Lets look at it from the point of view from those who actualy buy (rent) the IP adresses. That will be in general the internet providers. The end-user will only get one assigned through a provider. (Yes, I am aware that not all IP 'owners' are providers. There are some larger companies involed as well)
Going to IPv6 would mean investment into the technology. Be it training people or buying new hardware, there will be a cost. By not doing that, there was no investment, so no cost. On the other plus side, they could ask money for fixed IP adresses (even though everybody already needed one) and make extra money. The third plus side for them will be that when the IP adresses actualy run out, they can have another item they can charge. You can have a 10.x.x.x adress, you can have an flex IP for a price or a fixed for an even higher price.
Bot only do they want to keep cake and eat it, they also want to sell it. So why would your provider be interested in going towards IPv6? Do not think technical, think financial.
The NAT adresses give ANOTHER plus and that is a better control over what you can and can not see, because they will argue that you are not realy connected to the Internet. So they can go around the net-neutrality.
OK, that last part is speculation. In current reality : there is NO incentive for the majority of IPv4 owners to change. Instead for them it is better NOT to change, because they will be owners of a scarce product that becomes scarcer by the minute. Why give that up? Especuially if giving it up costs you money AND removes income.
Whenever I try to see videos on/., I get a module error andf that the player can not be downloaded. Searching for a solution only gives me articles on/. about video or players (or linux) It is the pnly site that gives me any error and I should not download a player as I already have one.
Oh well. Not missing that much I guess and now waiting for this post to disapear into -20 due to off topic.
*No, it was just a change in the AUP. That new AUP was on display. âoeOn display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.â *Thatâ(TM)s the display department. âoeWith a flashlight.â *Ah, well, the lights had probably gone. âoeSo had the stairs.â *But look, you found the notice, didnâ(TM)t you? âoeYes,â said Arthur, âoeyes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying âBeware of the Leopard.â
PageRank works based on determining how influential you are based on how much things link to you. Makes sense, right?
Quantity does not mean quality. Further there are many more Enlish articles then there are from any other language, no matter that Enlish is not the first most spoken native language.
Enlish is the third most spoken language (350 million) but has 4.5 million articlies. Spanish (405 million) has 1.1 million. So Enlish as 12.8â articles per speaker. Spanish has 2.72â Dutch has 17.78â and Mandarin has 0.80â
So on Wikipedia Sutch has much more influence then English in comparison and a lot more then Mandarin.
If you look at most influential people, I am pretty sure that many of these US presidents and others are not as influential to the native Mandarin speaker as people want to believe.
Violating even a criminals constitutional rights is wrong
Constitutional rights are just ink on paper. Just like guns don't kill people, the constutution does not uphold the rights. You need the people to do that and the majority is not interested other then a discussing point on how awfull it is.
If it is over wifi, you can use Voip providers. I use http://www.poivy.com/en/index.... and can call free for 90 days and then 2 cents per minute. SMS is also pretty cheap. On http://www.backsla.sh/betamax you will see a lot other providers. Be aware that the price of 0 often means for a limited time when you did a top-up of e.g. 10 EUR.
When I don't have network and I want tro call abroad, I just dial into a local number and I call for a local call+2 cents from Belgium to e.g. Spain. US would be 1.5 cents per minute.
I have an unlocked android phone (acer) with a pre-paid card. I have no idea if (and how) my network provider would block Network access to certain sites. I am sure that would be illegal in Europe. (IF you take this as legal advice, you are a dunce.)
So that could reduce your phone and SMS costs. Especially if you want to call a lot from Europe to the US and from the US to Europe.
So where can I find a single PC caching DNS server that I can use. If possible only one file, no configuration (except perhaps pointo to 127.0.0.1) and installable by my grandma.
Oh and obviously is should be free (at least as in speech)
That way I do not need a third party server that will either block sites or use my data. Well, not me, as I already run my own DNS server, but for others this might be a great tool to use.
Because what most people want (and might even need) is just to get to the site. If they want more extended support, there are many other solutions available already.
What would be the requirements: 1) One program (and thus simple install) 2) Only accept connections from localhost 3) Do the standard lookup of DNS starting at root 4) Just point to localhost
So no configuration. No directing towards another server. No nothing else. Just one program running.
SimpleDNS is already way too complex (although most likely good in what it does)
Unfortunately I am a lousy programmer. Otherwise I would have already made it myself. Any takers? Running it on multiple platforms would be great, obviously.
To be clear: patents are to stiffle or hinder or prohibit the competition from making the same prodiuct to you will have a monopoly on that product. (like the lightbulb) Next to it is copyright, which does the same, but for things you create and not so much products. (e.g. the decleration) Then there also is trademark, which protects your brand. (e.g. Linux)
Where it went terribly wrong was that these three expanded untill something extremely unreasonable.
Talking about the invention of the lightbulb: It was Swan
The danger is further not only with the patent trolls. Take e.g. IBM who have so many patents that if they decide to build a Dyson like vacuum cleaner, Dyson could sue them, but the counter sue would prevent him from doing any business anywhere in the world. So he can either give in a give IBM the rights to buil a likewise machine, which goes in against what patents are intended are for or he is not really proteced by his patent a shmans see it (not the law)
Even if patents, copyrights and trademarks are made by the best intentions, we see that they NOW do not work anymore as they were intended.
The least that should happen is to go back to the original state. Copyright 14 years. Patent only on machines for 14 years. Trademarks only on company names and product names in production.
but how complicated can one plow really be... when compared to a modern smart phone?
When we talk about phones and licenses, we also need to include trademarks. What is the shape of the plow. What color did you make the plow. What type of handles. What is the shape of the handles. And obviously there is a difference between a human driven and an animal driven plow.
Oh and obviously if the plow is made after 1492, you can add 'for the potato' to each patent and copyright.
If the plow was invented today by a company, the patent, copyright and trademark lawers would have a field day and come up with way more then just the 5 you think are logical.
Oh and obviously you can not just go to the townsmith and ask for a plow or make parts yourself. That would be equal pirating.
Google already filters content (Try looking for porn images) they are able to filter torrents as well: harry potter filetype:torrent shows that they are unwilling to do so. I also looked at torrenz.eu and I did not find that they are promoting piracy. They are a seachengine. Yes, they are focussed on torrents. Just read https://torrentz.eu/help The real issue here is however not if what they do is legal or not and if it is, so is what Google is doing. The issue is that the police abused their power.
This is a standard way for police to try to get things done. This is NOT illegal and THAT is the reasl problem. From torrentfreak.comt the first instance of a website being confirmed as providing copyright infringing content, the site owner is contacted by officers at PIPCU and offered the opportunity to engage with the police, to correct their behaviour and to begin to operate legitimately. which means that the police decide who is guilty and who is not. That is NOT their job. What they must do is see if they THINK a crime has been done and then ask if that was reala the case or not and THAT is what the court is for. They will be deciding what action to take.
Although valid and logical, the points you make will not make pot legal, it will be used to make alcohol illegal.
As an employer, I personally do not care what you use. Be it coffee, beer, pot or cocaine or even meth, as long as you do your job, I do not care. The moment you don't I will fire your ass. As a person, I will worry more if you used meth compared to using pot or coffee. The moment using, becomes abusing is when I would first try to help and if nothing else works, cut with you on a personal and professional level.
But then I also see no difference between you surfing to porn.com or/. If it does not influence your work, I do not care. I understand that you can not be working 100% all the time.
Here as well: try to see the differnce between using and abusing.
Yet I would never try to compare pot to other drugs as it will be used against you and people will say: you are right we should ban XXX as well. Pot has received enough investigation to know that it is generally harmless. The fact that it is illegal also means that it attracts criminals and cthus crime.
I wish. I Belgium it is law that you sellunblocked phones and also phones without a contract. It used to be forbidden that you sell them as one, untill a minister wanted to buy an iPhone and heb was not able to because they were not sold in Belgium
So he changed the law.
The companies wanted to sell them as a bundle, because they knew they would be making more money and not because Samsung, Nokia or any other company would lower the prices. It was because people would pay more.
One easy way to do that is to sell 'free' phones at a higher price then what they are actualy worth. The continious kickback is of more interest then to have than a one time profit.
I also know that there are enough people who go into debt to have the latest phone and then complain to creditors that they are thieves, because the kids have nothing to eat.
Idiots exist everywhere. The difference is that in many countries you have actual competition.
Slashdot Mirror
Sure it can Hell, MI 48169
FYI if you add &output=classic at the end of the URL, you get back the old Google Maps. Don't you love it how they change things around all the time?
Just curious: how is this 'voting' going for you?
They are thinking about the wording.
They can't decide if it should say "For ever", "For always" or "For all eternity". They are luckily clear about the "... and then some." part.
You know you as a custiomer have lost when you need to choose between Amazon and the MPAA partners.
What you are saying that Amazon is the better choice is like saying they can cut of your left pinky, because you are right handed.
It woyuld not be good, It would be GREAT. That way the end user gives even more money to the providers without actualy having a need to invest.
And those are also the ones who need to invest in I{v6 and you wonder why they don't?
Lets look at it from the point of view from those who actualy buy (rent) the IP adresses. That will be in general the internet providers. The end-user will only get one assigned through a provider. (Yes, I am aware that not all IP 'owners' are providers. There are some larger companies involed as well)
Going to IPv6 would mean investment into the technology. Be it training people or buying new hardware, there will be a cost.
By not doing that, there was no investment, so no cost. On the other plus side, they could ask money for fixed IP adresses (even though everybody already needed one) and make extra money.
The third plus side for them will be that when the IP adresses actualy run out, they can have another item they can charge.
You can have a 10.x.x.x adress, you can have an flex IP for a price or a fixed for an even higher price.
Bot only do they want to keep cake and eat it, they also want to sell it.
So why would your provider be interested in going towards IPv6? Do not think technical, think financial.
The NAT adresses give ANOTHER plus and that is a better control over what you can and can not see, because they will argue that you are not realy connected to the Internet. So they can go around the net-neutrality.
OK, that last part is speculation. In current reality : there is NO incentive for the majority of IPv4 owners to change. Instead for them it is better NOT to change, because they will be owners of a scarce product that becomes scarcer by the minute. Why give that up? Especuially if giving it up costs you money AND removes income.
Whenever I try to see videos on /., I get a module error andf that the player can not be downloaded. /. about video or players (or linux)
Searching for a solution only gives me articles on
It is the pnly site that gives me any error and I should not download a player as I already have one.
Oh well. Not missing that much I guess and now waiting for this post to disapear into -20 due to off topic.
Probably with the right to buy it from them so they can use it elsewhere.
*No, it was just a change in the AUP. That new AUP was on display.
âoeOn display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.â
*Thatâ(TM)s the display department.
âoeWith a flashlight.â
*Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.
âoeSo had the stairs.â
*But look, you found the notice, didnâ(TM)t you?
âoeYes,â said Arthur, âoeyes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying âBeware of the Leopard.â
It makes me feel I should enjoy my lawn and I could if it wasn't for those meddeling kids. Please get of my lawn.
You can test yourself. I am an android.
Quantity does not mean quality. Further there are many more Enlish articles then there are from any other language, no matter that Enlish is not the first most spoken native language.
Enlish is the third most spoken language (350 million) but has 4.5 million articlies. Spanish (405 million) has 1.1 million. So Enlish as 12.8â articles per speaker. Spanish has 2.72â
Dutch has 17.78â and Mandarin has 0.80â
So on Wikipedia Sutch has much more influence then English in comparison and a lot more then Mandarin.
If you look at most influential people, I am pretty sure that many of these US presidents and others are not as influential to the native Mandarin speaker as people want to believe.
Constitutional rights are just ink on paper.
Just like guns don't kill people, the constutution does not uphold the rights.
You need the people to do that and the majority is not interested other then a discussing point on how awfull it is.
If it is over wifi, you can use Voip providers. I use http://www.poivy.com/en/index.... and can call free for 90 days and then 2 cents per minute. SMS is also pretty cheap. On http://www.backsla.sh/betamax you will see a lot other providers. Be aware that the price of 0 often means for a limited time when you did a top-up of e.g. 10 EUR.
When I have network, I just use that to call/SMS with http://www.poivy.com/mobile_vo...
When I don't have network and I want tro call abroad, I just dial into a local number and I call for a local call+2 cents from Belgium to e.g. Spain. US would be 1.5 cents per minute.
I have an unlocked android phone (acer) with a pre-paid card. I have no idea if (and how) my network provider would block Network access to certain sites. I am sure that would be illegal in Europe. (IF you take this as legal advice, you are a dunce.)
So that could reduce your phone and SMS costs. Especially if you want to call a lot from Europe to the US and from the US to Europe.
Look at it as Schrodinger's OS which is both good AND bad.
This reminds me of when the first automobiles were made. They looked like coaches without the horses.
These look like cars without a steeringwheel. Why not start completely from start. e.g. people facing each other, so they can see each other.
So where can I find a single PC caching DNS server that I can use. If possible only one file, no configuration (except perhaps pointo to 127.0.0.1) and installable by my grandma.
Oh and obviously is should be free (at least as in speech)
That way I do not need a third party server that will either block sites or use my data. Well, not me, as I already run my own DNS server, but for others this might be a great tool to use.
Because what most people want (and might even need) is just to get to the site. If they want more extended support, there are many other solutions available already.
What would be the requirements:
1) One program (and thus simple install)
2) Only accept connections from localhost
3) Do the standard lookup of DNS starting at root
4) Just point to localhost
So no configuration. No directing towards another server. No nothing else. Just one program running.
SimpleDNS is already way too complex (although most likely good in what it does)
Unfortunately I am a lousy programmer. Otherwise I would have already made it myself. Any takers? Running it on multiple platforms would be great, obviously.
And evenn if they said it. They have 8 months to change their mind and change the law to give them the right to do so if need be.
To be clear: patents are to stiffle or hinder or prohibit the competition from making the same prodiuct to you will have a monopoly on that product. (like the lightbulb)
Next to it is copyright, which does the same, but for things you create and not so much products. (e.g. the decleration)
Then there also is trademark, which protects your brand. (e.g. Linux)
Where it went terribly wrong was that these three expanded untill something extremely unreasonable.
Talking about the invention of the lightbulb: It was Swan
The danger is further not only with the patent trolls. Take e.g. IBM who have so many patents that if they decide to build a Dyson like vacuum cleaner, Dyson could sue them, but the counter sue would prevent him from doing any business anywhere in the world. So he can either give in a give IBM the rights to buil a likewise machine, which goes in against what patents are intended are for or he is not really proteced by his patent a shmans see it (not the law)
Even if patents, copyrights and trademarks are made by the best intentions, we see that they NOW do not work anymore as they were intended.
The least that should happen is to go back to the original state. Copyright 14 years. Patent only on machines for 14 years. Trademarks only on company names and product names in production.
When we talk about phones and licenses, we also need to include trademarks. What is the shape of the plow. What color did you make the plow. What type of handles. What is the shape of the handles.
And obviously there is a difference between a human driven and an animal driven plow.
Oh and obviously if the plow is made after 1492, you can add 'for the potato' to each patent and copyright.
If the plow was invented today by a company, the patent, copyright and trademark lawers would have a field day and come up with way more then just the 5 you think are logical.
Oh and obviously you can not just go to the townsmith and ask for a plow or make parts yourself. That would be equal pirating.
Google already filters content (Try looking for porn images) they are able to filter torrents as well: harry potter filetype:torrent shows that they are unwilling to do so.
I also looked at torrenz.eu and I did not find that they are promoting piracy. They are a seachengine. Yes, they are focussed on torrents. Just read https://torrentz.eu/help
The real issue here is however not if what they do is legal or not and if it is, so is what Google is doing. The issue is that the police abused their power.
This is a standard way for police to try to get things done. This is NOT illegal and THAT is the reasl problem. From torrentfreak.com t the first instance of a website being confirmed as providing copyright infringing content, the site owner is contacted by officers at PIPCU and offered the opportunity to engage with the police, to correct their behaviour and to begin to operate legitimately. which means that the police decide who is guilty and who is not. That is NOT their job. What they must do is see if they THINK a crime has been done and then ask if that was reala the case or not and THAT is what the court is for. They will be deciding what action to take.
We are NOT on top of the foodchain. The housecat is. They have us trained to bring them food.
Although valid and logical, the points you make will not make pot legal, it will be used to make alcohol illegal.
As an employer, I personally do not care what you use. Be it coffee, beer, pot or cocaine or even meth, as long as you do your job, I do not care. The moment you don't I will fire your ass.
As a person, I will worry more if you used meth compared to using pot or coffee. The moment using, becomes abusing is when I would first try to help and if nothing else works, cut with you on a personal and professional level.
But then I also see no difference between you surfing to porn.com or /. If it does not influence your work, I do not care. I understand that you can not be working 100% all the time.
Here as well: try to see the differnce between using and abusing.
Yet I would never try to compare pot to other drugs as it will be used against you and people will say: you are right we should ban XXX as well. Pot has received enough investigation to know that it is generally harmless. The fact that it is illegal also means that it attracts criminals and cthus crime.
That is because they lost.
I wish. I Belgium it is law that you sellunblocked phones and also phones without a contract. It used to be forbidden that you sell them as one, untill a minister wanted to buy an iPhone and heb was not able to because they were not sold in Belgium
So he changed the law.
The companies wanted to sell them as a bundle, because they knew they would be making more money and not because Samsung, Nokia or any other company would lower the prices. It was because people would pay more.
One easy way to do that is to sell 'free' phones at a higher price then what they are actualy worth. The continious kickback is of more interest then to have than a one time profit.
I also know that there are enough people who go into debt to have the latest phone and then complain to creditors that they are thieves, because the kids have nothing to eat.
Idiots exist everywhere. The difference is that in many countries you have actual competition.