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  1. Re:Why were compatibility/mapped addresses depreca on World IPv6 Launch Day Underway · · Score: 1

    I think because of the routing problem.

  2. Re:It will be a pain in the ass to remember... on World IPv6 Launch Day Underway · · Score: 1

    I was at a restaurant that tested one of the new types of those clamshell grills. It was a huge pain in the ass to those of us who were really good at the old way. But the kids liked it and they give much more consistent results. A bitch to clean though.

  3. Re:It will be a pain in the ass to remember... on World IPv6 Launch Day Underway · · Score: 1

    1- You don't have to us the IP autogeneration with the MAC address.

    2- All you have to do is have your clients tell the DNS server their name when they ask for an IP address.

    3- If you are putting ip addresses in by hand, you won't be rolling out ipv6 any time soon.

    4- There are things that ipv6 will confound, but naming shouldn't be one of them. Using bare IP addresses these days is as silly as using bare mac addresses.

  4. Re:Not so sure about that. on An Asian Origin For Human Ancestors? · · Score: 2

    It's not a lack, so much, but that white folks have Neanderthal bits in their DNA, where Africans are more purely Homo Sapiens. The AC above made a good point, the human race probably evolved a big brain, got the itch to travel and seeded the world with proto humans, who then stayed relatively stationary, who then evolved into genetically semi-compatible Neanderthal, Denova, African and I think there were others. There were probably plenty of races of these, and it's quite possibly where our mythology of trolls, hobbits and other weird human-likes came from.

  5. Re:Stupidity on US Warns Users of Child-Porn Blackmail Ransomware · · Score: 1

    I know, right? They should do it the right way, and publish decks of playing cards with the targets fancifully depicted as jokers.

  6. Re:this woman is an attorney? on Copyright Infringer Tries To Shut Down Reporting On Her Infringement · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Are you talking about the Bush the Elder, or the Lesser? Because I think "Junior" has a pretty good claim on being a Texan, what with having been governor and all.

  7. Re:Are you guys stupid or something? on No Intelligent Aliens Detected In Gliese 581 · · Score: 1

    A sort of inverse galactic version of "no, YOU hang up"?

  8. Re:Are you guys stupid or something? on No Intelligent Aliens Detected In Gliese 581 · · Score: 1

    I defy you to hang around the South and not get stupider (develop a Southern accent) after a while.

  9. Re:Are you guys stupid or something? on No Intelligent Aliens Detected In Gliese 581 · · Score: 2

    The difference is that digital (as we are doing it anyway) is a much cleaner signal. We can get the same coverage for way less radiated power.

  10. Re:I hope they don't get it on Google Applies For Dot-LOL Domain · · Score: 2

    Yeah, some organization has my lastname.name domain, and I thought it would be a slam dunk to challenge it. Fax them a copy of my driver's license where it shows that my name is lastname, and that the org is an organization and not an individual, and done. But no. I'd have to come up with multiple thousands of dollars to pay off some arbitrator.

  11. Re:Not all airships used hydrogen on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 1

    The hydrogen didn't explode, it burned.

  12. Re:Make the stores open them on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 1

    Or, at the very least, be required to take back the empty packaging.

  13. Re:Brick and Mortar won't last on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 1

    The manufacturers put it into whatever container the larger retailers ask for. How do you think Costco and Sam's Klub get those oddball sizes that aren't available anywhere else? (OK, actually, Costco runs a lot of their own packaging operations. They buy the shit in bulk and repackage it.)

  14. Re:Clamshells are on their way out on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 1

    Nearly as much plastic, plus a shitload of cardboard. Great.

  15. Re:There are good things on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 1

    Or you can do like fucking Costco and "reduce packaging" by replacing a clamshell with an 18" x 18" square of laminated plastic and cardboard with three SD cards in it.

  16. Re:Memo to manufacturers on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 1

    It depends on the product and the distribution setup they have. Some of the larger retailers have gotten their suppliers to sign off on deals like that.

  17. Re:It's not the packaging, it's the seal on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 1

    The wiper controls used to be by the headlight switch, if memory serves, and then sometime in the 80s they invented the multi-stalk. I think it was all about cost cutting, as the same stalk was in the cars for about 20 years.

    Don't forget about the cruise controls being on it too. Push in a little button to turn it on and off, and another button/switch thing for setting the speed. And then another little switch thing for setting the intermittent wiper rate.

    I hate those stalks.

  18. Re:It's not the packaging, it's the seal on Worst Design Ever? Plastic Clamshell Packaging · · Score: 1

    KitchenAid kitchen sheers are the best scissors for this kind of work.

  19. Re:Not a problem on What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem? · · Score: 1

    Porn is a graphic depiction of sexual activity with the intent to arouse or titillate the viewer. Despite the ignorant screams of the what about the children brigade, it isn't just nude pictures.

  20. Re:WRONG!!! on Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone call Digikey and order 600 million transistors!

  21. Re:Why not hardware manufacturers? on Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think the whole point of UEFI security to to prevent software from doing just that. You HAVE to go into the BIOS (or the UEFI environment, more technically) to make changes like that.

  22. Re:Survey? on IT Desktop Support To Be Wiped Out Thanks To Cloud Computing · · Score: 1

    Look at zero client technology. For some environments, that should be all you need. Why over complicate the thin client with security and operating systems when you can uncomplicate them into basically X-Servers. Hell, combine the thin client with an IP phone, and you only have one device on the desktop, that is basically troubleshooting-free. Sure, you have to have big machines in the datacenter, but don't we have that already?

  23. Re:Survey? on IT Desktop Support To Be Wiped Out Thanks To Cloud Computing · · Score: 1

    Well, there is some utility in that. If all your workstations are really bare-metal VMs in a huge cluster, simply running an instance of the client desktop on their console, and all your "servers" are just distributed across the virtual cluster, then it should work fine. Probably super easy to do with storage, since desktops in most large orgs have tons of space for what they do. So, concatenate all that unused storage into a "cloud SAN" with double or triple redundancy and you don't need separate hardware for at least some of an org's storage needs.

  24. Re:not sure on Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights. · · Score: 1

    It's not a contract unless both parties agree to the terms. If you change the terms without giving them a chance to approve or disapprove, it won't hold up.

  25. Re:What's With All The RIM Hate? on RIM May Need To Write Off $1 Billion In Inventory · · Score: 1

    So, just what is a smartphone without apps?

    Useful and reliable.