We wouldn't be giving them out as/8's, though. Those networks are what used to be called "Class A", which was a term that was part of a standard for allocating addresses that was designed for a much smaller Internet. If one of those/8's were reclaimed, it'd be reassigned in smaller chunks and, yes, we would go through it in about 1.5 months.
And that post was highly satirical. I didn't get into externalities until we were talking about the Tea Party at large, which doesn't explain why you want to murder all those teddy bears. I mean, they're not even alive, so how does it make sense to murder them?
I'm going to go ahead and say that you support euthanizing teddy bears because you said "people constitute an externality".
Or, with my tongue taken out of my cheek, where in this thread did I ever say anything about health insurance in reference to externalities? In fact, this post is the first I used the words "health insurance" at all.
Now, THAT is an excellent question. The short answer is, a lot.
I'm looking for specific numbers here, on direct effects, not secondary ones.
What, exactly, does Glenn Beck have to do with the Tea Party? You're demonstrating an inability to separate it from the rest of the right. That's going to prove problematic.
This being the template response when there's no other way to defend the statement.
I'm done with dialog. Ridicule and laughter is how I keep myself sane. I considered the alternative, go crazy and have myself committed, but I don't think I'd like the food there.
Reject Christian religion in favor of Atheist religion? Why? Or pretend that religion doesn't exist? Again, why? Again, clarity, please.
Make religion a personal thing. If your faith requires you to use government as a tool of religious advocacy, then your faith sucks.
generally stops inventing rhetoric that has no basis in reality
Such as? I'm unaware of anything within the realm of unicorns and leprechauns - which, by the way, have at least some basis in reality. Please do speak up. Let's have a dialog, rather than your just spewing hate all over the place.
A little while ago, Glenn Beck said slavery is the result of government regulation. There is absolutely, positively, no factual basis for this statement. It's so incredibly stupid that I swore it had to be taken out of context, but I listened to the segment, and there it is.
. . . are we to assume that liberals, Republicans, and/or Independents never behave badly?
I hate ecoterrorists who burn SUVs and release more toxic gasses than the thing will ever give off in its normal use. I dislike less violent environmentalists who think hydrogen is a sensible solution, or just blame random crap on an oil company conspiracy.
The thing about those groups is that they're small, disorganized, and ineffective. Lock up the truly dangerous ones, and the rest are a self-fixing problem. None of them are anything more than strawmen used to attack more rational environmentalists and liberals as a whole.
The Tea Party is neither small nor ineffective, and that's what scares me.
Let me ask you this: how many people would be directly affected by increasing the rate of the top tax bracket?
As soon as the Tea Party starts understanding what "externality" means, stops making excuses for bad behavior, ejects the religious wing of the party, and generally stops inventing rhetoric that has no basis in reality, I will start giving them some credit.
Also, armies tend to think 2-dimensionally. The two were split for a reason.
No. IPv4 specifies that the host portion of the address with all-0's is the network address, and the all-1's address is the broadcast address for that subnet. If you assign these to an actual host, you will break things very badly. Since a/31 would contain only address 0 and 1, it has no addresses that can be assigned to a host. The/30 subnet is the smallest block that can be given out.
I currently run a business-class DSL connection with a block of 5 static IPs. I only use two. So, one may ask if there's any way to reclaim the other three.
The answer is quite simply no. There are technical reasons why you can't assign IPv4 addresses in blocks less than 5 but more than 1. Nor is there any clear way I could share the extra addresses with someone else. The other three addresses are simply lost. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of similar installations at ISPs and colos, and then you see why this is a problem that goes way beyond those misappropriated/8's.
Mobile networks are having to give out public IP address to smart phones, but NAT them such that they can assign the same public address to multiple phones.
People only think NAT works because they're largely shielded from the nightmare it creates.
P.S.=> Heh, this also makes me wonder if the jet exhaust would burn, or even mar, the car behind it while it was moving
Yes, it would. The metal bodies cars in the 1950s and 60s would probably only suffer scorched paint, but there are an awful lot of plastic bumpers out there now. Jay Leno's jet bike has a big warning sign on the back, IIRC.
My problem isn't that the logic of the Anthropic Principle is technically invalid. It's that it doesn't really get us anywhere interesting, whereas other explanations often do. Postulating parallel Earths might be interesting, except that it's fundamentally unprovable when they don't interact in any measurable way.
There are much more fruitful lines of reasoning, like how it's actually really hard to make an implosion bomb go off by accident, or how triggering mechanisms simply aren't installed during routine transport for exactly the problems highlighted in TFA.
So now spam filters will pick up on soft hyphens used in URIs inside emails (when was the last time you saw one used legitimately?), making the spam easier to spot.
It's very much necessary. There have been big gains made in efficiency by computerizing spark timing and fuel injector mappings. It's been a boon to reliability, too; how many people these days even know what the term "loose distributor cap" means?
Engines today almost never fail mechanically, precisely because of all those electronic sensors. They'll keep going even with shockingly bad maintenance practices.
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We wouldn't be giving them out as /8's, though. Those networks are what used to be called "Class A", which was a term that was part of a standard for allocating addresses that was designed for a much smaller Internet. If one of those /8's were reclaimed, it'd be reassigned in smaller chunks and, yes, we would go through it in about 1.5 months.
And that post was highly satirical. I didn't get into externalities until we were talking about the Tea Party at large, which doesn't explain why you want to murder all those teddy bears. I mean, they're not even alive, so how does it make sense to murder them?
I'm going to go ahead and say that you support euthanizing teddy bears because you said "people constitute an externality".
Or, with my tongue taken out of my cheek, where in this thread did I ever say anything about health insurance in reference to externalities? In fact, this post is the first I used the words "health insurance" at all.
Now, THAT is an excellent question. The short answer is, a lot.
I'm looking for specific numbers here, on direct effects, not secondary ones.
What, exactly, does Glenn Beck have to do with the Tea Party? You're demonstrating an inability to separate it from the rest of the right. That's going to prove problematic.
This being the template response when there's no other way to defend the statement.
I'm done with dialog. Ridicule and laughter is how I keep myself sane. I considered the alternative, go crazy and have myself committed, but I don't think I'd like the food there.
Reject Christian religion in favor of Atheist religion? Why? Or pretend that religion doesn't exist? Again, why? Again, clarity, please.
Make religion a personal thing. If your faith requires you to use government as a tool of religious advocacy, then your faith sucks.
generally stops inventing rhetoric that has no basis in reality
Such as? I'm unaware of anything within the realm of unicorns and leprechauns - which, by the way, have at least some basis in reality. Please do speak up. Let's have a dialog, rather than your just spewing hate all over the place.
A little while ago, Glenn Beck said slavery is the result of government regulation. There is absolutely, positively, no factual basis for this statement. It's so incredibly stupid that I swore it had to be taken out of context, but I listened to the segment, and there it is.
. . . are we to assume that liberals, Republicans, and/or Independents never behave badly?
I hate ecoterrorists who burn SUVs and release more toxic gasses than the thing will ever give off in its normal use. I dislike less violent environmentalists who think hydrogen is a sensible solution, or just blame random crap on an oil company conspiracy.
The thing about those groups is that they're small, disorganized, and ineffective. Lock up the truly dangerous ones, and the rest are a self-fixing problem. None of them are anything more than strawmen used to attack more rational environmentalists and liberals as a whole.
The Tea Party is neither small nor ineffective, and that's what scares me.
Let me ask you this: how many people would be directly affected by increasing the rate of the top tax bracket?
As soon as the Tea Party starts understanding what "externality" means, stops making excuses for bad behavior, ejects the religious wing of the party, and generally stops inventing rhetoric that has no basis in reality, I will start giving them some credit.
Also, armies tend to think 2-dimensionally. The two were split for a reason.
No. IPv4 specifies that the host portion of the address with all-0's is the network address, and the all-1's address is the broadcast address for that subnet. If you assign these to an actual host, you will break things very badly. Since a /31 would contain only address 0 and 1, it has no addresses that can be assigned to a host. The /30 subnet is the smallest block that can be given out.
This has been debunked so many times, in this thread and others, that I'm fully in favor of banning anyone who mentions it ever again.
I currently run a business-class DSL connection with a block of 5 static IPs. I only use two. So, one may ask if there's any way to reclaim the other three.
The answer is quite simply no. There are technical reasons why you can't assign IPv4 addresses in blocks less than 5 but more than 1. Nor is there any clear way I could share the extra addresses with someone else. The other three addresses are simply lost. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of similar installations at ISPs and colos, and then you see why this is a problem that goes way beyond those misappropriated /8's.
Make it 16 octets instead.
Mobile networks are having to give out public IP address to smart phones, but NAT them such that they can assign the same public address to multiple phones.
People only think NAT works because they're largely shielded from the nightmare it creates.
I would love it if the Tea Party kept themselves out of government.
More seriously, the Constitution specifies an Army and a Navy. By the same logic used above, does that make the Air Force unconstitutional?
Tea isn't mentioned anywhere, either. OMG, the Tea Party is unconstitutional!
Because those young people grow up and become voters, and have an obvious effect on Scientific research.
It'd be great if we could at least get students to the I-know-enough-to-know-I-know-nothing point.
P.S.=> Heh, this also makes me wonder if the jet exhaust would burn, or even mar, the car behind it while it was moving
Yes, it would. The metal bodies cars in the 1950s and 60s would probably only suffer scorched paint, but there are an awful lot of plastic bumpers out there now. Jay Leno's jet bike has a big warning sign on the back, IIRC.
My problem isn't that the logic of the Anthropic Principle is technically invalid. It's that it doesn't really get us anywhere interesting, whereas other explanations often do. Postulating parallel Earths might be interesting, except that it's fundamentally unprovable when they don't interact in any measurable way.
There are much more fruitful lines of reasoning, like how it's actually really hard to make an implosion bomb go off by accident, or how triggering mechanisms simply aren't installed during routine transport for exactly the problems highlighted in TFA.
That's as unsatisfying as most applications of the Anthropic Principle on the Internet.
Yes, and zombies, too. What do you think they were doing at Area 51?
Hopefully. The VA system actually has proper electronic medical records shared between hospitals.
So now spam filters will pick up on soft hyphens used in URIs inside emails (when was the last time you saw one used legitimately?), making the spam easier to spot.
Seriously, I thought we got over this everything-can-be-used-by-terrorist crap sometime in 2006.
Anyone with a soldering iron and a good book on radio and electronics could also easily make their own receiver.
The first-generation airbags that used that system often caused more damage than they prevented.
your braking times will be LESS than with an ABS car if you just panic stop and hold the pedal to the floor.
[citation needed]. ABS was invented in F1 for a reason, and I doubt that reason is that they've been hiring crummy drivers.
It's very much necessary. There have been big gains made in efficiency by computerizing spark timing and fuel injector mappings. It's been a boon to reliability, too; how many people these days even know what the term "loose distributor cap" means?
Engines today almost never fail mechanically, precisely because of all those electronic sensors. They'll keep going even with shockingly bad maintenance practices.