Where power is asserted through violence and intimidation, law is a pretext.
In such a society, violence is circular as is the reasoning.
Where good law is asserted through mutual consent, government is a service.
In such a society, power is largely, though not entirely, superfluous and violence approaches but doesn't quite reach zero. You have whatever sized government you like but very little control in it. It's functional, not managerial.
There's another factor. If someone has something really significant, even if it's just money, the thief would have to kill you afterwards to keep you quiet. Same reason people will say anything -other- than the truth when tortured. There's no value in the truth, there's only value in keeping the other person busy.
Coded messages would float completely under the radar, they're not encrypted as far as any algorithm is concerned.
Or they could use encrypted or unencrypted messages embedded in something else. Steganography. Unencrypted would be fine and probably legal under the new law. If you set one bit in each word in a losslessly stored image such that the nth bit in the low-order nibble of the low-order byte is the nth bit in a message, but the message itself is not encrypted, then your storage is just a file system. An inefficient one, but still just a file system.
The people who suffer are small businesses, banks, eCommerce vendors, software vendors (since encryption is how you guarantee safe delivery), hospitals (since distributing medical records will now have to be done on paper) and aviation (Australian airlines cannot meet EU data protection standards for passenger records and cannot prove flight worthiness to EU standards).
The extent they suffer will be random, based purely on Dame Fortuna, Baccus and Randomus Factoria, not on common sense, rational thought or logic.
It's a pity the UN can't ban stupidity. Sadly, they haven't the wits.
Europe has freedom you could only dream of. And, no, no 75% taxes.
If you have to wait until you're drowned, you can do nothing and there will be no government. Or, indeed, any society either. If, and someone that stupid is unlikely to be capable, you survive the next 40-50 years, you'll enter a world closer to Year of the Burn Up.
And yet you offer no proof of this omission and no proof of substantial deviation. The models have been highly accurate sibce the 1990s and far more accurate than the skrptics since the 1890s.
And yet that part doesn't bother you.
The fact that the science has been fundamentally sound for 114 years doesn't enter your equation.
What concerns you is a vague, meaningless statemwnt about something that probably never happened.
It will be worse than they say, you are indeed handing such a world to your children, and if you cared you'd have researched whst scientists said rather than listen to talking heads.
If the temperature rises above 2.5'C, it will switch to a new strange attractor. In simple terms, the temperature will skyrocket and the atmosphere will become toxic to humans.
Yes, kickbacks (such as the $22 trillion to fossil fuel) are unacceptable. The rich have failed to psy an estimated $20 trillion in taxes. All of that is money owed to the poor, to community services and to society.
Religion in America is a major cause ofvwar, which is why the state was required to be secular. This should be enforced. No person of faith should be permitted to hold office. Rumsfeld demonstrated the evils of such people.
Corruption in politics should be abolished. America is one of the most corrupt in the world. Big money and corprate lobbying should be banned. The rich should also be prohibited from office.
I'd also mandate a minimum level of intelligence 125% above national average (IQ doesn't count as a measure) and require a provable absence of any symptom of sociopathy.
To eliminate corruption, I'd require 100% of voters to vote, but you can vote for only one person every four years. So if you vote for a senator, yoy can't vote for a represenrative or president.
The supreme court should be by jury pool of experienced non-political, non-religiousjudges. No appontments, no tenure, no prejudices. One case and that's it. Until the government can be trusted, the supreme court must be randomized.
I'd prohibit science denialism. Skepticism should be rewarded, cynicism should be punished. They are not the same.
Prisons should swutch to a hybrid Nordic/Dutch model, fully funded with no provate prisons allowed.
Education should be given a quarter trillion extra, per State, from that fossil fuels subsidy. All exams should be abolushed, along with all religious schools. One national curriculum, politicians get no say in it.
Beef should be taxed into the luxury bracket, along with fast (sorry, painfully slow) food outlets.
Cars should face heavy taxation, cities get serious about mass transit or they get seized under eminent domain.
The police, along with all government officials, should be banned from having guns. There should be no national guard and no reserves. The money saved should be spent on providing social services and the means to get a life. Cities that don't get said life should be walled up. They seem to like walls. They can live how they like, they just can't contaminate others.
There you go, a complete fix, at least for America.
They have, since 1895. I don't see you paying the blindest bit of attention anyway. Stop making excuses and admit there's nothing that will stop you poisoning the environment, you enjoy the screams of the dying too much.
I have also been on the Earth a long time. Making measurements.
Ice is there, yes. A few hundred miles less ice on the glaciers. I assume that you can tell the difference between an ice cube and an ice sheet. Or is it all filed under ice?
Bloody hell.
Storms have always been there. In different places, with different moisure content.
Maybe the Khmer Empire thought the same as you, just before they died horribly. They'd moved the atmospheric rivers by several hundred miles. Sure, there was rain. Just not near them, because they were idiots.
Don't copy them.
The temperature has risen to levels that are higher than what they should be given prevailing conditions. But that's not as important as the gradient. The gradient has never occurred in historic times, or indeed any time since the last asteroid strike.
But you ignore that and assume all gradients are equal, all numbers are equal.
They are not.
The Khmer discovered this too late. This time, you're plsying not with millions of lives but billions. Ignorance isn't going to save even one of them. There is no plea bargain with physics.
It's the treaty protecting embassies, you know, like the one Americans got upset about when extremists stormed it in Tehran. No Vienna Convention, no embassies. Anywhere.
And that means no spies, no passports, no security for expats, no overseas holidays, reduced trade, high unemployment...
Don't ever assume that the domino you see is the only one. Knock it over and you lose the chain. All of it.
No, they shouldn't. Interfering in an election nearly caused Britain to pull out of the Vienna Convention. Think, for once in your life, about something other than point scoring at home. The collapse of the Vienna Convention would be devastating worldwide.
Yet it is the GOP election suspended for mass voter fraud, not a DNC one. Curious. It's a GOP lame duck session aiming to prevent DNC elected officials taking office. Curiouser. It's the GOP that worked to relocate voters into swing states, not the DNC. Curiouser and curiouser. It's a GOP president who has been repeatedly ruled as taking unconstitutional actions, and a GOP Senate that refused to vote on a Democratic supreme court judge specifically for the purpose of rigging the court.
Let's face it. Republicans don't give a shit about the law, they care only about power and winning. Whatever it takes.
I won't argue there are many Democrats who are better, but be aware there is no honour amongst thieves. You gain no brownie points for loyalty. They will stab you in the back, they always have and always will.
Stop wasting time with sides and start working on getting the mess cleared up. A mess the Republicans are just as much at fault for.
Most of the rigged votes are by the GOP. That includes a House election suspended during an investigation of massive GOP vote rigging. But you don't care about things like that, because that means caring about facts. You far prefer to hate people who are different to you. So much easier, requires no effort or logic.
No, the tolerant left is doing nothing of the sort. One rather sick individual is.
By tarnishing the name of 3.5 billion people you know nothing of and hate purely for being different, you are no better than that one. You are being just as abusive (since an AC can't threaten actual harm against an AC, there's no difference between abusive language and other abusive language, whatever the words).
The GOP were actively involved in cybercrimes (directly and indirectly, the distinction appealed to Al Capone but not to anyone law-abiding) against political opponents, both in office and in the general public. "Do unto others" is a serviceable motto.
My sympathy is restricted to the fact that no crime, whatever your view of the target, is ever justified, moral or acceptable. It is an abomination.
I am not going to waste time waiting for Republicans to feel that crimes against rivals is bad, the human lifespan isn't long enough. Law and order is very one-sided on that side of the street.
And yet crimes against both them, Democrats, independents and all others remain utterly repugnant.
On the contrary, persistance is precisely what IPv6 solves. That's why the prefix is a network address and the suffix a computer address.
This is explained in the RFCs but I'll go over it here.
If you move from one hotspot to another, your old address becomes transient. The Internet routers get an instruction, over a fixed TTL, to DNAT anything currently going to the transient address so that it now goes to the new address.
You do not lose the connection.
From the RFC:
The Mobile IPv6 protocol is just as suitable for mobility across homogeneous media as for mobility across heterogeneous media. For example, Mobile IPv6 facilitates node movement from one Ethernet segment to another as well as it facilitates node movement from an Ethernet segment to a wireless LAN cell, with the mobile node's IP address remaining unchanged in spite of such movement.
From the RFC:
There is no need to deploy special routers as "foreign agents", as in Mobile IPv4. Mobile IPv6 operates in any location without any special support required from the local router.
With IPv4, I have to worry about whethet I need to use RARP, BOOTP or DHCP, whether the subnetting will clash with naive defaults in software, whether I need to traverse passive firewalls, what sort of service discovery protocols are supported and for what, whether there's security on the network or if I must bring my own, whether any software routers might interfere with the network.
That's complicated.
With IPv6... Autoconfigure replaces all of the bootstrap systems. Anycasting is the preferred service discovery. There's no arbitrary subnetting, per se, it's a fixed topology. MTU autodiscovery means passive firewalls aren't an issue. IPSec is the norm. Because addressing is heirarchical, it doesn't matter what you connect to your computer, it's considered a subnet by the fact that there's something betwern A and C.
So all that sweating with IPv4 and none of it applies to IPv6.
You can't have smaller subnets and guarantee unconditionally that people can move around the network from router to router, ISP to ISP, without losing connection.
The/64 is the real address, the prefix is the address of the address. Indirection.
When you move between networks, your prefix changes. That information propagates over the Internet, so that all packets heading to your former network location get redirected.
People ask about NAT and IPv6. This is it. This is NAT that is restricted to the prefix alone. Packets from your old address are SNATed, packets to your old address are DNATed. Although it would be bizarre for your relocation packets to reach and pass data packets you'd sent out earlier.
Where everything in the prefix is either a 16 bit identifier for a router at a particular level or a zero - and 16 bits of zeroes are only possible if what is left is the suffix.
So, you have a 16 bit pointer into a 16 bit pointer into a 16 bit pointer and so on until you reach the 48 bit suffix.
Tables that point into tables. And you found you couldn't manage this in automation.
Pardon my whilst I spill tea laughing helplessly.
This is not only the simplest possible addressing scheme, other than TUBA, but it's designed specifically for automation and, more importantlt, to be both quick and easy to implement and quick and easy for the machine to process.
And you can't manage it.
Ok, to be fair, you're using Excel. Visicalc might have been better. Anything that supports table linking four deep. You might want to consider a spreadsheet linked into a database, have the database do the relationships since you're not feeling up to it.
With IPv6, there's no such thing as "your" IP address. You own a suffix. In fact, you own one suffix for every network adapter, physical or virtual. The prefix is added by the network.
This gives you freedom of movement. Your suffix is as valid in Canada as it is in the Canary Islands or down Canary Wharf. As long as you have an account with the ISP, you can connect anywhere.
But because the suffix alone identifies you, you can travel to all these places and not drop a connection. It moves with you, because it's only directed to the suffix. The prefix is just the directions to get there and those can change at any time.
Your router has an address, too, but it also has a 16 bit number. It gets a prefix from whomever it connects to, it puts that 16 bit string on the and, and that's the prefix your computer is given.
Imagine a children's game, where a parcel is wrapped up. On the paper is an instruction to hand the parcel to the fourth child down. They unwrap one layer and get an instruction to take the parcel six children up. Pass the parcel with an addressing mode.
That's how IPv6 addresses work, except when corrupted by IPv4 complexities. But that's a problem of the complexities, not IPv6. Can't blame 6 for holdovers.
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Where power is asserted through violence and intimidation, law is a pretext.
In such a society, violence is circular as is the reasoning.
Where good law is asserted through mutual consent, government is a service.
In such a society, power is largely, though not entirely, superfluous and violence approaches but doesn't quite reach zero. You have whatever sized government you like but very little control in it. It's functional, not managerial.
It's ultimately about what society values.
There's another factor. If someone has something really significant, even if it's just money, the thief would have to kill you afterwards to keep you quiet. Same reason people will say anything -other- than the truth when tortured. There's no value in the truth, there's only value in keeping the other person busy.
Coded messages would float completely under the radar, they're not encrypted as far as any algorithm is concerned.
Or they could use encrypted or unencrypted messages embedded in something else. Steganography. Unencrypted would be fine and probably legal under the new law. If you set one bit in each word in a losslessly stored image such that the nth bit in the low-order nibble of the low-order byte is the nth bit in a message, but the message itself is not encrypted, then your storage is just a file system. An inefficient one, but still just a file system.
The people who suffer are small businesses, banks, eCommerce vendors, software vendors (since encryption is how you guarantee safe delivery), hospitals (since distributing medical records will now have to be done on paper) and aviation (Australian airlines cannot meet EU data protection standards for passenger records and cannot prove flight worthiness to EU standards).
The extent they suffer will be random, based purely on Dame Fortuna, Baccus and Randomus Factoria, not on common sense, rational thought or logic.
It's a pity the UN can't ban stupidity. Sadly, they haven't the wits.
Nobody claimed that for 2013. Fictional claims make you look stupider than you already are.
The sea levels have indeed been rising, in line with actual prediction.
Europe has freedom you could only dream of. And, no, no 75% taxes.
If you have to wait until you're drowned, you can do nothing and there will be no government. Or, indeed, any society either. If, and someone that stupid is unlikely to be capable, you survive the next 40-50 years, you'll enter a world closer to Year of the Burn Up.
Uh, no. Even John Wyndham figured that out.
And yet you offer no proof of this omission and no proof of substantial deviation. The models have been highly accurate sibce the 1990s and far more accurate than the skrptics since the 1890s.
And yet that part doesn't bother you.
The fact that the science has been fundamentally sound for 114 years doesn't enter your equation.
What concerns you is a vague, meaningless statemwnt about something that probably never happened.
Honestly, that's pathetic.
It will be worse than they say, you are indeed handing such a world to your children, and if you cared you'd have researched whst scientists said rather than listen to talking heads.
But you didn't.
And that's all I need to know.
If the temperature rises above 2.5'C, it will switch to a new strange attractor. In simple terms, the temperature will skyrocket and the atmosphere will become toxic to humans.
Yes, kickbacks (such as the $22 trillion to fossil fuel) are unacceptable. The rich have failed to psy an estimated $20 trillion in taxes. All of that is money owed to the poor, to community services and to society.
Religion in America is a major cause ofvwar, which is why the state was required to be secular. This should be enforced. No person of faith should be permitted to hold office. Rumsfeld demonstrated the evils of such people.
Corruption in politics should be abolished. America is one of the most corrupt in the world. Big money and corprate lobbying should be banned. The rich should also be prohibited from office.
I'd also mandate a minimum level of intelligence 125% above national average (IQ doesn't count as a measure) and require a provable absence of any symptom of sociopathy.
To eliminate corruption, I'd require 100% of voters to vote, but you can vote for only one person every four years. So if you vote for a senator, yoy can't vote for a represenrative or president.
The supreme court should be by jury pool of experienced non-political, non-religiousjudges. No appontments, no tenure, no prejudices. One case and that's it. Until the government can be trusted, the supreme court must be randomized.
I'd prohibit science denialism. Skepticism should be rewarded, cynicism should be punished. They are not the same.
Prisons should swutch to a hybrid Nordic/Dutch model, fully funded with no provate prisons allowed.
Education should be given a quarter trillion extra, per State, from that fossil fuels subsidy. All exams should be abolushed, along with all religious schools. One national curriculum, politicians get no say in it.
Beef should be taxed into the luxury bracket, along with fast (sorry, painfully slow) food outlets.
Cars should face heavy taxation, cities get serious about mass transit or they get seized under eminent domain.
The police, along with all government officials, should be banned from having guns. There should be no national guard and no reserves. The money saved should be spent on providing social services and the means to get a life. Cities that don't get said life should be walled up. They seem to like walls. They can live how they like, they just can't contaminate others.
There you go, a complete fix, at least for America.
Sorry, neither are scientists. None of the others listed are, either.
Nor have you shown you'd give a damn if they'd sailed to the major conventions, or used the Internet to dial in.
All you'd do is whinge they were taking bandwidth from your online games.
Give me real names and a real reason to think you'd actually care about their choice.
They have, since 1895. I don't see you paying the blindest bit of attention anyway. Stop making excuses and admit there's nothing that will stop you poisoning the environment, you enjoy the screams of the dying too much.
I have also been on the Earth a long time. Making measurements.
Ice is there, yes. A few hundred miles less ice on the glaciers. I assume that you can tell the difference between an ice cube and an ice sheet. Or is it all filed under ice?
Bloody hell.
Storms have always been there. In different places, with different moisure content.
Maybe the Khmer Empire thought the same as you, just before they died horribly. They'd moved the atmospheric rivers by several hundred miles. Sure, there was rain. Just not near them, because they were idiots.
Don't copy them.
The temperature has risen to levels that are higher than what they should be given prevailing conditions. But that's not as important as the gradient. The gradient has never occurred in historic times, or indeed any time since the last asteroid strike.
But you ignore that and assume all gradients are equal, all numbers are equal.
They are not.
The Khmer discovered this too late. This time, you're plsying not with millions of lives but billions. Ignorance isn't going to save even one of them. There is no plea bargain with physics.
Ok, so you think there's no difference between a delta of x and a double diffetential of e^x.
Your maths teacher should be fired if you're that grotesquely incompetent when it comes to rates of change.
But you're not that stupid. Nobody is. So stop acting as if you were.
It's the treaty protecting embassies, you know, like the one Americans got upset about when extremists stormed it in Tehran. No Vienna Convention, no embassies. Anywhere.
And that means no spies, no passports, no security for expats, no overseas holidays, reduced trade, high unemployment...
Don't ever assume that the domino you see is the only one. Knock it over and you lose the chain. All of it.
No, they shouldn't. Interfering in an election nearly caused Britain to pull out of the Vienna Convention. Think, for once in your life, about something other than point scoring at home. The collapse of the Vienna Convention would be devastating worldwide.
Yet it is the GOP election suspended for mass voter fraud, not a DNC one. Curious. It's a GOP lame duck session aiming to prevent DNC elected officials taking office. Curiouser. It's the GOP that worked to relocate voters into swing states, not the DNC. Curiouser and curiouser. It's a GOP president who has been repeatedly ruled as taking unconstitutional actions, and a GOP Senate that refused to vote on a Democratic supreme court judge specifically for the purpose of rigging the court.
Let's face it. Republicans don't give a shit about the law, they care only about power and winning. Whatever it takes.
I won't argue there are many Democrats who are better, but be aware there is no honour amongst thieves. You gain no brownie points for loyalty. They will stab you in the back, they always have and always will.
Stop wasting time with sides and start working on getting the mess cleared up. A mess the Republicans are just as much at fault for.
Most of the rigged votes are by the GOP. That includes a House election suspended during an investigation of massive GOP vote rigging. But you don't care about things like that, because that means caring about facts. You far prefer to hate people who are different to you. So much easier, requires no effort or logic.
No, the tolerant left is doing nothing of the sort. One rather sick individual is.
By tarnishing the name of 3.5 billion people you know nothing of and hate purely for being different, you are no better than that one. You are being just as abusive (since an AC can't threaten actual harm against an AC, there's no difference between abusive language and other abusive language, whatever the words).
Grow up.
The GOP were actively involved in cybercrimes (directly and indirectly, the distinction appealed to Al Capone but not to anyone law-abiding) against political opponents, both in office and in the general public. "Do unto others" is a serviceable motto.
My sympathy is restricted to the fact that no crime, whatever your view of the target, is ever justified, moral or acceptable. It is an abomination.
I am not going to waste time waiting for Republicans to feel that crimes against rivals is bad, the human lifespan isn't long enough. Law and order is very one-sided on that side of the street.
And yet crimes against both them, Democrats, independents and all others remain utterly repugnant.
It's the spec. I guess only idiots read those, in your world.
On the contrary, persistance is precisely what IPv6 solves. That's why the prefix is a network address and the suffix a computer address.
This is explained in the RFCs but I'll go over it here.
If you move from one hotspot to another, your old address becomes transient. The Internet routers get an instruction, over a fixed TTL, to DNAT anything currently going to the transient address so that it now goes to the new address.
You do not lose the connection.
From the RFC:
The Mobile IPv6 protocol is just as suitable for mobility across homogeneous media as for mobility across heterogeneous media. For example, Mobile IPv6 facilitates node movement from one Ethernet segment to another as well as it facilitates node movement from an Ethernet segment to a wireless LAN cell, with the mobile node's IP address remaining unchanged in spite of such movement.
From the RFC:
There is no need to deploy special routers as "foreign agents", as in Mobile IPv4. Mobile IPv6 operates in any location without any special support required from the local router.
How?
With IPv4, I have to worry about whethet I need to use RARP, BOOTP or DHCP, whether the subnetting will clash with naive defaults in software, whether I need to traverse passive firewalls, what sort of service discovery protocols are supported and for what, whether there's security on the network or if I must bring my own, whether any software routers might interfere with the network.
That's complicated.
With IPv6... Autoconfigure replaces all of the bootstrap systems. Anycasting is the preferred service discovery. There's no arbitrary subnetting, per se, it's a fixed topology. MTU autodiscovery means passive firewalls aren't an issue. IPSec is the norm. Because addressing is heirarchical, it doesn't matter what you connect to your computer, it's considered a subnet by the fact that there's something betwern A and C.
So all that sweating with IPv4 and none of it applies to IPv6.
That's less work.
You can't have smaller subnets and guarantee unconditionally that people can move around the network from router to router, ISP to ISP, without losing connection.
The /64 is the real address, the prefix is the address of the address. Indirection.
When you move between networks, your prefix changes. That information propagates over the Internet, so that all packets heading to your former network location get redirected.
People ask about NAT and IPv6. This is it. This is NAT that is restricted to the prefix alone. Packets from your old address are SNATed, packets to your old address are DNATed. Although it would be bizarre for your relocation packets to reach and pass data packets you'd sent out earlier.
How is it hard?
Remember, (type):(prefix):(suffix)
Where everything in the prefix is either a 16 bit identifier for a router at a particular level or a zero - and 16 bits of zeroes are only possible if what is left is the suffix.
So, you have a 16 bit pointer into a 16 bit pointer into a 16 bit pointer and so on until you reach the 48 bit suffix.
Tables that point into tables. And you found you couldn't manage this in automation.
Pardon my whilst I spill tea laughing helplessly.
This is not only the simplest possible addressing scheme, other than TUBA, but it's designed specifically for automation and, more importantlt, to be both quick and easy to implement and quick and easy for the machine to process.
And you can't manage it.
Ok, to be fair, you're using Excel. Visicalc might have been better. Anything that supports table linking four deep. You might want to consider a spreadsheet linked into a database, have the database do the relationships since you're not feeling up to it.
With IPv6, there's no such thing as "your" IP address. You own a suffix. In fact, you own one suffix for every network adapter, physical or virtual. The prefix is added by the network.
This gives you freedom of movement. Your suffix is as valid in Canada as it is in the Canary Islands or down Canary Wharf. As long as you have an account with the ISP, you can connect anywhere.
But because the suffix alone identifies you, you can travel to all these places and not drop a connection. It moves with you, because it's only directed to the suffix. The prefix is just the directions to get there and those can change at any time.
Your router has an address, too, but it also has a 16 bit number. It gets a prefix from whomever it connects to, it puts that 16 bit string on the and, and that's the prefix your computer is given.
Imagine a children's game, where a parcel is wrapped up. On the paper is an instruction to hand the parcel to the fourth child down. They unwrap one layer and get an instruction to take the parcel six children up. Pass the parcel with an addressing mode.
That's how IPv6 addresses work, except when corrupted by IPv4 complexities. But that's a problem of the complexities, not IPv6. Can't blame 6 for holdovers.