Posts by Martin Lindberg
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Southerly: That CERA Rumour, in reply to Emma Hart,
..it's your own fucking fault for being so stupid
There were so many comments like this after Katrina. Mostly in geek forums. I imagine it's from a lack of understanding of how cities are formed. Well, outside of playing Civilization, of course.
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Shame I couldn't make it to the show on Saturday, but my ears hadn't recovered from Kyuss the night before. And that was with earplugs!
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Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to Islander,
shudders
True. Not exactly a laugh-a-minute book. But powerful, yes.
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Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to Danielle,
Safer not to show teeth when smiling anyway.
... and she never smiled. She believed that if she did so, it could give me a chance to count her teeth, and that each tooth so counted would subtract one year from her life.
Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird
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Would it be SFW to google mPreg and Wincest?
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you say smorgasbord - I say smörgåsbord.
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Hard News: And we may never meet again ..., in reply to Russell Brown,
...upped out Telecom DSL to 80Gbit/s
Man, the Chev gots the fibre!
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
..now starting to use NAT at the ISP/Internet gateway level
Interesting. But that’s unlikely to “help”. With this law all ISPs must have the ability to match the public IP-address with a customer (not necessarily the same as a user). So even if using NAT at a gateway level, the ISP must keep track of it.
There are IPSs overseas who will not log IP-addresses allocated to customers (e.g. one of my old ISPs: Bahnhof). If they don’t log they can’t know which customer had a particular IP-address at any given time.
Maybe a business opportunity for NZ – probably needs to be hosted offshore though ;-) .
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
So an ISP could, I think, comply by responding that an IP was in use by any of a whole tranche of users.
No, the IP-address you may have locally, behind your NAT (typically 192.168.0.1-255) is not the IP-address exposed to the internet (hence NAT – network address translation). That would be your NAT external address which is dynamically allocated to you by your ISP (unless you have a fixed address). So it’s not really a problem for an ISP to match an IP-address to a customer at a given date and time. They already do this if ordered by police or internal affairs, but in a manual and labour-intensive way.
If you are wondering what your external IP-address is, just click on What’s my IP Address.
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
it stands up for us unappreciated middle-aged white men, who are horribly discriminated against in modern society by members of various minority groups
That's my memory of it too. And if it weren't for the new file-sharing bill, I could probably download it and report back in 30 minutes.