My ISP gave me a/48 address block for my ADSL connection. Which means I, as a single person, have 2^80 (10^24 if I converted correctly) addresses at my disposal. Now, obviously this is still far less than your 5x10^28 number, but it is a hell of a lot closer than you would think on first sight.
My point being, it's nice to have this humongous 128 bit address space, but if we're going to waste 99.9999999999999999999999% of it we'll run out sooner than you'd expect.
My understanding is that Windows XP simply doesn't support DHCP6 at all (even if you enable the "Microsoft TCP/IP version 6" protocol). I worked around this by installing the Dibbler DHCPv6 Client. IPv6 including DHCP6 work fine on Vista and higher.
It is also worth remember that, while we didn't find any WMD, pretty near every country who investigated at the time, including US Democrats who voted to authorize the war, believed Saddam had WMD.
Maybe the governments of "every country" believed that, but at least here (the Netherlands) there was quit a bit of scepticism in the population. This was mostly based on the reports by UN inspector Hans Blix. Although he was unable to prove there were no WMD (due to lack of cooperation of the Iraq government) he didn't report any evidence for the existence of WMD either. I remember one of his press conferences where he let out some of his frustrations, saying that if the US had such irrefutable proof of the existence of WMD, they should share it with him.
Yes, I've set up two vhosts for demo purposes: https://vhost1.geldorp.nl/ and https://vhost2.geldorp.nl/ (only available this week). If you check the DNS entries you'll see that both resolve to IP 82.94.219.251. I'd be happy to send you the config files, just contact me via email (yes, the email address above is valid).
In defense of your mother, I would have had no idea what to do if you told me to look at the start bar. Task bar, notification area, system tray, I'd have understood any of those, but "start bar" is completely new to me.
"CREATE TABLE" is probably a bad example, if your web code needs to create a table you're doing something wrong. However, for e.g. an INSERT statement you'd typically use bind variables, something like this:
long SomeNumericValue;
char SomeStringValue[SOME_SIZE];
StatementHandle Statement = Parse("INSERT INTO TableName (Col1, Col2) VALUES (?, ?)");
BindNumericVar(Statement, 0, &SomeNumericValue);// Binds SomeNumericValue to first "?" in statement
BindStringVar(Statement, 1, SomeStringValue, SOME_SIZE);// Binds SomeStringValue to second "?" in statement
SomeNumericValue = 42;// Set values you want to insert
strcpy(SomeStringValue, "Hello, world";
Execute(Statement);// Insert new row, setting Col1 to 42 and Col2 to "Hello, world"
Thanks for the link. I was wondering how the school officials got access to the webcam. From the video it appears they don't interact with the webcam directly but use an app that allows them to seen the screen. If the student happens to run an app that displays the webcam view on their screen then the school official would be able to see it too. That also explains why the students didn't notice the "webcam is on" light that most webcams have, they expected it to be on because they switched it on themselves.
Over here (Europe) I'd just tell my bank (electronically) to transfer some amount from my account to hers. Banks don't charge you for that here. Actually, since this is a recurring payment I'd set it up once as a recurring payment and be done with it.
You could be forced by a third party to reveal how you voted (they would force you to give them your random characters and then they would be able to verify that you voted as you were told to.)
If a user installs some program on either Linux or OS X, what's to stop that program from making outbound connections to port 6667 (to receive instructions) and to port 25 (to send spam)? I've never understood this "if users wouldn't run as Administrator/root, we'd all be safe" argument, you don't need superuser privs to send email.
In my part of the world the Monday after Easter is a national holiday. I've actually implemented the Gaus algorithm to compute the date of Easter in multiple programs, to check if people working on a given date were entitled to extra compensation for working on a holiday.
Paris Hilton being in jail was hard to miss even for me. But I managed to not know about Britney. Until you told me, that is... So now I have to go kill myself too. Thank you very much.
That's sad. You wouldn't look at your own practices which cause such a stirr, but you'd rather take the messenger to court.
I guess "if you don't have anything to hide, you don't need privacy" only holds for individuals, not for corporations...
A customer setups up an account with a financial institution (FI). The customer provides information such as a phone number.
For any online transaction to be completed, the FI will call that number and ask the person to approve the transaction amount. Failure to approve the amount will result in the transaction being denied.
Already being done over here. I set up a transaction via a web-based interface. My bank will send an SMS message containing the total transaction amount and a secret to a pre-registered phone number. To complete the transaction, I enter the secret into the web-based interface. Wish I had thought of this myself, I think it's pretty neat.
It's just a matter of what you're accustomed to. For me the question "what's half of 16mm?" is just as easy to answer: 8mm. Hell, I even now what half of 5mm is: 2.5mm (or rather, 2,5 mm:-)). On the other hand, it takes me a few seconds (because I literally have to calculate it) to answer "what's bigger, 3/8" or 5/16?". My guess is that you know the answer instantly, because you've seen the question lots of time before.
From my point of view, what makes metric easier to work with is not that a meter is somehow better than a foot, it's not, they're both pretty arbitrarily. It's the decimal system underlying it, which allows me to re-use my normal decimal arithmetic skills. 3 times 40cm is 120cm is 1m20. 3 times 5" is 15" and then my normal decimal arithmetic skills break down, 'cause I have to subtract 12 to arrive at 1'3". Again, I can imagine for you it's not much of a problem because you have to do it all the time. Fact remains that you need two sets of arithmetic skills, decimal to compute almost everything and imperial to compute weights and lengths, while I can concentrate on honing just one.
On a recent trip to the US I rented a small car (I believe it was called a Cobalt) which gave me around 27 mpg. When I got back, I did the math (converting from the liter/100km I'm familiar with to mpg) and found that my European Golf TDI gets around 42 mpg. The Golf feels a little bit bigger (not much) and most certainly feels more powerful, but still it gets 50% more mpg.
I actually went to KSC to see the last launch (STS-116). It's amazing, I can really recommend it. If you're serious about going there, I'd recommend subscribing to NASA's "Armchair Astronaut" newsletter. That will keep you informed when Launch Transportation Tickets are going on sale. A Launch Transportation Ticket gives you access to the closest public viewing site. For the STS-116 launch they were sold out in about 15 min.
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My ISP gave me a /48 address block for my ADSL connection. Which means I, as a single person, have 2^80 (10^24 if I converted correctly) addresses at my disposal. Now, obviously this is still far less than your 5x10^28 number, but it is a hell of a lot closer than you would think on first sight.
My point being, it's nice to have this humongous 128 bit address space, but if we're going to waste 99.9999999999999999999999% of it we'll run out sooner than you'd expect.
My understanding is that Windows XP simply doesn't support DHCP6 at all (even if you enable the "Microsoft TCP/IP version 6" protocol). I worked around this by installing the Dibbler DHCPv6 Client. IPv6 including DHCP6 work fine on Vista and higher.
It is also worth remember that, while we didn't find any WMD, pretty near every country who investigated at the time, including US Democrats who voted to authorize the war, believed Saddam had WMD.
Maybe the governments of "every country" believed that, but at least here (the Netherlands) there was quit a bit of scepticism in the population. This was mostly based on the reports by UN inspector Hans Blix. Although he was unable to prove there were no WMD (due to lack of cooperation of the Iraq government) he didn't report any evidence for the existence of WMD either. I remember one of his press conferences where he let out some of his frustrations, saying that if the US had such irrefutable proof of the existence of WMD, they should share it with him.
Yes, I've set up two vhosts for demo purposes: https://vhost1.geldorp.nl/ and https://vhost2.geldorp.nl/ (only available this week). If you check the DNS entries you'll see that both resolve to IP 82.94.219.251. I'd be happy to send you the config files, just contact me via email (yes, the email address above is valid).
I have Apache running with multiple vhosts and a wildcard certificate. Works fine.
You can buy tickets to see the launch from the NASA causeway, which is the closest publicly-accessible viewing site. See http://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/space-shuttle-launch-viewing-tickets.aspx. For the previous couple of launches, these sold out in minutes. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/view/view_shuttle.html lists some off-site viewing locations.
Personally, I think it's totally worth it.
In defense of your mother, I would have had no idea what to do if you told me to look at the start bar. Task bar, notification area, system tray, I'd have understood any of those, but "start bar" is completely new to me.
"CREATE TABLE" is probably a bad example, if your web code needs to create a table you're doing something wrong. However, for e.g. an INSERT statement you'd typically use bind variables, something like this:
// Binds SomeNumericValue to first "?" in statement // Binds SomeStringValue to second "?" in statement // Set values you want to insert // Insert new row, setting Col1 to 42 and Col2 to "Hello, world"
long SomeNumericValue;
char SomeStringValue[SOME_SIZE];
StatementHandle Statement = Parse("INSERT INTO TableName (Col1, Col2) VALUES (?, ?)");
BindNumericVar(Statement, 0, &SomeNumericValue);
BindStringVar(Statement, 1, SomeStringValue, SOME_SIZE);
SomeNumericValue = 42;
strcpy(SomeStringValue, "Hello, world";
Execute(Statement);
Sounds like a problem with sqlite, not SQL in general.
Thanks for the link. I was wondering how the school officials got access to the webcam. From the video it appears they don't interact with the webcam directly but use an app that allows them to seen the screen. If the student happens to run an app that displays the webcam view on their screen then the school official would be able to see it too. That also explains why the students didn't notice the "webcam is on" light that most webcams have, they expected it to be on because they switched it on themselves.
Typically, neither do people who are innocent.
Over here (Europe) I'd just tell my bank (electronically) to transfer some amount from my account to hers. Banks don't charge you for that here. Actually, since this is a recurring payment I'd set it up once as a recurring payment and be done with it.
Interesting that you left out Google Search. It's the only one I would possibly pay for.
You could be forced by a third party to reveal how you voted (they would force you to give them your random characters and then they would be able to verify that you voted as you were told to.)
If a user installs some program on either Linux or OS X, what's to stop that program from making outbound connections to port 6667 (to receive instructions) and to port 25 (to send spam)? I've never understood this "if users wouldn't run as Administrator/root, we'd all be safe" argument, you don't need superuser privs to send email.
Whew... Glad we use dd/mm over here, I'm safe!
In my part of the world the Monday after Easter is a national holiday. I've actually implemented the Gaus algorithm to compute the date of Easter in multiple programs, to check if people working on a given date were entitled to extra compensation for working on a holiday.
I could tell you, but then you'd have to kill yourself.
Britney shaving her head
Paris Hilton being in jail was hard to miss even for me. But I managed to not know about Britney. Until you told me, that is... So now I have to go kill myself too. Thank you very much.
That's sad. You wouldn't look at your own practices which cause such a stirr, but you'd rather take the messenger to court.
I guess "if you don't have anything to hide, you don't need privacy" only holds for individuals, not for corporations...
A customer setups up an account with a financial institution (FI). The customer provides information such as a phone number. For any online transaction to be completed, the FI will call that number and ask the person to approve the transaction amount. Failure to approve the amount will result in the transaction being denied.
Already being done over here. I set up a transaction via a web-based interface. My bank will send an SMS message containing the total transaction amount and a secret to a pre-registered phone number. To complete the transaction, I enter the secret into the web-based interface. Wish I had thought of this myself, I think it's pretty neat.
what's half of 5/8"? (A: 5/16")
:-)). On the other hand, it takes me a few seconds (because I literally have to calculate it) to answer "what's bigger, 3/8" or 5/16?". My guess is that you know the answer instantly, because you've seen the question lots of time before.
It's just a matter of what you're accustomed to. For me the question "what's half of 16mm?" is just as easy to answer: 8mm. Hell, I even now what half of 5mm is: 2.5mm (or rather, 2,5 mm
From my point of view, what makes metric easier to work with is not that a meter is somehow better than a foot, it's not, they're both pretty arbitrarily. It's the decimal system underlying it, which allows me to re-use my normal decimal arithmetic skills. 3 times 40cm is 120cm is 1m20. 3 times 5" is 15" and then my normal decimal arithmetic skills break down, 'cause I have to subtract 12 to arrive at 1'3". Again, I can imagine for you it's not much of a problem because you have to do it all the time. Fact remains that you need two sets of arithmetic skills, decimal to compute almost everything and imperial to compute weights and lengths, while I can concentrate on honing just one.
That's what Thinstall (http://thinstall.com/) does: application virtualization.
On a recent trip to the US I rented a small car (I believe it was called a Cobalt) which gave me around 27 mpg. When I got back, I did the math (converting from the liter/100km I'm familiar with to mpg) and found that my European Golf TDI gets around 42 mpg. The Golf feels a little bit bigger (not much) and most certainly feels more powerful, but still it gets 50% more mpg.
I actually went to KSC to see the last launch (STS-116). It's amazing, I can really recommend it. If you're serious about going there, I'd recommend subscribing to NASA's "Armchair Astronaut" newsletter. That will keep you informed when Launch Transportation Tickets are going on sale. A Launch Transportation Ticket gives you access to the closest public viewing site. For the STS-116 launch they were sold out in about 15 min.