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Broadband services are a wonderful innovation of our time, using multiple frequency bands (hence the name) to carry signals over wires (usually, copper, sometimes aluminium). One of the key aspects of the technology is its ability to adapt to the length and characteristics of the line on which it is deployed. Pfff. My ISP already proved that
I guess it was a busy day in the office?
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When the Internet started to become widely used in the 1990s, most traffic used just a few protocols: IPv4 routed packets, TCP turned those packets into connections, SSL (later TLS) encrypted those connections, DNS named hosts to connect to, and HTTP was often the application protocol using it all. 1/2 of HTTP, and more
No, it's not a Net Neutrality post
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We need to invent a real C3PO.
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An actually interesting article about protocols. Thanks Kent!
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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We aim to please. You're very welcome.
TTFN - Kent
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Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-Changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Russian billionaire Yuri Milner says if the space rock 'Oumuamua is giving off radio signals, his team will be able to detect them—and they may get the results within days. We can ask them where are they going (and can we come too?)
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They'll probably fly right by...oh wait they may want to stop at walmart and pick something up for he trip?
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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The Oumuamuans do everything in threes... 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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The Daily Mail spoke with the leader of a team of researchers with the National Institute on Aging in the U.S. and reports that they have found that putting mice on a diet consisting of eating nothing every other day for a period of time day resulted in improved cognitive functioning. I fast - sometimes for minutes a day
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Sure. But fasting as compared to eating what?
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In a statement peppered with boldface warnings, the Securities and Exchange Commission is urging people eyeing crypto-asset investments to exercise “extreme caution.” There might be scams involved in bitcoin?
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"China’s big brother: how artificial intelligence is catching criminals ... " [^]Quote: In one of the company’s open spaces is a large screen that identifies anyone who stares at it, and then plays videos of their recent movements throughout the premises. The effect is perhaps a little “Big Brother”, but this is nothing compared to what else Yitu can do – and is doing.
Quote: Whole cities in which the algorithms are working say they have seen a decrease in crime. According to Yitu, which says it gets its figures directly from the local authorities, since the system has been implemented, pickpocketing on Xiamen’s city buses has fallen by 30 per cent; 500 criminal cases have been resolved by AI in Suzhou since June 2015; and police arrested nine suspects identified by algorithms during the 2016 G20 summit in Hangzhou. Dragonfly Eye has even identified the skull of a victim five years after his murder, in Zhejiang province.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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Quote: Whatever the future holds, Yitu’s chief executive is sure of one thing: “The world is going to change so fast that our imagination can’t even foresee, now, what it will look like in 30 years.”
The one thing we can predict about the future is that whatever we predict about it now will be woefully off the mark of what actually comes to pass. Yet, ironically, in retrospect it will all seem to have been so obvious....
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That's not entirely true. For years, science fiction writers have "over predicted" the rise of technology. In nearly all aspects, we are not nearly as advanced as most of them have predicted. Of course, in some ways we are farther but not very many.
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Yes... though not quite sure in what way that makes what I said "not entirely true" ..?
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I don't know anything I can say is 'not entirely true' with a straight face.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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And, George Orwell appears more prescient every year.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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“This is a giant step,” the president said during a ceremony. "We could walk forever, walking on the moon"
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Because the moon is the perfect place from where to start if you want to go anywhere within the solar system. If we don't want to stay at home forever, we need a moon base.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I want to go to Malibu. That is in the solar system yes?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
modified 12-Dec-17 4:59am.
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