I hope this gets update to comply with RFC 5785.
There are far too many people inventing "special" URLs at the root level of sites, which are likely to clash with pages that already exist. RFC 5785 says that such URLs should be like http://example.org/.well-known/security.txt instead of http://example.org/security.txt . That way, they won't clash with existing pages. RFC 5785 also defines a registry for these URLs, to avoid the situation where two specs define different meanings for the same URL.
Because they're not going to be handling the iceberg in sterile conditions, and even if they did the iceberg isn't pure water to begin with. There will be dirty boots from the people moving around on the iceberg, seagull poop, germs because germs get everywhere, seawater and whatever germs and muck are in the seawater, the odd dead fish that got frozen in the iceburg when it formed, etc.
If a bit of muck gets in with the ice, that's fine, the water treatment plant will filter it out.
If you look at it on Google Earth, you'll see that it's fairly spread out. There are a large number of separate warehouses (around 100?), and each warehouse has large earthen banks around it, then a large amount of empty space. That's intended to contain fire & explosions, so if something goes wrong you might lose a single warehouse but they don't spread to other parts of the complex. That's clearly not working very well. But those earthen banks and empty spaces take up a large amount of space, probably over 90% of the site.
So it's fairly spread out, even though it was at a single site.
People tend to object if you build an ammo bunker next to their house, so it's always going to be awkward to get more sites. You also need to secure ammo bunkers very well, so having less sites lets you have better security for the same money, or spend less to get the same level of security. Making a base 4 times bigger only doubles the perimeter fencing needed, probably doesn't change the number of guarded gates you need, and the number of guards needed only goes up a little bit since the guards are mostly there to man the gate and to react to an intruder. So having a small number of large sites does make sense.
That way she has a token that she can easily carry with her (or hide in her room) that will identify her. Bonus points for using a USB key that is brightly coloured or is otherwise aesthetically child-friendly.
Alternatively, consider fingerprints - this may actually have quite poor security, but in this case it's probably good enough. And the privacy issues don't apply in this case (she _wants_ the security and her fingerprint will only be stored on her own PC). The other known problem is that some people don't have usable prints, but this is something you can check.
or perhaps lead to the future ability to synthesise helium
Pretty much impossible (unless we get nuclear fusion working). Helium's not just some compound we can synthesize like oil or natural gas, it's an element like gold. And last I checked the alchemists didn't have much success at creating gold.
I use a Scythe Kama Connect 2 USB gadget. It plugs straight into SATA, normal IDE, and laptop IDE drives. You connect the other side to your PC with USB2, and plug it into the mains. It's the easiest way I've found to read old disks - no need to open your case, no need to worry about mounting the drive. (The drive & adapter just sit on your desk).
And on re-reading what I just wrote it sounds like an advert. So I ought to clarify that I don't work for Scythe, QuietPC, or any of the other companies involved. I'm just a happy owner of one of these (and we've got a couple at work, so it's not just me that thinks they're good).
If you go to a UK law firm and say, 'look, I messed up, it was an honest mistake, I won't do it again, I'll happily pay your reasonable costs for sending that letter', you'll probably end up with a bill for under US$100. If they refuse and take the matter to court, then the judge will certainly look positively at that sort of approach.
I'm not a lawyer, but I'd hope that the judge wouldn't award costs against you if the final bill is the same as the amount you offered to settle. If your offer is totally unreasonable, you might end up paying the opposition's legal bills.
The first $990m of funds (less up to $110m administration fees) is given out to anyone who asks. Only the next $510m is limited to people who don't get satellite or cable, and I don't think they've figured out how that's going to work yet. One step at a time - figuring out the infrastructure to give the vouchers away is complex enough, they can add more verification later.
(I guess they could link into the cable & satellite provider's systems to get a blacklist of subscriber addresses. That would probably be good enough to stop serious abuses).
Grandparent was making a joke about the technology research tree in the game "Civilization" (or one of the games from that family). In the game, when you've researched Mining you can go on to research Masonry and Bronze Working.
Of course if you haven't played the game then you won't get the joke.
Your product is only covered by the patent if it fits all the claims of the patent.
Nonsense.
The claims are alternatives; if you infringe any claim then you infringe the patent.
Typically there are a few broad "independent" claims (including claim 1), and a bunch of other claims that add extra bits. For example, claim 1 might say "a widget that does A", and claim 2 might say "a widget according to claim 1 that also does B". This means that there are nice broad claims (claim 1), but if the broad claims are invalidated by prior art then you can maybe keep a few of the more specific claims (claim 2 - maybe there's prior art for widgets that do A but not for widgets that do A and B).
Undefined symbols errno, LPSZ, EBADF, and O_WRONLY. Please include some header files.
Also the wrong type for argv: LPSZ *lpszArgv[] - Wrong LPSZ lpszArgv[] - OK LPSZ *lpszArgv - OK char **lpszArgv - Better (Why use Windows typedefs for no reason?)
I think someone forgot the conversion number to put inside the parenthesis as yards does not equal meters at a factor of 1:1... Should've been, 580 metres (638 yards). Also, 500 is not correct as according to the JPL, the diameter is 580 meters.
From the JPL page you linked to:
the diameter estimate should be considered only approximate, but in most cases will be accurate to within a factor of two. [emphasis added]
When you're talking about errors that great, whether it's "around 500 feet" or "around 500 meters" or "around 580 meters" doesn't really matter. In fact, saying "638 feet" implies a lot more accuracy than you really have. See "False precision" on wikipedia
> I strongly doubt there is a KVM in existence that doesn't noticeably degrade video quality. [...] > purchasing an extra LCD monitor is almost always the better choice.
But then you have two keyboards, and hence need twice as much desk space.
I care about video quality, so I wouldn't dream of using a VGA cable for my LCD monitor. (Digital->Analog->Digital conversion? Insane!). DVI-D is the only sensible way to connect an LCD.
I have a 4-port DVI-D KVM switch (with PS/2 keyboard & mouse ports) and it works very nicely. As the signal is digital there shouldn't be any quality difference (certainly there's noting noticable).
Uc - Universal, especially suitable for children U - Universal PG - Parental Guidance, some scenes unsuitable for children 12 - For ages 12 and up only. 12A - Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. (Used for 12-rated movies when they're at the cinema) 15 - For ages 15 and up only. 18 - For ages 18 and up only. R18 - For ages 18 and up only, only available in licensed sex shops.
So I guess your "M" is our "15" or "18", and your "AO" is our "R18".
I'm also in the UK, but I've been following this a bit, so let me explain:
Some Americans are stupid(*). Some stupid Americans will dial 911 on their cellphone, and when asked where they are will respond "right here". This doesn't help the 911 dispatchers send the emergency crews to the right place - they have to explain to the guy at the other end that no, they don't magically know where they are, and please can you give me your address. This can delay sending the emergency crews by a few vital minutes. (From a landline saying "right here" does work, as the 911 operator will have the address onscreen.)
So the US has introduced Enhanced 911 (E911), which basically says that cellphone providers must be able to track their users location when they make a 911 call. This is usually done either by a GPS reciever in the handset or by fairly accurate positioning based on the cellphone signals (i.e. accuracy of a few meters, not just "this cell that covers a whole town").
Now they are noticing that VOIP has similar problems to cellphones, so they are trying to figure out how to make E911 work with VOIP - i.e. how to figure out where someone is when they call 911 on a VOIP phone.
The additional catch is that VOIP is less reliable than traditional telephony, so 911 calls may be lost. People should know this so they can make an informed decision.
IMHO someone calling 999 (our version of 911) on a cellphone and giving their location as "here" deserves a Darwin Award (awarded posthumously for people so stupid that they improve the gene pool by dying). It's not worth everyone spending extra on cellphones just to fix this. It is probably worth associating a "main" address with a VOIP phone, though.
(* Some Americans are really smart, too. I am not a troll).
The links aren't accessible at all via the keyboard in FireFox (not even the first link!).
So you can tell this is a lone coder who has never heard of accessibility for disabled people using websites. In the UK there is a new Disability Discrimination Act, and I guess the US probably has something similar.
(Not disabled myself, but I have been known to use the keyboard occasionally - mainly when I've just installed a PC, to try & figure out why the mouse doesn't work...).
Same here. dilbert.com wants to display banner ads? Fine. dilbert.com starts showing pop-ups? That was the point I started using Privoxy (that was pre-Mozilla, using IE). So showing pop-ups caused me to see far *less* adverts on their site - very counterproductive.
Firefox (with AniDisable, FlashBlock, and the built-in popup blocker) is good enough that I don't need Privoxy any more.
Now, dilbert.com is starting to display full-page ads between pages, and framed ads floating over the top of the content. I'm currently blocking the Javascript that displays these using a HOSTS file, but I can see I'm going to need Privoxy again soon.
... and all sysadmins write YY-MM-DD, to get it sortable.
... and all sysadmins with clue write YYYY-MM-DD (or just YYYYMMDD if they can't be bothered to type more) so the sorting worked across Y2K and will work across Y2.1K.
I think the upshot is that anyone with half a brain is going to stay on XP, and the only way that Longhorn will proliferate is by being included by default on new machines.
Microsoft will threaten to stop producing security updates for XP, forcing everyone who wants to use this Interweb thingy without getting hacked to upgrade to Longhorn. Then at the last minute they'll extend the security support for XP and trumpet how responsive & kind to their users they're being.
They used this trick to get me to upgrade from 2000 to XP.
Hopefully WINE will have better games support by the time MS stop producing WinXP updates.
I'd rather be safe than sorry and take action as soon as possible, turn the taps on at about 5C; the hot and cold.
Thus ensuring that your nice insulated tank of hot water is emptied and you waste your last opportunity to have a hot bath (or even hot water for washing/defrosting hands).
> Subversion finally has a fully stable base if I'm not missing anything.
You're missing that APR 1.0.0 is not compatible with APR 0.9.x.
So Subversion cannot upgrade to APR 1.0.0 without breaking binary compatibility, which the Subversion people have guaranteed not to do before Subversion 2.0.0.
Also, Subversion depends on the Apache web server, so it must use the same version of APR as the Apache web server. AFAIK the web server is still using APR 0.9.x.
Yes, what Americans call "closed captions" is what British & Europeans call "subtitles". I believe "subtitles" means something different to Americans (foreign languages?).
in which case what Sky did is a violation of Federal law
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I hope this gets update to comply with RFC 5785. There are far too many people inventing "special" URLs at the root level of sites, which are likely to clash with pages that already exist. RFC 5785 says that such URLs should be like http ://example.org/.well-known/security.txt instead of http ://example.org/security.txt . That way, they won't clash with existing pages. RFC 5785 also defines a registry for these URLs, to avoid the situation where two specs define different meanings for the same URL.
Because they're not going to be handling the iceberg in sterile conditions, and even if they did the iceberg isn't pure water to begin with. There will be dirty boots from the people moving around on the iceberg, seagull poop, germs because germs get everywhere, seawater and whatever germs and muck are in the seawater, the odd dead fish that got frozen in the iceburg when it formed, etc. If a bit of muck gets in with the ice, that's fine, the water treatment plant will filter it out.
If you look at it on Google Earth, you'll see that it's fairly spread out. There are a large number of separate warehouses (around 100?), and each warehouse has large earthen banks around it, then a large amount of empty space. That's intended to contain fire & explosions, so if something goes wrong you might lose a single warehouse but they don't spread to other parts of the complex. That's clearly not working very well. But those earthen banks and empty spaces take up a large amount of space, probably over 90% of the site.
So it's fairly spread out, even though it was at a single site.
People tend to object if you build an ammo bunker next to their house, so it's always going to be awkward to get more sites. You also need to secure ammo bunkers very well, so having less sites lets you have better security for the same money, or spend less to get the same level of security. Making a base 4 times bigger only doubles the perimeter fencing needed, probably doesn't change the number of guarded gates you need, and the number of guards needed only goes up a little bit since the guards are mostly there to man the gate and to react to an intruder. So having a small number of large sites does make sense.
That way she has a token that she can easily carry with her (or hide in her room) that will identify her. Bonus points for using a USB key that is brightly coloured or is otherwise aesthetically child-friendly.
Alternatively, consider fingerprints - this may actually have quite poor security, but in this case it's probably good enough. And the privacy issues don't apply in this case (she _wants_ the security and her fingerprint will only be stored on her own PC). The other known problem is that some people don't have usable prints, but this is something you can check.
Pretty much impossible (unless we get nuclear fusion working). Helium's not just some compound we can synthesize like oil or natural gas, it's an element like gold. And last I checked the alchemists didn't have much success at creating gold.
I use a Scythe Kama Connect 2 USB gadget. It plugs straight into SATA, normal IDE, and laptop IDE drives. You connect the other side to your PC with USB2, and plug it into the mains. It's the easiest way I've found to read old disks - no need to open your case, no need to worry about mounting the drive. (The drive & adapter just sit on your desk).
And on re-reading what I just wrote it sounds like an advert. So I ought to clarify that I don't work for Scythe, QuietPC, or any of the other companies involved. I'm just a happy owner of one of these (and we've got a couple at work, so it's not just me that thinks they're good).
But it's a space suit - it's only going to be used by the 0.0000001% who aren't on earth...
I'm not a lawyer, but I'd hope that the judge wouldn't award costs against you if the final bill is the same as the amount you offered to settle. If your offer is totally unreasonable, you might end up paying the opposition's legal bills.
The first $990m of funds (less up to $110m administration fees) is given out to anyone who asks. Only the next $510m is limited to people who don't get satellite or cable, and I don't think they've figured out how that's going to work yet. One step at a time - figuring out the infrastructure to give the vouchers away is complex enough, they can add more verification later.
(I guess they could link into the cable & satellite provider's systems to get a blacklist of subscriber addresses. That would probably be good enough to stop serious abuses).
Grandparent was making a joke about the technology research tree in the game "Civilization" (or one of the games from that family). In the game, when you've researched Mining you can go on to research Masonry and Bronze Working.
Of course if you haven't played the game then you won't get the joke.
Nonsense.
The claims are alternatives; if you infringe any claim then you infringe the patent.
Typically there are a few broad "independent" claims (including claim 1), and a bunch of other claims that add extra bits. For example, claim 1 might say "a widget that does A", and claim 2 might say "a widget according to claim 1 that also does B". This means that there are nice broad claims (claim 1), but if the broad claims are invalidated by prior art then you can maybe keep a few of the more specific claims (claim 2 - maybe there's prior art for widgets that do A but not for widgets that do A and B).
Undefined symbols errno, LPSZ, EBADF, and O_WRONLY. Please include some header files.
Also the wrong type for argv:
LPSZ *lpszArgv[] - Wrong
LPSZ lpszArgv[] - OK
LPSZ *lpszArgv - OK
char **lpszArgv - Better (Why use Windows typedefs for no reason?)
From the JPL page you linked to:
the diameter estimate should be considered only approximate, but in most cases will be accurate to within a factor of two. [emphasis added]
When you're talking about errors that great, whether it's "around 500 feet" or "around 500 meters" or "around 580 meters" doesn't really matter. In fact, saying "638 feet" implies a lot more accuracy than you really have. See "False precision" on wikipedia
> I strongly doubt there is a KVM in existence that doesn't noticeably degrade video quality.
[...]
> purchasing an extra LCD monitor is almost always the better choice.
But then you have two keyboards, and hence need twice as much desk space.
I care about video quality, so I wouldn't dream of using a VGA cable for my LCD monitor. (Digital->Analog->Digital conversion? Insane!). DVI-D is the only sensible way to connect an LCD.
I have a 4-port DVI-D KVM switch (with PS/2 keyboard & mouse ports) and it works very nicely. As the signal is digital there shouldn't be any quality difference (certainly there's noting noticable).
The UK ratings (from the top of http://www.bbfc.co.uk/) are:
Uc - Universal, especially suitable for children
U - Universal
PG - Parental Guidance, some scenes unsuitable for children
12 - For ages 12 and up only.
12A - Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. (Used for 12-rated movies when they're at the cinema)
15 - For ages 15 and up only.
18 - For ages 18 and up only.
R18 - For ages 18 and up only, only available in licensed sex shops.
So I guess your "M" is our "15" or "18", and your "AO" is our "R18".
I'm also in the UK, but I've been following this a bit, so let me explain:
Some Americans are stupid(*). Some stupid Americans will dial 911 on their cellphone, and when asked where they are will respond "right here". This doesn't help the 911 dispatchers send the emergency crews to the right place - they have to explain to the guy at the other end that no, they don't magically know where they are, and please can you give me your address. This can delay sending the emergency crews by a few vital minutes. (From a landline saying "right here" does work, as the 911 operator will have the address onscreen.)
So the US has introduced Enhanced 911 (E911), which basically says that cellphone providers must be able to track their users location when they make a 911 call. This is usually done either by a GPS reciever in the handset or by fairly accurate positioning based on the cellphone signals (i.e. accuracy of a few meters, not just "this cell that covers a whole town").
Now they are noticing that VOIP has similar problems to cellphones, so they are trying to figure out how to make E911 work with VOIP - i.e. how to figure out where someone is when they call 911 on a VOIP phone.
The additional catch is that VOIP is less reliable than traditional telephony, so 911 calls may be lost. People should know this so they can make an informed decision.
IMHO someone calling 999 (our version of 911) on a cellphone and giving their location as "here" deserves a Darwin Award (awarded posthumously for people so stupid that they improve the gene pool by dying). It's not worth everyone spending extra on cellphones just to fix this. It is probably worth associating a "main" address with a VOIP phone, though.
(* Some Americans are really smart, too. I am not a troll).
The links aren't accessible at all via the keyboard in FireFox (not even the first link!).
So you can tell this is a lone coder who has never heard of accessibility for disabled people using websites. In the UK there is a new Disability Discrimination Act, and I guess the US probably has something similar.
(Not disabled myself, but I have been known to use the keyboard occasionally - mainly when I've just installed a PC, to try & figure out why the mouse doesn't work...).
Same here. dilbert.com wants to display banner ads? Fine. dilbert.com starts showing pop-ups? That was the point I started using Privoxy (that was pre-Mozilla, using IE). So showing pop-ups caused me to see far *less* adverts on their site - very counterproductive.
Firefox (with AniDisable, FlashBlock, and the built-in popup blocker) is good enough that I don't need Privoxy any more.
Now, dilbert.com is starting to display full-page ads between pages, and framed ads floating over the top of the content. I'm currently blocking the Javascript that displays these using a HOSTS file, but I can see I'm going to need Privoxy again soon.
Microsoft will threaten to stop producing security updates for XP, forcing everyone who wants to use this Interweb thingy without getting hacked to upgrade to Longhorn. Then at the last minute they'll extend the security support for XP and trumpet how responsive & kind to their users they're being.
They used this trick to get me to upgrade from 2000 to XP.
Hopefully WINE will have better games support by the time MS stop producing WinXP updates.
You can just ask Verisign for a certificate in the name of Microsoft, and they'll give you one. Much simpler.
It's happened in the past.
I'd rather be safe than sorry and take action as soon as possible, turn the taps on at about 5C; the hot and cold.
Thus ensuring that your nice insulated tank of hot water is emptied and you waste your last opportunity to have a hot bath (or even hot water for washing/defrosting hands).
> Subversion finally has a fully stable base if I'm not missing anything.
You're missing that APR 1.0.0 is not compatible with APR 0.9.x.
So Subversion cannot upgrade to APR 1.0.0 without breaking binary compatibility, which the Subversion people have guaranteed not to do before Subversion 2.0.0.
Also, Subversion depends on the Apache web server, so it must use the same version of APR as the Apache web server. AFAIK the web server is still using APR 0.9.x.
>There is outbound connection blocking. It is on by default and asks the user if they want to allow the connection.
If an application tries to listen on a port for *incoming* connections, you will be prompted. If an application tries to connect out, you won't. RTFA.
I assume by subtitles you mean closed captions,
Yes, what Americans call "closed captions" is what British & Europeans call "subtitles". I believe "subtitles" means something different to Americans (foreign languages?).
in which case what Sky did is a violation of Federal law
I doubt it - Sky & NTL are English companies ;-)