This doesn't match up. In effect, the DMCA showed ISPs a clear path how to avoid liability. This is what makes services with rampant infringement possible (like Youtube).
Eh, Excel uses binary floating point. Financial apps should use decimal floating point or fixed point, though. Float vs fixed doesn't matter that much as long as you've got a sufficiently large mantissa, binary vs decimal is key.
you've taken away 100% of their compensation, and added 1/10 of one percent of the towers needed to blanket the nation
Data-induced congestion occurs only where there's already coverage, and where smartphone users live. So carpeting the entire nation is not necessary. If that's your goal, your calculation is seriously off anyway because you need to deal with the backhaul issue.
Thread-local garbage collection is a third phase of garbage collection added on top of the Objective-C 2.0 garbage collection system, which speeds up the garbage collection system even further. By concentrating GC to what has occurred in a single thread, the GC system can delay and reduce the cost of a slow global sweep even beyond the generational GC algorithm.
Do you know how they detect that a pointer has escaped? Is there some sort of write barrier? How does this work with the somewhat unsafe base language?
Microsoft had announced that they had an RTM version, and now they make such a profound change. This is really odd. Is there any good explanation? Have they a separate, decoupled RTM process for the European versions? Has there never been a "Windows 7 E"?
And how much would it cost to get something adware-infested into the browser selection screen?
Without the CCTVs, it's not really that different from homes for the elderly.
Except it's "non-negociable2 meaning "forced on families" and highly invasive to their lifes. I'd challenge it in the european courts for breach of human rights in a heartbeat.
I guess lots of old people don't want to be put into a home, either. As you said, it's invasive, and it's undeniable that you've lost control of your own life when it hits you. It's better if they are taken care of in the environment which they are used to, but that's not always possible.
Other news sources (Telegraph, Daily Mail) mention "24-hour supervision", but no CCTVs. Without the CCTVs, it's not really that different from homes for the elderly.
Even if you emigrate to another democractic country, you will have fewer rights on paper than you have in the UK now. Typically, there are registration requirements and restrictions on net-related activities (such as blogging; journalistic activities often need a special permit). You will not have voting rights, either, and there's quite a bit of government-approved discrimination. Taxation could be an issue, too, depending on how much you're paying.
For the Commonwealth, this might be different for you as a UK national, but then you've only got Canada and New Zealand, I think.
Anyone else worried by the potential adverse effects of a 60GHz Wi-Fi versus the current 2.4GHz - 5GHz range?
Car radar typically operates in the 60 GHz range, too, so you can be quite sure that the waves won't propagate through walls and other barriers.
In fact, those frequencies are a poor choice for comms applications because you need a repeater in every room, and outdoor applications will suffer when it's raining.
Sadly, Openfire did have some issues when I used with icedtea6. The best example I can think of is the MSN transport. MSN simply wont connect because of the security algorithm it uses. This is caused by icedtea6 missing that algorithm which Sun's JDK has.
Hmm, have you tried it with Debian's openjdk-6-jre package? I think the Sun security provider was opened quite some time ago.
Do you remember which algorithm causes the trouble? This is really a bit odd because even the Sun-derived JDKs (like those from IBM) differ a bit in their security providers.
It's still a government trying to tell its people what words they should and should not see, which is censorship and something to notice and oppose.
It's not the government. IEDR is a private company, which, like most of the other private companies running ccTLDs, ended up with the TLD management monopoly by accident. Certainly, decisions by the registry can be challenged in the courts---real courts, not internal, registry-controlled review procedures. (The linked article doesn't make it clear that court action was actually involved.)
Don't get started about the turd that is called NAT, that's a problem posing as a solution.
The odd thing is that those who use NAT and especially proxies today won't have much trouble switching to IPv6 tomorrow. You just have to make your gateway IPv6-capable, and off you go. IPv6 is a non-issue for many (most?) businesses.
Are you sure? I admit I'm not in the hosting business, but that cost seems extremely high to me. I don't even pay that much for my home connection ($29.95 with a 200GB quota, $10 per 100GB slice over). I would assume that, for those huge upstream pipes, the cost will be much lower (2 or 3 cents per GB maybe?).
If I understand the situation correctly, Sony's offer includes content distribution. Presumably, users in Europe, the U.S. and Asia all have adequate bandwidth when downloading it. When you buy mere transit at one place in the world, you may get prices around $.03 (although this is not particularly likely, at least at most places), but it's likely that some of your users have trouble reaching you at decent bandwidths. And you still have to deal with all the servers on your own (and multiple connections for redundancy etc.).
I'm surprised STP was off by default. I remember in 1999 or so I had some trouble that resulted in my having to turn STP off on Cisco switches (they shipped with it on (these were 3524s and a 5505). I can't actually remember why. I think it had something to do with a Novell server?
The problem likely was that the machine required network at boot (typical Netware clients were like that, I've been told). STP started when the link went up, but it took a rather long time, so forwarding had not been enabled when the client required the network.
Since then, I have seen exactly that situation many times in small office environments. Also, the classic plugging in while also being on the wireless side of the network.
Port security helps a lot.
STP is also not fail-safe because typical switches happily forward traffic even if the STP process running on the CPU has died. If you build a L2 core, one broken switch (or OS glitch on a switch) can still take down your entire network easily (it's one of those pesky distributed, multiple single points of failure). In general, L3 networks are somewhat more robust in this regard, so it's often a good idea to avoid switch-to-switch connections (but that might be difficult, as it is difficult to tell L2 devices from L3 devices these days).
It's an OpenSSL bug that turned out to affect BIND.
No, it's a misuse of an OpenSSL API from within BIND, so the error is on BIND's side. It's of extremely low impact, though.
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And all I can say is that it's about time someone put pressure on the home & enterprise networking hardware companies. What a stagnant squabbling market that has become.
The fine article seems to be down, so I can't tell what it claims. But I suppose the "Google Router", if it exists, will put an end to Juniper and Cisco in the same way as Bigtable does for Oracle, PostgreSQL etc.: it doesn't because the technology is so fundamental for Google's success that they simply don't share it.
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This doesn't match up. In effect, the DMCA showed ISPs a clear path how to avoid liability. This is what makes services with rampant infringement possible (like Youtube).
Eh, Excel uses binary floating point. Financial apps should use decimal floating point or fixed point, though. Float vs fixed doesn't matter that much as long as you've got a sufficiently large mantissa, binary vs decimal is key.
Use fixed point numbers? You know, in financial apps, you never store things as floating points, use cents or 1/1000th dollars instead!
As Excel uses floating point, so the "never" part doesn't appear to be complete true.
f_X(x) = integral(-infinity, infinity, f(x,y) dy)
Just type $$f_X(x) = \int_\infty^\infty f(x,y) dy$$ instead.
So I only need smartphone coverage where the majority of smartphones reside?
I thought the whole point of the discussion was about congestion, not about providing clean pipes to those who already enjoy clean air?
And the article talks about its size: 8 cubic feet. Even if this number doesn't include storage, it is surprisingly small.
you've taken away 100% of their compensation, and added 1/10 of one percent of the towers needed to blanket the nation
Data-induced congestion occurs only where there's already coverage, and where smartphone users live. So carpeting the entire nation is not necessary. If that's your goal, your calculation is seriously off anyway because you need to deal with the backhaul issue.
That's some fine internet tough talk, but realistically the best solution open to the common man is to simply vote with your dollars and leave.
This isn't about the garden variety Verizon, it's about ex-UUNET/MCI/Worldcom IP carrier services. Such things used to be fixable.
Thread-local garbage collection is a third phase of garbage collection added on top of the Objective-C 2.0 garbage collection system, which speeds up the garbage collection system even further. By concentrating GC to what has occurred in a single thread, the GC system can delay and reduce the cost of a slow global sweep even beyond the generational GC algorithm.
Do you know how they detect that a pointer has escaped? Is there some sort of write barrier? How does this work with the somewhat unsafe base language?
Microsoft had announced that they had an RTM version, and now they make such a profound change. This is really odd. Is there any good explanation? Have they a separate, decoupled RTM process for the European versions? Has there never been a "Windows 7 E"?
And how much would it cost to get something adware-infested into the browser selection screen?
I guess lots of old people don't want to be put into a home, either. As you said, it's invasive, and it's undeniable that you've lost control of your own life when it hits you. It's better if they are taken care of in the environment which they are used to, but that's not always possible.
Other news sources (Telegraph, Daily Mail) mention "24-hour supervision", but no CCTVs. Without the CCTVs, it's not really that different from homes for the elderly.
And what are these easier-to-steal-from-adsense methods you're referring to?
Adsense for Domains plus some typo-squatting registrations, perhaps. See slashdot.info for an example.
Even if you emigrate to another democractic country, you will have fewer rights on paper than you have in the UK now. Typically, there are registration requirements and restrictions on net-related activities (such as blogging; journalistic activities often need a special permit). You will not have voting rights, either, and there's quite a bit of government-approved discrimination. Taxation could be an issue, too, depending on how much you're paying.
For the Commonwealth, this might be different for you as a UK national, but then you've only got Canada and New Zealand, I think.
Anyone else worried by the potential adverse effects of a 60GHz Wi-Fi versus the current 2.4GHz - 5GHz range?
Car radar typically operates in the 60 GHz range, too, so you can be quite sure that the waves won't propagate through walls and other barriers.
In fact, those frequencies are a poor choice for comms applications because you need a repeater in every room, and outdoor applications will suffer when it's raining.
Sadly, Openfire did have some issues when I used with icedtea6. The best example I can think of is the MSN transport. MSN simply wont connect because of the security algorithm it uses. This is caused by icedtea6 missing that algorithm which Sun's JDK has.
Hmm, have you tried it with Debian's openjdk-6-jre package? I think the Sun security provider was opened quite some time ago.
Do you remember which algorithm causes the trouble? This is really a bit odd because even the Sun-derived JDKs (like those from IBM) differ a bit in their security providers.
Why don't you install OpenJDK instead Sun's proprietary Java implementation? Is there a technical reason for this choice?
It's still a government trying to tell its people what words they should and should not see, which is censorship and something to notice and oppose.
It's not the government. IEDR is a private company, which, like most of the other private companies running ccTLDs, ended up with the TLD management monopoly by accident. Certainly, decisions by the registry can be challenged in the courts---real courts, not internal, registry-controlled review procedures. (The linked article doesn't make it clear that court action was actually involved.)
Don't get started about the turd that is called NAT, that's a problem posing as a solution.
The odd thing is that those who use NAT and especially proxies today won't have much trouble switching to IPv6 tomorrow. You just have to make your gateway IPv6-capable, and off you go. IPv6 is a non-issue for many (most?) businesses.
Are you sure? I admit I'm not in the hosting business, but that cost seems extremely high to me. I don't even pay that much for my home connection ($29.95 with a 200GB quota, $10 per 100GB slice over). I would assume that, for those huge upstream pipes, the cost will be much lower (2 or 3 cents per GB maybe?).
If I understand the situation correctly, Sony's offer includes content distribution. Presumably, users in Europe, the U.S. and Asia all have adequate bandwidth when downloading it. When you buy mere transit at one place in the world, you may get prices around $.03 (although this is not particularly likely, at least at most places), but it's likely that some of your users have trouble reaching you at decent bandwidths. And you still have to deal with all the servers on your own (and multiple connections for redundancy etc.).
I mean, without IE pre-installed on the box, how is Joe User going to go and download Firefox, Safari, Opera or Chrome?
With an FTP client, like in the old Netscape days. ftp.mozilla.org and ftp.opera.com are still around, ready to serve files.
I'm surprised STP was off by default. I remember in 1999 or so I had some trouble that resulted in my having to turn STP off on Cisco switches (they shipped with it on (these were 3524s and a 5505). I can't actually remember why. I think it had something to do with a Novell server?
The problem likely was that the machine required network at boot (typical Netware clients were like that, I've been told). STP started when the link went up, but it took a rather long time, so forwarding had not been enabled when the client required the network.
Since then, I have seen exactly that situation many times in small office environments. Also, the classic plugging in while also being on the wireless side of the network.
Port security helps a lot.
STP is also not fail-safe because typical switches happily forward traffic even if the STP process running on the CPU has died. If you build a L2 core, one broken switch (or OS glitch on a switch) can still take down your entire network easily (it's one of those pesky distributed, multiple single points of failure). In general, L3 networks are somewhat more robust in this regard, so it's often a good idea to avoid switch-to-switch connections (but that might be difficult, as it is difficult to tell L2 devices from L3 devices these days).
Something like Ubuntu subverts our capitalist assumptions, because it actually gets cheaper the better it gets, and the more people who use it.
Uhm, isn't this the default market behavior in IT when you pay for features (and not brands like Apple or Microsoft)?
It's an OpenSSL bug that turned out to affect BIND.
No, it's a misuse of an OpenSSL API from within BIND, so the error is on BIND's side. It's of extremely low impact, though.
And all I can say is that it's about time someone put pressure on the home & enterprise networking hardware companies. What a stagnant squabbling market that has become.
The fine article seems to be down, so I can't tell what it claims. But I suppose the "Google Router", if it exists, will put an end to Juniper and Cisco in the same way as Bigtable does for Oracle, PostgreSQL etc.: it doesn't because the technology is so fundamental for Google's success that they simply don't share it.