Re: anything that plugs into a wall....
5, surely, there's not even an RFC for SOCKS4.
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Nobody else seems to have suggested that the true instigators of this nonsense may well be the signals intelligence agencies. They've been stretching the legal limits of surveillance and denigrating public access to powerful e2e cryptography for several decades, with limited success. Now, maybe, they've found a winner: make child abuse the excuse for what they have always wanted to do. It only needs a few gullible politicians and journalists to fall for it.
Yes, but I upvoted VoiceOfTruth because the only mistake in that post is the comment about debt. Deficit financing and Keynesian policies are mighty fine, much better than the supply-side voodoo economics favoured by right wingers ever since Reagan and Thatcher. None of that is the reason why the US Empire is in decline. Now the China has a modern economy, their size "trumps" the USA. That's all.
Sad to see an empire at the end of its days trying to defeat the more powerful new empire, rather than figuring out its place in the new world order.
It's the same fallacy as that behind "Make America great again." It's depressing that Democrats as well as Republicans imagine that banning high tech sales will have any effect on China except giving them even stronger reasons to develop their own high tech. This is not the way to improve respect of human rights in China.
When HTTP came along in the early 1990s, it wasn’t trying to solve an RPC problem so much as an information sharing problem, but it did implement request/response semantics.Tim Berners-Lee's day job when he designed HTTP was implementing and supporting RPC for physics experiments. He'd known about RPC since at least 1980. It was no coincidence that he implemented request/response.
But it still doesn't matter if it does end up in an ITU-T recommendation. Nobody cares, because that isn't where the Internet's technical standards come from.
Been there, done that, sat in meetings in Geneva, even before Zhao Houlin became S-G. All hot air, contributing to climate change.
P.S. As you probably know as well as I do, fringe workshops at IEEE-sponsored conferences are great for getting publication counts up, especially for grad students and early-career academics, but they don't mean diddly-squat as far as deployment by ISPs goes.
Because whoever operates your default DNS server has decided not to resolve that particular name, or because your local ISP has intentionally blackholed the necessary route. Mine hasn't done either of those things, so if I want to look at RT's absurdist propaganda and lies, I can do so.
Sovereign countries already do what they want and control what they want. It's always been a delusion that the Internet was open and free everywhere. That's not to say that protocols and security mechanisms haven't been consciously designed to encourage open access and privacy, but, actually, governments do govern, for good and for evil. For example, they switch off the Internet or block certain apps and services whenever they find it convenient.
So, although some of the ideas suggested by Huawei etc., in more serious places than the ITU, are technically interesting, nobody ever took "New IP" seriously, either as a technical proposal or as a political strawman.
Since the ITU has had a Chinese Secretary-General since 2015, I also think the fears of having a Putin acolyte replace him were pointless. The S-G doesn't make decisions at the ITU; they are made by nation-state representatives. That's not to say the S-G has no influence, but they don't take the decisions that count. There is no way "New IP" would ever make it through the ITU process, and even if it did, the Internet would ignore it.
Good to see the first female S-G, but I'd rather it was somebody from a smaller country. There's no scope for US hegemony at the ITU either.
I blame Bill Clinton for this. Or perhaps Al Gore. Or, really, Ira Magaziner. They were so sure that commercialising the DNS registration function was the right thing to do, back in 1998.
I though at that time that .com registrations should have been priced at about $2000. But the free marketeers won, and we got... 13 million new bogus domains a month.
Mankind is doomed.
I don't think it's "merely" an extra. Stopping Nordstream 1 became pretty much inevitable the day that Putin launched his lunatic invasion, but it's a tactical problem. Scrapping Nordstream 2 was a fatal blow to the long-term strategy of depending on Russian gas. That strategy was an enormous blunder, committed in slow motion over several decades, triggered by German Greens and their irrational hatred of nuclear power.
Getting back to the OP, kudos to CERN for being public-spirited.
"New Zealand - is imaginary"
Not entirely, but cheese really is expensive (to be blamed entirely on profiteering, as far as I can tell). Cost of living is a problem everywhere today.
Was the condenser made of brass plates? I used to have a couple of beautiful brass variable condensers that came out of a pre-war (WW II, that is) radio, but alas no more, I left them at home when I went to university and they vanished without trace when my parents moved house.
Once upon a time I ran a reasonably large program development computer for our group, and a person we'll call Ed (not his name) was charged with making a daily backup of the "big" 66MB disk (yes, this really was once upon a time). That was a manual copy to a spare disk pack on a spare drive. I also insisted that Ed did a weekly backup to mag tape, a much slower job that Ed hated but he did it anyway.
One fine day the disk stopped working. Ignoring some ominous noises, Ed said "Ah-ha, I know what to do" and quickly removed the active disk pack and popped in yesterday's backup. Pressed the button, and the ominous scraping noises resumed.
Well, that took a while to sort out... but he never complained about having to do the backup to tape again.
"CCAs have to choose at most two out of three properties: high throughput, convergence to a small and bounded delay range, and no starvation"
Is this supposed to be news? The people who design and implement congestion control for a living have known this for many years. It's nice to have the maths, but the absence of free lunch has long been known. The closer you get to a bounded delay target, the more traffic will be completely excluded because admitting it will increase the delay.
If this helps, I've generally found female help desk people a lot more helpful than their male colleagues. So the misogynist users are actually losing out.
That said, I've been on both sides of the support desk at various times and I can confirm that Some Users Are Arseholes, regardless of pronouns.
What you get from a collaborative research programme is much more than money. You get collaboration. As was pointed out repeatedly before the referendum and during the May regime and again during the Johnson regime, losing Europe-wide collaborative research would be disastrous.
Guess what, they didn't listen, and it's a disaster. It's not just about the money.
We once had a colleague, let him be known as Anon, who knew much more than we did about electricity, so when he found that none of the Thinnet cables that arrived in his lab had properly earthed shields, he carefully soldered them all to earth (or ground, as it's known in Umrika). And then he told us that our Ethernet had an unacceptably high error rate despite his improvements.
We then explained the concept of earth loops to Anon and removed all his helpful solder. With all the 50 Hz electricity gone, things worked much better.
Long overdue, I fear. First, IBM was a technology company run by engineers, salespeople and lawyers. It was well on the way to irrelevance when they put a businessman in charge (Gerstner). He pulled it back from the brink but then handed over to accountants, and finally to a techie who has clearly been snowed by the accountants. The accountants didn't know how to manage but did know how to make bad numbers magically look good. Until they didn't, which is where they are now.
If they were trying to receive traffic in bogus servers, they could provide bogus certificates. But there's nothing in the report to suggest that. It's equally likely they just wanted a look at the traffic for a while or just to blackhole it for fun and annoyance.
Using IPv6 addresses as identities is impossible. They are topological addresses (exactly like IPv4). The IPv6 addresses of my laptop change whenever I move to a new network, and the IPv6 addresses of my smartphone change when I move from WiFi to cellular or back.
Because of the way Internet routing works, it cannot be otherwise.
("Addresses" in the plural, because any up-to-date IPv6 host uses temporary addresses to protect privacy: it isn't an oversight that IPv6 addresses are not tied to identity, it's a design goal.)