1) It shouldn't matter. The agent should do his damned job whether I'm a jerk or not.
2) Pointing out that someone has made a spelling error is not generally considered sufficient to be a pompous ass.
It does matter. If you patronise people they will get back at you by asking the same question again and again and again until you snap. And then their colleagues will sue you for murdering the fuck out of them. You take some losses, but in the end the organisation WINS.
Wait a minute. If I post "Man the harpoons" type comments on videos of fat people with a made up name, does that mean I'm guilty of a crime. Shit, what am I gonna do on Saturday night.
If she'd been a man presenting this, she'd have made the equivalent of surgeon general in her career. -_- No joke--Despite the blessing of Queen Victoria herself, she was denied a chairman position that oversaw general health affairs in the military. I doubt there's an academic statistics book currently in circulation that gives her any credit for this. Even this--a zine read by only a tiny, tiny fraction of the people who go to school every year and rely on her innovation. Hell, the entire field of field medicine was in disrepute at that time in history -- who needs medicine? Most nurses spent at least part of their time in the kitchen, which was viewed as more important. She made it important. It's been two centuries since then and she's still only a footnote. Today, graphical statistics are used in every trained discipline from engineering to medicine to management, but nobody knows this woman's name. They should -- they owe her a lot.
Actually most of the real work was done by her assistant, skilled surgeon Jack D Ripper. Unfortunately Queen Victoria and Florence both conspired to erase Jack from history because of his gender. As a pioneer masculinist Jack to revenge by chopping up whores in the East End of London.
What happens if NAT is used all over the place? You could imagine a bunch of subnets that use one address to the outside world but have hundreds or thousands of machines internally.
Actually come to think of it, NATted routers would allow ISPs to transition to IPv6 on the backbone. Users would still see IPv4 on their side of the router though. I mean even in an IPv4 backbone the ISP doesn't have to support all modems and routers, they can require ones that support PPPoA or PPPoE, certain ADSL parameters and so on. There's nothing stopping them requiring IPv6 support too. Not technical users just buy a package of a cheap router and ADSL, more technical ones will find out what's the best third party router that supports the DSL network they are connected to. I'd guess if ISPs deployed IPv6 networks, new DSL routers would support IPv6.
There's a lot to be said for NAT from a security point of view too. Since you need to open up holes manually for incoming services, incoming connections for anything else will be blocked which makes it impossible for people to exploit most security flaws on the machines behind the router.
If you read the Wiki page on NAT it contains very strange comments like this
Some Internet service providers (ISPs) only provide their customers with "local" IP addresses.[citation needed]Thus, these customers must access services external to the ISP's network through NAT. As a result, the customers cannot achieve true end-to-end connectivity, in violation of the core principles of the Internet as laid out by the Internet Architecture Board.
Benefits
In addition to the convenience and low cost of NAT, the lack of full bidirectional connectivity can be regarded in some situations as a feature rather than a limitation. To the extent that NAT depends on a machine on the local network to initiate any connection to hosts on the other side of the router, it prevents malicious activity initiated by outside hosts from reaching those local hosts. However, the same benefit can be achieved with a firewall implementation on the routing device.
The greatest benefit of IP-masquerading NAT is that it has been a practical solution to the impending exhaustion of IPv4 address space. Networks that previously required a Class B IP range or a block of Class C network addresses can be connected to the Internet with as little as a single dynamic or static IP address. The more common arrangement is having machines that require true bidirectional and unfettered connectivity supplied with a routable IP address, while having machines that do not provide services to outside users tucked away behind NAT with only a few IP addresses used to enable Internet access.
Some[6] have also called this exact benefit a major drawback, since it delays the need for the implementation of IPv6, quote:
"... it is possible that its [NAT] widespread use will significantly delay the need to deploy IPv6.... It is probably safe to say that networks would be better off without NAT,..."
Oh noes! The gubermint needs to regulate now! Ban NAT and force everyone to use IPv6 so that the principle of end to end connectivity laid down by the Internet Architecture board is respected! Maybe this will be part of the Network Neutrality bill.
Reading between the lines it seems like IPv6 was a revolutionary solution to running out of address space. NAT was an evolutionary one. As usual the market has picked the evolutionary solution and more purist types are whining about it.
Such as refined sugar. It's amazing how hard it is to find a decent lunch in some places that isn't full of sugar. This bothers me because it did lead to a degenerative disease in me -- I'm diabetic. Didn't know any better growing up. We know better now, but there's this amazing momentum to the food industry -- will they change now that everyone knows? Without regulation? I'm not sure.
Type 2 diabetes is caused by obesity. Obesity is caused by eating too much.
It's a free country. You can eat unhealthily and get sick, just like you can buy a gun and blow your brains out. Don't try to use the government to take away the choice from the rest of us just because you gambled and lost with your health.
It's not too useful at the moment but I could imagine Intel adding a bunch of instructions to next generation processors, beefing up the embedded graphics, load balancing between the two and end with something 10x faster. And at that point they've got something good enough for all but the hardcore gamers. And they have another good reason for people to buy fast processors.
As a viable product it's useless. As a starting point for optimisation, given that they have time to rev the processor and graphics chip before Windows 7, it's interesting.
Level 1 (Pre-Conventional)
1. Obedience and punishment orientation
(How can I avoid punishment?)
2. Self-interest orientation
(What's in it for me?) Level 2 (Conventional)
3. Interpersonal accord and conformity
(Social norms)
(The good boy/good girl attitude)
4. Authority and social-order maintaining orientation
(Law and order morality) Level 3 (Post-Conventional)
5. Social contract orientation
6. Universal ethical principles
(Principled conscience) Level 4 (Internets morality)
7. Search for essays on the Internet to rationalise stealing shit.
8. Write your own mashups of the essays and make cash of AdWords.
9. Profit + free shit + Karma on slashdot + sex with Xeni Jardin.
So rather than having a system which works and is convenient you want to inconvenience as many people as possible in the hope that they mail bomb NVidia in the like and NVidia decide to open source their drivers?
That is the result of the disfunctional and undemocratic security council where the USA has a vetoe. Don't confuse security council resolutions for something representing world opinion.
Except when they agree with you presumably, like just before the war.
He was law abiding up to that point. And he reported burglaries to the police before and they did nothing. If they won't do anything about it, they shouldn't stop him.
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What OS version were you using?
Since, there are lots of people who have the degree, I think that you will be in bad shape to compete against them.
I look for sneaky, greedy little shits. I find University dulls humanity's natural feral instincts.
That said, I've met some wonderfully devious graduates so I don't discriminate.
You need to look into their eyes for glintiness if their CV turns out to be genuine.
Way to follow the conversation, you idiot. My story does not involve Dell at all.
With people skills like this I really wonder how anyone could find you hard to deal with.
Two points:
1) It shouldn't matter. The agent should do his damned job whether I'm a jerk or not.
2) Pointing out that someone has made a spelling error is not generally considered sufficient to be a pompous ass.
It does matter. If you patronise people they will get back at you by asking the same question again and again and again until you snap. And then their colleagues will sue you for murdering the fuck out of them. You take some losses, but in the end the organisation WINS.
Wait a minute. If I post "Man the harpoons" type comments on videos of fat people with a made up name, does that mean I'm guilty of a crime. Shit, what am I gonna do on Saturday night.
If she'd been a man presenting this, she'd have made the equivalent of surgeon general in her career. -_- No joke--Despite the blessing of Queen Victoria herself, she was denied a chairman position that oversaw general health affairs in the military. I doubt there's an academic statistics book currently in circulation that gives her any credit for this. Even this--a zine read by only a tiny, tiny fraction of the people who go to school every year and rely on her innovation. Hell, the entire field of field medicine was in disrepute at that time in history -- who needs medicine? Most nurses spent at least part of their time in the kitchen, which was viewed as more important. She made it important. It's been two centuries since then and she's still only a footnote. Today, graphical statistics are used in every trained discipline from engineering to medicine to management, but nobody knows this woman's name. They should -- they owe her a lot.
Actually most of the real work was done by her assistant, skilled surgeon Jack D Ripper. Unfortunately Queen Victoria and Florence both conspired to erase Jack from history because of his gender. As a pioneer masculinist Jack to revenge by chopping up whores in the East End of London.
Run it and see.
Given that poor people pay a higher proportion of fuel tax than rich people fuel taxes are a good example of regressive taxation
Corporal Punishment is sending Major Pain to ur Private Parts.
What happens if NAT is used all over the place? You could imagine a bunch of subnets that use one address to the outside world but have hundreds or thousands of machines internally.
Actually come to think of it, NATted routers would allow ISPs to transition to IPv6 on the backbone. Users would still see IPv4 on their side of the router though. I mean even in an IPv4 backbone the ISP doesn't have to support all modems and routers, they can require ones that support PPPoA or PPPoE, certain ADSL parameters and so on. There's nothing stopping them requiring IPv6 support too. Not technical users just buy a package of a cheap router and ADSL, more technical ones will find out what's the best third party router that supports the DSL network they are connected to. I'd guess if ISPs deployed IPv6 networks, new DSL routers would support IPv6.
There's a lot to be said for NAT from a security point of view too. Since you need to open up holes manually for incoming services, incoming connections for anything else will be blocked which makes it impossible for people to exploit most security flaws on the machines behind the router.
If you read the Wiki page on NAT it contains very strange comments like this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation#Drawbacks
Some Internet service providers (ISPs) only provide their customers with "local" IP addresses.[citation needed]Thus, these customers must access services external to the ISP's network through NAT. As a result, the customers cannot achieve true end-to-end connectivity, in violation of the core principles of the Internet as laid out by the Internet Architecture Board.
Benefits
In addition to the convenience and low cost of NAT, the lack of full bidirectional connectivity can be regarded in some situations as a feature rather than a limitation. To the extent that NAT depends on a machine on the local network to initiate any connection to hosts on the other side of the router, it prevents malicious activity initiated by outside hosts from reaching those local hosts. However, the same benefit can be achieved with a firewall implementation on the routing device.
The greatest benefit of IP-masquerading NAT is that it has been a practical solution to the impending exhaustion of IPv4 address space. Networks that previously required a Class B IP range or a block of Class C network addresses can be connected to the Internet with as little as a single dynamic or static IP address. The more common arrangement is having machines that require true bidirectional and unfettered connectivity supplied with a routable IP address, while having machines that do not provide services to outside users tucked away behind NAT with only a few IP addresses used to enable Internet access.
Some[6] have also called this exact benefit a major drawback, since it delays the need for the implementation of IPv6, quote:
"... it is possible that its [NAT] widespread use will significantly delay the need to deploy IPv6. ... It is probably safe to say that networks would be better off without NAT, ..."
Oh noes! The gubermint needs to regulate now! Ban NAT and force everyone to use IPv6 so that the principle of end to end connectivity laid down by the Internet Architecture board is respected! Maybe this will be part of the Network Neutrality bill.
Reading between the lines it seems like IPv6 was a revolutionary solution to running out of address space. NAT was an evolutionary one. As usual the market has picked the evolutionary solution and more purist types are whining about it.
I am General Failure, reading your hard disk.
It was those Republican fuckers driving SUVs.
Such as refined sugar. It's amazing how hard it is to find a decent lunch in some places that isn't full of sugar. This bothers me because it did lead to a degenerative disease in me -- I'm diabetic. Didn't know any better growing up. We know better now, but there's this amazing momentum to the food industry -- will they change now that everyone knows? Without regulation? I'm not sure.
Type 2 diabetes is caused by obesity. Obesity is caused by eating too much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes_mellitus_type_2#Prevention
It's a free country. You can eat unhealthily and get sick, just like you can buy a gun and blow your brains out. Don't try to use the government to take away the choice from the rest of us just because you gambled and lost with your health.
It's not too useful at the moment but I could imagine Intel adding a bunch of instructions to next generation processors, beefing up the embedded graphics, load balancing between the two and end with something 10x faster. And at that point they've got something good enough for all but the hardcore gamers. And they have another good reason for people to buy fast processors.
As a viable product it's useless. As a starting point for optimisation, given that they have time to rev the processor and graphics chip before Windows 7, it's interesting.
It's theft. There's no further quibble about the ethics.
I see you are at stage 4 of Kohlberg's stages of moral development
That had some stages missing
Level 1 (Pre-Conventional)
1. Obedience and punishment orientation
(How can I avoid punishment?)
2. Self-interest orientation
(What's in it for me?)
Level 2 (Conventional)
3. Interpersonal accord and conformity
(Social norms)
(The good boy/good girl attitude)
4. Authority and social-order maintaining orientation
(Law and order morality)
Level 3 (Post-Conventional)
5. Social contract orientation
6. Universal ethical principles
(Principled conscience)
Level 4 (Internets morality)
7. Search for essays on the Internet to rationalise stealing shit.
8. Write your own mashups of the essays and make cash of AdWords.
9. Profit + free shit + Karma on slashdot + sex with Xeni Jardin.
Actually I wouldn't waste my time trying to convince them, or using Linux.
So rather than having a system which works and is convenient you want to inconvenience as many people as possible in the hope that they mail bomb NVidia in the like and NVidia decide to open source their drivers?
At you personally possibly, not at Linux users that stay quiet and know their place.
Whoosh!
There are clear downsides, but you must admit the US would have the advantage of surprise at this point.
Like that poor Brit who was looking for info. about UFOs.
That Brit was a Red. He gave an interview to the Guardian.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Luckily both those tyrants and patriots can be Iraqi or North Korean.
That is the result of the disfunctional and undemocratic security council where the USA has a vetoe.
Don't confuse security council resolutions for something representing world opinion.
Except when they agree with you presumably, like just before the war.
I have a freakin' botnet!
Thank you Santa, it's just what I wanted, and a month early too.
As for the rest of you, PH3AR ME!1
He was law abiding up to that point. And he reported burglaries to the police before and they did nothing. If they won't do anything about it, they shouldn't stop him.