It would be cool if I could blow myself up, then have all my molecules whirl back together to regenerate me. That would be a trip.
Just keep eating twinkies and sitting in front of a computer all day.
If you can prevent Jerry Springer from cutting a hole in your house to tow you to his set, you will eventually have a gravity well large enough to accomplish your goal!
The way I understand it, routers and such will still need to be configured manually, as will DNS.
What organization really needs 64 bits of address space? Don't give me that "IP for every chip" stuff, 64 bits is 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses. I'd bet that the entire semiconductor industry hasn't produced that many transistors in it's entire history. (Even counting transistors in ICs and processors)
64 bits would never have to be replaced, even if the population of the earth increased 100 fold and each person had 20000 devices with IPs, we'd still have several powers of 2 to spare. 128 bits is just stupid.
If somebody had the great idea of updating computers to manage disks of 2^128 bytes then we'd have got of this mess a long time ago.
There's a reason for that though. Computers don't generally operate with a natural data type that is 128 bits long yet. There are many reasons you don't want to exceed the natural data size of the computer, performance primarily, but also that means you can't do math as an atomic operation, so you risk something reading your data when you are half done (or in the case of 32 bit computers with 128 bit numbers, 1/4th done) processing it, which causes corruption.
McDonalds doesn't make you agree to not look inside the burger to see what ingrediants are on the burger so you can try to make your own big mac. They don't forbid you from writing reviews about their food. They don't leverage into a market by using monopoly tactics to put the competition out of business. I could keep going all day.
And this is the main thing about IPv6 that I think is stupid and will hinder adoption.
If they had just done the reasonable thing and went to a 64 or even 48 bit address space, we would have nice, easy to remember addresses, and still have more than enough for the rest of any of our lives.
48 bits would have made the address space about 65,000 times larger, and the IP addresses would still only be 6 octets, completely reasonable to memorize, and DNS records would look like:
64.112.122.109.10.20.ipGigs.arpa. IN PTR host2.mydomain.org.au.
Instead of:
d.0.0.0.c.0.0.0.b.0.0.0.a.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.f.f.f.f. 1. 0.5.0.e.f.f.3.ip6.arpa. IN PTR host2.mydomain.org.au.
You think DNS is fucked up now?? Just wait until admins have to type 32 letters and numbers in without making one typo!
So instead of doign the reasonable thing, the creators of IPv6 just pulled some huge number of bits out of their ass. Why does anyone wonder why no one uses IPv6?
Yeah, those dudes with the rickshaws could use GPS/Internet/Bluetooth to locate their next customer.
Or maybe the government could implant RFID into each citizen with an IP address.
-- The illiteracy rate of Asian Americans is 5.3 times that of cacuasians.
33% of Asian Americans students in public high schools drop out or do not graduate on time.
24% of Asian Americans over age 25 do not have a high school degree.
46% of Asian American households do not have anyone over age 14 who can speak English well.
From http://www.cacf.org/mythsfacts/
If they can't even manage to learn to read or speak well in America, how the hell can you claim they need IP addresses. If we did give it to them, they'd probably use it to cheat on multiplayer games, or sell Americans broken computer hardware.
I signed up for something, I think it was this class action suit, and it said I would get $20 if I had seen one of these ads, etc, etc...
The way they made it sound was the only way we wouldn't get our money, is if too many people signed up before the deadline, and about a week before the deadline, there were plenty of slots left.
I think most people would pay if there was a service like this that didn't send music in proprietary formats that require a certain OS, or require you to burn the music to a CD (and then lossy compress it again) before putting it into a format that will still be readable in 5 years.
I know i'd sign up in a minute if someone was selling mp3s or oggs for 99 cents a piece.
If GPS type tech gets accurate enough (say within a few inches), then we will finally be able to realize the dream of self driving cars.
Of course, there are a few more technical hurdles, such as areas that are covered from reception, but the installation of terrestrial repeaters could probably cure that.
A) guns will always be "child-accessible", even if you banned them totally. see: illegal drugs.
B) Columbine was already illegal, it's not as if they took advantage of some loophole in the laws to pull it off. They broke the law in aquiring the guns, the broke the law when they killed people. Making it "more illegal" isn't going to help.
That's fine and dandy if you have an large IT staff to do all that, but most of my friends have jobs where there are less than 3 people doing all the development, myself included.
I enforce upon myself the requirement to run new code on a test server first, but a formal and managed development environment just isn't going to happen at small companies, or larger companies with small dev staffs.
Then there is also the issue of things that are extremely difficult to model in a test environment. Complex failures. Failures that may not show up in a unit type test, but only show up when components interact. It is possible to model some of these things, but sometimes the unit testing code would be larger than the code under test. This is also not practical for a smaller development group.
I'd say the FUD value of SCO's current tack is pretty valuable to MS.
and even then it only buys when there's no alternative.
I completely disagree with this. MS doesn't have to license the technology to kill the company, they could just reimplement it and bundle it without buying the company (assuming there are no patents involved). It's a less attractive alternative when you have billions in the bank, but it is an alternative.
I believe anything under a certain voltage is exempt from being subject to the electrical code. 35 volts seems to spring to mind. It probably varies from state to state. There may also be amperage restrictions.
As far as protection goes, a simple thermal breaker would work, and be self resetting.
Even if they did, it's legal as long as the zlib license is valid (i.e. zlib wasn't part of the so-called stolen code). zlib is under a BSD-ish license.
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It would be cool if I could blow myself up, then have all my molecules whirl back together to regenerate me. That would be a trip.
Just keep eating twinkies and sitting in front of a computer all day.
If you can prevent Jerry Springer from cutting a hole in your house to tow you to his set, you will eventually have a gravity well large enough to accomplish your goal!
Good Luck!
The way I understand it, routers and such will still need to be configured manually, as will DNS.
What organization really needs 64 bits of address space? Don't give me that "IP for every chip" stuff, 64 bits is 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses. I'd bet that the entire semiconductor industry hasn't produced that many transistors in it's entire history. (Even counting transistors in ICs and processors)
64 bits would never have to be replaced, even if the population of the earth increased 100 fold and each person had 20000 devices with IPs, we'd still have several powers of 2 to spare. 128 bits is just stupid.
Wow. You used the word "loosing" and it wasn't a grammatical error.
:)
Amazing.
If somebody had the great idea of updating computers to manage disks of 2^128 bytes then we'd have got of this mess a long time ago.
There's a reason for that though. Computers don't generally operate with a natural data type that is 128 bits long yet. There are many reasons you don't want to exceed the natural data size of the computer, performance primarily, but also that means you can't do math as an atomic operation, so you risk something reading your data when you are half done (or in the case of 32 bit computers with 128 bit numbers, 1/4th done) processing it, which causes corruption.
McDonalds doesn't make you agree to not look inside the burger to see what ingrediants are on the burger so you can try to make your own big mac. They don't forbid you from writing reviews about their food. They don't leverage into a market by using monopoly tactics to put the competition out of business. I could keep going all day.
And this is the main thing about IPv6 that I think is stupid and will hinder adoption.
. 1. 0.5.0.e.f.f.3.ip6.arpa.
If they had just done the reasonable thing and went to a 64 or even 48 bit address space, we would have nice, easy to remember addresses, and still have more than enough for the rest of any of our lives.
48 bits would have made the address space about 65,000 times larger, and the IP addresses would still only be 6 octets, completely reasonable to memorize, and DNS records would look like:
64.112.122.109.10.20.ipGigs.arpa. IN PTR host2.mydomain.org.au.
Instead of:
d.0.0.0.c.0.0.0.b.0.0.0.a.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.f.f.f.f
IN PTR host2.mydomain.org.au.
You think DNS is fucked up now?? Just wait until admins have to type 32 letters and numbers in without making one typo!
So instead of doign the reasonable thing, the creators of IPv6 just pulled some huge number of bits out of their ass. Why does anyone wonder why no one uses IPv6?
I know, I'm just venting. I figure if he can make up statistics that are way off base, I can counter with an equally stupid post. :)
Yeah, those dudes with the rickshaws could use GPS/Internet/Bluetooth to locate their next customer.
Or maybe the government could implant RFID into each citizen with an IP address.
--
The illiteracy rate of Asian Americans is 5.3 times that of cacuasians.
33% of Asian Americans students in public high schools drop out or do not graduate on time.
24% of Asian Americans over age 25 do not have a high school degree.
46% of Asian American households do not have anyone over age 14 who can speak English well.
From http://www.cacf.org/mythsfacts/
If they can't even manage to learn to read or speak well in America, how the hell can you claim they need IP addresses. If we did give it to them, they'd probably use it to cheat on multiplayer games, or sell Americans broken computer hardware.
Why not now? If the problem is fixed, what do you have to hide?
I signed up for something, I think it was this class action suit, and it said I would get $20 if I had seen one of these ads, etc, etc...
The way they made it sound was the only way we wouldn't get our money, is if too many people signed up before the deadline, and about a week before the deadline, there were plenty of slots left.
So where's my money?
I think most people would pay if there was a service like this that didn't send music in proprietary formats that require a certain OS, or require you to burn the music to a CD (and then lossy compress it again) before putting it into a format that will still be readable in 5 years.
I know i'd sign up in a minute if someone was selling mp3s or oggs for 99 cents a piece.
Trains somehow live with this limitation. It's not like they can stop or steer around a hazard.
If GPS type tech gets accurate enough (say within a few inches), then we will finally be able to realize the dream of self driving cars.
Of course, there are a few more technical hurdles, such as areas that are covered from reception, but the installation of terrestrial repeaters could probably cure that.
What did you hear they would announce?
That there is no need for IPv6? That the so-called IP shortage was mostly fabricated?
A) guns will always be "child-accessible", even if you banned them totally. see: illegal drugs.
B) Columbine was already illegal, it's not as if they took advantage of some loophole in the laws to pull it off. They broke the law in aquiring the guns, the broke the law when they killed people. Making it "more illegal" isn't going to help.
Man, what the fuck are you talking about?
Since when are sales of guns to minors allowed? You have to be 21 to legally purchase a handgun, 18 for rifles and shotguns.
The point is, both are legitimate forms of recreation.
The GPL version is not licensed under the AFPL.
Holy hell.
You mean I could have been harvesting that stuff and selling it on ebay all this time, instead of spending money on cat litter?
Now all I need to figure out how to do is get the cat to piss in a cup. He might freak out and think it was a drug test though.
Hah, good post.
I bet sticking those cell phone antenna boosters onto the rodent repellers makes them twice as effective!
That's fine and dandy if you have an large IT staff to do all that, but most of my friends have jobs where there are less than 3 people doing all the development, myself included.
I enforce upon myself the requirement to run new code on a test server first, but a formal and managed development environment just isn't going to happen at small companies, or larger companies with small dev staffs.
Then there is also the issue of things that are extremely difficult to model in a test environment. Complex failures. Failures that may not show up in a unit type test, but only show up when components interact. It is possible to model some of these things, but sometimes the unit testing code would be larger than the code under test. This is also not practical for a smaller development group.
Microsoft only buys stuff that has value to it,
I'd say the FUD value of SCO's current tack is pretty valuable to MS.
and even then it only buys when there's no alternative.
I completely disagree with this. MS doesn't have to license the technology to kill the company, they could just reimplement it and bundle it without buying the company (assuming there are no patents involved). It's a less attractive alternative when you have billions in the bank, but it is an alternative.
I believe anything under a certain voltage is exempt from being subject to the electrical code. 35 volts seems to spring to mind. It probably varies from state to state. There may also be amperage restrictions.
As far as protection goes, a simple thermal breaker would work, and be self resetting.
Even if they did, it's legal as long as the zlib license is valid (i.e. zlib wasn't part of the so-called stolen code). zlib is under a BSD-ish license.