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  1. Re:It's not surprising on YouTube Going Dark On Older Devices · · Score: 1

    That's what happens when you rely on a vendor instead of a ratified standard.

    A hundred times this.

  2. Re:The answer has been clear on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 1

    Too much overhead? It has less. In particular because the FCS is no lo longer computed over the (always changing) hop limit.

  3. Re: DNS without DHCP on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 1

    He presumably meant to multicast the link-local multicast address, causing the link-local nameservers to advertise themselves as such.

  4. Re:IPv6 and Rust: overhyped and unwanted! on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 1

    That's only because dumb people (like you) don't realize in the first place when it would be useful. p2p comms with both ends behind a NAT?
    Sure, i mean routing your shit through a 3rd party server also makes it "work", but it's arguably undesirable, except for dumb people (like you, again) who do not care. Happy Skyping.

  5. Re:IPv6 and Rust: overhyped and unwanted! on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 1

    As someone who's not really a networking guy

    Yeah. It's showing.

  6. Re:IPv6 and Rust: overhyped and unwanted! on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 1

    God dammit. I see what you're trying to say, but seriously this is so wrong. It's no big deal (i.e. easy to implement) to have End-to-End connectivity and still not be "exposed" to the oh-so-hostile Internet.
    It is a big deal (i.e. impossible) to actually get End-to-End connecitivity when you do need it but find yourself behind a (carrier grade) NAT.

    Breaking this one fundamental principle for the added comfort of being able to just deploy a NAT and feel reasonably secure is totally not worth it. Really, stop.

  7. Re:IPv6 and Rust: overhyped and unwanted! on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 1

    By definition? What?

  8. Re:IPv6 and Rust: overhyped and unwanted! on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 1

    No. Just, no. A NAT and a firewall are entirely different things and used for different purposes. Please familiarize yourself with basic networking.

  9. Re:How about basic security? on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 2

    an entire internet[] worth of

    Since a /64 is the default allocation, that's more like an entire internet squared worth of it.

  10. Re:IPv6 and Rust: overhyped and unwanted! on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You know what NAT defeats? End-to-end connectivity.

  11. Re:internet never goes dpwn. on Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 · · Score: 1

    That doesn't need "no power"; it harvests the energy from the signal itself. A similar thing could be imagined with digital equipment, although admittedly just a razor blade and a pencil doesn't get you very far in that situation.

    Anyway, the detector radio, while interesting, cannot pickup FM, so I don't see how it is relevant here.

  12. Re:internet never goes dpwn. on Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 · · Score: 1

    Someone up the page commented that DAB radios are power pigs.

    What comment are you referring to?

    I don't have experience with DAB but if true it wouldn't be good in a natural disaster situation.

    On the first glance, I don't see why that should be the case.

  13. Re:This is point 1 on Ask Slashdot: What Features Would You Like In a Search Engine? · · Score: 0

    It does not

  14. Re:internet never goes dpwn. on Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 · · Score: 1

    Both analog and digital radio need power. Neither uses the Internet as carrier.

  15. Re:Would it be better... on Researchers Design a Self-Powered Digital Camera · · Score: 1

    A solar panel the size of a CCD sensor would probably suck. This way, at least it has a lens in front of it :-)

  16. Re:Story is that it's a very low power camera on Researchers Design a Self-Powered Digital Camera · · Score: 1

    Power over Ethernet also requires a Power over Ethernet infrastructure.

  17. Re:Hard to trust them on Microsoft Starts Working On an LLVM-Based Compiler For .NET · · Score: 1

    They're doing whatever they perceive to be most profitable. If they are assuming closed source is the way to go, then closed source it is. Who gets to decide that, ultimately? The shareholders. What are the shareholders' objectives? Hint: It starts with R and ends in OI

  18. Re: efi 32bit on Linux Getting Extensive x86 Assembly Code Refresh · · Score: 1

    yes. 32-valve, too.

  19. Re:Should be micro kernel on Linux Getting Extensive x86 Assembly Code Refresh · · Score: 1

    Way to miss the point.

    Besides, 'assembler' is a part of the toolchain. The language(s) are called 'assembly'.

  20. Re: imagine sharing your dishwashing loads on Microsoft and Miele Team Collaborate To Cook Up an IoT Revolution · · Score: 1

    You're not "embracing technology", you're embracing a goddamn consumer product. Geez.

  21. Re:UAC is for idiots on LG Split Screen Software Compromises System Security · · Score: 1

    Look at the pertinent CVEs related to (in particular) adobe flash, java, the usual suspects. I'm not doing your homework for you.

  22. Re:UAC is for idiots on LG Split Screen Software Compromises System Security · · Score: 1

    So you have never noticed malware being installed without you noticing, uh-huh. That's the kind of circular reasoning I'd expect self-proclaimed "power users", running Windows no less, to engage in, indeed.
    Also, you don't understand seem to understand the pertinent attack vectors for shit.

  23. Re:Chinese or Indian Devs? on LG Split Screen Software Compromises System Security · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, I have seen some utterly substandard garbage code written by Ameriancs, so according to my anecdote it's probably from there.

  24. Re:Never on Autonomous Cars and the Centralization of Driving · · Score: 1

    Nice try, but we're already seeing it in consumer^Wautomotive-grade cars. You just don't notice it conciously because it ain't failing, ironically. Feel free to prove me wrong with anecdata

  25. Re:Never on Autonomous Cars and the Centralization of Driving · · Score: 1

    Considering the fact we cannot eliminate the probability of bugs from far simpler software meant to solve far simpler problems

    Sure we can, you just don't get to see it in consumer-grade software because it's too expensive.
    Try aerospace, or military.