It is gonna cost probably a couple hundred million in routers and modems that cannot support IPV6
...if you attempted to replace them all at once today. No one does that. Instead, IPv6 support will become a bullet point for purchasing replacements for EOL hardware and we'll transition to it naturally as IPv4-only hardware falls by the wayside.
The story never mentions that there are actually other pools that still contain a goldmine of addresses.
Such as...
I also suspect that companies own big blocks that can be freed when the going gets tough.
An entire/8 would push back the inevitable by, what, a few weeks? And who's going to gladly give up a class A? No, for all practical purposes the article is completely correct. We're out. There might be some tricks that could let IPv4 allocation limp along for another few months, but that's not going to help anything.
Or maybe, just maybe, Apple really doesn't like the Gummint trying to force it to do something that could hurt profits.
Which is the absolute best possible reason for a company to want to support its users. "Don't Be Evil" is only good until it starts costing shareholder value, and then investors revolt. You want it to be in a corporation's best financial interests to act in your best personal interests.
I understand inflation, but I'm intolerant of "government compliance surcharges" and random miscellany like that. If it comes down to the point where bare Internet costs the same as my current monthly bill, I wouldn't rule out starting an ISP that covers my neighborhood.
Sure, but: 1) they're making a lot less than if they were selling me both, and 2) a bare Internet connection is (at least hypothetically) replaceable. Once you've made the decision to drop TV programming, there's not a lot to holding you to a particular ISP.
If a significant number of people did that, it'd definitely teach them. No one wants to explain to the board why some of their major product segments are tanking.
Every time Comcast increases my bill, I drop a feature that costs the same amount. They're getting perilously close to the point where that feature will be "TV".
An open message to Comcast execs: be absolutely sure you're ready to make customers decide between your content and Netflix. I bet you'd be surprised how often the response won't be what you'd hope.
While I appreciate and respect the work that went into LILO, I'm not going to wax nostalgic about it. There were lots of things I used daily Back Then - think AGP drivers, X modelines, PATA - that served me well but that I'm happy to move past. LILO did its job and I'm grateful to it, but I don't feel like a troll for not caring about what it's been up to for the last decade or so.
"Quality of finish" includes things like whether the seam between face and sides is smooth, if edges are nicely beveled, etc. Almost everyone cares about such things in the sense that you (at minimum subconsciously) evaluate those things when you see an object for the first time. Can you tell at a glance which swag t-shirt costs $5 versus $0.50? Guess what: quality of finish makes a difference to you.
...which is probably hanging off the same switch as a backed-up NAS, where they could probably mount \\copserver\evidence as the P: (for Perpetrator) drive and be done with it.
And it's not a big deal for a young healthy person to get it...
In particularly nasty flus, a young healthy immune system is more likely to trigger a cytokine storm, a potentially lethal situation. Little kids, the elderly, and people with weakened immune systems are more likely to survive the really bad influenzas than your average otherwise healthy person.
When 16GB RAM kits are less than $100 on Newegg, it inverts the original question: under what circumstances would you possibly not want to max out your RAM?
Too much RAM is dangerous because without ECC the risk of corruption becomes very high.
That's unlikely to be true. You'll increase the chance of getting an unstable but, but decrease the chance of that bit affecting any given piece of information you care about.
Its predecessor, Lollipop, clawed it way to 18.1% share in just 9 short months! In fact, Android versions released since October 2013 (KitKat) account for a whopping 57.4 share! With quick adoption like that, you should plan to upgrade your current phone to Marshmallow any day now.
(Achievement unlocked: I typed that whole thing with a straight face.)
Well actually, yeah. I'd have expected someone like the security team to be running it behind a firewall to see what connections it's trying to make. Guess not, huh?
It's good these posts come out, but having worked with it, it's probably just a case of some calls that didn't check for the telemetry lockdown registry key.
Oh, so it's just a case of them not having integration tests. That's not exactly comforting in an OS vendor.
We get what we deserve because we let the free market reign supreme where the most cut throated business-people win and the rest go down the drain
Oh yes, I'd much rather have a centrally planned technology base, because the best ideas always come out of committees and government procurement processes.
Try spending as much time on creative and entertaining ads as you do in trying to come up with new and more obnoxious pop-ups.
You know, there's an annual advertising gala disguised as a sports event, and a lot of people watch it for the commercials! It is possible to make people want to see your ads, but it takes more effort than bitching about the freeloaders who don't want to punch the monkey.
At which point someone on slashdot pops in and says "you're all a bunch of worthless freeloaders [...]"
Truth be told, I honor requests from otherwise reputable sites that ask nicely. My local newspaper's site politely asked if I would please consider disabling my blocker for their site so that they could afford to continue paying reporters and such. OK, that's a fair trade and I'm happy to do it. Don't tell me to disable it, though. That's unlikely to have the desired result.
I didn't block them for the longest time because I was willing to look at the dumb ads as the price of free content I enjoy. I gave up and clicked the checkbox when Slashdot's ads went full jackass, and installed ABP when Slashdot (temporarily?) stopped honoring the checkbox. Yes, that's right: I installed ABP because of Slashdot.
but they could at least prompt you with a message like "We detected that you are running a fresh installation of windows, would you like to install our software to improve the performances of your computer and fix known hardware problems ?"
Yeah, no. Because even then they're injecting unknown code into your otherwise pristine environment; that dialog ain't gonna display itself.
In the situation where the user has explicitly gone out of their way to install a clean OS, it's a fairly safe bet that they're expecting to boot into a clean freaking OS, not a "mostly clean except what the hardware vendor dicked around with" system. I don't want the Western Digital BIOS injecting a SATA driver update, or my keyboard injecting a keyboard driver update, or my laptop injecting a laptop driver update. If I'm capable of laying down a clean image, I'm capable of installing all that stuff myself if I want it.
I agree completely. I'm OK with seeing a few ads if they support the free content I want to access. If that's the business model we're going with, then so be it. Slashdot itself broke my own camel's back, though, with the amount of crap I saw even after I clicked "Ads Disabled" (because of the amount of crap I was seeing). My decision was reinforced after the most recent monthly session of Dad Cleans Up The Kids' Gaming PC from all the junkware they'd installed (my youngest is 7; sometimes he doesn't make the best choices).
Sorry, ad industry. I was willing to work with you but you made it too hard to accept. This is your own fault.
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It is gonna cost probably a couple hundred million in routers and modems that cannot support IPV6
...if you attempted to replace them all at once today. No one does that. Instead, IPv6 support will become a bullet point for purchasing replacements for EOL hardware and we'll transition to it naturally as IPv4-only hardware falls by the wayside.
The story never mentions that there are actually other pools that still contain a goldmine of addresses.
Such as...
I also suspect that companies own big blocks that can be freed when the going gets tough.
An entire /8 would push back the inevitable by, what, a few weeks? And who's going to gladly give up a class A? No, for all practical purposes the article is completely correct. We're out. There might be some tricks that could let IPv4 allocation limp along for another few months, but that's not going to help anything.
Part of their user lock-in strategy.
It's a piss-poor strategy, considering they host a webpage for deregistering your iMessage account.
They're actually fighting in court for the right to keep doing this, instead of not being dicks and fixing it.
Citation needed: that's an extraordinary claim, and one that's utterly failed to make headlines.
Or maybe, just maybe, Apple really doesn't like the Gummint trying to force it to do something that could hurt profits.
Which is the absolute best possible reason for a company to want to support its users. "Don't Be Evil" is only good until it starts costing shareholder value, and then investors revolt. You want it to be in a corporation's best financial interests to act in your best personal interests.
I understand inflation, but I'm intolerant of "government compliance surcharges" and random miscellany like that. If it comes down to the point where bare Internet costs the same as my current monthly bill, I wouldn't rule out starting an ISP that covers my neighborhood.
Sure, but: 1) they're making a lot less than if they were selling me both, and 2) a bare Internet connection is (at least hypothetically) replaceable. Once you've made the decision to drop TV programming, there's not a lot to holding you to a particular ISP.
If a significant number of people did that, it'd definitely teach them. No one wants to explain to the board why some of their major product segments are tanking.
Outside SF, I pay a lot more for Internet + TV than for bare Internet. I'd save quite a lot by dropping their TV service.
Every time Comcast increases my bill, I drop a feature that costs the same amount. They're getting perilously close to the point where that feature will be "TV".
An open message to Comcast execs: be absolutely sure you're ready to make customers decide between your content and Netflix. I bet you'd be surprised how often the response won't be what you'd hope.
While I appreciate and respect the work that went into LILO, I'm not going to wax nostalgic about it. There were lots of things I used daily Back Then - think AGP drivers, X modelines, PATA - that served me well but that I'm happy to move past. LILO did its job and I'm grateful to it, but I don't feel like a troll for not caring about what it's been up to for the last decade or so.
"Quality of finish" includes things like whether the seam between face and sides is smooth, if edges are nicely beveled, etc. Almost everyone cares about such things in the sense that you (at minimum subconsciously) evaluate those things when you see an object for the first time. Can you tell at a glance which swag t-shirt costs $5 versus $0.50? Guess what: quality of finish makes a difference to you.
This is a networked Windows XP computer
...which is probably hanging off the same switch as a backed-up NAS, where they could probably mount \\copserver\evidence as the P: (for Perpetrator) drive and be done with it.
And it's not a big deal for a young healthy person to get it...
In particularly nasty flus, a young healthy immune system is more likely to trigger a cytokine storm, a potentially lethal situation. Little kids, the elderly, and people with weakened immune systems are more likely to survive the really bad influenzas than your average otherwise healthy person.
Web browser makers are incentivised to make everyone use HTML5, regardless of whether it's a better fit than Flash or not.
It's always a better fit than Flash, because Flash isn't available on an enormous portion of web clients (e.g. no one on non-jailbroken iOS has it).
When 16GB RAM kits are less than $100 on Newegg, it inverts the original question: under what circumstances would you possibly not want to max out your RAM?
Too much RAM is dangerous because without ECC the risk of corruption becomes very high.
That's unlikely to be true. You'll increase the chance of getting an unstable but, but decrease the chance of that bit affecting any given piece of information you care about.
Its predecessor, Lollipop, clawed it way to 18.1% share in just 9 short months! In fact, Android versions released since October 2013 (KitKat) account for a whopping 57.4 share! With quick adoption like that, you should plan to upgrade your current phone to Marshmallow any day now.
(Achievement unlocked: I typed that whole thing with a straight face.)
Well actually, yeah. I'd have expected someone like the security team to be running it behind a firewall to see what connections it's trying to make. Guess not, huh?
It's good these posts come out, but having worked with it, it's probably just a case of some calls that didn't check for the telemetry lockdown registry key.
Oh, so it's just a case of them not having integration tests. That's not exactly comforting in an OS vendor.
We get what we deserve because we let the free market reign supreme where the most cut throated business-people win and the rest go down the drain
Oh yes, I'd much rather have a centrally planned technology base, because the best ideas always come out of committees and government procurement processes.
Try spending as much time on creative and entertaining ads as you do in trying to come up with new and more obnoxious pop-ups.
You know, there's an annual advertising gala disguised as a sports event, and a lot of people watch it for the commercials! It is possible to make people want to see your ads, but it takes more effort than bitching about the freeloaders who don't want to punch the monkey.
At which point someone on slashdot pops in and says "you're all a bunch of worthless freeloaders [...]"
Truth be told, I honor requests from otherwise reputable sites that ask nicely. My local newspaper's site politely asked if I would please consider disabling my blocker for their site so that they could afford to continue paying reporters and such. OK, that's a fair trade and I'm happy to do it. Don't tell me to disable it, though. That's unlikely to have the desired result.
I didn't block them for the longest time because I was willing to look at the dumb ads as the price of free content I enjoy. I gave up and clicked the checkbox when Slashdot's ads went full jackass, and installed ABP when Slashdot (temporarily?) stopped honoring the checkbox. Yes, that's right: I installed ABP because of Slashdot.
Slow golf clap. Well done, corporate overlords.
but they could at least prompt you with a message like "We detected that you are running a fresh installation of windows, would you like to install our software to improve the performances of your computer and fix known hardware problems ?"
Yeah, no. Because even then they're injecting unknown code into your otherwise pristine environment; that dialog ain't gonna display itself.
In the situation where the user has explicitly gone out of their way to install a clean OS, it's a fairly safe bet that they're expecting to boot into a clean freaking OS, not a "mostly clean except what the hardware vendor dicked around with" system. I don't want the Western Digital BIOS injecting a SATA driver update, or my keyboard injecting a keyboard driver update, or my laptop injecting a laptop driver update. If I'm capable of laying down a clean image, I'm capable of installing all that stuff myself if I want it.
I agree completely. I'm OK with seeing a few ads if they support the free content I want to access. If that's the business model we're going with, then so be it. Slashdot itself broke my own camel's back, though, with the amount of crap I saw even after I clicked "Ads Disabled" (because of the amount of crap I was seeing). My decision was reinforced after the most recent monthly session of Dad Cleans Up The Kids' Gaming PC from all the junkware they'd installed (my youngest is 7; sometimes he doesn't make the best choices).
Sorry, ad industry. I was willing to work with you but you made it too hard to accept. This is your own fault.