Posts by Yes Me 1742 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jan 2008
Since nobody else has said it: this is good news. I know there's an element of nepotism, but her dignity and composure during her house arrest in Canada, and after her return to China, were impressive. I think she'll be good at the job and Huawei will be the better for it (and their competitors will be the worse).
"the internet community has pushed back strongly against China's plan for a "New IP" standard that has potential to fragment the internet and allow more central control."
It isn't China's plan. It's not even Huawei's plan. It's just one big cheese in Huawei's plan. But indeed, it hasn't made any headway in the IETF, and Internet product makers (including Huawei) and enterprise or carrier Internet operators (including Chinese operators) use IETF standards for the Internet. Some aspects of "New IP" might influence some future IETF standards, but the effort at ITU will produce no concrete results.
P.S. China doesn't need to create a Chinese ITU; look up who runs the one in Geneva.
There is no systemic age discrimination at our company, but amazingly, people over 50 always have poor annual assessments and surprisingly, their skills never match the profiles required for vacant roles. We don't know how that keeps happening for every Resource Action, but it does.
"One is a relic of the 1970s and the other the 80s."
But then, object oriented programming is a relic of the 1960s (SIMULA-67). There's nothing new here, and while I quite like Rust it could have been designed in the 1970s, a vintage decade for inventing systems programming languages.
SLAAC is not a problem and there isn't a chance in hell that it will be deprecated. Sites that want control of user devices seem to prefer DHCPv6, but SLAAC is ideal for all kinds of drop-in scenarios. Such as most scenarios where the o/s is Android.
(I am no apologist for Android's choice, and I note that iOS does claim both SLAAC and DHCPv6 support.)
The whole thing is really not a concern. Privacy problems are overwhelmingly at the application level. I don't get 100+ spams each day because of revealing my MAC address to gmail. As NSA and their friends study my metadata, they would get nothing more out of my MAC address than they have anyway - who I exchange email with, which web sites I visit, what my Register pseudonym is, etc. My IPv6 /56 prefix or my IPv4 /32 tells them all they need.
It's the weakest argument ever for NAT.
There's a subtlety there. ULAs will not be used unless you beef up their precedence compared to globally-reachable IPv6 addresses. That means configuring what is sometimes called the RFC6724 table, and that's not trivial for normal users (and allegedly impossible on some devices, even though the RFC requires the table to be configurable).
You don't need full NAT anyway; you only need prefix translation.
Your router needs to support this stuff; most consumer grade routers don't.
Not quite there yet, but well out of the ivory tower.
Well, the old (ancient) Wylbur interactive system on certain IBM/360 MVS systems had a hidden feature. If it annoyed you, and you chanced to type FUCK WYLBUR at the command prompt, WYLBUR would exit, discarding whatever you had been working on. On its way out, it would of course say NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT.
Not an urban legend, I tested it.
I don't know if this feature persists in the open source version of WYLBUR; I don't have an MVS system handy to try it.
"We're seeing reports of difficulties accessing some Google Maps and Google Maps Platform services," a Google spokesperson told The Register via email. "Our team is investigating and working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible."I think that came from a spokesrobot, not a spokesperson.
Burroughs Algol on the 6700 would often say "^ semi-colon required" with the caret pointing at ";". Sometimes, adding a second semi-colon there worked (in the sense of allowing the program to compile, but not necessarily to run, and only rarely to do what was required.)
This is the price of a simple recursive-descent compiler for a language with nested syntax.
Python's much more entertaining - a missing or extra tab has a very high chance of being accepted, and your progran will do something, but probably not what you want.
I'm sure that not all the news is spread, but if we (in the West) watch largely unbiased sources like Al Jazeera, we see plenty, and that allows us to see that most Westerm media are telling the truth too. (I still wouldn't trust the notoriously right wing media; they are confused because they tended to like the look of Putin as well as of tRump, and right now they are in conflict with themselves. And of course RT tells nothing but lies, as always.)
What I'd like is a pipe right into every home in Russia, to pump the truth to them.
Simply put, the Biden Administration has decided to extend tRump's harmful trade war with China, so has encouraged the FCC in this unfounded move based on bogus security arguments.
I do not understand why Biden doesn't see how foolish this trade war is, especially now he's got a real war to worry about.
You need to read up on the "black start" issue. The problem is that before you can start up the main turbines that actually generate electricity, you need electricity - that's to say, you need a 50Hz supply synchronised precisely with the national grid, because when you bring up the turbines, they must be precisely synchronised with the grid. Kind of, you need a small chicken to hatch a large egg.
So that small generator has to be powered by something - that'll be a tank of diesel.
Come to think of it, I bet the Ukrainian grid is still synchronised to the Russian grid... [Google]... no, they switched to the European synch yesterday: Statement by Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson on Synchronisation of the Continental European Electricity Grid with Ukraine and Moldova.
Exactly. We do, actually, need ordinary Russians to be able to access neutral media (neither RT nor Fox News...) and for those who want to neutralise Putin to be able to communicate (encrypted).
As already noted, Cloudflare will not earn useful money in Russia anyway, so this is not a financially based decision.
Paper tape was much better, IMNSHO. Especially if it got tangled and you had to use the entire stairwell to slowly and carefully untangle it. I saw that with my own eyes on two separate occasions.
Once around 1968 in the old Electrical Engineering building at Manchester University, where the ATLAS was installed on the top floor, and once around 1973 in a DEC building in Reading, during a PDP-11/45 training course. (Or maybe the latter was a DECtape that had come unreeled - too long ago to be sure.)
They don't want to block Russian traffic. They are using the Internet to expose facts, including the ID and photos of PoWs and dead Russians, to the Russian public. It's actually more likely that the Russians will seek to block Ukrainian traffic - but maybe not, because they want to spew propaganda.
Yes. There is really no value in uprooting the DNS. If you want to attack Russia's Internet, BGP4 is the weapon of choice.
But... but... that would remove the only method that Russian citizens, such as soldiers' families, have of reaching factual news sources. It would prevent what Ukraine is doing: exposing the ID and photos etc of captured, injured or dead Russian soldiers so that their families in Russia can know what's going on. It would prevent any news getting out of Russia except via Putin's propaganda channels.
So sabotaging the Internet in Russia would probably be the wrong thing.
Sabotaging the Russian economy seems much more useful.
Go home, Ivan.
"not taking a position in this conflict but allowing States to act accordingly, e.g. blocking all traffic from a particular state."
In its munificence, Almighty Icann will allow states to what which where??? Who the hell does he think he, or ICANN, is? In any case, blocking traffic isn't anything to do with top level domain names, it will be done by dropping BGP4 announcements and VPNs.
FYI, there are numerous DNS root servers in Russia and Belarus, and about 10 in Ukraine. https://root-servers.org/ tells all.
There are some added features, but in reality IPv6 was a very conservative upgrade from IPv4; more radical ideas were ditched because of conservatism among the equipment and software manufacturers in the mid-1990s.
IPv6 utilisation is around 36% of the total now, according to Google.
But yes, the IPv4 standard is still called a Request for Comments.
Yes, and TCP may not be quite finished, but it still works pretty darn well at Gbit rates despite the imperfections. As jake knows well, assuming it's the jake I think it is, principles were set in the late 1970s that have worked brilliantly. Some of them weren't even written down until 20 years later, if at all.
The equipment in most university lecture theatres has been specifically designed to confuse people with Ph.Ds. I have always assumed that a team of technicians without Ph.Ds was tasked with designing such equipment (and in particular the cables that are physically disconnected by anonymous staff at random times of day, noting the absence of labels on any of the sockets). It only got better when things like automatic video recording and standardised presentation computers were added (where the word "automatic" is a euphemism for "randomly enabled or disabled", and "standardised" is a euphemism for "Windows XP").
The pandemic has actually made things better, since Zoom is more predictable than any lecture theatre equipment ever misinvented.
Sure, if you drop BGP4 routes for every AS known to be in Russia or Belarus, you will not stop everything, but you don't need anybody in Kazakhstan to help you do that, because it would be done by the major international transit carriers.
The more tricky problem, as you imply, is how to identify and drop TOR traffic that's been relayed through a third country, be it Kazakhstan, PRC or just an innocent relay in (random choice) New Jersey. Don't tell me that after all these years there are no three-letter agencies that can do that.
Please point to a reference for that "practical experience".
I am still in disbelief that the people who designed radio altimeters in the 1960s would have made them susceptible to sidebands from a 3.98 GHz channel but not from a 3.80 GHz channel, which appears to be the FAA assertion. So where is the evidence?
It's manifestly incomplete. My grandmother is there, my grandfather who died a few months before at the same address is not there. These were both in 1968 (i.e. paper records) so there's no excuse for gaps.
One bit that seems to work well is the bit where you pay £1.50 a shot. I bet they tested that bit.
This is childish. It was childish when tRump started it and it was pathetic that the UK government toadied along. It's not as if the UK has any major companies that Huawei was beating up in the market. And GCHQ certainly knows that all the "back door" security accusations against Huawei were hot air.
Why isn't this against WTO rules? It's nothing but a trade war with China (something the UK can scarcely need, after Brexit).
"well positioned to capitalize on the broader growth opportunities in the region."
Or, combining a few small markets into a slightly larger one to reduce overhead? It's clear that the AU/NZ markets are utterly different from the ASEAN market, so my interpretation is that this is a slowly dying company doing some necessary consolidation.
I haven't seen 2021 data, but for 2020:
IBM NZ reported sales of $210.6 million for the year to 31 December, down from $257.9 million. Profit before income tax nearly halved...(and that's in NZ$, so about US$140M).
So, hardly worth the bother... (Australia is a somewhat better picture, but their net profit there was only AU$89.7M.)
This is fine, but at the same time re-scale your length unit such that the velocity of light is also 1. This greatly simplifies special relativity, and so much else.
(Not a joke. I was also a physicist once, and Otto Frisch, no less, lectured us on relativity with c=1.)
Yes, fusion energy has been 10 or 20 years in the future since ZETA in 1954.
Thorium-based fission has a better chance of providing safe energy:
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/how-a-swiss-start-up-wants-to-reinvent-nuclear-energy/47298052.
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