One of the ideas I had was fixing the randomization size (currently only 16-bit, iirc) only for IPv6 (64-bit, maybe?). Yes, it'd cause some headaches for those of us already using v6, but it would help eliminate the problem.
Of course DNSSEC is the real solution, but it's a ways off, probably after even IPv6 adoption. I know that in some places where I've worked, there's heavy reliance on MS DNS servers. Also, change is very slow to come. Yes, there are still a smattering of NT4 boxes around....and Win95OSR2 on some of the desktops.
And it was redundant in Vietnam because the Sparrow missile ensured that dogfighting would never happen. Hell, why even equip the F-4 with a gun? It's clearly obsolete.
Worse than the F-4 was the F-111, which was practically incapable of dogfighting. Luckily, its shortcomings, along with the F-4's, paved the way for the F-16 (which is still probably the best aircraft in the world for pure close-in dogfighting).
The parent poster probably has more information than I do about the actual capabilities of the F-22 as far as A2G capabilities; his point that F-22 is designed for air supremacy operations is spot on. Rumor has it that first time one went out at Red Flag all of the F-16s in the air were dead before they even knew he was in the air.
The multi-purpose role will be filled in the future by the F-35, which by most accounts, looks like it's going to be an awesome aircraft. And, yes, it can be equipped with a gun.:-)
But, anyway, he'd be a perfect fit for the Obama administration. Technology loses to concerns, many of which are unfounded, about environmental issues. Much like Greenpeace's position on nuclear fusion.
Sure, but Clinton got it -- contractors save the government money, which is why many positions previously occupied either by active duty or GS were outsourced under his watch. Obama has promised to reverse that.
A geek would vote for the man that still has a working brain.
No, a geek would make the rational choice based upon his own interest. For me, a vote for Obama is essentially a vote for unemployment.
I didn't like it, but I voted for McCain. A 10% cut in defense contracting would be economic horror where I live (Obama promised this). A 25% overall cut in defense spending is worse, still, but it's not something Obama promised (Barney Frank did).
How's privatization and deregulation worked for the public with energy companies?
How much are you paying for long distance telephone today, compared to 1983? I'm paying >$0.02/min domestic through my VoIP provider, and $0.05/min through my small CLEC. Oh, and it included on my cell phone.
One of my past jobs, I worked for a company that consumed a ton of electricity (over 200 kW of radio transmitters during the day). Being able to buy from an out-of-state provider did two things for the company. First, during normal operations, it saved about 15% in costs. Second, in order to get decent rates from the local power companies, the two biggest transmitters we had, during peak times, we'd have to put on generator power. Diesel is a lot more expensive!
As for the health care, both candidates' plans suck. If we're going to get government involved, fine. Do it 100%. No BS about choosing your own doctor, etc. You call, you get an appointment, you get the care the doctor assigned by the government prescribes. And if you die because the doctor screws up, so be it. No lawsuit.
This won't happen, however, because the medical lobby and the malpractice lobbies are too large.
One place I do very much agree with McCain, however, is that health benefits should be taxed. Initially, I was amazed that he'd even consider such a thing. After I thought about it more, however, it makes sense. You should be taxed on the value of your compensation, not just your monetary income. It's one of the reasons the minimum wage exists in the first place! Otherwise, you'd see all sorts of places that would trade product for labor.
The reason Obama is so against this is it hits two of his big constituencies -- labor union members, and government employees. The value of their benefit packages would significantly increase their tax liabilities. This is true, too, for union retirees who continue to receive generous health care benefits, even after thier employment ends.
No income taxes perhaps, but they are paying federal excise taxes on gas and such.
But that's not what he's talking about; people aren't subject to withholding for those. What they are subject to is withholding for payroll taxes (SS and Medicare). It is likely that with Obama's plan, people will have all of those taxes paid refunded, because of increased income tax refundable rebates. Of course, this is a disaster, and completely contrary to the aims of both programs, but it gets a lot of votes. So, too, is the pitch to seniors for the first 50k/yr. in retirement income tax free. A lot of those folks never paid income taxes in the money invested in those accounts prior to retirement, and won't pay them now. People who opened Roth IRAs are seriously screwed.
I noticed that, too. Obama has been unwilling to prioritize his proposals. I'm also disturbed by the refundable tax credits applying to payroll taxes. If you don't pay income tax now, you shouldn't get a tax cut.
Good to see that someone is buying them to keep around. I saw one about a year and a half ago during an airshow at Langley AFB. They had a diamond formation with an F-22, F-15, F-4, and F-86, which was really cool.:-) Made the F-86 look really tiny, though.
Many, many of the F-4s were outfitted for remote control, and used as targets above Nellis.
That said, there's still several countries flying them, and parts are plentiful (lots of J79 engines were manufactured).
We were a subcontractor to a larger company on a government project. The project office was in a county that didn't do DST, while the prime's office was in a county that did. Serious confusion during the summer, especially since I'm on the east coast, and don't normally have to deal with that sort of thing.:-)
The plan, before it was put on hold, was to run much of the command out of essentially abandoned space at the NASA facility at Langley AFB in Hampton, VA.
So advice to parent, wait a few months for the contracts to be in place, and start searching zip code 23666. Or find out who is bidding on the contracts, and shoot them a resume they can include.
Yes, and the court wrote that SCOTUS is more likely to be on their side; the federal courts would prefer that state courts not interpret federal constitutional issues narrowly.
What will happen is that the General Assembly will revise the law, limiting it to commercial e-mail. Unfortunately, the way Virginia law works, spammers again have free reign until 1 July.
Why is everyone in the comments talking about various steps... that would allow us to push back IPv6?
Because it's new, and change causes fear. And you have so many people who've had it hammered into their thick Certified+ skulls that NAT is a security measure. On the geek side, it's because people think it's a lot easier to remember an IP address that's only four octets.
It seems that we very close to the point where every device supports IPv6
Far from it, actually. While most of the mainstream operating systems now do, lots of embedded devices don't. I still haven't been able to get my wireless bridge (two wrt54g running OpenWRT) to pass traffic. My IP phone, not that, either. DSL Modem? Nyet. IPTV STBs? Sorry.
Let's start turning it on. What better way to help the adoption than by having users who are IPv6 only complaining?
Microsoft is making a big push, even on the server side. IIRC, you can't install Exchange 2007 w/out IPv6 enabled at the install.
The bigger problem is that there aren't many ISPs that push it out to the endpoints, because their backbones don't support it. My DSL provider gets most of its upstream service from Global Crossing (who are doing lots of stuff with v6), but I haven't seen anything get out towards me. I'm stuck in tunnelville.
Thankfully, SiXXs is pretty reliable. On my co-lo on a different ISP, my ping times over my he.net tunnel are now stastically the same as with v4.
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One of the ideas I had was fixing the randomization size (currently only 16-bit, iirc) only for IPv6 (64-bit, maybe?). Yes, it'd cause some headaches for those of us already using v6, but it would help eliminate the problem.
Of course DNSSEC is the real solution, but it's a ways off, probably after even IPv6 adoption. I know that in some places where I've worked, there's heavy reliance on MS DNS servers. Also, change is very slow to come. Yes, there are still a smattering of NT4 boxes around....and Win95OSR2 on some of the desktops.
And it was redundant in Vietnam because the Sparrow missile ensured that dogfighting would never happen. Hell, why even equip the F-4 with a gun? It's clearly obsolete.
Worse than the F-4 was the F-111, which was practically incapable of dogfighting. Luckily, its shortcomings, along with the F-4's, paved the way for the F-16 (which is still probably the best aircraft in the world for pure close-in dogfighting).
The parent poster probably has more information than I do about the actual capabilities of the F-22 as far as A2G capabilities; his point that F-22 is designed for air supremacy operations is spot on. Rumor has it that first time one went out at Red Flag all of the F-16s in the air were dead before they even knew he was in the air.
The multi-purpose role will be filled in the future by the F-35, which by most accounts, looks like it's going to be an awesome aircraft. And, yes, it can be equipped with a gun. :-)
Basically, he has turned in to a crazy old coot.
Luddites rock!
But, anyway, he'd be a perfect fit for the Obama administration. Technology loses to concerns, many of which are unfounded, about environmental issues. Much like Greenpeace's position on nuclear fusion.
Sure, but Clinton got it -- contractors save the government money, which is why many positions previously occupied either by active duty or GS were outsourced under his watch. Obama has promised to reverse that.
A geek would vote for the man that still has a working brain.
No, a geek would make the rational choice based upon his own interest. For me, a vote for Obama is essentially a vote for unemployment.
I didn't like it, but I voted for McCain. A 10% cut in defense contracting would be economic horror where I live (Obama promised this). A 25% overall cut in defense spending is worse, still, but it's not something Obama promised (Barney Frank did).
No such luck in Norfolk. Electronic machines only, and people older than home electrical service trying to get people logged in to vote. 2:15 wait.
Public ballots are good enough for union elections, they should be good enough for government elections!
Congrats to the OpenBSD team.
In related news, NetBSD 5.0 should be released soon, too.
BSD proves Netcraft wrong again.
How's privatization and deregulation worked for the public with energy companies?
How much are you paying for long distance telephone today, compared to 1983? I'm paying >$0.02/min domestic through my VoIP provider, and $0.05/min through my small CLEC. Oh, and it included on my cell phone.
One of my past jobs, I worked for a company that consumed a ton of electricity (over 200 kW of radio transmitters during the day). Being able to buy from an out-of-state provider did two things for the company. First, during normal operations, it saved about 15% in costs. Second, in order to get decent rates from the local power companies, the two biggest transmitters we had, during peak times, we'd have to put on generator power. Diesel is a lot more expensive!
As for the health care, both candidates' plans suck. If we're going to get government involved, fine. Do it 100%. No BS about choosing your own doctor, etc. You call, you get an appointment, you get the care the doctor assigned by the government prescribes. And if you die because the doctor screws up, so be it. No lawsuit.
This won't happen, however, because the medical lobby and the malpractice lobbies are too large.
One place I do very much agree with McCain, however, is that health benefits should be taxed. Initially, I was amazed that he'd even consider such a thing. After I thought about it more, however, it makes sense. You should be taxed on the value of your compensation, not just your monetary income. It's one of the reasons the minimum wage exists in the first place! Otherwise, you'd see all sorts of places that would trade product for labor.
The reason Obama is so against this is it hits two of his big constituencies -- labor union members, and government employees. The value of their benefit packages would significantly increase their tax liabilities. This is true, too, for union retirees who continue to receive generous health care benefits, even after thier employment ends.
Is episodes of Beavis and Butthead with the music videos.
No income taxes perhaps, but they are paying federal excise taxes on gas and such.
But that's not what he's talking about; people aren't subject to withholding for those. What they are subject to is withholding for payroll taxes (SS and Medicare). It is likely that with Obama's plan, people will have all of those taxes paid refunded, because of increased income tax refundable rebates. Of course, this is a disaster, and completely contrary to the aims of both programs, but it gets a lot of votes. So, too, is the pitch to seniors for the first 50k/yr. in retirement income tax free. A lot of those folks never paid income taxes in the money invested in those accounts prior to retirement, and won't pay them now. People who opened Roth IRAs are seriously screwed.
I noticed that, too. Obama has been unwilling to prioritize his proposals. I'm also disturbed by the refundable tax credits applying to payroll taxes. If you don't pay income tax now, you shouldn't get a tax cut.
Good to see that someone is buying them to keep around. I saw one about a year and a half ago during an airshow at Langley AFB. They had a diamond formation with an F-22, F-15, F-4, and F-86, which was really cool. :-) Made the F-86 look really tiny, though.
Many, many of the F-4s were outfitted for remote control, and used as targets above Nellis.
That said, there's still several countries flying them, and parts are plentiful (lots of J79 engines were manufactured).
We were a subcontractor to a larger company on a government project. The project office was in a county that didn't do DST, while the prime's office was in a county that did. Serious confusion during the summer, especially since I'm on the east coast, and don't normally have to deal with that sort of thing. :-)
Yeah, they probably don't pasturize it. American imported beer has to be.
They're certainly quieter than WDs, but nowhere near as quiet as the Samsungs I have.
Not interested. If I want x86, I'll build it myself, or buy it from Steve Jobs.
With the properly overclocked CPU, can you deep fry a turkey on it?
At the same time, a lot of the cars available now are heavier than when the 55mph speed limit was introduced.
A 2008 Honda Civic is ~1100lbs heavier than a 1978 CVCC.
Ah, so you're the guy in the Altima racing between traffic lights?
The plan, before it was put on hold, was to run much of the command out of essentially abandoned space at the NASA facility at Langley AFB in Hampton, VA.
So advice to parent, wait a few months for the contracts to be in place, and start searching zip code 23666. Or find out who is bidding on the contracts, and shoot them a resume they can include.
No, it's global warming's fault.
Yes, and the court wrote that SCOTUS is more likely to be on their side; the federal courts would prefer that state courts not interpret federal constitutional issues narrowly.
What will happen is that the General Assembly will revise the law, limiting it to commercial e-mail. Unfortunately, the way Virginia law works, spammers again have free reign until 1 July.
FWIW, A lot of the stuff I'm seeing lately for RT is LynxOS. I guess they have a linux compatibility layer ala AIX, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc.
Why is everyone in the comments talking about various steps ... that would allow us to push back IPv6?
Because it's new, and change causes fear. And you have so many people who've had it hammered into their thick Certified+ skulls that NAT is a security measure. On the geek side, it's because people think it's a lot easier to remember an IP address that's only four octets.
It seems that we very close to the point where every device supports IPv6
Far from it, actually. While most of the mainstream operating systems now do, lots of embedded devices don't. I still haven't been able to get my wireless bridge (two wrt54g running OpenWRT) to pass traffic. My IP phone, not that, either. DSL Modem? Nyet. IPTV STBs? Sorry.
Let's start turning it on. What better way to help the adoption than by having users who are IPv6 only complaining?
Microsoft is making a big push, even on the server side. IIRC, you can't install Exchange 2007 w/out IPv6 enabled at the install.
The bigger problem is that there aren't many ISPs that push it out to the endpoints, because their backbones don't support it. My DSL provider gets most of its upstream service from Global Crossing (who are doing lots of stuff with v6), but I haven't seen anything get out towards me. I'm stuck in tunnelville.
Thankfully, SiXXs is pretty reliable. On my co-lo on a different ISP, my ping times over my he.net tunnel are now stastically the same as with v4.