In fact, the GPS may not even be necessary, if one has access to cellsite location information, but of course this approach will never be as accurate as GPS
I believe GPS units are much more accurate than cellsite information, even with all the triangulation tricks you can throw at it.
How do they make sure that the number entered is indeed from the person interested in the product? What stops me from entering (say) Darl McBride's number a million times?
It allows you to make direct connections from any computer to any other computer connected to the Internet. The way it was supposed to be. I'm guessing most peer to peer applications contain a lot of code that is designed to work around NAT.
Why does it remove the need for servers?
It doesn't. Not servers in the sense we normally think of them
Why does it mean that we "won't need providers such as Skype anymore because we'll be able to do it all ourselves"?
I believe what he is referring to is the fact that Skype tries to set up a connection between two users who are both behind NAT boxes by using another computer that is not NATed. That part wouldn't be necessary. We'd still need the Skype software, though.
you'll still need [...] software vendors like Skype
Right. It's just that Skype wouldn't need to use the kinds of ugly kludges they do now to get around NATed users.
In fact the only thing about IPv6 that would seem to me to help P2P is that slighly more people might end up not being NATed
The hope is that nearly no one will have to be NATed. Please don't start that security story again. NAT is NOT about security. NAT boxes usually also perform firewall duty (and usually not very well). That's it
but that won't affect anything much
I disagree. I think it will help a great deal. Network administrators and creators of network-aware applications spend a great deal of time trying to make sure that NATed users won't see much of a difference (and it needs to be reinvented for every application). If they no longer need to spend time trying to work around such a broken concept, we can hope to see real innovation.
There was nothing wrong with his use of the phrase "however many thousands". And where the hell did you get 2^24 from? 10.0.0.[0-255] is 256 addresses, 2^8. Count them.
"However many thousands" is a reference to the "thousands" of private nets that use those addresses. Before criticizing someone else, you might want to actually pay attention to what was said. Get off your high horse.
You're not limiting the contracts a company can use. What the GP was saying is that shrink wrapped EULAs should be illegal, since you have no idea what the terms of the "contract" are until you open it.
Want to add restrictions? Spell them out at the time of purchase.
Yes it is. It's also in every good architecture textbook. Not new by any means. Maybe these guys actually DID do something new. However, the article is skimpy enough on details to be nearly worthless.
Branches can be predicted with fairly high accuracy. And most new architectures have some form of speculation in the core. And they actually execute 16 instructions at once. Only their word is 128 instructions long.
It doesn't actually look any different. 128 instruction per "block" executed in parallel, just like a superscalar processor. This has been around since the time of the Pentiums (The pentiums weren't VLIW, though). What exactly is new?
I'm probably nitpicking, but an engine isn't at peak efficiency when you put the "pedal to the metal". Maximum efficiency comes earlier - depending on the engine, it can be between 2500 and 6000 RPM
I'd be very surprised if any sites are still using SSL 2.0
Seeing a nice yellow "secure" address bar is reassuring for most people (I assume. It's reassuring to me). Using a known bad encryption scheme is almost like fraud, then.
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Or Nokia!
How do they make sure that the number entered is indeed from the person interested in the product? What stops me from entering (say) Darl McBride's number a million times?
I think he was referring to the fact that the screens are 19 inches, not feet.
...loggers that don't encrypt their data
You'd still be able to detect it, right?
There was nothing wrong with his use of the phrase "however many thousands". And where the hell did you get 2^24 from? 10.0.0.[0-255] is 256 addresses, 2^8. Count them.
"However many thousands" is a reference to the "thousands" of private nets that use those addresses. Before criticizing someone else, you might want to actually pay attention to what was said. Get off your high horse.
They're sending the messages through the internet - through some sort of gateway. Do you still have to pay for that?
You're not jamming one phone. 165 messages/sec can take out all of Manhattan. Or so they claim, anyway
You're not limiting the contracts a company can use. What the GP was saying is that shrink wrapped EULAs should be illegal, since you have no idea what the terms of the "contract" are until you open it.
Want to add restrictions? Spell them out at the time of purchase.
Care to explain? How is it a hindrance to India in particular?
Yes it is. It's also in every good architecture textbook. Not new by any means. Maybe these guys actually DID do something new. However, the article is skimpy enough on details to be nearly worthless.
Branches can be predicted with fairly high accuracy. And most new architectures have some form of speculation in the core. And they actually execute 16 instructions at once. Only their word is 128 instructions long.
Or perhaps it was the designers tripping..
It doesn't actually look any different. 128 instruction per "block" executed in parallel, just like a superscalar processor. This has been around since the time of the Pentiums (The pentiums weren't VLIW, though). What exactly is new?
Looks like it's stabilized now.. (0017 EDT). Wonder what happened for those few minutes? Think we'll see a story on this soon?
I'm probably nitpicking, but an engine isn't at peak efficiency when you put the "pedal to the metal". Maximum efficiency comes earlier - depending on the engine, it can be between 2500 and 6000 RPM
Weighted keys, probably.
I'd be very surprised if any sites are still using SSL 2.0
Seeing a nice yellow "secure" address bar is reassuring for most people (I assume. It's reassuring to me). Using a known bad encryption scheme is almost like fraud, then.
What happens after the BIOS screen and before you "log in" to the web interface? Surely it runs some sort of operating system?
What does MS have to do with this?
They were thinking of switching from UNIX to Linux.
RTFA
..switching from a Unix server platform to Linux running on Itanium
(Emphasis mine)