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  1. Re:And 4) on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 1

    Over what time frame? I bet throwing a million bucks in a NASDAQ stock index fund now would pay for moving San Francisco in some far future global warming scenario.

    And yet, no group of climate deniers has come up with that fund, not even as a publicity stunt.

  2. Re:And 4) on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 1

    They don't get the wealth, you're spending their inheritance.

    The fossil fuels aren't even cheap for US in the long run. It's like byinng a crappy TV for $150 every 2 years rather than buying a good one for $250 that lasts 10 years.

    I'm not saying we should have fossil fuel turn-off day next Wednesday and that's that, just that we really need to move forward on migrating off of them. Some progress has been made, mostly by the people you don't like very much.

  3. Re:Absence?! on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 1

    No. You would need to check if the hardware that can/should reach the outside world is v6 compatible. There you go. If your OS isn't EOL, it supports v6 with a dual stack now (unless it's some sort of hobby OS, in which case you will know what to do).

    Note that your stuff on the LAN probably is announcing it's hostname over mDNS by now. Try to ping .local

    Google created a separate dns entry for v6 because at that time (several years ago) most v6 setups were experimental and using tunnels so it failed much more often than v4.

  4. Re:Absence?! on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 1

    Actually, it would take several minutes. Or, the home router could have it on by default the way they have NAT on by default.

  5. Re: Absence?! on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 1

    You mean they must announce a prefix from their router and let the rest take care of itself, right?

    Because that's actually all that is required.

  6. Re: Absence?! on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 1

    How many people do you suppose use a VoIP solution not offered by their ISP? Please include MagicJack, Skype, Vonage, and any other VoIP that the user doesn't know is VoIP.

    Have you heard of this thing called gaming?

  7. Re:Absence?! on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 1

    So no need for NAT, just a firewall.

  8. Re:IPv6 shortcomings? on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 1

    Backward compatibility is done through dual stack (default on any even vaguely recent OS. Even XP has it as an optional installed item).

    Nat is available for anyone who can't comprehend that it isn't needed. So unless you have a burning need to make your printer world accessible, you don't need a v4 internet.

  9. Re:Absence?! on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 1

    Parsing that shouldn't be a problem for anyone with a CCNA or equivalent experience. But there are going to be problems when the average user is trying to set up his home router.

    That is done on the host, not the router. Further, the user doesn't need to know any of that, they can just check the "IP privacy" box.

  10. Re:Absence?! on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 1

    With NAT, they have an explicit address of a machine they can attack. Without it, they have to find the dozen or so needles in the 18,446,744,073,709,551 large haystack.

    Note that there is a privacy standard where a machine is allowed to pick new addresses within the prefix.

    Also note that you can have a transparent firewall/router that silently drops unwanted traffic from the outside. For example it can emulate the security side-effect of NAT by dropping inbound UDP that doesn't match a previous outbound UDP, any prohibited ports, and any TCP packet that wasn't preceeded by an outbound packet with the SYN flag set.

  11. Re:And 4) on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 1

    If I am camping and don't want to eat raw food, the campfire is quite valuable. Since people spend money to go camping, it must have value.

    You still are trivializing cities like SF, Miami, etc being under water as if a million bucks or so would fix the problem. It won't.

    You seem to have this idea that there is no energy but fossil fuels.

    Basically you wants your cheap dirty energy now and to hell with countless generations to follow. How nice! I hope there is an afterlife so you can see your descendants pissing on your grave.

  12. Re:And 4) on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 1

    So next time I go camping, I should just start a fire any old place and leave it going? Wouldn't want to babysit the state of California, now would I? They can put the fire out for themselves.

  13. Re:Google+ on Facebook Sued In US Court For Blocking Page In India · · Score: 1

    No, it is forcing them to provide a service that they normally provide to someone they normally don't provide it to for irrelevant reasons.

  14. Re:And 4) on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 1

    Nobody said anything about hand holding, just not shitting all over everything and leaving others to clean up the mess. You know, that responsibility thing.

    You might be surprised how far inland someone in Florida might have to move to gain 2 meters in elevation. But hey, how hard can it be to move a few cities, am I right? They can just put wheels on the buildings and roll them to Georgia!

  15. Re:Haggling for Rates on Why Americans Loathe Cable Companies · · Score: 1

    Now if we only followed Smith's advice a bit we might have something.

  16. Re: Haggling for Rates on Why Americans Loathe Cable Companies · · Score: 1

    Treat the last mile as a public utility in itself and let the competing providers lease bandwidth on it.

  17. Re:Remember the hole in the ozone layer? on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 1

    And of course, everyone re-derives mathematics from first principles. They never just accept a well accepted theorem out of a book...

    They also spontaneously re-invent spoken language in their early years and then written language. Miraculously, it ends up inter-operating with everyone else's re-invention (at least regionally).

  18. Re:And 4) on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 1

    Yeah, to hell with the great grandchildren. What the hell have they ever done for me!

    Let the fuckers starve, I say!

  19. Re:Fear on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    TFA suggests that he was walking around his neighborhood and the school happens to be there. It's not like he deliberately donned the costume and headed for the nearest school.

  20. Re:DHS was never about Homeland Security on US Airport Screeners Missed 95% of Weapons, Explosives In Undercover Tests · · Score: 1

    Granted, it seems not so clear cut, but it is plain that the rules were changed on them with little warning.

  21. The message is clear on US Prosecutors Say Clearing Browser Data Can Be Obstruction of Justice · · Score: 3, Insightful

    All of this happened after he voluntarily shared pertinant information with the police. The message is clear:

    NEVER HELP THE POLICE IN ANY WAY!

    If that isn't the message they want to send, they really need to re-think their strategy.

  22. Re:People of the World Agree: Governments Must Die on Governments of the World Agree: Encryption Must Die! · · Score: 1

    How do you figure? In the U.S. the people routinely split the power so they can battle it out to a standstill. Often, on purpose.

    Meanwhile, where not voting is legal, it's quite common and few think less of the non-voters.

  23. Re:Encryption users agree: on Governments of the World Agree: Encryption Must Die! · · Score: 1

    Of course not. They have to go too.

  24. Re:Allow me to respond from the perspective of an on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 1

    Given that salaries in general haven't kept up with inflation, I'm not sure how in your situation they managed to rise faster than your prices. Also not sure why you didn't offer raises and bonuses that you could sustain and simply let those unsatisfied with it choose to leave and fill the vacancies with less experienced workers. Did you hire any entry level trainees from the U.S. (since you had to do training either way)?

    I note that management is another area that historically demands bonuses and annual increases. How much trimming was done there?

    When the massive savings were realized by bringing in the H1-Bs, how much did your prices get cut?

  25. Re:Google+ on Facebook Sued In US Court For Blocking Page In India · · Score: 1

    That's not forcing them to provide a service they weren't already otherwise willing to provide. They're not suddenly forced to clean stables or mow lawns and they're not forced to work for any less than they normally charge.