Friday, August 24, 2007
Did you hear the one about ...
... the man who killed a fly and was arrested for "pesticide"? (Weekly World News, RIP.)
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Quote of the Week
"Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others." - Jon Postel
The TCP robustness principle, published in 1981 and otherwise known as Postel's Law, was designed to ensure a stable and robust network in which each node strives to comply with standardized protocols -- yet at the same time is highly fault-tolerant and able to deal with all possible errors that might be committed by other nodes on the network. This rule became part of the basic system architecture of TCP/IP, and the result was a highly stable and resilient Internet.
Seems like a good rule to follow in real life, too. When you think about it, society is really just a network of people.
The TCP robustness principle, published in 1981 and otherwise known as Postel's Law, was designed to ensure a stable and robust network in which each node strives to comply with standardized protocols -- yet at the same time is highly fault-tolerant and able to deal with all possible errors that might be committed by other nodes on the network. This rule became part of the basic system architecture of TCP/IP, and the result was a highly stable and resilient Internet.
Seems like a good rule to follow in real life, too. When you think about it, society is really just a network of people.
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