There are some annoying, unreliable, and broken ways of dealing with NAT. But there is no cure for SSL!. SSL requires a unique IP address for every domain. This is a hard limit that no networking trickery can avoid.
Remember, you are criticizing an estimate which assumes we have vast amounts of antimatter at our disposal. Right now, it costs about $2.5b to produce one gram of antimatter. If we come up with a cheap way to make the stuff and stick a generator in orbit for a few decades, we may be able to put together a matter/antimatter engine that accelerates for far longer than anything we've yet manufactured.
This is new stuff; nobody is in any position to dismiss the possibility of being able to produce a rather kick-ass probe propulsion system at some point within the next few decades or centuries.
Technology for the sake of technology has eventually lead to some really great things. How many people used computers for the sake of computers? Then, eventually, we slung together the Internet and flash video porn. That wouldn't have happened if people weren't using computers long before there was porn to be had.
Bittorrent does not work well with NAT. And pretty much every end-user network employs NAT these days. Therefore, only the nerds who know how to configure their routers will use bittorrent... until NAT dies the miserable death it deserves.
Both parties suck, but the definitely do NOT suck equally. One loves war, hates science, and enjoys forcing its religion on the rest of us. The other party spends on society over war, values science, and tries to maintain religious freedom.
They are equal in the respect that they both try to direct infinite federal spending to their campaign supporters. But overall, there is far less evil on the Democrat side these days.
With 57% of the budget going to NASA, we could have colonies on the moon and Mars, and we could send the retirees to Luna where the gravity will be easier on their osteoporosis, while the welfare recipients can be sent to work on Mars building new Projects in the Tharsis Bulge. Oh, and we won't need a defense budget, because anyone who acts up could be eliminated with redirected meteors.
In conclusion: putting 57% of the budget into NASA would solve all our problems AND it would make for some absolutely awesome Olympic sports.
In my experience, it is so easy to put AAAA DNS records along side your A records, and to tell your servers to bind the v6 addresses in addition to the v4 addresses, that there is no need for translation devices. Dual-stacking is simple, easy, and JUST WORKS. On the server side, every piece of software worth a damn and every OS worth a damn can handle v6 natively. Right now.
I'm sorry but you're just wrong. Really really wrong. Crimes are committed all around the world all the time despite all manner of terrible punishments.
You're also wrong about the government somehow being immune from insider data theft. Even amateurs can get DoD data out. Security experts who are already insiders could do it more effectively and more stealthily. It is really easy to copy and transmit bits, and it is impossible to scrutinize or even interpret (stego) all the data leaving any big org, regardless of its security budget.
Do you realize how much our understanding of the universe has changed in 100 years? Do you realize how much our technology has advanced in 100 years?
For all we know, there is a galactic Internet accessible via quantum effects of some sort. Tapping that would be first contact. Alternatively, synthetic lifeforms may be trying to replicate themselves by broadcasting the schematics for their hardware/software throughout the universe via radio waves, being "born" whenever some curious species detects the signal and builds it. Build it and talk to it -BAM- that's first contact. Considering the size of the universe and the principles of evolution, this later idea seems down-right likely, not just plausible.
We don't have to be physically visited to make first contact.
A hacker with convictions is someone you know is (or at least was) willing to steal data for fun and/or profit despite it already being illegal. Slightly higher penalties would not be much of a deterrent, especially when you consider that IT insiders with infosec skills could get data out undetectably, or at least anonymously, with a near-zero chance of getting caught.
The Air Force was recruiting hackers at DEFCON this year. The recruiter actually said they will take anyone, regardless of criminal record.
It seems reasonable that you wouldn't let criminal hackers work on your own defensive systems. So what *would* you do with them? You would develop offensive technology--that doesn't require the developers have any access to your own infrastructure.
You can do NAT in IPv6 if you want to. But there is no need to use NAT with IPv6. Doing so is just a sign of incompetence on the part of network administrators... it would be like installing a hand crank on your new car because you fear and misunderstand electric starters.
If they had had this vending machine technology in the 1920s, they would have been rolling out stock certificate vending machines in 1929.
Gold does not pay dividends. Gold does not have buy-backs. Gold can't be rented out for cash flow. It is traded purely on speculation. And like all speculative bubbles, it will crash. If history is any guide, the crash will come shortly after the mainstream press starts highlighting it, and the common schmucks start buying in.
Fox News is our mainstream press. Vending machines with 1g pellets make it available to those schmucks.
In the next year or two, I expect gold to get cut in half. It could rip before the tear, so I have closed all my long and short positions in the stuff. Stay the hell away from it: that's my advice.
Someone would buy it? Yeah, after sitting in bankruptcy court for years. Then they might bring it online and charge $10/month per game to continue activation support.
Or, alternatively, a fire could destroy their datacenter and a sysadmin could fuck up the backup copies of all the activation records.
There are a lot of ways Steam DRM could make you lose all your games. I've been locked out of newly-purchased games on Steam simply because their servers were down. I couldn't go into "offline" mode because you can't do that if their servers are down!
Religion annoyed me. So did "railroads everywhere." So did a lot of things. Civ V is better than Civ IV in every way. The annoying stuff was simplified or gutted, the good stuff was enhanced (LOVE the new combat system!), while some really spiffy new stuff was thrown in (units can build their own boats rather than forcing you to manage transport ships!).
Again: huge improvement. If you liked the old Civ games, you will like this. If you thought the old once were too complex, you will like this version, too, because the automation choices of mayors are pretty good.
Redirects are a problem only because browser makers let it be a problem. If you hit "back" and it goes to a 302 page, it should go back again, until it gets somewhere without a 302.
NVidia is working on add-on graphics cards for laptops. They use mini-PCIe. Until these come out, you will simply have to face the fact that gaming laptops cost more than office laptops. You bought the later to save a few bucks. Was it worth it?
If you can distinguish encrypted data from random noise without knowing the encryption key, you've found a weakness in the encryption algorithm! That doesn't happen too often these days. I'm sure the job offers will be lining up once you publish.
IBM has been doing this in with mainframes for a while. As long as you sell these to businesses with lawyers who will flip out if they hear of IT breaking contracts, Intel should be fine, too.
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There are some annoying, unreliable, and broken ways of dealing with NAT. But there is no cure for SSL!. SSL requires a unique IP address for every domain. This is a hard limit that no networking trickery can avoid.
Remember, you are criticizing an estimate which assumes we have vast amounts of antimatter at our disposal. Right now, it costs about $2.5b to produce one gram of antimatter. If we come up with a cheap way to make the stuff and stick a generator in orbit for a few decades, we may be able to put together a matter/antimatter engine that accelerates for far longer than anything we've yet manufactured.
This is new stuff; nobody is in any position to dismiss the possibility of being able to produce a rather kick-ass probe propulsion system at some point within the next few decades or centuries.
Technology for the sake of technology has eventually lead to some really great things. How many people used computers for the sake of computers? Then, eventually, we slung together the Internet and flash video porn. That wouldn't have happened if people weren't using computers long before there was porn to be had.
Bittorrent does not work well with NAT. And pretty much every end-user network employs NAT these days. Therefore, only the nerds who know how to configure their routers will use bittorrent... until NAT dies the miserable death it deserves.
Yeah, there are lots of similarities. But there are big differences, which I mentioned.
If your premises are true and your terms are unambiguous, simple logic always says things which are true.
Both parties suck, but the definitely do NOT suck equally. One loves war, hates science, and enjoys forcing its religion on the rest of us. The other party spends on society over war, values science, and tries to maintain religious freedom.
They are equal in the respect that they both try to direct infinite federal spending to their campaign supporters. But overall, there is far less evil on the Democrat side these days.
I admire your courage in stepping away from Civ V long enough to post this.
With 57% of the budget going to NASA, we could have colonies on the moon and Mars, and we could send the retirees to Luna where the gravity will be easier on their osteoporosis, while the welfare recipients can be sent to work on Mars building new Projects in the Tharsis Bulge. Oh, and we won't need a defense budget, because anyone who acts up could be eliminated with redirected meteors.
In conclusion: putting 57% of the budget into NASA would solve all our problems AND it would make for some absolutely awesome Olympic sports.
In my experience, it is so easy to put AAAA DNS records along side your A records, and to tell your servers to bind the v6 addresses in addition to the v4 addresses, that there is no need for translation devices. Dual-stacking is simple, easy, and JUST WORKS. On the server side, every piece of software worth a damn and every OS worth a damn can handle v6 natively. Right now.
I'm sorry but you're just wrong. Really really wrong. Crimes are committed all around the world all the time despite all manner of terrible punishments.
You're also wrong about the government somehow being immune from insider data theft. Even amateurs can get DoD data out. Security experts who are already insiders could do it more effectively and more stealthily. It is really easy to copy and transmit bits, and it is impossible to scrutinize or even interpret (stego) all the data leaving any big org, regardless of its security budget.
They might have a "prime directive" which prohibits them from sharing technology, or at least doing so in a disruptive manner.
Do you realize how much our understanding of the universe has changed in 100 years? Do you realize how much our technology has advanced in 100 years?
For all we know, there is a galactic Internet accessible via quantum effects of some sort. Tapping that would be first contact. Alternatively, synthetic lifeforms may be trying to replicate themselves by broadcasting the schematics for their hardware/software throughout the universe via radio waves, being "born" whenever some curious species detects the signal and builds it. Build it and talk to it -BAM- that's first contact. Considering the size of the universe and the principles of evolution, this later idea seems down-right likely, not just plausible.
We don't have to be physically visited to make first contact.
A hacker with convictions is someone you know is (or at least was) willing to steal data for fun and/or profit despite it already being illegal. Slightly higher penalties would not be much of a deterrent, especially when you consider that IT insiders with infosec skills could get data out undetectably, or at least anonymously, with a near-zero chance of getting caught.
The Air Force was recruiting hackers at DEFCON this year. The recruiter actually said they will take anyone, regardless of criminal record.
It seems reasonable that you wouldn't let criminal hackers work on your own defensive systems. So what *would* you do with them? You would develop offensive technology--that doesn't require the developers have any access to your own infrastructure.
You can do NAT in IPv6 if you want to. But there is no need to use NAT with IPv6. Doing so is just a sign of incompetence on the part of network administrators... it would be like installing a hand crank on your new car because you fear and misunderstand electric starters.
If they had had this vending machine technology in the 1920s, they would have been rolling out stock certificate vending machines in 1929.
Gold does not pay dividends. Gold does not have buy-backs. Gold can't be rented out for cash flow. It is traded purely on speculation. And like all speculative bubbles, it will crash. If history is any guide, the crash will come shortly after the mainstream press starts highlighting it, and the common schmucks start buying in.
Fox News is our mainstream press. Vending machines with 1g pellets make it available to those schmucks.
In the next year or two, I expect gold to get cut in half. It could rip before the tear, so I have closed all my long and short positions in the stuff. Stay the hell away from it: that's my advice.
Someone would buy it? Yeah, after sitting in bankruptcy court for years. Then they might bring it online and charge $10/month per game to continue activation support.
Or, alternatively, a fire could destroy their datacenter and a sysadmin could fuck up the backup copies of all the activation records.
There are a lot of ways Steam DRM could make you lose all your games. I've been locked out of newly-purchased games on Steam simply because their servers were down. I couldn't go into "offline" mode because you can't do that if their servers are down!
Religion annoyed me. So did "railroads everywhere." So did a lot of things. Civ V is better than Civ IV in every way. The annoying stuff was simplified or gutted, the good stuff was enhanced (LOVE the new combat system!), while some really spiffy new stuff was thrown in (units can build their own boats rather than forcing you to manage transport ships!).
Again: huge improvement. If you liked the old Civ games, you will like this. If you thought the old once were too complex, you will like this version, too, because the automation choices of mayors are pretty good.
Civ IV was MacOS 9, Civ V is MacOS X.
Redirects are a problem only because browser makers let it be a problem. If you hit "back" and it goes to a 302 page, it should go back again, until it gets somewhere without a 302.
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It does not cost $600 additional to get a laptop with a mobile GPU.
NVidia is working on add-on graphics cards for laptops. They use mini-PCIe. Until these come out, you will simply have to face the fact that gaming laptops cost more than office laptops. You bought the later to save a few bucks. Was it worth it?
If you can distinguish encrypted data from random noise without knowing the encryption key, you've found a weakness in the encryption algorithm! That doesn't happen too often these days. I'm sure the job offers will be lining up once you publish.
IBM has been doing this in with mainframes for a while. As long as you sell these to businesses with lawyers who will flip out if they hear of IT breaking contracts, Intel should be fine, too.