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>What changed was the move from coax<
His original had the separate cable interface device.
Metcalf was on record as saying that Ethernet had been invented, and invented, and invented, and that all of the inventors who invented subsequent versions were inventors who invented modern ethernet
Of course there are vulnerabilities -- well known and repeatedly documented buffer overrun errors on all kinds of read-only files, including unix script files. The file recognition system was a well known security vulnerability of unix systems -- so well known that it's been mostly fixed. It's been, what, a decade or more since the last known exploit.
Windows displays the Application right next to the filename in the column labled 'type'. It tells you, right there, what happens to them.
I can understand that people might want to be told twice. Might want to see '.xlsm' as well as 'Calc'. My like to see the file extension as well as seeing what will happen.
But if you can't see what's right in front of you, I can't say that I blame MS for that.
Enterprise installers, and home users, do have internet connections and MS accounts. People installing without internet connections are (1) Not enterprise, or (2) not advertising targets.
If this moves to release, expect MS to not care about the non-revenue-stream users they loose.
I don't remember Delphi executables being enormous: rather, I remember them being smaller than Visual c executables. But it was a long time ago and I could be wrong.
However, Delphi always had a smart linker, and it was never necessary to link in the entire runtime. It had c++ like method tagging, which enabled the linker to exclude unused methods, and the object format included full dependency chains.
Windows NT has had unix subsystem for 20 years. But it used to be different enough from BSD or Solaris or gnu/Linux that you had to recompile applications for the platform.
Now we have Win10/Win11 with a (mostly) binary compatible Linux virtualised OS. The people who want to use Linux binaries now (including commentators here) think that 'cross platform' means 'binary available', and 'unix' means 'binary compatible'.
The vast majority of 'Open Source' users don't think Open Source means 'I can re-compile Open Office to run on a posix system'.
www.submarinecablemap.com isn't showing the Oregon and Japan legs of the cable. They may be existing cable? Or a separate build program?
Interesting that no Hawaii connection is shown. This cable avoids the Chinese coast, giving more geographic and political diversity to the Singapore/USA connection (critical hubs). Avoiding Hawaii demonstrates that it's not *just* a geo-political strategy: there is enough traffic and enough existing diversity that a trans-pacific cable doesn't have to stop at Hawaii or China to pick up traffic and provide alternate routes.
How exactly is this different from EU and UK law, which also permits secret transfer of customer data from corporations to EU and UK law enforcement and spy agencies?
Evidently there is *some* difference, because the courts have been finding a difference, but is it only that EU spy agencies are classified categorically as 'not American'?
Because 'transfer to US law enforcement and spy agencies" is always quoted as the fundamental objection, I was surprised* to see exactly the same exemption in EU/UK regulations
*Yes, I was that naive
cost business a fortune in lost time
Win started out as a niche product for Home/Small business: not a games console, not an enterprise green-screen environment.
Now that they are a major player in Enterprise, with 'cloud' the new 'mainframe', it's Enterprise which dictates how much you're allowed to change, and how difficult it is to do so.
The Americans adopted International units in the period 1930 / 1960. The international standards were defined by an international standards negotiation process. The names of the units are the same as the names of British customary units, but the definitions match neither the preceding British Imperial definitions nor the preceding American definitions.
Subsequently the British adopted a different international standard, and later the Americans did the same: all or most American customary units are now defined in term of SI units.
"Imperial" refers to British customary units.
Not any more. During and after WWII, British and American Customary Units were standardized to international units (which is what the USA now uses), which involved some stuff like adjusting the length of the mile. Then the UK changed directions and adopted the *other* international standardization effort. As a result, neither the American nor the British customary units are an exact match for the old Imperial units.
We already had direct hardware acceleration from the video card. I had 3D direct hardware acceleration in Win98. And in XP. They re-wrote the video stack because ... dunno. It was a long time ago. Was it part of the 'driver hardening' you also mention?
In fairness, at the time MS would have been saying "Direct 3D now provides hardware acceleration", but that's just normal MS marketing. They *never* refer to previous technology when listing the characteristics of new releases.
and it took about 5 seconds, so clearly something was badly broken in the OS.
The biggest problem was that network file operations communicate with Windows Explorer, so that Explorer shows live updates. Couple that with the enormous latency of encrypted* and authenticated SMB1 over TCP/IP.
In theory, that should only make it slow, but in practice sometimes it didn't work very well at all.
*By default, encrypted and authenticated because the same channel is used for login, AD and group policy. Over TCP/IP because file servers need to use a routeable multi-site protocol, right?
"forced" the Russian Navy to move parts of it away
The Russians have gone to a fairly empty bit of ocean? And cables have go to an area where trawlers aren't dragging the bottom?
Sounds like it's just possible that there might be nothing to see here.
But, as every other poster in this thread has pointed out, it is important that self-driving cars must behave *differently* than all other drivers on the road.
Because if 'self-driving' cars behaved like all other drivers, we wouldn't have unexpected behaviour.
And everybody knows, it's the unexpected behaviour of other drivers that keeps you alert and aware while driving.
True, except for the snide remark "glad to see phased out".
No Doctor I have ever known has been glad to see autopsies phased out.
They are phased out by management (who don't want to pay) and insurance companies (who benefit from medical failures*) and by relatives, who aren't interested: she's 97, was deaf and blind, and now you want to cut up her body because the /doctors/ want to cut up bodies?
*every medical failure emphasizes the importance of having insurance. Floods sell flood insurance: fires sell fire insurance.
Burglary. : the act of breaking and entering a dwelling at night to commit a felony.
Like 'murder' and 'rape', 'burglary' can be re-defined by statute, or by common agreement the word can mean anything you want, but I would have written
If you leave your front door open and someone steals from you, you your failure to secure your property doesn't negate the fact he's a thief.
If, as seems to be the case, you are alleging that Linux in particular, and Open Source in general, do not place 'environment variables' in a more critical place than is the case for Windows and Windows application programming --- then you are only demonstrating your ignorance of Windows and Windows application programming
Where Linux and Open Source do NOT have an advantage over Windows is in the (cultural) dependence on Environment Variables.
I got sick of pointing out that for Windows builds, other methods offered more secure alternatives: I was assured that the use of environment variables was safe because the user was not privileged.
NAT decides to drop incoming packets that aren't matched by outgoing connections, and it maintains state in order to do so.
'Stateful firewalls" are doors in the firewall. "Stateless" firewalls are windows.
The idea that a firewall should be equally effective from both sides has merit, but it's not a universal rule for any firewall, real or metaphorical.
The assertion that it's not a real firewall if it doesn't have doors and windows is just tiresome.
The last thing I want is "advertisements" clogging up my bandwidth and capturing my network. I'm still chasing down modern Apple notebooks that are spamming me with NETBIOS. And DHCP mostly works -- although I've experienced the common problem of ISP DHCP leakage at router restart -- but I have no desire to move any of my servers / utilities to dynamic IP.
And NAT is a stateful firewall. It's a stateful firewall that also does address translation and port randomization. You may argue that NAT 'really does not prevent fires from moving from one part of a building to another", but that's a sophomoric semantic argument.
Well no, the bank probably wasn't in deep regulatory shit for paying a crossed check in cash to the wrong account or person. That's just an instruction to the bank -- and when I was in school, there was a poster on the wall of the accounting classroom, specifically pointing out that it had been tested in court, and that the bank had no specific liability for that mistake.
But when you do that, what happens to the Workstation Passwords? Last I looked ---
MS domain computers are validated by a (binary) password, (the process is exactly the same as user login), which is replaced/updated every month (or at a configured interval). Once the client password is updated, it doesn't match your snapshot from last month -- which might have been 2 minutes ago. Not a disaster, but all the client machines have to be re-joined to the domain.
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