Comment Re:No thanks. (Score 1) 611
I always thought that film would be much improved if Goose had survived but was left a vegetable.
Comment Developed by Sukhoi... (Score 1) 611
...=! Indian. ==Russian.
That is all.
Comment No thanks. (Score 4, Funny) 611
A flat spin killed Goose.
Comment Re:To the Global Warming naysayers (Score 1) 306
And I'm sorry if you're offended by ads.
I'm not offended by ads. I'm offended by hypocrisy.
You say you did it so that you wouldn't have to repeat yourself, but you're still repeating yourself. Your goal seems to be driving traffic to your blog, and not reducing the need to repeat yourself as you state.
And why? Who are you? You're not an authority. You, like me, are some random idiot on the internet.
Comment Re:Speaking of literacy (Score 1) 337
You've got one part right. The constitution is amendable. What chafes my ass, is when people try to sidestep the constitution. Worse, is when they try to make that constitution say something that it never intended to say.
An voter shows up at some meeting, and he happens to be toting a weapon. What's the problem? Are you afraid of him? Why? What is the problem, exactly? He might shoot you?
Why not leave the pansy pastel rainbow party, and join the party that allows you to carry weapons? That way, you can have your own weapon, and you need not fear. Problem solved, right?
*sigh*
I'm glad I don't live in fear.
Arms are no more vicious than they were in the day the Romans ruled all of the known world. In fact, weapons are comparatively less deadly than back then. A nasty cut with a spear or sword was very likely to get infected and kill you. Today? You can take a bullet or three, get carted off to a hospital, and be saved from death. Besides which, weapons aren't vicious - people are.
As for my immutable gospel - there are no vague statements in it. Every sentence, every phrase, every word in that document was carefully considered. There is nothing vague about it. The only time it may seem vague is when people start parsing words like ole Billy Clinton. "Depends on what you mean by "Sex"" Clinton. And, "What do you mean by "is"" Clinton.
If you don't like the Constitution, why don't you stand up on two legs like a man, and say that you don't like the Constitution. Don't blather meaningless bullshit about how those nutcases 200 years ago couldn't have foreseen where technology would go, or how society would change, or that they didn't comprehend the English language. Just come right out and say that you don't like the United States, or it's government, and that you want to change it. That sounds honest at least, and some people might respect you for it.
And, you need not fear speaking out, either. You'll have a lot of company. There are millions of babbling fools who think that this country could be better if it were run their way. You'll have to stand in line, though. Some of those babbling fools have money, and they are already in Washington trying to buy up a congressman or six to do their bidding. Kinda like Bill Gates and Microsoft in this article: http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/29/030223/Microsoft-Holding-Screw-Google-Meetings-In-DC?art_pos=27
Comment Re:Threatening plurality? (Score 1) 703
fascist.
Comment Boycott will not work. (Score 1) 244
I haven't bought new games for a few years now because of the DRM and advertising, but there are too many gamers willing to pay despite the B.S. Doesn't look like my boycott is working....
Comment Re:So Just tunnel over HTTP (Score 1) 343
Given a couple of years of treating protocols differently, then _absolutely everything_ will evolve to have an option to tunnel over http.
This is a case where from the ISP perspective the 1% of users that use 99% of your backhaul are also the most determined to carry on doing it, so the obvious technical countermeasures will get implemented without much trouble.
The bigger worry with the net neutrality debate is providers slowing traffic by destination rather than by protocol, or more likely the reverse ie. traffic shape everything other than those in our list of 'business partners'. The only workable solution for the end user is to close their account, which is probably exactly what your ISP wants you to do in this case.
Interesting times.
This is a case where from the ISP perspective the 1% of users that use 99% of your backhaul are also the most determined to carry on doing it, so the obvious technical countermeasures will get implemented without much trouble.
The bigger worry with the net neutrality debate is providers slowing traffic by destination rather than by protocol, or more likely the reverse ie. traffic shape everything other than those in our list of 'business partners'. The only workable solution for the end user is to close their account, which is probably exactly what your ISP wants you to do in this case.
Interesting times.
Comment Re:A few thoughts (Score 4, Informative) 635
Does this mean that the token ring drivers that have been in the Linux kernel for seems like forever dont exist, or does this mean you are a troll?
From the modules in ubuntu 9.04: ./kernel/drivers/net/tokenring ./kernel/drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.ko ./kernel/drivers/net/tokenring/abyss.ko ./kernel/drivers/net/tokenring/olympic.ko ./kernel/drivers/net/tokenring/tms380tr.ko ./kernel/drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.ko
From the modules in ubuntu 9.04:
Fastbooting Linux For Dummies? 241
Linux First timer writes "I wonder whether the Linux Gurus of Slashdot could help me with some advice on setting up a Linux system for my wife. She is not at all computer literate, but likes to get on the net for a few minutes every morning to read news etc. She is always bitching that our XP desktop takes way too long to boot 'just to get on the net for a few minutes.' I was thinking that I could take an old laptop we have, do a little first time test drive installing and using Linux, and possibly solve her problem in one go. The requirements for the system are simple: fast as possible boot/load Firefox, easy for a computer dummy to get onto the net, hard to break through random incompetence, and comes with Open Office.org or similar for occasional use. Wouldn't be used for much else. Any useful advice for us two poor Linux newbies? For example, is Ubuntu the best choice for this, or is there a better Linux flavour for the purpose? Any useful tweaks a novice can handle to make it work better for these simple tasks only?"
Norwegian Broadcasting Sets Up Its Own Tracker 187
eirikso writes with an interesting story from Norway; the state broadcaster there has decided to put up some of its content on BitTorrent. "The tracker is based on the same OpenTracker software that the Pirate Bay has been using for the last couple of years. By using BitTorrent we can reach our audience with full quality, unencrypted media files. Experience from our early tests show that if we're the best provider of our own content we also gain control of it."
Comment Ye olde versions of IOS (Score 5, Informative) 412
This only broke BGP implementations that are getting pretty long in the tooth now, on a moderately recent version of IOS all we saw is:
Feb 17 05:25:03.731 nzdt: %BGP-6-ASPATH: Long AS path 10026 3356 29113 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 47868 received from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: More than configured MAXAS-LIMIT
It was definitely an insane path, our routers were configured to drop anything with an AS path longer than 75, old versions of IOS would often just drop the BGP session ( or even crash with some _really_ old versions ).
I'm sure there will be some red faced network engineers updating IOS or even doing forklift upgrades of old boxes at their edges in the near future.
Ink Breakthrough Heralds Bendy PC Screens 140
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers claim to have developed a type of soluble semiconductor ink which could help to make bendable computer screens a reality. Developed at Polyera and BASF Future Business, the ink carries an N-Type negative charge. Previously, semiconductor inks have only been able to carry a positive charge. The new ink can be printed onto any flexible material, including plastic and paper, using only a modified ink-jet printer."
Survival-Horror Genre Going Extinct? 166
Destructoid is running an opinion piece looking at the state of the survival-horror genre in games, suggesting that the way it has developed over the past several years has been detrimental to its own future. "During the nineties, horror games were all the rage, with Resident Evil and Silent Hill using the negative aspects of other games to an advantage. While fixed camera angles, dodgy controls and clunky combat were seen as problematic in most games, the traditional survival horror took them as a positive boon. A seemingly less demanding public ate up these games with a big spoon, overlooking glaring faults in favor of videogames that could be genuinely terrifying." The Guardian's Games Blog has posted a response downplaying the decline of the genre, looking forward to Ubisoft's upcoming I Am Alive and wondering if independent game developers will pick up where major publishers have left off.
Comment Re:IPV4 addresses are NOT running out (Score 1) 425
I wouldn't actually use P2P as any sort of reason for implementing IPv6, but I would use it as one example of a class of applications that will take advantage of end to end connectivity.
The government and corporations ( and probably you ) will get over themselves when the applications start taking advantage of end to end connectivity.
There is absolutely no real security added by translating addresses. Ask yourself this; if your upstream ISP decided to route 192.168.1.0/24 ( or whatever network you use at home ) at the outside interface of your router, would your router drop traffic that followed it? If it does then you have some stateful firewalling in place that would work equally well if you had public addressing. If your router does forward that traffic then the only thing saving you is NAT, you should probably do something about it.
I think people taking the position that IPv6 is more secure probably are misleading people, I can't see a single reason why, it seems to be exactly the same from any metric I can measure with. Securing a dual stack scenario will be almost exactly twice the work, this would be the case whatever the technology was.
The killer IPv6 app is IPv4 address space exhaustion, get used to it.
