You're a clueless fuck who didn't bother reading the thread. I'll entertain you with an answer nonetheless. If we switch to firefox from IE, we might lose NTLM authentication. We've decided that we're willing to take that loss in exchange for not having the inherent vulnerabilities in IE that assist the proliferation of malware, "lol" elsewhere you clueless moron.
Are you fucking kidding me? Pick any web developer and ask them whether they have more problems making websites work with IE or making them work with Mozilla. They'll ALL tell you that IE is a pain in the ass and doesn't comply to standards. I, personally have given up on making my own webpages work with IE, it's not worth the effort...
It's pretty much decided that our 150+ employee company will be running mozilla firefox. Now, I understand that our little 150 employee company doesn't mean all that much in the big scheme of things, but if we're doing it, there has to be lots more that are also considering and/or doing it.
How could "UK counters" count it in any way that would get 6? 6 would always result in two fingers being up... either ring finger and middle finger or index and middle...
And you're a complete moron who didn't bother to read my post.
I did not at any point contest that TCP is lossy, it's a hack of a stateful protocol with guaranteed delivery on top of a lossy unstateful protocol. There is considerable overhead to guaranteeing the packets as well as to making the connection stateful and carrying other features.
You obviously didn't even read enough to see that I Agreed with your last statement. I said none of this bullshit that you have pinned on me. I was profusely argueing against it. My point was that this speed test IS NOT TRYING TO ESTIMATE LOSSINESS IN THE PROTOCOL... ITS JUST A FUCKED UP CONVERSION OF BITS TO BYTES. Re-read my post with your brain turned on this time. Also, I suggest you RTF story. Oh yeah, and paraphrasing the TCP RFC doesn't impress anyone.
They have no idea what they are talking about. Bytes/sec and Bits/sec do not have any special meaning beyond the number of bits or bytes that can be passed in a given second. First, it's totally and completely moronic to strip the TCP Header off for one measurement but not for the other, it's not some sort of standard practice. Second, the story says that instead of Bytes = 8*Bits, it was mroe like Bytes=13 or 14*Bits. That means that by their logic the BYTES were getting stuck as it was taking more bits to make a single byte, not the BITS. Third, the speed test is probably hosted on a simple webserver with a moderately sized file, whose download is timed, because this makes sense, it's how everyone does it. With that being said, why and how would they see the TCP headers from that layer? Fourth, in order to code a working speed test, you couldn't use packets small enough for a TCP header to matter it to matter, and I've never seen a speed test that tried. A standard TCP header is 120bits (15 Bytes) IIRC. Let's figure out how small it would have to be: (x*13)-(x*8)=15, solve for X and find that the packet would have to be 3, do the same for 14 and you'll find that it's between 2.5Bytes and 3Bytes of data in order for the difference to be the size of the TCP header. What kind of a speed tests measures accurately to anywhere near modern DSL line abilities (let's say 100,000Bytes/sec to 400,000Bytes/sec) with just 2.5Bytes? Even for just 100K/sec DSL that's a 400,000th of one second of bandwidth. That's like checking someone's hearbeat by touching their wrist for.00015 seconds! Parent posts with this theory are merely flamebait and should be ignored. Jamon
True, but up till this point television broadcasters haven't cared. What do they care if they intefere with others broadcasters they're likely other companies. So long as the FCC doesn't tell them to cut it really doesn't have any negative impact. If they stuck to the original wording, which I'm not sure if they have or not, then there are going to be lots of problems. It seems by the first articles I read about this that the WiFi better not be interfering with the Television broadcasts but they didn't seem to concerned about the inverse. Does this mean that the Teleivision broadcasters will intentionally overdrive so they broadcast spread-spectrum and tromp all over the WiFi? It's not practical for the WiFi to use the kind of wattage that the Telivision broadcasters are able to do, at least not on the consumer (upload) side. If the FCC doesn't stick to this it could easily get washed away by the Television broadcasters and made useless.
Let's just hope they keep this on their radar and don't let it fall under their watch. -J
1.) Big Endian viewed from my side, little Endian viewed from in front of me.
2.) Forward bit order from my side, reverse from in front of me.
3.) 9 bit (0-511) signed or 10 bit(0-1023) unsigned, depending on the application. I'm working on a new development that involves the use of the tongue as well. Tongue placed in the middle means Unsigned, Tongue placed in left Cheek means Signed, Negative, and in Right cheek means Signed Positive. Perhaps I can utilize the 3rd value of this bit more productively in the future.
4.) While my fingers only support integers, the "tongue in cheek" also allows limited use as floating point by denoting the number of bits that are on the left side of the decimal point. unfortunately this needs to be given more thought to devise a more user friendly method.
that's nothing, I uuencode and pgp encrypt my messages by hand... I can also count to from 0 to 1023 on my hands... If only I could train myself to bend my toes individually i could count to 1048576!
Why can't we just have story moderation? Editors would simply approve/disprove stories for voting, obvious crap would get dumped, anything mildly interesting would get posted to the moderation page. logged in users would then have the opportunity to look through all the stories submitted (minus the total crap) if they wanted. People who only want to see the best would simply choose to only view the top X% of stories of the last X# of hours. It's not really that different than moderation and it'd be easy to implement. I'd imagine some editors might not like it because it would reduce their ego, but it would make for a much better slashdot.
From the Press Release: "DOOM 3 is the most anticipated PC game of the year and fans around the world are eagerly awaiting its release,"
I think they mean decade, not year.
Okay, to take my theory that we got trolled a little bit further for those who didn't bother to at least stop and think about it.
There are a couple of a problems with this kind of story:
1.) It's very sensational and funny. Something you woudln't expect to happen but 'did'.
2.) It's only being carried by ONE news site. Something this humorous and blunderous that has such far reaching claims of incompotency in our intelligence departments should have made bigger news. Why didn't it? The other news agencies did not or could not collaborate it. Either it's true and was successfully burried or it never happened.
3.) There are little to no details about why/how this made it to the top of the "terror threat matrix." One anonymous tip? Come on, as much as it's funny to think that our intelligence departments are stupid, do you really believe they're THAT stupid?
4.) Why did finding the name in a game have any bearing on whether this person was a threat? The FBI didn't drop their case against Cap'n Crunch when they found out he was just a cereal advertising cartoon character, did they?
I'd expect to be reading this in an e-mail titled "Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Re: Game character plots terror attack against USA." Not on slashdot. We should be the experts on trolling, not the ones to feed it.
Jamon.
Btw, Someone needs to remind these moderators that moderation is not for making your opinion heard or making the oponents opinion heard, it's to promote easily reading discussion on the topic without having to sift through trolls, flaimbait, and offtopic posts. And I urge anyone who meta-moderates to help us clear out people who abuse the moderation system as a way to filter their opinions upon everyone else.
When I just googled, I saw nothing of the like... only 3 results, the usnews article was the top then some french article I didn't bother to read. Anyone know of this character or even the game? I'm not really a Sega person... speaking of which... Sega? When was the last time you saw a Sega? And this happened last April.... hmm... something fishy.
When I just googled, I saw nothing of the like... only 3 results, the usnews article was the top then some french article I didn't bother to read. Anyone know of this character or even the game? I'm not really a Sega person... speaking of which... Sega? When was the last time you saw a Sega? And htis happened last April.... hmm... something fishy.
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You're a clueless fuck who didn't bother reading the thread. I'll entertain you with an answer nonetheless. If we switch to firefox from IE, we might lose NTLM authentication. We've decided that we're willing to take that loss in exchange for not having the inherent vulnerabilities in IE that assist the proliferation of malware, "lol" elsewhere you clueless moron.
Are you fucking kidding me? Pick any web developer and ask them whether they have more problems making websites work with IE or making them work with Mozilla. They'll ALL tell you that IE is a pain in the ass and doesn't comply to standards. I, personally have given up on making my own webpages work with IE, it's not worth the effort...
Yes we do, actually. But we've decided it's better that we have people login than to have spyware and viruses on every desktop.
It's pretty much decided that our 150+ employee company will be running mozilla firefox. Now, I understand that our little 150 employee company doesn't mean all that much in the big scheme of things, but if we're doing it, there has to be lots more that are also considering and/or doing it.
How could "UK counters" count it in any way that would get 6? 6 would always result in two fingers being up... either ring finger and middle finger or index and middle...
Netgear has posted a whopping 1300 firmware design jobs on monster.com!
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And you're a complete moron who didn't bother to read my post.
I did not at any point contest that TCP is lossy, it's a hack of a stateful protocol with guaranteed delivery on top of a lossy unstateful protocol. There is considerable overhead to guaranteeing the packets as well as to making the connection stateful and carrying other features.
You obviously didn't even read enough to see that I Agreed with your last statement. I said none of this bullshit that you have pinned on me. I was profusely argueing against it. My point was that this speed test IS NOT TRYING TO ESTIMATE LOSSINESS IN THE PROTOCOL... ITS JUST A FUCKED UP CONVERSION OF BITS TO BYTES. Re-read my post with your brain turned on this time. Also, I suggest you RTF story.
Oh yeah, and paraphrasing the TCP RFC doesn't impress anyone.
They have no idea what they are talking about. Bytes/sec and Bits/sec do not have any special meaning beyond the number of bits or bytes that can be passed in a given second. .00015 seconds!
First, it's totally and completely moronic to strip the TCP Header off for one measurement but not for the other, it's not some sort of standard practice.
Second, the story says that instead of Bytes = 8*Bits, it was mroe like Bytes=13 or 14*Bits. That means that by their logic the BYTES were getting stuck as it was taking more bits to make a single byte, not the BITS.
Third, the speed test is probably hosted on a simple webserver with a moderately sized file, whose download is timed, because this makes sense, it's how everyone does it. With that being said, why and how would they see the TCP headers from that layer?
Fourth, in order to code a working speed test, you couldn't use packets small enough for a TCP header to matter it to matter, and I've never seen a speed test that tried. A standard TCP header is 120bits (15 Bytes) IIRC. Let's figure out how small it would have to be: (x*13)-(x*8)=15, solve for X and find that the packet would have to be 3, do the same for 14 and you'll find that it's between 2.5Bytes and 3Bytes of data in order for the difference to be the size of the TCP header. What kind of a speed tests measures accurately to anywhere near modern DSL line abilities (let's say 100,000Bytes/sec to 400,000Bytes/sec) with just 2.5Bytes? Even for just 100K/sec DSL that's a 400,000th of one second of bandwidth. That's like checking someone's hearbeat by touching their wrist for
Parent posts with this theory are merely flamebait and should be ignored.
Jamon
It's still alive and well at goat.cx
that ACs will have to flag their goatse and tubgirl posts on slashdot?
True, but up till this point television broadcasters haven't cared. What do they care if they intefere with others broadcasters they're likely other companies. So long as the FCC doesn't tell them to cut it really doesn't have any negative impact. If they stuck to the original wording, which I'm not sure if they have or not, then there are going to be lots of problems. It seems by the first articles I read about this that the WiFi better not be interfering with the Television broadcasts but they didn't seem to concerned about the inverse. Does this mean that the Teleivision broadcasters will intentionally overdrive so they broadcast spread-spectrum and tromp all over the WiFi? It's not practical for the WiFi to use the kind of wattage that the Telivision broadcasters are able to do, at least not on the consumer (upload) side. If the FCC doesn't stick to this it could easily get washed away by the Television broadcasters and made useless.
Let's just hope they keep this on their radar and don't let it fall under their watch.
-J
1.) Big Endian viewed from my side, little Endian viewed from in front of me.
2.) Forward bit order from my side, reverse from in front of me.
3.) 9 bit (0-511) signed or 10 bit(0-1023) unsigned, depending on the application. I'm working on a new development that involves the use of the tongue as well. Tongue placed in the middle means Unsigned, Tongue placed in left Cheek means Signed, Negative, and in Right cheek means Signed Positive. Perhaps I can utilize the 3rd value of this bit more productively in the future.
4.) While my fingers only support integers, the "tongue in cheek" also allows limited use as floating point by denoting the number of bits that are on the left side of the decimal point. unfortunately this needs to be given more thought to devise a more user friendly method.
that's nothing, I uuencode and pgp encrypt my messages by hand... I can also count to from 0 to 1023 on my hands... If only I could train myself to bend my toes individually i could count to 1048576!
listen to this guy he knows what he's talking aboot
It means the FCC says you don't need a license to transmit and receive at the frequency, although there are other restrictions (power, etc).
2.4ghz my nuts!
I've consulted the company and they have assured me that you will indeed be able to have 2.4ghz on your nuts with this chip.
-Jamon
Why can't we just have story moderation? Editors would simply approve/disprove stories for voting, obvious crap would get dumped, anything mildly interesting would get posted to the moderation page. logged in users would then have the opportunity to look through all the stories submitted (minus the total crap) if they wanted. People who only want to see the best would simply choose to only view the top X% of stories of the last X# of hours. It's not really that different than moderation and it'd be easy to implement.
I'd imagine some editors might not like it because it would reduce their ego, but it would make for a much better slashdot.
oh come on, it's a small price to pay! :P
Buy a motorcycle and stop lugging around 2000 pounds of extra metal you don't need :-P
From the Press Release:
"DOOM 3 is the most anticipated PC game of the year and fans around the world are eagerly awaiting its release,"
I think they mean decade, not year.
You're 1 month 10 days late with this post. (think about it, you'll get it.)
Okay, to take my theory that we got trolled a little bit further for those who didn't bother to at least stop and think about it.
There are a couple of a problems with this kind of story:
1.) It's very sensational and funny. Something you woudln't expect to happen but 'did'.
2.) It's only being carried by ONE news site. Something this humorous and blunderous that has such far reaching claims of incompotency in our intelligence departments should have made bigger news. Why didn't it? The other news agencies did not or could not collaborate it. Either it's true and was successfully burried or it never happened.
3.) There are little to no details about why/how this made it to the top of the "terror threat matrix." One anonymous tip? Come on, as much as it's funny to think that our intelligence departments are stupid, do you really believe they're THAT stupid?
4.) Why did finding the name in a game have any bearing on whether this person was a threat? The FBI didn't drop their case against Cap'n Crunch when they found out he was just a cereal advertising cartoon character, did they?
I'd expect to be reading this in an e-mail titled "Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Re: Game character plots terror attack against USA." Not on slashdot. We should be the experts on trolling, not the ones to feed it.
Jamon.
Btw, Someone needs to remind these moderators that moderation is not for making your opinion heard or making the oponents opinion heard, it's to promote easily reading discussion on the topic without having to sift through trolls, flaimbait, and offtopic posts. And I urge anyone who meta-moderates to help us clear out people who abuse the moderation system as a way to filter their opinions upon everyone else.
When I just googled, I saw nothing of the like... only 3 results, the usnews article was the top then some french article I didn't bother to read.
Anyone know of this character or even the game? I'm not really a Sega person... speaking of which... Sega? When was the last time you saw a Sega? And this happened last April.... hmm... something fishy.
When I just googled, I saw nothing of the like... only 3 results, the usnews article was the top then some french article I didn't bother to read. Anyone know of this character or even the game? I'm not really a Sega person... speaking of which... Sega? When was the last time you saw a Sega? And htis happened last April.... hmm... something fishy.