-... uses "modularized" headers where only the necessary fields are used. This essentially makes IPv6 more optimized than IPv4. For example, if the payload of a packet is larger than 64KB, IPv6 will attach another field for "jumbo payloads" and set the 16-bit value to 0.
Now, the first thing I thought of when I read that was: "What happens when someone finds out a that a major vendor can't handle it when the 16-bit length is 0 but there is no "jumbo payload" in the packet?"
Okay, perhaps not the best example, but are they looking to try to avoid (as much as possible) spots in the protocol that might in the future be exploited? 'Cause I'm sure lots of people here know better than I many ways to abuse IPv4...
Does Sony really have an interest in killing off half the business for another division that makes 8 times as much money? Does AOLTW want to back the RIAA and push their subscribers away (which they will do if you can't download music on AOL)?
No, but until or unless the companies involved (RIAA members/AOL) feel it in their pocketbook, and feel it so acutely that NO ONE can dispute where it's coming from, they won't realize that.
And if they play their cards right, they never will.
Bottom line is that when they come busting into the dorm room, it doesn't matter who lives there, and it doesn't matter whose computers are inside. _All_ of the computers will be searched (or perhaps seized).
I agree with you, but I'd go father than that: Not "perhaps" siezed, but most certainly seized, and kept, without compensation, even after the trial is over (whichever way the trail falls out) as "evidence".
Amendments IV and V, you say? I agree, but tell -them- that...
Most of us are unknown pieces of dust
but still... Most of us have a perfect awareness of it and still don't care
I agree. This whole thing strikes me as rather idiotic. Why does anyone so badly want everyone
in the world to know every little thing they
did every day?
I have a sort of blog-like website. It's very simple, hand written HTML. I write in it anything I want to remember, usually dream fragments, bits of short stories, that sort of thing. I think maybe 6 people in the whole world know it's URL, all of them people I knew would be interested in the contents, due to knowing them before suggesting they look.
And guess what? I like it that way. It's okay
not to be the center of attention of the
entire world, really, and it's okay to be
obscure. In my obscurity, I know I have two
things:
No temptation to post everyday happenings just to fill out space, instead I can focus on what I feel like I really want recorded.
The few people whose opinions I really value can see and comment to me on it.
They're just offering the routines as proof that they DIDN'T use GPL'd source. They're not claiming both ways here,
they're saying 'No, we didn't, and this is proof.'
I'm sure the mailing floppies bit it to avoid
having every person on Slashdot try to download
a copy and cost them more in bandwidth in a day
than they could pay for in a year.
Some states have what are called "Use Taxes", where if you purchase something from an out-of-state retailer, you must caculate, report, and pay the sales tax you would have paid at a local retailer on your income tax return.
"Must" being in the legal sense of the word, realistically I have no idea how many people actually comply.
Well, in addition to crappy editing, I expected him to come through and mod down every one of these comments, but he doesn't seem to have done that yet.
If she was unable to take five minutes to urinate during work, that would indicate the the hospital needs more nurses, I would think.
ESPECIALLY in a job where people's lives are on your hands, do you really need the added stress of insufficient breaks (or of "God I really fucking need to piss!")?
Why do you give a fuck how many machines are connected? If bandwidth is a problem, cap the
customers, and leave it at that. It doesn't
matter if they use one machine or one hundred
to go over the cap.
I can also understand having both ways maxed out during bursts of time for something like gaming,
I don't know what games YOU'RE playing, but
the kinds of online games I play (FPSes)
don't use more than about 5 or 6 kilobytes per
second in either direction. Certainly it doesn't
max out my 1500dn/256up cable.
I think it's high time that we all realize that the constitution is a piece of paper, and that it can't protect anyone from anything.
Indeed.
The protection of our rights can ONLY come from our willingness to demand, and if necessary, fight for those rights.
Except of course if you do, you're a 'terrorist'. You don't have to wait for the government to label you one, people are
all to eager to do it for them.
This shit is begining to seriously scare me.
Currently it's more talk than action, thank god, but will it take degredation past the point that words are useless before the masses wake up?
I guess if I don't wear a seatbelt in may car and get injured in an accident...I should blame Ford?
Well, to stretch the analogy, if you DO wear your seatbelt and a crash happens and the seatbelt rips loose from it's anchors and you go through the windshield, then you might want to blame Ford for that part of it.
That is to say: It there's a bug that allows installing applets without even a "by-your-leave" (I avoid using IE, so I wouldn't know),
then that is something I would blame Microsoft for.
Of course, there is always blame for the people that write code that exploits such a bug. So there's plenty to go around.
What about the fake adds?
on
Advergames
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It would be too bad if this became a trend
(although I'm sure it will) because of the
fake adds that game makers now put into games.
Take GTA3, for example, and all the "god that's a crude joke but I can't stop laughing!" fake advertising on the radio loops and on buildings and such...
I've always found fake advertisements much more
amusing than real ones, though maybe that's just me? Perhaps people really would rather have had the walls in early parts of Half-Life decorated with McDonalds and Disney adds rather than the interesting BMRF propaganda.
This has been up, what, 15 minutes, and already all I can see is posts bashing his use of feminine pronouns. No comments on the text itself? It's got some good points that would apply to working on any kind of project, not just programming.
I especially like:
There is a lot of room for miscommunication
about estimates, as people have a startling tendency to think wishfully that the
sentence:
"I estimate it might be possible if I really understand that problem that it is about 50% likely to be completed in 5 weeks if no one
bothers us in that time."
That caused the database to overflow and crash all LAN consoles and miniature remote terminal units, the memo said.
It appears to me that right there it specifies
that more than just the databse software was FUBAR. Sounds fishy to me, I don't believe it, especially not with the phrasing they're using, but there it is...
Slashdot Mirror
Now, the first thing I thought of when I read that was: "What happens when someone finds out a that a major vendor can't handle it when the 16-bit length is 0 but there is no "jumbo payload" in the packet?"
Okay, perhaps not the best example, but are they looking to try to avoid (as much as possible) spots in the protocol that might in the future be exploited? 'Cause I'm sure lots of people here know better than I many ways to abuse IPv4...
Hmm. I think you may be right. It will be interesting to see what they eventually choose to do, even if they choose to keep doing nothing.
No, but until or unless the companies involved (RIAA members/AOL) feel it in their pocketbook, and feel it so acutely that NO ONE can dispute where it's coming from, they won't realize that. And if they play their cards right, they never will.
I agree with you, but I'd go father than that: Not "perhaps" siezed, but most certainly seized, and kept, without compensation, even after the trial is over (whichever way the trail falls out) as "evidence".
Amendments IV and V, you say? I agree, but tell -them- that...
I agree. This whole thing strikes me as rather idiotic. Why does anyone so badly want everyone in the world to know every little thing they did every day?
I have a sort of blog-like website. It's very simple, hand written HTML. I write in it anything I want to remember, usually dream fragments, bits of short stories, that sort of thing. I think maybe 6 people in the whole world know it's URL, all of them people I knew would be interested in the contents, due to knowing them before suggesting they look.
And guess what? I like it that way. It's okay not to be the center of attention of the entire world, really, and it's okay to be obscure. In my obscurity, I know I have two things:
I'm sure the mailing floppies bit it to avoid having every person on Slashdot try to download a copy and cost them more in bandwidth in a day than they could pay for in a year.
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"Must" being in the legal sense of the word, realistically I have no idea how many people actually comply.
I've never bought the space elevator idea. Objects in orbit haven't been NAILED UP THERE, after all. What do they expect to hold up the cable?
Well, in addition to crappy editing, I expected him to come through and mod down every one of these comments, but he doesn't seem to have done that yet.
ESPECIALLY in a job where people's lives are on your hands, do you really need the added stress of insufficient breaks (or of "God I really fucking need to piss!")?
Sounds like a recipie for mistakes and disaster.
I don't know what games YOU'RE playing, but the kinds of online games I play (FPSes) don't use more than about 5 or 6 kilobytes per second in either direction. Certainly it doesn't max out my 1500dn/256up cable.
Latency is really more important than raw kbps.
Indeed.
The protection of our rights can ONLY come from our willingness to demand, and if necessary, fight for those rights.
Except of course if you do, you're a 'terrorist'. You don't have to wait for the government to label you one, people are all to eager to do it for them.
This shit is begining to seriously scare me. Currently it's more talk than action, thank god, but will it take degredation past the point that words are useless before the masses wake up?
Allistar, if you are one of the people posting these AC Somethingawful-ims, I will have to hurt you. :)
Well, to stretch the analogy, if you DO wear your seatbelt and a crash happens and the seatbelt rips loose from it's anchors and you go through the windshield, then you might want to blame Ford for that part of it.
That is to say: It there's a bug that allows installing applets without even a "by-your-leave" (I avoid using IE, so I wouldn't know), then that is something I would blame Microsoft for.
Of course, there is always blame for the people that write code that exploits such a bug. So there's plenty to go around.
I've always found fake advertisements much more amusing than real ones, though maybe that's just me? Perhaps people really would rather have had the walls in early parts of Half-Life decorated with McDonalds and Disney adds rather than the interesting BMRF propaganda.
Nah, that's just tradition. You remember John Romero's head on a stick?
Well at least I can put you on my friends list.
I especially like:
There is a lot of room for miscommunication about estimates, as people have a startling tendency to think wishfully that the sentence:
"I estimate it might be possible if I really understand that problem that it is about 50% likely to be completed in 5 weeks if no one bothers us in that time."
really means:
"I promise to have it all done 5 weeks from now."
Heh heh heh...
Mere typo, or Freudian slip?
This looks like it should be titled "How to be a Developer", as much of it is oriented towards programming for a project or coporation...
Perhaps. Certainly we haven't been in a real war for so long that we've forgotten that war sucks.
It appears to me that right there it specifies that more than just the databse software was FUBAR. Sounds fishy to me, I don't believe it, especially not with the phrasing they're using, but there it is...
The hell you can't break anything with a GUI. You are never touching MY computer, that's for damn sure.
Just because the gun has pretty colors doesn't mean you can't shoot yourself in the foot with it.