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IPv6 Transition to Cost US $75 Billion?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the helping-the-national-debt dept.

darthcamaro writes "There are alot of reasons why the US isn't moving as quickly as Japan and Europe in migrating to IPv6. One of those reasons is likely cost. An article on Internetnews.com cites an unreleased 'Dept. of Commerce report estimating it will take $25-$75 billion to pay for the transition.'"

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  1. Fucking Japanese are morons. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What is up with the see-through skirts rave?

    FIRST POST!

  2. i remember one time... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i was at a party, kinda drunk, kinda stoned... but i remembered this!

    my friend was commenting on some foreign nation, and he said 'those people are barbarians, still wiping their ass with their hands..'
    and later on i was thinking about it and something awful occured to me.
    some places it is still common to wipe your ass with your hand, and americans generally look down on that, but think about it for a second. that assures (usually) that the person would definately wash their hands when they leave the restroom (which most americans do not do) AND that also means that they generally washed their ass... however, in america we wipe the shit all over our ass with paper (!!!) and then usually leave the bathroom without washing our hands... it only takes one person to not wash their hand, that corrupts the doorknob for all the hand washers... but yeah, thats kinda fucked up isnt it? i bet some people in some far away place right now are thinking, 'those americans smear shit all over their ass... with paper!!!!'

    eh ok im drunk/stoned... but its still fucked up, right?

  3. A LOT is TWO WORDS by deafpluckin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dear Slashdot editors,

    Please don't perpetuate the misconception that "alot" is an English word. It's TWO WORDS the first is "a" and the second is "lot".

    Thanks,
    Concerned Slashdot reader

  4. brought to you by your friends at Cisco !! by mAIsE · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and Cisco thanks you all !!

  5. Somebody Must Be Able To Help by Niraj59 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The last nine frontpage stories were posted by ScuttleMonkey. Someone on /. must have a job opening for him. Maybe * * Beatles-Beatles can hook him up. ;)

  6. Ipod transition? by DrCode · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I need to get my glasses checked. At first, I read the title as "IPod transition to cost..." and thought how that's a lot of money to spend on Nano's (or whatever), knowing that there will probably be another new model coming to replace that within the year.

  7. Re:Outrageous by maddog2o_2o · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh sure, when I don't bother to log in I get lots of upmods! :-P

    Kevin

    PS - I know this is shameless and bad form but it honestly cracked me up ...

  8. a pedant's view by m()p3s · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hate to be a pedant (well, actually I love it!) but I thought editors were suppose to fix stuff like this up...

    There is no word 'alot'. It is two very distinct words, an 'a' followed one space later by 'lot'. This mangling of English will be the death of me.

  9. inevitable troll statement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OMGWTFBBQHAX!!!!

  10. Re:$25-$75 billion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but i really don't want to give up my ip at school

  11. cost of switching to IPv6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    sounds like the same excuse that the US had when the rest of the world was moving to metric, and it chose to stay with imperial measurements.