Yes, my edits have generally also been fairly minor and in technical articles. I have had one or two minor disagreements with people being a little hasty or headstrong about my changes, and some of my additions have been permanently removed though with plausible reasons.
There are definite peak hours for customer traffic, eg work hours for businesses, and evenings and weekends for home users, so even the very generous 2:1 contention ratio that you seem to be suggesting probably would still result in a saturated backhaul from time to time.
Thus shifting as much discretionary stuff away from that peak as possible will help, just as for power grids, but that's a separate topic.
I've gone and read a bunch of your work, including blogs, and it is very interesting and definitely a public good if you pull it off, thank you.
I like smart distributed algorithms.
I am still baffled from an afternoon's reading round the subject if to be effective your anti-BB magic has to happen at (nearly) every edge device, or (nearly) every lossy (or speed-mismatched) network gap, or if BB can be fixed by judicious ISP infrastructure deployment, or would cumulatively benefit if multiple of those happened.
You're coming across as rather rude and condescending in your various posts.
As it happens I do kinda understand the problem having run one of the first live commercial IP connections in the UK since it was possible, and for example had to have a word with a small startup called something weird like 'Google' that more connections doesn't equal lower latency either when you are bandwidth constrained (which everyone on the UK was by orders of magnitude more than the US to the bafflement of G's engineers).
So back off accusing people here of being stupid or drunk, and try being helpful, I suggest.
Personally, I stopped visiting the States years ago. The border agents have done a splendid job of making me feel unwelcome there. There are plenty of other places in the world to spend my tourist dollars that don't automatically assume I am the enemy, collect my social media profiles and fingerprints, and grope me like a horny teenager every time I visit.
Yep, me too, nicely summarised, though I gave up visiting before the full groping thing I believe.
blaming the bloke on the other side of the Atlantic when it seems that poor engineering must have been in place even to allow what he did, is like blaming my kids when the curtains come down again (I *know* they need fixing, and have for a while).
I set up because I did not like the UKNet / Pipex duopoly that didn't seem to be to have even heard of customer service, and IIRC liked to claim copyright in all materials (eg USENET) that was routed via them... %-P
I imported and supplied Demon's first DNS server, a second-hand Sun workstation. I still remember carrying into their office and setting it up on a table for them. Cliff S was there I'm fairly sure...
I used to be a big fan of Altavista, and as I was running UUCP nodes for mail and USENET ('exnet', 'exnet2') of the mapping project run by the same guy.
I also remember when some new company started jamming up all my HTTP server capacity (and my horribly expensive 64kpbs line to London Docklands for international live IP connectivity) presumably trying to overcome 'latency'. A little company beginning with 'G'. I sent a nice note to their engineers suggesting that they be a little more careful in their spidering, but to this day I still have to defend against them actually bringing my servers down by accident. What was it, ah yes, "Google" indeed!
But this was '95-ish and at uni some years earlier we had Mosaic and some very limited live access to the outside world, including isolated protocols such as FTP (ic.ac.uk was good) and Gopher... But Altavista in '95 really made a difference.
Yes, I think its behaviour is poor customer service and in some aspects actually illegal, eg in terms of the Disability Discrimination Act. That's why I'm attempting to get the regulators to hold their feet to the fire on both counts.
Just because marketing/IT cannot be bothered to do the right thing doesn't make it right...
The bank that I had to abandon kept insisting that it was not *possible*. I have asked the ombudsman to make clear the difference between *possible* and *not wanted by marketing*.
Yes, stroppy teenage shop assistants tearing up perfectly valid slips and saying that my money was no good and no I could not feed my family waiting in the restaurant (etc) was annoying. But a few precise and strongly worded complaints up the management chains coupled with a few long long chats with VISA and MC scheme HQs in the UK seems to have got the "do what the terminal tells you to" message across. Finally, mainly.
My (old) bank would not promise to reimburse contactless payments even if I told them that I had not made them and would not make them. They refused to even confirm this is writing. They also refused to turn off contactless.
That bank no longer has me as a customer.
To me, especially for business transactions, I don't want any payment made that I have not explicitly authorised. My old bank would not listen to that simple requirement.
I have a formal complaint in, which I fully intend to escalate to the regulator when it is ignored. As an ex-banker I feel a little twinge of pleasure in pointing out their poor behaviour.
Please note that not everyone CAN reasonably remember distinct decent PINs for a wallet full of cards, never mind those who cannot see a keypad for example.
The rest of the world is not exactly like you, thankfully.
I refuse to have a card with contactless / tap / NFC / PayWave for this reason, especially for business accounts.
I have had to move banks to avoid contactless, and have shopped one of my old banks to the regulator for claiming that it was *impossible* to issue a card without it. Unlike by personal and business banks. Duh. If a bank can't tell the difference between "won't" (or "don't want to") and "can't" then they shouldn't be in charge of other people's money IMHO.
The card schemes and banks do care about security in general, but this seems to me, in combination with some other features, an abdication of their fiduciary duties.
I think that the 'chip' element is good, the PIN (and the complete refusal to accept any responsibility for fraud when a PIN is enabled) less so.
I speak as the ex-CTO of a small credit card company.
Simply not true: I have some very fact-heavy exchanges with people who know what they are talking about, spiced with suitable links.
I find Twitter useful in the way that specialist parts of USENET used to be: people who know things sharing them concisely, without needing to have egos stroked.
I know that's not what everyone uses Twitter for, and the odd cat video *may* have snuck through my timeline, but...
If you have a problem with costs, fine, but that's new in this thread. You appeared to be complaining about energy losses, which as you see are not a problem per se.
So short of learning telepathy and clairvoyance to guess your next objection, what are you suggesting that I ought to be doing? I *am* fairly familiar with HVDC parameters. You appear to be flailing randomly to justify your explicitly stated ignorance.
Meanwhile please drop the rude tone and condescending attitude please.
The facts are established and widely published (3%/1000km). I don't have any to find, and it's not my duty to Google them for you. It's you denying that they apply somehow, it seems.
The distances in Oz are not outlandish, eg compared to existing interconnectors, and really quite a lot of loss may be better than hitting the ceiling on MWh rates.
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Yes, my edits have generally also been fairly minor and in technical articles. I have had one or two minor disagreements with people being a little hasty or headstrong about my changes, and some of my additions have been permanently removed though with plausible reasons.
As you say, not taking it too personally is key.
Rgds
Damon
There are definite peak hours for customer traffic, eg work hours for businesses, and evenings and weekends for home users, so even the very generous 2:1 contention ratio that you seem to be suggesting probably would still result in a saturated backhaul from time to time.
Thus shifting as much discretionary stuff away from that peak as possible will help, just as for power grids, but that's a separate topic.
Rgds
Damon
This has simply not been my experience of Wikipedia: I've had very little trouble overall with the numerous edits that I've made.
Rgds
Damon
That's gracious of you.
I've gone and read a bunch of your work, including blogs, and it is very interesting and definitely a public good if you pull it off, thank you.
I like smart distributed algorithms.
I am still baffled from an afternoon's reading round the subject if to be effective your anti-BB magic has to happen at (nearly) every edge device, or (nearly) every lossy (or speed-mismatched) network gap, or if BB can be fixed by judicious ISP infrastructure deployment, or would cumulatively benefit if multiple of those happened.
Rgds
Damon
You're coming across as rather rude and condescending in your various posts.
As it happens I do kinda understand the problem having run one of the first live commercial IP connections in the UK since it was possible, and for example had to have a word with a small startup called something weird like 'Google' that more connections doesn't equal lower latency either when you are bandwidth constrained (which everyone on the UK was by orders of magnitude more than the US to the bafflement of G's engineers).
So back off accusing people here of being stupid or drunk, and try being helpful, I suggest.
Rgds
Damon
Personally, I stopped visiting the States years ago. The border agents have done a splendid job of making me feel unwelcome there. There are plenty of other places in the world to spend my tourist dollars that don't automatically assume I am the enemy, collect my social media profiles and fingerprints, and grope me like a horny teenager every time I visit.
Yep, me too, nicely summarised, though I gave up visiting before the full groping thing I believe.
Rgds
Damon
RTFA
Simply not true, see my earlier comment above.
It happens regularly.
Quite a lot of my replies are asking people to stop doing it because it's ignorance, posturing or worse!
Rgds
Damon
As I said here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
blaming the bloke on the other side of the Atlantic when it seems that poor engineering must have been in place even to allow what he did, is like blaming my kids when the curtains come down again (I *know* they need fixing, and have for a while).
Rgds
Damon
IBMPCUG (IBM PC User Group) was one I liked.
I set up because I did not like the UKNet / Pipex duopoly that didn't seem to be to have even heard of customer service, and IIRC liked to claim copyright in all materials (eg USENET) that was routed via them... %-P
I imported and supplied Demon's first DNS server, a second-hand Sun workstation. I still remember carrying into their office and setting it up on a table for them. Cliff S was there I'm fairly sure...
Rgds
Damon
I used to be a big fan of Altavista, and as I was running UUCP nodes for mail and USENET ('exnet', 'exnet2') of the mapping project run by the same guy.
I also remember when some new company started jamming up all my HTTP server capacity (and my horribly expensive 64kpbs line to London Docklands for international live IP connectivity) presumably trying to overcome 'latency'. A little company beginning with 'G'. I sent a nice note to their engineers suggesting that they be a little more careful in their spidering, but to this day I still have to defend against them actually bringing my servers down by accident. What was it, ah yes, "Google" indeed!
Rgds
Damon
Oblig: http://www.exnet.com/springboa...
In the very very early days of my UK ISP I had to ask the US NSF for permission to send 'commercial' packets across the Internet core routers!
Sadly I have lost their (paper) letter granting me that permission.
Rgds
Damon
Oblig: http://www.exnet.com/springboa...
Well, I ran one of the first UK ISPs, and here is our fossil 'start' page for users:
http://www.exnet.com/springboa...
Most of the links and graphics have now died!
But this was '95-ish and at uni some years earlier we had Mosaic and some very limited live access to the outside world, including isolated protocols such as FTP (ic.ac.uk was good) and Gopher... But Altavista in '95 really made a difference.
Rgds
Damon
Yes, UK bank.
Yes, I think its behaviour is poor customer service and in some aspects actually illegal, eg in terms of the Disability Discrimination Act. That's why I'm attempting to get the regulators to hold their feet to the fire on both counts.
Just because marketing/IT cannot be bothered to do the right thing doesn't make it right...
Rgds
Damon
Not all are changeable. Having shared passwords/PINs is very poor practice, and some institutions may forbid it.
Rgds
Damon
The bank that I had to abandon kept insisting that it was not *possible*. I have asked the ombudsman to make clear the difference between *possible* and *not wanted by marketing*.
Rgds
Damon
It's good that your life is simple enough to allow that.
And that you don't have PINs vying with too many on-line accounts with strong, distinct passwords which you never write down.
I try to minimise all the above and still there are too many.
Rgds
Damon
Yes, stroppy teenage shop assistants tearing up perfectly valid slips and saying that my money was no good and no I could not feed my family waiting in the restaurant (etc) was annoying. But a few precise and strongly worded complaints up the management chains coupled with a few long long chats with VISA and MC scheme HQs in the UK seems to have got the "do what the terminal tells you to" message across. Finally, mainly.
Rgds
Damon
My (old) bank would not promise to reimburse contactless payments even if I told them that I had not made them and would not make them. They refused to even confirm this is writing. They also refused to turn off contactless.
That bank no longer has me as a customer.
To me, especially for business transactions, I don't want any payment made that I have not explicitly authorised. My old bank would not listen to that simple requirement.
I have a formal complaint in, which I fully intend to escalate to the regulator when it is ignored. As an ex-banker I feel a little twinge of pleasure in pointing out their poor behaviour.
Rgds
Damon
Please note that not everyone CAN reasonably remember distinct decent PINs for a wallet full of cards, never mind those who cannot see a keypad for example.
The rest of the world is not exactly like you, thankfully.
Damon
I refuse to have a card with contactless / tap / NFC / PayWave for this reason, especially for business accounts.
I have had to move banks to avoid contactless, and have shopped one of my old banks to the regulator for claiming that it was *impossible* to issue a card without it. Unlike by personal and business banks. Duh. If a bank can't tell the difference between "won't" (or "don't want to") and "can't" then they shouldn't be in charge of other people's money IMHO.
The card schemes and banks do care about security in general, but this seems to me, in combination with some other features, an abdication of their fiduciary duties.
I think that the 'chip' element is good, the PIN (and the complete refusal to accept any responsibility for fraud when a PIN is enabled) less so.
I speak as the ex-CTO of a small credit card company.
Rgds
Damon
Simply not true: I have some very fact-heavy exchanges with people who know what they are talking about, spiced with suitable links.
I find Twitter useful in the way that specialist parts of USENET used to be: people who know things sharing them concisely, without needing to have egos stroked.
I know that's not what everyone uses Twitter for, and the odd cat video *may* have snuck through my timeline, but...
Rgds
Damon
If you have a problem with costs, fine, but that's new in this thread. You appeared to be complaining about energy losses, which as you see are not a problem per se.
So short of learning telepathy and clairvoyance to guess your next objection, what are you suggesting that I ought to be doing? I *am* fairly familiar with HVDC parameters. You appear to be flailing randomly to justify your explicitly stated ignorance.
Meanwhile please drop the rude tone and condescending attitude please.
Really, this is silly.
The facts are established and widely published (3%/1000km). I don't have any to find, and it's not my duty to Google them for you. It's you denying that they apply somehow, it seems.
The distances in Oz are not outlandish, eg compared to existing interconnectors, and really quite a lot of loss may be better than hitting the ceiling on MWh rates.
Rgds
Damon