Indeed, and the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization can be amazon.int (which is what the .int domain is for, although for some bizarre reason the biggest treaty organization of them all, the United Nations, is at un.org rather than un.int. Not to mention that having its own ISO 3166-1 code and a number of suborganizations a .un top-level domain would actually make sense.)

They were introduced at the same time, in the same RFC... but the bottom line is that it started out as an exclusively U.S. network, and one with a military bent at that (ever wondered by it is not .mil.gov?!) At this point it's a permanent quirk.

GPT vs MBR is irrelevant to BIOS, unless, of course, the BIOS tries to parse the MBR and draw conclusions from it. So of course many of them do, and get it wrong. However, it is one of those things that "it works unless actively broken."

One of the many atrocities on the American Justice system already committed by this Supreme Court...

Hey, I resemble that remark.

Wow, Slashdot's submission system is even slower than I thought.

Actually, in the most likely form of a universe permitting reverse time travel, specifically an Everett multiverse, next week's lottery numbers would be completely useless. Simply put, you'd go back in time with the numbers, and then the drawing would come up and it wouldn't be the same numbers... because you'd be in another branch of probability (Hilbert) space.

Well, part of the reason it is all there (and other ISM bands like 915 MHz and 5.8 GHz) is because the stuff *can* work with interference. This property is useful both when dealing with other "intentional radiators" and with industrial emissions, so it makes sense to put them in the same area. Pretty much the FCC and other regulatory agencies put an (almost) free-for-all sign up and said "if you can make it work, go for it, just don't complain if it doesn't work at all." However, you wouldn't be able to use the ISM bands -- or, quite frankly, any frequency close to them -- for weak-signal work like satellite. It would be like trying to whisper at Woodstock.

I guess they were waiting for the recent Supreme Court decision which basically says that a company can say "you can't sue us because we told you so."

Linus doesn't scream. He obliterates with sarcasm.

But still not by default, what it sounds like, which means it is still marginal at best.

Round-trip latency can definitely be improved. It just means using LEO satellites instead of GEO.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311361/ One year, during the Ottawa Linux Symposium, I did walk into the Dominion Tavern and found Jesus.

There are a number of things attractive with LLVM/Clang: the code base is cleaner, some people feel better about the license, and so on. The quality of the generated code, however, is significantly worse, at least at this time.

Given that Skype operates in countries (like India) where VoIP is illegal unless there is a back door, and Skype is said to be "in compliance", you *know* there is a back door.