HOUSING Housing in.AU ranges from large acreage to tiny townhouses and appartments, and depends on your proximity to the city centre. It's cheaper to get the acreage, but you pay for travel costs, and lose the time it takes to travel. I live a 40 minute walk away from my work, which is approximately a 30 minute walk from the city heart (Brisbane). My apartment costs me 10% of my (net) salary.
FUEL I don't drive. I don't own a car. I don't own a license, because I don't expect to own a car for a while yet. Cars are pretty expensive over here; your average new car (barinas etc) is half my yearly gross salary. I catch the bus or walk. Catching the bus is around 3% of my salary.
PEOPLE I can't compare to other countries, but it ranges from people who would sooner barge you over than deviate their course slightly to people who will stop and chat happily.
COMPUTERS If you think it's bad in the UK, don't come to.AU: we have *one* cable provider in the entire country, who charge 35c (.au cents are almost identical to canadian cents) per MB at the cheapest rate. We have no DSL, but it's expected ``next year some time.'' Dialup charges are all around 19c/mb, ISDN is so expensive most small businesses won't consider it (several thousand a month, plus traffic charges).. Plus we have a huge delay on technologies and software arriving. Warcraft II:platinum isn't due here until December, for example. I want to move overseas purely because the computer industry lags so much. The new laws don't help.
HEALTH SERVICE Our health system is excellent. It's taken out of your salary in an income tax, but our hospitals are clean and have good staff, and you can elect for private cover if you wish immediate surgery on non-critical operations. Last year I had my appendix removed, I was operated on within a few hours of arriving at the hospital. My uncle in.uk waited several days for his, and had it burst on him, which caused complications. (My hospital treatment was totally uncharged; dental work I had done recently however incurred a charge).
other points
INCOME TAX The highest tax rate is around 50%. I'm being taxed at about 38% on my salary (which, incidentally, is $32k a year, first year out of Uni, programming job. I know I can get more, but I like where I work.) I take home a little under $2000 each month -- with a bit of saving, I can afford some shiny new toys, but things like laptops and high end processors are still out of reach.
ENVIRONMENT I like living in Brisbane; the air is pretty clean for a city, and while the river is in a terrible state, dredging was stopped this year and it should improve. There are parks everywhere, with trees on nearly every road side. I still want to emmigrate, though.
Two problems here. Firstly, if Amazon are sending "Charge card XXXX XXXX XXXX 1234?" to your Web browser, your CC number has been broadcast over the wires already, anyway. One presumes they'd use https or something similar to provide a feeling of safety, but that works both ways, too. If you trust the 'net enough for someone to send you the number they're charging, you must trust it enough to send the number back.
The second point is that your liability is reduced by having a third party (Passport) charged instead of you directly. The problem here is that MS won't want to pay for it if the small company charges you more than they should; so should that happen, the onus is on you to get MS to fix things, instead of being on you to get your CC company to fix things. No real difference.
Personally, I do not and very likely never will use a credit card to order anything online. Sure, this means I don't shop online, but I've not felt this to be a lack in my life. (I also use cash, but this is to avoid transaction fees on lots of small transactions rather than a desire to keep my spending patterns hidden).
The only way I would ever trust digital sales is if a transaction involved a digitally signed authorization certificate clearly stating the amount and product, and a transaction identifier, so the other end can charge for only that transaction, and only once, and I can easily prove it if they lie about it.
*shrug*
I'd probably avoid it even then. If I want something, I like to see it first, and carry it away with me after my purchase.;)
The reason the use of the pIII CPU label bothered me was not that some insignificant number identifying my computer could be seen by someone, but rather, that a number so easily faked was being used for authentication. The use of the MAC address in an IPv6 address is nothing to do with authentication (although some twits might use it as such); rather it is a number that will help give a unique address on a subnet, to avoid DHCP like protocols.
If you've ever gone to a LAN gathering to find some idiot running WinGate or something similar has their own DHCP server running and is handing out useless IP addresses, you'll appreciate that idea.
The other issue with his article is that IPv6 is mostly to alleviate the IP address space shortage. The ``shortage'' is not even close to being a problem yet. CIDR, NAT and strict rules on obtaining IP addresses have seen to that. IPv6 provides QoS beyond what IPv4 can, and more importantly, helps the global routing tables. There are over 70,000 entries in global routing tables at the moment, due to poor aggregation of old classful IPv4 address space. The logical division of an IPv6 address forces aggregation, with the first 8 bits representing a Top Level Aggregator (TLA), and so on within them, such that the first 64 bits of an IPv6 address represent a network path, not just a node number.
And as for the conspiracy theories, well, how else was he to get people to read his article?
Slashdot Mirror
*ahem*
.... ;)
Programming skill has a great deal to do with uptime if you happen to be writing kernel modules
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bje
HOUSING .AU ranges from large acreage to tiny townhouses and appartments, and depends on your proximity to the city centre. It's cheaper to get the acreage, but you pay for travel costs, and lose the time it takes to travel. I live a 40 minute walk away from my work, which is approximately a 30 minute walk from the city heart (Brisbane). My apartment costs me 10% of my (net) salary.
.AU: we have *one* cable provider in the entire country, who charge 35c (.au cents are almost identical to canadian cents) per MB at the cheapest rate. We have no DSL, but it's expected ``next year some time.'' Dialup charges are all around 19c/mb, ISDN is so expensive most small businesses won't consider it (several thousand a month, plus traffic charges).. Plus we have a huge delay on technologies and software arriving. Warcraft II:platinum isn't due here until December, for example. I want to move overseas purely because the computer industry lags so much. The new laws don't help.
.uk waited several days for his, and had it burst on him, which caused complications. (My hospital treatment was totally uncharged; dental work I had done recently however incurred a charge).
Housing in
FUEL
I don't drive. I don't own a car. I don't own a license, because I don't expect to own a car for a while yet. Cars are pretty expensive over here; your average new car (barinas etc) is half my yearly gross salary. I catch the bus or walk. Catching the bus is around 3% of my salary.
PEOPLE
I can't compare to other countries, but it ranges from people who would sooner barge you over than deviate their course slightly to people who will stop and chat happily.
COMPUTERS
If you think it's bad in the UK, don't come to
HEALTH SERVICE
Our health system is excellent. It's taken out of your salary in an income tax, but our hospitals are clean and have good staff, and you can elect for private cover if you wish immediate surgery on non-critical operations. Last year I had my appendix removed, I was operated on within a few hours of arriving at the hospital. My uncle in
other points
INCOME TAX
The highest tax rate is around 50%. I'm being taxed at about 38% on my salary (which, incidentally, is $32k a year, first year out of Uni, programming job. I know I can get more, but I like where I work.) I take home a little under $2000 each month -- with a bit of saving, I can afford some shiny new toys, but things like laptops and high end processors are still out of reach.
ENVIRONMENT
I like living in Brisbane; the air is pretty clean for a city, and while the river is in a terrible state, dredging was stopped this year and it should improve. There are parks everywhere, with trees on nearly every road side. I still want to emmigrate, though.
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bje
try
/* or some large number */
#include
int i = INT_MIN;
or perhaps
#include
int i = MININT;
or even
int i = 0;
while (i i+1) i++;
i++;
of course, that's getting pretty ugly.
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bje
First thing I noticed was there were only two processes, one of which didn't exist.
To rectify:
On line 46 of xdoomsrc/xdoom/pr_process.c, change
popen("ps", "r") to popen("ps x", "r")
Then, when in the game, "idkfa", "5", ""
.....
it killed my X session so badly I had to reconfigure E before it would restart
;)
but it got a good laugh around the office
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bje
Two problems here. Firstly, if Amazon are sending "Charge card XXXX XXXX XXXX 1234?" to your Web browser, your CC number has been broadcast over the wires already, anyway. One presumes they'd use https or something similar to provide a feeling of safety, but that works both ways, too. If you trust the 'net enough for someone to send you the number they're charging, you must trust it enough to send the number back.
;)
The second point is that your liability is reduced by having a third party (Passport) charged instead of you directly. The problem here is that MS won't want to pay for it if the small company charges you more than they should; so should that happen, the onus is on you to get MS to fix things, instead of being on you to get your CC company to fix things. No real difference.
Personally, I do not and very likely never will use a credit card to order anything online. Sure, this means I don't shop online, but I've not felt this to be a lack in my life. (I also use cash, but this is to avoid transaction fees on lots of small transactions rather than a desire to keep my spending patterns hidden).
The only way I would ever trust digital sales is if a transaction involved a digitally signed authorization certificate clearly stating the amount and product, and a transaction identifier, so the other end can charge for only that transaction, and only once, and I can easily prove it if they lie about it.
*shrug*
I'd probably avoid it even then. If I want something, I like to see it first, and carry it away with me after my purchase.
The reason the use of the pIII CPU label bothered me was not that some insignificant number identifying my computer could be seen by someone, but rather, that a number so easily faked was being used for authentication. The use of the MAC address in an IPv6 address is nothing to do with authentication (although some twits might use it as such); rather it is a number that will help give a unique address on a subnet, to avoid DHCP like protocols.
If you've ever gone to a LAN gathering to find some idiot running WinGate or something similar has their own DHCP server running and is handing out useless IP addresses, you'll appreciate that idea.
The other issue with his article is that IPv6 is mostly to alleviate the IP address space shortage. The ``shortage'' is not even close to being a problem yet. CIDR, NAT and strict rules on obtaining IP addresses have seen to that. IPv6 provides QoS beyond what IPv4 can, and more importantly, helps the global routing tables. There are over 70,000 entries in global routing tables at the moment, due to poor aggregation of old classful IPv4 address space. The logical division of an IPv6 address forces aggregation, with the first 8 bits representing a Top Level Aggregator (TLA), and so on within them, such that the first 64 bits of an IPv6 address represent a network path, not just a node number.
And as for the conspiracy theories, well, how else was he to get people to read his article?