The problem with nuclear, besides technical safety factors which we can overcome by not being stupid and putting backup generators and pumps in a sub-basement in a tsunami zone, is that its not "sustainable" - we can only scrape enough fissionable material off the Earth and from sea-water to last 5B years. Oh wait, the Sun will red-giant an burn the Earth up in about 5B years... Maybe it is sustainable if we develop some good solar cells by then - and solar shields...
Its called the Soldier Wearable Acoustic Targeting System (SWATS) - and as a former Army Ranger (and a current QinetiQ employee) - I can tell you its a very cool and useful item. Bullets can whiz by you without you knowing where they came from. This little device at least gives you an estimate based on the sonic shockwave and gives you a heads up as to where a shooter might be. Not super high-tech, but super-useful if you're being shot at.
So based on this new estimate, the Great Galactic Barrier is further, and all of this time we have been afraid to voyage out to far and fall off the edge... Perhaps the final frontier is further out there! Now if we can just get DARPA or NASA to fund the Cochrane or Cubierre drive...
Japan has a homicide rate of 1.1 murder per 100,000 compared to the USA of 8.7 per 100,00 - far less murder and mayhem. We average about 11 firearm deaths per 100,00 (accidents account for much of this) while Japan averages less than 1 death per 100,00. We're leading in homicides and firearm death - USA! USA! USA! Now about pencils, kids don't seem to have a big problem there... lets start with reducing the guns freely available.
It's about time that we upgrade the old Internet from the late 1970s designed ARPANET standards of TCP/IPv4. Just as we uprgaded from NCP to IPv4 in the late 70s to early 80s. We need a more powerful and flexible network paradigm to simplify creation of new innovative software. Sure, we have lots of patches and backfixes to IPv4 to make a decent client server model, but true secure peer-to-peer and scalable mobility are a too hard to achieve in the V4 model.
This article was written by tech guys trying to scare our China obsessed politicians into upgrading our infrastructure. It's terrible to see what it actually takes to motivate Washington. It's not a sound technical discussion by Internet engineers, but a bunch of "China is going to get you" scary stuff that gets the crowd running Washington these days to get off their butt and do something.
Internet2 had a full IPv6 upgrade to a fully dual stacked network when they upgraded to a high-speed backbone in 2005. The upgraded national research network in China, CERNET2, was built out IPv6-only.
As a Microsoft partner for IPv6 Jumpstart, we installed Vista RC1 on multiple machines this morning. Vista is Microsoft's "IPv6 Optimized" desktop system while XP is "IPv6 Capable" of limited operations. We immediately noticed one important change. IE doesn't crash every 2 minutes! Previously, we had to install Firefox administer to run our IP surveillance cameras, security system, and building automation sensor system because the java web interface constantly crashed the browser in Vista Beta 1 and 2.
With all of the free Linuxes around, and even being touted by IBM and others, dominating the traditional 'Unix' market is rapidly becoming like being the leader in Novel IPx networking.
If the device can harvest a usable return on the motion a vehicle makes throught magnetic or gravitational fields, it would be a great way to recover energy for electric vehicles like hybrid cars.
Or if it's snake-oil - it's a usable source of energy for flex-fuel vehicles!
Nope - 2008 all along. Trust me I know - I write technical policy for DoD and I wrote the "DoD IPv6 Capable Product Standard". The first mention of DoD transitioning to IPv6 was the June 2003 DoD Memorandum from the Assistant Secretary of Defense/CIO Mr. John Stenbit. It said "DoD will transition to IPv6 in 2008 and organizations must buy all IPv6 capable products after Oct 2003".
No - the mandate is 2008. No sliding. However, in 2008, their going to turn on a few backbones, a few enterprise sites, and pat themselves on the back as to meeting the mandate. Then between 2010 and 2012 they'll beging rolling out IPv6 everywhere as their "tech refresh cycles" will line up and most systems will actually be dual stacked and IPv6 capable.
Apparently this IPv6 stuff is considered so valuable, Carlyle group and others have invested 10s of million in captial to start up a company called "Command Information" www.commandinformation.com to work solely on IPv6 deployment, applications, and training. Carlyle guys are smart and waaaaaaaay conservative so they must see a good opportunity here.
Actually the article says that IANA will be out of large/8 blocks in 2008. After that the regional registrys have 1 year worth of space available internally. After that, ISPs have to start conserving.... Sort of like convincing people to conserve oil.... IPv4 will never "run out of addresses", they will just become an increasingly valuable commodity owned by the "haves" IPv6 just levels the playing field between the haves and the want to haves....
Red alert - charge the hull plating! One of the latest experimental versions of reactive armor being developed for British Defense and Science and Tech Lab is "electric reactive" which uses an extreme high-potential capacitor linked to metal plates on the hull of a tank. The metal plates have a non-conductive layer between them. When a penetrator rod (Sabot) or the explosively-formed penetrator of a shaped charge breaches the plates, the lighting-like discharge vaporizes the penetrator of shaped charges, and if scaled up may be able to deform or vaporize (turn to plasma) kinetic penetrator rods.
I think an ultimate system for light combat vehicles like the LAV, Stryker, FCS, and russian BTR would use a combination of electric-reactive armor and directed energy weapons like particle beams to pre-detonate or vaporize incoming ballistic threats.
I graduated with a MS in CS (with a thesis project) in 2001 and now make a very good 6 figure salary. A lot of engineers who had degrees for years or who graduated with me now work for me and make just under 6 figure salaries or have barely broken that mark. At 38, I direct the work of a large team of mid grade and senior engineers and programmers, almost all of whom are older than me. Why was I promoted ahead and why don't they make as much money? They sit programming in their cubicle or working on a research problem I give them, but they don't try and come up with creative new ideas or display people skills that make us money. Having an advanced degree doesn't make you creative or ambitious or able to direct the work of a team of engineers and scientists toward a common goal. People who do that make the six and seven figure salaries!
I for one can't wait to become one of our Transhuman cyborg overlords! Welcome me!
Where do I get me some of these super stem cells to keep my body young forever, give me the ability to heal damage, a direct mind to Internet implant, and a memory augmentation and storage system, ceramid skeleton, and super-conducting nervous sytem? Oooh, and retractable claws!
I guess I'm an old-timer here. Back in '77 my dad bought me a Commodore Personal Electronic Terminal (PET) while I was still in Elementary school. It was a PET 2001-4N with a whopping 1mHz processor, 4kB RAM, and a cassette tape drive! It had a BASIC compiler and was really fun for a kid learning programming. I learned how to program on it in a few days and eventually made my own "hunt the wumpus" game complete with ASCII graphics.
I bought my kids laptops last year. They are at the same age where I learned programming, but haven't picked it up yet- they've seem too distracted by all of the pre-packaged apps and games, "infotainment", and GUI features on their PCs. My son says "for loops" are "Sooooo boring"
-IPv6 is deployed dual stacked - so no transition/interoperability worries----
-DNS since BIND 9 supports AAAA - if not for IPv6, you should migrate for the other features, but since new infrastructure is dual-stacked, no worries...
-There are several of automated tunneling techniques that are suitable for home networks. If you need NAT traversal try a tunnel broker (freenet6) or Microsoft Teredo... Earthlink has a router upgrade for Linksys broadband routers to add IPv6 capabilities. I use a tunnel broker since it provides me a mobile solution not dependent on infrastructure at the WIFI hot spots I use while traveling.
-No suitable forum for discussing IPv6 technology? Try the IETF IPv6 WG & V6Ops WG, IPv6 Forum, or in US the North American IPv6 Task Force, all of which are non-profits and are not vendor$ driven.
I listened to the audiocast and picked up an important point- the commentator said IPsec (an integral part of IPv6) has historically proven undeployable except in small networks and would not enhance security.
He is probably unaware that just a few weeks ago, the IETF released a series of updates to IPsec [RFCs 4301 - 4309] and a new automated key exchange (IKEv2) [RFC 4306] to update IPsec to simplify and standardize implementations and automate key exchange. Also, many a few large organizations (DoD, MIT, pharmaceutical companies, etc...) have extensive public Key Infrastructures (PKIs) ready for IPv6 IPsec. A new deployment guide on updated IPsec and IPv6 will be published shortly by the IPv6 Forum.
There was no business case for the transition from ARPANET's old NCP protocol to TCP/IPv4 in the 1980s - but there were technically compelling reasons. Luckily the ARPANET pioneers realized that a new protocol was needed to easily integrate the new services and applications they were thinking of deploying. Soon the WWW, e-mail, etc. exploded as they were simple to deploy on a powerful TCP/IP infrastructure. IPv6 makes it cheaper to deploy new network services and applications (like imbedded IPsec and QOS routing) by adding new extension headers to define new services. It also scales massively and offers both private networks and E2E options. You'd be amazed at how much extra code/infrastructure is necessary to get around NAT today to make many applications work.
We are currently working on a paper, with help from subject matter experts of the North American IPv6 Task Force, on HOW to get a return on investment from IPv6 technologies by adding new IPv6 based network services to enhance reliability, security, QOS, and mobility support in networks.
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The problem with nuclear, besides technical safety factors which we can overcome by not being stupid and putting backup generators and pumps in a sub-basement in a tsunami zone, is that its not "sustainable" - we can only scrape enough fissionable material off the Earth and from sea-water to last 5B years. Oh wait, the Sun will red-giant an burn the Earth up in about 5B years... Maybe it is sustainable if we develop some good solar cells by then - and solar shields...
A wise old Sgt Major told me "Keep your head up and your butt down when you have a Kevlar helmet"
You know, something like this happened in the Welsh village of Cwmtaff once. Wink, wink - anyone get the reference?
Its called the Soldier Wearable Acoustic Targeting System (SWATS) - and as a former Army Ranger (and a current QinetiQ employee) - I can tell you its a very cool and useful item. Bullets can whiz by you without you knowing where they came from. This little device at least gives you an estimate based on the sonic shockwave and gives you a heads up as to where a shooter might be. Not super high-tech, but super-useful if you're being shot at.
Enema of the state might be more appropriate here!
So based on this new estimate, the Great Galactic Barrier is further, and all of this time we have been afraid to voyage out to far and fall off the edge... Perhaps the final frontier is further out there! Now if we can just get DARPA or NASA to fund the Cochrane or Cubierre drive...
Japan has a homicide rate of 1.1 murder per 100,000 compared to the USA of 8.7 per 100,00 - far less murder and mayhem. We average about 11 firearm deaths per 100,00 (accidents account for much of this) while Japan averages less than 1 death per 100,00. We're leading in homicides and firearm death - USA! USA! USA! Now about pencils, kids don't seem to have a big problem there... lets start with reducing the guns freely available.
It's about time that we upgrade the old Internet from the late 1970s designed ARPANET standards of TCP/IPv4. Just as we uprgaded from NCP to IPv4 in the late 70s to early 80s. We need a more powerful and flexible network paradigm to simplify creation of new innovative software. Sure, we have lots of patches and backfixes to IPv4 to make a decent client server model, but true secure peer-to-peer and scalable mobility are a too hard to achieve in the V4 model.
This article was written by tech guys trying to scare our China obsessed politicians into upgrading our infrastructure. It's terrible to see what it actually takes to motivate Washington. It's not a sound technical discussion by Internet engineers, but a bunch of "China is going to get you" scary stuff that gets the crowd running Washington these days to get off their butt and do something.
Internet2 had a full IPv6 upgrade to a fully dual stacked network when they upgraded to a high-speed backbone in 2005. The upgraded national research network in China, CERNET2, was built out IPv6-only.
We need our system to be compatible with mutiple browsers, and unfortunately IE is the browser most people use.
We need to make sure the security system in the R&D environment is ready for Vista. The production grade one runs on XP and XP embedded.
As a Microsoft partner for IPv6 Jumpstart, we installed Vista RC1 on multiple machines this morning. Vista is Microsoft's "IPv6 Optimized" desktop system while XP is "IPv6 Capable" of limited operations. We immediately noticed one important change. IE doesn't crash every 2 minutes! Previously, we had to install Firefox administer to run our IP surveillance cameras, security system, and building automation sensor system because the java web interface constantly crashed the browser in Vista Beta 1 and 2.
With all of the free Linuxes around, and even being touted by IBM and others, dominating the traditional 'Unix' market is rapidly becoming like being the leader in Novel IPx networking.
If the device can harvest a usable return on the motion a vehicle makes throught magnetic or gravitational fields, it would be a great way to recover energy for electric vehicles like hybrid cars.
Or if it's snake-oil - it's a usable source of energy for flex-fuel vehicles!
Nope - 2008 all along. Trust me I know - I write technical policy for DoD and I wrote the "DoD IPv6 Capable Product Standard". The first mention of DoD transitioning to IPv6 was the June 2003 DoD Memorandum from the Assistant Secretary of Defense/CIO Mr. John Stenbit. It said "DoD will transition to IPv6 in 2008 and organizations must buy all IPv6 capable products after Oct 2003".
No - the mandate is 2008. No sliding. However, in 2008, their going to turn on a few backbones, a few enterprise sites, and pat themselves on the back as to meeting the mandate. Then between 2010 and 2012 they'll beging rolling out IPv6 everywhere as their "tech refresh cycles" will line up and most systems will actually be dual stacked and IPv6 capable.
Apparently this IPv6 stuff is considered so valuable, Carlyle group and others have invested 10s of million in captial to start up a company called "Command Information" www.commandinformation.com to work solely on IPv6 deployment, applications, and training. Carlyle guys are smart and waaaaaaaay conservative so they must see a good opportunity here.
Actually the article says that IANA will be out of large /8 blocks in 2008.
After that the regional registrys have 1 year worth of space available internally.
After that, ISPs have to start conserving.... Sort of like convincing people to conserve oil....
IPv4 will never "run out of addresses", they will just become an increasingly valuable commodity owned by the "haves"
IPv6 just levels the playing field between the haves and the want to haves....
Red alert - charge the hull plating! One of the latest experimental versions of reactive armor being developed for British Defense and Science and Tech Lab is "electric reactive" which uses an extreme high-potential capacitor linked to metal plates on the hull of a tank. The metal plates have a non-conductive layer between them. When a penetrator rod (Sabot) or the explosively-formed penetrator of a shaped charge breaches the plates, the lighting-like discharge vaporizes the penetrator of shaped charges, and if scaled up may be able to deform or vaporize (turn to plasma) kinetic penetrator rods.
I think an ultimate system for light combat vehicles like the LAV, Stryker, FCS, and russian BTR would use a combination of electric-reactive armor and directed energy weapons like particle beams to pre-detonate or vaporize incoming ballistic threats.
I graduated with a MS in CS (with a thesis project) in 2001 and now make a very good 6 figure salary. A lot of engineers who had degrees for years or who graduated with me now work for me and make just under 6 figure salaries or have barely broken that mark. At 38, I direct the work of a large team of mid grade and senior engineers and programmers, almost all of whom are older than me. Why was I promoted ahead and why don't they make as much money? They sit programming in their cubicle or working on a research problem I give them, but they don't try and come up with creative new ideas or display people skills that make us money. Having an advanced degree doesn't make you creative or ambitious or able to direct the work of a team of engineers and scientists toward a common goal. People who do that make the six and seven figure salaries!
I for one can't wait to become one of our Transhuman cyborg overlords!
Welcome me!
Where do I get me some of these super stem cells to keep my body young forever, give me the ability to heal damage, a direct mind to Internet implant, and a memory augmentation and storage system, ceramid skeleton, and super-conducting nervous sytem?
Oooh, and retractable claws!
I guess I'm an old-timer here.
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Back in '77 my dad bought me a Commodore Personal Electronic Terminal (PET) while I was still in Elementary school. It was a PET 2001-4N with a whopping 1mHz processor, 4kB RAM, and a cassette tape drive! It had a BASIC compiler and was really fun for a kid learning programming. I learned how to program on it in a few days and eventually made my own "hunt the wumpus" game complete with ASCII graphics.
Great pictures of these dinosaurs are at: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?
I bought my kids laptops last year. They are at the same age where I learned programming, but haven't picked it up yet- they've seem too distracted by all of the pre-packaged apps and games, "infotainment", and GUI features on their PCs. My son says "for loops" are "Sooooo boring"
-IPv6 is deployed dual stacked - so no transition/interoperability worries----
-DNS since BIND 9 supports AAAA - if not for IPv6, you should migrate for the other features, but since new infrastructure is dual-stacked, no worries...
-There are several of automated tunneling techniques that are suitable for home networks. If you need NAT traversal try a tunnel broker (freenet6) or Microsoft Teredo... Earthlink has a router upgrade for Linksys broadband routers to add IPv6 capabilities. I use a tunnel broker since it provides me a mobile solution not dependent on infrastructure at the WIFI hot spots I use while traveling.
-No suitable forum for discussing IPv6 technology? Try the IETF IPv6 WG & V6Ops WG, IPv6 Forum, or in US the North American IPv6 Task Force, all of which are non-profits and are not vendor$ driven.
I listened to the audiocast and picked up an important point- the commentator said IPsec (an integral part of IPv6) has historically proven undeployable except in small networks and would not enhance security.
He is probably unaware that just a few weeks ago, the IETF released a series of updates to IPsec [RFCs 4301 - 4309] and a new automated key exchange (IKEv2) [RFC 4306] to update IPsec to simplify and standardize implementations and automate key exchange. Also, many a few large organizations (DoD, MIT, pharmaceutical companies, etc...) have extensive public Key Infrastructures (PKIs) ready for IPv6 IPsec. A new deployment guide on updated IPsec and IPv6 will be published shortly by the IPv6 Forum.
There was no business case for the transition from ARPANET's old NCP protocol to TCP/IPv4 in the 1980s - but there were technically compelling reasons. Luckily the ARPANET pioneers realized that a new protocol was needed to easily integrate the new services and applications they were thinking of deploying. Soon the WWW, e-mail, etc. exploded as they were simple to deploy on a powerful TCP/IP infrastructure. IPv6 makes it cheaper to deploy new network services and applications (like imbedded IPsec and QOS routing) by adding new extension headers to define new services. It also scales massively and offers both private networks and E2E options. You'd be amazed at how much extra code/infrastructure is necessary to get around NAT today to make many applications work.
We are currently working on a paper, with help from subject matter experts of the North American IPv6 Task Force, on HOW to get a return on investment from IPv6 technologies by adding new IPv6 based network services to enhance reliability, security, QOS, and mobility support in networks.