Yes, several times in the past 4+ billion years asteroids have impacted our planet. However, the odds of one occuring anytime in the near future are absurdly small. I'd rather spend my time worrying about things that are more likely to kill me than this.
I'm sorry but worrying about asteroids is downright silly. Instead of spending money on something as fanciful as this, it would be much better to spend our energies on real problems: enviromental degradation, nuclear proliferation and such.
We may as well worry about the boogyman as far as issues that are likely to affect us.
I have found that the best place to find places (especially in the Bay Area) is Craigslist.org. Its the first place that everyone I know checks - and not just for jobs, but for housing, cars, and relationships!;)
Not to troll, but could someone tell me why I should use the Amiga as opposed to another platform, such as the Macintosh? It seems that Amiga hardware is pretty much dead in comparison to others. Is Amiga a dead-end or are there valid reasons for continuing to use it?
The French fought valiently in WW2. Unfortunately the Germans were a vastly superior military and quickly overwhelmed the French army. However the French didn't simply give in, despite a puppet gov't being installed. Instead they continued to fight back as the French Resistance. Many brave Frenchmen (and women) died battling the Nazi's who'd taken over their country.
This cliche is false, and its been beaten to death. Let's put it to rest.
These articles are designed to incite responses and are written by
people who don't really know what they are talking about.
This is not to say that there are not problems with IPv6.
While IPv6 fixes many problems in IPv4, the developed world will not
embrace IPv6 until many shortcomings in the protocol are addressed. As a Brown University grad student, the subject of IPv6 is what my disseration is upon. Allow me to include a few "talking-points" on what I've learned.
Cisco routers suck at IPv6.
Many of cisco's routers use the router's CPU to process IPv6 packets
instead
of the fast-path. The reasons for this are explained in the next few
points.
While Juniper's routers are substantially better at IPv6 than cisco's,
IT managers are often restrained by insane corporate policy that
dictactes
the use of cisco.
There are too many addresses.
There are 16.7 million addresses per square metre of the earth's
surface,
including the oceans. This is overkill. The world does not need more
than
the 4 billion addresses available with IPv4, and I challenge you to
come up
with an application that requires that many. Assuming that you can
actually
come up with one, it could easily be solved with
Network Address Translation, or NAT as it is commonly known.
IPv6 addresses are too large.
An IPv6 address is 128 bits in size - 64 bits of which are reserved for
addressing hosts, and 64 bits of which are reserved for routing. One
thing
that is cool with IPv6 is address autoconfiguration. Take your 56-bit
MAC address on your ethernet card, ask for 64-bits of network prefix,
bang it together with EUI-64 and you are set. The problem with a
64-bit
network prefix is that routing tables become massive. Just do the math
and
you'll see that extreme amounts of memory are required to hold routing
tables.
The IPv6 header is too large.
An IPv4 header compact at 20 bytes in length, while the IPv6 is bloated
at
40 bytes. That's right people, each one of your IP packets has twice
as
much overhead as before. While this may not sound much, IP networks
have a
requirement that the minimum MTU supported must be 576 bytes. That
means
that where you might have got 556 bytes of data in your IP packets, you
now
get 536 bytes. This means that downloading stuff will take 3.4%
longer.
I disagree that IPv6 is all about file trading and insecurity. Having
said that, the above points have to be addressed by the IPv6 community
before it will be deployed outside of research networks, and what
better place is there than slashdot to address these points?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Note that this article of the consitution does not say no searches and seizures. Just unreasonable ones. The courts have determined that with probable cause (and your definition is wrong, btw) a telephone may be tapped.
Oh, and also, the Tenth comes to mind here.. nowhere in the Constitution is the Federal Government granted the right to tap telephones, therefore they don't have it.
Yes, because clearly the Founding Fathers hated it when the British would tap their telephones....
I still don't wnat Uncle Sam listening to everything I do.
What makes you think that Uncle Sam is going to listen to "everything you do"? Remember, this law doesn't give the gov't carte blanche to listen to the conversations of anyone it chooses to. It must show a court of law that there is sufficient reason that you are using the phone lines to commit a felony. All this law does is put VoIP on the same legal standing as traditional phone lines, with regards to wiretapping.
Equating the gov't trying to stop the illegal actions of mobsters and drug dealers with a police state is pointless hyperbole. There may be issues with wiretapping laws, but your posting certainly doesn't convince me. If there is anything wrong with this statute you'll have to find a better arguement.
Not to sound pretentious but most of the music I listen too isn't readily found on P2P apps. Instead I get it from Usenet. (Easynews.com offers 30 days worth of newsgroups access including binaries for $10/month and has definitely been worth it.)
The only downside is that you can only download what other people have posted. But if you ask nicely someone will usually upload whatever obscure album I'm looking for after a couple of days. In a way, its like a IRC trading with REALLY REALLY bad lag.:)
Things you can't say on Slashdot.
on
What You Can't Say
·
· Score: 0, Offtopic
One has to watch what one says on Slashdot, lest one's comments dissappear in a sea of downmods. I'm not referring to crapflodding and Michael-is-a-censoring-bastard, posts. But if someone loves Microsoft and expounds on why they like it, expect that post to die at -1 fairly quickly. Even daring to follow-up a post often needs to be done AC or else it'll be rated -1, Offtopic.
Just for safety I hope NASA has a clean room containing an old drunk and a crying baby. They'll be our only hope if there's any space-born virus brought back!
There was an individual a few years ago who shot up his office and killed many of his coworkers. He was some depressed, long-haired coder with a gun fetish. Imagine if based on that the whole nation had said someone who is mentally unstable is "going programmer". Furthermore, imagine if they all assumed that every coders or geek was the same as Michael McDermott. You'd get tired of it very quickly, and probably be more than a little offended by it.
My favorite uncle is a mail carrier, as is his wife. Having mail carriers in the family, I can assure you that this game title is in very poor taste. Although there have been a several handfuls of shootings by other postal workers, there's nothing amusing about them. They're a senseless tragedy and I refuse to play any game that makes light of them.
I got a 40 gig iPod for Xmas. But the weird part is that when I looked at the diagnostics menu, it said it was only 37.1 gigs! Apple played Grinch and stole 3 gigs of music from me.:(
Okay, ELR is not the most sophisticated show ever. However when I watch it from time to time, I never fail to get a serious belly laugh or two out of it. Peter Boyle is a damn fine comedic actor. The show may not appeal to you personally, but I think its definitely above average.
Firefly, however, was so terrible it made my skin crawl. I felt embarassed just to have watched it. I had high hopes, but in the end I'd rather watch Matlock than Firefly.
Paul Allen owns the Portland Trailblazers. However, given the current standings in the Pacific Division, I'd want to own the Seattle Supersonics, too.:)
Slashdot Mirror
Now that they've put all that work into their content, it gets Slashdotted. Oh the irony....
Yes, several times in the past 4+ billion years asteroids have impacted our planet. However, the odds of one occuring anytime in the near future are absurdly small. I'd rather spend my time worrying about things that are more likely to kill me than this.
I'm sorry but worrying about asteroids is downright silly. Instead of spending money on something as fanciful as this, it would be much better to spend our energies on real problems: enviromental degradation, nuclear proliferation and such.
We may as well worry about the boogyman as far as issues that are likely to affect us.
I have found that the best place to find places (especially in the Bay Area) is Craigslist.org. Its the first place that everyone I know checks - and not just for jobs, but for housing, cars, and relationships! ;)
If it is built into the bar code, would the stores that carry said products have to reveal to their customers that RFID tags were in items? Scary.
The author is a known troll who acts under the guise of a Slashdot editor. Please mod down this karma whore.
Not to troll, but could someone tell me why I should use the Amiga as opposed to another platform, such as the Macintosh? It seems that Amiga hardware is pretty much dead in comparison to others. Is Amiga a dead-end or are there valid reasons for continuing to use it?
From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the bullshit of paranoids.
Jeez...could they have picked a worse name to have sent the geeks into overdrive than Matrix?
There is no comparison. Here in America we play Dungeons and Dragons. Over in the Middle East its Dunes and Djinis. Nope, nothing in common.
The French fought valiently in WW2. Unfortunately the Germans were a vastly superior military and quickly overwhelmed the French army. However the French didn't simply give in, despite a puppet gov't being installed. Instead they continued to fight back as the French Resistance. Many brave Frenchmen (and women) died battling the Nazi's who'd taken over their country.
This cliche is false, and its been beaten to death. Let's put it to rest.
This is not to say that there are not problems with IPv6. While IPv6 fixes many problems in IPv4, the developed world will not embrace IPv6 until many shortcomings in the protocol are addressed. As a Brown University grad student, the subject of IPv6 is what my disseration is upon. Allow me to include a few "talking-points" on what I've learned.
I disagree that IPv6 is all about file trading and insecurity. Having said that, the above points have to be addressed by the IPv6 community before it will be deployed outside of research networks, and what better place is there than slashdot to address these points?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Note that this article of the consitution does not say no searches and seizures. Just unreasonable ones. The courts have determined that with probable cause (and your definition is wrong, btw) a telephone may be tapped.
Oh, and also, the Tenth comes to mind here.. nowhere in the Constitution is the Federal Government granted the right to tap telephones, therefore they don't have it.
Yes, because clearly the Founding Fathers hated it when the British would tap their telephones....
What makes you think that Uncle Sam is going to listen to "everything you do"? Remember, this law doesn't give the gov't carte blanche to listen to the conversations of anyone it chooses to. It must show a court of law that there is sufficient reason that you are using the phone lines to commit a felony. All this law does is put VoIP on the same legal standing as traditional phone lines, with regards to wiretapping.
Equating the gov't trying to stop the illegal actions of mobsters and drug dealers with a police state is pointless hyperbole. There may be issues with wiretapping laws, but your posting certainly doesn't convince me. If there is anything wrong with this statute you'll have to find a better arguement.
The only downside is that you can only download what other people have posted. But if you ask nicely someone will usually upload whatever obscure album I'm looking for after a couple of days. In a way, its like a IRC trading with REALLY REALLY bad lag.
One has to watch what one says on Slashdot, lest one's comments dissappear in a sea of downmods. I'm not referring to crapflodding and Michael-is-a-censoring-bastard, posts. But if someone loves Microsoft and expounds on why they like it, expect that post to die at -1 fairly quickly. Even daring to follow-up a post often needs to be done AC or else it'll be rated -1, Offtopic.
Just for safety I hope NASA has a clean room containing an old drunk and a crying baby. They'll be our only hope if there's any space-born virus brought back!
We spend most of our time planning quilting bees and such. Feel free to attend one sometime. Most often, we provide punch and pie!
There was an individual a few years ago who shot up his office and killed many of his coworkers. He was some depressed, long-haired coder with a gun fetish. Imagine if based on that the whole nation had said someone who is mentally unstable is "going programmer". Furthermore, imagine if they all assumed that every coders or geek was the same as Michael McDermott. You'd get tired of it very quickly, and probably be more than a little offended by it.
My favorite uncle is a mail carrier, as is his wife. Having mail carriers in the family, I can assure you that this game title is in very poor taste. Although there have been a several handfuls of shootings by other postal workers, there's nothing amusing about them. They're a senseless tragedy and I refuse to play any game that makes light of them.
I suppose this will be as effective as Slashdot making one wait 20 seconds before posting was at curbing the trolls.....
I got a 40 gig iPod for Xmas. But the weird part is that when I looked at the diagnostics menu, it said it was only 37.1 gigs! Apple played Grinch and stole 3 gigs of music from me. :(
Firefly, however, was so terrible it made my skin crawl. I felt embarassed just to have watched it. I had high hopes, but in the end I'd rather watch Matlock than Firefly.
Paul Allen owns the Portland Trailblazers. However, given the current standings in the Pacific Division, I'd want to own the Seattle Supersonics, too. :)
I'm sure I speak for all of us when we'd rather hear about the End of a Life of a Spammer.