Only router discovery, which is optional (you can manually configure your address and the next hop router if you like). IPv6 has the same problems with multicast that IPv4 does, namely that routing it is a big mess and nobody wants to do it unless they have to, especially on the internet. So it's fine for local discovery type applications (most routing protocols use multicast for this reason), but nobody wants to think about sending it past the first hop unless they really have to.
Multicast was a requirement in v4 as well, and you see how far that got. The advantage of v6 is that it supports anycast, which is like multicast, except that it stops when it reaches the first recipient instead of getting delivered to every one.
You might think that, but in practice you end up typing the addresses a lot more than you would think, especially when you're working on small disconnected networks with intermittent connectivity and doing lots of peer to peer traffic with embedded devices. When something autoconfigures an address, that address needs to be added to DNS somehow, and that's often a fairly difficult step, if you even have DNS.
The colon requires you to keep smacking the shift key, which is awkward becuase your left hand is typing numbers and letters at the same time--try it yourself, type out: a84f:9b3a:0221::1 vs. a no-shift solution like a84f-9b3a-0221--1 and see which one takes longer. I suspect the real answer is that - is a valid name is a domain, so it's possible there was a conflict with an actual domain. While that's theoretically true, in practice I doubt it would have been an issue. Registrars could simply say: you can't register anything that would parse as a valid IPv6 address and that would be the end of it, very few (if any) domains would be in the IPv6 address format already. It's not like you didn't have to modify every gethostbyname() to support v6 anyway, so adding the check wouldn't have made much difference.
According to TFA, 3.5 Million a year. So you are short by about half, especially when you consider just how much money you would lose through continuous use of BTC.
Given that there is a $5000/day limit on the Bitcoin exchange, I don't think that's going to be a viable way to launder the money. The whole point of that limit is to prevent people from moving money too fast and showing people the inevitable crash (and why it's crashing veeerrry sloooowly) so the early "investors" get a steady paycheck until the money runs out. If Assange were to try to use it, he would end up losing a fairly hefty percentage of every dollar/euro/pound he put in it due to the constant downward pressure on the coin and the overhead from the various middlemen all trying to prop up their own bank accounts.
Sorry, education got cut too, so those Universities are going to have to spend that money on salaries and whatnot. Who else is going to do earthquake research?
The "Oh, private universities can pick up the slack" is a handwave of epic proportions that falls apart under even the smallest amount of scrutiny. It's an epidemic problem with Ron Paul, he's a "big ideas" man, but never follows through with the details.
The biggest thing I hate about IPv6 is that the standard format uses colon as the digit separator. On most keyboards, that is a fairly awkward character to type, especially in rapid fire between groups of hex digits. Also, it causes problems for the many many programs that specify ports after IP addresses with a colon (like URIs!). IPv4's use of the period instead is much nicer. If you didn't want to reuse the period (so programs can distinguish between the two types of addresses more easily), why not use dash instead? It's just as visually appealing and doesn't require you to hit shift to type it. It would have saved a whole lot of ugly brackets around IP addresses.
IPv6 Addresses are handed out in/64 blocks, or/48s if you have a big enterprise. We aren't going to exhaust the IPv6 address space without some sort of router that can talk with infinite parallel universes or something.
One of the biggest hurdles to IPv6 adoption today is that the average home user simply cannot get an IPv6 address from their ISP. Tunnels are hacker toys, and completely impractical/impossible for people who are using their ISP's "home router". What do you think we can do to convince ISPs to start rolling out IPv6 [i]before[/i] there is a crisis? Everybody agrees that the transition will go smoother if we take it slow and easy, but nobody is willing to make the first step, and IPv4 addresses aren't still being inexorably depleted the world over.
Yep, and the alternative is to just not get published. Clearly the publisher was only mildly interested in her work given the relatively paltry advance, so it was probably a take it or leave it situation.
Isn't Step 2: Find some content to put on your network? I mean if you have no authors from any major publisher on your store, how do you expect to attract people to it? It's sort of like those MP3 stores that existed before iTunes where your choice was "horrible overpriced mess with obnoxious DRM and scant handful songs from one label" or "Indie crap that appeals to maybe a few dozen people worldwide, and then mostly so they can be more indie than you." Both models were terrible failures for obvious reasons.
The difficulty isn't in setting up a DRM free marketplace, it is getting content on that marketplace. If it's good people will buy it, but good luck getting anything good when you have to work completely outside of the publishers. You'll get a few titles from authors willing (or desperate) enough to take the chance, but you're competing with publishers that will put out literally thousands of quality titles (and tens of thousands of crap titles).
Eh, big publishers almost always have abusive clauses like this in their contracts. Authors have been griping for years about it, but what can they do, the publishers hold all of the cards.
Except now there's an alternative, and the publishers must be shitting bricks if they realize that they're going to have real competition for the first time ever. At least they can be pretty sure that this author won't fight them in court, $20k isn't enough to pay for a lawyer of any merit for a case that is likely to drag on for years if she fights it. The only monkey wrench Penguin has to worry about is if some lawyer takes up the case pro-bono.
It's worse than that. Which industries are most interested in Copyright issues? The media? That's great, now who gets to decide which stores are going to get full blown 24 hours news coverage, and which are going to slip under the radar? This is why copyright reform is doomed, politicians need the media, and the media companies have only a few simple demands for them, guess what they are.
With newspapers dying out, it seems the only hope for independent journalism is the internet, but good luck getting anybody to take the internet seriously.
The only problem with 360 panoramas like this is that viewing it requires you to use some Quicktime-VR sort of setup that always looks bad with the corner distortion and awkward controls. It's hard to map a full spherical image onto a flat display.
It would be cool if those cameras could be upgrade/modified to take full motion video though. You get to be the ball, and look in any direction you want. Heck, with a bit of work you could almost certainly program something that could take a few snaps from this ball in the air to instantly recreate any space in a virtual environment. The combination of parallax from the movement and multiple (presumably overlapping) cameras should make it quite possible for a computer to figure out exactly what is where and what shape it is.
You could make spontaneous virtual tours with something like that. A couple of guys go out to a location, one guy throws the ball at the other, uploads the pictures via cell or wifi to some server that then recreates the space and lets people virtually fly around it. You could even do something like that for crime scene photos or anything that needs to document the exact state of a room.
It's easy to have unbelievably good efficiency on an engine that has not been released yet. I'll wait until it we see it in the real world before declaring it better than sliced bread.
The big advantage is that it is lighter per BHP than the equivalent piston engine, and can be revved up higher. They have fewer moving parts, but a far more complex problem with sealing than regular piston engines do, and thus tend to be less efficient and burn more oil in the real world. Plus, modern piston engines are balanced so well that the RPM differences aren't what they used to be.
If someone could open an account using my information in such a way that it never impacted me (no bill collectors coming after me when they default on the credit cards, no hit to the credit score, etc...), then this analogy would work, but it doesn't. This fraud really does steal your identity.
There is a Javascript cross compile, but no word as to how well that actually works. My experience with automatic code generators/translators like this is that they usually work fine for trivial projects, but tend to collapse when given something even moderately complex. Given how much of a moving target Browsers are, I wouldn't hold out much hope for such a device to produce usable code on its first outing. If you're lucky it will work in Chrome and you'll just have to tweak stuff to get it to work in Firefox and IE.
Both business models have their advantages and disadvantages.
The DVD service requires them to operate expensive warehouses and pay the Postal Service a ton of money, so the margins per movie aren't particularly high, but they literally only have to buy DVDs off of the shelf to add them to the catalog, so they're almost completely free of studio interference with their business model.
The Streaming service is much much cheaper for Netflix on a per movie bases (a couple of cents of bandwidth), but they're utterly beholden to the studio execs as to which titles they get and how much they have to pay for them. Because of this, it is a doomed business model unless they can get a Steve Jobs type person to woo them they way Jobs did with the major Record Labels back when he was setting up iTunes. That won't be easy either, the Studios are very wary not to repeat the same mistakes they perceive their music rivals as making, giving up too much control for merely massive profits from companies that give the people what they want, not what wrings the most cash out of them.
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Only router discovery, which is optional (you can manually configure your address and the next hop router if you like). IPv6 has the same problems with multicast that IPv4 does, namely that routing it is a big mess and nobody wants to do it unless they have to, especially on the internet. So it's fine for local discovery type applications (most routing protocols use multicast for this reason), but nobody wants to think about sending it past the first hop unless they really have to.
About the same danger of you farting in your apartment might stink up all of New York City.
Multicast was a requirement in v4 as well, and you see how far that got. The advantage of v6 is that it supports anycast, which is like multicast, except that it stops when it reaches the first recipient instead of getting delivered to every one.
You might think that, but in practice you end up typing the addresses a lot more than you would think, especially when you're working on small disconnected networks with intermittent connectivity and doing lots of peer to peer traffic with embedded devices. When something autoconfigures an address, that address needs to be added to DNS somehow, and that's often a fairly difficult step, if you even have DNS.
The colon requires you to keep smacking the shift key, which is awkward becuase your left hand is typing numbers and letters at the same time--try it yourself, type out: a84f:9b3a:0221::1 vs. a no-shift solution like a84f-9b3a-0221--1 and see which one takes longer. I suspect the real answer is that - is a valid name is a domain, so it's possible there was a conflict with an actual domain. While that's theoretically true, in practice I doubt it would have been an issue. Registrars could simply say: you can't register anything that would parse as a valid IPv6 address and that would be the end of it, very few (if any) domains would be in the IPv6 address format already. It's not like you didn't have to modify every gethostbyname() to support v6 anyway, so adding the check wouldn't have made much difference.
According to TFA, 3.5 Million a year. So you are short by about half, especially when you consider just how much money you would lose through continuous use of BTC.
Given that there is a $5000/day limit on the Bitcoin exchange, I don't think that's going to be a viable way to launder the money. The whole point of that limit is to prevent people from moving money too fast and showing people the inevitable crash (and why it's crashing veeerrry sloooowly) so the early "investors" get a steady paycheck until the money runs out. If Assange were to try to use it, he would end up losing a fairly hefty percentage of every dollar/euro/pound he put in it due to the constant downward pressure on the coin and the overhead from the various middlemen all trying to prop up their own bank accounts.
Sorry, education got cut too, so those Universities are going to have to spend that money on salaries and whatnot. Who else is going to do earthquake research?
The "Oh, private universities can pick up the slack" is a handwave of epic proportions that falls apart under even the smallest amount of scrutiny. It's an epidemic problem with Ron Paul, he's a "big ideas" man, but never follows through with the details.
The biggest thing I hate about IPv6 is that the standard format uses colon as the digit separator. On most keyboards, that is a fairly awkward character to type, especially in rapid fire between groups of hex digits. Also, it causes problems for the many many programs that specify ports after IP addresses with a colon (like URIs!). IPv4's use of the period instead is much nicer. If you didn't want to reuse the period (so programs can distinguish between the two types of addresses more easily), why not use dash instead? It's just as visually appealing and doesn't require you to hit shift to type it. It would have saved a whole lot of ugly brackets around IP addresses.
Any aesthetic qualities of the colon are lost when you have to do this:
http:/// [1005:3321:5a52:4fca::1]:8080/
instead of:
http://1005-3321-5a52-4fca--1:8080/
And that second example was noticeably quicker for me to type.
Edit: And of course because this is Slashdot it made a huge mess of the first URL and forced me to mess it up slightly to be readable!
IPv6 Addresses are handed out in /64 blocks, or /48s if you have a big enterprise. We aren't going to exhaust the IPv6 address space without some sort of router that can talk with infinite parallel universes or something.
One of the biggest hurdles to IPv6 adoption today is that the average home user simply cannot get an IPv6 address from their ISP. Tunnels are hacker toys, and completely impractical/impossible for people who are using their ISP's "home router". What do you think we can do to convince ISPs to start rolling out IPv6 [i]before[/i] there is a crisis? Everybody agrees that the transition will go smoother if we take it slow and easy, but nobody is willing to make the first step, and IPv4 addresses aren't still being inexorably depleted the world over.
Yep, and the alternative is to just not get published. Clearly the publisher was only mildly interested in her work given the relatively paltry advance, so it was probably a take it or leave it situation.
Isn't Step 2: Find some content to put on your network? I mean if you have no authors from any major publisher on your store, how do you expect to attract people to it? It's sort of like those MP3 stores that existed before iTunes where your choice was "horrible overpriced mess with obnoxious DRM and scant handful songs from one label" or "Indie crap that appeals to maybe a few dozen people worldwide, and then mostly so they can be more indie than you." Both models were terrible failures for obvious reasons.
The difficulty isn't in setting up a DRM free marketplace, it is getting content on that marketplace. If it's good people will buy it, but good luck getting anything good when you have to work completely outside of the publishers. You'll get a few titles from authors willing (or desperate) enough to take the chance, but you're competing with publishers that will put out literally thousands of quality titles (and tens of thousands of crap titles).
Eh, big publishers almost always have abusive clauses like this in their contracts. Authors have been griping for years about it, but what can they do, the publishers hold all of the cards.
Except now there's an alternative, and the publishers must be shitting bricks if they realize that they're going to have real competition for the first time ever. At least they can be pretty sure that this author won't fight them in court, $20k isn't enough to pay for a lawyer of any merit for a case that is likely to drag on for years if she fights it. The only monkey wrench Penguin has to worry about is if some lawyer takes up the case pro-bono.
Even if the capsaicin didn't kill them outright, they'll probably be begging for death to relieve the burning.
It's worse than that. Which industries are most interested in Copyright issues? The media? That's great, now who gets to decide which stores are going to get full blown 24 hours news coverage, and which are going to slip under the radar? This is why copyright reform is doomed, politicians need the media, and the media companies have only a few simple demands for them, guess what they are.
With newspapers dying out, it seems the only hope for independent journalism is the internet, but good luck getting anybody to take the internet seriously.
The only problem with 360 panoramas like this is that viewing it requires you to use some Quicktime-VR sort of setup that always looks bad with the corner distortion and awkward controls. It's hard to map a full spherical image onto a flat display.
It would be cool if those cameras could be upgrade/modified to take full motion video though. You get to be the ball, and look in any direction you want. Heck, with a bit of work you could almost certainly program something that could take a few snaps from this ball in the air to instantly recreate any space in a virtual environment. The combination of parallax from the movement and multiple (presumably overlapping) cameras should make it quite possible for a computer to figure out exactly what is where and what shape it is.
You could make spontaneous virtual tours with something like that. A couple of guys go out to a location, one guy throws the ball at the other, uploads the pictures via cell or wifi to some server that then recreates the space and lets people virtually fly around it. You could even do something like that for crime scene photos or anything that needs to document the exact state of a room.
Audi has a V8(!!!) that revs to 8k easily enough stock.
It's easy to have unbelievably good efficiency on an engine that has not been released yet. I'll wait until it we see it in the real world before declaring it better than sliced bread.
The big advantage is that it is lighter per BHP than the equivalent piston engine, and can be revved up higher. They have fewer moving parts, but a far more complex problem with sealing than regular piston engines do, and thus tend to be less efficient and burn more oil in the real world. Plus, modern piston engines are balanced so well that the RPM differences aren't what they used to be.
Like a million apex seals cried out in unison, and were then ejected from the tailpipe.
For some reason their emails are always getting tripped up in my spam filter. I had to create an explict exception for them.
A company already tried this. They were sued out of existence.
If someone could open an account using my information in such a way that it never impacted me (no bill collectors coming after me when they default on the credit cards, no hit to the credit score, etc...), then this analogy would work, but it doesn't. This fraud really does steal your identity.
There is a Javascript cross compile, but no word as to how well that actually works. My experience with automatic code generators/translators like this is that they usually work fine for trivial projects, but tend to collapse when given something even moderately complex. Given how much of a moving target Browsers are, I wouldn't hold out much hope for such a device to produce usable code on its first outing. If you're lucky it will work in Chrome and you'll just have to tweak stuff to get it to work in Firefox and IE.
Both business models have their advantages and disadvantages.
The DVD service requires them to operate expensive warehouses and pay the Postal Service a ton of money, so the margins per movie aren't particularly high, but they literally only have to buy DVDs off of the shelf to add them to the catalog, so they're almost completely free of studio interference with their business model.
The Streaming service is much much cheaper for Netflix on a per movie bases (a couple of cents of bandwidth), but they're utterly beholden to the studio execs as to which titles they get and how much they have to pay for them. Because of this, it is a doomed business model unless they can get a Steve Jobs type person to woo them they way Jobs did with the major Record Labels back when he was setting up iTunes. That won't be easy either, the Studios are very wary not to repeat the same mistakes they perceive their music rivals as making, giving up too much control for merely massive profits from companies that give the people what they want, not what wrings the most cash out of them.