Comment Re: On a side note (Score 1) 61
Mine does the same occasionally. It's one of the ads.
Comment Re:Speaking of embarrassing... (Score 3, Interesting) 112
Apparently they are: https://www.facebook.com/group...
The interesting bit:
One colleague was on a webinar with AWS yesterday and sent me this choice quote: "We are making a big announcement about IPv6 next week. Watch our blog and you'll see a lot of support."
Comment Oh joy, stateful routers... (Score 2) 254
From the architecture page:
Note that neither Interest nor Data packets carry any host or interface addresses (such as IP addresses); Interest packets are routed towards data producers based on the names carried in the Interest packets, and Data packets are returned based on the state information set up by the Interests at each router hop
Great, NAT-like state in every router...
Comment Re:SSL only = no benefit (Score 1) 320
I like DANE. With 'traditional' SSL certificates you are trusting some third party to certify that someone controls a certain domain name. With DANE the actual operator of the domain name can publish this. Letting the person/organisation who really controls the domain name publish the information instead of letting a third party certify something about somebody just because they pay them to do so makes so much more sense...
Comment Commercials (Score 1) 186
Maybe it has something to do with Microsoft making fun of keyboard-less tablets these days...
Comment Re:Business as usual (Score 1) 233
ISP's and hosting companies will not run out of IPs.
One problem is that while existing ISP's and hosting companies will still have some IPv4 space left, exhaustion at the RIR (RIPE NCC, ARIN, etc) level will block the market for newcomers. With the current policies they will still get a few IPv4 addresses, but not enough to give some to every customer. So there will be older companies where customers can get IPv4 addresses and new companies where they can not. Not a very competitive market
Comment You do it like this... (Score 1) 374
Submission + - EU: Android 2.3 (Not 3.0) Violates Apple Patents (itworld.com)
jfruhlinger writes: "A Dutch court came to some interesting conclusions in the Apple-Samsung patent case raging there. The court rejected claims that Samsung stole intellectual copyrights, or that it slavishly copied Apple's iPad and iPhone. It did decide that Android 2.3 violated an Apple photo management patent — but said that Samsung could get around this simply by upgrading its phones to Android 3.0."
Submission + - Apple releases Mac OS X Lion (apple.com)
steffann writes: "The long anticipated Lion release of Mac OS X has just been released by Apple. It is only available through the App Store."
Comment Mobile operators... (Score 1) 1
Looking at the RIPE NCC allocations: A
Submission + - Interpol Issues Wanted Notice for Julian Assange
chrb writes: Interpol have issued a wanted notice for Julian Paul Assange for alleged sex crimes. The Guardian and Wired both have commentary.
Submission + - Free IPv4 pool now down to seven /8s (iana.org)
Zocalo writes: For those of you keeping score, ICANN just allocated another four /8 IPv4 blocks; 23/8 and 100/8 to ARIN, 5/8 and 37/8 to RIPE, leaving just seven /8s unassigned. In effect however, this means that there are now just two /8s available before the entire pool will be assigned due to an arrangement whereby the five Regional Internet Registries would each automatically receive one of the final five /8s once that threshold was met. The IPv4 Address Report counter at Potaroo.net is pending an update and still saying 96 days, but it's now starting to look doubtful that we're going to even make it to January.
Submission + - Facebook's 'Like This' button is tracking you (thinq.co.uk)
Stoobalou writes: A researcher from a Dutch university is warning that Facebook's 'Like This' button is watching your every move.
Arnold Roosendaal, who is a doctoral candidate at the Tilburg University for Law, Technology and Society, warns that Facebook is tracking and tracing everyone, whether they use the social networking site or not.
Roosendaal says that Facebook's tentacles reach way beyond the confines of its own web sites and subscriber base because more and more third party sites are using the 'Like This' button and Facebook Connect.
Arnold Roosendaal, who is a doctoral candidate at the Tilburg University for Law, Technology and Society, warns that Facebook is tracking and tracing everyone, whether they use the social networking site or not.
Roosendaal says that Facebook's tentacles reach way beyond the confines of its own web sites and subscriber base because more and more third party sites are using the 'Like This' button and Facebook Connect.
Adding CSS3 Support To IE 6, 7 and 8 With CSS3 Pie 142
rsk writes "Internet Explorer 6, 7 and to some extent 8 have been the bane of every CSS-loving web developer for years. With the spreading adoption of CSS3's fancier rendering effects, like rounded edges, drop shadows and linear gradients, the frustration of needing to deal with IE compatibility is growing. 327 Creative's Jason Johnston has created the CSS3 Pie library to address this. CSS3 Pie adds support for CSS3's most popular rendering techniques to Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 by way of the IE-only CSS property 'behavior.' CSS3 Pie is open sourced under the Apache 2 license and can be accessed from its github repository."
Speech-to-Speech Translator Developed For iPhone 133
Ponca City, We love you writes "Dr. Dobbs reports that Alex Waibel, professor of computer science and language technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed an iPhone application that turns the iPhone into a translator that converts English speech into Spanish, or vice versa. Users simply speak a sentence or two at a time into the iPhone and the iPhone will respond with an audible translation. 'Jibbigo's software runs on the iPhone itself, so it doesn't need to be connected to the Web to access a distant server,' says Waibel. Waibel is a leader in speech-to-speech translation and multimodal speech interfaces, creating the first real-time, speech-to-speech translator for English, German and Japanese. 'Automated speech translation is an expensive proposition that has been supported primarily by large government grants,' says Waibel. 'But our sponsors are impatient to see this technology become more widely available and we, as researchers, are eager to find new revenues that will help us extend this technology to more of the 6,000 languages now spoken worldwide.'"
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