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  1. Re:IPv6's day will come, but... on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 1

    It seems like they didn't so much flip the switch as jam a penny in the fusebox.

  2. Re:IPv6's day will come, but... on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 1

    6rd is for when you want v6 but your uplink doesn't support it, so not an issue here. The DNS lookup doesn't cause much delay.

    Some operations did indeed screw up initially but others got it right first time.

  3. Re:Kangaroo Court! on DIA Polygraph Countermeasure Case Files Leaked · · Score: 1

    No, but it *IS* what I said that you apparently didn't comprehend the first time.

  4. Re:Kangaroo Court! on DIA Polygraph Countermeasure Case Files Leaked · · Score: 1

    If you offer coaching for a marathon, you are doing nothing wrong. Nor is the runner who hires you.

  5. Re:IPv6 and Rust: overhyped and unwanted! on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 1

    Are you one of those people who got suckered into believing that if you zipped the zipped zip file enough iterations you could store everything in just one byte?

    There's only so much NAT can do and it's doing it now.

  6. Re:ipv6 on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 1

    You seem to have fallen into a parallel reality. In mine, all of those Windows versions can and do use IPv6. Even XP if you explicitly configure it in the network settings.

    I have Comcast and one day I noticed they were announcing v6 addresses. So I turned off my 6to4 tunnel. I haven't had any problems. Modem running out of RAM is a modem problem, not an IPv6 problem. Perhaps it's old or cheesy.

  7. Re:IPv6's day will come, but... on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 2

    For the average home user, there is no learning curve. One day their ISP will flip the switch and they'll just go on using the internet as before, unaware that anything changed.

  8. Re:No benefit on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 1

    The workarounds are rapidly running out of steam. Add another layer of NAT and things start breaking for average users.

  9. Re:How about basic security? on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 2

    1. As opposed to IPv4 where practically nothing uses the pain in the ass to set up encryption

    2. Yes, if I am stupid enough to have no firewall whatsoever, even locally on the machines, all they have to do is nmap an entire internet's worth of IP addresses to find the 10 or so that actually exist on my network.

    3. Oh my yes, only 15 years of testing, AKA, 75% as much as the IPv4 stack in most cases.

    4. Not sure what you're saying there. Issue must be local, I've had no problem using IPv6.

  10. Re:Kangaroo Court! on DIA Polygraph Countermeasure Case Files Leaked · · Score: 1

    If you agree to run a marathon, is there an implication that you may not also train for the run? Would running for the weeks leading to the marathon be cheating?

    When you agree to a subject matter test, is it cheating if you study?

  11. Re:you don't want their actions. on D-Link Apologizes For Router Security · · Score: 1

    Actual enforced consumer laws should be sufficient. In particular, if the device (which *IS* advertised as having a security function) is unfit for purpose (that is, it has serious security flaws), they should be forced to fix it, replace it, or refund it (and if they want it back, they'll need to send out pre-paid packaging for it).

    If they choose to replace it, they should ship the replacements out at their cost and again, include pre-paid packaging if they want the old one back. If they can fix it in firmware, they should be prepared to help a bunch of inexperienced people apply the update and if it bricks, replace it promptly.

    No more of this "OOOPS, bye now!"

  12. Re:DAB or DAB+? on Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 · · Score: 1

    That would explain the quality complaints.

  13. Re:Why not nitrous oxide, instead? on Oklahoma Says It Will Now Use Nitrogen Gas As Its Backup Method of Execution · · Score: 1

    And the whipped cream can isn't going to cause that because as soon as you loose consciousness you will drop the can and start breathing oxygen again. The large cylinders just keep displacing oxygen after you pass out.

  14. Re:Still There? on ISS Could Be Fitted With Lasers To Shoot Down Space Junk · · Score: 1

    Vaporizing the surface of the junk generates thrust.

  15. Re: Why not? on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 2

    What market? The farmers pump water from wells on their property.

  16. Re:Kangaroo Court! on DIA Polygraph Countermeasure Case Files Leaked · · Score: 1

    There's a lot of wiggle room there. In spite of what the FBI would have us believe, the polygraph frequently gives false positives as well as false negatives. Many people taking the test fear it will give a false positive and might well went training/coaching on making sure it doesn't do that.

    It isn't fraud as long as you just want it to read truthful when you are truthful.

  17. Re:Why not nitrous oxide, instead? on Oklahoma Says It Will Now Use Nitrogen Gas As Its Backup Method of Execution · · Score: 1

    You're not going to die from the can of whipped cream. The link you provided is deaths from larger cylinders of gas that don't require the user to hold the valve open.

  18. Re:Execute the fastest way possible on Oklahoma Says It Will Now Use Nitrogen Gas As Its Backup Method of Execution · · Score: 1

    I recommend a tree chipper.

    I also suggest that a jury that recommends the death penalty should have to be the ones to feed the machine. Let them show us the courage of their convictions.

  19. I imagine part of it is a new public skepticism in the wake of vioxx and co. Nobody wants the public joking about their drugs being proven deadly by the state.

  20. Re:They have to put in safety equipment in any cas on Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power · · Score: 1

    I'm just guessing, but I imagine 1 malfunctioning unit probably wouldn't be able to raise the voltage enough to trick the other units.

    OTOH, in an area with a significant number of solar installations, I can easily see them creating an isolated network segment where the voltage runs near normal and so they collectively convince each other to stay on. That could create an interesting problem of how to convince that segment to re-synchronize with the grid when it's time to re-connect.

  21. Re:They have to put in safety equipment in any cas on Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power · · Score: 2

    That's why the linemen say it's not dead until it's dead and grounded. They are supposed to bond the line to ground before working on it and that bond is supposed to only be disconnected right before the line is turned back on.

    But since mistakes happen, it's a good thing that home inverters won't power a dead line.

    The biggest danger to linemen (and has been for a while) is id10ts wiring their portable generators in or plugging them in with a "widowmaker" (A generator chord with a male end to plug in to the wall) and not disconnecting from the grid first.

  22. Naturally on FBI Overstated Forensic Hair Matches In Nearly All Trials Before 2000 · · Score: 1

    Since "scientific evidence" is very persuasive to jurors, they'll be granting new trials to the ones they haven't killed yet.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAI crack me up!

  23. Re:internet never goes dpwn. on Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 · · Score: 1

    Actually, no.

    In the most extreme cases of improvisation, people have used rocks with a crystalline structure or a razor blade, a pencil, and a safety pin as a detector connected to headphones.

  24. Re: Less accessible on Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression there isn't much use of AM radio in Norway.

  25. Re:So much for long distance Listening on Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 · · Score: 1

    In practice, it's a bit worse for digital. The decoders seem to lose sync easily and just go black for a bit where the analog would have given a couple frames of static and then a watchable image. If it happens frequently enough, you get a black screen and silence from digital where you would get a staticy but watchable picture on analog.

    Multipath on a digital signal is a serious issue where on analog, you will actually stop noticing the ghosts after a few minutes.

    On the old analog NTSC, the audio was on a subcarrier such that even if the video was an unwatchable mess, you might get decentish audio because of it's minimal demands on signal. Alas, in digital TV, it's all packets in the same stream and the decoder either can't or won't bother decodingh the audio if the video is lost. That's a real problem since is the video is disrupted, you can often follow a story OK, but when the dialog keeps going away you quickly get lost. Same problem if you're trying to get important weather information.

    To top it off, as you say, they snuck the power down when the transition happened.