It's the monthly PVS-Studio slashvertisement. In this case, only the last words of the summary (within parentheses at that) suggested what this was about, and it took until a couple of paragraphs into TFA until it was mention, but sure enough, it was your regular post showing PVS-Studio output from a random open source software project.
What makes you think Microsoft won't help them? All they have to do is to hook their existing function to mark a window as "protected" and pat themselves on the back for a job well done.
I changed ISP for my fibre connection just because the IPv6 support provided by my old one (Singtel) was horrible. They gave me a single/64, encapsulated using 6rd. I then switched to a different ISP (Viewqwest) which gives me a proper static/48.
I made sure to tell Singtel exactly why I switched. Not that I think that'll change anything, but it did feel good to let them know they lost a customer because of their poor IPv6 support.
Well, arguably the German type XXI submarine was the first "real" submarine in war. That said, only two ever went on combat patrols before the war ended.
I have 500, so no need to do shaping. My Steam downloads usually sits a bit over 200 Mb/s. Even if I do that and download other things on other devices I can't really notice any impact anywhere else.
My ISP does offer 2 Gb/s (the fibre modem has two 1 Gb/s connections) but that's starting to get ridiculous. A mentioned above, at those speeds the problem are usually with other parts of chain, like your local hardware's ability to actually process the data at that rate.
One thing that illustrates this is that after I upgraded to 500, I realised that my existing router wasn't actually able to handle more than about 250 Mb/s, so I went and bought a more professional router and all of a sudden I could saturate the link.
When I download a game for my PS4 I get over 100 Mb/s just for that (I'd like it to be faster but since it never seems to happen I'm guessing that the problem isn't on my side). Also, I have a family of heavy Internet users lots of Youtube and online games, also Steam downloads tend to be a lot faster), and whatever they do should not affect me, nor should my usage affect them.
Finally, sorry for the bad writing in the above text. Using Slashdot on mobile is so bad that I'd rather spend my time writing this paragraph of explanation than to actually try edit the text above.
I agree. I tend to get frustrated with the speed gets below 100. This is particularly the case when downloading a Playstation game and you stare at that progress indicator waiting to play.:-) If I want to play, I want to play now, not in 30 minutes (games are big these days).
Or, they could do some work and not use an ad network instead. Sell ads directly. Those ads will probably be a lot better, as well as being virtually unblockable.
Yes, I know that this disadvantages the little guys, but the truly annoying ads are usually not served by them.
The code doesn't necessarily be from the 50's. As a kid I was helping out in a major data processing centre in Sweden around 1986, and they were still using drum memory at the time.
(Thank you frovingslosh for mentioning my mistake before I had time to comment myself).
The dimensions I quoted are not km, but earth radii. That's what you get for copy/pasting from Wikipedia without even thinking (it should be obvious to anyone that Pluto is larger than a fraction of a km in diameter).
I'm sure people will now want to redefine planet as any object circling the sun with a radius of 0.185 km or greater (because obviously Eris at 0.1825 km can't possibly be a planet).
And, because this is the Internet, I'm being sarcastic.
Thanks for mentioning Virgin. I missed that one in the list. Turns out that Delta is the second best US airline. Virgin America is in fact the best one at number 26. Not fantastic by international standards, but clearly way above the rest in the US.
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That is, of course, aside from the fact that the "freedom" offered by PHP is similar to the freedom you have to wear a ski mask in a bank.
You mean exactly what happened in the 80's when the original movies came out?
Seriously, this is getting old.
Yellow plastic? You young whippersnapper. The original, real C64 was brown. And yes, that's the one I grew up with.
Then you should get a better connection. It would take less than 10 days with my connection.
ASCII is 7-bit. It has no code 148. You must be confusing it with ISO 8859-1 which was a popular encoding in western Europe before UTF-8 took over.
What makes you think Microsoft won't help them? All they have to do is to hook their existing function to mark a window as "protected" and pat themselves on the back for a job well done.
I made sure to tell Singtel exactly why I switched. Not that I think that'll change anything, but it did feel good to let them know they lost a customer because of their poor IPv6 support.
If they could care less about it, then it's at least more important than some other things.
Well, arguably the German type XXI submarine was the first "real" submarine in war. That said, only two ever went on combat patrols before the war ended.
My ISP does offer 2 Gb/s (the fibre modem has two 1 Gb/s connections) but that's starting to get ridiculous. A mentioned above, at those speeds the problem are usually with other parts of chain, like your local hardware's ability to actually process the data at that rate.
One thing that illustrates this is that after I upgraded to 500, I realised that my existing router wasn't actually able to handle more than about 250 Mb/s, so I went and bought a more professional router and all of a sudden I could saturate the link.
When I download a game for my PS4 I get over 100 Mb/s just for that (I'd like it to be faster but since it never seems to happen I'm guessing that the problem isn't on my side). Also, I have a family of heavy Internet users lots of Youtube and online games, also Steam downloads tend to be a lot faster), and whatever they do should not affect me, nor should my usage affect them. Finally, sorry for the bad writing in the above text. Using Slashdot on mobile is so bad that I'd rather spend my time writing this paragraph of explanation than to actually try edit the text above.
It's not excessive. I have 500 (full duplex), and I'd love to get more.
I agree. I tend to get frustrated with the speed gets below 100. This is particularly the case when downloading a Playstation game and you stare at that progress indicator waiting to play. :-) If I want to play, I want to play now, not in 30 minutes (games are big these days).
Hawking already accepted Susskind's position when he admitted defeat in the bet with John Preskill.
It's past 11 already. Where is my additional information?
How do you even detect downtime in such a system?
Which country are you referring to? The US is definitely not in a recession.
Yes, I know that this disadvantages the little guys, but the truly annoying ads are usually not served by them.
The code doesn't necessarily be from the 50's. As a kid I was helping out in a major data processing centre in Sweden around 1986, and they were still using drum memory at the time.
The pound sign is not part of ASCII though (its code point is greater than 127)
(Thank you frovingslosh for mentioning my mistake before I had time to comment myself). The dimensions I quoted are not km, but earth radii. That's what you get for copy/pasting from Wikipedia without even thinking (it should be obvious to anyone that Pluto is larger than a fraction of a km in diameter).
And, because this is the Internet, I'm being sarcastic.
Thanks for mentioning Virgin. I missed that one in the list. Turns out that Delta is the second best US airline. Virgin America is in fact the best one at number 26. Not fantastic by international standards, but clearly way above the rest in the US.
Try flying proper airlines and you'll see the difference.