This type of thing predates the internet. Back in the days when hobbyist electronics/radio construction was reasonably popular and 8-bit (6502, Z80, 6809 etc based) were becoming available, most of the magazines were pretty 'light' on the technical/theoretical side of the hobby. Then a new magazine was launched with a much higher technical level. This high technical level did not last long as lots of people wrote in asking for it to be dumbed down and despite other letters pointing out there were a number of other magazines catering for the less technical reader the published 'caved in' and lowered the technical level to that of the existing magazines. It folded soon afterwards.
Slashdot is one of the very few sites on which I have clicked on an advertisement and actually followed through and purchased what was being advertised.
Surely in this internet age, anyone writing a blog or publishing a web page is the equivalent of 'The Press' in the days these precedents were set. In those days, there were no large multi-national media conglomerations, most of the 'Press' was local to a town or district and the editorial reflected the views of the (local) editor. "The Press" was anyone who could set up a printing press, employ some journalists (though some were one-man bands), print a paper and get people to buy it. So modern day blogs are just as much (or even more) in the spirit of what the drafters of the First Amendment to the US Constitution considered "The Press" as the current TV news and newspaper conglomerates.
Will NFTables still allow packets to be selectively (eg certain TCP SYN packets) passed to a user-space filter which both mangles the packet and dynamically changes the NATting? With IP tables this was relatively simple (both defining the Iptables rules and writing the userspace filter)
Maybe this is just a case of Not Invented Here, and the broadcasters are wishing that they had thought of, and implemented, first the idea of streaming live on the internet and having a PVR like service. The BBC has had this for some time allowied you to stream the currently broadcast programmes and more recently allowed you to pause and resume, as you can on a PVR. Other UK broadcasters have similar internet offerings, some even allowing you to watch certain programmes before they are broadcast on-air.
It is not just professional singers who do not need electronic 'tricks' to produce good music. Many churches, schools, colleges etc have excellent choirs, and have done since before the recorded music industry was even thought of. Similarly there are many excellent amateur orchestras, and Northern British collieries had world famous brass bands - whose members were miners.
If the blocks are applied to any IP address pointed to by a blocked site, maybe as a demonstration a blocked site should add the IP addresses of all of the major UK political parties, BBC iPlayer, Youtube, Netflix, lovefilm etc. If mainstream media sites get (automatically) blocked then perhaps the backlash might force TPTB into either removing the requirement to block or require the ISPs to use a blocking mechanism with less potential for collateral damage.
The question here is why women should care who they are sharing a (public) bathroom with? As far as I know women normally 'do their business' in the privacy of a closed (and unless the lock is broken, locked) cubicle. In places such as clubs and at concerts and festivals where the queues for the female facilities are too long, women are quite happy to use the male facilities where men are using the urinals in open view. So if they are prepared to use the mens bathroom when it suits them, they should not care if the (to outward appearance female) woman using the adjacent cubicle used to be a man.
I don't know, but I recently read that 50% of all birth defects involve the sexual organs, apparently it's not that uncommon for surgeons to have to decide soon after the child is born.
Why do surgeons have to decide soon after birth? Are the ambiguous genitalia life threatening? Why not just leave alone and let nature take its course and either defer the gender determination or take a DNA sample and use that to determine whether the baby is male or female. I am sure that many governments would be in favour of the latter, having a record of everyone's DNA taken at birth would be Big Brothers pipe dream.
Does that not depend on the company with which the domain is registered? Some will automatically create a default web page advertising the registrar. Then, if the domain is only used for mail or only sub-domains are used,,,
Most people end up using BT Wholesale's ADSL for the last mile, which is treated as a utility and regulated as such. Other ISPs use that but have their own arrangements for peering. Presumably they need to co-operate with BT to get IPV6 working, so they are doomed.
No. The ISP connects to BT Wholesale using PPTP and customers establish a PPP link to the ISP, so ISPs can (as mine does) send both IPv4 and IPv6 over the PPP link. It does, of course, require the customer's router to support IPv6.
Sadly, this mentality is too prevalent in the Science/IT community. It goes like this: If 'person X' can't prove to me that 'law Y' is 'beneficial/valid/just/whatever-polarised-measure-of-truth-I-like-at-the-time', then we should all just ignore it.
I disagree. The way I think it goes is "This law/procedure was introduced because of X and Y. Now X & Y no longer apply/exist but we have situation A which means that the reason/justification for these laws no longer exists so the laws should be revoked or amended to take into account the current circumstances.
For some events, such as Tennis, the (BBC) live streams without commentary were more enjoyable than those with commentary. On the commentary-less feeds, you could clearly hear the umpire, line judges and the crowd. When there was commentary, the sound level from the court was reduced below that of the commentary. Added to that, much of the commentary consisted of the commentators inane chatter amongst themselves about what the players had done in the past. This actually detracted from the enjoyment of the event.
Which is one of the stupid things with TV stations (especially the satellite ones). They will only allow people from the 'target' location to subscribe. So, for example, a UK ex-pat living on mainland Europe cannot subscribe to Sky (the UK satellite broadcaster) and view domestic UK channels and someone living in the UK cannot subscribe to mainland European providers. As long as someone is willing to pay the subscription fee and can receive the signals from the satellite, what difference should it make which country they live in?
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You will have to ask Brains of International Rescue.
This type of thing predates the internet. Back in the days when hobbyist electronics/radio construction was reasonably popular and 8-bit (6502, Z80, 6809 etc based) were becoming available, most of the magazines were pretty 'light' on the technical/theoretical side of the hobby. Then a new magazine was launched with a much higher technical level. This high technical level did not last long as lots of people wrote in asking for it to be dumbed down and despite other letters pointing out there were a number of other magazines catering for the less technical reader the published 'caved in' and lowered the technical level to that of the existing magazines. It folded soon afterwards.
Slashdot is one of the very few sites on which I have clicked on an advertisement and actually followed through and purchased what was being advertised.
Linda: The blocked content includes child pornography sir.
What will you do now?
Reply, "so sign me up to the filter which ONLY blocks child pornography."
Surely in this internet age, anyone writing a blog or publishing a web page is the equivalent of 'The Press' in the days these precedents were set. In those days, there were no large multi-national media conglomerations, most of the 'Press' was local to a town or district and the editorial reflected the views of the (local) editor. "The Press" was anyone who could set up a printing press, employ some journalists (though some were one-man bands), print a paper and get people to buy it. So modern day blogs are just as much (or even more) in the spirit of what the drafters of the First Amendment to the US Constitution considered "The Press" as the current TV news and newspaper conglomerates.
Will NFTables still allow packets to be selectively (eg certain TCP SYN packets) passed to a user-space filter which both mangles the packet and dynamically changes the NATting? With IP tables this was relatively simple (both defining the Iptables rules and writing the userspace filter)
Maybe this is just a case of Not Invented Here, and the broadcasters are wishing that they had thought of, and implemented, first the idea of streaming live on the internet and having a PVR like service. The BBC has had this for some time allowied you to stream the currently broadcast programmes and more recently allowed you to pause and resume, as you can on a PVR. Other UK broadcasters have similar internet offerings, some even allowing you to watch certain programmes before they are broadcast on-air.
IBM did try this with the PS/2 range which used the proprietary Micro-channel slots instead of ISA. This was a spectacular flop.
It is not just professional singers who do not need electronic 'tricks' to produce good music. Many churches, schools, colleges etc have excellent choirs, and have done since before the recorded music industry was even thought of. Similarly there are many excellent amateur orchestras, and Northern British collieries had world famous brass bands - whose members were miners.
If the blocks are applied to any IP address pointed to by a blocked site, maybe as a demonstration a blocked site should add the IP addresses of all of the major UK political parties, BBC iPlayer, Youtube, Netflix, lovefilm etc. If mainstream media sites get (automatically) blocked then perhaps the backlash might force TPTB into either removing the requirement to block or require the ISPs to use a blocking mechanism with less potential for collateral damage.
Now the government will put a tax on piss...
Already been done by the Roman Emperor Vespasian.
And if you, because of disease or accident, have had your penis amputated, should you therefore be sent to the women's facility?
The question here is why women should care who they are sharing a (public) bathroom with? As far as I know women normally 'do their business' in the privacy of a closed (and unless the lock is broken, locked) cubicle. In places such as clubs and at concerts and festivals where the queues for the female facilities are too long, women are quite happy to use the male facilities where men are using the urinals in open view. So if they are prepared to use the mens bathroom when it suits them, they should not care if the (to outward appearance female) woman using the adjacent cubicle used to be a man.
I don't know, but I recently read that 50% of all birth defects involve the sexual organs, apparently it's not that uncommon for surgeons to have to decide soon after the child is born.
Why do surgeons have to decide soon after birth? Are the ambiguous genitalia life threatening? Why not just leave alone and let nature take its course and either defer the gender determination or take a DNA sample and use that to determine whether the baby is male or female. I am sure that many governments would be in favour of the latter, having a record of everyone's DNA taken at birth would be Big Brothers pipe dream.
There are home routers which support IPv6. I am using one - a Techicolor TG582n with an IPv6 /64 routed to it over ADSL.
Does that not depend on the company with which the domain is registered? Some will automatically create a default web page advertising the registrar. Then, if the domain is only used for mail or only sub-domains are used ,,,
But it not his email provider which is not encrypting the connections, but the supplier's email provider over whom he no control.
No. The ISP connects to BT Wholesale using PPTP
Correction, I should have written L2TP not PPTP.
Most people end up using BT Wholesale's ADSL for the last mile, which is treated as a utility and regulated as such. Other ISPs use that but have their own arrangements for peering. Presumably they need to co-operate with BT to get IPV6 working, so they are doomed.
No. The ISP connects to BT Wholesale using PPTP and customers establish a PPP link to the ISP, so ISPs can (as mine does) send both IPv4 and IPv6 over the PPP link. It does, of course, require the customer's router to support IPv6.
There are ISPs which offer IPv6 over DSL to all areas of the UK. So, at least in UK, IPv6 is available for anyone who can get DSL.
But will it be able to identify the instructions - stop, go or take a different route (eg because of an incident ahead) - given by a trafic cop?
What about reporing the debt/very late payment to one or more of the credit reference agencies?
Sadly, this mentality is too prevalent in the Science/IT community. It goes like this:
If 'person X' can't prove to me that 'law Y' is 'beneficial/valid/just/whatever-polarised-measure-of-truth-I-like-at-the-time', then we should all just ignore it.
I disagree. The way I think it goes is "This law/procedure was introduced because of X and Y. Now X & Y no longer apply/exist but we have situation A which means that the reason/justification for these laws no longer exists so the laws should be revoked or amended to take into account the current circumstances.
For some events, such as Tennis, the (BBC) live streams without commentary were more enjoyable than those with commentary. On the commentary-less feeds, you could clearly hear the umpire, line judges and the crowd. When there was commentary, the sound level from the court was reduced below that of the commentary. Added to that, much of the commentary consisted of the commentators inane chatter amongst themselves about what the players had done in the past. This actually detracted from the enjoyment of the event.
Which is one of the stupid things with TV stations (especially the satellite ones). They will only allow people from the 'target' location to subscribe. So, for example, a UK ex-pat living on mainland Europe cannot subscribe to Sky (the UK satellite broadcaster) and view domestic UK channels and someone living in the UK cannot subscribe to mainland European providers. As long as someone is willing to pay the subscription fee and can receive the signals from the satellite, what difference should it make which country they live in?