The HTTP Referer header (i.e. short for "referrer") is defined in HTTP (RFC7231 is the latest release). It's optional but widely-deployed, and mostly intended for intra-site diagnostics, e.g. determining which pages have bad links.
There's a few other headers with similar purposes, like User-Agent (which is also widely deployed) and From (the same header as in email can also be used in HTTP, but use in HTTP is very small, usually only seen in crawlers/robots, where the user would want to be contacted by the server admin if there's a problem.) I've never seen issues with defining such a header.
If you want to be that pedantic about it, the W3C publishes specifications endorsed by their member bodies called W3C Recommendations, among other forms technical reports (TRs).
They are specifications because they are the documents authoritative for defining (i.e. specifying) how to interpret an Internet media type.
Every website and their mother was moving to XHTML, the XHTML debacle is that Internet Explorer wouldn't support the application/xhtml+xml media type. That's it. It's perfectly fine to use XHTML now that IE6 is no longer a thing.
And no, their fork is not authoritative, it's only defined for Web browsers, it lacks features required for Internet media types in general, the IETF assigned authority for HTML to the W3C in RFC2854, and the IANA still registers text/html as maintained by the W3C. https://www.iana.org/assignmen...
This is only true for great enough distances. But we're not talking about infinite distances, we're talking about just the size of the earth. It wouldn't shock me if there's an antenna that could do that. Unless it literally shocked me.
For example, radiation emitted from a plane does not fall off, but is directional. (This is true for infinite planes, or until you get far enough away you can see the boundary of the plane, then it starts acting as a point source again.)
This is incorrect. The FCC's Open Internet Order, which most people erroneously referred to as "Net Neutrality", was 400 pages, and was voted on and passed before any member of the public read it.
Why would it take hundreds of pages to say "do not f*ck around with your network"? Unless either (1) there's plenty to interpret, or (2) what the FCC wrote was not Net Neutrality.
The correct answer we have standards organizations that define how the Internet works, not legislatures.
I get the theory, but schools that moved back their start time saw an increase in attendance and achievement. High school start times are often so early you're waking up before sunrise, in winter if not year-round, which blocks the light-synchronization behavior you're talking about.
This story doesn't seem consistent. Uber didn't introduce tipping until about a year ago. You can't rate or tip drivers until after the driver swipes to mark the trip as complete, after which the driver can't re-start the trip. So, you would have seen that the trip was still active on your phone. In good traffic, you'd have had an hour to notice this.
Earth to AC: Bezos doesn't actually have 11 digits in his bank account.
His "wealth" is in the form of Amazon stock, which in turn is mostly physical capital (warehouse buildings, machinery, contracts, trade secrets like their software, and the like), which in turn is used to produce things for people to buy.
Should the government prohibit you from making a movie? Should the government be allowed to block a movie from showing in theaters? Because that's what the government was trying to do, block a movie critical of Hillary Clinton, and that's what Citizens United helped overturn.
The First Amendment is pretty clear: There shall be "no law abridging the freedom of speech."
When the US code defines the term "person" and "whoever", they're saying the laws apply to corporations too. Do you want corporations to be unaccountable to the law?
words importing the singular include and apply to several persons, parties, or things; words importing the plural include the singular;... the words “person” and “whoever” include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals;
It's literally spelled out for you at the very first paragraph of the entire US Code. You don't even have to flip past the first page.
The FCC exists to allocate radio spectrum, full stop. That's the only purpose that has the slightest chance of being authorized by the Constitution. The FCC does not have the authority to censor, dictate routing rules, enforce a Broadcast Flag, or say that a packet-switched Information Service is a phone system (which is exactly how they eventually snuck their rules through the courts, even though phones have compulsory obscenity laws).
Don't tell people not to use hashes. The next think they'll think is "Oh, I should use plaintext instead".
A key-derivation function is also insufficient, since the output is only as strong as the input. Meaning if you have a 10-bit password, the resulting KDF strength will still only be 10 bits.
You must use a Password-Based Key Derivation Function. A PBKDF can add ~10 bits of security to a password. So if a user gives "password" as their password (2 bits), the resulting hash has ~12 bits of security.
In theory, yes, if you have a perfect interpolator and don't mind a few samples of latency.
In practice, try hooking the DAC line-out into your ADC line-in, play some noise or a sweep, and see how much frequency content is preserved. You start to see beating in the final octave, depending on the quality of the chip.
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OK, but then we're back at the IE6 philosophy of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. That set back progress in the Web by a decade.
The HTTP Referer header (i.e. short for "referrer") is defined in HTTP (RFC7231 is the latest release). It's optional but widely-deployed, and mostly intended for intra-site diagnostics, e.g. determining which pages have bad links.
There's a few other headers with similar purposes, like User-Agent (which is also widely deployed) and From (the same header as in email can also be used in HTTP, but use in HTTP is very small, usually only seen in crawlers/robots, where the user would want to be contacted by the server admin if there's a problem.) I've never seen issues with defining such a header.
If you want to be that pedantic about it, the W3C publishes specifications endorsed by their member bodies called W3C Recommendations, among other forms technical reports (TRs).
They are specifications because they are the documents authoritative for defining (i.e. specifying) how to interpret an Internet media type.
Every website and their mother was moving to XHTML, the XHTML debacle is that Internet Explorer wouldn't support the application/xhtml+xml media type. That's it. It's perfectly fine to use XHTML now that IE6 is no longer a thing.
And no, their fork is not authoritative, it's only defined for Web browsers, it lacks features required for Internet media types in general, the IETF assigned authority for HTML to the W3C in RFC2854, and the IANA still registers text/html as maintained by the W3C. https://www.iana.org/assignmen...
No, "ping" isn't in the official HTML specification. What /. linked to is the Google's unofficial fork of HTML.
literally night and day
Science in 2019, ladies and gentlemen, they LITERALLY produced NIGHT AND DAY
This is only true for great enough distances. But we're not talking about infinite distances, we're talking about just the size of the earth. It wouldn't shock me if there's an antenna that could do that. Unless it literally shocked me.
For example, radiation emitted from a plane does not fall off, but is directional. (This is true for infinite planes, or until you get far enough away you can see the boundary of the plane, then it starts acting as a point source again.)
This is incorrect. The FCC's Open Internet Order, which most people erroneously referred to as "Net Neutrality", was 400 pages, and was voted on and passed before any member of the public read it.
Why would it take hundreds of pages to say "do not f*ck around with your network"? Unless either (1) there's plenty to interpret, or (2) what the FCC wrote was not Net Neutrality.
The correct answer we have standards organizations that define how the Internet works, not legislatures.
I get the theory, but schools that moved back their start time saw an increase in attendance and achievement. High school start times are often so early you're waking up before sunrise, in winter if not year-round, which blocks the light-synchronization behavior you're talking about.
This story doesn't seem consistent.
Uber didn't introduce tipping until about a year ago. You can't rate or tip drivers until after the driver swipes to mark the trip as complete, after which the driver can't re-start the trip. So, you would have seen that the trip was still active on your phone. In good traffic, you'd have had an hour to notice this.
Too-early start times, especially for high schools, are a well known reason for poor academic performance:
http://time.com/4741147/school...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/s...
Earth to AC: Bezos doesn't actually have 11 digits in his bank account.
His "wealth" is in the form of Amazon stock, which in turn is mostly physical capital (warehouse buildings, machinery, contracts, trade secrets like their software, and the like), which in turn is used to produce things for people to buy.
Hear that whoosh? That's the sound of missing the point
Copying car keys to steal the car would be theft.
Copying the title to try to take ownership would be fraud.
Copying a work of art to sell it as your own would is called infringement.
These are already illegal without needing to criminalize copying per se.
Does that make it less of a law?
Should the government prohibit you from making a movie? Should the government be allowed to block a movie from showing in theaters? Because that's what the government was trying to do, block a movie critical of Hillary Clinton, and that's what Citizens United helped overturn.
The First Amendment is pretty clear: There shall be "no law abridging the freedom of speech."
When the US code defines the term "person" and "whoever", they're saying the laws apply to corporations too. Do you want corporations to be unaccountable to the law?
What if the FCC passed the original Open Internet Order without any public comment, wouldn't that be problematic?
But that's exactly what the FCC did. That's what they had to do.
And Pai was the one fighting to try to make the rules public: https://youtu.be/MqnnsFiiIwY?t...
Copying isn't stealing.
From US Code Title 1 Chapter 1 Section 1:
It's literally spelled out for you at the very first paragraph of the entire US Code. You don't even have to flip past the first page.
Read: "I found a bunch of people who made straw man arguments, therefore, it's a good idea to force this! What could possibly go wrong!"
Read the Constitution.
You complain about politicians being redeemable and then you list two of the three most toxic and hateful officials in all of DC?
The FCC exists to allocate radio spectrum, full stop. That's the only purpose that has the slightest chance of being authorized by the Constitution.
The FCC does not have the authority to censor, dictate routing rules, enforce a Broadcast Flag, or say that a packet-switched Information Service is a phone system (which is exactly how they eventually snuck their rules through the courts, even though phones have compulsory obscenity laws).
Don't tell people not to use hashes. The next think they'll think is "Oh, I should use plaintext instead".
A key-derivation function is also insufficient, since the output is only as strong as the input. Meaning if you have a 10-bit password, the resulting KDF strength will still only be 10 bits.
You must use a Password-Based Key Derivation Function. A PBKDF can add ~10 bits of security to a password. So if a user gives "password" as their password (2 bits), the resulting hash has ~12 bits of security.
In theory, yes, if you have a perfect interpolator and don't mind a few samples of latency.
In practice, try hooking the DAC line-out into your ADC line-in, play some noise or a sweep, and see how much frequency content is preserved. You start to see beating in the final octave, depending on the quality of the chip.
When you pay some $x/month to upgrade from DSL to Fiber, or pick between 40Mbps and 150Mbps cable, just what, exactly, do you think you're doing?