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  1. Re:Not true on IPv6 Tested in Space · · Score: 1

    Nope.. 3G is all natted.. at least all the 3G I've seen.

    I have a couple of 3G phones and none of them even appear to support ipv6.

  2. Re:You want IPv6 adoption? Make it reasonable. on IPv6 Tested in Space · · Score: 1

    lol. You're funny. 'many' tunnel brokers. 7 in the whole world.

    Did you look at that page before posting the link?

  3. Re:Cellphones don't need unique addresses on IPv6 Tested in Space · · Score: 1

    Whatever the blurb says 3G might be designed to do I've not used a phone in years that didn't have an automatically assigned NAT address and they are not addressable externally (not a problem - who would run a server on a phone?).

    I've never seen a mobile phone that even supported ipv6 let alone got given an address. The security implicitions of giving mobile phones public addresses... heck that's why ipv6 still has NAT and NAT will continue to be deployed at the border routers of every major company even long after ipv6 gets deployed (if it ever does) - simply security. You don't want to be giving away information about your internal structure like that.

  4. Re:New meme on IPv6 Tested in Space · · Score: 1

    Sounds like patenting opportunity to me!

    Just gotta phone my lawywer...

  5. Re:Gee, why is no one switching to IPv6? on IPv6 Tested in Space · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's quite common not to route 6to4. The ISP I'm with now is the first I've had in 3 years to route 192.88.99.1 and they've got native ipv6 anyway.

    Tunnels I can sympathise. No quality. Abysmal uptime, and nobody to complain to if it goes wrong.. not to mention that 90% of the people who were providing them have packed up and gone home when the 6bone went titsup. I eventually gave up on my hosting machines' ipv6 after I did the uptime graphs.. uptime was about 30%, and the latency never got less than 500ms to the first hop.

    ipv6 is still going backwards - it's *far* harder to get connectivity now than it was 5 years ago.

  6. Re:Next gen Virus on A Proof-of-Concept Virus for iPods Running Linux · · Score: 1

    It will on a lot of compilers... checking argc,argv for main is a later addition. It's wrong, but it'll often compile.

    There are still books out there that write main(void) and main() - only crappy ones though.

    A bigger problem is the #include, which will look in the current directory rather than the system directory. Should be using %ltstdio.h%gt not "stdio.h"

    Oh and exit should be return, but I guess that's just a typo.

    (the c++ version used that spawn of the devil statement 'using namespace std;'.. ffs don't they teach the harmful effects of namespace pollution any more?)

  7. Re:Legality? on A Proof-of-Concept Virus for iPods Running Linux · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..and does a GPL virus that attaches itself to something automatically GPL the thing that it's attached to?

  8. Re:Not a single trek film... on Serenity Trounces Star Wars · · Score: 1

    Matrix didn't make sense (you clearly can't get more energy out of a human than you put in, so the whole battery idea was bunk) but it wasn't really about the tech... more about the philosophical questions of what is reality anyway.

    The other two matrix films of course should be erased from history.

  9. Re:So much missing on Serenity Trounces Star Wars · · Score: 1

    It was a series that never really went anywhere.. after kinda liking serenity (OK it was a generic story done a thousand times before but it was watchable) I went back and watched the series that I'd hated so much the first time around.. and I still hated it.

    Americans (or at least slashdot) seem to love it, so I just assume it's a cultural thing (same with BSG - I don't know anyone around here who actually likes series 1 of that but on here it's talked about as the best thing ever.. by the same guess the latest series which is/was pretty gripping would probably be hated by slashdot).

  10. Re:puh-lease on Serenity Trounces Star Wars · · Score: 1

    I saw this play once...total rip-off of Forbidden Planet!

    Um you mean you saw 'Return to the Forbidden Planet'? It's *supposed* to be a ripoff (and a bit satirical too).

    http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/657/r eturn-to-the-forbidden-planet

  11. Re:All Hail Terry Gilliam on Serenity Trounces Star Wars · · Score: 1

    I *really* *really* hope they weren't voting for the 2001 remake.

    I'm sure humanity hasn't sunk low enough to actually like that version...

  12. Re:I hate 2001 on Serenity Trounces Star Wars · · Score: 1

    *never heard of forbidden planet?*

    My head asplode.

  13. Re:In all fairness... on Popular HD DVD Disc Hits a Snag · · Score: 1

    ..except for 'very recently' replace with 'more than 5 years ago'.

    Any TV sold as HD capable should display 1080i - it's part of the minimum standards. In the EU the minimum allowed for 'HD Ready' is 1080i and 720p at 50 and 60hz with a minimum of 720 displayable lines. I'm sure the US has similar standards - and they've had mainstream years.

  14. Re:Oooh! on GTA IV Trailer Inflames Big Apple Politicians · · Score: 1

    Safest city? Every single disaster movie the US ever produced seems to centre the disaster on NY getting destroyed.

    It's come close a couple of times in real life too.

  15. Re:Brace yourselves everyone... on Top 10 April Fools Stories · · Score: 1

    And what's a book?

    It's another name for a pdf file I think.

    As for the computer thing I think he was making a joke. Clearly it's impossible to turn off a computer.

  16. Re:MS should know when to give up on Microsoft to Buy DoubleClick? · · Score: 1

    Whenever they have tried to eat into an existing market where they cannot leverage Windows they have failed miserably: Zune, MSN, ..xbox 360

    Oh wait.

  17. Re:Slot loading drive on Xbox 360 Elite Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    They work vertically.

    Tray loaders are a bitch to use vertically, which means the 360 has to be basically horizontal all the time.

  18. Re:Blu-Ray and availability on Ask Sony's Phil Harrison About PS3 and Games · · Score: 1

    I believe the Xbox 360 HDDVD drive is out everywhere, but as for standalone stuff... in Europe we have the HD-E1 and that's about it.

    Bluray isn't a lot better - we gave the BD1000 for double the price of the HD-E1 and that's it.

    PS3 sits in the mittle of those - even at $800 it's cheaper by far than what they charge for the BD1000 here.

  19. Re:Prior Art? on Linked List Patented in 2006 · · Score: 1

    You can then reorder the index without reordering the list, reorder the list without reordering the index, or reorder the associations between index and list without having to reorder either.

    You can do that with a triply linked list too, provided you don't change the address of any of the objects (which would be kinda the point of using a linked list).

    I've used such constructs in the past but generally avoid them on the principle that needing to sort frequently shows a weakness in the design - keep the data in the best order in the first place.

  20. Re:Prior Art? on Linked List Patented in 2006 · · Score: 1

    CS courses never mention it - I'd never heard of Knuth until I read it on slashdot after 10 years of programming.

    I eventually found it by accident.. a dusty old leather bound book in a bookshop. Full of degree level maths. Ugh. Didn't read further.

    You don't need something like that to prove it - linked lists are intutively obvious.. heck you don't even need to be taught them - I was using them at 13.

  21. Re:Prior Art? on Linked List Patented in 2006 · · Score: 1

    Before the internet it was always 2 spaces... it's still common on word processed documents. I still type 2 spaces, even though html renderers tend to collapse them - habits built up over that long don't change.

  22. Re:yawn - hard to do, expensive to run: no yawn on DSL Gateways to Fight Piracy by Marking Video · · Score: 1

    You don't need to remove the watermark, just scramble it sufficiently so it's unrecognisable.

  23. Re:50% on Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings · · Score: 2, Funny

    Quantum theory surely says it does both, but it only collapses into one of them when someone notices one way or the other.

    Quantum theory is very wierd.

  24. Re:Prior Art on Germany Rejects Microsoft FAT Patent · · Score: 1

    Germany is the land of beer.

    And beer festivals. Yum...

  25. Re:Greenpeace founder debunks environmental myths on Using Google Earth to See Destruction · · Score: 1

    Don't believe me, go and watch this BBC documentary titled "The Global Warming Swindle"

    You *do* know that has about as much legitimacy as an email from a nigerian prince don't you?

    Let's not let the truth get in the way of a good story though... Martin Durkin never has.

    See also:
    http://www.badscience.net/?p=381

    One final point. You'd better damned well hope that we are the cause of global warming. Because if we aren't then there's nothing we can do about it and we're all royally screwed.