I really doubt that after all this time that IPv6 adoption will ever be driven by address scarcity in the IPv4 space. We've developed tools like NAT that have extended the usable number of addresses far beyond what was originally envisioned, and the few problems created by the widespread usage of NAT are not showstoppers to the vast majority of users.
I think we have much more pressing problems. I seriously question whether or not our advanced technological society will last long enough to exhaust the currently available address space, and even if the prediction is true, and we approach that state within the next 7.5 years, it is more likely that measures will be taken to ensure that abandoned or underutilized address space is reallocated.
Perhaps you don't know much about the business side of medicine in this country.
True, many people do become physicians because they have a vocation, but I think even a fair number of those would gladly switch careers to make $200K+ that would essentially be hassle-free, as compared to what physicians now go through in this country thanks to our draconian insurance industry and legal environment.
(Disclaimer: I am a native New Yorker, and my family has lived in NYC for over 80 years.)
Funny though, that New Jersey doesn't have an 8.25% sales tax rate and many essential items like clothing are entirely tax free, so hordes of people from NYC who can afford to keep a car in The City (and yes, "The City" will always mean NYC to me) frequently spend a goodly portion of their money here rather than there......but then, you don't get a lot of French-Canadian tourists crowding the beaches of Manhattan with their socks-and sandals getups in the summer, so I suppose it all works out in the end.
Well, here in New Jersey, we have lots of names for Texas, Quebec, *and* the former Soviet Union...but we're in mixed company, so I won't repeat them here.
If you believe that, then you clearly don't understand anything about international politics.
The UN is relatively powerless because that is the nature of international relationships. Each member nation of the United Nations is a sovereign entity, and agreements between such entities can only be reached through cooperation. This is the very reason why each permanent member of the UN Security Council holds veto power. If a sovereign nation disagrees with the rest of the world, it is still within its rights to act on its own.
Go back to school before you start spouting off about the UN.
On the other hand, if you're really advocating for a world government, then perhaps you'd care to state a reasoned case why?
What really makes me laugh is how many people think that running sshd instead of telnetd is somehow going to magically give you protection from being hacked.
For those of you who don't realize this...you can break into *any* vanilla sshd by guessing the right password...just the same as if you were running telnetd. The *only* difference is somewhat greater protection over having your password sniffed over the network while in transit. Unless, of course, you're running some sort of PKI infrastructure with client certificate authentication, or some such...which very, very few people ever implement.
Exercise for the reader (at least, those of us who actually have root access to real servers connected to the Internet): Go take a look at your authentication logs to see how many bots out there are trying to guess your ssh password. Solution #1: Put an externally configurable firewall on your network, and only enable ssh traffic when you need access. Then shut the port when you're done. Never rely on a single layer of security.
Besides which, the possibility of your password *actually getting sniffed* is extremely small, unless your traffic is being routed through already insecure systems, which is a highly unlikely possibility.
The sky is not falling. But you should be aware that sometimes things do drop out of the sky and land on people.
Not to nitpick, but did you mean 20 servers in a single rack space? Because if you didn't, 20 servers in a single, standard 42U rack isn't impressive, considering that with any ol' 1U server, you can fit 42 of them in the same space, right? OTOH, 20 servers in 1U *would* be impressive.
'The SANS Internet Storm Center, which monitors Internet threats, has noticed some increase in activity on the network port used by Solaris' telnet feature, according to an ISC blog posted on Tuesday.
Pardon my ignorance, but doesn't Solaris use TCP port 23 like every other version of telnet in the universe, unless it's specifically redirected to a different port?
Although I happen to like Mr. Dada's posts, despite the fact that I agree with you concerning some of your inital arguments about the nature of some of his posts, when you start saying things like...
Slashdot isn't a place for "reasoning" about economics. That's for trained economists in appropriate academic settings. For someone with a UID slightly lower than mine, you strangely don't seem to recognize what/. is for here....then you've completely missed the point of the discussion.
Slashdot is whatever you make it. Personally, I think that the likelihood that the average Slashdot participant is of somewhat higher intellect and learning than the average of the general populace means that we tend to have a number of very informed opinions present, across a very wide range of fields.
Should Dada be criticized for the somewhat commercial nature of some of his posts? That depends on your point of view, and additionally whether or not the nature of his posts, commercial or not, are relevant to the topic at hand. In any case, if he wants to spend his days coming up with websites that make money for a living, more power to him. I don't begrudge him that, and he doesn't really make much of an attempt to hide the fact.
That said (and my sub 34K UID notwithstanding), I think your posts have been unduly moderated down, and I have Dada marked as a "Friend". Beyond that, you might want to actually listen to Dada a bit more, and possibly debate some of his points in a more direct fashion. He has some interesting ideas, though not all of them are in agreement with my own points of view.
One other thing that I almost forgot. The online documentation is very poor. You really need to offer a downloadable, complete manual to the game. In only 20 or so days of playing I've come up with so many questions that could not be answered by the available documentation, or the answers that were available were so imprecise as to be useless, that I've lost count.
I only recently heard about EVE Online, thanks to all the brouhaha that appeared here on Slashdot a few weeks ago. I downloaded the client and signed up for a trial account. After 14 days, I plunked down my credit card number for a full account. The game is very fun to play, but I have a few questions about certain decisions that the designers have made.
First of all, why is there no Mac OS X or Linux client? I despise having to use Windows for any reason at all. The only reason it's even installed on my Macs is because I'm a technology consultant and I have to deal with Windows professionally, but I'd really rather not have to.
The second thing I'd like to know is why the physics are all screwed up, specifically, why are ships limited to a particular velocity. This flies in the face of logic, and makes no sense whatsoever. Ships should be rated according to their acceleration characteristics. As an aside to this, the spaceship designers might want to study the concept of "moment of inertia" to see why it is highly unlikely that real spaceships would exhibit the highly asymmetrical designs that are so prevalent in EVE.
Thirdly, what's up with the seemingly bizarre layouts of the solar systems, as relates to the legal system? There are many pockets of high-sec regions and systems in EVE that are ony reachable through long strings of low-sec jumps. This really doesn't make a whole lot of sense, as in any real empire, if a particular part of said empire were similarly isolated, it would very quickly cease to be viable.
I play a character which is part of the Gallente Federation. I have noticed that many Federation stations are located in low-sec space. This also doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The construction of a station would require a massive investment, making it highly unlikely that any entity would choose to locate such an expensive piece of hardware in such a place, unless they felt they could defend that space easily, which almost by definition would make that space relatively high security.
I suppose that you could some up my questions here by saying that I'm really requesting that the game be made much more realistic than it is.
Besides, real things (even salesmen) don't just have to travel in straight lines between points in space. There are other factors like lunch breaks and the location of good restaurants, which the problem doesn't account for.
Which, of course, clearly demonstrates the utility of the Bistro Drive for all Traveling Salesmen.
Oh, come on now, how can you even be mad at Sony? They can't even get out of their own way, for Dog's sake!
Sony makes some really cool shit in their professional product lines. Hell, even in their consumer lines, I'll buy a Sony before I buy anything else. Not that I understand their self-destructive proprietary format nonsense, but still...their stuff is really damn good.
Well, I'm posting this from my new black MacBook Core 2 Duo. I bought the MacBook along with a 17" iMac Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz. So my last Microsoft retail purchases were two shiny retail copies of Windows XP Professional, at the low, low price of $299 each. Fuck Me.
His motives then were the same as now: DRM can't work, he'll make more money if he sells songs without DRM.
Motives? Come now, who really knows SJ's motivation?
If I had to take a guess, I'd say that His Steveness doesn't really care all that much about making money, per se, but about changing the world. So far, he's made a dent or two.
The thing is, Steve's right, digital content can't be protected in any meaningful way. Of course, this sucks for those of us who would like to sell digital content, but facts are facts, and we'll just have to find a way to deal with it. Personally, I think we'll see a drastic reduction in cultural output, but at least what we do have will be free. Although, that doesn't mean what we will have will be good.
That said, someone who drives a Yukon is a hypocrite if they claim to be an environmentalist.
Not true, there are legitimate uses for SUV's, especially in the sorts of environments that legitimate, serious environmentalists tend to find themselves when doing research. You know, despite the efforts of alt.pave.the.earth, very little of the planet is actually paved.
Myself, I drive a Jeep Wrangler. It gets about 14 miles to the gallon, on average, and I have uses for it that most of the population of the planet cannot even comprehend. I make no apologies. I do wish it got better mileage, however. It's not impossible, it's just that it's about as aerodynamic as a brick, or possibly even less so.
See, and I've always thought we should just figure out a way to shoot it at good ol' Sol (you know, that nifty little Class M star close by that you can see most days of the year?). It's big enough to absorb our waste products. We just need to build a big enough launcher, which has already been figured out. Then we just need to figure out how to protect all that Plutonium...
Not to be Captian Obvious here, but the answer to all three of your examples is China. The treat was, and continues to be, the People's Republic of China. The first two are relatively obvious, though I expect most people don't realize the significance of Cam Rahn Bay (sp? too busy to look it up), and the Iraq problem is directly related to competition with China for the only large and proven petro resources left on the planet.
Actually, the carbon dioxide concentration was already rising when it was banned (early 20th C ? I believe)...but your point is well taken. People really just do not realize how useful hemp is in so many different spheres. I really wish I coul find a copy of the report from the US government that I read a long time ago that was originally published in the early years of the 20th century on the subject. If anyone has a copy, please post a link--you know the one I mean if you have it.
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I really doubt that after all this time that IPv6 adoption will ever be driven by address scarcity in the IPv4 space. We've developed tools like NAT that have extended the usable number of addresses far beyond what was originally envisioned, and the few problems created by the widespread usage of NAT are not showstoppers to the vast majority of users.
I think we have much more pressing problems. I seriously question whether or not our advanced technological society will last long enough to exhaust the currently available address space, and even if the prediction is true, and we approach that state within the next 7.5 years, it is more likely that measures will be taken to ensure that abandoned or underutilized address space is reallocated.
Perhaps you don't know much about the business side of medicine in this country.
True, many people do become physicians because they have a vocation, but I think even a fair number of those would gladly switch careers to make $200K+ that would essentially be hassle-free, as compared to what physicians now go through in this country thanks to our draconian insurance industry and legal environment.
(Disclaimer: I am a native New Yorker, and my family has lived in NYC for over 80 years.)
...but then, you don't get a lot of French-Canadian tourists crowding the beaches of Manhattan with their socks-and sandals getups in the summer, so I suppose it all works out in the end.
Funny though, that New Jersey doesn't have an 8.25% sales tax rate and many essential items like clothing are entirely tax free, so hordes of people from NYC who can afford to keep a car in The City (and yes, "The City" will always mean NYC to me) frequently spend a goodly portion of their money here rather than there...
My apologies, then. I took your statement in a manner in which it would seem you did not intend.
Well, here in New Jersey, we have lots of names for Texas, Quebec, *and* the former Soviet Union...but we're in mixed company, so I won't repeat them here.
Aussies, on the other hand, we find amusing.
If you believe that, then you clearly don't understand anything about international politics.
The UN is relatively powerless because that is the nature of international relationships. Each member nation of the United Nations is a sovereign entity, and agreements between such entities can only be reached through cooperation. This is the very reason why each permanent member of the UN Security Council holds veto power. If a sovereign nation disagrees with the rest of the world, it is still within its rights to act on its own.
Go back to school before you start spouting off about the UN.
On the other hand, if you're really advocating for a world government, then perhaps you'd care to state a reasoned case why?
What really makes me laugh is how many people think that running sshd instead of telnetd is somehow going to magically give you protection from being hacked.
For those of you who don't realize this...you can break into *any* vanilla sshd by guessing the right password...just the same as if you were running telnetd. The *only* difference is somewhat greater protection over having your password sniffed over the network while in transit. Unless, of course, you're running some sort of PKI infrastructure with client certificate authentication, or some such...which very, very few people ever implement.
Exercise for the reader (at least, those of us who actually have root access to real servers connected to the Internet): Go take a look at your authentication logs to see how many bots out there are trying to guess your ssh password. Solution #1: Put an externally configurable firewall on your network, and only enable ssh traffic when you need access. Then shut the port when you're done. Never rely on a single layer of security.
Besides which, the possibility of your password *actually getting sniffed* is extremely small, unless your traffic is being routed through already insecure systems, which is a highly unlikely possibility.
The sky is not falling. But you should be aware that sometimes things do drop out of the sky and land on people.
Not to nitpick, but did you mean 20 servers in a single rack space? Because if you didn't, 20 servers in a single, standard 42U rack isn't impressive, considering that with any ol' 1U server, you can fit 42 of them in the same space, right? OTOH, 20 servers in 1U *would* be impressive.
'The SANS Internet Storm Center, which monitors Internet threats, has noticed some increase in activity on the network port used by Solaris' telnet feature, according to an ISC blog posted on Tuesday.
Pardon my ignorance, but doesn't Solaris use TCP port 23 like every other version of telnet in the universe, unless it's specifically redirected to a different port?
Although I happen to like Mr. Dada's posts, despite the fact that I agree with you concerning some of your inital arguments about the nature of some of his posts, when you start saying things like...
/. is for here. ...then you've completely missed the point of the discussion.
Slashdot isn't a place for "reasoning" about economics. That's for trained economists in appropriate academic settings. For someone with a UID slightly lower than mine, you strangely don't seem to recognize what
Slashdot is whatever you make it. Personally, I think that the likelihood that the average Slashdot participant is of somewhat higher intellect and learning than the average of the general populace means that we tend to have a number of very informed opinions present, across a very wide range of fields.
Should Dada be criticized for the somewhat commercial nature of some of his posts? That depends on your point of view, and additionally whether or not the nature of his posts, commercial or not, are relevant to the topic at hand. In any case, if he wants to spend his days coming up with websites that make money for a living, more power to him. I don't begrudge him that, and he doesn't really make much of an attempt to hide the fact.
That said (and my sub 34K UID notwithstanding), I think your posts have been unduly moderated down, and I have Dada marked as a "Friend". Beyond that, you might want to actually listen to Dada a bit more, and possibly debate some of his points in a more direct fashion. He has some interesting ideas, though not all of them are in agreement with my own points of view.
One other thing that I almost forgot. The online documentation is very poor. You really need to offer a downloadable, complete manual to the game. In only 20 or so days of playing I've come up with so many questions that could not be answered by the available documentation, or the answers that were available were so imprecise as to be useless, that I've lost count.
I only recently heard about EVE Online, thanks to all the brouhaha that appeared here on Slashdot a few weeks ago. I downloaded the client and signed up for a trial account. After 14 days, I plunked down my credit card number for a full account. The game is very fun to play, but I have a few questions about certain decisions that the designers have made.
First of all, why is there no Mac OS X or Linux client? I despise having to use Windows for any reason at all. The only reason it's even installed on my Macs is because I'm a technology consultant and I have to deal with Windows professionally, but I'd really rather not have to.
The second thing I'd like to know is why the physics are all screwed up, specifically, why are ships limited to a particular velocity. This flies in the face of logic, and makes no sense whatsoever. Ships should be rated according to their acceleration characteristics. As an aside to this, the spaceship designers might want to study the concept of "moment of inertia" to see why it is highly unlikely that real spaceships would exhibit the highly asymmetrical designs that are so prevalent in EVE.
Thirdly, what's up with the seemingly bizarre layouts of the solar systems, as relates to the legal system? There are many pockets of high-sec regions and systems in EVE that are ony reachable through long strings of low-sec jumps. This really doesn't make a whole lot of sense, as in any real empire, if a particular part of said empire were similarly isolated, it would very quickly cease to be viable.
I play a character which is part of the Gallente Federation. I have noticed that many Federation stations are located in low-sec space. This also doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The construction of a station would require a massive investment, making it highly unlikely that any entity would choose to locate such an expensive piece of hardware in such a place, unless they felt they could defend that space easily, which almost by definition would make that space relatively high security.
I suppose that you could some up my questions here by saying that I'm really requesting that the game be made much more realistic than it is.
Besides, real things (even salesmen) don't just have to travel in straight lines between points in space. There are other factors like lunch breaks and the location of good restaurants, which the problem doesn't account for.
Which, of course, clearly demonstrates the utility of the Bistro Drive for all Traveling Salesmen.
And then we'd never know, would we? Where's that History Eraser Button when you need it most?
No, seriously. I only read it for the articles. Really.
Tell me about it. T has a monopoly on the iPhone...
Oh, come on now, how can you even be mad at Sony? They can't even get out of their own way, for Dog's sake!
Sony makes some really cool shit in their professional product lines. Hell, even in their consumer lines, I'll buy a Sony before I buy anything else. Not that I understand their self-destructive proprietary format nonsense, but still...their stuff is really damn good.
Well, I'm posting this from my new black MacBook Core 2 Duo. I bought the MacBook along with a 17" iMac Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz. So my last Microsoft retail purchases were two shiny retail copies of Windows XP Professional, at the low, low price of $299 each. Fuck Me.
His motives then were the same as now: DRM can't work, he'll make more money if he sells songs without DRM.
Motives? Come now, who really knows SJ's motivation?
If I had to take a guess, I'd say that His Steveness doesn't really care all that much about making money, per se, but about changing the world. So far, he's made a dent or two.
The thing is, Steve's right, digital content can't be protected in any meaningful way. Of course, this sucks for those of us who would like to sell digital content, but facts are facts, and we'll just have to find a way to deal with it. Personally, I think we'll see a drastic reduction in cultural output, but at least what we do have will be free. Although, that doesn't mean what we will have will be good.
You know, instead of spending your time bitching about DRM, maybe you might try picking up a musical instrument and making your own damn music.
That said, someone who drives a Yukon is a hypocrite if they claim to be an environmentalist.
Not true, there are legitimate uses for SUV's, especially in the sorts of environments that legitimate, serious environmentalists tend to find themselves when doing research. You know, despite the efforts of alt.pave.the.earth, very little of the planet is actually paved.
Myself, I drive a Jeep Wrangler. It gets about 14 miles to the gallon, on average, and I have uses for it that most of the population of the planet cannot even comprehend. I make no apologies. I do wish it got better mileage, however. It's not impossible, it's just that it's about as aerodynamic as a brick, or possibly even less so.
See, and I've always thought we should just figure out a way to shoot it at good ol' Sol (you know, that nifty little Class M star close by that you can see most days of the year?). It's big enough to absorb our waste products. We just need to build a big enough launcher, which has already been figured out. Then we just need to figure out how to protect all that Plutonium...
Not to be Captian Obvious here, but the answer to all three of your examples is China. The treat was, and continues to be, the People's Republic of China. The first two are relatively obvious, though I expect most people don't realize the significance of Cam Rahn Bay (sp? too busy to look it up), and the Iraq problem is directly related to competition with China for the only large and proven petro resources left on the planet.
Humanity is screwing up the planet Sorry, but I had to fix your quote.
Wrong. Inhumanity is what's screwing up the planet.
Actually, the carbon dioxide concentration was already rising when it was banned (early 20th C ? I believe)...but your point is well taken. People really just do not realize how useful hemp is in so many different spheres. I really wish I coul find a copy of the report from the US government that I read a long time ago that was originally published in the early years of the 20th century on the subject. If anyone has a copy, please post a link--you know the one I mean if you have it.