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Comment Re:The issue is metadata (Score 1) 158

by Jeremy Visser (#31646658) Attached to: Major 'Net Players Mulling IPv6 Whitelist

Where did you get that number? The IETF slides say something like 0.07%.

I don't have that Google statistic, but I do know that Wikimedia run similar tests on Wikipedia. Here are the test results, updated daily. As of today, 2010-03-28, an AAAA breaks the request 0.39% of the time for Wikipedia users.

Those tests are done in the background to users at random by a snippet of JavaScript on Wikipedia articles.

This Google presentation says Google would lose 0.1% of traffic if they added AAAA, though it's not presented particularly prominently, so take that with a grain of salt.

Either way, adding AAAA's will break your website for some people. In my opinion, though, the number is so small it's not worth worrying about, but each to his own, I guess. All this pain will be over soon anyway. Hopefully.
Games

Submission + - FOSS Nexuiz shooter sells out, forked as Xonotic

Submitted by Xonotic
Xonotic writes: Xonotic came about in the wake of recent troublesome changes to the Nexuiz project, changes that have left many of the core contributors and community members feeling that the project has been mishandled. As a result, we felt the need to organize a departure to start with a clean slate.
The Courts

Apple Loses Aussie Trademark Complaint Over "i" Name 177

Posted by timothy from the but-maybe-only-at-the-end dept.
CuteSteveJobs writes "Apple has been dealt a severe blow having been told that it no longer has a monopoly on the letter 'i' for product naming. IP Australia, the government body that oversees trademark applications, rejected Apple's complaint against a company selling 'DOPi' laptop bags. Last year Australian computer company Macpro Computers claimed that after 26 years of flying its own Macpro brand that Apple was 'trying to burn us out' with legal fees. This was after Apple released its own Macpro line 3½ years ago. Apple lost that complaint, but is appealing. Last year Apple went after supermarket Woolworths complaining their new logo which featured a 'W' fashioned into the shape of an apple. (Woolworths sells real apples.)"
The Internet

Things To Look For In a Web Hosting Company? 456

Posted by timothy from the secret-underground-layer dept.
v1x writes "I have had an account with my current web hosting company for a few years, with 3 domains being hosted there (using Linux/PHP/MySQL). Recently, all three of these websites stopped functioning, and upon checking the site, all my directory structures were intact, whereas all of the files were gone. Upon contacting their technical support, I was given the run-around, and later informed by one of their administrators that none of the files could be restored. Needless to say that I am looking for a different web hosting company at this point, but I would like to make a more informed choice than I did with the current company. I have read a similar Slashdot article (from 2005) on the topic, but the questions posed there were slightly different." Reader mrstrano has a similar question: "I am developing a web application and, after registering the domain, I am now looking for a suitable web hosting provider. It should be cheap enough so I can start small, but should allow me to scale up if the web site is successful (as I hope). The idea is simple enough so I do not need other investors to implement it. This also means that I don't have a lot of money to put on it at the moment. Users of the website will post their pictures (no, it's not going to be a porn website), so scalability might be an issue even with a moderately high number of users. I would like to find a good web hosting provider from day one, so I don't have to go through the pain of a data migration. Which web host would you choose?"
X

After 2 Years of Development, LTSP 5.2 Is Out 79

Posted by timothy from the terminal-velocity dept.
The Linux Terminal Server Project has for years been simplifying the task of time-sharing a Linux system by means of X terminals (including repurposed low-end PCs). Now, stgraber writes "After almost two years or work and 994 commits later made by only 14 contributors, the LTSP team is proud to announce that the Linux Terminal Server Project released LTSP 5.2 on Wednesday the 17th of February. As the LTSP team wanted this release to be some kind of a reference point in LTSP's history, LDM (LTSP Display Manager) 2.1 and LTSPfs 0.6 were released on the same day. Packages for LTSP 5.2, LDM 2.1 and LTSPfs 0.6 are already in Ubuntu Lucid and a backport for Karmic is available. For other distributions, packages should be available very soon. And the upstream code is, as always, available on Launchpad."
Earth

Utah Assembly Passes Resolution Denying Climate Change 787

Posted by kdawson from the still-snowing-here dept.
cowtamer writes "The Utah State Assembly has passed a resolution decrying climate change alarmists and urging '...the United States Environmental Protection Agency to immediately halt its carbon dioxide reduction policies and programs and withdraw its "Endangerment Finding" and related regulations until a full and independent investigation of climate data and global warming science can be substantiated.' Here is the full text of H.J.R 12." The resolution has no force of law. The Guardian article includes juicy tidbits from its original, far more colorful, version.

Comment Re:Nice (Score 1) 260

by Jeremy Visser (#31050676) Attached to: MPEG LA Extends H.264 Royalty-Free Period

For the record, I do not hate you. I just hate the tremendous stupidity that you have shown.

Such as my ability to determine that in one of your aforementioned videos, they are actually still serving the Flash widget, despite being opted-in to the HTML5 beta. (I suspect that videos that they haven't transcoded to H.264 get served as Flash still, but that's just a guess.) Right-click on it and see.

Could have double-checked that before flinging the word "stupid" at me, but hey -- takes one to know one.
Microsoft

Craig Mundie Wants "Internet Driver's Licenses" 427

Posted by timothy from the genuine-advantage dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Craig Mundie, Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer, called for the creation of an 'Internet Driver's License' at the World Economic Forum in Davos, saying, 'If you want to drive a car you have to have a license to say that you are capable of driving a car, the car has to pass a test to say it is fit to drive and you have to have insurance.' Of course, there are quite a few problems with this. For starters, internet use cannot yet cause death or dismemberment like car accidents can; and this would get rid of most of the good of internet anonymity while retaining all of the bad parts, especially in terms of expanding the market for stolen identities. Even though telephone networks have long been used by scammers and spammers/telemarketers, we've never needed a 'Telephone Driver's License.'"
The Courts

Landmark Ruling Gives Australian ISPs Safe Harbor 252

Posted by samzenpus from the pick-on-someone-your-own-size dept.
omnibit writes "Today, the Federal Court of Australia handed down its ruling in favor of the country's third largest ISP, iiNet. The case was backed by some of the largest media companies, including 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. They accused iiNet of approving piracy by ignoring thousands of infringement notices. Justice Cowdroy said that the 'mere provision of access to internet is not the means to infringement' and 'copyright infringement occurred as result of use of BitTorrent, not the Internet... iiNet has no control over BitTorrent system and [is] not responsible for BitTorrent system.' Many Internet providers had been concerned that an adverse ruling would have forced themselves to police Internet traffic and comply with the demands of copyright owners without any legislative or judicial oversight."

Comment Re:Nice (Score 1) 260

by Jeremy Visser (#31016108) Attached to: MPEG LA Extends H.264 Royalty-Free Period

Some of the stuff on YouTube is most definitely NOT H.264 because Opera plays some of it while using YouTube's test HTML5 mode.

Because your personal testimony counts for...oh wait. Nothing. You've already been told not to guess once. Take this as your second warning.

I'll believe it when I see it. Until you provide some sort of proof (URL to non-H.264 and non-FLV YouTube video would be nice), I won't believe that.

Opera uses GStreamer as a backend, and 'will also be able to use "anything that Gstreamer can handle,"'. What quite likely actually happened was that the video in fact was H.264, and was using the H.264 decoder in your system's GStreamer.
Image

Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS In 24 Hours Screenshot-sm 107

Posted by samzenpus from the read-all-about-it dept.
r3lody writes "Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours 8th edition, by Julie C. Meloni and Michael Morrison, provides the beginning and intermediate web designer with the tools needed to create standards-based web sites. The major focus of the book is XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2, but HTML 5 and some XHTML 1.0 are discussed. Overall, the presentation and content are very good. One small minus was that the publisher's site did not include downloadable examples from the book. I also found no errata until the latter parts of the book. Published in December of 2009, the 8th edition provides reasonably current information." Read on for Ray's review.

Comment Re:Static or Dynamic? (Score 1) 173

by Jeremy Visser (#30932216) Attached to: Comcast Plans IPv6 Trials In 2010

They should be static, if they have any sense. See a blog post of mine on the subject.

Basically, with IPv4, if you have a dynamic address (say 5.6.7.8), and then your connection drops out, and now you are a different address (say 5.8.7.6), then the machines behind your NAT aren't affected, because they're still using a 192.168.0.x 192.168.0.1 gateway thingy.

But in IPv6, what subnet your ISP allocates you (e.g. 2001:db8:1:5678::/64) influences what machines in your LAN (i.e. what would be behind your IPv4 NAT) have as their IP address.

So if your subnet your ISP gives you is 2001:db8:1:5678::/64, then a machine on your network may have an IP address of 2001:db8:1:5678:aaaa:bbbb:cccc:1234. Then, if your connection drops out, and you get a new dynamic subnet, say, 2001:db8:1:9876::/64, then your machines on the LAN will not get the new address scheme immediately, and have the wrong IP address when sending to the Internet. A whole world of hurt.

Really short durations set on the Router Advertisements may help, but there is still a window of breakage, and thus a whole world of hurt that you just don't want to foist onto your customers.

Just think -- you can give out dynamic subnets and conserve address space, but you'll have all hell break loose with the support calls. (My ISP, Internode, is sane and gives out static /60 subnets.)
Biotech

"Normal" Prions May Protect Myelin 81

Posted by kdawson from the simple-fold-of-fate dept.
thomst writes "Nature Neuroscience just published an online article about the function of 'normal' prions in protecting myelin, the substance that sheathes and protects sensory and motor nerves. The international study (which has 11 authors) concluded that 'normal' (i.e., not mis-folded) prions may form a protective coat around myelin. The researchers found that Prnp -/- mice (mice with the gene for prions knocked out) consistently developed progressive demyelination, inevitably leading to persistent polyneuropathy by 60 weeks of age. Their data suggest that damage to myelin sheaths cause normal prions to cleave, and the resulting prion fragments activate Schwann cells, which are known to play a part in myelin repair. This research might eventually lead to possible treatments for progressive polyneuropathies in humans, including those mediated by Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, and even diabetes."

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