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Sequence diagrams existed before UML and for getting stuff done, and being able to maintain it, I prefer http://www.websequencediagrams.com/

I just paste the diagram description into my documents as "hidden text", and everyones happy.

There is no allegedly about it, I was spammed with an offer for a new Wakemate. I forget the wording. Plus the follow up apology.

You'll find, for example, the Australian National Privacy Principles forbid hosting Personal data offshore unless you get the permission of that person first. That's a bit unwieldy for most companies.

There are other conditions, but letting people's data be subject to the US Patriot act is one of the underlying concerns.

It is already there, lurking, in iOS 5(back to 2, friends say)

See http://t.co/EkqWISbS for an example, appears as a bug when you try and upgrade an app you've deleted -- but it shows the capability does exist.

I agree they won't enable it until they have a reason, the current situation is simple to manage from all angles.

My bank does it after 6! It even reminds you that it is 6 chars max on the login page.

Thanks. Such a great word, lost forever :)

So if I said "take a punt", would that be to take, or not take?

I should build a guide of "words not to use on presentations".

Gah, stop abusing the word punt. The headline is nonsensical.

Punt does not mean avoidance. It has much closer associations to "attempt" (punter, plus rugby usage).

I totally agree with the rest of the article, why shard or otherwise distribute your database before being required? Although I think I would build my DB as shard 1 of 1 to allow for the future case.

Sheesh, that's an emotive title.

The only end to this noise that I can see is that Apple will supply an update that removes the .epub capability, making the tool specific to iBooks.

Will we be any poorer for that? It's like having a machine that prints money - you could use it...but you're likely to get into trouble if you do.

Yes. They can also take your property away to search it, returning it months later.

The final decision of entry to a country(at that point) lies with the immigration officer. I imagine you can ask nicely for a review after you've been flown back to your point of origin.

I'll dig up some links, but seizure of non-citizen's computers at US borders is possible and scary. I treat the US border like a hackers conference - take a freshly imaged device, and refresh it on your return.

Surely MAC address filtering is well and truly proven to be pointless to any serious attempts to, erm, join your network?

Spoofing MAC addresses is trivial, even under Windows.

Not really - standard security used by credit cards and calling cards forever. If you punched in a location A and then tried location B which are greater than (time difference * max speed per hour) miles difference then it will red flag it. Fails in the presence of supersonic flight ;)

Kindle Firmware v4.0.1 gives you this.

The Kindle 4.0.1 software update ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_l... ) lets you control this.

You're using Go...but...it's ERLywarn. So how can it possibly be written in anything but Erlang. See ErlyWeb, Erlware, etc.

I'm sorry but the name of your product needs to change to Gowarn. I don't make the rules, I just enforce them.

(Best of luck, looks good and not overpriced like some freemium alternatives)

It may also help to specify the currency(s) involved...yes we'll all assume it's USD for now.

Asia has been doing IPv6 internally for years, out of necessity, and somehow they still manage to see us.

Dual-stack isn't the answer when you've got no IPv4 addresses left to assign.

> IPv6 is a big deal though. Everyone's going to have to touch their long-running servers sometime before the end of this year. With IPv6 Day closing in this June and the eventual migration of residential broadband to IPv6, this is one of those inevitable things that isn't going to magically go away.

I think you're confused about the implications of the IPv6 transition -- IPv4 is a subset of that address space, so existing servers will "just work" via Carrier-Grade NAT that ISPs are providing.

Some tiny percentage of the Internet is IPv6 reachable today, and it ain't all gonna change this year. The IPv4 space can't turn into a parallel ghetto Internet after all...