brianorca

Because bits are not expensive anymore, and if we used 64 bits, we might run out faster than the time needed to convert to a new standard. (After all, IPv4 is still around 26 years after IPv6 was drafted.) Also see the other notes about how networks get segmented in non-optimal ways. It’s a good thing to not have to worry about address space when designing your network.

SQL

If someone is paying you to write code, they have some say in the contract about how it is licensed. You could be upfront about only doing GPL, and they could be upfront about saying no. But if you try to do it after the fact, that’s a violation of the contract.

The guy that invented time zones was solving a problem where each little town had their own time standard. I don’t think that was sustainable.

Should be better since they usually don’t have an uplink capability. But be real careful of any model that has Internet for any reason.

The rights in the fourth amendment are generally a limit on the government, not what a third party does when it has a TOS/contract with you allowing it to do things.

MBOX is a standard format, which is text based, (like the emails themselves are) and should be compatible across multiple email clients. It can contain entire folders.

EML is also a standard text format, but usually contains a single email in each file.

In the worst case, you can just open up either one in a text editor if you need to find something.