flash is nice, but incredibly slow, especially in write, compared to dram. We are talking several orders of magnitude here, not just 10% or something. Also if you have 100 meg write rate (wishful thinking) and the drive burns out at 100K rewrites (wishful thinking) and its about 10 gigs, the numbers divide out to the drive will be dead in about 100 days. Different technologies have certain tradeoffs and flash is nice and small and low power and nonvolatile, but it is slower than molasses and short lived.
And also I had to add a fan and run them at 666MHz instead of their rated 800MHz or I get hard failures. Doesn't sound very exciting to me.
An "amazing" transfer rate for solid state flash drives is in the double digit megabytes/sec.
Your unexciting DDR3 system memory, while dialed down to 667 MHz, can "only" run at 10.6 gigabytes/sec. If it worked correctly, you'd be around 12 gigs/sec. You could get the same aggregate performance from a large raid array of two hundred or so SSDs in a super NAS. Suddenly SDRAM is looking a lot smaller than the flash equivalent...
Definitely, if all the valuable assets of your business is in software (Solaris, StarOffice, Java, etc) and you give away such software for free then your business does not make sense at all.
Those "valuable assets" of the business are now worth nothing, better free alternatives exist. The part that doesn't make sense is not successfully moving onward to a consultative / training / services based business structure.
Usually about the same time the govt makes competition in that field illegal. For example, I cannot legally sell you electricity or cable TV service.
I would prefer American style cultural lunacy (the more violence the better, but no sex allowed) over the FBI busting peoples doors down for running "illegal" app stores.
I honestly can't figure out how the release of that benefits the public in any way. Yet it provides information that anyone seeking to harm the US would find quite valuable. I don't think information should be made public for the sake of making it public. There are some things that are better off kept secret.
Its just a superiority complex, often racially motivated. No one is stupid enough to be ignorant that Hoover Dam is important, no matter how many times you say placing it on a list somehow makes it a secret. The little brown people could never figure out on their own that Hoover Dam is important, so lets just keep it a secret between you and me, ok?
I wonder how they figured that out... Installs or IP addresses or People or reported back to Big Brother NIC MAC addresses or ?
I installed AVG-Free four times on two machines this weekend.
I'm the only person using both.
One install on a traditional machine.
The other machine has removable drive bay hard disks. One disk for real work that being Linux. Four with different installs of Winders. (Why? the ultimate compatibility test is to boot into W2K on a W2K only hard drive and see if it works, also I have a "real" windows XP partition that I use exclusively for games and the two apps that I haven't set up on Linux, one being a radio-scanner programmer and the other being a Garmin GPS map uploader/controller thingy)
So was that one person or two machines or four installs?
At what point do we realize that people wasting time on such sites is as big a danger as say, drugs? When's the war on facebook ?
Obviously you do not watch infotainment TV shows. As farmville has eaten into their viewership, they've been running some might FUD-dy stories along the line of marital infidelity / online predators / Save the Children / general theme of you should all be scared and watch this TV show instead of looking at facebook. According to TV, crooks / creeps / freaks didn't exist until Facebook and if we stop using Facebook they'll magically disappear.
Prime Time TV has also been out to get them with the usual FUD.
You can read the PDF of the source, for $38.00. If anyone does, could you tell us what you find?
Nice try, but if you used a more accurate numerical integration technique, you'd find the cost approximates $37.9494245823 not the crudely analyzed trapezoidal result of $38.00. I'd detail the proof but this slashdot margin is too narrow to contain it, sorry.
This is not a joke. We had to do this for determining relative concentration against a standard (previously measured) in GC mass spec analysis. You'd take your plot with your target peak (hopefully) resolved from everything else,, cut it out, and weigh it. Assuming that the paper had small mass per unit area variation, the weight was proportional to the concentration. At least that's how I remember it.
AC is correct. I had to do the same "analysis" in a quantitative chemistry class about 20 years ago.
We were forbidden from using computers or other forms of automation "otherwise all we're doing is training you to click the start button" and the prof really wanted to pound home the concept of integration. Also the prof wanted to pound home the chemist skill of quickly and accurately measuring the mass of items. This was our primary method of integration during the labs in this course. Finally the prof thought it hilarious that he/we could get an answer with at least three sig figs in about 10 seconds of work vs the minutes / hours it would take to type it all in to a computer and figure out how to use the computer and as lowly undergrads we were probably only capable of three or so sig fig quality work anyway, so... good enough.
I distinctly remember with horror toward the end of one lab, as I was recording the current thru a constant potential electrodeposition vs time on graph paper and I somehow got a couple drops of electrolyte on the graph paper, knowing thats going to totally screw up my weights and I was running up against the end of lab time so no time to draw a new graph... Until I realized there was a dept photocopier in the next room, and the water stain could be cut out above and below the graph and rephotocopied. The TA, whom spoke no English at all, was kind of impressed with my resourcefulness. The current is pretty obviously the rate of deposition of the metal, one electron per deposited copper ion or whatever, assuming you keep the voltage low enough that theres no H2O electrolysis, so obviously the integral of the current is the number of coulombs of charge = the number of coulombs of copper, which can pretty easily be turned into moles of copper metal, which can pretty easily be turned into milligrams of copper. Maybe it wasn't copper, maybe it was silver or gold, I don't remember. There was some special reason why the electrode could not simply be weighed, I think it had something to do with the reactivity of the metal (trying to measure mg of copper not mg of copper oxide) or it was a spongy electrode with fantastic surface area but it would hold all manner of water or something like that) Also the test strategy could be used commercially in a semi-continuous flow analysis, so you don't take the plant apart to clean it until the electrode is hopelessly cruddy.
Want a good laugh, check out some string processing perl code written by a C/C++ programmer. You'll find pages upon pages of array manipulation and endless nested if them that can be replaced with a single line perl regex, if only the C programmer knew about regex.
Another good laugh is seeing perl code written by a guy whom doesn't know about CPAN. Just like a standard perl CPAN module, except clumsier and full of more bugs.
I then said I didn't want to pay more than $300 outright for the thing and they all laughed and told me no phone exists that can do all that for that price.
I think you need to review accounting classes. $300 is pocket change compared to the cost of ownership. At $100+ per month for service with a mandatory two year contract, your estimate is about one tenth the actual cost of ownership. If you can't afford the $300 upfront you'll never survive years of bleeding out $100+ per month.
Kind of like "land poor" folks whom inherit a house or whatever but simply cannot afford maintenance on their "free" property. I have one neighbor like that with a tar paper roof for the past three years, and another whom is somehow gettin' by, but would have to declare bankruptcy if he so much as had to buy a gallon of paint.
As an alternative, I offer you pay as you go virginmobile pay as you go and a ipod touch? Upfront phone is $20 and I use somewhat under $10/month at about a quarter (or was it dime?) per minute. So, two years of phone service will set me back somewhat less than $260. My brand new ipod touch cost me about $186 and has no monthly cost other than maybe a penny of electricity over its lifetime to charge it. Of course the ipod battery will only last one year at most, how you account for device or battery replacement is a question.
So you don't want to spend $300. OK. But if you are willing to carry two devices you'll be out $440 or about $19 per month. Only about $140 more than you were considering spending. You can "upgrade" to carrying only one device for the low, low cost of merely $2560 more dollars, or a cool $106 extra per month. Very roughly a cheap new car lease or maybe a cheap used car purchased outright. Or another way to look at it is it'll cost you a little more than $3 per day to carry just one device.
'So where is the extra appeal of Android to men coming from?' asks Tracey E. Schelmetic.
The farmville addicts that I closely know, all of whom are women, claim "everyone knows the iPhone farmville app is great". Maybe the android app is technically identical, but that doesn't matter if "everyone" does not know it.
On the other hand, all guys know that apple censors their app store, so if you want mobile 3G pr0n apps you need an Android. You'd think that "feature" alone would drive corporate support to iPhone, but no, stuck with icky blackberries that no one wants other than the corporate IT guy whom got sports tickets for signing a contract..
While I was serving in the military and handling classified material on computers the regulations on data handling were quite clear.
Of course this changes in both time and place... I was in the us army early 90s era so your experience will probably vary.
You could handle confidential on a secret system but then it could never be put back on a classified confidential system.
Obviously allowed, not never, although it happened via certain procedures not just randomly shuffling data.
For an obvious close personal example, the fact that my ASP had a particular crate of 5.56mm rounds with a certain NSN and lot number is not sensitive (more like, "duh") but an aggregated report of all ammo supply stocks for the entire theater, held a much higher classification.
while "technically" very good programmers (can write code that a university professor would praise for following some random formal style guide that he approved of), are in fact absolutely hopeless at creating good software.
Most people in the "debate" have no idea what the difference is between education and training, constantly confuse the two, and very loudly claim to all that both concepts are synonyms for the exact same activity and therefore must be tested the same way and result in the same life impact. Going thru life confused and trying to drag everyone else down with them like a bunch of crabs in a pot.
Your accurate and very long post seems to summarize to: they have a cultural predisposition to ending up as extremely gifted technicians, yet utterly uneducated.
What happens if you read a fundamental misconception about particle physics? Are you going to verify it with your USB particle accelerator?
Cross check with the rest of physics and it seems proton lifetime theoretically is now 10 ns, all conductors are superconductors at room temp, the theoretical and observed orbits of planet mercury are once again not equal, or we radiate so many gravitons we should have spiraled into the sun after a couple decades. There is a lot more to theoretical physics than expensive lab experiments.
In my experience, an autodidact is someone whose making too much out of confirming their own beliefs.
Or is someone confusing "founding their own religion/philosophy" with "doing science".
A degree used to be the difference between those who had a great work effort and not.
Behold progress... Now a degree is the difference between those (or those parents) willing to take on a staggering debt load, and those whom can't/won't.
Anyone who cares can already opt out of being tracked.
ORLY? Try not to be tracked by Facebook. The Facebook and twitter icons on http://slashdot.org/ come from a.fsdn.com You could try and block that URL, but then slashdot looks pretty messy as there are some CSS files as well.
Perhaps you were just trolling for the LOLs, but I looked at the source and the icon pix are served up by fsdn not FB and the href doesn't seem to contain any user info.
Remember how spam used to mean unsolicited commercial email, but AOL users called any email that they didn't want, "spam", essentially equating the delete button with the report spam button, and all the trouble that caused? I think we might be seeing the meaning of "tracking" change from recording your online activities toward something more like "I see a href link to a place I don't like, therefore I'm being tracked by that place"
My brain's a little slow today... how would this work?
There are two answers, work as in successfully meet objectives, and work as in good enough for govt work.
The work as in meet objectives, would be package a browser addon basically privoxy aka www.privoxy.org, or mandate the installation of something like privoxy with all browser installations. If the EU can demand winders not ship with "X" maybe the FTC can demand winders ship with a working privoxy install.
The work as in good enough for govt work, would be add a line to the browser string, "please dont track me" and hope for the best. Yet another example of prayer based initiatives applied toward govt work.
So, lets make fun of their proposed techniques. From the fine article:
1) Delta T between local clock and webserver clock. solution, NTP brings that to zero aside from timezone, and also don't let your browser tell the server what time it thinks it is.
2) Fonts. You gotta be kidding. Surrogate for the combo of OS and locale. I have not installed a font on a microsoft product since winders 3.11 era.
3) Screen size. Again, you gotta be kidding. Also tell your browser not to tell the server, or lie with a small random delta.
4) Browser plugins installed. Again, you gotta be kidding.
5) User agent. People have been spoofing those for the past 15 years, mostly just "recently updated FF, MSIE, or ancient debris".
Adds up to.... Um... So my unique device lives in central time zone, has a 1600x1200 monitor, XP, and the standard plugins. That narrows me down to a couple million devices.
challenges, dangers, problems that are happening currently
Its FUD not insight. Those problems were solved years / decades ago.
The fact that the folks at the far left tail of the cluefullness bell curve will always find a way to shoot themselves in their feet, is not exactly an insight into this business or even generally into human nature.
FUDs usually used to gain control or make money not educate.
So... what you're saying is we should all start using that nifty authentication feature several routing protocols support, because it would make routing more secure? I suppose the better question is, why haven't we done it?
The better question is actually, "what are they pushing". So they're outputting almost unbelievable FUD that everyone actually in the business laughs out loud at. The purpose of doing this is....
That is the crucial part missing from the summary.
My guess is the usual big gov statist corporatist B.S., because its possible to make money off that, but its just a guess.
But if you google image search for it you'll find much cooler pix
Personally I always thought the 7090 was the pinnacle of gaudiness and I prefer the stylish neo-victorian look of the 701 series and the modern post WWII look of the System/370, which shows obvious stylistic cross pollination with ST:TOS. But to each their own.
>Such as "The DNS is a hierarchical namespace, P2P type controls work only for flat namespaces. Yet generally people like hierarchical namespaces."
Its the other way around, people generally hate hierarchical namespaces.
Outside the US, the whole "co.uk" type thing is tolerated, not enjoyed. Inside the US, the unwashed masses are completely mystified by *.state.us addresses to the point that they are mostly unused, with domains like "cityname.com" or "schoolname.org" as the modern preferred choice. Also "AOL keywords" have been replaced by "www.facebook.com/whatever". You see, each step in the edu/gov/us hierarchy contains a nearly impenetrable bureaucracy, but registering a ".com" at godaddy just takes 5 minutes and a credit card...
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Can you name a good free cross-plaform office suit? (Openoffice grew out of the opensourced Staroffice.)
docs.google.com
Why is DRAM so large compared to flash memory ?
flash is nice, but incredibly slow, especially in write, compared to dram. We are talking several orders of magnitude here, not just 10% or something. Also if you have 100 meg write rate (wishful thinking) and the drive burns out at 100K rewrites (wishful thinking) and its about 10 gigs, the numbers divide out to the drive will be dead in about 100 days. Different technologies have certain tradeoffs and flash is nice and small and low power and nonvolatile, but it is slower than molasses and short lived.
And also I had to add a fan and run them at 666MHz instead of their rated 800MHz or I get hard failures. Doesn't sound very exciting to me.
An "amazing" transfer rate for solid state flash drives is in the double digit megabytes/sec.
Your unexciting DDR3 system memory, while dialed down to 667 MHz, can "only" run at 10.6 gigabytes/sec. If it worked correctly, you'd be around 12 gigs/sec. You could get the same aggregate performance from a large raid array of two hundred or so SSDs in a super NAS. Suddenly SDRAM is looking a lot smaller than the flash equivalent...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM
Definitely, if all the valuable assets of your business is in software (Solaris, StarOffice, Java, etc) and you give away such software for free then your business does not make sense at all.
Those "valuable assets" of the business are now worth nothing, better free alternatives exist. The part that doesn't make sense is not successfully moving onward to a consultative / training / services based business structure.
When does a service become a utiltiy?
Usually about the same time the govt makes competition in that field illegal. For example, I cannot legally sell you electricity or cable TV service.
I would prefer American style cultural lunacy (the more violence the better, but no sex allowed) over the FBI busting peoples doors down for running "illegal" app stores.
I honestly can't figure out how the release of that benefits the public in any way. Yet it provides information that anyone seeking to harm the US would find quite valuable. I don't think information should be made public for the sake of making it public. There are some things that are better off kept secret.
Its just a superiority complex, often racially motivated. No one is stupid enough to be ignorant that Hoover Dam is important, no matter how many times you say placing it on a list somehow makes it a secret. The little brown people could never figure out on their own that Hoover Dam is important, so lets just keep it a secret between you and me, ok?
has been used by 774,651 people
I wonder how they figured that out... Installs or IP addresses or People or reported back to Big Brother NIC MAC addresses or ?
I installed AVG-Free four times on two machines this weekend.
I'm the only person using both.
One install on a traditional machine.
The other machine has removable drive bay hard disks. One disk for real work that being Linux. Four with different installs of Winders. (Why? the ultimate compatibility test is to boot into W2K on a W2K only hard drive and see if it works, also I have a "real" windows XP partition that I use exclusively for games and the two apps that I haven't set up on Linux, one being a radio-scanner programmer and the other being a Garmin GPS map uploader/controller thingy)
So was that one person or two machines or four installs?
Er.. what is Facebook actually??
Farmville bootloader / OS. Also used for Mafiawars and a couple other games.
At what point do we realize that people wasting time on such sites is as big a danger as say, drugs?
When's the war on facebook ?
Obviously you do not watch infotainment TV shows. As farmville has eaten into their viewership, they've been running some might FUD-dy stories along the line of marital infidelity / online predators / Save the Children / general theme of you should all be scared and watch this TV show instead of looking at facebook. According to TV, crooks / creeps / freaks didn't exist until Facebook and if we stop using Facebook they'll magically disappear.
Prime Time TV has also been out to get them with the usual FUD.
You can read the PDF of the source, for $38.00. If anyone does, could you tell us what you find?
Nice try, but if you used a more accurate numerical integration technique, you'd find the cost approximates $37.9494245823 not the crudely analyzed trapezoidal result of $38.00. I'd detail the proof but this slashdot margin is too narrow to contain it, sorry.
This is not a joke. We had to do this for determining relative concentration against a standard (previously measured) in GC mass spec analysis. You'd take your plot with your target peak (hopefully) resolved from everything else,, cut it out, and weigh it. Assuming that the paper had small mass per unit area variation, the weight was proportional to the concentration. At least that's how I remember it.
AC is correct. I had to do the same "analysis" in a quantitative chemistry class about 20 years ago.
We were forbidden from using computers or other forms of automation "otherwise all we're doing is training you to click the start button" and the prof really wanted to pound home the concept of integration. Also the prof wanted to pound home the chemist skill of quickly and accurately measuring the mass of items. This was our primary method of integration during the labs in this course. Finally the prof thought it hilarious that he/we could get an answer with at least three sig figs in about 10 seconds of work vs the minutes / hours it would take to type it all in to a computer and figure out how to use the computer and as lowly undergrads we were probably only capable of three or so sig fig quality work anyway, so... good enough.
I distinctly remember with horror toward the end of one lab, as I was recording the current thru a constant potential electrodeposition vs time on graph paper and I somehow got a couple drops of electrolyte on the graph paper, knowing thats going to totally screw up my weights and I was running up against the end of lab time so no time to draw a new graph... Until I realized there was a dept photocopier in the next room, and the water stain could be cut out above and below the graph and rephotocopied. The TA, whom spoke no English at all, was kind of impressed with my resourcefulness. The current is pretty obviously the rate of deposition of the metal, one electron per deposited copper ion or whatever, assuming you keep the voltage low enough that theres no H2O electrolysis, so obviously the integral of the current is the number of coulombs of charge = the number of coulombs of copper, which can pretty easily be turned into moles of copper metal, which can pretty easily be turned into milligrams of copper. Maybe it wasn't copper, maybe it was silver or gold, I don't remember. There was some special reason why the electrode could not simply be weighed, I think it had something to do with the reactivity of the metal (trying to measure mg of copper not mg of copper oxide) or it was a spongy electrode with fantastic surface area but it would hold all manner of water or something like that) Also the test strategy could be used commercially in a semi-continuous flow analysis, so you don't take the plant apart to clean it until the electrode is hopelessly cruddy.
The software development anti-pattern of reinventing the wheel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinventing_the_wheel
Want a good laugh, check out some string processing perl code written by a C/C++ programmer. You'll find pages upon pages of array manipulation and endless nested if them that can be replaced with a single line perl regex, if only the C programmer knew about regex.
Another good laugh is seeing perl code written by a guy whom doesn't know about CPAN. Just like a standard perl CPAN module, except clumsier and full of more bugs.
I then said I didn't want to pay more than $300 outright for the thing and they all laughed and told me no phone exists that can do all that for that price.
I think you need to review accounting classes. $300 is pocket change compared to the cost of ownership. At $100+ per month for service with a mandatory two year contract, your estimate is about one tenth the actual cost of ownership. If you can't afford the $300 upfront you'll never survive years of bleeding out $100+ per month.
Kind of like "land poor" folks whom inherit a house or whatever but simply cannot afford maintenance on their "free" property. I have one neighbor like that with a tar paper roof for the past three years, and another whom is somehow gettin' by, but would have to declare bankruptcy if he so much as had to buy a gallon of paint.
As an alternative, I offer you pay as you go virginmobile pay as you go and a ipod touch? Upfront phone is $20 and I use somewhat under $10/month at about a quarter (or was it dime?) per minute. So, two years of phone service will set me back somewhat less than $260. My brand new ipod touch cost me about $186 and has no monthly cost other than maybe a penny of electricity over its lifetime to charge it. Of course the ipod battery will only last one year at most, how you account for device or battery replacement is a question.
So you don't want to spend $300. OK. But if you are willing to carry two devices you'll be out $440 or about $19 per month. Only about $140 more than you were considering spending. You can "upgrade" to carrying only one device for the low, low cost of merely $2560 more dollars, or a cool $106 extra per month. Very roughly a cheap new car lease or maybe a cheap used car purchased outright. Or another way to look at it is it'll cost you a little more than $3 per day to carry just one device.
I believe this is called a rhetorical question:
'So where is the extra appeal of Android to men coming from?' asks Tracey E. Schelmetic.
The farmville addicts that I closely know, all of whom are women, claim "everyone knows the iPhone farmville app is great". Maybe the android app is technically identical, but that doesn't matter if "everyone" does not know it.
On the other hand, all guys know that apple censors their app store, so if you want mobile 3G pr0n apps you need an Android. You'd think that "feature" alone would drive corporate support to iPhone, but no, stuck with icky blackberries that no one wants other than the corporate IT guy whom got sports tickets for signing a contract..
While I was serving in the military and handling classified material on computers the regulations on data handling were quite clear.
Of course this changes in both time and place... I was in the us army early 90s era so your experience will probably vary.
You could handle confidential on a secret system but then it could never be put back on a classified confidential system.
Obviously allowed, not never, although it happened via certain procedures not just randomly shuffling data.
For an obvious close personal example, the fact that my ASP had a particular crate of 5.56mm rounds with a certain NSN and lot number is not sensitive (more like, "duh") but an aggregated report of all ammo supply stocks for the entire theater, held a much higher classification.
while "technically" very good programmers (can write code that a university professor would praise for following some random formal style guide that he approved of), are in fact absolutely hopeless at creating good software.
Most people in the "debate" have no idea what the difference is between education and training, constantly confuse the two, and very loudly claim to all that both concepts are synonyms for the exact same activity and therefore must be tested the same way and result in the same life impact. Going thru life confused and trying to drag everyone else down with them like a bunch of crabs in a pot.
Your accurate and very long post seems to summarize to: they have a cultural predisposition to ending up as extremely gifted technicians, yet utterly uneducated.
What happens if you read a fundamental misconception about particle physics? Are you going to verify it with your USB particle accelerator?
Cross check with the rest of physics and it seems proton lifetime theoretically is now 10 ns, all conductors are superconductors at room temp, the theoretical and observed orbits of planet mercury are once again not equal, or we radiate so many gravitons we should have spiraled into the sun after a couple decades. There is a lot more to theoretical physics than expensive lab experiments.
In my experience, an autodidact is someone whose making too much out of confirming their own beliefs.
Or is someone confusing "founding their own religion/philosophy" with "doing science".
A degree used to be the difference between those who had a great work effort and not.
Behold progress... Now a degree is the difference between those (or those parents) willing to take on a staggering debt load, and those whom can't/won't.
I now feel like I'm wasting $10k a year on schooling that I don't really need.
You're not buying schooling, you're buying an expensive piece of paper, called a diploma, to get past the HR filter that requires it.
ORLY? Try not to be tracked by Facebook. The Facebook and twitter icons on http://slashdot.org/ come from a.fsdn.com
You could try and block that URL, but then slashdot looks pretty messy as there are some CSS files as well.
Perhaps you were just trolling for the LOLs, but I looked at the source and the icon pix are served up by fsdn not FB and the href doesn't seem to contain any user info.
Remember how spam used to mean unsolicited commercial email, but AOL users called any email that they didn't want, "spam", essentially equating the delete button with the report spam button, and all the trouble that caused? I think we might be seeing the meaning of "tracking" change from recording your online activities toward something more like "I see a href link to a place I don't like, therefore I'm being tracked by that place"
My brain's a little slow today... how would this work?
There are two answers, work as in successfully meet objectives, and work as in good enough for govt work.
The work as in meet objectives, would be package a browser addon basically privoxy aka www.privoxy.org, or mandate the installation of something like privoxy with all browser installations. If the EU can demand winders not ship with "X" maybe the FTC can demand winders ship with a working privoxy install.
The work as in good enough for govt work, would be add a line to the browser string, "please dont track me" and hope for the best. Yet another example of prayer based initiatives applied toward govt work.
So, lets make fun of their proposed techniques. From the fine article:
1) Delta T between local clock and webserver clock. solution, NTP brings that to zero aside from timezone, and also don't let your browser tell the server what time it thinks it is.
2) Fonts. You gotta be kidding. Surrogate for the combo of OS and locale. I have not installed a font on a microsoft product since winders 3.11 era.
3) Screen size. Again, you gotta be kidding. Also tell your browser not to tell the server, or lie with a small random delta.
4) Browser plugins installed. Again, you gotta be kidding.
5) User agent. People have been spoofing those for the past 15 years, mostly just "recently updated FF, MSIE, or ancient debris".
Adds up to .... Um... So my unique device lives in central time zone, has a 1600x1200 monitor, XP, and the standard plugins. That narrows me down to a couple million devices.
challenges, dangers, problems that are happening currently
Its FUD not insight. Those problems were solved years / decades ago.
The fact that the folks at the far left tail of the cluefullness bell curve will always find a way to shoot themselves in their feet, is not exactly an insight into this business or even generally into human nature.
FUDs usually used to gain control or make money not educate.
So... what you're saying is we should all start using that nifty authentication feature several routing protocols support, because it would make routing more secure? I suppose the better question is, why haven't we done it?
The better question is actually, "what are they pushing". So they're outputting almost unbelievable FUD that everyone actually in the business laughs out loud at. The purpose of doing this is ....
That is the crucial part missing from the summary.
My guess is the usual big gov statist corporatist B.S., because its possible to make money off that, but its just a guess.
Doesn't anyone research prior art anymore? They hardly invented or discovered a new idea.
Try the IBM 7090 desk console.
Bad picture at wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7090
But if you google image search for it you'll find much cooler pix
Personally I always thought the 7090 was the pinnacle of gaudiness and I prefer the stylish neo-victorian look of the 701 series and the modern post WWII look of the System/370, which shows obvious stylistic cross pollination with ST:TOS. But to each their own.
>Such as "The DNS is a hierarchical namespace, P2P type controls work only for flat namespaces. Yet generally people like hierarchical namespaces."
Its the other way around, people generally hate hierarchical namespaces.
Outside the US, the whole "co.uk" type thing is tolerated, not enjoyed. Inside the US, the unwashed masses are completely mystified by *.state.us addresses to the point that they are mostly unused, with domains like "cityname.com" or "schoolname.org" as the modern preferred choice. Also "AOL keywords" have been replaced by "www.facebook.com/whatever". You see, each step in the edu/gov/us hierarchy contains a nearly impenetrable bureaucracy, but registering a ".com" at godaddy just takes 5 minutes and a credit card...