Heck, the normal person would even fail to access a IPv6-website via browser!
Why? Because the braindead IPv6 standard uses semicolons in addresses which are used for ports in http.
So you have to use square-brackets for the address, because the morons how designed IPv6 forgot about the most important protocol out there. How stupid must one be to make that mistake?
And these breaks of compatibility are exactly the reason why IPv6 will never succeed.
If it was, it wouldn't allow holes to be arbitrarily punched through by NAT-PMP, UPNP and other traversal mechanisms.
AFAIK all these mechanisms require cooperation from the inside.
If your inside machine cooperates to download data from outside, also the best IPv6-firewall will not help you.
So the basic IPv4-NAT is as secure as your glorified IPv6 firewall - and much more practicable, because you have to run IPv4 anyway, so what is the point in adding IPv6?
IPv6 will support everyones needs. IPv4 supports only the most trivial.
You got that reversed: IPv4 supports everyone's needs - it must because it is used by everyone.
IPv6 however cannot replace IPv4 (all IPv6 users including YOU also need IPv4 to get even the most basic work done) and therefore only adds complexity (and more security problems) without any benefit at all.
Just because that is repeated ad-nauseam doesn't make it true.
Of course NAT has security benefits: It acts basically as a "one-way" firewall, which is exactly what most people that don't run a server at home need.
Of course you could configure a IPv6-firewall the same way, but that would take several days and who has time for that?
The condemned prisoner's family didn't do anything wrong.
That is funny because I have been personally held responsible for all these:
Slavery
Colonialism
The Holocaust
The Crusades
I am supposedly guilty of all these because somebody guilty is possibly is related to me (probably a dozen or so steps removed because I don't know anybody in my immediate family guilty of any of that). I am supposed to feel guilty about that - and if not I am evil, evil, evil and deserve to die (yes, the very same people who are against the death penalty often call for a lynching if they run out of arguments - and they do so proudly).
Then, when I switch on the TV, I see some murderer's mother crying "My boy didn't do no wrong" - why isn't she supposed to feel guilty? How is it that normal, law-abiding people are guilty for things that happened centuries before their birth while "The condemned prisoner's family didn't do anything wrong."? How so? Why this double-standard?
Any rational person has to admit that (in most cases) of course the condemned prisoner's family did a lot wrong, they raised him the way they did, they likely watched him go deeper and deeper into crime and quite often they also covered for him and obstructed justice. And in any case they are a lot closer to a criminal than I am.
Why is every criminal innocent until proven guilty while every law-abiding person is guilty without any chance of appeal?
Not enough for self-hating Protestants (that includes also atheists growing up in Protestant society), they just love it to feel guilty about things that happened centuries before their own birth.
The women who were only character-assassinated were the lucky ones.
An intern murdered execution-style at her workplace, an ex-lover who committed "suicide", his speech interpreter for the deaf has an auto-accident,....
But it's alright, nothing to see here, ignore all that conspiracy theory nonsense and turn on the TV.
Let's not forget Whitewater and all the other scandals.
Also people near the Clintons have the tendency to commit "suicide", die in airplane crashes, botched robberies or other unfortunate circumstances. The Clintons are even worse than LBJ in that regard.
But hey, if the people are stupid enough to vote for her - more power to her... literally.
No, normally - in a sane world - the buggy-as-hell version with all the new features is the x.0 version and the bugfixed version is x.y where y gets bigger as the bugs get smaller.
Canonical is not an US-company and (supposedly) has no agreement with the NSA - Microsoft was the first company that made a deal with the NSA and is one of the most willing providers for the NSA.
So while some search on Windows 8 probably won't land you in Guantanamo, it may very well lead to some "extra" IRS audit or some other harrassment if the Obama-administration doesn't like it.
For example we here regularly do documentation. Which includes putting screenshots in, because often that's the only way to make things clear in GUIs. If we would upgrade every 90 days, we would either have to check the whole documentation and rework a substancial part of it every 90 days or just adopt the Googlesque sloppy "it's not accurate but close enough" attitude.
And of course while the new buzzword-features may be distributed in an email (which nobody will read every 90 days), the new bugs and incompatible changes will not because those will either be unknown or embarassing (or both).
In some cases, when we talk about some new software (for example when we talk about Smartphone-stuff where some improvements are desperately needed) a fast release cycle can be worth it, but for Desktop software? No.
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Heck, the normal person would even fail to access a IPv6-website via browser!
Why? Because the braindead IPv6 standard uses semicolons in addresses which are used for ports in http.
So you have to use square-brackets for the address, because the morons how designed IPv6 forgot about the most important protocol out there. How stupid must one be to make that mistake?
And these breaks of compatibility are exactly the reason why IPv6 will never succeed.
AFAIK all these mechanisms require cooperation from the inside.
If your inside machine cooperates to download data from outside, also the best IPv6-firewall will not help you.
So the basic IPv4-NAT is as secure as your glorified IPv6 firewall - and much more practicable, because you have to run IPv4 anyway, so what is the point in adding IPv6?
You got that reversed: IPv4 supports everyone's needs - it must because it is used by everyone.
IPv6 however cannot replace IPv4 (all IPv6 users including YOU also need IPv4 to get even the most basic work done) and therefore only adds complexity (and more security problems) without any benefit at all.
Just because that is repeated ad-nauseam doesn't make it true.
Of course NAT has security benefits: It acts basically as a "one-way" firewall, which is exactly what most people that don't run a server at home need.
Of course you could configure a IPv6-firewall the same way, but that would take several days and who has time for that?
I see some murderer's mother crying "My boy didn't do no wrong" - why isn't she supposed to feel guilty?
Who says she isn't supposed to? Who says she doesn't?
Read my post again, I quoted it: "The condemned prisoner's family didn't do anything wrong."
The condemned prisoner's family didn't do anything wrong.
That is funny because I have been personally held responsible for all these:
I am supposedly guilty of all these because somebody guilty is possibly is related to me (probably a dozen or so steps removed because I don't know anybody in my immediate family guilty of any of that). I am supposed to feel guilty about that - and if not I am evil, evil, evil and deserve to die (yes, the very same people who are against the death penalty often call for a lynching if they run out of arguments - and they do so proudly).
Then, when I switch on the TV, I see some murderer's mother crying "My boy didn't do no wrong" - why isn't she supposed to feel guilty? How is it that normal, law-abiding people are guilty for things that happened centuries before their birth while "The condemned prisoner's family didn't do anything wrong."? How so? Why this double-standard?
Any rational person has to admit that (in most cases) of course the condemned prisoner's family did a lot wrong, they raised him the way they did, they likely watched him go deeper and deeper into crime and quite often they also covered for him and obstructed justice. And in any case they are a lot closer to a criminal than I am.
Why is every criminal innocent until proven guilty while every law-abiding person is guilty without any chance of appeal?
And what if your "slave" turns out to be (like most criminals) lazy, stupid and pretty useless in general? What then?
Finally a constructive proposal
Yeah, but you are not member of a protected class.
Too bad the GOP does not care about their conservative base.
Anywhere else this wouldn't happen in the first place. The are "bigots" outside America, you know.
Not enough for self-hating Protestants (that includes also atheists growing up in Protestant society), they just love it to feel guilty about things that happened centuries before their own birth.
Well that is feminism in a nutshell.
It's also not illegal to flush down things down the toilet when the cops are ringing on the door.
But would you vote for somebody like that?
Maybe that should become Hillaries campaign slogan, it would really fit.
But the Republicans won't go there, because before you know it somebody may ask for a real 9/11 investigation.
Democrats and Republicans agree that their candidate is a little less bad than the candidate of the other party.
What a great time we live in.
And yet, the 8 years Clinton was in office, shit was good in America. Really fucking good.
Maybe you should be voting for this guy instead:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt03...
"Shit. I know shit's bad right now, with all that..."
Democrats and Republicans are just as dumb as the supporters of the circus parties in the Byzantine empire:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...
They will vote for anybody who fulfills these requirements:
You keep asking for accomplishments, for the 3rd time already - don't you get it? give it up already!
An intern murdered execution-style at her workplace, an ex-lover who committed "suicide", his speech interpreter for the deaf has an auto-accident, ....
But it's alright, nothing to see here, ignore all that conspiracy theory nonsense and turn on the TV.
Are we talking about the same person that deleted all her emails to obstruct a corruption investigation?
http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~... http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Sla...
And that's only the recent scandals.
Let's not forget Whitewater and all the other scandals.
Also people near the Clintons have the tendency to commit "suicide", die in airplane crashes, botched robberies or other unfortunate circumstances. The Clintons are even worse than LBJ in that regard.
But hey, if the people are stupid enough to vote for her - more power to her... literally.
Obama just reads whatever is on the teleprompter, he does not think much. I would really like to know who is writing his speeches.
No, normally - in a sane world - the buggy-as-hell version with all the new features is the x.0 version and the bugfixed version is x.y where y gets bigger as the bugs get smaller.
Canonical is not an US-company and (supposedly) has no agreement with the NSA - Microsoft was the first company that made a deal with the NSA and is one of the most willing providers for the NSA.
So while some search on Windows 8 probably won't land you in Guantanamo, it may very well lead to some "extra" IRS audit or some other harrassment if the Obama-administration doesn't like it.
For example we here regularly do documentation. Which includes putting screenshots in, because often that's the only way to make things clear in GUIs. If we would upgrade every 90 days, we would either have to check the whole documentation and rework a substancial part of it every 90 days or just adopt the Googlesque sloppy "it's not accurate but close enough" attitude.
And of course while the new buzzword-features may be distributed in an email (which nobody will read every 90 days), the new bugs and incompatible changes will not because those will either be unknown or embarassing (or both).
In some cases, when we talk about some new software (for example when we talk about Smartphone-stuff where some improvements are desperately needed) a fast release cycle can be worth it, but for Desktop software? No.