2)Storage area on the device is tiny. For the small passive devices you are referring to the storage area is less than 1Kilobyte. Not much space for your medical records here.
Can we say "primary key"? It's odd that the author of the above comment missed this point, since even the article mentions that Michelin's tyre IDs are not vehicle identification numbers, but will be potentially associated with them. Same goes for the IDs on your jeans-- they may not contain your medical records, but they can still be an index into a table that points to arbitrary other information.
Yes, and I can't wait for organised crime to automatically skim a lil' bit off the top of all our checking accounts as we walk past 'em.
How's RFID going to let that happen? The most it can let someone do is know what goods you're carrying. If a store knew what you're carrying, they could debit your account (assuming you'd already given them the account details and authorisation), but that has nothing to do with RFID.
LJ Connect is the page that lets you find how many steps away you are from someone else on LJ.
For what it's worth, though, they don't read the userinfo pages; they read the friends information from a special simplified web interface designed just for such tools. (The details of the interface aren't public, but you can ask the LJ admins for more information.) The end result is the same, though.
In short, if you can program or do tech work you
can live in the US as long as you work in the
industry
I wish this were so, but it's not. I've been
wanting to move to the Philly area to be with my SO
for quite a while now: I have five years of
programming experience, a first-class bachelor's
degree, a good breadth of theoretical and practical
experience in areas ranging from coding for handhelds
to sysadminning for dozens of people... but in all my
searching, none of places I contact will consider H1s.
Often they haven't even replied. (And it's not like
I'm from somewhere that speaks a completely different
language: I'm British.)
In 1998, the International Electrotechnical
Commission proposed
changing these amounts to "kibi", "mebi" and "gibi",
short for "kilo-binary", etc. They were worried about
the confusion that could result from "kilo", "mega"
and "giga"'s existing use as the SI prefixes for one
thousand, one million and one trillion times
larger.
If you look around, you'll see the name "gibibits"
used in a few places, mainly in communications rather
than higher-level areas: for example, "ifconfig" gives
throughput in gibibits. The measurements are not in
everyday use even now: searching for "gibibit" on
Google still gets you asked whether you mean "gibbet".
I'm not sure. To me, it would suggest that they had unusual fillings like fruit and cream and so on, rather than the traditional English way of serving them with lemon and sugar.
Americans should bear in mind that what are called "pancakes" in England are called "crepes" in America. What are called "pancakes" in America are called "Scotch pancakes" in the south of England, and "drop scones" in Scotland and the north of England. Meanwhile, "flapjacks" are a kind of oaty biscuit. Confused yet?
Now that they've dug up this post...
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I hope they're saving all the posts around it-- not just that thread, but all the backup tapes. It's hard to know what will become worth knowing in a few decades' time-- I doubt anyone would have thought that Fahlman's post would be significant twenty years on.
Yes, thanks. That doesn't mean I know how you'd express "Pig Madonna" in Italian. (For all I could tell, since I don't speak Italian, it needn't even have been as simple as translating "Pig" into Italian and sticking "Madonna" after it: some languages would use the words in the other order, some would combine them into one, some would add prepositions.)
Investigators first learned about the sites, with names that translate into phrases including "Pig Madonna" and "Blasphemy," in 2000.
Sooo, if any Italian-speaking Slashdotters can tell us what "Pig Madonna" is in Italian, we can google for it, since it's been up for two years, and find out what the site was.
Re:It's "assocation football" everywhere
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They are now, yes, but the Football Association were standardising the rules of football before FIFA was even thought of. See, for example, on that page where it says that FIFA originally mandated the "playing of matches according to the Laws of the Game of the Football Association Ltd."
It's "assocation football" everywhere
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The name is actually "association football" in the United States.
Yes-- well, the name's "association football" everywhere, because it's the form of football that's standardised by the Football Association. And the name of the international football association, FIFA, is "Federation International de Football Association", i.e. "International Federation of Association Football". It's just that in some places it's also the default kind of football, so you don't need to add the "association" qualifier.
And when Slashdot runs stories asking its readers to contact their representatives and senators, do you hear the UK geeks complaining?
The Internet crosses borders in such a way that if one country passes a stupid law, it has the potential to mess around with the lives not just of citizens of that country, but of net users all over the world. (The obvious example is the former American ban on exports of cryptography software, which caused everyone, American and non-American, ridiculous amounts of extra work.) But only the citizens of the country passing the law get a say in whether it's clueful or not, even though it's in everyone's interests for the laws to be clueful everywhere. There's nothing particularly wrong with that-- it's just the way legislation works-- but it does mean that the global community depends to some extent on local action. If Congress were to propose some crazy law, you could write your representatives; I couldn't. If Parliament did the same, it would be the other way around.
The Guardian carried this story. It began with the astonishing statement: "The internet in Europe is facing its first major test today..." -- so evidently, we've somehow survived over here since 1970 without any kind of a "major test".
Playing with obsolete technology
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There's nothing inherently wrong with playing with obsolete technology: by examining the systems of the past, you give yourself a chance to learn from history. Not only that, but it has all the normal benefits of a counterculture: the return of ancient systems to viability (by those who are freakish enough to take an interest) necessarily works against the tendency of mainstream society to damage itself by producing a monoculture.
One thing that interests me, though, is that people who resuscitate ancient hardware get kudos, whereas doing the same with ancient protocols is a "pretty crazy idea".
Of course, this statement is entirely at odds with the way DNS is run in practice, anywhere in the world. Domain names are property,
Yes, perhaps unfortunately, although they're still the stated ideals of IANA (who have acted on them in the not-too-distant past).
and suitable regulation is required to prevent abuse of that property.
Indeed. I don't think you're likely to find anyone who disagrees with you on that.
The SA government is taking a bold step in political and legal regulation, but not technical regulation. The gov. is unlikely to run the nameservers itself, but will contract a suitable institution.
People elsewhere in this thread have said (though I have no way of knowing whether truly or not) that the SA government have a poor track record in contracting suitable institutions to perform other functions related to communications infrastructure, and so were unlikely to perform any better with the DNS. Many of the concerned comments to this story have been about this question, separately from questions over how and why the SA government have any right to take this step.
Provision of names in.za isn't a service such as education or healthcare that a country provides to its citizens; it's merely one part of the vast decentralised database called the DNS. There's nothing "obvious" in saying that any one part of the DNS should be controlled by anyone in particular, other than that it should be controlled by someone competent to do the job (and, by all accounts, the ability to run nameservers competently is not universally believed to be a property of the South African government).
It's difficult to better the way Jon Postel put it in the relevant standards document, RFC 1591 ("Domain Name System Structure and Delegation"), sec 3.2: "These designated authorities are trustees for the delegated domain, and have a duty to serve the community. The designated manager is the trustee of the top-level domain for both the nation, in the case of a country code, and the global Internet community. Concerns about "rights" and "ownership" of domains are inappropriate. It is appropriate to be concerned about "responsibilities" and "service" to the community." (emphasis mine).
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2)Storage area on the device is tiny. For the small passive devices you are referring to the storage area is less than 1Kilobyte. Not much space for your medical records here.
Can we say "primary key"? It's odd that the author of the above comment missed this point, since even the article mentions that Michelin's tyre IDs are not vehicle identification numbers, but will be potentially associated with them. Same goes for the IDs on your jeans-- they may not contain your medical records, but they can still be an index into a table that points to arbitrary other information.
Yes, and I can't wait for organised crime to automatically skim a lil' bit off the top of all our checking accounts as we walk past 'em.
How's RFID going to let that happen? The most it can let someone do is know what goods you're carrying. If a store knew what you're carrying, they could debit your account (assuming you'd already given them the account details and authorisation), but that has nothing to do with RFID.
That's PBS's Cyberchase, and yes, it gives hackers a bad name.
You just register it with a country that doesn't mind what you're up to. It worked for the Caroline (for a few years, anyway).
As for dockings for maintenance: you can bring supplies using another ship. That's how Sealand manages, and it's never going to dock anywhere.
LJ Connect is the page that lets you find how many steps away you are from someone else on LJ.
For what it's worth, though, they don't read the userinfo pages; they read the friends information from a special simplified web interface designed just for such tools. (The details of the interface aren't public, but you can ask the LJ admins for more information.) The end result is the same, though.
Marnanel
author another tool to analyse friends lists
In short, if you can program or do tech work you can live in the US as long as you work in the industry
I wish this were so, but it's not. I've been wanting to move to the Philly area to be with my SO for quite a while now: I have five years of programming experience, a first-class bachelor's degree, a good breadth of theoretical and practical experience in areas ranging from coding for handhelds to sysadminning for dozens of people... but in all my searching, none of places I contact will consider H1s. Often they haven't even replied. (And it's not like I'm from somewhere that speaks a completely different language: I'm British.)
But perhaps it's different on the west coast.
The sequence originally went:
Kilobit = 1024 bits
Megabit = 1024 kilobits (1,048,576 bits)
Gigabit = 1024 megabits (1,073,741,824 bits)
In 1998, the International Electrotechnical Commission proposed changing these amounts to "kibi", "mebi" and "gibi", short for "kilo-binary", etc. They were worried about the confusion that could result from "kilo", "mega" and "giga"'s existing use as the SI prefixes for one thousand, one million and one trillion times larger.
If you look around, you'll see the name "gibibits" used in a few places, mainly in communications rather than higher-level areas: for example, "ifconfig" gives throughput in gibibits. The measurements are not in everyday use even now: searching for "gibibit" on Google still gets you asked whether you mean "gibbet".
I'm not sure. To me, it would suggest that they had unusual fillings like fruit and cream and so on, rather than the traditional English way of serving them with lemon and sugar.
Americans should bear in mind that what are called "pancakes" in England are called "crepes" in America. What are called "pancakes" in America are called "Scotch pancakes" in the south of England, and "drop scones" in Scotland and the north of England. Meanwhile, "flapjacks" are a kind of oaty biscuit. Confused yet?
I hope they're saving all the posts around it-- not just that thread, but all the backup tapes. It's hard to know what will become worth knowing in a few decades' time-- I doubt anyone would have thought that Fahlman's post would be significant twenty years on.
I'm sure Google would take them. They've got so much old stuff already, and they already archive significant amounts of non-news-based discussion.
Yes, thanks. That doesn't mean I know how you'd express "Pig Madonna" in Italian. (For all I could tell, since I don't speak Italian, it needn't even have been as simple as translating "Pig" into Italian and sticking "Madonna" after it: some languages would use the words in the other order, some would combine them into one, some would add prepositions.)
IMHO Perl will be quite useful long after the web is as obsolete as Gopher.
Hey, Perl's good for gopher, too.
They are now, yes, but the Football Association were standardising the rules of football before FIFA was even thought of. See, for example, on that page where it says that FIFA originally mandated the "playing of matches according to the Laws of the Game of the Football Association Ltd."
The name is actually "association football" in the United States.
Yes-- well, the name's "association football" everywhere, because it's the form of football that's standardised by the Football Association. And the name of the international football association, FIFA, is "Federation International de Football Association", i.e. "International Federation of Association Football". It's just that in some places it's also the default kind of football, so you don't need to add the "association" qualifier.
Do you have
deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main
in your /etc/apt/sources.list?
And when Slashdot runs stories asking its readers to contact their representatives and senators, do you hear the UK geeks complaining?
The Internet crosses borders in such a way that if one country passes a stupid law, it has the potential to mess around with the lives not just of citizens of that country, but of net users all over the world. (The obvious example is the former American ban on exports of cryptography software, which caused everyone, American and non-American, ridiculous amounts of extra work.) But only the citizens of the country passing the law get a say in whether it's clueful or not, even though it's in everyone's interests for the laws to be clueful everywhere. There's nothing particularly wrong with that-- it's just the way legislation works-- but it does mean that the global community depends to some extent on local action. If Congress were to propose some crazy law, you could write your representatives; I couldn't. If Parliament did the same, it would be the other way around.
I am so waiting for someone to do the same thing with computer science.
The Guardian carried this story. It began with the astonishing statement: "The internet in Europe is facing its first major test today..." -- so evidently, we've somehow survived over here since 1970 without any kind of a "major test".
There's nothing inherently wrong with playing with obsolete technology: by examining the systems of the past, you give yourself a chance to learn from history. Not only that, but it has all the normal benefits of a counterculture: the return of ancient systems to viability (by those who are freakish enough to take an interest) necessarily works against the tendency of mainstream society to damage itself by producing a monoculture.
One thing that interests me, though, is that people who resuscitate ancient hardware get kudos, whereas doing the same with ancient protocols is a "pretty crazy idea".
It was fought and lost.
Of course, this statement is entirely at odds with the way DNS is run in practice, anywhere in the world. Domain names are property,
Yes, perhaps unfortunately, although they're still the stated ideals of IANA (who have acted on them in the not-too-distant past).
and suitable regulation is required to prevent abuse of that property.Indeed. I don't think you're likely to find anyone who disagrees with you on that.
The SA government is taking a bold step in political and legal regulation, but not technical regulation. The gov. is unlikely to run the nameservers itself, but will contract a suitable institution.People elsewhere in this thread have said (though I have no way of knowing whether truly or not) that the SA government have a poor track record in contracting suitable institutions to perform other functions related to communications infrastructure, and so were unlikely to perform any better with the DNS. Many of the concerned comments to this story have been about this question, separately from questions over how and why the SA government have any right to take this step.
Provision of names in .za isn't a service such as education or healthcare that a country provides to its citizens; it's merely one part of the vast decentralised database called the DNS. There's nothing "obvious" in saying that any one part of the DNS should be controlled by anyone in particular, other than that it should be controlled by someone competent to do the job (and, by all accounts, the ability to run nameservers competently is not universally believed to be a property of the South African government).
It's difficult to better the way Jon Postel put it in the relevant standards document, RFC 1591 ("Domain Name System Structure and Delegation"), sec 3.2: "These designated authorities are trustees for the delegated domain, and have a duty to serve the community. The designated manager is the trustee of the top-level domain for both the nation, in the case of a country code, and the global Internet community. Concerns about "rights" and "ownership" of domains are inappropriate. It is appropriate to be concerned about "responsibilities" and "service" to the community." (emphasis mine).
Mozilla doesn't do gopher very well-- for example, it fails to show information tags (a big nuisance): try publication or floodgap in Moz and another browser and see the difference.
Hell, Times New Roman, that ubiquitous font, costs $95.99.
Then how come Microsoft are offering it for free download? (Not that this affects your point.)