The uptime of Skype to the user is the product of Skype's uptime, that of the user's Internet service, that of her electrical service, and that of her hardware. That product might exceed one 9 but it'll won't come near 5 9s.
It happened because their system is vulnerable to cascading failure. They've managed to combine the disadvantages of a centralized system with those of a decentralized one.
Society's goal ought not to be to make each student a master of the newest tool, but to teach them how to live in a society which that new tool has changed.
But they already know how to send text messages with their thumbs.
It is a pretty well known fact that animal farming is one of the major contributors to ghg emissions.
It is a pretty well known fact that animals (including people) are one of the major contributors to ghg emissions. It doesn't matter whether they are farmed or not. Farts is farts.
> Every hex digit represents exactly 4 binary digits.
Yes. Any sysadmin who cannot quickly learn to do hex-binary conversions in his head needs to be promoted to management. Hex is notation is vastly superior for either IPv6 or IPv4 addresses.
Hexadecimal notation is just a convention. Write some simple tools to display IPv6 addresses in octal if you can't deal with sixteen symbols. Or learn to take your shoes off when messing around with DNS.
You have a loony definition of "privacy". I'm sure you will be able hide your IPv6 address behind a proxy, just you now conceal your street address by having all your snail-mail delivered to a PO box (after all, you wouln't want anyone to know where you live) and never give out your unlisted phone number.
Training and experience, yes, but the real question is why do you have that desire?
Fundamentally, it's instinctive. However, the behavior (like all behavior) is modified by experience. If you are good at it relative to the other kids you will do it a lot and get better. If you are not good at it you will tend to avoid it and fall behind. How successful you are at social interaction as a child is not governed solely by inborn mental talent. It is strongly affected by how you look, what your voice is like and, of course, chance.
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Two or more fluids in a cocktail glass, at least one of them alcoholic. Brake fluid and Everclear, for example. Or single-malt and drain cleaner.
People do not labor under the delusion that those are safely encrypted.
The uptime of Skype to the user is the product of Skype's uptime, that of the user's Internet service, that of her electrical service, and that of her hardware. That product might exceed one 9 but it'll won't come near 5 9s.
> And that's exactly why this happened.
It happened because their system is vulnerable to cascading failure. They've managed to combine the disadvantages of a centralized system with those of a decentralized one.
Why don't you just buy a radio and set it on the corner of your desk?
By POTS standards it's abysmal.
And consequently you had reliable service while all the "modern, forward thinking" Skype users were down.
They were not battery powered, but they were busses and they were electric.
But they already know how to send text messages with their thumbs.
It is a pretty well known fact that animals (including people) are one of the major contributors to ghg emissions. It doesn't matter whether they are farmed or not. Farts is farts.
If the asshole of the internet is down, what will happen to that which normally flows out of it?
Then you'll change your tune (to a higher pitch when it malfunctions).
> Why do I deserve globally routable addresses but other people don't?
The usual reason you have things others don't: luck.
...free software has been waiting for?"
No. Free Software has not been waiting for anything.
Only if you are the sort of religious zealot who equates sex with evil.
> Every hex digit represents exactly 4 binary digits.
Yes. Any sysadmin who cannot quickly learn to do hex-binary conversions in his head needs to be promoted to management. Hex is notation is vastly superior for either IPv6 or IPv4 addresses.
Hexadecimal notation is just a convention. Write some simple tools to display IPv6 addresses in octal if you can't deal with sixteen symbols. Or learn to take your shoes off when messing around with DNS.
> IPv6 is a potential privacy nightmare.
You have a loony definition of "privacy". I'm sure you will be able hide your IPv6 address behind a proxy, just you now conceal your street address by having all your snail-mail delivered to a PO box (after all, you wouln't want anyone to know where you live) and never give out your unlisted phone number.
> That already exists, it's called "using both".
Seems like that would be IPv10.
Fundamentally, it's instinctive. However, the behavior (like all behavior) is modified by experience. If you are good at it relative to the other kids you will do it a lot and get better. If you are not good at it you will tend to avoid it and fall behind. How successful you are at social interaction as a child is not governed solely by inborn mental talent. It is strongly affected by how you look, what your voice is like and, of course, chance.
> Facebook requires friends.
No. Facebook requires "friends".
> My spell check appears to have achieved malevolent sentience.
So has mine, and it resides inside my head.
Albeit a foolish one.
Right. All that Federal law does is ban the use of the social security card as ID.