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Massive Study Links IP Addresses Per Capita To GDP (itnews.com.au)
Three researchers "decided to scan the entire IPv4 address range every 15 minutes between 2006-2012 to work out what insights they could gain from humanity's mass connection to the internet," reports ITnews.
The study...analysed data from 411 large regions from middle to high-income countries and found a positive correlation between GDP per capita and the number of IP addresses per head. A 10% increase in IP addresses per capita was associated with an 0.8% hike in GDP, the analysis found. The researchers cautioned that the output and productivity growth they noted when the number of IP address increased was correlation rather than causation. Service-oriented sectors -- such as publishing, news, film production, administrative support, and education -- appear to have suffered a negative effect from increasing internet penetration [PDF]. The researchers believe these sectors were susceptible to competition from cheaper outsourcing providers.
Slashdot Bismillah pointed out that the researchers also measured sleeping patterns over seven years, assuming IP addresses of internet-connected devices generally correlated to people who were awake. According to the article, "They found that sleep patterns may be changing and converging around the world: Europeans slept less, East Asians more, while Americans' sleeping patterns remained static over the seven-year period."
Slashdot Bismillah pointed out that the researchers also measured sleeping patterns over seven years, assuming IP addresses of internet-connected devices generally correlated to people who were awake. According to the article, "They found that sleep patterns may be changing and converging around the world: Europeans slept less, East Asians more, while Americans' sleeping patterns remained static over the seven-year period."
A 10% increase in IP addresses per capita was associated with an 0.8% hike in GDP
Well since there are 4.2Ã--10^37 42 undecillion IPv6 addresses, that means that we can boost the GDP of every nation on earth a thousands times greater than what it is now!
Behold starving citizen of a war-torn nation (take your pick which nation): We bring you more addresses than you could possibly comprehend! Even if you lose a limb or two, it can have its own IPV6 address!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Just get the local internet providers to support IPv6.
The 2.4GHz wireless at my 300+ unit apartment complex is congested between 7:00PM and 2:00AM when everyone is at home. Not a problem for me since I have to go to bed by 8:30PM to get up at 4:30AM to start work at 7:00AM. Switching to 5GHz wireless doesn't hurt either.
In other news, people that have more money on average also have more "stuff".
You've gotta be fucking kidding me with this. Of course more IP addresses = higher GDP. I'm going to see if I can get funded to conduct a study on whether or not areas with more IP addresses also have more routers and wifi hotspots.
You are welcome on my lawn.
"A 10% increase in IP addresses per capita was associated with an 0.8% hike in GDP, the analysis found"
Alternatively, an 8% hike in GDP means the country had the money and desire to acquire 10% more IP addresses.
More car sales mean higher GDP and collapse of buggy whip manufacturers.
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Who would of thought that.
"The researchers cautioned that the output and productivity growth they noted when the number of IP address increased was correlation rather than causation."
I'm torn between being sad that they actually felt it was necessary to say this, and being glad that they did to preclude democrats proposing a new program to help the impoverished by handing out ip addresses.
-Styopa
This is exactly the kind of thing that logically challenged policymakers will mistake for a causality.
Next thing you know they'll be buying blocks of IP addresses and waiting for GDP to rise.
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"assuming IP addresses of internet-connected devices generally correlated to people who were awake."
It also could just be their router or multimedia-computer automatically downloading dozens of torrents during the night, so that the sleeping owner has something to watch during the day.
Or phones downloading updates or windows computers or printers installing new patches or IP cameras watching the yard or ...
I'm no stranger to this kind of logic. I once read somewhere that healthy dogs have wet noses so I used to spray my dog's nose several times a day.
In the 90s just before before email spam exploded (because there were millions of open SMTP relays out there)... someone at MAE noticed that during the quietest times of day bandwidth in use was more than 50% comprised of ICMP packets, specifically PING. Several hundred thousand administrators for countless reasons wrote scripts to see if their things were 'up' to run all the time. Once per second, every five seconds, every hour, whatever. It added up to a ridiculous amount of data. And it was mostly padding garbage, these folks did NOT bother to use the minimum size ping packet either (I did). But hey, even though they were using ~40x the bandwidth they needed to use, at least someone was doing real work.
The authors of this IP/GDP correlation study should be sent a bill for their use of the network calculated from 1995 rates as a financial incentive to seek GDP statistics directly. Perhaps no one ever introduced them to Wikipedia.
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These are link-local automatic generated addresses: no ISPs ever assign those. ISPs, if they support IPv6, will assign you things like 2001::/64. If you have DHCPv6, you can assign anything for the lower half of the address
I can take it w/o making you any offer. That address is the equivalent of Apt #1, which millions of houses worldwide have.