'Inevitably, every person, the first question we were asked is "How do I lock down a page?" or "How do I lock down a page so that just my five colleagues can access that?"'
Intellipedia: 3 million pages, all blacked out.
BTW, have they been sued by Intel for trademark infringement yet?
Apps that treat it as an unsigned int won't be affected for another year or two (when the count passes 4 billion and change).
One would hope that the authors of such apps would treat this as a canary in the coal mine and fix their apps before they become affected. It's still a RLA bug.
I remember encountering a similar problem years ago. An installer for Microsoft Word 5.1a for Mac refused to install because the hard drive was too big. The amount of free space in bytes was larger than could be stored in a signed 32 bit integer and it reported the remaining capacity as a negative number. I ended up repartitioning to create a volume small enough for the installer to handle.
It's "having an IRC window open to the channel all your buddies hang out in all day long", without the part where it is actually happening via this cryptic old protocol called IRC.
So it's still a Sartric hell.
(I.e, to layer paraphrases upon paraphrases of Jean Paul Sartre, "Hell is being locked forever in a chat room with your friends.")
In later testing, it should be detected, but to overflow 32 bits that's over 2 billion messages. For being founded as a not-so-major project, I don't think they would think that in 3 years that it would reach that much.
It doesn't get said often enough: Reasonable Limits Aren't. Whatever limit you think is reasonable will be exceeded. If you can't be unlimited, think up a reasonable limit, then choose a limit that it outrageously unreasonably large and maybe you'll be OK.
The move to IPv6 is because we're running out of space in IPv4 which is 32 bits (unsigned). Surely you should be able to handle a tweet count larger than one tweet per IP address over the life of the Internet.
Were the applications being bit by this bug written 3 years ago?
But it would also destroy Zaphod's home (Betelgeuse V). Now, Zaphod's just this guy, you know, but he's still the public President of the Galaxy, man!
I guess we can just not panic and relax in the fact that, where the Guide is inaccurate, it is at least definitively inaccurate, and in cases of major discrepancy it is always reality that has it wrong.
I've heard it's pointed away from us...or so they say. Can you imagine that though? Getting a sunburn at night, the night sky being nearly as bright as day?
We'll just tell your friends you fell asleep under the sunlamp.
Also it would take 520 years to get here anyway...
The thing about distances measured in lightunits, causality propagates at that same speed. So if we see it happening now, for us, causally (not casually) speaking, it is happening now.
It's just futile for us to try to do anything to stop it, because it is impossible for our reaction to have an effect on it for another 520 years (like sending a radio signal saying, "Frood, it appears that your star's just exploded! Are you all right?").
A Jupiter like planet has been catapulted out of another solar system and is planning a visit... Latest calculations predict collision with Earth somewhere at the end of 2012.
"The year, 1994. From out of space, comes a runaway planet, hurtling between the Earth and the Moon, unleashing cosmic destruction. Man's civilization is cast in ruin.
"Two thousand years later, Earth is reborn. A strange new world rises from the old. A world of savagery, super-science, and sorcery.
"But one man bursts his bonds to fight for justice. With his companions, Ookla the Mok and Princess Ariel, he pits his strength, his courage, and his fabulous Sunsword, against the forces of evil. He is Thundarr, the Barbarian!"
But that's only in short range. The signaling and power transfer is usually within one foot or less. If you increase the range, you risk frying the RFID tag if it gets too close to the source.
Mine broke. I bought a cheap replacement, it broke. I don't bother anymore and also keep it in my pocket or on a nearby surface (usually nowhere new sunlight, put possibly under indoor lighting).
This is useful knowledge to have. Imagine being lost and in need of rescue. If you could create a device that siphoned sufficient power from radio signals to reduce their range, not only would you have power for a beacon but also the FCC would take care of tracking down your location so that you'd stop doing it.
But if they sequester a range of frequencies specifically for wireless power usages....
No one would use them for broadcast, and thus, no "free" energy to suck up.
Someone would: the people using it for power for their wireless communication devices. They could just have it broadcast dead air (silence) or white noise, though they'd likely figure out a suitable signal that maximizes the power that can be harnessed most efficiently.
Where do you put your mobile phone when not in use?
Exactly.
Yeah, even though they make holsters designed to keep them the safe distance away from the body to avoid any possible cancerous effects from constant exposure, men still put them in their pockets.
They also reduce the power of the signal for everyone else further away from the transmitter, reducing the range of the signals. If deployed widespread into cellphones, this could result in a non-trivial reduction in signal range for broadcasters in the harvested frequency range.
But if they sequester a range of frequencies specifically for wireless power usages....
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'Inevitably, every person, the first question we were asked is "How do I lock down a page?" or "How do I lock down a page so that just my five colleagues can access that?"'
Intellipedia: 3 million pages, all blacked out.
BTW, have they been sued by Intel for trademark infringement yet?
It was preemptive action. Like Iraq.
Unless they explain as A/C.
But only if they clear their login cookie first.
Are you kidding? There are people who haven't learned from the Y2K bug as it applies to storing the year!
Apps that treat it as an unsigned int won't be affected for another year or two (when the count passes 4 billion and change).
One would hope that the authors of such apps would treat this as a canary in the coal mine and fix their apps before they become affected. It's still a RLA bug.
I remember encountering a similar problem years ago. An installer for Microsoft Word 5.1a for Mac refused to install because the hard drive was too big. The amount of free space in bytes was larger than could be stored in a signed 32 bit integer and it reported the remaining capacity as a negative number. I ended up repartitioning to create a volume small enough for the installer to handle.
Back in the days of multiple-floppy installers.
It's "having an IRC window open to the channel all your buddies hang out in all day long", without the part where it is actually happening via this cryptic old protocol called IRC.
So it's still a Sartric hell.
(I.e, to layer paraphrases upon paraphrases of Jean Paul Sartre, "Hell is being locked forever in a chat room with your friends.")
"Yes, it's... wonderful, isn't it?"
In later testing, it should be detected, but to overflow 32 bits that's over 2 billion messages. For being founded as a not-so-major project, I don't think they would think that in 3 years that it would reach that much.
It doesn't get said often enough: Reasonable Limits Aren't. Whatever limit you think is reasonable will be exceeded. If you can't be unlimited, think up a reasonable limit, then choose a limit that it outrageously unreasonably large and maybe you'll be OK.
The move to IPv6 is because we're running out of space in IPv4 which is 32 bits (unsigned). Surely you should be able to handle a tweet count larger than one tweet per IP address over the life of the Internet.
Were the applications being bit by this bug written 3 years ago?
And three words of warning for programmers and system designers: "Reasonable Limits Aren't".
I look forward to the day where this can be said with just the letters RLA. Then maybe we'll see fewer examples of it needing mention.
They also don't seem to define what SAP stands for on their own site, so why should slashdot?
Acronym Finder has 7 pages of results for SAP.
I tagged this story !secondaudioprogram.
(Wikipedia says it stands for Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung ("Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing").)
But it would also destroy Zaphod's home (Betelgeuse V). Now, Zaphod's just this guy, you know, but he's still the public President of the Galaxy, man!
I guess we can just not panic and relax in the fact that, where the Guide is inaccurate, it is at least definitively inaccurate, and in cases of major discrepancy it is always reality that has it wrong.
Speaking of which, if Betelgeuse goes, we're going to have to update the glyphs on all of the Milky Way Stargates and DHDs.
I've heard it's pointed away from us...or so they say. Can you imagine that though? Getting a sunburn at night, the night sky being nearly as bright as day?
We'll just tell your friends you fell asleep under the sunlamp.
It's called the antrhopic principle.
At least you got it right in the link and subject. That's what really matters.
The mistakes we most regret are the ones we make while correcting others. I know; I've done it too.
Also it would take 520 years to get here anyway...
The thing about distances measured in lightunits, causality propagates at that same speed. So if we see it happening now, for us, causally (not casually) speaking, it is happening now.
It's just futile for us to try to do anything to stop it, because it is impossible for our reaction to have an effect on it for another 520 years (like sending a radio signal saying, "Frood, it appears that your star's just exploded! Are you all right?").
At least there's still room for the two possibilities from "The Twilight Zone" (1959) {The Midnight Sun {#3.10}}.
A Jupiter like planet has been catapulted out of another solar system and is planning a visit... Latest calculations predict collision with Earth somewhere at the end of 2012.
"The year, 1994. From out of space, comes a runaway planet, hurtling between the Earth and the Moon, unleashing cosmic destruction. Man's civilization is cast in ruin.
"Two thousand years later, Earth is reborn. A strange new world rises from the old. A world of savagery, super-science, and sorcery.
"But one man bursts his bonds to fight for justice. With his companions, Ookla the Mok and Princess Ariel, he pits his strength, his courage, and his fabulous Sunsword, against the forces of evil. He is Thundarr, the Barbarian!"
If you do go there, whatever you do...
DON'T MOVE!
You're likely to be possessed by a life.
But that's only in short range. The signaling and power transfer is usually within one foot or less. If you increase the range, you risk frying the RFID tag if it gets too close to the source.
Mine broke. I bought a cheap replacement, it broke. I don't bother anymore and also keep it in my pocket or on a nearby surface (usually nowhere new sunlight, put possibly under indoor lighting).
This is useful knowledge to have. Imagine being lost and in need of rescue. If you could create a device that siphoned sufficient power from radio signals to reduce their range, not only would you have power for a beacon but also the FCC would take care of tracking down your location so that you'd stop doing it.
And playing Star Wars lightsaber battles using florescent light tubes at night under high power lines.
But if they sequester a range of frequencies specifically for wireless power usages....
No one would use them for broadcast, and thus, no "free" energy to suck up.
Someone would: the people using it for power for their wireless communication devices. They could just have it broadcast dead air (silence) or white noise, though they'd likely figure out a suitable signal that maximizes the power that can be harnessed most efficiently.
Where do you put your mobile phone when not in use?
Exactly.
Yeah, even though they make holsters designed to keep them the safe distance away from the body to avoid any possible cancerous effects from constant exposure, men still put them in their pockets.
Women tend to put them in purses.
They also reduce the power of the signal for everyone else further away from the transmitter, reducing the range of the signals. If deployed widespread into cellphones, this could result in a non-trivial reduction in signal range for broadcasters in the harvested frequency range.
But if they sequester a range of frequencies specifically for wireless power usages....