The IRS isn't a critical infrastructure so that seems unlikely. The recently lost ones were on a hard drive that died so it's even more unlikely the DHS stole a copy.
We are less safe than ever and we have done it to ourselves.
Actually, we're MORE safe than ever, despite what we've done to ourselves with ridiculous measures. Education and social programs do a much better job than metal detectors.
That was my thought upon seeing them assembling the rectangular sections on site.
What does seem interesting is the idea at the end of the article of constructing a printer on site and having it print out more interesting shaped houses. In that case, there would be tremendous gains since this machine is very flexible in the patterns it can print. A work crew could spend a few days setting it up, 24h to print the house, then a few days polishing and cleaning up the printer. The roof might take a bit more time, but it could still be useful.
That's a very strange definition of backup. Sounds more like you're talking about an offline backup. Typically backup systems are connected to the system that made them so they can be restored easily.
My (not very smart - no apps) TV can't even handle viewing the channel listings on broadcast for too long before it freezes/crashes/sound stops working. I can't imagine it would do very well if it had to handle more than 30 channels.
. If they're actually friends, they'll know what's false or flatly implausible.
But isn't the point of putting the information up to inform the people that wouldn't know what's false? Making the assumption that putting information up is useful, you're not gaining the use out of that if you put false information up.
I recently switched from FiOS to Comcast and was pleasantly surprised to see my router giving out IPv6 addresses to all the computers on the network. Somewhat surprising that Verizon doesn't support it even though they have the newer networking technology.
Why has people not generally adopted V6 years ago ?
Probably because the hardware in (almost) every routing device needs to be updated to support it. Even if you went with a simple expansion of IPv4 it wouldn't be simple because a router that's looking for a 4 byte address isn't going to know what to do with an 8 byte address. Might as well go with a 16 byte address while we're updating everything.
The transition to IPv6 is happening already. Lots of people have it without even knowing and newer consumer hardware is able to support IPv6 without any issues. It's already getting to the point where some ISPs are NATing their users for IPv4, but giving them IPv6 addresses. Some are even doing strange things like converting IPv4 traffic to IPv6 if an AAAA record is available for a site.
First, $1 is pretty cheap, especially for a large organization with lots of IPs
The bigger problem is: How do people give back IPs? Say 4 people give back their spare IPs to the ISP. The ISP now has 4 extras randomly distributed in a block that they could give out if needed, but that just means complicated routing if they want to return them to the general pool.
In the amount of time a system could be created to take them back, and convince all the corporations/organizations to return them, they'll be exhausted almost instantly and we're back to still needing IPv6 but we wasted all this time recovering IPs.
How is it a scam? I can see calling them a taxi company without proper licensing, but they're providing a service people want, not scamming them out of money.
They just ended mass film production so it's pretty much all digital these days. Someone just presses start (or it's programmed to start at the appropriate time). Nothing to go wrong unless the lamp blows or the DRM on the movie breaks.
That's probably a side effect of having a modem/router/wifi hybrid since DOCSIS(?) certification requires they prevent the user from tampering with settings, so in order for it to be configurable, you need to tell the ISP what settings you want and the ISP can set them with SNMP
Because it's IMPOSSIBLE for a company to have customers other than its primary revenue stream. Even if you sell products to your other products and provide support to your products and ask your products for feedback to make your products better for your other products. Or something like that.
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The IRS isn't a critical infrastructure so that seems unlikely. The recently lost ones were on a hard drive that died so it's even more unlikely the DHS stole a copy.
We are less safe than ever and we have done it to ourselves.
Actually, we're MORE safe than ever, despite what we've done to ourselves with ridiculous measures. Education and social programs do a much better job than metal detectors.
That was my thought upon seeing them assembling the rectangular sections on site.
What does seem interesting is the idea at the end of the article of constructing a printer on site and having it print out more interesting shaped houses. In that case, there would be tremendous gains since this machine is very flexible in the patterns it can print. A work crew could spend a few days setting it up, 24h to print the house, then a few days polishing and cleaning up the printer. The roof might take a bit more time, but it could still be useful.
The lack of data services makes them not such an attractive option. The expensive in-flight wifi doesn't really cut it.
More interesting statistics would be the number of people that use devices at all during the flight, though that would be more difficult to determine.
Yeah when I point my phone at something I want it to tell me how far away it is and the surface temperature and all sorts of good things!
But bikes don't cause much wear-and-tear on the roads or emit toxins into the air.
That's a very strange definition of backup. Sounds more like you're talking about an offline backup. Typically backup systems are connected to the system that made them so they can be restored easily.
My (not very smart - no apps) TV can't even handle viewing the channel listings on broadcast for too long before it freezes/crashes/sound stops working. I can't imagine it would do very well if it had to handle more than 30 channels.
I finally got one with a chip, but it's chip and SIGN, not chip and PIN so that kind of defeats the purpose and makes it useless in other countries.
Probably had a crappy old computer with 100 MB of storage space so everyone needed to use POP3 and store it locally on their computer.
. If they're actually friends, they'll know what's false or flatly implausible.
But isn't the point of putting the information up to inform the people that wouldn't know what's false? Making the assumption that putting information up is useful, you're not gaining the use out of that if you put false information up.
But then you're also making facebook useless for you/your friends.
You could just stop using it in which case they wouldn't be able to collect data as easily and you wouldn't have to do the extra work.
Well at least some distributors have stopped providing them.
I recently switched from FiOS to Comcast and was pleasantly surprised to see my router giving out IPv6 addresses to all the computers on the network. Somewhat surprising that Verizon doesn't support it even though they have the newer networking technology.
Why has people not generally adopted V6 years ago ?
Probably because the hardware in (almost) every routing device needs to be updated to support it. Even if you went with a simple expansion of IPv4 it wouldn't be simple because a router that's looking for a 4 byte address isn't going to know what to do with an 8 byte address. Might as well go with a 16 byte address while we're updating everything.
The transition to IPv6 is happening already. Lots of people have it without even knowing and newer consumer hardware is able to support IPv6 without any issues. It's already getting to the point where some ISPs are NATing their users for IPv4, but giving them IPv6 addresses. Some are even doing strange things like converting IPv4 traffic to IPv6 if an AAAA record is available for a site.
First, $1 is pretty cheap, especially for a large organization with lots of IPs
The bigger problem is: How do people give back IPs? Say 4 people give back their spare IPs to the ISP. The ISP now has 4 extras randomly distributed in a block that they could give out if needed, but that just means complicated routing if they want to return them to the general pool.
In the amount of time a system could be created to take them back, and convince all the corporations/organizations to return them, they'll be exhausted almost instantly and we're back to still needing IPv6 but we wasted all this time recovering IPs.
Are they? They seemed pretty firm about only providing digital starting in 2014.
How is it a scam? I can see calling them a taxi company without proper licensing, but they're providing a service people want, not scamming them out of money.
I'd throw that in the "DRM on the movie breaks"
There might be some places showing old films, but at least the big studios have stopped production entirely on 35mm starting this year.
They just ended mass film production so it's pretty much all digital these days. Someone just presses start (or it's programmed to start at the appropriate time). Nothing to go wrong unless the lamp blows or the DRM on the movie breaks.
That's probably a side effect of having a modem/router/wifi hybrid since DOCSIS(?) certification requires they prevent the user from tampering with settings, so in order for it to be configurable, you need to tell the ISP what settings you want and the ISP can set them with SNMP
Power over coax to ethernet? I don't think Comcast runs plain ethernet to anyone since the signal would degrade pretty fast.
Because it's IMPOSSIBLE for a company to have customers other than its primary revenue stream. Even if you sell products to your other products and provide support to your products and ask your products for feedback to make your products better for your other products. Or something like that.