At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses

An anonymous reader excerpts from an interesting article at Ars Technica, which begins "There are 3,706,650,624 usable IPv4 addresses. On January 1, 2000, approximately 1,615 million (44 percent) were in use and 2,092 million were still available. Today, ten years later, 2,985 million addresses (81 percent) are in use, and 722 million are still free. In that time, the number of addresses used per year increased from 79 million in 2000 to 203 million in 2009. So it's a near certainty that before Barack Obama vacates the White House, we'll be out of IPv4 address[es]. (Even if he doesn't get re-elected.)"

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Re:::1

[KazW]

Which is great if users are able to connect to said address.

I'm not sure which is more funny, the original joke, or your complete lack of knowledge on the topic and trying to make a smart statement... Hmm, that is a tough one, I'm gonna go with your show of douche baggery FTW.

P.S. ::1 is the IPv6 equivalent of IPv4's 127.0.0.1, AKA loopback or localhost, meaning that anyone with a properly functioning IPv6 stack (Vista and 7 come with this enabled by default) can reach this address. Your fail is epic, sir.