but simply sending a FB message counting towards being "served" doesn't really make sense to me - especially if the server had already made an attempt by e-mail (which you can at least request a read-receipt).
Uh? Really?
I'm sure that you receive read-receipts, except if your mail provider only offers POP access (no SMTP) or your ISP blocks SMTP or you use a client which doesn't do read-receipts or if "read-receipt" means something totally unrelated to humans looking at text.
Then sure, read-receipts might say something useful.
Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities. [...] Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
Liquid DHMO, on the other hand, is safe at up to a concentration level (in human tissue) of at least two thirds.
It also helps us flush toxins from our kidneys, it drives photosynthesis and can be applied to your crops to increase their growth. It also protects your internal stomach wall from being damaged by hydrochloric acid, and has various health benefits (be wary of excessive consumption, though: that may cause hyperfrequent urination).
I think DHMO has benefits that outweigh the disadvantages, and its use should be allowed with governmental regulation.
You can't justify a use of technology with "it's just a technology".
Nuclear weapons, guns, knives; they're all "just" a technology. Them being "just" a technology doesn't justify using them to kill people.
I'm not saying throttling is as bad as killing people. I'm saying that the argument "it's just a technology" can't distinguish between killing and throttling. If you don't think that throttling and killing are equally bad, I think you should revise your argument.
So long as you don't violate your contract
Even so, it sounds like the ISP the querent works at is sort of in a monopoly position. Squeezing out monopoly money out of customers isn't exactly a nice thing to do.
I'm not saying they're about to change the agreement Darth Vader-style. But it does seem like the boss wants to use power to enrich the company at the expense of (as opposed to mutual benefit for) the customers.
you shouldn't make out that it's all sunshine and roses in bandwidth cap land
He doesn't. He said how much money you have to spend on a pittance of a cap.
This morning, I saw a 25/25 fiber connection advertised on a bus (that's 25 megabit per second in both directions). I can only assume that it's cap free; all the Internet(s) are cap-free in Denmark AFAIK. Cost: 44 Australian bucks (http://www.google.com/search?q=169+DKK+in+australian+dollars).
It sounds like I want to stay the fuck away from Australian interblags.
If you want to be ahead of class, here are a few things to keep you occupied:
Implement a red-black binary search tree (they're a royal PITA to get right, even though the rules can be stated in a simple way).
Implement two different Max-Flow algorithms
Take a look at Turing Machines and understand why the halting problem is undecidable
Understand what a buffer overflow exploit is and how they work. Write a sample overflow exploit against your own dummy program made for that purpose.
Figure out what you might write to a buffer, if you later cast it to a function pointer and call it. Figure out how it's (very) architecture dependent.
Yet people I meet routinely single this out as 'strange' and 'amazing' (people in other fields, that is).
In some fields, it's substantially harder to self-teach. If you were to teach yourself law or medicine, how would you go about doing it? Go read Dr. Quack's Guide To Anatomy and then try prescribing antibiotics to your kid sister? Read Dr. Shyster's Guide To Trials and then try representing someone in court, just for a quick reality check of the material you've learned?
We have it easy. We have the computers ourselves. We have the learning material on the web, or in the public library, or in the book store if we want to spend money. We have the editors, compilers and debuggers available for no charge.
Is there any field where that's true as well? Math, maybe?
Remember the apartments they lived in in Friends? Remember what they did for a living? Exactly.
One fairly decently sized living room, two small bedrooms. It's got the kitchen in the living room, though. I'm not impressed. You can live in that off of welfare.
(Just not with the combination of New York rents and USA "wel"fare. But in my neck of the world, you can)
Anything that allows people to dodge taxes and profit from crimes is a bad thing, full stop.
An Internet connection allows me to infringe copyrights.
By the same logic (the way I interpret your argument), having an Internet connection is a bad thing, full stop.
I don't agree with that. Is tax evasion somehow different from copyright infringement in a way that doesn't allow for the construction of a similar counter-arguing reduction to absurdity?
The short version: by looking at packet sizes and interpacket timing going up and down (plus the entropy and traffic difference), you can identify which protocol is being talked over the encrypted channel.
The problem is that each individual TCP segment is iron-clad encrypted, but the relationship between TCP segments can't really be hidden that well.
For P2P, at the ISP level, you can also look at how many connection are being made to any one of your customer's ports.
Encryption doesn't hide the protocol of the message, in the case of IP. Sadly:(
It is increasingly a scientifically-managed system, so it should come as no surprise that such dehumanising practices should take place.
I want to ask "Which science?"
Yes, I know, there's just science, and the division you see at universities is mere an administrative one. But what I want to ask is this: do you want MBAs telling you what to do? economists? Psychologists? MDs?
I think I'd prefer the latter two; they'd care about employee well-being and stress (or at least have it in mind). MDs at the very least know about bedside manners and (at least those I know personally, and at my university, and my anecdotal evidence etc.) take a class called "Health Psychology". Exactly what that encompasses I don't know, but I conjecture that one take-home point is that happy people do better. There's an entire branch network sprouting off from the label "business psychology" (I hope my translation from the Danish word I know does it justice).
Don't dis the application of science(s) to the business of managing businesses based on one guy doing it horribly wrong;)
There's of course the meta-scientific question: what are the likely outcomes of applying certain kinds and items of scientific knowledge to this endeavor? I don't know the answer, but it'd be interesting for "them" to direct their gaze towards themselves.
Ha, I can just imagine whoever was the first person to check "i++;" into the repository eventually being declared the ultimate hero programmer because so many other programmers just use his code.
If they're writing C++, they should be saying "++i", since it doesn't create a temporary iterator object for the old value.
OTOH, if The Daily WTF is any indicator, checking in bad code is likely to win more HR Brownie Points.
apparently Microsoft is a louzy kisser (way too much tongue). [...] crossdressing in linux is not the answer.
To those who remember where the "2. ???; 3. Profit!" meme comes from, I think it has been clearly demonstrated that girlintraining would win a metaphor duel against Tweak's dad.
A wiki is designed to do all that using a web interface
I hope the wiki has a good web interface for grep as well. And lsdiff. And interdiff. And wc. And make-like integration with gnuplot and graphviz. And of course bash, and....
My cold dead hands will be firmly clenched around them;-)
Social Democratic programs can be implemented in ways that create jobs
That's of course the most important thing, and I have the PERFECT solution!
You're going to need a plot of land and a bunch of people who need a job. Half of you take the first day off. The other half digs a whole. On each subsequent day, each person in the first half fills up an empty hole, while each person in the other half digs a new one. Compensation is all the produce, split evenly.
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[...] a chip that is probably 10 times as expensive per MIP as cheaper alternatives
What's MIP? "Million Instructions Per"?
but simply sending a FB message counting towards being "served" doesn't really make sense to me - especially if the server had already made an attempt by e-mail (which you can at least request a read-receipt).
Uh? Really?
I'm sure that you receive read-receipts, except if your mail provider only offers POP access (no SMTP) or your ISP blocks SMTP or you use a client which doesn't do read-receipts or if "read-receipt" means something totally unrelated to humans looking at text.
Then sure, read-receipts might say something useful.
Maybe [id Software] will port Duke Nukem: Forever
Computer game industry history: fail.
As has been said: it's 3D Realms.
Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities. [...] Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
Liquid DHMO, on the other hand, is safe at up to a concentration level (in human tissue) of at least two thirds.
It also helps us flush toxins from our kidneys, it drives photosynthesis and can be applied to your crops to increase their growth. It also protects your internal stomach wall from being damaged by hydrochloric acid, and has various health benefits (be wary of excessive consumption, though: that may cause hyperfrequent urination).
I think DHMO has benefits that outweigh the disadvantages, and its use should be allowed with governmental regulation.
;-)
Holier-Than-Thou @&#%$%@s.
I think there's a parse error in your Perl.
it's just a technology.
You can't justify a use of technology with "it's just a technology".
Nuclear weapons, guns, knives; they're all "just" a technology. Them being "just" a technology doesn't justify using them to kill people.
I'm not saying throttling is as bad as killing people. I'm saying that the argument "it's just a technology" can't distinguish between killing and throttling. If you don't think that throttling and killing are equally bad, I think you should revise your argument.
So long as you don't violate your contract
Even so, it sounds like the ISP the querent works at is sort of in a monopoly position. Squeezing out monopoly money out of customers isn't exactly a nice thing to do.
I'm not saying they're about to change the agreement Darth Vader-style. But it does seem like the boss wants to use power to enrich the company at the expense of (as opposed to mutual benefit for) the customers.
you shouldn't make out that it's all sunshine and roses in bandwidth cap land
He doesn't. He said how much money you have to spend on a pittance of a cap.
This morning, I saw a 25/25 fiber connection advertised on a bus (that's 25 megabit per second in both directions). I can only assume that it's cap free; all the Internet(s) are cap-free in Denmark AFAIK. Cost: 44 Australian bucks (http://www.google.com/search?q=169+DKK+in+australian+dollars).
It sounds like I want to stay the fuck away from Australian interblags.
If you want to be ahead of class, here are a few things to keep you occupied:
Yet people I meet routinely single this out as 'strange' and 'amazing' (people in other fields, that is).
In some fields, it's substantially harder to self-teach. If you were to teach yourself law or medicine, how would you go about doing it? Go read Dr. Quack's Guide To Anatomy and then try prescribing antibiotics to your kid sister? Read Dr. Shyster's Guide To Trials and then try representing someone in court, just for a quick reality check of the material you've learned?
We have it easy. We have the computers ourselves. We have the learning material on the web, or in the public library, or in the book store if we want to spend money. We have the editors, compilers and debuggers available for no charge.
Is there any field where that's true as well? Math, maybe?
Remember the apartments they lived in in Friends? Remember what they did for a living? Exactly.
One fairly decently sized living room, two small bedrooms. It's got the kitchen in the living room, though. I'm not impressed. You can live in that off of welfare.
(Just not with the combination of New York rents and USA "wel"fare. But in my neck of the world, you can)
Anything that allows people to dodge taxes and profit from crimes is a bad thing, full stop.
An Internet connection allows me to infringe copyrights.
By the same logic (the way I interpret your argument), having an Internet connection is a bad thing, full stop.
I don't agree with that. Is tax evasion somehow different from copyright infringement in a way that doesn't allow for the construction of a similar counter-arguing reduction to absurdity?
Can you even come up with a less realistic metric for a world economy than gold?
Ballet performances in Spandau?
Always believe in your soul!
Do you know how many American babies they will have to sacrifice per square inch of that road?
Don't worry, they'll just visa in some off-shore babies to do the job.
We can encrypt bit-torrent files so they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between P2P to normal traffic. Sheesh.
Wrong!
Watch Rob King and Rohlt Dhamankar's talk about identifying encrypted protocols, at http://www.shmoocon.org/2007/presentations.html
The short version: by looking at packet sizes and interpacket timing going up and down (plus the entropy and traffic difference), you can identify which protocol is being talked over the encrypted channel.
The problem is that each individual TCP segment is iron-clad encrypted, but the relationship between TCP segments can't really be hidden that well.
For P2P, at the ISP level, you can also look at how many connection are being made to any one of your customer's ports.
Encryption doesn't hide the protocol of the message, in the case of IP. Sadly :(
It is increasingly a scientifically-managed system, so it should come as no surprise that such dehumanising practices should take place.
I want to ask "Which science?"
Yes, I know, there's just science, and the division you see at universities is mere an administrative one. But what I want to ask is this: do you want MBAs telling you what to do? economists? Psychologists? MDs?
I think I'd prefer the latter two; they'd care about employee well-being and stress (or at least have it in mind). MDs at the very least know about bedside manners and (at least those I know personally, and at my university, and my anecdotal evidence etc.) take a class called "Health Psychology". Exactly what that encompasses I don't know, but I conjecture that one take-home point is that happy people do better. There's an entire branch network sprouting off from the label "business psychology" (I hope my translation from the Danish word I know does it justice).
Don't dis the application of science(s) to the business of managing businesses based on one guy doing it horribly wrong ;)
There's of course the meta-scientific question: what are the likely outcomes of applying certain kinds and items of scientific knowledge to this endeavor? I don't know the answer, but it'd be interesting for "them" to direct their gaze towards themselves.
Ha, I can just imagine whoever was the first person to check "i++;" into the repository eventually being declared the ultimate hero programmer because so many other programmers just use his code.
If they're writing C++, they should be saying "++i", since it doesn't create a temporary iterator object for the old value.
OTOH, if The Daily WTF is any indicator, checking in bad code is likely to win more HR Brownie Points.
we won't just hook up a machine that tells us if you are lying, we will hook up a machine that tells us where you hid the body.
Hey! I haven't even finished implementing the file system...
apparently Microsoft is a louzy kisser (way too much tongue). [...] crossdressing in linux is not the answer.
To those who remember where the "2. ???; 3. Profit!" meme comes from, I think it has been clearly demonstrated that girlintraining would win a metaphor duel against Tweak's dad.
Wow, it's fugly... for $16,000 it should have a case that's the equivalent of a Ferrari
But... it displays the temperature on the front, in a seven-segment display. And it goes way over 11!
A wiki is designed to do all that using a web interface
I hope the wiki has a good web interface for grep as well. And lsdiff. And interdiff. And wc. And make-like integration with gnuplot and graphviz. And of course bash, and ....
My cold dead hands will be firmly clenched around them ;-)
Maybe I'm dumb, but here's a guess at how you could do it easily (at least conceptually):
while (more_coming_down_the_pipe) {
var faux_page = page + EOF;
render(faux_page);
sleep(100 ms);
}
Your imagery... the thought of RIAA lawyers singing and dancing.
I dunno... Who do you think delivered that wonderful chanting at the culmination scene of The Devil's Advocate?
Yo' Dawg! I heard yo liked streams, so I put streaming streams in your streamer, so you can stream while you stream.
why did [..]receive Funny+mods rather than +insightful?
Because of the unexpected twist of the words "Sofa King".
Also, there's no particular insight in offering your personal opinion with no explanation of why you hold that opinion.
Social Democratic programs can be implemented in ways that create jobs
That's of course the most important thing, and I have the PERFECT solution!
You're going to need a plot of land and a bunch of people who need a job. Half of you take the first day off. The other half digs a whole. On each subsequent day, each person in the first half fills up an empty hole, while each person in the other half digs a new one. Compensation is all the produce, split evenly.
There you go, jobs for everyone.
I can haz prsidenzy?
They thought he might whip out a cutlass
Does he keep one next to his bed? ;)