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by phicoh 10y ago
That's why I wrote 'feature complete standards'. Anybody can come up with half finished standards that are only there to serve some proprietary technology. An interface to an unspecified DRM module is not a useful web standar
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by phicoh 10y ago
Given that there is no sensible way to implement DRM in open source, the W3C should not approve the standard. Or the other way around, W3C should only approve feature complete standards that can be implemented using open source. You cannot
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by phicoh 10y ago
No, you get convicted in absentia (assuming there is enough evidence that you did it) and then you are essentially forever a wanted criminal who still has to do some jail time.
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by phicoh 10y ago
I'm my opinion this goes against european human rights. As soon as Sweden asked for him to be extradited from England, the clock starts ticking. After two years, they violated his right to a speedy trail and he is free to go. I'm
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by phicoh 10y ago
In most court systems, the defendant is not required to say anything. So (in theory) he can just be tried in absentia. He can even have lawyers representing him. At least to me (but I'm not a lawyer), the current system violates europe
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by phicoh 10y ago
There is no redistribution going on. Everybody who has IPv4 addresses now is free to keep them. If you want to compare to real estate, it is more like building a completely new city in the middle of nowhere. Initially the costs are high bec
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by phicoh 10y ago
You may call it 'older projectors', but it is the defacto standard. Any conference will make sure that at least VGA is available. It doesn't help of you show up with display port and the conference offers DVI. I never had a f
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by phicoh 10y ago
Well, after the VGA we got DVI, there is HDMI, display port, mini display port, and I probably forgot some. All the time, VGA (and headphones jacks) just work. It is not the most brilliant solution, but it works. I don't know the detai
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by phicoh 10y ago
After not having a VGA connector, making MacBooks clumsy for presentations, not having an ethernet connector, making it annoying for anything networking related, killing headphone, SD card and USB-A will turn those laptops into nothing more
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by phicoh 10y ago
There are far fewer people who have a contract that specifies that they will get a public IPv4 address on mobile. On wired, just about every business account is assumed to have a public address and often a static one. In addition, a lot of
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by phicoh 10y ago
Except that you probably want a different solution on wired. On mobile just about everybody is running with IPv6-native and the NAT64/DNS64 for IPv4. On wired, you may want to do something different. For example, if some of your custom
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by phicoh 10y ago
What if you don't have a perfectly good IPv4 address? Fraud relating to obtaining IPv4 addresses is really ramping up, so I guess they must worth serious money now.
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by phicoh 10y ago
That would be the same for any carrier grade NAT. If the NAT was just from IPv4 to IPv4, you would have the same problem. Public IPv4 addresses now cost money, so you can't expect to get a public address for free anymore. Of course, wi
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by phicoh 10y ago
I'm amazed at the failure of Facebook in this regard. They were in a unique position to make it work, and then failed. With make it work, I mean that everybody moves in different circles, family, work, friends, hobbies, etc. And you ne
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by phicoh 10y ago
Funny. I guess there were never enough bikes in the US to make rules to keep them out of the way. In the Netherlands, one of the rules is that bikes do not take the middle of a lane, but instead the right side of the right most lane (and if
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by phicoh 10y ago
When I'm on a bike, I just hate public transport with a passion. Why, because some enlightened person decided it was a good idea for traffic lights to give priority to trams and busses. Net effect is waiting for a red light while the t
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by phicoh 10y ago
Not true. On shared roads, bikes and cars are equal. For a long time they were not, bikes had to yield to cars even when the bike was coming from the right. But that was fixed. Bike paths create a whole host of new problems. On big streets
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by phicoh 10y ago
Sed predates Linux (by a very long time). There is an opengroup standard for sed: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/sed.html As long as the OSX version of sed conforms to the standard there is
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by phicoh 10y ago
Yes, but you would have to comply with one set of rules instead of with the rules of the US as well. For example, in the Rojadirecta case, a Spanish .es domain would have avoided interference by the US. So that's why I consider local c
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by phicoh 10y ago
Technically, yes. The US government could directly change DNS entries for ccTLDs in the root zone (or sign alternate versions and use them for hacking). However, that would be the nuclear option. And I guess most countries would see that as
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by phicoh 10y ago
Yes, just pointing out that the USG cannot be trusted, free speech laws or not. In the 90s I considered the gTLDs (.com, .net, .org) most attractive, because I wasn't quite sure how local governments would react and USG seemed reliable
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by phicoh 10y ago
Note that in the past the USG abused its power to seize domains belonging to foreign companies. See for example https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110201/10252412910/homel... So they cannot be trusted. Of co
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by phicoh 10y ago
Logically, it doesn't make sense for the EU to impose harsh restriction on trade with the UK. The reason the UK is allowed to leave is that the EU is a voluntary association. By and large, the EU is an association of individual countri
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by phicoh 10y ago
I that for any athlete, being forced out of an olympics is quite a disaster. You only have a few options within the time you are at your best, maybe two or three. I'm not saying that it is unjustified. But you can't just replace c
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by phicoh 10y ago
If it is not connected to the internet then you can just use ULAs without any problems. You can even set up a registry and use ULA-C space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address
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by phicoh 11y ago
Two things really changed because of the kind of electronics now available and because of the different community that developed quadcopters. Electronics make it possible to equip models with cameras and real-time video links, making first
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by phicoh 11y ago
Not sure what you call hobby drones. My guess is that with the more expensive hobby quadcopters it should be easy to get way to close to landing planes at 2000 feet. Basically at a busy airport you will have one plane every few minutes taki
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by phicoh 11y ago
I think in this case the story is different. People have been flying models for a long time. But originally, model planes, etc. were expensive and relatively hard to fly. So people often knew each other and could have a mostly self-policing
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by phicoh 11y ago
The problem I see in The Netherlands is that rules prohibit flying close the airports already for a very long time. People violate those rules. New regulation is introduced to make the rules more strict. It doesn't affect me personally
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by phicoh 11y ago
Normally, in the order of many months.

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