Furthermore NA(P)T breaks most services like VoIP, FTP or E-Mail. Without the possibility for incoming connections those services wouldn't work properly.
Um, the NAT problem for FTP got solved a while ago with passive transfers and SPI firewalls. Even less of an issue for email. And also not a problem for certain types of VoIP. The clearer answer is that NA(P)T messes up stuff that requires an inbound connection. Stuff such as SIP-based VoIP the way it was meant to be (where the SIP endpoints talk to each other directly, not with some phone switch-like thing between them). Trying to run one's own email gateway. Trying to put up a VPN gateway into your own network. That sort of thing.
Don't get me wrong, I think NA(P)T is a bad thing and the ISPs should all get off their collective posteriors and deploy IPv6 already. Everybody gets a/56 to the home. Everything could have a unique IPv6 address. Yes, that is still trackable.
Re: Fixed IPv6 addresses
That would depend on how your ISP deploys IPv6. In the cases that I know of, you're gonna get a dynamic IPv6 address pretty much the same way you do in IPv4 (see RFC 3315). Or for the enlightened ISPs, you'll get an entire/56 prefix from your ISP (or at least something between a/48 and/64).
I wouldn't go so far as to call it horrible, but I do agree that there's too much white space around everything. Example, there's a large blank white space under the summary and before the comments, to the left of the Share links and such. The Share links, the "This story has XXX Comments", "Read similar Stories" and "You may also like to read" could probably be collected into 1 horizontal line. to eliminate the gaping hole in the page.
The app simply requests permission. More accurately, the app asks for permission during install time when the installer notifies the user that this app requires permissions to intercept calls.
You're assuming that _I_ think that the $5/month social network would work.
I'm merely saying that if _you_ feel that $5/month would work, set one up and start raking in the money.
As an applications developer, lacking this feature means that I cannot increase my budget to hire more programmers and produce a better product. Without the personal information I have nothing to sell to advertisers, and must rely on much lower advertisement rates and donations from users.
Users will suffer from lower-quality apps, and I'm sad that Facebook has taken this step. In a world of openness, this is a huge step backwards.
I don't want to go back to a "pay to play" internet. Please lobby FB to reenable these features if you also believe in keeping the internet free.
Huh? If everything is running off of Citrix back in the datacenter, then who really cares what the PC sitting in front of the user is doing? It's a glorified dumb terminal anyway. You don't need the latest whiz-bang machine to talk to Citrix.
What's this PXE helper that you speak of? My DHCP server tells the machine "go download the bootloader named X from the server Y" and that's it. After that, the bootloader can do as it sees fit (like install Debian).
I find netbooting incredibly useful. I frequently netboot new virtual machines. Or machines to which I have no physical access other than a network-based KVM.
There was an article in the Communications of the ACM magazine a while back where they did a study about using spelling and grammar checkers. They had two groups of people, one with checkers, one without. Within those groups they were split into high-functioning spellers and grammarers (OK, not really a word...), and low-functioning. They found that the low-functioning group performed better with checkers, but the high-functioning group got worse.
Was there mention of Video over SIP? Many SIP stacks only deal with the Audio portions of the call. Although I don't see any mention of which codecs the SIP stack will support.
Depends on the phone and country. From what I understand, it's common in Europe to have unlocked phones. Not so much in the US and Canada (don't know about Mexico...). Commonly the phone is locked to the provider it came from. That's a big reason I bought a Nexus One. It has no attachment to my provider, so I can use whatever SIM card I want in it.
a new ad format that lets users skip over ads they aren't interested in
and
you'll notice a five second countdown timer
I have no choice but view the first 5 seconds. At this point I'm already getting an ad I'm not interested in. Just means that I must suffer a 5 second ad instead of a 30 second ad. It's still an ad!
Yes, but they can use carrier-grade NAT. You're thinking of the ISP only using one IP to do this. They get 65k ports per IP that they reclaim from giving out to consumers.
I'd have to agree. Anytime the prof said that you could bring a cheat sheet (or worse, open-book exam), you knew you were in for a ride. This wasn't going to be a regurgitation test. And usually if you had to look the stuff up, you wouldn't have time to complete the test.
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Furthermore NA(P)T breaks most services like VoIP, FTP or E-Mail. Without the possibility for incoming connections those services wouldn't work properly.
Um, the NAT problem for FTP got solved a while ago with passive transfers and SPI firewalls. Even less of an issue for email. And also not a problem for certain types of VoIP. The clearer answer is that NA(P)T messes up stuff that requires an inbound connection. Stuff such as SIP-based VoIP the way it was meant to be (where the SIP endpoints talk to each other directly, not with some phone switch-like thing between them). Trying to run one's own email gateway. Trying to put up a VPN gateway into your own network. That sort of thing. Don't get me wrong, I think NA(P)T is a bad thing and the ISPs should all get off their collective posteriors and deploy IPv6 already. Everybody gets a /56 to the home. Everything could have a unique IPv6 address. Yes, that is still trackable.
Re: Fixed IPv6 addresses That would depend on how your ISP deploys IPv6. In the cases that I know of, you're gonna get a dynamic IPv6 address pretty much the same way you do in IPv4 (see RFC 3315). Or for the enlightened ISPs, you'll get an entire /56 prefix from your ISP (or at least something between a /48 and /64).
I wouldn't go so far as to call it horrible, but I do agree that there's too much white space around everything. Example, there's a large blank white space under the summary and before the comments, to the left of the Share links and such. The Share links, the "This story has XXX Comments", "Read similar Stories" and "You may also like to read" could probably be collected into 1 horizontal line. to eliminate the gaping hole in the page.
OK, I'll admit that I don't know what 3-SAT is, but P==NP (discussion of, not proof of....) should be covered in a Computing Science degree....
The app simply requests permission. More accurately, the app asks for permission during install time when the installer notifies the user that this app requires permissions to intercept calls.
You're assuming that _I_ think that the $5/month social network would work. I'm merely saying that if _you_ feel that $5/month would work, set one up and start raking in the money.
Say... why don't you set up a $5/month social network that had no ads and guaranteed privacy?
As an applications developer, lacking this feature means that I cannot increase my budget to hire more programmers and produce a better product. Without the personal information I have nothing to sell to advertisers, and must rely on much lower advertisement rates and donations from users.
Users will suffer from lower-quality apps, and I'm sad that Facebook has taken this step. In a world of openness, this is a huge step backwards.
I don't want to go back to a "pay to play" internet. Please lobby FB to reenable these features if you also believe in keeping the internet free.
I can't decide if this was serious or not..... :O
Huh? If everything is running off of Citrix back in the datacenter, then who really cares what the PC sitting in front of the user is doing? It's a glorified dumb terminal anyway. You don't need the latest whiz-bang machine to talk to Citrix.
"triumph". Did they make a note of their "huge sucess". Find it hard to overstate their satisfaction?
Not if you use a hex digit.... C++0B ....
We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia.
What's this PXE helper that you speak of? My DHCP server tells the machine "go download the bootloader named X from the server Y" and that's it. After that, the bootloader can do as it sees fit (like install Debian).
I find netbooting incredibly useful. I frequently netboot new virtual machines. Or machines to which I have no physical access other than a network-based KVM.
There was an article in the Communications of the ACM magazine a while back where they did a study about using spelling and grammar checkers. They had two groups of people, one with checkers, one without. Within those groups they were split into high-functioning spellers and grammarers (OK, not really a word...), and low-functioning. They found that the low-functioning group performed better with checkers, but the high-functioning group got worse.
Paying attention to what an interactive spell checker is doing may help some learn.
Sure. Do that on your assignments and when you're writing your emails. On the test you don't learn much, it's time to apply your knowledge.
And then there's the people who don't want to carry two phones.
Was there mention of Video over SIP? Many SIP stacks only deal with the Audio portions of the call. Although I don't see any mention of which codecs the SIP stack will support.
Depends on the phone and country. From what I understand, it's common in Europe to have unlocked phones. Not so much in the US and Canada (don't know about Mexico...). Commonly the phone is locked to the provider it came from. That's a big reason I bought a Nexus One. It has no attachment to my provider, so I can use whatever SIM card I want in it.
a new ad format that lets users skip over ads they aren't interested in
and
you'll notice a five second countdown timer
I have no choice but view the first 5 seconds. At this point I'm already getting an ad I'm not interested in. Just means that I must suffer a 5 second ad instead of a 30 second ad. It's still an ad!
Yes, but they can use carrier-grade NAT. You're thinking of the ISP only using one IP to do this. They get 65k ports per IP that they reclaim from giving out to consumers.
I'd have to agree. Anytime the prof said that you could bring a cheat sheet (or worse, open-book exam), you knew you were in for a ride. This wasn't going to be a regurgitation test. And usually if you had to look the stuff up, you wouldn't have time to complete the test.
And some people don't have _any_ of them. Like me.
Back up a little further. You forgot the Apple Lisa. 1983.
Streaming to XBox 360 just arrived in Canada (and you can only get streaming in Canada).