and then hopefully the rubes will invest in it, and the people pushing it can cash out right before the thing collapses.
And this is where the entire of Slashdot fails.
Bitcoin is not something to "invest" in. It's a payment system. You use it to get money from A to B, without the involvement of such trusted middle-men as Paypal.
When you say "collapses", I presume you refer to the exchange rate between BTC and USD. This is completely irrelevant to anybody using it as a payment system. All it means is that, in order to send $10 to someone, you'll have to send 100 BTC instead of 1 BTC. The actual number of BTC involved is utterly unimportant.
Yes, I realize that a lot of people are speculating on the value of Bitcoins. Ignore them; they're irrelevant to Bitcoin's use as a payment system.
Something about Firefox is ridiculously slow since FF4. It takes several seconds to start, webpages load slowly, scrolling is choppy.
Sounds like it might have something to do with hardware acceleration, which was added in Fx4. The option for it is Options > Advanced > General > Use hardware acceleration when available, and you can get some info on its current state down at the bottom of Help > Troubleshooting Information.
Maybe something is wrong with one of my add-ons, but I don't want to turn them off and then turn each on one by one to find out if that's the case.
You can test them all at once with Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled. If that has no effect, it's not your add-ons.
If Firefox fixes the speed problem they will get me back, whatever that means. It's not like I'm paying for anything.
Honestly, with the direction Firefox is taking nowadays, it almost seems easier to just cut out the middleman and stick with Chrome...
And NAT is the bomb. It is the best kind of firewall you can have - ie one that doesn't slow down your computer with bloatware. It really is not difficult to forward a router.
No, it's not. The best kind of firewall you can have is a firewall -- which can also be done on your router device, so that it "doesn't slow down your computer with bloatware".
The part I don't like about it though, is the addresses.
How easy is it to remember 192.168.2.31 compared to 2001:0db8:ac10:fe01:0000:00000:00000:0000?
If you don't like that address, why did you pick it? For a start, redundant zeros are redundant, so write 2001:db8:ac10:fe01::. Secondly, you are assigned a/48, meaning you can pick the rest of the bits freely. If you didn't want to remember it, why did you pick fe01 instead of, say, 0, letting you write 2001:db8:ac10::?
And in case you hadn't noticed, 2001:db8:ac10:: is shorter than the IPv4 equivalent, where you have to remember both 192.168.2.31 and your external address, 192.0.2.172. What's the problem with IPv6 again?
If you're on 64-bit Windows, you can improve this a bit by using editbin (from the platform SDK) to set the large address aware flag in firefox.exe, increasing the limit to 4 GB. (If you're on 32-bit Windows, this will have no effect unless you also use the/3gb or/userva kernel flags.)
As far as I can see, the vulnerability he talks about in the video is basically "if you use a VPN, but you don't put IPv6 traffic over the VPN, IPv6 traffic won't go over the VPN".
It seems a bit unfair to blame IPv6 for this; after all, IPv4 suffers from the same vulnerability.
Look, it's bad enough seeing this in the comments constantly, without having it in the summary itself. Is it so difficult to just read your sentence to yourself -- "a street renowned for it is street art" -- and realize that it's not quite right?
To be clear, 6to4 needs to be run on the device with your public IP address, or alternately that device needs to pass protocol 41 traffic to the machine doing 6to4. The rest of your network then gets access by native IPv6 routing.
That also fails beautifully with an address like "2001:db8:3c4d:48:a00:20ff:feb9:4c54", which is perfectly valid.
Unless you know you're going to be dealing with numeric IPv4 addresses in a specific format, it would be best to pass them to getaddrinfo() (with AI_NUMERICHOST if you want to avoid DNS) and let somebody else worry about validating them properly.
Unfortunately, according to that page, the max payload weight is 66,300kg, and DVDs weigh about 17 grams, meaning you're limited to 3.9 million DVDs = 31.763 PB.
Look, IPv6 is all well and good, but apart from typing 1:: for localhost, how am I going remember my outside IP?
Easy.
My IPv6 address is, shall we say, 2002:725b:3294::1. "725b:3294" is just my IPv4 address, which is apparently easy to remember. The 2002 is well-known, like the 192.168 in a private class C IPv4 address, and the::1 is as hard to remember as the ".0.1" at the end of such an address.
In other words, it's no harder to remember than your current external+internal IP combination is.
Now, of course, if you deliberately pick an address like 2002:725b:3294:08d3:1319:8a2e:0370:7334, then yeah, you're gonna have trouble remembering it. But you can hardly complain about it if you chose it, can you?
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and then hopefully the rubes will invest in it, and the people pushing it can cash out right before the thing collapses.
And this is where the entire of Slashdot fails.
Bitcoin is not something to "invest" in. It's a payment system. You use it to get money from A to B, without the involvement of such trusted middle-men as Paypal.
When you say "collapses", I presume you refer to the exchange rate between BTC and USD. This is completely irrelevant to anybody using it as a payment system. All it means is that, in order to send $10 to someone, you'll have to send 100 BTC instead of 1 BTC. The actual number of BTC involved is utterly unimportant.
Yes, I realize that a lot of people are speculating on the value of Bitcoins. Ignore them; they're irrelevant to Bitcoin's use as a payment system.
Something about Firefox is ridiculously slow since FF4. It takes several seconds to start, webpages load slowly, scrolling is choppy.
Sounds like it might have something to do with hardware acceleration, which was added in Fx4. The option for it is Options > Advanced > General > Use hardware acceleration when available, and you can get some info on its current state down at the bottom of Help > Troubleshooting Information.
Maybe something is wrong with one of my add-ons, but I don't want to turn them off and then turn each on one by one to find out if that's the case.
You can test them all at once with Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled. If that has no effect, it's not your add-ons.
If Firefox fixes the speed problem they will get me back, whatever that means. It's not like I'm paying for anything.
Honestly, with the direction Firefox is taking nowadays, it almost seems easier to just cut out the middleman and stick with Chrome...
Virgin Media: the same ISP that, for the past ten years, has refused to give me more than a single IPv4 address. For a network with 20+ devices.
Clearly they don't have enough addresses.
what to expect for FF 5 and 6
Expect Firefox 4.1 and 4.2.
And NAT is the bomb. It is the best kind of firewall you can have - ie one that doesn't slow down your computer with bloatware. It really is not difficult to forward a router.
No, it's not. The best kind of firewall you can have is a firewall -- which can also be done on your router device, so that it "doesn't slow down your computer with bloatware".
The part I don't like about it though, is the addresses. How easy is it to remember 192.168.2.31 compared to 2001:0db8:ac10:fe01:0000:00000:00000:0000?
If you don't like that address, why did you pick it? For a start, redundant zeros are redundant, so write 2001:db8:ac10:fe01::. Secondly, you are assigned a /48, meaning you can pick the rest of the bits freely. If you didn't want to remember it, why did you pick fe01 instead of, say, 0, letting you write 2001:db8:ac10::?
And in case you hadn't noticed, 2001:db8:ac10:: is shorter than the IPv4 equivalent, where you have to remember both 192.168.2.31 and your external address, 192.0.2.172. What's the problem with IPv6 again?
And the non-plural nouns, please. I've seen "get's" and "let's" here recently.
It's like people see an s coming up in the sentence and instinctively start mashing the ' key.
If you're on 64-bit Windows, you can improve this a bit by using editbin (from the platform SDK) to set the large address aware flag in firefox.exe, increasing the limit to 4 GB. (If you're on 32-bit Windows, this will have no effect unless you also use the /3gb or /userva kernel flags.)
There are unofficial 64-bit builds, as well as ongoing work on official 64-bit Windows builds.
As far as I can see, the vulnerability he talks about in the video is basically "if you use a VPN, but you don't put IPv6 traffic over the VPN, IPv6 traffic won't go over the VPN".
It seems a bit unfair to blame IPv6 for this; after all, IPv4 suffers from the same vulnerability.
a street renowned for it's street art
Look, it's bad enough seeing this in the comments constantly, without having it in the summary itself. Is it so difficult to just read your sentence to yourself -- "a street renowned for it is street art" -- and realize that it's not quite right?
Only problem is this does not work with NAT.
To be clear, 6to4 needs to be run on the device with your public IP address, or alternately that device needs to pass protocol 41 traffic to the machine doing 6to4. The rest of your network then gets access by native IPv6 routing.
The presence of NAT is not fatal to 6to4.
no GUID partition table support in XP
XP supports GUID partition tables just fine (although admittedly only in the 64-bit version).
Well, basically, you just follow his instructions, but on Windows.
Install Cygwin for Windows versions of ssh and X.
Another stumbling block for manufacturers: A universal power supply would kill the market for replacement power supplies.
That's the whole bloody point.
That also fails beautifully with an address like "2001:db8:3c4d:48:a00:20ff:feb9:4c54", which is perfectly valid.
Unless you know you're going to be dealing with numeric IPv4 addresses in a specific format, it would be best to pass them to getaddrinfo() (with AI_NUMERICHOST if you want to avoid DNS) and let somebody else worry about validating them properly.
Unfortunately, according to that page, the max payload weight is 66,300kg, and DVDs weigh about 17 grams, meaning you're limited to 3.9 million DVDs = 31.763 PB.
Unless you plan on taxiing all the way there.
Easy.
My IPv6 address is, shall we say, 2002:725b:3294::1. "725b:3294" is just my IPv4 address, which is apparently easy to remember. The 2002 is well-known, like the 192.168 in a private class C IPv4 address, and the ::1 is as hard to remember as the ".0.1" at the end of such an address.
In other words, it's no harder to remember than your current external+internal IP combination is.
Now, of course, if you deliberately pick an address like 2002:725b:3294:08d3:1319:8a2e:0370:7334, then yeah, you're gonna have trouble remembering it. But you can hardly complain about it if you chose it, can you?