How about "Internal WiFi" and "Guest WiFi (internet access only)"? Currently this is done with a separate vlan and subnet for the guest WiFi. It also benefits greatly from dynamic address assignment.
You have to use static IPs if you want to split the singe/64 you got from your ISP into subnets, since SLAAC stops working then. Well, either that or NAT.
I really like how the IPv6 proponents also propose to give more control to the ISP.
With IPv4 I can: 1. Split my allocated address space into however many subnets (down to/30s) I want. 2. Use NAT to either have more internal IPs than public ones or to mask/redirect traffic. 3. Use NAT to keep the internal IPs constant even if the public IPs change (ISP changes or something). 4. If I have my own AS, I can jump between ISPs while keeping my IPs, this allows the use of multiple ISPs for redundancy.
Now, with IPv6 things look better with pretty much unlimited addresses, however: 1. If I have at least one Android device, I either have to set up static IPs or ask the ISP for more subnets, as if/64 could not be split into smaller subnets. Oh, right, the devicewants to put its MAC addressas part of the IP - yay for tracking? Oh and why the ISP should give me more subnets for free? So, I guess I'd better start putting money into the suitcase... 2. No NAT means the internal IPs change if the ISP decides so or I change ISPs. DNS is not an option since it can fail just as well as DHCP can. Also, even with DNS it would be a PITA to change all the records to point to new IPs. Also, firewall configurations need to be updated. 3. Private ASs are discouraged, apparently they mess up the routing tables. So, now I do not have redundancy and the ISP can cause real problems for me because of #2. Or I have to work out a three sided deal between me and two competing ISPs. I guess I'd better find another suitcase for the money...
My grandmother said that you could bitch about the government, though you would not be allowed to do that on TV or radio. Well, at least after Stalin's death.
Also, I am not saying that the US is the same as Russia (or USSR), but it's getting there. If this continues, then after a few decades, it may become even more of a police state than USSR ever was. After all, the various agencies have spying capabilities that the KGB could only dream about. Automatic tracking of cars by photographing license plates, internet data mining, call data mining (speech recognition beats a guy listening to one conversation at a time).
I noticed that as time passes, there is smaller and smaller difference between the US and Russia. It almost looks like the US government is looking at Russia as a model of how to do things...
A easy solution is to clone the mac address but if they are collecting snmp or doing any kind of management they will discover that you are running unauthorized equipment.
There are ways of making the Linux router invisible to the ISP, unless they really try to detect the unauthorized equipment (but that would take time and the ISP probably does not care THAT much). It depends on what is actually done with the management. Stick a Raspberry Pi on the other side of the ISP router to simulate usage. The result should not stand out in the graphs etc, so the ISP will not be looking at that particular router for problems.
Also, if the ISP still manages to detect it, just play dumb and say you do not know anything (and put everything back the way it was then someone from the ISP comes to check).
So I formed a small LLC
That would take me much more time than to configure a Linux router to be stealthy.
So, the problem is that the ISP provided router does not work properly. Also, if you replace it with a proper router, the ISP does not like it.
So (I'm assuming here that the uplink is Ethernet): 1.Figure out how the ISP accesses your router (packet sniffer with a managed switch or a hub), 2.Configure a Linux router to pass management packets to the ISP router, but otherwise act like a router for your network. This way, the ISP can still access their router, but you do not have to use it. 3. Don't forget to set everything back the way it was if there's someone coming from your ISP. 4. Profit.
Well, I said primarily about the foreign policy. I do not live in the US or in Russia, so what is in those countries in a lower concern for me. What is a concern for me is getting a bomb from either country dropped on my head. In that regard, both countries are "obey us or get a bomb". Just ask Iraq or Ukraine. In addition, ISIS was created because of the actions of the USA (destroying the government of Iraq and just leaving instead of annexing the country or at least installing a proper government there).
Smaller companies do not use AD or group policies, they usually do not have a server. That leaves Windows+Office and if Windows is primarily used because of Office...
Well, if the government did it without the permission or knowledge of said companies, then, I guess, the companies made a bad decision when choosing a country for their factories. Similar to how Chinese companies may be suspect because Chinese government probably does the same thing the CIA does. At least now everybody knows about this so the companies can make a decision to avoid the US (and China). And seal their equipment so it shows evidence if it was "enhanced".
- American IT companies are losing billions because foreign customers are scared
Those poor companies! They will make a few billions less after getting truckloads of money from the government to introduce backdoors in their supposed secure products. Maybe next time those companies choose to protect the privacy of their customers...
- Intelligence networks are fucked
They will be rebuilt, however, spying on citizens may be reduces somewhat.
- Nothing whatsoever has changed in the way government agencies spy on US citizens
Except that the people now now about this and can take more precautions against being spied on.
Yea, with all the spying and wars, I am starting to have trouble seeing the difference between the USA and Russia, especially if looking at their foreign policy. Do something that either one of them dislikes and get a bomb on your head.
Also, Russia probably could shut down all trade and be self-sufficient. It has pretty much all naturally occurring elements and energy sources (oil, gas, coal, nuclear), so if they really wanted, they could just manufacture everything locally.
Porting Office to Linux would be most likely a zero-sum game - a PC which formerly ran Windows now runs Linux. The amount of Office installations remains the same.
It would more likely be negative. The current PCs would remain with Windows, but if the company was buying new PCs, those new PCs would be with Linux.
iOS and Android are not OSs for a PC, you probably would not use that for editing lots of documents. On the other hand, Linux can be used in a desktop PC and can be used to edit documents, however, Open/Libre Office is not as good (and has problems with file formats) as MS Office. There is also no alternative to MS Outlook that, coupled with Exchange allows for things that would be a big problem for Thunderbird.
So, since quite a few PCs in the office are used for browsing the net and MS Office, making MS Office run on Linux would result in a lot more Linux desktops being used.
But if you kill your father, get caught and the jury sentences you to life without parole?
Though if the father or the son is awful enough for the son to even consider killing him, this may still happen even without the father being immortal, especially if the father is not very old.
As for waiting forever - long term schemes could become more useful. Invest some money that your father gave to you and 50 years later you may be very rich too. Though asking a 30 year old now to wait 50 years is a bit too much, but if the 30 year old was immortal...
The rich guy will always be able to take his cake and eat it too.
Depending on how rich. If the top 1000 people manage to bribe their way into keeping their ability to reproduce, that most likely will not cause overpopulation. Everyone else will either breed or live longer.
Juvenal already advised wealthy parents about the risk of saying "One day son, all this will be yours", since this clearly shows what is taking them apart from their fortune.
I imagine this saying would stop once the parent knows he can become immortal. Also, being immortal means you can wait longer for something.
Obviously the laws would need to be carefully designed for the edge cases, but I do not think that adoption should affect your status in any way (by adopting you do not increase the population).
But saying that, say, I(and everybody else) should die of old age (I do not care about having children, so I would be the first to sign up for the drug) just because you or someone else want to have children is also unfair. In my (biased) opinion, it's more unfair than saying that you can only become immortal if you do not have children and by becoming immortal you lose the ability to have children.
There are a lot of rich old people who do not want to die (so they are funding the research into life extension). Let's say some scientist discovers the drug. Do you make it illegal for everyone to become immortal and if someone still manages to get their hands on the drug, do you kill them (if so, do you kill them immediately or at the age when they should die)?
Also, how about this: the drug/whatever that cures you of aging also makes you sterile. Or it could be a legal requirement - want to not die of old age? The price is X dollars and your ability to reproduce.
As for the morality - morality changes when circumstances change. Some years ago it was moral to have children work in factories, now it is not. Now it is immoral to tell someone to not reproduce (and leave a legacy), but if the person is immune from aging, then telling them to not reproduce may become moral.
Or a one-child policy not only in China, but also elsewhere where the aging cure is available/affordable. People are still going to die (accidents, murder, suicide etc).
Wouldn't it be cool if anything that used power had to first request it similar to how it's done in USB
No. The USB spec is already a PITA for stuff like battery chargers or power supplies (though I guess just requesting the max power available works). Also, quite a few USB devices do not meet that particular spec, just having the power pins connected (since it's cheaper that way).
What if the device requested low power but used more power?
Also, what about all current devices or DIY stuff? Will they all need to be connected using a converter? Why? The current way the circuit breaker works (too much current = disconnect) is good enough.
So, you will not want to use any device that has a line frequency transformer in it (like, say, some audio gear or pretty much every old device). Or any device that has an AC induction motor (AC, fridge, table fan). Also, you are willing to modify the power supply of your PC to work on DC (so the PFC circuit no longer needs not only AC but AC that is similar to a sine wave). Also, you are willing to use much bigger switches and circuit breakers (to safely disconnect 120 or 240V DC) or much bigger wires (for lower voltage) and modifying your devices to work on low voltage.
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How about "Internal WiFi" and "Guest WiFi (internet access only)"? Currently this is done with a separate vlan and subnet for the guest WiFi. It also benefits greatly from dynamic address assignment.
It's a neat hack, but hardly anybody uses it.
IPv4 IPs are much easier to remember than IPv6 IPs.
You have to use static IPs if you want to split the singe /64 you got from your ISP into subnets, since SLAAC stops working then. Well, either that or NAT.
I really like how the IPv6 proponents also propose to give more control to the ISP.
With IPv4 I can: /30s) I want.
1. Split my allocated address space into however many subnets (down to
2. Use NAT to either have more internal IPs than public ones or to mask/redirect traffic.
3. Use NAT to keep the internal IPs constant even if the public IPs change (ISP changes or something).
4. If I have my own AS, I can jump between ISPs while keeping my IPs, this allows the use of multiple ISPs for redundancy.
Now, with IPv6 things look better with pretty much unlimited addresses, however: /64 could not be split into smaller subnets. Oh, right, the devicewants to put its MAC addressas part of the IP - yay for tracking? Oh and why the ISP should give me more subnets for free? So, I guess I'd better start putting money into the suitcase...
1. If I have at least one Android device, I either have to set up static IPs or ask the ISP for more subnets, as if
2. No NAT means the internal IPs change if the ISP decides so or I change ISPs. DNS is not an option since it can fail just as well as DHCP can. Also, even with DNS it would be a PITA to change all the records to point to new IPs. Also, firewall configurations need to be updated.
3. Private ASs are discouraged, apparently they mess up the routing tables. So, now I do not have redundancy and the ISP can cause real problems for me because of #2. Or I have to work out a three sided deal between me and two competing ISPs. I guess I'd better find another suitcase for the money...
My grandmother said that you could bitch about the government, though you would not be allowed to do that on TV or radio. Well, at least after Stalin's death.
Also, I am not saying that the US is the same as Russia (or USSR), but it's getting there. If this continues, then after a few decades, it may become even more of a police state than USSR ever was. After all, the various agencies have spying capabilities that the KGB could only dream about. Automatic tracking of cars by photographing license plates, internet data mining, call data mining (speech recognition beats a guy listening to one conversation at a time).
I noticed that as time passes, there is smaller and smaller difference between the US and Russia. It almost looks like the US government is looking at Russia as a model of how to do things...
I haven't seen people typing (long) documents on a cellphone or a tablet, though I guess maybe it is convenient for some.
A easy solution is to clone the mac address but if they are collecting snmp or doing any kind of management they will discover that you are running unauthorized equipment.
There are ways of making the Linux router invisible to the ISP, unless they really try to detect the unauthorized equipment (but that would take time and the ISP probably does not care THAT much). It depends on what is actually done with the management. Stick a Raspberry Pi on the other side of the ISP router to simulate usage. The result should not stand out in the graphs etc, so the ISP will not be looking at that particular router for problems.
Also, if the ISP still manages to detect it, just play dumb and say you do not know anything (and put everything back the way it was then someone from the ISP comes to check).
So I formed a small LLC
That would take me much more time than to configure a Linux router to be stealthy.
Or, think up a technical solution.
So, the problem is that the ISP provided router does not work properly. Also, if you replace it with a proper router, the ISP does not like it.
So (I'm assuming here that the uplink is Ethernet):
1.Figure out how the ISP accesses your router (packet sniffer with a managed switch or a hub),
2.Configure a Linux router to pass management packets to the ISP router, but otherwise act like a router for your network. This way, the ISP can still access their router, but you do not have to use it.
3. Don't forget to set everything back the way it was if there's someone coming from your ISP.
4. Profit.
Well, I said primarily about the foreign policy. I do not live in the US or in Russia, so what is in those countries in a lower concern for me. What is a concern for me is getting a bomb from either country dropped on my head. In that regard, both countries are "obey us or get a bomb". Just ask Iraq or Ukraine. In addition, ISIS was created because of the actions of the USA (destroying the government of Iraq and just leaving instead of annexing the country or at least installing a proper government there).
Smaller companies do not use AD or group policies, they usually do not have a server. That leaves Windows+Office and if Windows is primarily used because of Office...
Well, if the government did it without the permission or knowledge of said companies, then, I guess, the companies made a bad decision when choosing a country for their factories. Similar to how Chinese companies may be suspect because Chinese government probably does the same thing the CIA does. At least now everybody knows about this so the companies can make a decision to avoid the US (and China). And seal their equipment so it shows evidence if it was "enhanced".
- American IT companies are losing billions because foreign customers are scared
Those poor companies! They will make a few billions less after getting truckloads of money from the government to introduce backdoors in their supposed secure products. Maybe next time those companies choose to protect the privacy of their customers...
- Intelligence networks are fucked
They will be rebuilt, however, spying on citizens may be reduces somewhat.
- Nothing whatsoever has changed in the way government agencies spy on US citizens
Except that the people now now about this and can take more precautions against being spied on.
Yea, with all the spying and wars, I am starting to have trouble seeing the difference between the USA and Russia, especially if looking at their foreign policy. Do something that either one of them dislikes and get a bomb on your head.
Also, Russia probably could shut down all trade and be self-sufficient. It has pretty much all naturally occurring elements and energy sources (oil, gas, coal, nuclear), so if they really wanted, they could just manufacture everything locally.
Porting Office to Linux would be most likely a zero-sum game - a PC which formerly ran Windows now runs Linux. The amount of Office installations remains the same.
It would more likely be negative. The current PCs would remain with Windows, but if the company was buying new PCs, those new PCs would be with Linux.
iOS and Android are not OSs for a PC, you probably would not use that for editing lots of documents.
On the other hand, Linux can be used in a desktop PC and can be used to edit documents, however, Open/Libre Office is not as good (and has problems with file formats) as MS Office. There is also no alternative to MS Outlook that, coupled with Exchange allows for things that would be a big problem for Thunderbird.
So, since quite a few PCs in the office are used for browsing the net and MS Office, making MS Office run on Linux would result in a lot more Linux desktops being used.
Even worse, with .NET it may be easier to run Office on Linux. Now that would be a huge problem for Microsoft.
Natural selection, evolution.
As long as humans figure out how to manufacture food straight from raw materials before the edible species die out - I don't care...
But if you kill your father, get caught and the jury sentences you to life without parole?
Though if the father or the son is awful enough for the son to even consider killing him, this may still happen even without the father being immortal, especially if the father is not very old.
As for waiting forever - long term schemes could become more useful. Invest some money that your father gave to you and 50 years later you may be very rich too. Though asking a 30 year old now to wait 50 years is a bit too much, but if the 30 year old was immortal...
The rich guy will always be able to take his cake and eat it too.
Depending on how rich. If the top 1000 people manage to bribe their way into keeping their ability to reproduce, that most likely will not cause overpopulation. Everyone else will either breed or live longer.
Juvenal already advised wealthy parents about the risk of saying "One day son, all this will be yours", since this clearly shows what is taking them apart from their fortune.
I imagine this saying would stop once the parent knows he can become immortal. Also, being immortal means you can wait longer for something.
Obviously the laws would need to be carefully designed for the edge cases, but I do not think that adoption should affect your status in any way (by adopting you do not increase the population).
But saying that, say, I(and everybody else) should die of old age (I do not care about having children, so I would be the first to sign up for the drug) just because you or someone else want to have children is also unfair. In my (biased) opinion, it's more unfair than saying that you can only become immortal if you do not have children and by becoming immortal you lose the ability to have children.
There are a lot of rich old people who do not want to die (so they are funding the research into life extension). Let's say some scientist discovers the drug. Do you make it illegal for everyone to become immortal and if someone still manages to get their hands on the drug, do you kill them (if so, do you kill them immediately or at the age when they should die)?
Also, how about this: the drug/whatever that cures you of aging also makes you sterile. Or it could be a legal requirement - want to not die of old age? The price is X dollars and your ability to reproduce.
As for the morality - morality changes when circumstances change. Some years ago it was moral to have children work in factories, now it is not. Now it is immoral to tell someone to not reproduce (and leave a legacy), but if the person is immune from aging, then telling them to not reproduce may become moral.
Or a one-child policy not only in China, but also elsewhere where the aging cure is available/affordable. People are still going to die (accidents, murder, suicide etc).
Wouldn't it be cool if anything that used power had to first request it similar to how it's done in USB
No. The USB spec is already a PITA for stuff like battery chargers or power supplies (though I guess just requesting the max power available works). Also, quite a few USB devices do not meet that particular spec, just having the power pins connected (since it's cheaper that way).
What if the device requested low power but used more power?
Also, what about all current devices or DIY stuff? Will they all need to be connected using a converter? Why? The current way the circuit breaker works (too much current = disconnect) is good enough.
So, you will not want to use any device that has a line frequency transformer in it (like, say, some audio gear or pretty much every old device).
Or any device that has an AC induction motor (AC, fridge, table fan).
Also, you are willing to modify the power supply of your PC to work on DC (so the PFC circuit no longer needs not only AC but AC that is similar to a sine wave).
Also, you are willing to use much bigger switches and circuit breakers (to safely disconnect 120 or 240V DC) or much bigger wires (for lower voltage) and modifying your devices to work on low voltage.