All these directives need to go before the European parliament which is democratically elected.
By far not all of them, and the parliament can't really do much about them anyway. The only real power of parliament is to dissolve the European Commission.
Without the European framework it would be a free-for-all, fuck-your-neighbour disaster.
That is what is happening in Denmark at least. We are losing our so-called "flexicurity" model and our universal health care system.
So corporate taxes are going to tend to push up prices, decrease wages, and inhibit job creation at all income levels.
Normal income taxes do the exact same things (by making labour more expensive). All taxation will interfere with the free market. That doesn't mean taxes are morally bad, it's just another thing you need to consider when deciding on them.
I bet you eat more indirect calories in oil than you eat in steak.
You could invent a type of food which made you exhale twice as much CO2. This wouldn't make one iota of difference to the global CO2 balance, since the food would necessarily have consumed the same amount of CO2 during production.
It only makes sense to talk about exhaled CO2 in relation to climate if the carbon atoms in that CO2 were in fossil fuels before, and that is simply not the case. The fact that fossil fuels are used for food production isn't relevant to the carbon atoms coming out of your lungs.
If we *really* want to cut energy usage, we need to look at the things people take for granted, not "make sure to unplug your playstation at night".
You can do a sub-100mW standby today, even without using a hard switch. This only needs to be implemented once, and the additional cost is really close to zero. Therefore we should push manufacturers to do so by buying equipment with efficient standby, and when that doesn't work, we should make laws which enforce it.
If wind farms become massively deployed, couldn't that change weather patterns as we alter wind energies?
A wind farm changes the weather patterns much like a forest. Generally forests haven't been known to cause weather problems... Anyway, a city is way more disruptive to weather patterns.
Personally, I wouldn't want any gears in the generating system if I could manage it.
If you invent a gear-less generator which is light enough and small enough to fit in a turbine hat, you are likely to get very rich. It will probably happen eventually, but AFAIK none of the current turbine manufacturers have succeeded yet.
This is a real leap forward in a machine class that hasn't made more than incremental improvements for awhile now.
Don't get overexcited. This is nice and all, but the prototype is 5kW. Scaling the generators is so far the main factor between the best wind turbine manufacturers and the also-rans.
Indeed, when Usenet spam first turned up, it usually tried to get people to send an email to order various Windows software.
Lots of people were diligently educating those spammers about how futile that is, by sending them emails with complete GNU distributions -- both source and compiled for various architectures, since you can never be sure which hardware they might have. Alas, a couple of years later the spammers stopped putting email addresses in their advertisements and switched to web instead.
The crown jewels are Solaris, Java and UltraSPARC.
UltraSPARC is dead. Fujitsu was always better at making SPARC chips with high single-thread performance, and Sun has given up on that line completely. Java is successful but it doesn't look like that means any money for Sun. Solaris, well, that deal worked as long as people bought Sun hardware to run it.
They've been running Linux so long that they can't seem to bother to learn a new OS, or the idiosyncracies of a slighty different OS. They'd rather install something familiar. I doubt that it was necessarily the better OS for the system.
Linux hadn't existed long enough to be entrenched like that. However, performance was better than Solaris (it was difficult for anything to be slower, of course), and you got tools that didn't segfault at the slightest provocation without having to spend two days replacing the Solaris user space with GNU.
Or maybe Solaris on SPARC isn't as fantastic as you think. Back in the day when SPARC hardware actually mattered, the Linux SPARC port was rather successful. People actually chose to run Linux even though Solaris came free with the hardware and had perfect driver compatibility.
I don't see a future for Sun, no matter which part of their business they focus on, except possibly MySQL. Sun can't live off of MySQL unless they turn themselves into MySQL AB, and then what was the point?
Next question: What url does Joe Public enter on his browser to get to the router config page, so that he can enter the username and password in order to get access to the ISP's network?
Another topic of debate on IPv6 lists. Apple believes that mDNS+a special configuration program is the solution here. Others have talked about reserving an IP address for this purpose. I believe that mDNS advertising something like router.local or linksys.local will be the most common method.
BUT before Joe's router is connected to the ISP, how does his router or PC know what address they should be using?
This is actually a topic of debate on IPv6 lists right now. There are basically two camps: One says that Joe's router should give out unique local addresses, the other says that a LAN only needs link locals. Both sides are, as far as I can tell, supporting their stance with really good arguments.
Joe would not have to wait for "dhcp renewal time" seconds, or "some other public IP update period" seconds, before his PC realizes that "Oh I'm supposed to be using this public IP address and this gateway".
That's not how IPv6 works. Joe's computer gets a Router Advertisement message as soon as the Internet LED lights up and everything instantly works.
Like most criticism of IPv6 on Slashdot, your criticism is founded on ignorance.
Lego hasn't had a monopoly on the bricks for decades. (They have a monopoly on making bricks that actually work, but that's not for legal reasons, that's just because their competitors are incompetent.)
Lego has used a red 2x4 Lego brick in advertisements, and they believed that this particular brick could be used as a trademarked "logo". The European Department of Justice decided that the brick picture is too generic to be trademarked. The decision will be appealed.
So all it means is that competitors are allowed to put that particular brick in their advertisements and on their boxes. They already had the right to produce the brick.
It's actually damn hard to make the bricks. Lego found this out when they outsourced production a few years ago. It turned out to be a bad deal both for Flextronics and Lego, so now the factories are all back under direct Lego management.
Double entry is useless, everyone uses copy-and-paste. Anyway, running the address through an RFC validator is a perfectly fine thing to do. A validator less liberal than the RFC is a no-go, of course.
Sure it is, if you are trying to reach 8.0.0.1. IPv4 addresses should only be shown or accepted as input in canonical non-shortened format.
Then there's 10.5/16, which netfilter accepts as 10.5.0.0/16 (unless the recent flame war made them change it), but according to the standards that means 10.0.0.5/16 and is therefore not a valid network. Just say no.
Classful adressing died at least ten years ago. Please don't bring it back. 192.168.0.0/16 is a perfectly valid network, and 192.168.4.255 is a perfectly valid IP address. Windows XP won't work with it, but that is just another reason why Windows should not be allowed to connect to IP networks.
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With secure DNS, key distribution for e.g. IPSEC or TLS becomes easier.
All these directives need to go before the European parliament which is democratically elected.
By far not all of them, and the parliament can't really do much about them anyway. The only real power of parliament is to dissolve the European Commission.
Without the European framework it would be a free-for-all, fuck-your-neighbour disaster.
That is what is happening in Denmark at least. We are losing our so-called "flexicurity" model and our universal health care system.
So corporate taxes are going to tend to push up prices, decrease wages, and inhibit job creation at all income levels.
Normal income taxes do the exact same things (by making labour more expensive). All taxation will interfere with the free market. That doesn't mean taxes are morally bad, it's just another thing you need to consider when deciding on them.
I bet you eat more indirect calories in oil than you eat in steak.
You could invent a type of food which made you exhale twice as much CO2. This wouldn't make one iota of difference to the global CO2 balance, since the food would necessarily have consumed the same amount of CO2 during production.
It only makes sense to talk about exhaled CO2 in relation to climate if the carbon atoms in that CO2 were in fossil fuels before, and that is simply not the case. The fact that fossil fuels are used for food production isn't relevant to the carbon atoms coming out of your lungs.
If we *really* want to cut energy usage, we need to look at the things people take for granted, not "make sure to unplug your playstation at night".
You can do a sub-100mW standby today, even without using a hard switch. This only needs to be implemented once, and the additional cost is really close to zero. Therefore we should push manufacturers to do so by buying equipment with efficient standby, and when that doesn't work, we should make laws which enforce it.
The answer was that I was emitting more CO2 per year by breathing.
This is not really a relevant comparison. The CO2 you exhale is part of the normal carbon cycle, not released from fossil fuels.
If wind farms become massively deployed, couldn't that change weather patterns as we alter wind energies?
A wind farm changes the weather patterns much like a forest. Generally forests haven't been known to cause weather problems... Anyway, a city is way more disruptive to weather patterns.
Personally, I wouldn't want any gears in the generating system if I could manage it.
If you invent a gear-less generator which is light enough and small enough to fit in a turbine hat, you are likely to get very rich. It will probably happen eventually, but AFAIK none of the current turbine manufacturers have succeeded yet.
This is a real leap forward in a machine class that hasn't made more than incremental improvements for awhile now.
Don't get overexcited. This is nice and all, but the prototype is 5kW. Scaling the generators is so far the main factor between the best wind turbine manufacturers and the also-rans.
Indeed, when Usenet spam first turned up, it usually tried to get people to send an email to order various Windows software.
Lots of people were diligently educating those spammers about how futile that is, by sending them emails with complete GNU distributions -- both source and compiled for various architectures, since you can never be sure which hardware they might have. Alas, a couple of years later the spammers stopped putting email addresses in their advertisements and switched to web instead.
The crown jewels are Solaris, Java and UltraSPARC.
UltraSPARC is dead. Fujitsu was always better at making SPARC chips with high single-thread performance, and Sun has given up on that line completely. Java is successful but it doesn't look like that means any money for Sun. Solaris, well, that deal worked as long as people bought Sun hardware to run it.
They've been running Linux so long that they can't seem to bother to learn a new OS, or the idiosyncracies of a slighty different OS. They'd rather install something familiar. I doubt that it was necessarily the better OS for the system.
Linux hadn't existed long enough to be entrenched like that. However, performance was better than Solaris (it was difficult for anything to be slower, of course), and you got tools that didn't segfault at the slightest provocation without having to spend two days replacing the Solaris user space with GNU.
Or maybe Solaris on SPARC isn't as fantastic as you think. Back in the day when SPARC hardware actually mattered, the Linux SPARC port was rather successful. People actually chose to run Linux even though Solaris came free with the hardware and had perfect driver compatibility.
I don't see a future for Sun, no matter which part of their business they focus on, except possibly MySQL. Sun can't live off of MySQL unless they turn themselves into MySQL AB, and then what was the point?
Next question: What url does Joe Public enter on his browser to get to the router config page, so that he can enter the username and password in order to get access to the ISP's network?
Another topic of debate on IPv6 lists. Apple believes that mDNS+a special configuration program is the solution here. Others have talked about reserving an IP address for this purpose. I believe that mDNS advertising something like router.local or linksys.local will be the most common method.
BUT before Joe's router is connected to the ISP, how does his router or PC know what address they should be using?
This is actually a topic of debate on IPv6 lists right now. There are basically two camps: One says that Joe's router should give out unique local addresses, the other says that a LAN only needs link locals. Both sides are, as far as I can tell, supporting their stance with really good arguments.
Joe would not have to wait for "dhcp renewal time" seconds, or "some other public IP update period" seconds, before his PC realizes that "Oh I'm supposed to be using this public IP address and this gateway".
That's not how IPv6 works. Joe's computer gets a Router Advertisement message as soon as the Internet LED lights up and everything instantly works.
Like most criticism of IPv6 on Slashdot, your criticism is founded on ignorance.
Lego hasn't had a monopoly on the bricks for decades. (They have a monopoly on making bricks that actually work, but that's not for legal reasons, that's just because their competitors are incompetent.)
Lego has used a red 2x4 Lego brick in advertisements, and they believed that this particular brick could be used as a trademarked "logo". The European Department of Justice decided that the brick picture is too generic to be trademarked. The decision will be appealed.
So all it means is that competitors are allowed to put that particular brick in their advertisements and on their boxes. They already had the right to produce the brick.
It's actually damn hard to make the bricks. Lego found this out when they outsourced production a few years ago. It turned out to be a bad deal both for Flextronics and Lego, so now the factories are all back under direct Lego management.
I bet all those athletes who paid handsomely for their "shark scale" suits are regretting that purchase just about, now.
Considering how many swimming records have been set in the last year, I'd say that the suits work great.
If the address is eaoouaeoa@sthtnhnshnssth.com, you have an RFC-compliant address that goes nowhere. So you're screwed anyway without a trackback.
Not screwed at all. I know that as long as the rest of the code can handle RFC-compliant addresses, there won't be any security vulnerabilities.
Validate as much as possible, as early as possible. That leads to the best user experience and the least risk.
I never said to bring back classes, just that we can use them to define a first valid netmask during validation.
And I am saying you can't use classes for anything. They are gone.
Double entry is useless, everyone uses copy-and-paste. Anyway, running the address through an RFC validator is a perfectly fine thing to do. A validator less liberal than the RFC is a no-go, of course.
despite them being uncommon 001.001.001.001 should still read as valid
How many people except 010.000.000.001 to take them to 8.0.0.1? Of those people, how many use that feature as more than a curiousity?
Surely 010.000.000.001 is still valid?
Sure it is, if you are trying to reach 8.0.0.1. IPv4 addresses should only be shown or accepted as input in canonical non-shortened format.
Then there's 10.5/16, which netfilter accepts as 10.5.0.0/16 (unless the recent flame war made them change it), but according to the standards that means 10.0.0.5/16 and is therefore not a valid network. Just say no.
Classful adressing died at least ten years ago. Please don't bring it back. 192.168.0.0/16 is a perfectly valid network, and 192.168.4.255 is a perfectly valid IP address. Windows XP won't work with it, but that is just another reason why Windows should not be allowed to connect to IP networks.
Sorry, English is my second language. What is the English word for a bacterial infection in the lungs?