It never ceases to amaze me how many apparently well educated people ( I am assuming of course that most people on/. are well educated either formally or informally ) just don't get it.
There is a razor fine line a parent walks between giving a child the freedom to express themselves and explore and grow and protecting both the child and themselves from some of the very ugly bits of reality in this world.
Could Have, Should Have, Would Have if only I had known
How many times have we all seen or heard of a situation that we come up against in even our own lives that even the slightest aside to someone would have prevented something very very wrong from happening.
Call it spying, call it invading their privacy, call it not trusting them call it whatever you like, but there is nothing wrong with key loggers for your 13 year old daughter or son. Absolutely nothing. I state that firmly and without reservation, and the rest of the world be damned.
I make that statement because in my world it matters what you DO with that information. As we all know information IS vital to being able to guide events. You look at the the data and you see that your kid is trending into a pattern of behavior that you know is going to get their ass in a sling you just might want to start doing things with your kid that will gently guide them away from that. Your daughter and all her little pals are planning an event and in their little chat groups and what not you discover that someone is bringing drugs or there is going to be booze there you just might want to plan an alternate family event that just happens to prevent them being able to attend. Do you get in your kids face and call all their friends losers or do you gently steer them elsewhere, "Sorry kiddo we are going to be out of town that day."
Since my wife I are the ones that are going to get our asses raked over the coals by CPS / The Police / Family Court if our child does something stupid which, and lets face it if we all remember back to when we were 13 we know that despite our parents best efforts we did some stupid shit, 13 year old's are want to do, then we damn well have the right to use whatever tools that are at our disposal to attempt to prevent said stupid shit from happening.
It really comes down to how you act on that information. If you see your kid making choices that keep them out of trouble then you keep your mouth shut and let them explore and make the small mistakes and occasionally a few of the larger ones that have consequences that might very well cause you to have to take some kind of punitive measures but that will not endanger their future and or health. BE the invisible hand of guidance and let them grow up and hopefully they will do no harm to themselves and others.
As far as submitted code becoming the property of Oracle (nee Sun ) that is something I have not read in their license yet. I kind of doubt they could actually do that since it had been open source ( I think it was GPL ) and at any rate if you made a contribution you could easily mark your code as (c) yourself and licensed under GPL to Oracle, which would force them to either use it or lose it and if the contribution was that important I think they would use , but I digress.
Sun first published Star Office to make money, when they couldn't they gave it away. If it was forkable then it had to have been under some flavor of GPL Sun simply had to put the source out there with some sort of license other then proprietary
But I really think this is on par with the whole MySql drama. Perhaps they will shove "features" into it faster, but I am also betting the bug count will go up as well. Even now other users have posted that the damn thing is unstable, especially on shut down. If they forked the build code then it should be as solid as the Oracle version, but its not and that means they have broken it already. Way to go fella's!
I just visited the OpenOffice.org website and no place other then in commercial / consultant support do I see anything asking me for money.
This summary in this post mentioning fees is utter bullshit.
This whole fucking thing is nothing more then people screaming "Oracle is EVIL and we gotta fork it NOW. The name is stupid and the reasoning to fork it was phenomenally stupid. They forked the code soon after Oracle purchased Sun and tried to play it off as "We are gonna put in all sorts of cool features!" that they could have put in well before there was even a rumor that Oracle was purchasing Sun, how come they didn't fork it then?
And OH By the fucking way people. I paid money to Sun for Star Office. Uh-huh, the software that OO was based on. This is not like OO was something that magically appeared on Source Forge one day. This was a commercial offering from sun that never really got traction so they started giving it way.
This whole thing smells of the entire MySQL fiasco. Monty sold it to sun for a fucking BILLION dollars then had a hissy fit when Sun was acquired by Oracle and he thought his precious toy database database would be corrupted.
pretty much ALL the core devs for OO were Sun employees and then they were Oracle employees. Oracle has kept their commitment and have pushed out updates/bug fixes/enhancements to OO.
I love open source software as much or more then the next guy, but this is just a bunch of people acting like baby's.
So the tinfoil hat / "information wants to be free" crowd aside, Could it really be done?
Are there few enough peering points to actually shut it down from say the rest of the world? Could you effectively isolate the entire US Internet?
The old story about the pissed off guy at MAE-WEST pulling the plug on Northern Europe for bad behavior aside, could it be done in a manner that would be instant without literally going down to the beach, finding the shore end of a cable and taking an Axe to it?
I have never been inside on of those places but I can imagine a fiber patch panel where one could simply pull the plug.
Changing routing takes a while to take effect since it has to propagate.
And what about satellite links, would one simply send a signal to the bird that blocks all traffic from origin outside the US by disabling the link to certain receivers?
I think you would have to do a lot more. For example back in the dial-up BBS days we extended our coverage by paying people to have a second phone line in their home which had call forwarding that called another phone in the next closest local zone to hop its way to us so that it was a local phone call for anyone to dial in and connect.
If someone was determined, to connect to Europe or Asia could they not simply dust off a modem and dial up to a node ( expensive to and slow be sure )since that would circumvent a "Internet Kill Switch" unless of course they killed the phone service as well.
Yes, but aside from the Superbowl example mentioned elsewhere, adding more towers will provide for more bandwidth/throughput for the end user in that area because he/she will be sharing that spectrum with less other users. If you have one tower covering an entire city, then all the mobile users in the city have to share that 1000 units of sprectrum. If you have 100 towers covering that city, then (assuming even user distribution), each user will have that many more units of spectrum available to them.
The problem is with the cell system you will more then likely run into a problem when the device moves from cell to cell. More towers the smaller the effective radius has to be to keep the overlap within tolerances. No doubt we could go back and redesign the entire cell system and come up with something completely different and better.
The problem is bandwidth. To keep it simple, the problem is that you have spectrum that is 100 units wide. Each phone call ( voice only ) takes 1 unit of that spectrum, so you can have 100 simultaneous phone calls.
Each data connection streaming a radio program takes 5 units, so now you are down to only 20 simultaneous data connections.
each streaming video connection takes 10 units so now you are down to 10 simultaneous connections.
So lets say that there is a total of 1000 units of spectrum available. Therefor you can have 10 separate and distinct networks, lets call those Verizon, AT&T etc. etc. each carrier must operate within their assigned chunk of spectrum.
We expect our calls to move seamlessly from cell to cell. Each cell covers n units of geography BUT it covers it with the exact same slice of spectrum that that the carrier was assigned. Each cell can overlap the other a little bit, but not by much.
So simply adding more towers does not increase the amount of spectrum available, it only increases the number of geographic units that are covered.
The fee structure is designed for people who are getting more and more accustomed to getting everything for practically nothing.
We all experience this every day. We go to Wal-Mart for inexpensive goods from China or we go to Costco or we go Target or anyplace where we can get the most ( at least we think ) for a buck.
The fly in the ointment is that we can't buy bandwidth from China or the Philippines or whatever other sweatshop country you would care to name because bandwidth is ruled by the laws of physics not by the "Invisible Hand".
Really?
Do you really think she is the "average" user? Do you really think that ANY wireless company could design their system to anticipate someone pulling a *constant* data stream 8 hours a day during "prime time" without either using ALL the available spectrum there is, or going broke or having to charge a dollar a minute to stream that? Really?
Networks are designed to handle the predicted traffic load all the time and the peak traffic load for some of the time, not everyone and their grandmother streaming music all day long.
So the next set of problems with IPV6 will be a monstrous segment of the user level internet.
The problem is all the 2Wire Residential Gateways that provide phone, TV and of course Internet AND COMCAST's cable boxes ( typically a Motorola device). Given that COMCAST just got permission to swallow up a whole boatload of the cable business it will be even more complex with even a more diverse ecosystem devices.
Besides being broken out of the box ( You cannot have more then 1 IP Address per machine, and don't talk to me about MAC spoofing ) these things are just clamped down to the extent that you cannot really change how they work. They were designed to handle your basic home network and nothing else, eg: DHCP plug-n-Play. There are millions of these boxes and I doubt a simple firmware fix will solve the problem unless they replace the entire OS in the box and I can just see that being and EPIC fail.
Others have mentioned they are doing 4 to 6 tunneling. Well that is great if you know how to set it up. 99.99995% of AT&T's or Comcasts customers will not and to even attempt to explain it to them will be a pointless endeavor since they do not even grasp the notion of IP addressing to begin with so that is really a non-starter.
Regardless of the collective opinions of Yahoo this is the tip of the iceberg and it is a big one and the collective generic mom and pop internet users are the Titanic steaming full speed ahead directly at it.
These simply just add more issues onto the pile of the already unsolved issues with IPV6.
I have said this before and I still believe the best course of action is to simply scrap IPV6 and take IPV4 and simply change the segment size from BYTES to WORDS. Right now we have 254 Class A networks and just going from BYTES to WORDS will give us 65535 CLASS A Networks and that gives us 65281 class A networks to hand out with each one having 281,474,976,710,655 (FFFF.FFFF.FFFF ) unique addresses, except we do it wisely this time instead of doing things like giving a single university and entire class A.
There is a rough estimate of about 4000 ISP in the US and most of those get their address blocks from the really BIG ones, AT&T, Verizon, COMCAST and some others. So if the world wide number of ISP's were say 20,000 we would still have 40,000 or so unused CLASS A networks.
Can anyone seriously really see a day when we will have more then 65535 ISP's? I do not believe this to be true unless ( and I really really doubt it ) the trend of bigger ISP's swallowing smaller ISP's changes
Upskill to what? Pic one of a dozen languages? Play pin the tail on the project?
A new project hits the boards and some pinhead Project Manage lets his 14 year old nephew pick the fucking language to implement it in. A team of really solid developers in the offices and cubie's most fluent in three or more languages and they get bypassed because some jackass of a project manager decides this hot new language is what we just HAVE to do it in and so they find some noob collage grad who has spent the last year of school in that language DeJour ?
Thats the problem. A company does it in a language that is fashionable for the moment, not what works, not what has a solid foundation both in the wild and in the company.
People will always find a way to have sex but it will be a different experience to be sure. Consider some of the positions of the Kama Sutra in a micro or gravity free environment.
One thing that comes to mind is more relaxed foreplay since if one is just floating I can think of a few things that will be easier.
Also I think ( at least in space ) a compartment free of instrumentation and with the walls padded would be a necessity since drift is unavoidable and while we try to be tidy there will be a certain amount of fluid that might end of floating free and we don't want that finding its way into wiring and the like.
He is guilty of Espionage - the facts speak for themselves.
Here is the relevant section of United States Code TITLE 10, Subtitle A, PART II, CHAPTER 47, SUB-CHAPTER 906a Article 106a. Espionage aka the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
There are no exceptions, excuses or extenuating circumstances for what he did. This kid was just plain stupid and he is more then likely going to spend the rest ( or a very large portion ) of his life in a very small box in Kansas or if he is lucky he will just get the needle.
Obtain the appropriate breathing apparatus then try having sex under water. Not standing in a pool, but underwater with nothing to hold on to but the person your trying to have sex with. It is extremely difficult to get "the motion goin" without becoming quickly fatigued.
Never under estimate that vital role of gravity in your life!
The problem comes when you want that last few miles. Burt & Co are doing neet stuff to be sure but that only gets us so far and the bodies that might get smacked if anything goes wrong are tourists and people get a little bent out shape if they get killed but not nearly as much as when 7 highly trained "National Hero's" get toasted.
Hell we could simply rebuild the Saturn V vehicle to the original specs and we could be punting all kids of stuff into both LEO and HEO with little problem and with a max LEO payload of 5x that of the shuttle and 2x of that to TLI. Make that capsule a double decker and put 6 or 8 peeps up to the ISS or whatever.
Well not so much really. The SR-71 had a MAX payload of 3500lbs and full fuel load of 80,000lbs. Typical flights required the thing to be refueled at about 30,000 ft after takeoff and climb to that altitude do to it needing to use a huge amount of fuel to get to that altitude.
It's mission range was only 2900 NM w/o in-flight refuel.
But a closer look at its performance compared to the space shuttle leaves little room for your notion that we cannot build something to get into LEO.
The biggest issue with us not being able to put a vehicle into service for LEO insertions is that we as a country want the most sophisticated and safest vehicle we can get and so we do study after study after prototype after prototype and that costs HUGE dollars. On top of that politics enters the picture and things really go to hell in a handcart. So it is little to do with technological know how and has everything to do with spending vast amounts of tax money and all the problems therein.
The SR-71 was built in secret (and was a secret for many many years ) by a very small team at one factory in California. A replacement for the space shuttle would take dozens of companies and 10's of thousands of workers and you can't keep that a secret. I think perhaps 4 or 5 members of congress and a couple of senators knew that the SR-71 was even being built much less how much it was costing since it was a CIA/Air Force project.
With the tech we know now we could build a single purpose vehicle and do it realtively quickly and inexpensively as compared to the shuttle but once again the problem comes down to politics. Who's state will it be built in? etc. etc. etc.
This is SO nothing new, nor is it even interesting.
In memory DB's are nothing new, they are simply prone to failure and this is why hardware storage be it spinning drives or Flash will always be around.
All it takes is one hiccup by the memory logic or an interrupt controller or DMA channel and all your in memory data is toast forcing a reload from the last checkpoint which can take quite a while when you are talking say a terabyte of information.
Clifford Hersh and Jeffery Spirn coked up the ANTS database a few years back. It was BLAZINGLY fast. It outran all of them, including Times Ten and it never got any traction and it was a fully in memory database.
The problem is the asshats that came up with IPV6. It should be scrapped here and now. IPV6 is just plain and simple flat out stupid.
Using a hexadecimal address was pure stupidity. All you needed to do was turn each segment of an IP address into a word sized ( 64 bit addressing ) or a long sized ( the magic 128 bit ) value instead of a byte sized value since:
2600000.35.1254.1785
Is one hell of a lot easier to remember then
2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334.
And using the colon for address separation is equally as stupid since that is how we designate port numbers. Ohh wait I know don't forget to surround the unrememberable POS with square brackets!
To make IPV6 useful it requires anything and everything to have a DNS entry since it is pretty much unrememberable and quite frankly I have devices that I never want in the DNS system yet I will be pretyy much forced to since trying to remember an IPV6 address will give me a fucking stroke.
And lets not forget you omit parts of the address eg: 2001:0db8:85a3::0000:8a2e:0370:7334 but ONLY once! I mean why did they even bother with this crap, is that supposed to make it easier?
IPV6 was written by a bunch of head up their ass academics, and even if the members of the committee were not academics their head was still firmly planted in their ass.
The guys who came up with IPV4 new they would have to work with it and made it pretty damn simple in most respects, but these clowns have turned something that should have just made the address space bigger into to something that will require massive kludges to transition since it will pretty much cause a mandatory replacement of pretty much 90% of the hardware out there.
Never ever let an academic design anything. They will fuck it up every time.
You are under a serious delusion here, let me help you out.
The "Free Market" only works in a Utopian world. In that Utopian world when it comes to energy you would have many many transmission paths and you would have many many suppliers and each consumer could choose their own supplier and transmission path and select the best deal they could find in that combination.
Real world now. You have a set of transmission paths that are pretty much fixed, it is called the Grid. You have a few BIG power generators. In northern California that vast majority of the electrical grid is owned by Pacific Gas and Electric as well as the Natural Gas Grid.
Now PG&E maintains both the grids as a cost of doing business. Now as a consumer I want to buy power from Joe's Electrical Generation and then the problem becomes how do I get the power from JEG? Does JEG send it's power into the PG&E Grid? If so how much will PG&E Charge JEG and or ME for the privilege of using that Grid? What does it cost to maintain, modernize and upgrade that Grid as a stand alone entity? What should PG&E charge JEG and or Me for me to get power from JEG?
Suppose Fred's Electrical Generation comes along and can generate 1000 times more electricity then JEG can generate? Suppose PG&E has determined that in order to keep the grid up and running, modernized, etc. that they need to charge 10 cents per unitm but as FGE's customer base grows and grows to the point where they are saturating the grid and PG&E can't expand the grid fast enough what happens to JEG? Does JEG lose the ability to feed into the grid and thereby feed me since FGE's customer base has grown to the extent that they can afford to pay PG&E a premium that effectively shuts down JGE's path to me, the customer.
The problem is that it is no longer a free market between me and JEG it is a market now between the Grid Owner and the Power Producers.
It is a lot like Net Neutrality. The Grid ( in this case the long haul cable owners can now ( do to saturation ) are in the position of being able to say to prover A that they must pay a higher price to send their content but leave provider B at the same cost.
Common Carrier Status dictates that the carrier ( in this case PG&E ) must carry everyones product at the same price and not affect the market of goods and services unless it affects then entire market equally. So if PG&E needs to dump 10 million into improving the grid then that increase must be spread, pro-rated amongst ALL its customers to ensure the market is fair to all participants.
The problem is that none of what I have described actually occurs. Mostly what happens is that back room deals are struck and the one the greases the palm of the grid owner the most gets to see that the screws are put to the ones that don't grease the palm as well and more often then not that person is the consumer or in my example the consumer and JEG.
And that is why Skype will never ever be installed on anything I own. I never call anyone overseas and if I do need to talk to someone I can pop them an e-mail and if they are available google chat works just fine.
Just because you don't catch and convict the actual person that committed a crime doesn't mean you can't catch and convict those who helped that person commit that crime.
And no matter how you spin this, those people did actually facilitate the commission of a crime by telling anyone who wanted to know where they could find and obtain content that in the eyes of the law it was illegal for them to obtain and possess because it was not obtained from the owner or their authorized agent.
I really don't see anything for the supreme court to strike down.
Well, technically it's per core not per physical CPU
Yep that is true, but if you look at their example in the licensing document. A Dual Socket machine supporting quad core Xeon's would be: 8 *.25 = 2 CPU licenses. Not bad for a machine that has the equivalent of 8 CPU's and if run in hyper-threading mode actually looks like 16 CPU's to a Linux kernel.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many apparently well educated people ( I am assuming of course that most people on /. are well educated either formally or informally ) just don't get it.
There is a razor fine line a parent walks between giving a child the freedom to express themselves and explore and grow and protecting both the child and themselves from some of the very ugly bits of reality in this world.
Could Have, Should Have, Would Have if only I had known
How many times have we all seen or heard of a situation that we come up against in even our own lives that even the slightest aside to someone would have prevented something very very wrong from happening.
Call it spying, call it invading their privacy, call it not trusting them call it whatever you like, but there is nothing wrong with key loggers for your 13 year old daughter or son. Absolutely nothing. I state that firmly and without reservation, and the rest of the world be damned.
I make that statement because in my world it matters what you DO with that information. As we all know information IS vital to being able to guide events. You look at the the data and you see that your kid is trending into a pattern of behavior that you know is going to get their ass in a sling you just might want to start doing things with your kid that will gently guide them away from that. Your daughter and all her little pals are planning an event and in their little chat groups and what not you discover that someone is bringing drugs or there is going to be booze there you just might want to plan an alternate family event that just happens to prevent them being able to attend. Do you get in your kids face and call all their friends losers or do you gently steer them elsewhere, "Sorry kiddo we are going to be out of town that day."
Since my wife I are the ones that are going to get our asses raked over the coals by CPS / The Police / Family Court if our child does something stupid which, and lets face it if we all remember back to when we were 13 we know that despite our parents best efforts we did some stupid shit, 13 year old's are want to do, then we damn well have the right to use whatever tools that are at our disposal to attempt to prevent said stupid shit from happening.
It really comes down to how you act on that information. If you see your kid making choices that keep them out of trouble then you keep your mouth shut and let them explore and make the small mistakes and occasionally a few of the larger ones that have consequences that might very well cause you to have to take some kind of punitive measures but that will not endanger their future and or health. BE the invisible hand of guidance and let them grow up and hopefully they will do no harm to themselves and others.
Well I disagree, but reasonable people can.
As far as submitted code becoming the property of Oracle (nee Sun ) that is something I have not read in their license yet. I kind of doubt they could actually do that since it had been open source ( I think it was GPL ) and at any rate if you made a contribution you could easily mark your code as (c) yourself and licensed under GPL to Oracle, which would force them to either use it or lose it and if the contribution was that important I think they would use , but I digress.
Sun first published Star Office to make money, when they couldn't they gave it away. If it was forkable then it had to have been under some flavor of GPL Sun simply had to put the source out there with some sort of license other then proprietary
But I really think this is on par with the whole MySql drama. Perhaps they will shove "features" into it faster, but I am also betting the bug count will go up as well. Even now other users have posted that the damn thing is unstable, especially on shut down. If they forked the build code then it should be as solid as the Oracle version, but its not and that means they have broken it already. Way to go fella's!
I just visited the OpenOffice.org website and no place other then in commercial / consultant support do I see anything asking me for money.
This summary in this post mentioning fees is utter bullshit.
This whole fucking thing is nothing more then people screaming "Oracle is EVIL and we gotta fork it NOW. The name is stupid and the reasoning to fork it was phenomenally stupid. They forked the code soon after Oracle purchased Sun and tried to play it off as "We are gonna put in all sorts of cool features!" that they could have put in well before there was even a rumor that Oracle was purchasing Sun, how come they didn't fork it then?
And OH By the fucking way people. I paid money to Sun for Star Office. Uh-huh, the software that OO was based on. This is not like OO was something that magically appeared on Source Forge one day. This was a commercial offering from sun that never really got traction so they started giving it way.
This whole thing smells of the entire MySQL fiasco. Monty sold it to sun for a fucking BILLION dollars then had a hissy fit when Sun was acquired by Oracle and he thought his precious toy database database would be corrupted.
pretty much ALL the core devs for OO were Sun employees and then they were Oracle employees. Oracle has kept their commitment and have pushed out updates/bug fixes/enhancements to OO.
I love open source software as much or more then the next guy, but this is just a bunch of people acting like baby's.
Perhaps you have not heard of an isolation box? Or perhaps even duct tape and some plastic sheeting?
This is the least of the problems.
Sorry to tell you but that will have no effect what so ever.
If CE did that, we would all be puking all day long.
So the tinfoil hat / "information wants to be free" crowd aside, Could it really be done?
Are there few enough peering points to actually shut it down from say the rest of the world? Could you effectively isolate the entire US Internet?
The old story about the pissed off guy at MAE-WEST pulling the plug on Northern Europe for bad behavior aside, could it be done in a manner that would be instant without literally going down to the beach, finding the shore end of a cable and taking an Axe to it?
I have never been inside on of those places but I can imagine a fiber patch panel where one could simply pull the plug.
Changing routing takes a while to take effect since it has to propagate.
And what about satellite links, would one simply send a signal to the bird that blocks all traffic from origin outside the US by disabling the link to certain receivers?
I think you would have to do a lot more. For example back in the dial-up BBS days we extended our coverage by paying people to have a second phone line in their home which had call forwarding that called another phone in the next closest local zone to hop its way to us so that it was a local phone call for anyone to dial in and connect.
If someone was determined, to connect to Europe or Asia could they not simply dust off a modem and dial up to a node ( expensive to and slow be sure )since that would circumvent a "Internet Kill Switch" unless of course they killed the phone service as well.
Yes, but aside from the Superbowl example mentioned elsewhere, adding more towers will provide for more bandwidth/throughput for the end user in that area because he/she will be sharing that spectrum with less other users. If you have one tower covering an entire city, then all the mobile users in the city have to share that 1000 units of sprectrum. If you have 100 towers covering that city, then (assuming even user distribution), each user will have that many more units of spectrum available to them.
The problem is with the cell system you will more then likely run into a problem when the device moves from cell to cell. More towers the smaller the effective radius has to be to keep the overlap within tolerances. No doubt we could go back and redesign the entire cell system and come up with something completely different and better.
Sorry to say that won't work.
The problem is bandwidth. To keep it simple, the problem is that you have spectrum that is 100 units wide. Each phone call ( voice only ) takes 1 unit of that spectrum, so you can have 100 simultaneous phone calls.
Each data connection streaming a radio program takes 5 units, so now you are down to only 20 simultaneous data connections.
each streaming video connection takes 10 units so now you are down to 10 simultaneous connections.
So lets say that there is a total of 1000 units of spectrum available. Therefor you can have 10 separate and distinct networks, lets call those Verizon, AT&T etc. etc. each carrier must operate within their assigned chunk of spectrum.
We expect our calls to move seamlessly from cell to cell. Each cell covers n units of geography BUT it covers it with the exact same slice of spectrum that that the carrier was assigned. Each cell can overlap the other a little bit, but not by much.
So simply adding more towers does not increase the amount of spectrum available, it only increases the number of geographic units that are covered.
You sir are incorrect.
The fee structure is designed for people who are getting more and more accustomed to getting everything for practically nothing.
We all experience this every day. We go to Wal-Mart for inexpensive goods from China or we go to Costco or we go Target or anyplace where we can get the most ( at least we think ) for a buck.
The fly in the ointment is that we can't buy bandwidth from China or the Philippines or whatever other sweatshop country you would care to name because bandwidth is ruled by the laws of physics not by the "Invisible Hand".
Really? Do you really think she is the "average" user? Do you really think that ANY wireless company could design their system to anticipate someone pulling a *constant* data stream 8 hours a day during "prime time" without either using ALL the available spectrum there is, or going broke or having to charge a dollar a minute to stream that? Really? Networks are designed to handle the predicted traffic load all the time and the peak traffic load for some of the time, not everyone and their grandmother streaming music all day long.
So the next set of problems with IPV6 will be a monstrous segment of the user level internet.
The problem is all the 2Wire Residential Gateways that provide phone, TV and of course Internet AND COMCAST's cable boxes ( typically a Motorola device). Given that COMCAST just got permission to swallow up a whole boatload of the cable business it will be even more complex with even a more diverse ecosystem devices.
Besides being broken out of the box ( You cannot have more then 1 IP Address per machine, and don't talk to me about MAC spoofing ) these things are just clamped down to the extent that you cannot really change how they work. They were designed to handle your basic home network and nothing else, eg: DHCP plug-n-Play. There are millions of these boxes and I doubt a simple firmware fix will solve the problem unless they replace the entire OS in the box and I can just see that being and EPIC fail.
Others have mentioned they are doing 4 to 6 tunneling. Well that is great if you know how to set it up. 99.99995% of AT&T's or Comcasts customers will not and to even attempt to explain it to them will be a pointless endeavor since they do not even grasp the notion of IP addressing to begin with so that is really a non-starter.
Regardless of the collective opinions of Yahoo this is the tip of the iceberg and it is a big one and the collective generic mom and pop internet users are the Titanic steaming full speed ahead directly at it.
These simply just add more issues onto the pile of the already unsolved issues with IPV6.
I have said this before and I still believe the best course of action is to simply scrap IPV6 and take IPV4 and simply change the segment size from BYTES to WORDS. Right now we have 254 Class A networks and just going from BYTES to WORDS will give us 65535 CLASS A Networks and that gives us 65281 class A networks to hand out with each one having 281,474,976,710,655 (FFFF.FFFF.FFFF ) unique addresses, except we do it wisely this time instead of doing things like giving a single university and entire class A.
There is a rough estimate of about 4000 ISP in the US and most of those get their address blocks from the really BIG ones, AT&T, Verizon, COMCAST and some others. So if the world wide number of ISP's were say 20,000 we would still have 40,000 or so unused CLASS A networks.
Can anyone seriously really see a day when we will have more then 65535 ISP's? I do not believe this to be true unless ( and I really really doubt it ) the trend of bigger ISP's swallowing smaller ISP's changes
Upskill to what? Pic one of a dozen languages? Play pin the tail on the project?
A new project hits the boards and some pinhead Project Manage lets his 14 year old nephew pick the fucking language to implement it in. A team of really solid developers in the offices and cubie's most fluent in three or more languages and they get bypassed because some jackass of a project manager decides this hot new language is what we just HAVE to do it in and so they find some noob collage grad who has spent the last year of school in that language DeJour ?
Thats the problem. A company does it in a language that is fashionable for the moment, not what works, not what has a solid foundation both in the wild and in the company.
People will always find a way to have sex but it will be a different experience to be sure. Consider some of the positions of the Kama Sutra in a micro or gravity free environment.
One thing that comes to mind is more relaxed foreplay since if one is just floating I can think of a few things that will be easier.
Also I think ( at least in space ) a compartment free of instrumentation and with the walls padded would be a necessity since drift is unavoidable and while we try to be tidy there will be a certain amount of fluid that might end of floating free and we don't want that finding its way into wiring and the like.
He is guilty of Espionage - the facts speak for themselves.
Here is the relevant section of United States Code TITLE 10, Subtitle A, PART II, CHAPTER 47, SUB-CHAPTER 906a Article 106a. Espionage aka the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
There are no exceptions, excuses or extenuating circumstances for what he did. This kid was just plain stupid and he is more then likely going to spend the rest ( or a very large portion ) of his life in a very small box in Kansas or if he is lucky he will just get the needle.
Smoothly perhaps, but exhausting.
Obtain the appropriate breathing apparatus then try having sex under water. Not standing in a pool, but underwater with nothing to hold on to but the person your trying to have sex with. It is extremely difficult to get "the motion goin" without becoming quickly fatigued.
Never under estimate that vital role of gravity in your life!
For even writing the piece of shit.
We are of like minds in this regard.
The problem comes when you want that last few miles. Burt & Co are doing neet stuff to be sure but that only gets us so far and the bodies that might get smacked if anything goes wrong are tourists and people get a little bent out shape if they get killed but not nearly as much as when 7 highly trained "National Hero's" get toasted.
Hell we could simply rebuild the Saturn V vehicle to the original specs and we could be punting all kids of stuff into both LEO and HEO with little problem and with a max LEO payload of 5x that of the shuttle and 2x of that to TLI. Make that capsule a double decker and put 6 or 8 peeps up to the ISS or whatever.
Well not so much really. The SR-71 had a MAX payload of 3500lbs and full fuel load of 80,000lbs. Typical flights required the thing to be refueled at about 30,000 ft after takeoff and climb to that altitude do to it needing to use a huge amount of fuel to get to that altitude.
It's mission range was only 2900 NM w/o in-flight refuel.
But a closer look at its performance compared to the space shuttle leaves little room for your notion that we cannot build something to get into LEO.
The biggest issue with us not being able to put a vehicle into service for LEO insertions is that we as a country want the most sophisticated and safest vehicle we can get and so we do study after study after prototype after prototype and that costs HUGE dollars. On top of that politics enters the picture and things really go to hell in a handcart. So it is little to do with technological know how and has everything to do with spending vast amounts of tax money and all the problems therein.
The SR-71 was built in secret (and was a secret for many many years ) by a very small team at one factory in California. A replacement for the space shuttle would take dozens of companies and 10's of thousands of workers and you can't keep that a secret. I think perhaps 4 or 5 members of congress and a couple of senators knew that the SR-71 was even being built much less how much it was costing since it was a CIA/Air Force project.
With the tech we know now we could build a single purpose vehicle and do it realtively quickly and inexpensively as compared to the shuttle but once again the problem comes down to politics. Who's state will it be built in? etc. etc. etc.
WTF is SoulSkill still drunk?
This is SO nothing new, nor is it even interesting.
In memory DB's are nothing new, they are simply prone to failure and this is why hardware storage be it spinning drives or Flash will always be around.
All it takes is one hiccup by the memory logic or an interrupt controller or DMA channel and all your in memory data is toast forcing a reload from the last checkpoint which can take quite a while when you are talking say a terabyte of information.
Clifford Hersh and Jeffery Spirn coked up the ANTS database a few years back. It was BLAZINGLY fast. It outran all of them, including Times Ten and it never got any traction and it was a fully in memory database.
The problem is the asshats that came up with IPV6. It should be scrapped here and now. IPV6 is just plain and simple flat out stupid.
Using a hexadecimal address was pure stupidity. All you needed to do was turn each segment of an IP address into a word sized ( 64 bit addressing ) or a long sized ( the magic 128 bit ) value instead of a byte sized value since:
2600000.35.1254.1785
Is one hell of a lot easier to remember then
2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334.
And using the colon for address separation is equally as stupid since that is how we designate port numbers. Ohh wait I know don't forget to surround the unrememberable POS with square brackets!
To make IPV6 useful it requires anything and everything to have a DNS entry since it is pretty much unrememberable and quite frankly I have devices that I never want in the DNS system yet I will be pretyy much forced to since trying to remember an IPV6 address will give me a fucking stroke.
And lets not forget you omit parts of the address eg: 2001:0db8:85a3::0000:8a2e:0370:7334 but ONLY once! I mean why did they even bother with this crap, is that supposed to make it easier?
IPV6 was written by a bunch of head up their ass academics, and even if the members of the committee were not academics their head was still firmly planted in their ass.
The guys who came up with IPV4 new they would have to work with it and made it pretty damn simple in most respects, but these clowns have turned something that should have just made the address space bigger into to something that will require massive kludges to transition since it will pretty much cause a mandatory replacement of pretty much 90% of the hardware out there.
Never ever let an academic design anything. They will fuck it up every time.
You are under a serious delusion here, let me help you out.
The "Free Market" only works in a Utopian world. In that Utopian world when it comes to energy you would have many many transmission paths and you would have many many suppliers and each consumer could choose their own supplier and transmission path and select the best deal they could find in that combination.
Real world now. You have a set of transmission paths that are pretty much fixed, it is called the Grid. You have a few BIG power generators. In northern California that vast majority of the electrical grid is owned by Pacific Gas and Electric as well as the Natural Gas Grid.
Now PG&E maintains both the grids as a cost of doing business. Now as a consumer I want to buy power from Joe's Electrical Generation and then the problem becomes how do I get the power from JEG? Does JEG send it's power into the PG&E Grid? If so how much will PG&E Charge JEG and or ME for the privilege of using that Grid? What does it cost to maintain, modernize and upgrade that Grid as a stand alone entity? What should PG&E charge JEG and or Me for me to get power from JEG?
Suppose Fred's Electrical Generation comes along and can generate 1000 times more electricity then JEG can generate? Suppose PG&E has determined that in order to keep the grid up and running, modernized, etc. that they need to charge 10 cents per unitm but as FGE's customer base grows and grows to the point where they are saturating the grid and PG&E can't expand the grid fast enough what happens to JEG? Does JEG lose the ability to feed into the grid and thereby feed me since FGE's customer base has grown to the extent that they can afford to pay PG&E a premium that effectively shuts down JGE's path to me, the customer.
The problem is that it is no longer a free market between me and JEG it is a market now between the Grid Owner and the Power Producers.
It is a lot like Net Neutrality. The Grid ( in this case the long haul cable owners can now ( do to saturation ) are in the position of being able to say to prover A that they must pay a higher price to send their content but leave provider B at the same cost.
Common Carrier Status dictates that the carrier ( in this case PG&E ) must carry everyones product at the same price and not affect the market of goods and services unless it affects then entire market equally. So if PG&E needs to dump 10 million into improving the grid then that increase must be spread, pro-rated amongst ALL its customers to ensure the market is fair to all participants.
The problem is that none of what I have described actually occurs. Mostly what happens is that back room deals are struck and the one the greases the palm of the grid owner the most gets to see that the screws are put to the ones that don't grease the palm as well and more often then not that person is the consumer or in my example the consumer and JEG.
And that is why Skype will never ever be installed on anything I own. I never call anyone overseas and if I do need to talk to someone I can pop them an e-mail and if they are available google chat works just fine.
Just because you don't catch and convict the actual person that committed a crime doesn't mean you can't catch and convict those who helped that person commit that crime.
And no matter how you spin this, those people did actually facilitate the commission of a crime by telling anyone who wanted to know where they could find and obtain content that in the eyes of the law it was illegal for them to obtain and possess because it was not obtained from the owner or their authorized agent.
I really don't see anything for the supreme court to strike down.
Well, technically it's per core not per physical CPU
Yep that is true, but if you look at their example in the licensing document. A Dual Socket machine supporting quad core Xeon's would be: 8 * .25 = 2 CPU licenses. Not bad for a machine that has the equivalent of 8 CPU's and if run in hyper-threading mode actually looks like 16 CPU's to a Linux kernel.
Show me the e-mail from Oracle Support specifically stating that was the only way to solve that problem or it didn't happen