nice side effect of isolating internal network addressing from external
Which sounds great until two companies merge and they have conflicting IP addresses. In a properly designed and configured network, using IPv6, you can merge all of the networks you want and not have to worry about IP address renumbering.
The biggest benefit of NAT isn't NAT, it's the stateful firewall, which can easily be exactly mimicked with a firewall+IPv6 setup. with IPv6, you shouldn't be hardcoding the prefix into rules if the prefix may change. Also, "if your ip changes"? With IPv6, the standard is that the outgoing IP changes every 15 minutes that refuses incoming connections. The only IP that stays the same is "public" address and that one accepts incoming connections, but is not normally used for WAN destined traffic. The "temporary" IP address should be the default case for outgoing connections.
The reasoning is that devices on the local network cannot be trusted and the user should enforce security via the admin explicit poking holes instead of letting the computer, which is untrusted, to poke holes.
Unfortunately, the weakest link isn't the computer, but the users. Unless you plan on telling the users what they can or cannot do, there is no point in using a "secure" approach because the first time the end user gets frustrated trying to configure their router, is that last time they will purchase that router and the first time they will disable all security in an attempt to make everything work.
I forget which synthetic benchmark, but it was non-SIMD and had Intel 2x faster single threaded and about 50% faster multi-threaded, while consuming about 25% less power at idle and 50% less power at load, than AMD's offering. AMD's very recent APU actually is about on par with Haswell clock-for-clock, but at the expense of 100% more power.
Traffic shaping is improving well relative to 1mb DSL speeds, but is not keeping up with the explosion of bandwidth consumption where it counts. Links are getting so fast that even simple things like QoS are becoming huge problems. We're starting to reach a point where moving data in any order than FIFO comes at a huge cost of throughput.
QoS is causing more problems than it solves, at the core. You can do QoS and traffic shaping at the end points or the head-unit's TDMA schedulers, but they don't know anything about upstream congestion.
Comcast's network is a fraction the size of Level 3, yet Level 3 is a small fraction the yearly revenue. Comcast also has a magnitude more value in assets than Level 3, yet Level 3 handles more bandwidth than Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and TWC combined. Why is Level 3 so much smaller in value? Because last mile is expensive. It's nearly the entire capital and regular costs. Bandwidth is not a cost, last mile is.
Except that you can't purchase "slow" network gear anymore for telcoms. Everything is just 1gb fiber with 100gb+ uplink ports. A 100gb port is what, $6k now? That's currently enough bandwidth for a large citys that will bring in hundreds of thousands of revenue every month. The $6k is nothing.
Actually, network equipment only represents about 10% of the total cost of being an ISP, buying the fiber and laying the lines only represents about 30% of the total cost of an ISP. The bulk(about 60%) of the cost is sending someone to the customer's house to hook up their TVs.
Well, for a new ISP. Kind of a "year 1 cost" break out. Once the majority of customers are hooked up, the bulk of the cost goes into maintenance and upgrades. Guess which has higher maintenance and upgrade costs? The 1mb dsl line or the 1gb fiber line? That's right! The 1mb dsl line is much more expensive to maintain and eventually upgrade. Same goes for cable.
So in fact the infrastructure cost DOES scale with bandwidth. In fact, it's more extreme than that. Lower capacity infrastructure is already installed.
To higher usage per user, new infrastructure has to be installed.
High capacity fiber infrastructure is so cheap, that the break-even point is only 3-5 years out. Using old copper infrastructure is expensive.
Multicast is self pruning. It only sends data where it is being requested. If more than one end point is requesting the data, then it need not be duplicated. IPv6 is supposed to have multicast working out of the bag, unlike the hack the IPv4 version is. Many years ago, I remember reading about an IPv6 test of IPTV from Europe to Australia using multicast over regular Internet links.
I remember reading a blog about some game netcode dev who was talking about reworking his netcode to take advantage of the upcoming IPv6 multicast. I'm not sure how it will be implemented, but many sources talked as if it will be standard.
Don't make me laugh. Optics is much cheaper than copper for with the lines and the equipment. The only benefits gained with copper is less immediate training and lots of existing lines. DOCSIS and DSL head units are much more expensive up front and to operate and upgrade.
10 a month for flat the network access, and then 50 cents per gigabyte on top of that.
Yes, lets have heavy users subsidize the low users. It costs about $30/month averaged over the lifetime to maintain and upgrade infrastructure. $0.50/gb? It costs $0.50/mbit/month. That is 300GB+ over the course of a month. You best learn pricing before you start spouting more non-sense.
Someone who uses 10GB a month should pay ten times as much as someone who uses 1GB a month
The amount of data does not reflect network load. It's the shape of the data. Someone who transfers 10TB in a month can produce lower network load than someone who transfers 10GB, if they shape their usage correctly.
If you want to do something that is "fair", then you need to use the industry standard of 95th percentile. Good luck explaining this to most end users. Anyway, I would be perfectly happy getting charged based on usage. Most ISPs price gouge. Assuming the industry average fixed price of about $30/month to provide the infrastructure to the residential customer and sub $1/mbit in bulk dedicated bandwidth, a large ISP like Comcast, Verizon, or TWC should easily be able to turn a profit on $60 for 30mbit/30mbit with reserved dedicated bandwidth. The net profit only skyrockets once you start over-subscribing. I'm not saying a dedicated line with enterprise grade SLAs, I'm just saying that the bandwidth is guaranteed.
It was Netflix that withheld high-quality streaming from Time Warner Cable customers last year, not vice versa
Netflix withheld SuperHD from everyone not on OpenConnect, not just TWC, not to mention that TWC was bitching about the 1mb/s SD streams, yet alone 8mb/s SuperHD streams. TWC is two faced. I one moment they say that Netflix is overloading their networks, and in the next they say that Netflix is holding back customers by not offering SuperHD. They flip-flop stances depending on which one suits them.
The debate is really about who pays for — and who profits from
WTF does this mean? The customer ALWAYS pays in the end. Let customers pay for their bandwidth to the ISP and let the ISPs sort everything out. Get rid of this "Gate keeper" monopoly bull. If the customer pays for a 30mb line, then don't bitch when the customer uses 4mb/s of it. Costs too much? Then increase the prices!
I spend 40 hours a week at work and about 30 of those in front of a computer and at most 1/2 of that time actually programming. The rest of that time is clearing my mind so I can think strait.
During my most productive days, I may spend 3 hours actually programming, and I will be completely burnt out from it. Mental work is quite draining.
I've recently developed a strange kind of insomnia. If I do not get mentally worked during the day, I have a very hard time getting to sleep. Can take me hours, leaving me with under 5 hours of sleep, and I hate taking drugs of any kind. My mind gets stuck in a creative mode and I can't stop thinking. It ultimately stems from boredom. I cannot get bored, otherwise I can't sleep, I need to challenge myself.
I've posted earlier that I don't like vacation time much, and this is partially why. I must keep learning and must be challenged, otherwise sleep eludes me. My job helps me in both of those areas. I do a lot of thinking and research for my projects. I almost have to work, otherwise I would go crazy. I do have a hobby, but it's nearly the same as my job and is unfortunately expensive. My work pays for the resources I need, but at home, I have to pay myself. Server hardware is expensive.
I have no idea what I would do with 6+ weeks of vaca a year. I already am up to 4.5 weeks per year and I bank 1/2 of it, the rest I am forced to take. I get so bored at home and my mind feels like it's going to mush. I timed up my vaca time with holiday time and got 2 weeks of paid time off over the Christmas holiday for only 5 days of personal time. By the end of it, I was wanting to get back to work to start back on some projects.
So these immigrants who can't speak our language are competing for our middle class jobs? Middle class pay has gone down and the number of people in middle class has shrunk dramatically. How do low cost uneducated immigrants affect middle class other than increase taxes to help support them?
"Fluff and filler"? I hope you're not talking about GDRs. I hated my general classes ever since middle schools, but they were taught differently at my Uni. Every class and subject became a topic for critical thinking. What I got out of GDRs was a better ability to critically think in topics that I was less interested or knowledgeable in. This is a different type of skill than critically thinking on topics in which you are already well versed; but this skill applies to all topics.
As for the anti-vax thing, I don't feel the government should force us to be vaccinated. It should be a personal decision between patient, parent, and doctor.
Except in exceptional situations like a family history of adverse reactions, not getting vaccinations is about as much child abuse as only feeding a child candy for their entire life. Not only is that detrimental to the child, but it is also a huge risk for the rest of society.
If people get to willingly choose not to get vaccinated(assuming we have high quality vaccinations), other people should have the choice of not allowing willingly unvaccinated people near them in any way. Turn it into a crime of attempted murder with malicious intent.
For me, vaccinations rank right up there with courts and law enforcement, as a modern requirement for a health society. Again, assuming we have stringent requirements on the quality of vaccines.
Do people still think cell phones cause gas pumps to explode? Some of my early cell phones had warnings about that in their manuals.
It's highly unlikely at the powers involved with cell phones, but have you have put tin foil in the microwave? Many cell phones operate in the microwave range. Last I checked, most vehicles are more out of metal.
We have recently nearly broken even with laser energy input to energy output of the fusion. What we haven't gotten yet is nearly breaking even with total energy input to total energy output, with the goal of a net extractable energy output for total energy input.
A better analogy to software development would be truck development. You can wait 5 years for the final tested product that comes with a warranty, but if you want it 6 months in to development, you're going to get an untested vehicle with no warranty.
That's what you get when you run your own business and have tax deductible write offs and insurance. Can I write off bugs from my taxes or make an insurance claim?
if you post a novel thought or promising research direction on your blog, it might just be picked up by one of your fellows who beats you to publishing first.
Sounds like a great way to get blacklisted from nearly every research journal and university, assuming they don't give adequate credit.
All I'm saying is that for a one time fee of $1,800 per house, every metro area in the USA can have dedicated 1gb/1gb Point-to-point fiber. Instead we're paying $2,000 per house for shared 320mb of copper.
My argument is that fiber is not only faster, but it is so fast that an ISP can supply fully dedicated bandwidth and connections for LESS money than it costs to lay new copper or upgrade old copper, while supplying a full non-blocking Ethernet middle and last mile.
I can buy a Raspberry Pi less cost than a high quality abacus. Guess which is faster. Hint: It's not the more expensive one.
It is fraudulent advertising because they say "purchase the game today!", not "purchase a license of this game today!"
Anyway, simply agreeing to a license doesn't mean you understand it, and if you don't understand it, it should not apply. Most people don't understand to what they are agreeing. EULAs should require a lawyer who can explain all possible ramifications of the EULA and it should require the publisher, lawyer, and end user to sign for it to be valid. Otherwise it's just another way to abuse people.
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nice side effect of isolating internal network addressing from external
Which sounds great until two companies merge and they have conflicting IP addresses. In a properly designed and configured network, using IPv6, you can merge all of the networks you want and not have to worry about IP address renumbering.
The biggest benefit of NAT isn't NAT, it's the stateful firewall, which can easily be exactly mimicked with a firewall+IPv6 setup. with IPv6, you shouldn't be hardcoding the prefix into rules if the prefix may change. Also, "if your ip changes"? With IPv6, the standard is that the outgoing IP changes every 15 minutes that refuses incoming connections. The only IP that stays the same is "public" address and that one accepts incoming connections, but is not normally used for WAN destined traffic. The "temporary" IP address should be the default case for outgoing connections.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4941
The reasoning is that devices on the local network cannot be trusted and the user should enforce security via the admin explicit poking holes instead of letting the computer, which is untrusted, to poke holes.
Unfortunately, the weakest link isn't the computer, but the users. Unless you plan on telling the users what they can or cannot do, there is no point in using a "secure" approach because the first time the end user gets frustrated trying to configure their router, is that last time they will purchase that router and the first time they will disable all security in an attempt to make everything work.
I forget which synthetic benchmark, but it was non-SIMD and had Intel 2x faster single threaded and about 50% faster multi-threaded, while consuming about 25% less power at idle and 50% less power at load, than AMD's offering. AMD's very recent APU actually is about on par with Haswell clock-for-clock, but at the expense of 100% more power.
Traffic shaping is improving well relative to 1mb DSL speeds, but is not keeping up with the explosion of bandwidth consumption where it counts. Links are getting so fast that even simple things like QoS are becoming huge problems. We're starting to reach a point where moving data in any order than FIFO comes at a huge cost of throughput.
QoS is causing more problems than it solves, at the core. You can do QoS and traffic shaping at the end points or the head-unit's TDMA schedulers, but they don't know anything about upstream congestion.
Comcast's network is a fraction the size of Level 3, yet Level 3 is a small fraction the yearly revenue. Comcast also has a magnitude more value in assets than Level 3, yet Level 3 handles more bandwidth than Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and TWC combined. Why is Level 3 so much smaller in value? Because last mile is expensive. It's nearly the entire capital and regular costs. Bandwidth is not a cost, last mile is.
Except that you can't purchase "slow" network gear anymore for telcoms. Everything is just 1gb fiber with 100gb+ uplink ports. A 100gb port is what, $6k now? That's currently enough bandwidth for a large citys that will bring in hundreds of thousands of revenue every month. The $6k is nothing.
Actually, network equipment only represents about 10% of the total cost of being an ISP, buying the fiber and laying the lines only represents about 30% of the total cost of an ISP. The bulk(about 60%) of the cost is sending someone to the customer's house to hook up their TVs.
Well, for a new ISP. Kind of a "year 1 cost" break out. Once the majority of customers are hooked up, the bulk of the cost goes into maintenance and upgrades. Guess which has higher maintenance and upgrade costs? The 1mb dsl line or the 1gb fiber line? That's right! The 1mb dsl line is much more expensive to maintain and eventually upgrade. Same goes for cable.
So in fact the infrastructure cost DOES scale with bandwidth. In fact, it's more extreme than that. Lower capacity infrastructure is already installed. To higher usage per user, new infrastructure has to be installed.
High capacity fiber infrastructure is so cheap, that the break-even point is only 3-5 years out. Using old copper infrastructure is expensive.
80% of the cost of the Internet is the connection itself. So you don't use much bandwidth? Great, lower your bill by 20%.
Multicast is self pruning. It only sends data where it is being requested. If more than one end point is requesting the data, then it need not be duplicated. IPv6 is supposed to have multicast working out of the bag, unlike the hack the IPv4 version is. Many years ago, I remember reading about an IPv6 test of IPTV from Europe to Australia using multicast over regular Internet links.
I remember reading a blog about some game netcode dev who was talking about reworking his netcode to take advantage of the upcoming IPv6 multicast. I'm not sure how it will be implemented, but many sources talked as if it will be standard.
much more expensive PON gear
Don't make me laugh. Optics is much cheaper than copper for with the lines and the equipment. The only benefits gained with copper is less immediate training and lots of existing lines. DOCSIS and DSL head units are much more expensive up front and to operate and upgrade.
10 a month for flat the network access, and then 50 cents per gigabyte on top of that.
Yes, lets have heavy users subsidize the low users. It costs about $30/month averaged over the lifetime to maintain and upgrade infrastructure. $0.50/gb? It costs $0.50/mbit/month. That is 300GB+ over the course of a month. You best learn pricing before you start spouting more non-sense.
Someone who uses 10GB a month should pay ten times as much as someone who uses 1GB a month
The amount of data does not reflect network load. It's the shape of the data. Someone who transfers 10TB in a month can produce lower network load than someone who transfers 10GB, if they shape their usage correctly.
If you want to do something that is "fair", then you need to use the industry standard of 95th percentile. Good luck explaining this to most end users. Anyway, I would be perfectly happy getting charged based on usage. Most ISPs price gouge. Assuming the industry average fixed price of about $30/month to provide the infrastructure to the residential customer and sub $1/mbit in bulk dedicated bandwidth, a large ISP like Comcast, Verizon, or TWC should easily be able to turn a profit on $60 for 30mbit/30mbit with reserved dedicated bandwidth. The net profit only skyrockets once you start over-subscribing. I'm not saying a dedicated line with enterprise grade SLAs, I'm just saying that the bandwidth is guaranteed.
It was Netflix that withheld high-quality streaming from Time Warner Cable customers last year, not vice versa
Netflix withheld SuperHD from everyone not on OpenConnect, not just TWC, not to mention that TWC was bitching about the 1mb/s SD streams, yet alone 8mb/s SuperHD streams. TWC is two faced. I one moment they say that Netflix is overloading their networks, and in the next they say that Netflix is holding back customers by not offering SuperHD. They flip-flop stances depending on which one suits them.
The debate is really about who pays for — and who profits from
WTF does this mean? The customer ALWAYS pays in the end. Let customers pay for their bandwidth to the ISP and let the ISPs sort everything out. Get rid of this "Gate keeper" monopoly bull. If the customer pays for a 30mb line, then don't bitch when the customer uses 4mb/s of it. Costs too much? Then increase the prices!
I spend 40 hours a week at work and about 30 of those in front of a computer and at most 1/2 of that time actually programming. The rest of that time is clearing my mind so I can think strait.
During my most productive days, I may spend 3 hours actually programming, and I will be completely burnt out from it. Mental work is quite draining.
I've recently developed a strange kind of insomnia. If I do not get mentally worked during the day, I have a very hard time getting to sleep. Can take me hours, leaving me with under 5 hours of sleep, and I hate taking drugs of any kind. My mind gets stuck in a creative mode and I can't stop thinking. It ultimately stems from boredom. I cannot get bored, otherwise I can't sleep, I need to challenge myself.
I've posted earlier that I don't like vacation time much, and this is partially why. I must keep learning and must be challenged, otherwise sleep eludes me. My job helps me in both of those areas. I do a lot of thinking and research for my projects. I almost have to work, otherwise I would go crazy. I do have a hobby, but it's nearly the same as my job and is unfortunately expensive. My work pays for the resources I need, but at home, I have to pay myself. Server hardware is expensive.
I have no idea what I would do with 6+ weeks of vaca a year. I already am up to 4.5 weeks per year and I bank 1/2 of it, the rest I am forced to take. I get so bored at home and my mind feels like it's going to mush. I timed up my vaca time with holiday time and got 2 weeks of paid time off over the Christmas holiday for only 5 days of personal time. By the end of it, I was wanting to get back to work to start back on some projects.
So these immigrants who can't speak our language are competing for our middle class jobs? Middle class pay has gone down and the number of people in middle class has shrunk dramatically. How do low cost uneducated immigrants affect middle class other than increase taxes to help support them?
"Fluff and filler"? I hope you're not talking about GDRs. I hated my general classes ever since middle schools, but they were taught differently at my Uni. Every class and subject became a topic for critical thinking. What I got out of GDRs was a better ability to critically think in topics that I was less interested or knowledgeable in. This is a different type of skill than critically thinking on topics in which you are already well versed; but this skill applies to all topics.
As for the anti-vax thing, I don't feel the government should force us to be vaccinated. It should be a personal decision between patient, parent, and doctor.
Except in exceptional situations like a family history of adverse reactions, not getting vaccinations is about as much child abuse as only feeding a child candy for their entire life. Not only is that detrimental to the child, but it is also a huge risk for the rest of society.
If people get to willingly choose not to get vaccinated(assuming we have high quality vaccinations), other people should have the choice of not allowing willingly unvaccinated people near them in any way. Turn it into a crime of attempted murder with malicious intent.
For me, vaccinations rank right up there with courts and law enforcement, as a modern requirement for a health society. Again, assuming we have stringent requirements on the quality of vaccines.
Do people still think cell phones cause gas pumps to explode? Some of my early cell phones had warnings about that in their manuals.
It's highly unlikely at the powers involved with cell phones, but have you have put tin foil in the microwave? Many cell phones operate in the microwave range. Last I checked, most vehicles are more out of metal.
We have recently nearly broken even with laser energy input to energy output of the fusion. What we haven't gotten yet is nearly breaking even with total energy input to total energy output, with the goal of a net extractable energy output for total energy input.
A better analogy to software development would be truck development. You can wait 5 years for the final tested product that comes with a warranty, but if you want it 6 months in to development, you're going to get an untested vehicle with no warranty.
That's what you get when you run your own business and have tax deductible write offs and insurance. Can I write off bugs from my taxes or make an insurance claim?
if you post a novel thought or promising research direction on your blog, it might just be picked up by one of your fellows who beats you to publishing first.
Sounds like a great way to get blacklisted from nearly every research journal and university, assuming they don't give adequate credit.
All I'm saying is that for a one time fee of $1,800 per house, every metro area in the USA can have dedicated 1gb/1gb Point-to-point fiber. Instead we're paying $2,000 per house for shared 320mb of copper.
My argument is that fiber is not only faster, but it is so fast that an ISP can supply fully dedicated bandwidth and connections for LESS money than it costs to lay new copper or upgrade old copper, while supplying a full non-blocking Ethernet middle and last mile.
I can buy a Raspberry Pi less cost than a high quality abacus. Guess which is faster. Hint: It's not the more expensive one.
It is fraudulent advertising because they say "purchase the game today!", not "purchase a license of this game today!"
Anyway, simply agreeing to a license doesn't mean you understand it, and if you don't understand it, it should not apply. Most people don't understand to what they are agreeing. EULAs should require a lawyer who can explain all possible ramifications of the EULA and it should require the publisher, lawyer, and end user to sign for it to be valid. Otherwise it's just another way to abuse people.