hits on "Classic Theme Restorer Add-on". 'nuff said.
> When the bleeding stopped, the idiocy returned, making a > mess of Firefox. Is there a sane fork Mozilla can run to this time?
Is there a sane fork Mozilla can *RUIN* to this time? FTFY
After some looking around, I've settled on Pale Moon. It brings back memories of Firefox, back when it was still a great browser.
> As requirements; speed, efficiency, frugal resource usage, etc. pale > in comparison to needing maintainable, reusable, run-anywhere code.
What is this "run-anywhere code" you speak of? One PITA with Java is that for anything significantly more complex than "Hello World", an app written under e.g. Java 1.2.3.4.5 will run *ONLY* "anywhere Java 1.2.3.4.5 is installed"... not under Java 1.2.3.4.4 and not under Java 1.2.3.4.6. The end result is that some places have to keep multiple versions of Java around, including older versions with serious security holes.
If people had to throw out all their apps with each Windows Service Pack, or each revision bump to the linux kernel, or else run multiple VMs of different versions to keep their old apps, they would be up in arms. Yet Java developers seem to expect exactly that, i.e. run multiple versions of the Java VM.
No, it's not a back door. It's "allowing the FBI to do their job".
No, it's not confiscation of private property, like the British did 240 years ago, contributing to the start of the American revolution. It's "civil forfeiture".
No, it's not racial and sexual discrimination against white males. It's "affirmative action".
No, it's not mistreatment and torture of prisoners of war. It's mistreatment and torture of "enemy combatants".
A second used to be 1/86,400 of a mean solar day (e.g. high noon to high noon). A slowing day would mean a lengthening second, which would screw up measurements of basic physical constants, e.g. the speed of light.
> The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the > radiation corresponding to the transition between the two > hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom.
In theory, any sufficiently advanced research lab on the planet can duplicate this measurement.
The year is 2020. A massive arctic high sits over North America on a very cold January day. An Al Quaeda operative sends a command from his PC to a botnet which activates multiple zero-day "sleeper" trojans that have been waiting for the command. PC's, printers, and various other machinery in offices and electric power plants and water pumping stations and telephone offices fail.
A second command is sent that hijacks satellite downlinks for GM Onstar and similar systems. They can shut down the car via satellite if it's reported stolen. In the middle of rush hour, traffic grinds to a halt, as the shutdown code is activated en masse. You have millions of motorists stuck on the roads in bitterly freezing weather. +1 if the system can be programmed to lock all car doors, and trap the motorists inside.
Another command is sent out that cranks "internet of things" furnaces and stoves to max power and locks them there. Fires break out all over. Fire departments are unable to respond. Even if their trucks don't have Onstar tech, the roads are so clogged with stalled cars that they can't get to any fires.
Civilization breaks down as distribution chains collapse due to non-functioning equipment. Millions die of cold and starvation in the following weeks. Martial law is declared. Somewhere, in the middle-East, a bunch of Mullahs are laughing their butts off.
> Remember that light energy can't be converted to electricity and also > transmitted through the window; whatever percentage gets converted > to electricity must be subtracted from the percentage that is transmitted.
A hot summer day... * incoming sunlight reduced; check * some electrical power provided for air conditioning; check
> You should read the articles. Because CAN is a multi-master communications > bus any device on the bus has write access at the hardware level - it's only > software controls that limit whether a device can write to the bus or not. Which > is why the government-mandated ODBC-II interface is such a bad idea, > because anyone can plug in to the CAN bus with a standardized connector > and get complete control of a vehicle.
Why is so much unnecessary, security-risky, stuff connected to that device? In a worst case, have separate buses... * the "entertainment" bus for wifi for "teh interweb", streaming audio, etc. * the "critical" bus that controls car operation. Have it only *PHYSICALLY* accessable, i.e. only via physically plugging a probe into a jack. And none of the devices connected to the "critical" bus are radio/wifi/bluetooth/whatever-else externally accessable.
> You're right of course... And the intent of the IPv6 space is not to use all > the numbers, but rather to give every device its own number, do away > with NAT and DHCP, and to make routing of traffic faster and easier.
There are tons of hacks available.
If things get bad, an ISP could use CIDR on IPV6 for all their customers in a given city. A million customers in a big city could fit into a/64 with 2^44 addresses for each customer. If they're all in one city, routing would not be an issue for routers outside of the ISP's system. And, yes, I'm aware there's no provision for such stuff in IPV6... but then again, CIDR wasn't in the original IPV4 spec.
There's always the UUID bits to play around with.
And to really mess with IPV6 fanbois' minds, we could try NAT on IPV6.
> My boss was pissed that I don't have one... He asked, > why in the hell don't you use Facebook?
You're in HR, interviewing a job applicant. Would you hire somebody who once offered his company's personal client information to a friend? And called his customers dumb? What if he said it was "a youthful indiscretion"? Like the following?
> There is no service charge to use it and this way I > don't have to have a pile of change in my pocket.
I Live in Canada (Toronto area) and some shops do charge 10 cents or so per transaction for debit cards. The fact that Canada has done away with pennies makes lugging around cash a bit easier.
> "Some people delete their emails on an almost daily basis, > others just try to avoid putting anything potentially interesting > in an email in the first place."
Reminds me of an Elliot Spitzer quote...
"Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail."
He should also have mentioned never using prostitutes so expensive, that paying them triggers "money-laundering-detection" and gets the feds to investigate you. But that's another story.
> You mean instructions like JMP which AMD blatantly stole the opcodes from Intel? > Why can't Intel demand protection for the use of 0xEB 0xbb to instruct the > computer to jump by signed bb bytes, but Sun/Oracle can claim protection for > System.out.println() to instruct the computer to output an end-of-line > character to the standard output?
Old fart here... AMD was cross-licenced by Intel to produce 80x86 cpus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... This was done because many businesses, especially government, insisted that the components NOT be single-sourced. Ironically, this cross-licencing agreement is what allowed Intel to legally use AMD64 cpu architecture, which Intel named "EMT64".
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> And they thought it was a good idea to not release the Metro userland for Windows 7!
> I think that's the original sin, Metro software could have run in floating windows back in
> 2012 on the OS people actually use. Breaking forward compatibility, and so
> early to boot was a dickish move.
If they had released Windows 7 with the Metro/tiles abortion, people would've been compaining about Windows 7 and hanging on to Windows XP. Instead, people ended up compaining about the Metro/tiles abortion in Windows 8 and hanging on to Windows 7.
Dear idiot developers. I know that your "usability testing" confirms that a desktop oriented GUI *SUCKS* on a smartphone. But have you ever considered that maybe, just, maybe, a smartphone-oriented GUI also *SUCKS* on a desktop PC? I am *NOT* going to streatch my hand out 2 feet to tap on a URL, let alone compose this post on Slashdot. The idiots at Microsoft has made the same mistake as the idiots at Mozilla, and tried to ram a smartphone GUI down the throats of desktop users. The Atrocious^H^H^H^H^H Australis GUI did to Firefox on the desktop what Metro/tiles did to Windows on the desktop.
The same GUI does *NOT* work on both desktops and smartphones. You need different GUIs for those platforms... deal with it.
> "It works by comparing photographs to profile pictures on Vkontakte,
> a social network popular in Russia and the former Soviet Union"
> This makes no sense to me, didn't the USSR dissolve in 1991?
You missed the comma right after the word "Vkontakte". I parse the phrase as meaning that Vkontakt is *NOW* popular in Russia, and in other countries, that were *FORMERLY* part of the Soviet Union.
On Pale Moon (a Firefox fork) go to about:config and set...
media.autoplay.allowscripted false
media.autoplay.enabled false
Note that on Youtube, you have to do extra work to start the first video, because of disabling autoplay...
* click somewhere in the picture frame
* click on the little triangle in the bottom left of the image to start playing
Firefox should be similar.
> I can speak against the government, royalty, etc, elected politicians and appointed
> government officials, say that same sex marriage is needed if we truly believe in equally,
> that churches should not try to impose their beliefs on others and they should pay taxes, etc.
You're "allowed" to parrot the party line... whoopee. Try contributing to and speaking up for "the wrong side" of a referendum in California, and then getting a job as Mozilla CEO.
Not only email, but the linux version *DEMANDS* "cups", i.e printer support. My current Gentoo setup already has Pale Moon and Opera 12.16 installed, and any dependancies they require. Installing Vivaldi would download 83,318 KiB of files, of which 43,955 KiB is actually Vivaldi. The rest would be...
net-dns/libidn-1.30
sys-libs/libcap-2.24-r2
dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.102
app-text/qpdf-5.1.1
dev-libs/libtasn1-4.5
dev-libs/nettle-3.2
dev-scheme/guile-1.8.8-r1
sys-devel/autogen-5.18.4
net-libs/gnutls-3.3.17.1
app-text/poppler-0.32.0
gnome-base/gconf-3.2.6-r4
net-print/cups-2.0.3
net-print/cups-filters-1.5.0
qpdf and poppler seem to be for in-browser pdf-rendering. Other browsers allow me to pass pdf files to "helper applications", like mupdf. Screw this noise.
Operation Choke Point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is an illustration of what can happen. Porn actors, gun auctioneers, and other people that the government didn't like, suddenly found themselves denied bank accounts. The government's flimsy excuse was that these *MIGHT* be doing something illegal. This is on par with the IRS going after conservative non-profits.
At least for now, people can still put cash under their matresses. Even so, the police often seize cash from individuals carrrying large amounts. But imagine what happens when there is no cash option. You can't get paid because you have nowhere to deposit your "money".
Just because you're not a porn actor, or gun auctioneer, doesn't mean you're safe. "First they came for the porn actors, but I wasn't a porn actor... etc". Be very, very afraid.
With UBER, taxi companies are fighting back by lobbying cities against "unlicenced taxis". A self-driving car can...
* drive from a parking lot to pick you up at location X... JUST LIKE A TAXI
* drive you over to location Y and drop you off... JUST LIKE A TAXI
But the corporation will argue that it's actually a car rental business, renting the car to you on an hourly+milage basis, sorta like Zip-Car http://www.zipcar.com/
> i honestly can't understand why americans are so aggressively against phone calls on
> public transport. why is it ok to talk to the person sitting next to you but not to somebody
> over the phone? it really puzzles me. i've never seen this in any european country.
I live in Canada, sometimes described as the 51st state. I understand the hate. Some @##holes *YELL AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS* when talking on a cellphone. If they have the same conversation in person, with somebody sitting next to them, they talk in a normal tone of voice. That's the difference.
> From the XFree86 web page:
>> XFree86 Release 4.8.0 is out NOW
>> 4.8.0 release was released on 15 December 2008. Our next full release will
>> be 4.9.0, and is expected to be released in the summer/winter of 2009
[...deletia...]
> How's that working out for you?
In case you missed it, there was an internal revolt inside the XFree86 group, and XFree86 code was forked as Xorg, which is the current implementation. The last person to leave the XFree86 project forgot to turn off the lights.
XFree86 is passed on! This project is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it'd be pushing up the daisies! Its metabolic processes are now history! It's off the twig! It's kicked the bucket, It's shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PROJECT!!
See the current Xorg location http://www.x.org/wiki/ It actually has stuff from late last month, rather than late last decade.
> Remember when Mozilla did a bunch of stupid things and the Firefox fork was an attempt to purge
> the idiocy? Firefox became popular enough that Mozilla was forced to replace their blunders with Firefox.
I remember doing manual builds of Mozilla 0.9.x. IANAP (I Am Not A Programmer) and I had to blindly follow instructions. The original Mozilla was an all-in-one webbrowser-cum-webpage-composer-cum-email-client. The Phoenix project (which changed its name to Firebird and then Firefox, beacuse of IP issues) basically took the Mozilla codebase, and only built the webbrowser portion. The result was a lean/mean webbrowser.
Then they got into "featuritis"...
* spell-check... another feature that pulls in multiple library dependancies on linux, bloats the program, and eats more ram. Why? At the very least, they could've made it an option instead of hard-coding it in.
* SQLite... why? grep (and yes, there are Windows/Mac/whatever equivalants) is faster unless you have a few million bookmarks. SQLite is a database. To guarantee that stuff gets written, it locks things, and Firefox comes to a screeching halt for a second or 2 or more, depending on your machine's cpu speed and RAM. That's just the way database engines work, so I'm not ranting against the SQLite devs. I'm ranting against the Firefox devs who chose to use an 18-wheeler-semi-tractor-trailer where a 1/2-ton-pickup would be sufficient.
* Abortion^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Awesome Bar. With FF2.x, I could type in "sla" in the URLbar, and "http://www.slashdot.org" was the default suggestion. In FF3, I'd get "http://bad.example.com/ifduifusla" which "matched". Yes, after 3 weeks it was "trained" to give "http://www.slashdot.org" somehere in the top 6 results, but for the better part of a month, it was painful to use.
* The Atrocious^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Australis interface was what finally drove me away. Yes, a desktop PC GUI on a smartphone or tablet sucks; I get it. But a smartphone/tablet GUI on my desktop PC sucks just as badly. The final straw was the decision to get rid of text on the menu (e.g. "File Edit View...") and replace it with heiroglyphics. And the much-vaunted "simpler customization" is so simple that it can't restore the the text items. A Google search turned up a gazillion hits on "Classic Theme Restorer Add-on". 'nuff said.
> When the bleeding stopped, the idiocy returned, making a
> mess of Firefox. Is there a sane fork Mozilla can run to this time?
Is there a sane fork Mozilla can *RUIN* to this time?
FTFY
After some looking around, I've settled on Pale Moon. It brings back memories of Firefox, back when it was still a great browser.
> As requirements; speed, efficiency, frugal resource usage, etc. pale
> in comparison to needing maintainable, reusable, run-anywhere code.
What is this "run-anywhere code" you speak of? One PITA with Java is that for anything significantly more complex than "Hello World", an app written under e.g. Java 1.2.3.4.5 will run *ONLY* "anywhere Java 1.2.3.4.5 is installed"... not under Java 1.2.3.4.4 and not under Java 1.2.3.4.6. The end result is that some places have to keep multiple versions of Java around, including older versions with serious security holes.
If people had to throw out all their apps with each Windows Service Pack, or each revision bump to the linux kernel, or else run multiple VMs of different versions to keep their old apps, they would be up in arms. Yet Java developers seem to expect exactly that, i.e. run multiple versions of the Java VM.
No, it's not a back door. It's "allowing the FBI to do their job".
No, it's not confiscation of private property, like the British did 240 years ago, contributing to the start of the American revolution. It's "civil forfeiture".
No, it's not racial and sexual discrimination against white males. It's "affirmative action".
No, it's not mistreatment and torture of prisoners of war. It's mistreatment and torture of "enemy combatants".
A second used to be 1/86,400 of a mean solar day (e.g. high noon to high noon). A slowing day would mean a lengthening second, which would screw up measurements of basic physical constants, e.g. the speed of light.
The current definition of a second is http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Un...
> The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the
> radiation corresponding to the transition between the two
> hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom.
In theory, any sufficiently advanced research lab on the planet can duplicate this measurement.
> --
> It's not the 1990s, Slashdot; fix your unicode support. It's ridiculous that I can't type a thorn here.
Bwaa-haa-haa. Maybe they know better than you.
...but I wasn't a climate change denier, so I kept silent
The year is 2020. A massive arctic high sits over North America on a very cold January day. An Al Quaeda operative sends a command from his PC to a botnet which activates multiple zero-day "sleeper" trojans that have been waiting for the command. PC's, printers, and various other machinery in offices and electric power plants and water pumping stations and telephone offices fail.
A second command is sent that hijacks satellite downlinks for GM Onstar and similar systems. They can shut down the car via satellite if it's reported stolen. In the middle of rush hour, traffic grinds to a halt, as the shutdown code is activated en masse. You have millions of motorists stuck on the roads in bitterly freezing weather. +1 if the system can be programmed to lock all car doors, and trap the motorists inside.
Another command is sent out that cranks "internet of things" furnaces and stoves to max power and locks them there. Fires break out all over. Fire departments are unable to respond. Even if their trucks don't have Onstar tech, the roads are so clogged with stalled cars that they can't get to any fires.
Civilization breaks down as distribution chains collapse due to non-functioning equipment. Millions die of cold and starvation in the following weeks. Martial law is declared. Somewhere, in the middle-East, a bunch of Mullahs are laughing their butts off.
> Remember that light energy can't be converted to electricity and also
> transmitted through the window; whatever percentage gets converted
> to electricity must be subtracted from the percentage that is transmitted.
A hot summer day...
* incoming sunlight reduced; check
* some electrical power provided for air conditioning; check
Now that's what I call win-win.
> Weissman Score you fucking prick!
You have a +10 Wiseguy Score.
> You should read the articles. Because CAN is a multi-master communications
> bus any device on the bus has write access at the hardware level - it's only
> software controls that limit whether a device can write to the bus or not. Which
> is why the government-mandated ODBC-II interface is such a bad idea,
> because anyone can plug in to the CAN bus with a standardized connector
> and get complete control of a vehicle.
Why is so much unnecessary, security-risky, stuff connected to that device? In a worst case, have separate buses...
* the "entertainment" bus for wifi for "teh interweb", streaming audio, etc.
* the "critical" bus that controls car operation. Have it only *PHYSICALLY* accessable, i.e. only via physically plugging a probe into a jack. And none of the devices connected to the "critical" bus are radio/wifi/bluetooth/whatever-else externally accessable.
Here are their IP address ranges that I block
31.13.24.0/21
31.13.64.0/18
66.220.144.0/20
69.63.176.0/20
69.171.224.0/19
74.119.76.0/22
103.4.96.0/22
173.252.64.0/18
204.15.20.0/22
> You're right of course... And the intent of the IPv6 space is not to use all
> the numbers, but rather to give every device its own number, do away
> with NAT and DHCP, and to make routing of traffic faster and easier.
There are tons of hacks available.
If things get bad, an ISP could use CIDR on IPV6 for all their customers in a given city. A million customers in a big city could fit into a /64 with 2^44 addresses for each customer. If they're all in one city, routing would not be an issue for routers outside of the ISP's system. And, yes, I'm aware there's no provision for such stuff in IPV6... but then again, CIDR wasn't in the original IPV4 spec.
There's always the UUID bits to play around with.
And to really mess with IPV6 fanbois' minds, we could try NAT on IPV6.
> My boss was pissed that I don't have one... He asked,
> why in the hell don't you use Facebook?
You're in HR, interviewing a job applicant. Would you hire somebody who once offered his company's personal client information to a friend? And called his customers dumb? What if he said it was "a youthful indiscretion"? Like the following?
http://www.businessinsider.com...
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks.
> There is no service charge to use it and this way I
> don't have to have a pile of change in my pocket.
I Live in Canada (Toronto area) and some shops do charge 10 cents or so per transaction for debit cards. The fact that Canada has done away with pennies makes lugging around cash a bit easier.
> "Some people delete their emails on an almost daily basis,
> others just try to avoid putting anything potentially interesting
> in an email in the first place."
Reminds me of an Elliot Spitzer quote...
"Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod.
And never put anything in an e-mail."
He should also have mentioned never using prostitutes so expensive, that paying them triggers "money-laundering-detection" and gets the feds to investigate you. But that's another story.
> You mean instructions like JMP which AMD blatantly stole the opcodes from Intel?
> Why can't Intel demand protection for the use of 0xEB 0xbb to instruct the
> computer to jump by signed bb bytes, but Sun/Oracle can claim protection for
> System.out.println() to instruct the computer to output an end-of-line
> character to the standard output?
Old fart here... AMD was cross-licenced by Intel to produce 80x86 cpus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... This was done because many businesses, especially government, insisted that the components NOT be single-sourced. Ironically, this cross-licencing agreement is what allowed Intel to legally use AMD64 cpu architecture, which Intel named "EMT64".