Posts by Panicnow 217 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jul 2012
So IF...
This was implemented as a "service" which provided socket and DNS services then EVERY app could use it.
More generally there needs to be "server" implementations on Android and Mobile iOS. ( Good luck getting this past Apple Inc)
And of course the real reason IPv6 isn't deployed in the west, is IPv4 NAT forces routing security compromise. And it is difficult to justify NAT on IPv6
I'm wholly with Codejunky on this one.
Bearing in mind Intel have had great difficulty in going under 12nm, The idea that a UK start-up can get close is a joke. (I think our best is over 100nm at the moment)
If the money is to buy a replica foundry (like the US buying from TSMC) it will be dependent on complex international supply chains anyway, let alone the long arm of US control of tech.
With all this new subsidised capacity hitting the market in around 4 years? I don't see a happy end for a marginal fab on a small island.
Now, if you have £Billions to invest in tech ... I've got just the idea... And I can guarantee it will perform better than a UK FAB.
Governments bestowed the privilege of monopoly for IP on the basis that this encouraged innovation.Just because it is described as a right, by those who want a monopoly, doesn't make it a right.
I'd argue that granting monopoly is something that society should rarely wants to give. The value of an invention is in it being used universally, not restricted to a few licencees. The Internet protocols, RISC-V, Linux and FOSS in general, Youtube and Wikipedia indicate that patents and copyright are not necessary for the production of large bodies of innovation. So why are they granted so freely?
I was an early "investor" in ESG stuff. I withdrew when I saw how many of the companies were scams, (Growing "new" forests in the Amazon, after the loggers have been through)
Then there is "Carbon credits" which are like paying someone else to diet for you
Finally i saw the dozens of "accreditation" businesses, which are indeed simply green-washing virtue signally.
When it comes to ESG, Good humans just do the right thing.
Sadly, most corporate CEOs leave their humanity at the front door!
As the founder of PIPEX the first commercial ISP in Europe, which became by far the largest international ISP. This claim by Telcos is all about them trying to reestablish their cosy monopolies. As usual they are corrupting the political system to enable them to extort money. Rather than do their job of investing and innovating in the services their customers demand. ( Which is far harder work for management, than lobbying politicians.)
While I have no sympathy for large tech, when they also abuse their monopoly, at least they innovate and invest. Telcos, always drag their feet on investment and seek to slow innovation.
I hope(but do not expect) the EU politicians to do the right thing and put kerbs on the abuse of ALL monopolies in the interest of its public. Rather than support one monopoly over another.
Elon has repeatedly confounded industry "experts" and people embedded in legacy systems. I'm sure he has no idea how to design and build cars or rockets. What he does do is listen to disruptive engineers, who typically come from outside the industry and then give them the authority to tear-up the "rulebook"
I wait with baited breath for the DoJo AI chip, which apparently is the first chip NOT based on von Neuman architecture.
(And I can't conceive how twitter would work without Remote Procedure Calls, my guess is one is talking about a narrow definition and the other a broad one.)
And yes, as the legacy engineer, I'd be worried about Elon throwing out all your code. You'd be better advised to offer a new architecture to Elon.
Surely CP/M was just a code loader with a standardised filesystem library. It didn't manage any other resources. I'd considered MP/M as the first PC operating system.
But all this simply reminds me of the genius of Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson in creating Unix in 1969!!!. The daddy of nearly ALL currently developing operating systems.
Fancy doing a similar family tree of Unix?
Yes, I've proposed methods of using and distributing cheap and unbreakable "one-time code books" for sometime. Even I can do the probability maths to demonstrate their strength. But there is the problem, an expert mathematician will never consider a system that doesn't need an expert mathematician to verify it!
* With states now held with a few electrons, could light be used to discharge the state directly? ( Like a CCD)
* Could these few electrons switch a nano liquid crystal?
* Could one have a 2D optical data plane that allows a single data source to be "seen" by many data sinks?
* Could one have a 2D optical data plane that allows a single data sink see many data sources (More difficult with channel conflict, but useful for sparse channels)?
thus directly processing without any current switching, just a power line to charge the gates.
And a whole new architecture for a computing platform
The last time I was put in front of a Windows computer I couldn't even find what to click to start Office!
My experience of Windows has genrally been "Blue screen of death" of similar.
Here is a test...
Ask a Apple user to try to use a Windows desktop and watch them struggle!
Now put then in front of Mint
Ask a Windows user to use a Apple desktop and watch them struggle
Now put them in front of Mint
The issue is purity, My guess they need 99.999% purity. That isn't easy, even using the same equipment the Ukrainians use!
I bet there are other "Gotchas" in the supply chain we'll only notice later.
Bet the countries that have neon ban the export of neon in the next few hours.
Just to make a bad problem worse!
I for one would like to see our academic institutions focusing on partnering with the best-in-the-world, not an EU political mash-up called Horizon at al!
In MOST important areas, EU institutions are second and third rate. A requirement of Horizon is to partner with some no-hope institution, to spill a few crumbs, in the name of solidarity (Pork Barrels)
The joke is only <0.1% of usable spectrum now carries >99% of traffic.
Shifting legacy bandwidth hogs such as BBC Radio 1-7 and TV off of dedicated (unbelievably wide) bands would enable sensible use of frequencies.
... and don't get me on reserved military bands....
If only I could become Chair of OFCOM!
QoS is totally at odds to the fundamentals of the Internet! As soon as you put one layer's features(transport) into the wrong layer(Netowork), consequences multiply. This is WHY QoS has never been successfully deployed on the Internet.
In addition, as soon as one has QoS, network operators have a reason to UNDERPROVISION network capacity in order to extort premiums for High QoS services.
My hope is QoS NEVER sees the light of day on the Internet!
In the early days of the Internet there was a wise debate about how to divide the costs and income across a connection.
The answer was that is no single "fair" system! I proposed that every ISP pays for their network and collects from their customers. I.e. no "settlement". This idea won on the basis that it was cheap to implement (no accounting) and meant there were no need for complicated legal agreements to sort out the money.
Neutral interconnects such as MaeEast and LINX meant that the cost of the interconnection was minimal, and sort of fair.
Ever since various parties, especially Telcos have tried to change the rules, in ways that consistently benefit themselves, ( who would guess)
To repeat, There is NO SINGLE FAIR SYSTEM for inter ISP settlement! The NULL system is cheap and easy!
Peter Dawe
Founder Unipalm, PIPEX, LINX, ISPA IWF ...
IPv6 has been "ESSENTIAL" for decades. We had some running when I ran PIPEX 25 years ago!
NAT is and always has been a disaster. The loss of direct IP to IP addressing, allows a lot of bad stuff to happen. e.g. NAT facilitates third party snooping.
Using the socket space for address space means we lost well behaved applications. ( Sadly that genie will not get put back)
Profit seeking ISPs want to do as little as possible, while keeping old kit running as long as possible. Thus they have no incentive to deploy IPv6.
If only we had the Chinese meritocracy running things over here. Rather than people stupid enough to want to be a UK politician!
I think our government is against China because it shows just how bad their performance is!
Having watched and competed with BT. Their policy is to sweat legacy systems as long a possible, while giving lip service to government policy.
They are only ramping up FTTx because they are worried about competitors.
e.g. The LEO stuff, could be faster than traditional terrestrial, taking the premium market, so beloved of BT.
That they wave the Union Jack to get tax payer money to do what any normal business would have to get investors for is particularly galling, to us innovators.
Hey Ho, Nothing changes in big business and politics
Transport is only one use case for any energy. And its the only one that has issues of energy density and safety. Adding H2 to piped gas is trivial
I own a farm and we are looking at powering our tractors etc with H2 made on the farm using our solar and wind generation.
On the farm, it is just about feasible to simply float a balloon filled with H2 above the machine. Balloons are not ideal for medium term storage, so this tech would fit for our use. They key is the capital cost rather than other parameters
30 years ago, we killed the awful National Telecom data monopoly, now we have new monopolists controlling data.
The politicians get bought and the public sleep-walk.
I suppose achieving over 20 years of a competitive market was pretty good really.
... I'm going progressively off-grid myself
The objective of this is to cement the position of major corporates. Putting up barriers to new entrants and innovation.
A bad person ignores the law. Making additional laws never stopped a bad person. it does make breaking the law more profitable!
Virtually all "Regulation" is there to protect corporates from their customers. Not surprising when you see who turns up at regulation consultation events.
Microsofts model has always been copy the current leader. From CP/M, Wordstar, lotus 123, dbaseII, Lisa..., today its AWS (Azure). If they fail, they try again ( Windows wasn't successful until V3.1).
Sometimes they have to wait for the incumbent to stumble first, sometimes they trip them up.
I'm sure they are currently trying to do Social Media, AI, even blockchain,
University of Kent's service was the first non-commercial ISP that pre-dated PIPEX
(Please remind me of her name)
PIPEX was the first UK Commercial ISP
IBM PC User group was the first dial-up ISP service
Demon followed a few weeks later
Peter Dawe, Founder of PIPEX, LINX, ISPA and IWF
RSS could be configured to provide real-time notification of new items in a non-proprietary way. However, corporates have systematically refused to use RSS in creative ways and pushed users to Facebook, Twitter etc.
RSS can just point to a web page, so no loss of control or ads, (unlike FB and T of course)
GDPR is a diabolical piece of legislation that makes EVERYONE a CRIMINAL!
In order to comply you will have to:-
Shred before disposing of anything with a name, an address, a telephone number or email address.
ALL your emails etc HAVE to use BCC: for multiple recipients.
You are advised to encrypt everything, in case you accidentally send it to the wrong person.
You can use this legislation will be used to discredit anyone. E.g. FInd one example of a politician who copies your details to a third party and immediately report them to "ICO" and the policy, it is a CRIMINAL office.
A full mass disobedience to comply will happen very soon!
The article doesn't mention the various commercial agreements between carriers and infrastructure providers. (In my day) ALL the interconnection agreements had "equality of traffic" clauses in them. Unravelling these and keeping full connectivity I think will kill anyone who tries to modify traffic flows.
This is especially difficult with international traffic
You are out of date, most regulation now applies to all business regardless of size. GDPR, Pensions, H&S, and of course all tax stuff. Transport regs, (e.g. taxi), Gas, electric, trade, house rental,
I have creates 10s of small businesses I DO know!
Bet there is an upper limit so they get off!
All these "regulations" are designed to impact small businesses more than big.
ICO reg is £40 max £2900, so % of turnover dropped for big business
Compliance is typically the same for a small business as a large one, again this impacts small business more than big business.
My calcualtions are the compliance for any small business is now over a one man-year task.
Accounting, Tax forms, Pension, GDPR, planning, H&S, I could go on.
Regulation is designed by those who go to the meetings, When could a plumber afford to go to "consultations"? British Gas, BT, Google et al can send teams!
1) 20 years of failed migration is a big fail!
2) It is too late to re-engineer IP/ng
3) Next time, make sure the engineers get prime role, rather than academics, the corporate lawyers etc, who were sent to IPv6 standards committees
4) Go back to old IETF policy of competitive protocol proposals and (more importantly) bake-offs to see which work best.
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