Posts by Mage

Re: ...of the dumbest ideas from dumbville

Yes, Adobe DRM added to ePub open standard: Books that tell someone what page you are on, and in the clear too!

Adobe DRM on PDFs, often scans of Public domain documents.

Purchased downloads and media should NEVER have DRM. It's immoral.

DRM on Streaming? Well, a decent HD camera and 42" HD monitor defeats it.

DRM is pointless and immoral. It only makes life more awkward for ordinary users, never stops commercial pirates and only for a short while stops casual home "pirates". Yet removes consumer rights, adds restrictions not in Berne Convention on copyright, allows corporations to "landgrab" public domain works and retain restrictions when copyright should have expired.

Some contracts and so called licences on Digital Downloads (not streaming) may not even be enforceable.

Did I mention DRM is pointless and immoral?

Well. I boycott pay TV and Subscription Streaming.

MS? No, more like Adobe and Apple

MS (after losing an EU case) is pretty open. Even before that very much was interoperable. Nor generally do MS create SW that only works with their H, or HW that only works with their accessories.

There is a good reason why retail OS X is a lot cheaper than retail boxed Windows.

Re: Huawei

Huawei are not actually the Chinese State. They even have complained about the state owned Chinese companies getting preferential treatment.

Besides if you are NOT Chinese / Tibetan / Taiwanese / North Korean etc which is worst:

1) NSA

2) GCHQ

3) Chinese Government

4) Israelis (10% of security products shipped!)

5) Russia

Re: IPv6 Mobile

" IPv6 was designed from the ground up to cope with mobile devices."

Err.. citations?

I've never ever seen that claimed before. Other than the addressing size and giving the same IMEI the same v6 IP every time. (Which might be a bad idea for privacy!)

"the need to maintain a static IP address while moving from mast to mast and (potentially) roaming between different subnets."

That's a completely separate issue. It's still not very reliable. Switching between 3G,4G and WiFi without losing a session is really hard. It's possible and IPv6 is nothing to do with it. Switching between mobile 4G sites with IPv4 works fine, was testing it in 2007.

Re: What about IPv6?

3G has "voice HD". It has a choice of codecs. 4G can't use some of the 3G and 2G codecs as they are less than optimal for TCP/IP UDP type networks. VOIP needs codecs optimised for TCP/IP unless you know the latency and packet loss is very low, even then the native "wireless" codecs have wasteful frame sizes for IP traffic

Re: Voice on 4G

You'd care if other people's voice calls was only carried on 4G. The data speeds might be 1/4 for you.

Re: What about 2G, 3G, 4G?

No-one is "going for 5G" already. It's still an ill defined concept, possibly more about integrating infrastructure. There is no 5G standard yet, nor any 5G base stations or software or hardware.

Re: What about IPv6?

No, IPv6 mainly addresses the addressing issues. It does have some other "fixes", but still inherently not good for Wireless. If it was, then Satellite systems would use it natively on the links (nearly 90,000km each way, ground station to user.), they don't.

Mobile / Wireless needs a protocol designed for massively variable speed, packet loss and latency, which can vary from excellent to really bad in minutes for a given link. Also the number of user connections per sector can vary from 1 (20Mbps) to 20+ (0.12Mbps) during a transaction without the addition of weather, movement, interference (even from other cells) or whatever affecting the speed, latency and packet loss. IPv6 doesn't make a huge improvement over IPv4 for that scenario. Also Mobile has the philosophy that individual users get all of the bandwidth available, rather than throttling back power (reducing inter cell interference and increasing battery life) when 1 or 2 users compared to 5 users in a sector. It's pretty garbage anyway for more than 10+ serious users of data (c.f. 3G where about 100 native voice calls are possible).

4G is really really inefficient for voice calls compared to 2G and 3G native voice frames as it's carried as VOIP using TCP/IP to setup and control, then UDP streams. Hence most operators with 4G & 3G make your voice calls use 3G or even 2G!

Re: Tulip Trading

One does wonder if BitCoin is a clever ponzi scheme and if someone "engineered" the mad Tulip "investment" bubble ... The name surely is a deliberate joke?

At the peak of tulip mania, in March 1637, some single tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled craftsman. It is generally considered the first recorded speculative bubble (or economic bubble),[3] although some researchers have noted that the Kipper- und Wipperzeit episode in 1619–22, a Europe-wide chain of debasement of the metal content of coins to fund warfare, featured mania-like similarities to a bubble.[4] The term "tulip mania" is now often used metaphorically to refer to any large economic bubble (when asset prices deviate from intrinsic values).[5]

The 1637 event was popularized in 1841 by the book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, written by British journalist Charles Mackay. According to Mackay, at one point 12 acres (5 ha) of land were offered for a Semper augustus bulb.[6] Mackay claims that many such investors were ruined by the fall in prices, and Dutch commerce suffered a severe shock. Although Mackay's book is a classic, his account is contested. Many modern scholars feel that the mania was not as extraordinary as Mackay described and argue that not enough price data are available to prove that a tulip bulb bubble actually occurred.[7][8]

Wikipedia, may contain nuts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Re: I'm puzzled by the example

"I think you'll find that the reason everyone moved their embassies to Tel Aviv is, officially at least, that they consider Tel Aviv"

That would be IDENTICAL to people outside USA deciding New York is USA Capital not Washington.

You may hate it, but UN has ruled Israel has a right to exist, and the Newer part of Jerusalem has never been part of any State than Israel. Only Britain and Pakistan recognised the illegal Jordanian annexation of East Jerusalem / Old City and the "West Bank" (Occupation 1948 to 1967).

Syria doesn't recognise Jerusalem as anyone's capital as they regard Israel, Lebanon, West Bank, part of Gaza and Jordan as "missing" Syrian territory.

Before 1948 there was the British Palestine Mandate, most of which today is Jordan.

Before that the area was a part of the Syrian provence of Ottoman Empire.

Nations can pick ANYWHERE in their Territory as Capital. Only the Old City is disputed and claimed by the Palestinians. That isn't recognised by UN.