I know you're joking... but that's rather a myth. If two relatives have children then there is an increased risk of abnormality, but it isn't certain at all.
Interestingly this has been studied in communities that marry within families a lot, and found that after the second generation the risk diminishes (for some reason a geneticist could probably explain only with lots of hand waving).
The PS2 has a web browser, and a portal... it comes on the CD that you get with the network adapter (or at least it did in the betas... I never tried a retail one).
I've thought of doing that as a kind of bi-directional NAT hack (add a separate endpoint address header)... would work for TCP easily enough, but UDP is more of an issue since it doesn't have the optional headers.
Zero configuration of the IP stack. It's self-configuring, completely.
Nope. It gives out the IP addresss of the machine and the router. You still need DHCP for nameservers, timeservers, WINS, etc. etc. so you've gained nothing.
Also its address allocation is based on the mac address of the network card - replace the network card and your webserver just went permanently offline and you have to update all your DNS. Oops.
Privacy. IPv6 mandates IPSec and I believe all IPv6 stacks out there provide that.
Those that want to use ipsec are already using it quite happily on ipv4. For most machine-machine connections it's just bloat.
Why is this in the IP standard anyway?
Speed. IPv6 addressing is heirarchical and the headers are simpler and stacked, so much less information needs to be processed even though the headers are technically longer.
Huh? If the headers are longer it's slower. Not faster.
Mobility. IPv6 supports Mobile IP - indeed, that was a design consideration - with fully optimized routing. It's only available under IPv4 as a hacked implementation of a workaround...and almost no stacks implement it.
Again, Why is this in the IP standard anyway? It'd be fine as a 3rd party addon for the 0.00001% of users that might use it. Bloat again.
Routing. Native IPv6 routing (as opposed to RIP-ng and OSPFv6) is designed from first principles, as opposed to being something that has evolved over time to be sub-optimal but backwards-compatiable.
The current routing works just fine... maybe ipv6 will be better, maybe not.
Multicast. IPv6 mandates multicast, which will reduce bandwidth consumption on broadcasts drastically. Anycast. This allows you to find a service by querying the network rather than some moron in technical support.
And this is different from IPV4 how exactly?
btw. most ISPs will *not* route multicast or anycast (which is a problem for IPV6 adoption since the 192.88.99.1 anycast rarely works).
MTU feedback. Your computer won't send what the network can't carry. This means you don't get packet fragmentation, which is great for firewalls and users on networks with restricted packet size. This will become more significant as jumbo packets increase in popularity.
And this is different from IPV4 how exactly?
It really looks like your list was written around 10 years ago when they were just thinking about ipv6... none of these things are advantages any more.
The only devices that need public IPs are servers. Hell, it's a potential security hole to give a non-server a public IP *at all*. *all* mobile devices can sit behind a NAT with absolutely no issues. Mobile phones for example do *not* have public IPs and never should do - there is no legitimate reason for wanting to access a mobile phone remotely.
Also, ipv6 doesn't get rid of NAT. There is IPV6 NAT in cisco routers, simply for the security aspect it's required.
British Telecom, Hurricane Electric, WIDE - there are plenty of them)
The btexact tunnel has been down for weeks with no sign on resolution.. I can easily imagine it going away.
Hurricane electric works fine. WIDE is not a tunnel broker.
Last time I went on a search of tunnel brokers only a month ago there were less than 10 (pretty much all in the US only). Most of the ones that were there a year or so ago have shut down.. Also, KAME is dead... even the 6bone is being closed down.
This relase good news.. with any luck I can write a db2 plugin for the next release of my software (if only SQL was a real standard and you could support a database with just ODBC... sigh...)
Easy. No anonymous edits. Anyone can edit, but they must provide verified proof of identity before they get the right to do it. Repeated vandalism doesn't just get your IP banned (which is hopelessly innefective), it gets your name and address put on the wikipedia front page.
It is the case for Wikipedia though - and exactly why I no longer use it.
Each page is *only* as accurate as the last person to edit it. The idea of the 'community' deciding what is right is a sham - anyone who is quick on the edits becomes the current 'correct' source.
Politicians are quick to realize this... Expect a *lot* of political edits in the future - they probably have paid staff keeping articles saying their idea of 'truth' 24/7 already.
It still isn't a disaster. Firstly it wasn't important to the people of the world it was important to the people of the US. US!=World. The rest of us watched the very first launch with some fascination but none of the others were even televised AFAIK.. they certainly never made any news that I saw. First I heard of the one blowing up (two?? I seem to remember a second one shortly after) it was much later.. made the news for a week or so then disappeared.
Secondly the shuttle was never about innovation. It was called the flying brickyard for a reason.. it was a complete disaster, and only there because there was this dream of reusable spacecraft that the politicians had latched onto... even though they didn't have the technology to do it they were going to damned well do it and forget how many millions it wasted.
The shuttle should really have been canned there and then not 20 years later... it had already failed in its mission of cheap reusabable space flight (disposable rockets were and are much cheaper to run) and was never going to recover the money spent in investment.
Now it begins to look like commercial companies might take up the slack - spaceship one is a major step forward.. amazingly it manages to do away with the heatshield. Still not worked out how they managed that.
The former President of the United States, the man voted President of the Century no less, said that he and his wife were "pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle Challenger"
Well duh. He's a politician. He wanted to get reelected.
It wouldn't have done his reelection prospects any good if he'd said nothing, or laughed it off...
For me it was Tianemen Square (I was a student at the time watching it unfold on my small portable TV). I still can't look at a chinese person without thinking of it half the time.
Challenger didn't even phase me... it was just a rather spectacular traffic accident. Not on the radar, sorry.
You can't really say something affect 'an entire generation' without interviewing *everyone* from that generation (or at least a reasonably representative sample).
I bounce the lot at the mailserver.. if people want to send me emails they need to send me emails, not oversized word documents with 'email attached' in the text body.
Guild wars... strategy? They must have changed the game a *hell* of a lot since I played (just after release).
The one I played was basically a single player WoW with no real interaction (since once you left a city it instanced you) and lame quests. Hell, they'd even ripped off the WoW graphics!
Funny I gave up on WoW because of the grind... Played it (on and off) for a couple of months, got as far as level 12 and just couldn't get any money for armour etc., the grouping channel was dead and all I had was a long list of 'take this item to this NPC' quests which are quite frankly boring as hell once you've done about 100 of them.
If it gets *worse* at higher levels then I'm glad I stopped playing.
As for the third point, this is one of those sticky situations where, even in a republic, the "tyranny of the majority" causes problems. Notification laws and the like would, I imagine, virtually destroy the life of anyone convicted of child molestation or exploitation, even after they've paid their debt to society. OTOH, I can certainly see why parents would want to know this information, and it is, of course, nigh impossible to determine who's actually made progress in ignoring their urges and who hasn't.
Imagine this. 20 year old man is attracted to 15 year old girl. They have a brief affair, the law finds out, and he gets put on a child protection list (the legal age is 16 here). He subsequently marries the girl a year or so later. Is he a peodophile? 15 years later he gets a job as a caretaker in a school. Is he a danger to the children?
In the UK recently this happened. The man involved may never work again, has had his life destroyed, and has been labeled a dangerous paedophile by the tabloid idiots... I bet half the country just read the headlines and didn't realize what had hapened.
It's a salutory lesson in *why* the public should not know about such things. IMO they're too damned stupid to tell the difference.
Same in the UK, but there's a hole in the law - the item must have been sold at the higher price for 30 days previously but only in that chain, not in that particular store.
This leads to 'was prices', which are similar to what the USians are talking about, except in the small print at the bottom it'll say 'previously sold at backstreet branch, scunthorpe for the higher price' - so one store gets the hit, and they carry on lying as normal.
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I know you're joking... but that's rather a myth. If two relatives have children then there is an increased risk of abnormality, but it isn't certain at all.
Interestingly this has been studied in communities that marry within families a lot, and found that after the second generation the risk diminishes (for some reason a geneticist could probably explain only with lots of hand waving).
The PS2 has a web browser, and a portal... it comes on the CD that you get with the network adapter (or at least it did in the betas... I never tried a retail one).
Cisco stuff is generally crap.. it's just well supported crap (provided you pay for the annual contract).
Linksys is cisco quality without the support...
I've thought of doing that as a kind of bi-directional NAT hack (add a separate endpoint address header)... would work for TCP easily enough, but UDP is more of an issue since it doesn't have the optional headers.
6to4 is dead.
The 192.88.99.1 anycast isn't routed by most ISPs any more... it's over a year since I've been able to ping it (tried different connections, etc.)
Zero configuration of the IP stack. It's self-configuring, completely.
..and almost no stacks implement it.
Nope. It gives out the IP addresss of the machine and the router. You still need DHCP for nameservers, timeservers, WINS, etc. etc. so you've gained nothing.
Also its address allocation is based on the mac address of the network card - replace the network card and your webserver just went permanently offline and you have to update all your DNS. Oops.
Privacy. IPv6 mandates IPSec and I believe all IPv6 stacks out there provide that.
Those that want to use ipsec are already using it quite happily on ipv4. For most machine-machine connections it's just bloat.
Why is this in the IP standard anyway?
Speed. IPv6 addressing is heirarchical and the headers are simpler and stacked, so much less information needs to be processed even though the headers are technically longer.
Huh? If the headers are longer it's slower. Not faster.
Mobility. IPv6 supports Mobile IP - indeed, that was a design consideration - with fully optimized routing. It's only available under IPv4 as a hacked implementation of a workaround.
Again, Why is this in the IP standard anyway? It'd be fine as a 3rd party addon for the 0.00001% of users that might use it. Bloat again.
Routing. Native IPv6 routing (as opposed to RIP-ng and OSPFv6) is designed from first principles, as opposed to being something that has evolved over time to be sub-optimal but backwards-compatiable.
The current routing works just fine... maybe ipv6 will be better, maybe not.
Multicast. IPv6 mandates multicast, which will reduce bandwidth consumption on broadcasts drastically.
Anycast. This allows you to find a service by querying the network rather than some moron in technical support.
And this is different from IPV4 how exactly?
btw. most ISPs will *not* route multicast or anycast (which is a problem for IPV6 adoption since the 192.88.99.1 anycast rarely works).
MTU feedback. Your computer won't send what the network can't carry. This means you don't get packet fragmentation, which is great for firewalls and users on networks with restricted packet size. This will become more significant as jumbo packets increase in popularity.
And this is different from IPV4 how exactly?
It really looks like your list was written around 10 years ago when they were just thinking about ipv6... none of these things are advantages any more.
The 'mobile devices' argument is total bullshit.
The only devices that need public IPs are servers. Hell, it's a potential security hole to give a non-server a public IP *at all*. *all* mobile devices can sit behind a NAT with absolutely no issues. Mobile phones for example do *not* have public IPs and never should do - there is no legitimate reason for wanting to access a mobile phone remotely.
Also, ipv6 doesn't get rid of NAT. There is IPV6 NAT in cisco routers, simply for the security aspect it's required.
British Telecom, Hurricane Electric, WIDE - there are plenty of them)
The btexact tunnel has been down for weeks with no sign on resolution.. I can easily imagine it going away.
Hurricane electric works fine. WIDE is not a tunnel broker.
Last time I went on a search of tunnel brokers only a month ago there were less than 10 (pretty much all in the US only). Most of the ones that were there a year or so ago have shut down.. Also, KAME is dead... even the 6bone is being closed down.
Oh my god.. you killed IBM!!
The download just aint happening right now.
This relase good news.. with any luck I can write a db2 plugin for the next release of my software (if only SQL was a real standard and you could support a database with just ODBC... sigh...)
Easy. No anonymous edits. Anyone can edit, but they must provide verified proof of identity before they get the right to do it. Repeated vandalism doesn't just get your IP banned (which is hopelessly innefective), it gets your name and address put on the wikipedia front page.
OK they banned that one...
/16... the scu... err.. senators have 65,535 addresses to choose from.
Unless they ban the entire netblock they just move to another computer and continue.
That netblock is a
It is the case for Wikipedia though - and exactly why I no longer use it.
Each page is *only* as accurate as the last person to edit it. The idea of the 'community' deciding what is right is a sham - anyone who is quick on the edits becomes the current 'correct' source.
Politicians are quick to realize this... Expect a *lot* of political edits in the future - they probably have paid staff keeping articles saying their idea of 'truth' 24/7 already.
It still isn't a disaster. Firstly it wasn't important to the people of the world it was important to the people of the US. US!=World. The rest of us watched the very first launch with some fascination but none of the others were even televised AFAIK.. they certainly never made any news that I saw. First I heard of the one blowing up (two?? I seem to remember a second one shortly after) it was much later.. made the news for a week or so then disappeared.
Secondly the shuttle was never about innovation. It was called the flying brickyard for a reason.. it was a complete disaster, and only there because there was this dream of reusable spacecraft that the politicians had latched onto... even though they didn't have the technology to do it they were going to damned well do it and forget how many millions it wasted.
The shuttle should really have been canned there and then not 20 years later... it had already failed in its mission of cheap reusabable space flight (disposable rockets were and are much cheaper to run) and was never going to recover the money spent in investment.
Now it begins to look like commercial companies might take up the slack - spaceship one is a major step forward.. amazingly it manages to do away with the heatshield. Still not worked out how they managed that.
The former President of the United States, the man voted President of the Century no less, said that he and his wife were "pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle Challenger"
Well duh. He's a politician. He wanted to get reelected.
It wouldn't have done his reelection prospects any good if he'd said nothing, or laughed it off...
For me it was Tianemen Square (I was a student at the time watching it unfold on my small portable TV). I still can't look at a chinese person without thinking of it half the time.
Challenger didn't even phase me... it was just a rather spectacular traffic accident. Not on the radar, sorry.
You can't really say something affect 'an entire generation' without interviewing *everyone* from that generation (or at least a reasonably representative sample).
You bother deleting them?
I bounce the lot at the mailserver.. if people want to send me emails they need to send me emails, not oversized word documents with 'email attached' in the text body.
Yes they are... historically they've always been BT848/BT878 based. Even the one I had 5 years ago was a BT848.
Guild wars... strategy? They must have changed the game a *hell* of a lot since I played (just after release).
The one I played was basically a single player WoW with no real interaction (since once you left a city it instanced you) and lame quests. Hell, they'd even ripped off the WoW graphics!
Might go back if they've redesigned it a bit...
Funny I gave up on WoW because of the grind... Played it (on and off) for a couple of months, got as far as level 12 and just couldn't get any money for armour etc., the grouping channel was dead and all I had was a long list of 'take this item to this NPC' quests which are quite frankly boring as hell once you've done about 100 of them.
If it gets *worse* at higher levels then I'm glad I stopped playing.
The BIOS must though - and a lot don't do so, even those which have WOL supporting chipsets on the motherboard.
You mean they now produce stunningly accurate clocks? Cool!
As for the third point, this is one of those sticky situations where, even in a republic, the "tyranny of the majority" causes problems. Notification laws and the like would, I imagine, virtually destroy the life of anyone convicted of child molestation or exploitation, even after they've paid their debt to society. OTOH, I can certainly see why parents would want to know this information, and it is, of course, nigh impossible to determine who's actually made progress in ignoring their urges and who hasn't.
Imagine this. 20 year old man is attracted to 15 year old girl. They have a brief affair, the law finds out, and he gets put on a child protection list (the legal age is 16 here). He subsequently marries the girl a year or so later. Is he a peodophile? 15 years later he gets a job as a caretaker in a school. Is he a danger to the children?
In the UK recently this happened. The man involved may never work again, has had his life destroyed, and has been labeled a dangerous paedophile by the tabloid idiots... I bet half the country just read the headlines and didn't realize what had hapened.
It's a salutory lesson in *why* the public should not know about such things. IMO they're too damned stupid to tell the difference.
Same in the UK, but there's a hole in the law - the item must have been sold at the higher price for 30 days previously but only in that chain, not in that particular store.
This leads to 'was prices', which are similar to what the USians are talking about, except in the small print at the bottom it'll say 'previously sold at backstreet branch, scunthorpe for the higher price' - so one store gets the hit, and they carry on lying as normal.