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  1. Re:Am I reading that graph wrong? on UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 · · Score: 1

    If you pick some random addresses in your assigned subnet (which tend to be several orders of magnitude larger than the entire IPv4 address space) it's just not worth it for an attacker to scan your entire subnet.

    Even better if you have a honeypot that responds on all the unassigned addresses.

  2. Re:This is about information policy on Fukushima's Fallout of Fear · · Score: 1

    That said "among those who lost their homes" would seem to include the many thousands of tsunami victims rather than just the ones displaced due to the nuclear issues.

    Those whose homes were destroyed in the tsunami, but are outside the exclusion area can rebuild and find some closure. Those who cannot return to their homes due to the accident, and are still getting conflicting stories from officials must be under extreme mental strain. So there is very good reason to look specifically into these people's plight separately from those suffering due only due to the tsunami.

  3. Re:I recall MxStream on UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Finally, NAT potentially breaks connections that are kept open but with very little traffic. It will depend on how aggressive the ISP wants to be with pruning old connections whether applications will continue to work. Things like TCP keepalive and heartbeats can mitigate against this but TCP doesn't require any traffic at all over a connection.

    For CG-NAT, they will need to be very aggressive at pruning old connections, or they will quickly run out of ports. Popular services such as google.com, facebook.com are going to become very frustrating to use if this ISP has any significant number of customers.

  4. Re:Three birds with one stone on UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Generally speaking, NATs _automatically_ open holes for incoming packets based on the behavior of the host inside the NAT.

    Generally speaking, the protocols used to _automatically_ open holes in the NAT assume that the router doing the NAT is the local router. There is no protocol in widespread use that can request a port to be opened for forwarding incoming UDP packets from a router two or more hops away.

  5. Re:I recall MxStream on UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Consumer grade network connections do not run servers.

    Exactly, noone would ever expect to run servers like Skype, bittorrent, etc on their consumer grade network connection.

  6. Re:A380 787 on Japan Grounds Fleet of Boeing 787s After Emergency Landing · · Score: 1

    and you'll note that none of the recent incidents with the 787 are traceable to the engine.

    Not if you define recent as the last two weeks, where the problems have really escalated. But there have been two engine incidents in the last 8 months, as well as one incident involving the same engine on a 747-800.

  7. Re:A380 787 on Japan Grounds Fleet of Boeing 787s After Emergency Landing · · Score: 1

    But yeah, they tried to crash an A380 by means of engine explosion.

    787 engines on the other hand don't need an explosion to self-destuct.

  8. Re:This can't be true on Japan Grounds Fleet of Boeing 787s After Emergency Landing · · Score: 1

    I think in retrospect the emergency landing was the right call and the inflatable slides were not. You don't fool around with fire in a plane, but asking passengers to deplane via slide is also not to be taken lightly.

    So you want a plane with a suspected fire onboard to pull up next to the terminal building and use the airbridge? Or you want the passengers to sit on the burning plane waiting for the mobile stairs to drive over from the other end of the airport to the quarantine area where planes at risk of fire/explosion are required to stop, well away from any other structures or aeroplanes?

  9. Re:"continue to search for and find other deposits on Rare Earth Elements Found In Jamaican Mud · · Score: 1

    Most important part of this story is extraction of rare earth metals that does not harm the local environment / still profitable

    / in a country that is willing to overlook the environmental and health issues.

  10. Re:Simcity does city planning, environmental issue on Swedish School Makes Minecraft Lessons Compulsory · · Score: 1

    Right, but if all the students learned was SimCity, how would that help prepare them for the coming zombie apocalypse?

  11. Re:Open Source on The Android Lag Fix That Really Wasn't · · Score: 1

    Butter didn't really do anything.

    Butter only works if it has been ported to your device; many devices have had JB ported without enabling butter, especially those with proprietary graphics drivers. Depending on the spec of your device and the way you use it, you may not see any improvement even if it is enabled, and possibly even a degradation (as with any double buffering, the CPU ends up doing more work overall).

  12. Re:What happened to Java? on Oracle Knew of Latest Java 0-Day Security Hole In August · · Score: 1

    Care to cite some in OpenBSD?

  13. Re:nonsensical allegations on EU Antitrust Chief: Google "Diverting Traffic" & Will Be Forced To Change · · Score: 1

    If I want Bing Maps, why wouldn't I go to Bing?

    Perhaps because bing serves up Google Maps first in a search, followed by other competitors, news articles and a Wikipedia link before finally listing Bing Maps. YMMV depending on how they tweak their algorithms for location, known history etc, but bias for Microsoft services seems to be something that bing cannot be easily accused of based on the quick searches I've made for terms appearing in this thread (web browser, email, maps...)

  14. Re:nonsensical allegations on EU Antitrust Chief: Google "Diverting Traffic" & Will Be Forced To Change · · Score: 1

    Geolocation affects the filter bubble quite a lot. Here I see Gmail, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Yahoo, and mail.com as the top 5. mail.live.com is the sixth result, but the hotmail domain/branding is nowhere to be seen on the first page.

  15. Re:nonsensical allegations on EU Antitrust Chief: Google "Diverting Traffic" & Will Be Forced To Change · · Score: 1

    It actually shows Gmail first for me.

    I see the same here. And for the web browser search, I see an ad for Google Chrome the first two times, then no ad at all after that.

  16. Re:nonsensical allegations on EU Antitrust Chief: Google "Diverting Traffic" & Will Be Forced To Change · · Score: 1

    and "web browser" gives an ad for IE

    Would that be the same ad "for IE" they were running around the time IE9 was released?

    > Download Internet Explorer 9
    A Browser With a Clean & Simple Design Made for Users. Download Now
    www.google.com/Chrome

  17. Re:Visigoths on Plasma Active, Sailfish, and Ubuntu Phone Developers Discussing Common APIs · · Score: 1

    India, China and Egypt have just as fractured lineage as the Roman and Caliphate dynasties.

  18. Re:"non compete" on GM CIO Says HP Hiring Probe "Not the Best Use Our Legal System" · · Score: 1

    Why should the EMPLOYEES be contractually limited from going to work directly with the client? This should have been in the contract with GM if anywhere.

  19. Re:Ummm.... maybe go there? on What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert? · · Score: 1

    Forget the local officials. I'm sure even the CIA can find someone who is not loyal to the Chinese government in the local area to give them the non-censored story.

  20. Processor running a bit hot... on An Oven That Runs Android · · Score: 1

    I'm glad someone has finally found a use for Intel's Android port.

  21. Re:Mititant metric user on Standard Kilogram Gains Weight · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lard et fromage then, you informative pedant.

  22. Re:How will this affect the industry? on Adobe's Strange Software Giveaway: Goof, Or Clever Marketing? · · Score: 1

    This is really bad for Adobe, too, as there are no free, _usable_ tools for creating PDFs.

    I think you need to qualify what you mean by "creating PDFs" here. There are numerous free tools for creating PDFs, many of which are perfectly usable - mostly a case of selecting "Export..." or "Save As..." on the menu and selecting PDF as the format, or "Print..." and selecting the "PDF" virtual printer. Many of the latter type are just wrappers for Ghostscript, which produces good quality PDFs when used correctly, and supports PDF/A, encryption, signing and many other features that could be considered advanced. Ghostscript standalone I'll grant is not particularly usable, but usually it is buried under the covers where the user does not even need to know it is there.

    PDF Forms are probably one use case where Acrobat doesn't have much, if any, free competition, but this is a very small subset of "creating PDFs" compared with what most people are dealing with every day.

  23. Re:"Works for use" versus "Art" on Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    The hardware and software platforms on which to run those games should be free though.

  24. Re:Countries that take your fingerprints... on Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Argentina takes your fingerprints because your country takes fingerprints from their citizens.

    I think that was Brazil. Argentina takes fingerprints from everyone.

  25. Re:Countries that take your fingerprints... on Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    "Now includes"? The US started this nonsense.