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  1. Re:SFLC's brief explains parts of this well on Supreme Court May Decide the Fate of APIs (But Also Klingonese and Dothraki) · · Score: 1

    Android is using an opensource Java interpreter that existed before the idea of Android even existed. Heck, several Linux distros use it. If Oracle wins this, it's only a matter of time before they attempt to sue Linux for the exact same thing.

  2. Re:Medium.com on Quantum Gravity Will Be Just Fine Without String Theory · · Score: 1

    Thus QM is an incorrect model because it violates causality.

    Regardless of if the model is correct or incorrect, these are facts. The double slit experiment violates causality, which means physics violates causality. There must be a catch.

    "Laws" are actually only valid on the macro level. Even thermodynamics can be violated at the micro level as long as it isn't violated at the macro level. We already have machines that can make energy flow from low to high without putting energy into the system.

  3. Re:There is no such thing as non-empirical science on Have Some Physicists Abandoned the Empirical Method? · · Score: 1

    There are some situations where a theory can't be falsified, but it does make predictions. Those can be useful, but you need to be careful not to assume it's correct even if it seems to work. Being right for the wrong reasons still has its merits.

  4. Re:There is no such thing as non-empirical science on Have Some Physicists Abandoned the Empirical Method? · · Score: 1

    Some fundamental parts of physics may never be tested because you can't. How did the Universe start? You going to go back in time and see what really happened? We're reaching a point in physics where we can come up with decent ideas faster than we can test them because we're limited by technology. We may as well allow people to make "speculations" while waiting for tech to catch up so we can test them at some point in the future.

  5. I think there should be an anti-trust case.

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

    Teach IPv6 to a normal person? Assuming your ISP isn't ran by a bunch of retards and your firewall wasn't made by a bunch of monkeys, IPv6 should "just work". Just like IPv4, plug in to your modem, plug your computer into your firewall, working. That's all.

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

    Where do you plan to add these magical octets? The front of what? Ohh, you mean go back and change how IPv4 works in every piece of code every written? It is impossible to make any change to IPv4 that increases the address space without breaking compatibility. Cannot be done.

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

    IPv6 does not have a memory issue. It uses less memory. The routes are several times larger, but there's 10x fewer routes because of reduced route table fragmentation. IPv6 uses about 1/4 the memory of IPv4.

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

    NAT avoids the renumbering problem. Now tell me. Lets say you have a 10000 devices in an organization, and if you moved to another provider you would have to renumber every single device.

    You have to renumber when your prefix changes? You're doing it wrong.

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

    Have you not seen tech forums and the constant flood of people asking how to use port forwarding? Why doesn't my PS4 work with my NAT? Ohh, wrong NAT type. Buy a new router and hope it's the correct type, enjoy.

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

    Hell IP6 is not needed at all, use MAC addresses.

    Come on guys. Upvote this funny. Obviously a joke.

    Get tech companies to fix the sub-nettting issue of waste

    I mean really, this guy has to be joking to say something like this. It's logically impossible to do this.

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

    NAT does not make anything easier and provides a false sense of security. PFSense out of the box already blocks incoming connections on the WAN. I don't need a NAT to drop incoming connections. Actually, it makes things harder. Ever been in a forum for non-geeks? Constant issues with people trying to get port-forwarding and UPNP to work. It really gets complicated when they need the same port forwarded to multiple machines. Try explaining DHCP, MAC addresses, and static assignments to the average person. Good luck.

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

    NATs offer more security in the same way diesel makes engines bigger. Look an semitrucks, those are diesel, and look at cars, those are mostly gasoline. Obviously diesel requires larger engines. Correlation is not causation. NATs require a basic stateful firewall, the firewall is what provides protection, not NAT.

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

    Incorrect. NAT does have a security benefit. Unless ports are opened, there is no direct inbound access into the backend subnet.

    Incorrect. Many implementations of NAT have been known to allow an outside user to cause a port to get indirectly forwarded. NAT offers no additional security while increase the surface area that needs to be secured, in addition breaks the normal OSI model by cause leaky layers, making for more complicated interactions that make configuration and debugging harder.

    If you don't think this true, you should not be giving out advice about network security.

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

    Depending n the random NAT implementation your firewall has, there may be some really strange quirks that allow an outside computer to gain access to your internal network. It has happened more than once. NAT is a bandaid that ads complexity to the system and mixes multiple OSI layers. Not to mention in IPv6 IPSEC, everything above layer 3 is encrypted, so the firewall doesn't even know what ports are being used or if the traffic is TCP, UDP, or ICMP. Good luck natting that.

  16. Re:What? on Linux World Domination Creates Shortage of Linux-Skilled Workers · · Score: 1

    No, just crappy routing. I was doing a jitter test at work from our 10Gb dedicated line to Charter Communications. Picked a few datacenters around Asia. I was getting around 300ms latency 15 hops, and about 80ms of jitter. Same datacenters from home with my $90 100/100 dedicated line which goes over Level 3, 180ms, 6 hops, and 1ms of jitter.

    Most big residential ISPs try to do their own routing and peering and do a crappy job at it.

  17. Re:Americans loathe this and that on Why Americans Loathe Cable Companies · · Score: 1

    Charter is a cable company, so 60Mb of DOCSIS Internet access with something like 4Mb/s up.

  18. Re:"high-quality adult guidance" on Technology Won't Fix America's Neediest Schools -- It Makes Bad Education Worse · · Score: 1

    Having a father and mother figure is more important than a father or mother. Both roles are important. children with access to one role but not the other grow up with much increased rates of personality issues, like lack of confidence or sympathy.

  19. Re:You mean parents? on Technology Won't Fix America's Neediest Schools -- It Makes Bad Education Worse · · Score: 1

    Privately funded research by owner the company I work for pretty much concluded that parents are so important, that the are the single indicator of how successful a student will be in life. All other metrics were dwarfed to the point that they didn't matter at all. Pretty much a child from a poor family with no access to good education that has good parents, would do better than someone from a well-off family with access to great education.

    Of course there are correlations between being well off or poor and how decent the parents are. Education starts at home.

  20. Re:Start pushing for community Fiber in your area on Why Americans Loathe Cable Companies · · Score: 1

    $40 for 20/20 dedicated fiber with latency and jitter mirrors my LAN. Using high resolution ping programs, I cannot tell the difference between pinging my PFSense firewall or pinging a server in my ISP's network; About 150 microseconds RTT. $70 for 70/70.

    With an anti-bufferbloat setup by the ISP, your ping never increases beyond 1ms, no matter the load. I've even DOS'd my connection to flood it, I got packetloss, but the pings never changed. They also do fair queuing, so saturation caused by Torrent pretty much does not affect your other traffic. Even at link saturation, sub 0.001% loss and sub 1ms pings with no traffic shaping or QoS on my part.

  21. Re:Americans loathe this and that on Why Americans Loathe Cable Companies · · Score: 1

    The local fiber ISP offers 150/150 dedicated fiber internet for the same price that Charter offers 60Mb. Cable cannot compete on price, performance, or quality.

  22. Re:Here's why: on Why Americans Loathe Cable Companies · · Score: 1

    I pay $15/m for basic TV over fiber, that's an unbundled price.Something like 25 channels, many free VOD movies or TV series and 24hour play-back. Also includes 3 set-top boxes with HDMI, composite, and fiber out, 1080p for most channels. I can get more boxes for $5/m per unit. 24 hour play-back is nice for Fox, ABC, CBS so we can skip all of the commercials.

  23. Re: so what you're saying is on NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened · · Score: 1

    Organic matter was just showing up on the scene and the easiest way to get energy was to use light to pump out oxygen. Gaseous CO2 was the main food.

  24. Re:Comcast Sucks on Why Americans Loathe Cable Companies · · Score: 1

    Call them to have it removed. They can find no record of me returning the equipment.

    At which point you tell them it's their fault for losing track and if they keep charging you, you'll report them to your bank. I had someone over charge me before, quick call to my bank, not only did the bank refund me the money immediately, but they went after the other company free of charge for me.

  25. Re:Nothing to see here, move along. on US Prosecutors Say Clearing Browser Data Can Be Obstruction of Justice · · Score: 1

    This is pretty much what I was getting from it. If you purposefully clear your history knowing you are being investigated, you are purposefully destroying evidence. Especially if they can show intent.