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A Humorous Introduction To IPv6
zollman writes "Jonathan Richards, in the London times, explains how the introduction of IPv6 will change the Internet. From the article: 'As use [of the Internet] grew, it became clear that the old protocol, IPv4, wasn't big enough, so a new one was created using 32-bit numbers. That increased the number of available addresses to 340 undecillion, 282 decillion, 366 nonillion, 920 octillion, 938 septillion -- enough for the foreseeable future.'"
While the article points out the benefits of using these new '32-bit numbers', it does ignore the obvious drawbacks -- namely, they will be twice as fast to clog up the tubes that make the Internet work.
Does IPv6 change the internets tubes into dump trucks though?
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
frickin' "laser" beams
I have no idea what those numbers mean.
Argh. I need to build more tubes in my brain. 4 hex digits is only 16 bits. That makes IPv6 addresses 128 bits. D'oh!
And here I went and looked and tried to do research, and all it did was screw with my head. I knew they were 128, and went and looked at my network config and somehow figured 256.
Actually, he did get the number of addresses wrong, there's actually, 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,45 6. Not 340,282,366,920,938,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0 as he said. This means he is actually off by 463463374607431768211456. Which Means that he forgot about 107908475819842 IPV4 Internets.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
I for one welcome our new 128 bit overlords.
Which Means that he forgot about 107908475819842 IPV4 Internets
you should remove 2 from that figure as i recieved 2 internets from my mother earlier today
Did she attach them in emails. I have lots of problems with my mother attaching giant files in Emails too.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
Sorry for being so harsh, but I hate it when nerds belittle non-nerds to make themselves feel better. Yes, this guy is a bad journalist - should it really be on the front page of slashdot though?
You must be new here.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
They gave each address a "16-bit" number, which meant that the total number of available addresses worked out at about four billion (2 to the power of 32).
On what planet does this sentence even come close to making sense?
You forget the comedy value of large numbers, surely you've heard the old joke 324,335,000,543,735,245,007,314?
Cracks me up every time that one.
How would one go about calculating the average age at which a British child first receives a cell phone?
# of kids with phones weighted by age then divided by all kids in the UK? Not sure it's doable without a national inquiry involving every child with a cell phone.
If you must moderate, please moderate as irrelevent, not something bad, because I'm sure someone will find this interest
Whenever my staff sends me an Internet around 10 AM, and it's delivering slowly, they just try sending it through different tubes until a fast one is found. Maybe your mother can try the same thing with delivering her giant e-mail attachments.
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You told it wrong!
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane.
I set up my Windows-using friends' PCs to use the same address: 127.0.0.1. Do this worldwide and we can reclaim the IPv4 addresses and be good for another 10 or 20 years.
:).
Borgified computers share a common mind they might as well share a common IP address
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Why, back in my day we eight year olds felt old and set in our ways, pining for the halcyon days of our youth.
Totally! Why don't all newspapers use hyperlinks?
The /. education icon, with 2+2=5, would have been more appropriate for this article.
:wq
Ive got a joke about Pi, but it goes on too long.
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