For example, it makes banning or classifying an IP address as a spam source nearly impossible. There's so much address space that spammers will be able to use an IP to send 1000 emails and then discard it, never to be used again. The incredibly huge address space makes this quite practical. Banning by IP address will become meaningless because there are so many useable (and therefore discardable) IPs.
How much address space is there? Well....
Let's assume every single one of the 100 billion stars in the galaxy is inhabited, and each star has a population of 10 trillion humans in orbit around it, and each human has 1 billion devices that need IP addresses.
In that case, only 1/340,282nd of the possible 128-bit IPv6 addresses would need to be assigned.
Put another way, IPv6 would (will) provide roughly 5,000 assignable IP addresses for every square micron of the Earth's surface.
Hell, they could use one IP address per spam and never run out of fresh IPs in our lifetime.
"Tenants who violate current state law and list their apartments for rentals of less than 30 days would face fines of $1,000 for the first offense, $5,000 for the second and $7,500 for a third."
This will be easy to get around...people will just list the property for a 30- or 60-day rental and have a $20 "early move out" or "cancellation" fee. So the "renter" will book it for 30 days, leave after a week, and pay a small, affordable "penalty" since they didn't stay the full 30 days.
And the owner will say, "I rented it for 60 days but they left after a week, what could I do?"
(I'm not saying this is right, just that this is what they'll do to get around the restriction.)
Technology may not make people happy but bad technology certainly makes people unhappy.
An excellent point.
Frustration with my fancy new TV's 73 kabillion settings (none of which seem to do jack shit) has almost driven me back to the plain ol' "stupid" TV I used happily for years. If I hadn't gotten rid of it, I'd probably tear the new one off the wall and stick the old one back up there.
Just knowing that you have something* that your neighbor doesn't will make you happier. Heck, your neighbor's jealousy of your shiny new toy will make you happier, all by itself.
I know some people feel this way, but I've never really had this experience. I don't care what my neighbor has, or whether it's better or worse than what I have.
Maybe I'm atypical, but I've never gauged my happiness or self-worth by my place in life relative to other people or their possessions. I don't really care if someone else has a nicer car or phone or house or whatever, and I also don't care if my car/phone/house/whatever is nicer than theirs. Why would I? That's what I don't get.
...or also regulated the propane flow in a barbecue grill?
Holy fuckballs. Anyone stupid enough to allow as IoT device to control something the propane flow in a barbecue grill deserves to have their house blown to bits in a huge fuckin' fireball.
No, really- there are some things that simply should not be automated unless absolutely necessary. And that goes double if the controlling is done through an IoT gadget.
It's like trusting your newborn's oxygen supply to some ten-dollar gizmo sourced in China. No. No, NO NO.
Y2K was a big deal. That most people didn't notice much is a testament to what happens when you take something seriously, and get a lot of skilled people to work on a problem with a non-negotiable deadline.
This is absolutely true. The reason Y2K wasn't a big deal is because thousands of programmers sat down and fixed stuff. Otherwise, we would have seen all sorts of shit go belly up at the stroke of midnight on December 31st 1999.
I don't believe this is the case, and you don't, but it's completely consistent with what we know.
That's the whole point- it's not consistent with the things we know. The whole story is blatant nonsense that's contradicted by almost everything we've ever used to try and show it's true.
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It does require believing things that can't be shown rationally, but I don't think that qualifies as delusion.
"Can't be shown rationally"...in other words, it requires a willful suspension of disbelief and a total dismissal of the known facts.
So how is he going to get things done and "Make America Great Again"
Silly voter, he's just going to do it. Trust him, he has a secret plan. Remember, he knows more about ISIS than the generals (he said so himself!). And he has "the best temperament", the "best memory", and "has the best words". Those are all direct quotes so you know they're true!
When he gets elected we'll wake up the next day and the streets will be clean, kids will say "Sir" and "Ma'am", and Leave It To Beaver will be back on the TV machine. Black people will know their place again, atheists will once again be persecuted as is proper, and mothers will go back to the kitchens where they'll spend all day cooking tasty, nutritious food for the whole family again. It'll be glorious!
The user named "Grim Beefer", to whom I was replying, that's who. And I'm sure there are plenty of others (or do you think he was the only one having a hissy fit about Netflix being down?).
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Or are you simply trying to set up a strawman to distract from Netflix's failure to deliver what its customers pay it for?
If this happened all the time or even frequently then I'd say you'd have a perfectly valid good reason to whine, but Netfix in general seems to be very reliable overall. Yes, of course people should get what they pay for, but as I said earlier, "Get a grip, nothing works 100% of the time". Netflix, the Holy Portal of Content (blessed be its name) is no fucking different. This isn't like they're cutting off your insulin or oxygen, it just means you won't be able to jerk off to Luke Cage or Stranger Things for an hour or so.
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Those are mighty words for someone spending their weekend whining about other people on Slashdot.
Lol, I'm more-or-less retired so by law I can whine about whatever I want, whenever I want. Yeah- while you're getting up and slogging your way into your lame-ass monkey job, I'm sleeping in. When you're having the life sucked out of you in a pointless, soul-crushing meeting, I'm having a sandwich or doing one of my hobbies or reading a book or taking a walk or writing or coding or shopping or visiting friends or whatever the fuck I wanna do, and that includes whining if I feel like it.:)
God help you if you have younger children who often work a certain episode of their favorite TV show into a routine request.
Oh yes, the HORROR that they might not get their fix, or have to *GASP* read a book or be bored for once in their lives. OMG OMG how will they survive??
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For reasons like these, and countless more, people pay Netflix to deliver content.
FFS, get a grip- nothing works 100% of the time. How pathetic that people act like this is the end of the world or on par with nuclear war. Go outside, read a book, masturbate, organize your sock drawer....stop being such a cringeworthy TV addict. How did you even manage to live before Netflix? I predate the internet, so old farts like me just go, "Eh" and find something else to do.
Get a hobby, get a girlfriend, set fire to your neighbor's house, I don't give a shit- just stop whining about your life-giving movie stream isn't working right now.
RAM's not that bad, but depending on how big of an SSD you want, that can get pricey. I'd estimate $500 for a complete fitlet-H.
That's about what I spec'd a unit at, outfitted with 16Gb and a 250 to 500Gb SSD. All in all, that's not bad- that's about what I paid for my multi-year old Gateway way back when. It's got 12Gb of RAM and a 1.4TB hard drive but I've only used ~450G out of it in 4 or 5 years. A lot of that could go away or be replaced with an external USB drive. The Fitlet would be an upgrade in almost every respect and it would be cool to have the big box replaced with a router-sized unit.
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And being x86 it runs Windows just fine too, if you.. uh.. really want that. I guess.;)
I'm using Linux Mint for the most part these days, although I do boot into Win 7 from time to time. So it'd be Linux Mint and I probably wouldn't even install Windows on it. So yeah, I'm thinking I may just drop some cash on a Fitlet in the next couple of weeks.
Sure you have a choice. The forced updates require a working internet connection. Disable it in Windows 10, and either boot another version of Windows or another OS off either another partition or an external device (DVD or USB).
I'm tired of the MS Update Shitshow and the Lets-See-What-Happens-Next Extravaganza. I've gone to Linux Mint.
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IPV6 can make some things worse, especially spam.
For example, it makes banning or classifying an IP address as a spam source nearly impossible. There's so much address space that spammers will be able to use an IP to send 1000 emails and then discard it, never to be used again. The incredibly huge address space makes this quite practical. Banning by IP address will become meaningless because there are so many useable (and therefore discardable) IPs.
How much address space is there? Well....
Let's assume every single one of the 100 billion stars in the galaxy is inhabited, and each star has a population of 10 trillion humans in orbit around it, and each human has 1 billion devices that need IP addresses.
In that case, only 1/340,282nd of the possible 128-bit IPv6 addresses would need to be assigned.
Put another way, IPv6 would (will) provide roughly 5,000 assignable IP addresses for every square micron of the Earth's surface.
Hell, they could use one IP address per spam and never run out of fresh IPs in our lifetime.
This was mis-marked...it should be from the "No-One-Really-Cares" dept.
Is she a relative, a friend, a sex partner or a health aid as I am an older man?
In Alabama and Tennessee she's likely to be all of these at once.
"Tenants who violate current state law and list their apartments for rentals of less than 30 days would face fines of $1,000 for the first offense, $5,000 for the second and $7,500 for a third."
This will be easy to get around...people will just list the property for a 30- or 60-day rental and have a $20 "early move out" or "cancellation" fee. So the "renter" will book it for 30 days, leave after a week, and pay a small, affordable "penalty" since they didn't stay the full 30 days.
And the owner will say, "I rented it for 60 days but they left after a week, what could I do?"
(I'm not saying this is right, just that this is what they'll do to get around the restriction.)
I snicker at those who are willing to blow northwards of $500 on a flippin telephone, then pay northwards of $75/mo to be able to use it...
Same here. I use a $99 Android phone. Spending $500 to $800 or so on a phone seems slightly nutty to me.
Technology may not make people happy but bad technology certainly makes people unhappy.
An excellent point.
Frustration with my fancy new TV's 73 kabillion settings (none of which seem to do jack shit) has almost driven me back to the plain ol' "stupid" TV I used happily for years. If I hadn't gotten rid of it, I'd probably tear the new one off the wall and stick the old one back up there.
Just knowing that you have something* that your neighbor doesn't will make you happier. Heck, your neighbor's jealousy of your shiny new toy will make you happier, all by itself.
I know some people feel this way, but I've never really had this experience. I don't care what my neighbor has, or whether it's better or worse than what I have.
Maybe I'm atypical, but I've never gauged my happiness or self-worth by my place in life relative to other people or their possessions. I don't really care if someone else has a nicer car or phone or house or whatever, and I also don't care if my car/phone/house/whatever is nicer than theirs. Why would I? That's what I don't get.
Those who can afford high end smartphones are simply richer and do not have to worry about how to make the mortgage payment or feed the kids.
That'd be my guess, or else they have such low self-esteem that a shiny gadget makes their pathetic life seem cooler.
If a higher-end smartphone makes you happier, perhaps it's time to reexamine your life.
A loving spouse, good health, good friends, or hobbies or a job I enjoy can make me appreciate my life more fully and as a result be "happier".
But a fancier smartphone? Nope. My life and my general happiness doesn't operate at that low a level.
But if I had the new Gillette Mega-Radical 5-Blade Super-Torque Pro razor, now that would make me happier. Oh yeah baby.
*terrorized by the urge to buy, I drive to Walmart with a renewed sense of purpose in life*
...or also regulated the propane flow in a barbecue grill?
Holy fuckballs. Anyone stupid enough to allow as IoT device to control something the propane flow in a barbecue grill deserves to have their house blown to bits in a huge fuckin' fireball.
No, really- there are some things that simply should not be automated unless absolutely necessary. And that goes double if the controlling is done through an IoT gadget.
It's like trusting your newborn's oxygen supply to some ten-dollar gizmo sourced in China. No. No, NO NO.
Y2K was a big deal. That most people didn't notice much is a testament to what happens when you take something seriously, and get a lot of skilled people to work on a problem with a non-negotiable deadline.
This is absolutely true. The reason Y2K wasn't a big deal is because thousands of programmers sat down and fixed stuff. Otherwise, we would have seen all sorts of shit go belly up at the stroke of midnight on December 31st 1999.
I fully expect that we are facing nothing less than total apocalypse
This is the end people!
Start doling out the Kool-Aid and make sure each cup is filled to the brim...bottoms up!
But seriously, this is likely to make things worse, much much worse.
Headline translation: "We're Doomed."
Oh great, now every dickweasel and conehead in the world will be cranking out malware.
I don't believe this is the case, and you don't, but it's completely consistent with what we know.
That's the whole point- it's not consistent with the things we know. The whole story is blatant nonsense that's contradicted by almost everything we've ever used to try and show it's true.
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It does require believing things that can't be shown rationally, but I don't think that qualifies as delusion.
"Can't be shown rationally"...in other words, it requires a willful suspension of disbelief and a total dismissal of the known facts.
No, no no no. DO. NOT. WANT.
Don't pollute the Android and Apple ecosystems with your user-hostile crap.
I neither want nor need Microsoft to make competing phones worse.
I've always loved the multiple meanings in "the boat is fast". Just like the word "secure", it can mean wildly different things:
If you give the command "SECURE THE BUILDING", here is what the different services would do:
The NAVY would turn out the lights and lock the doors.
The ARMY would surround the building with defensive fortifications, tanks and concertina wire.
The MARINE CORPS would assault the building, using overlapping fields of fire from all appropriate points on the perimeter.
The AIR FORCE would take out a three-year lease with an option to buy the property.
So how is he going to get things done and "Make America Great Again"
Silly voter, he's just going to do it. Trust him, he has a secret plan. Remember, he knows more about ISIS than the generals (he said so himself!). And he has "the best temperament", the "best memory", and "has the best words". Those are all direct quotes so you know they're true!
When he gets elected we'll wake up the next day and the streets will be clean, kids will say "Sir" and "Ma'am", and Leave It To Beaver will be back on the TV machine. Black people will know their place again, atheists will once again be persecuted as is proper, and mothers will go back to the kitchens where they'll spend all day cooking tasty, nutritious food for the whole family again. It'll be glorious!
That's exactly my view of this whole insane debacle.
Hillary is terrible, terrible candidate...but Trump is worse than her by several orders of magnitude.
Like you, I can't even understand why anyone has to ponder this, or why there are any "undecided" voters. I mean, WTF??
So who's acting that way?
The user named "Grim Beefer", to whom I was replying, that's who. And I'm sure there are plenty of others (or do you think he was the only one having a hissy fit about Netflix being down?).
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Or are you simply trying to set up a strawman to distract from Netflix's failure to deliver what its customers pay it for?
If this happened all the time or even frequently then I'd say you'd have a perfectly valid good reason to whine, but Netfix in general seems to be very reliable overall. Yes, of course people should get what they pay for, but as I said earlier, "Get a grip, nothing works 100% of the time". Netflix, the Holy Portal of Content (blessed be its name) is no fucking different. This isn't like they're cutting off your insulin or oxygen, it just means you won't be able to jerk off to Luke Cage or Stranger Things for an hour or so.
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Those are mighty words for someone spending their weekend whining about other people on Slashdot.
Lol, I'm more-or-less retired so by law I can whine about whatever I want, whenever I want. Yeah- while you're getting up and slogging your way into your lame-ass monkey job, I'm sleeping in. When you're having the life sucked out of you in a pointless, soul-crushing meeting, I'm having a sandwich or doing one of my hobbies or reading a book or taking a walk or writing or coding or shopping or visiting friends or whatever the fuck I wanna do, and that includes whining if I feel like it. :)
So na na boo boo, honey buns.
Are you at every party? That must be exhausting.
It is, but someone's gotta do it.
You must be fun at parties.....
Well, if you had ever been invited to a party, you'd know I am.
God help you if you have younger children who often work a certain episode of their favorite TV show into a routine request.
Oh yes, the HORROR that they might not get their fix, or have to *GASP* read a book or be bored for once in their lives. OMG OMG how will they survive??
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For reasons like these, and countless more, people pay Netflix to deliver content.
FFS, get a grip- nothing works 100% of the time. How pathetic that people act like this is the end of the world or on par with nuclear war. Go outside, read a book, masturbate, organize your sock drawer....stop being such a cringeworthy TV addict. How did you even manage to live before Netflix? I predate the internet, so old farts like me just go, "Eh" and find something else to do.
Get a hobby, get a girlfriend, set fire to your neighbor's house, I don't give a shit- just stop whining about your life-giving movie stream isn't working right now.
RAM's not that bad, but depending on how big of an SSD you want, that can get pricey. I'd estimate $500 for a complete fitlet-H.
That's about what I spec'd a unit at, outfitted with 16Gb and a 250 to 500Gb SSD. All in all, that's not bad- that's about what I paid for my multi-year old Gateway way back when. It's got 12Gb of RAM and a 1.4TB hard drive but I've only used ~450G out of it in 4 or 5 years. A lot of that could go away or be replaced with an external USB drive. The Fitlet would be an upgrade in almost every respect and it would be cool to have the big box replaced with a router-sized unit.
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And being x86 it runs Windows just fine too, if you.. uh.. really want that. I guess. ;)
I'm using Linux Mint for the most part these days, although I do boot into Win 7 from time to time. So it'd be Linux Mint and I probably wouldn't even install Windows on it. So yeah, I'm thinking I may just drop some cash on a Fitlet in the next couple of weeks.
Sure you have a choice. The forced updates require a working internet connection. Disable it in Windows 10, and either boot another version of Windows or another OS off either another partition or an external device (DVD or USB).
I'm tired of the MS Update Shitshow and the Lets-See-What-Happens-Next Extravaganza. I've gone to Linux Mint.