Because they've gotten hammered in Nanog over hosting Intercage/Attrivo. And you can say all you want about the Congress-critters and their "regulation" about net neutrality, but unless they want to make their own US-only internet, they're going to have to play by the rules of the big dogs (those who own ASes, many of which aren't in the US). And the big dogs on Nanog aren't happy about it, and last month some threatened BGP-blackholing (therefore completely making them disappear) for their particular ASes.
When you run your own AS, you ARE Shiva the Destroyer, as far as the "Internet" is concerned. You can make other places just *poof* disappear.
Really, this is just the modern equivalent of the UDP - nobody will enter into this lightly but it is effective.
Read Nanog - despite the fact that there are some serious asshats on that list, it's like a pulse of the Net. Stuff like the Sitefinder announcement and this were posted there first.
Or better analogy, time runs like a movie, but instead of 24 frames per second of an actual movie, real time runs about 18550000000000000000000000000000000000000000 frames per second (1/Planck Time).
And same goes for space. A HD movie on a nice TV might have 2000 pixels per meter. The space has something like 62500000000000000000000000000000000 "pixels" per meter (1/Planck Length). And you thought the Blu-ray/HD-DVD fight was bad. You're gonna need a HUGE-ass TV for this End of the Universe thing... and one hell of a capture card.
What, would you prefer Fiorina and Papa O'Reilly reproduced and had little vampire pundits? Just think about Fiorina reproducing with ANYONE at Fox, and you might just want to scream.
Uh, I don't really think you want a collaboration between the DoE and the NSA. I think you might have meant NSF, right? What would the NSA do with all those ASCI flops?
Haha - perhaps you'd like to know that a combined sewer outfall lies smack in the middle of the Indiana Dunes lakeshore. No joke, it's about a 4' pipe and there's a big honking sign "High levels of bacteria - Do not allow children to play in stream" and then the brown stream proceeds to wander down to the shore in a flow about 30' wide. You can still identify the small beach-hugging browness about 1/4 mile down from the "delta".
Oh wait, you said you wanted to go down to the beautiful beach. Go ahead and swim in the coliform bacteria flow; I'm sure it'll boost your immune system.
Amen! If you look at the breadth of play and the immersion and the replay value, Nethack has to rank up there in the list. I think Salon did a decent article on why Nethack has survived so long and has such a fanatical userbase; I chalk it up to the fact that I've had a version of Nethack installed since the first day I touched the game, so 15 years of basically constant Nethacking. I've played other games (Diablo, etc) but only Nethack can still make me forget to sleep. I always compare games like WoW and such to Nethack: sure, it's got fancy graphics and is immersive, but would I be able to play this game for 15 years and not get bored? The answer so far is no.
Christ, this is EXACTLY what's in 1984, where they have to go out to a field to talk. I'm going to stop calling Britain the UK and start calling it Airstrip One.
I actually want to try this. I'm interested in the OLPC project and I hope they release a laptop in the US for sale, because I'd buy one in an instant. It's cheap, lightweight, and I don't demand much from a computer, so the low performance isn't an issue with me.
Guess I was right this time. What will be neat a couple of years down the road now is the slow conversion of all traffic to encrypted streams, and I guess we'll see how the ISPs react to this. Maybe *gasp* actually not lie and sell guaranteed bandwidth?
Well, if it's as bad as Dubya keeps saying it is, yes. If we have to suspend the right of habeus corpus, it's an emergency and they better damn well drop whatever they're doing and fix it. Wait, what's that I hear? It's not an emergency? Tell me why we're involved with a couple of wars again?
"The court has no buisness substituting its own desired outcome for the reasoned judgement of the responsible agency."
That's your problem, right there. The states don't believe that the "responsible agency" is. And they sued. They sued to get the EPA to accept CO2 as a _potential_ pollutant, because it could conceivably cause material harm. If the EPA is not even _considering_ it, then they are not serving the US. Hell, they've made almost everything else that's bad for you illegal.
If Congress gives an agency a mandate, they must consider _everything_ within their scope; they can't pick and choose what they'll consider.
Note that this doesn't force the EPA to accept CO2 as a pollutant, just that they _must consider_ it instead of saying "we don't want to get involved in this debate". FFS, they're the EPA. They should be front and center in the debate.
They've dodged the CO2 debate so far; it will be interesting to watch this happen.
Umm, the whole playing music in the restaurant thing is not new. Bars and restaurants have had to pay those fees for over 50 years now. You just haven't noticed. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCAP.
Artists are generally not that good at promotion and marketing. They have to rely on others. This is where the problem lies.
As far as you're done buying music, I'm with you on that one. I'm always amazed at the fact that the CD has not dropped in price _at all_ in the 10-15 years that I've been looking at, and sometimes buying, music. Especially when it's for a classical piece played in the 60s. Seriously, guys, how much demand is there for that in order for you to keep the price at $15 for the last 10 years?
Question 2: do you think they really care, given how successful they are, about what a bunch of troglodytes on Slashdot think about them? A bunch of repressed, flourescent-tan male nerds? I wouldn't give a damn if I was them.
What we really need is a WTF bit on legislation. When you read it, you SHOULD attach a WTF bit to it. And legislators SHOULD reroute said legislation to/dev/null. "Gov. Huntsman, you MUST attach a WTF bit to your proposal before we consider this further."
One comment, strictly from an engineering perspective:
Smaller jets eat more fuel per mile per person than a big jet, mostly due to the frontal area/person ratio. Also, big jets are faster. So, you'd reduce one threat, but increase your oil consumption.
Other than that, I'm willing to take the risk of dying in a flight so I can BRUSH MY DAMN TEETH WHEN I TOUCH DOWN. Shit.
But what's horrible is that a malware doesn't have to be root to inflict a significant amount of damage. Think of it like this:
1) You get infected as your normal user. 2) It runs when you open a shell for the first time. 3) It proceeds to wipe your/home OR search for your credit card details OR mass mail itself to every email address it can fine in your/home
So, what have you gained running as a normal user? The ability to wipe that user out and start afresh without having to reinstall? What's the difference, really? Remember, all of your important settings are in your/home. Don't get me wrong, I run debian too. No winbloze fanboyism, but just because a script doesn't have root privliges doesn't mean it can't inflict major damage. The secret is not !Windows, it is not being a luser.
Also, doesn't routing on protocol violate common carrier standards? If they can determine a packet is HTTP, they're looking inside, which is illegal if you're not going to take responsibility for it. If you're routing by port, well, it's inconvenient, but not impossible to route your outgoing packets around that brain damage.
But, and here's the question I've been struggling with over the last few days, what happens when the connection is encrypted? HTTPS or SSH or SSL or TLS? What can you route on? Source and dest IP only, I would think. Maybe that will be the lowest on the pole - "if your connection is encrypted, it gets the lowest service, since we can't tell what is going over that connection." Seems that's a good way to keep Joe Sixpack from using encryption - "hey, my stuff is running slowly. Guess I won't use that encryption stuff." Not that he uses it anyway. Maybe that's the next step in the bill - "in order to enforce this bill, we must require that all communications be unencrypted." Kind of a scary thought, no?
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I realize that we aren't going to be trying to make a cloned copy from this data, but what uses is this "good enough" for?
It's good enough to make Ivory: a pure 99.44%.
Because they've gotten hammered in Nanog over hosting Intercage/Attrivo. And you can say all you want about the Congress-critters and their "regulation" about net neutrality, but unless they want to make their own US-only internet, they're going to have to play by the rules of the big dogs (those who own ASes, many of which aren't in the US). And the big dogs on Nanog aren't happy about it, and last month some threatened BGP-blackholing (therefore completely making them disappear) for their particular ASes.
When you run your own AS, you ARE Shiva the Destroyer, as far as the "Internet" is concerned. You can make other places just *poof* disappear.
Really, this is just the modern equivalent of the UDP - nobody will enter into this lightly but it is effective.
Read Nanog - despite the fact that there are some serious asshats on that list, it's like a pulse of the Net. Stuff like the Sitefinder announcement and this were posted there first.
"Uneducated American populace"?
How the hell did you make _that_ jump? This "security" company is Swedish.
I love it when people reveal their ignorance and prejudice like this.
These are the IBM Common User Access commands. So, they were never "Windows commands" to begin with.
Funny how history works, huh?
18550000000000000000000000000000000000000000 frames per second (1/Planck Time).
And same goes for space. A HD movie on a nice TV might have 2000 pixels per meter. The space has something like 62500000000000000000000000000000000 "pixels" per meter (1/Planck Length). And you thought the Blu-ray/HD-DVD fight was bad. You're gonna need a HUGE-ass TV for this End of the Universe thing... and one hell of a capture card.
Gesture-based technology? I've got a gesture RIGHT HERE for Comcast...
What, would you prefer Fiorina and Papa O'Reilly reproduced and had little vampire pundits? Just think about Fiorina reproducing with ANYONE at Fox, and you might just want to scream.
*shudder*
Uh, I don't really think you want a collaboration between the DoE and the NSA. I think you might have meant NSF, right? What would the NSA do with all those ASCI flops?
Haha - perhaps you'd like to know that a combined sewer outfall lies smack in the middle of the Indiana Dunes lakeshore. No joke, it's about a 4' pipe and there's a big honking sign "High levels of bacteria - Do not allow children to play in stream" and then the brown stream proceeds to wander down to the shore in a flow about 30' wide. You can still identify the small beach-hugging browness about 1/4 mile down from the "delta".
Oh wait, you said you wanted to go down to the beautiful beach. Go ahead and swim in the coliform bacteria flow; I'm sure it'll boost your immune system.
Amen! If you look at the breadth of play and the immersion and the replay value, Nethack has to rank up there in the list. I think Salon did a decent article on why Nethack has survived so long and has such a fanatical userbase; I chalk it up to the fact that I've had a version of Nethack installed since the first day I touched the game, so 15 years of basically constant Nethacking. I've played other games (Diablo, etc) but only Nethack can still make me forget to sleep. I always compare games like WoW and such to Nethack: sure, it's got fancy graphics and is immersive, but would I be able to play this game for 15 years and not get bored? The answer so far is no.
Wow - I like your list of three; I second the "insightful" comment. Especially #3. That's scary accurate.
Christ, this is EXACTLY what's in 1984, where they have to go out to a field to talk. I'm going to stop calling Britain the UK and start calling it Airstrip One.
So your speech is free on MySpace. Who cares? Does anyone care what you say if you're on MySpace?
I actually want to try this. I'm interested in the OLPC project and I hope they release a laptop in the US for sale, because I'd buy one in an instant. It's cheap, lightweight, and I don't demand much from a computer, so the low performance isn't an issue with me.
What's weird is I predicted this EXACT thing about 6 months ago, here on Slashdot:
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=187990&cid=15
Guess I was right this time. What will be neat a couple of years down the road now is the slow conversion of all traffic to encrypted streams, and I guess we'll see how the ISPs react to this. Maybe *gasp* actually not lie and sell guaranteed bandwidth?
Well, if it's as bad as Dubya keeps saying it is, yes. If we have to suspend the right of habeus corpus, it's an emergency and they better damn well drop whatever they're doing and fix it. Wait, what's that I hear? It's not an emergency? Tell me why we're involved with a couple of wars again?
Here's a fatal flaw in Scalia's argument:
"The court has no buisness substituting its own desired outcome for the reasoned judgement of the responsible agency."
That's your problem, right there. The states don't believe that the "responsible agency" is. And they sued. They sued to get the EPA to accept CO2 as a _potential_ pollutant, because it could conceivably cause material harm. If the EPA is not even _considering_ it, then they are not serving the US. Hell, they've made almost everything else that's bad for you illegal.
If Congress gives an agency a mandate, they must consider _everything_ within their scope; they can't pick and choose what they'll consider.
Note that this doesn't force the EPA to accept CO2 as a pollutant, just that they _must consider_ it instead of saying "we don't want to get involved in this debate". FFS, they're the EPA. They should be front and center in the debate.
They've dodged the CO2 debate so far; it will be interesting to watch this happen.
Umm, the whole playing music in the restaurant thing is not new. Bars and restaurants have had to pay those fees for over 50 years now. You just haven't noticed. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCAP.
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For an excellent summary of the whole issue, see:
http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/webcasting.htm
Artists are generally not that good at promotion and marketing. They have to rely on others. This is where the problem lies.
As far as you're done buying music, I'm with you on that one. I'm always amazed at the fact that the CD has not dropped in price _at all_ in the 10-15 years that I've been looking at, and sometimes buying, music. Especially when it's for a classical piece played in the 60s. Seriously, guys, how much demand is there for that in order for you to keep the price at $15 for the last 10 years?
Question 2: do you think they really care, given how successful they are, about what a bunch of troglodytes on Slashdot think about them? A bunch of repressed, flourescent-tan male nerds? I wouldn't give a damn if I was them.
What we really need is a WTF bit on legislation. When you read it, you SHOULD attach a WTF bit to it. And legislators SHOULD reroute said legislation to /dev/null. "Gov. Huntsman, you MUST attach a WTF bit to your proposal before we consider this further."
One comment, strictly from an engineering perspective:
Smaller jets eat more fuel per mile per person than a big jet, mostly due to the frontal area/person ratio. Also, big jets are faster. So, you'd reduce one threat, but increase your oil consumption.
Other than that, I'm willing to take the risk of dying in a flight so I can BRUSH MY DAMN TEETH WHEN I TOUCH DOWN. Shit.
But what's horrible is that a malware doesn't have to be root to inflict a significant amount of damage. Think of it like this:
/home OR search for your credit card details OR mass mail itself to every email address it can fine in your /home
/home. Don't get me wrong, I run debian too. No winbloze fanboyism, but just because a script doesn't have root privliges doesn't mean it can't inflict major damage. The secret is not !Windows, it is not being a luser.
1) You get infected as your normal user.
2) It runs when you open a shell for the first time.
3) It proceeds to wipe your
So, what have you gained running as a normal user? The ability to wipe that user out and start afresh without having to reinstall? What's the difference, really? Remember, all of your important settings are in your
Also, doesn't routing on protocol violate common carrier standards? If they can determine a packet is HTTP, they're looking inside, which is illegal if you're not going to take responsibility for it. If you're routing by port, well, it's inconvenient, but not impossible to route your outgoing packets around that brain damage.
Nah, he'll just have on the blue screen of death. Take that!
But, and here's the question I've been struggling with over the last few days, what happens when the connection is encrypted? HTTPS or SSH or SSL or TLS? What can you route on? Source and dest IP only, I would think. Maybe that will be the lowest on the pole - "if your connection is encrypted, it gets the lowest service, since we can't tell what is going over that connection." Seems that's a good way to keep Joe Sixpack from using encryption - "hey, my stuff is running slowly. Guess I won't use that encryption stuff." Not that he uses it anyway. Maybe that's the next step in the bill - "in order to enforce this bill, we must require that all communications be unencrypted." Kind of a scary thought, no?