I think you're ignoring the fact in the case of Fukashima, they were set up to be self-sufficient -- it's just that the tsunami knocked out their backup generators.
Even a tunnel holding 2 devices is usually issued a/64 which will waste 2^64-4 addresses.
I take it you're assuming that each tunnel subnet requires a network and broadcast address? Nope. All you need for a point-to-point link is two IPs, so using a/64 you waste (2^64)-2 IPs. There's a reason I generally prefer using/127s for PtP links, although some implementations don't like that.
Granted, as many other IPv6 proponents are quick to point out, it's not like we need to worry that much about depleting the IP space, but damned if that kind of wasteful thinking doesn't remind me of how we got into such a mess with IPv4.
If all the devices in your network only speak IPv6, then the missing you would just need a router that translates IPv6 to IPv4
AKA "NAT64"
(of course it will may also need to convert any DNS A record to a DNS AAAA record).
AKA "DNS64"
A subset of the IPv6 range is actually allocated to cover the IPv4 address range - basically any address with a maximum value of 2^32 in the 2^128 bit range is an IPv4 address. So your IPv4 address 216.34.181.45 as an IPv6 address is::D822:B52D.
That's actually slightly dated; it'd now be::ffff:d822:b52d (although::ffff:216.34.181.45 works).
...so allow for browsing to the ARIN-designated private IP space. If someone's phishing on private space routable to your location, you've got bigger problems.
That assumes that each deleted account belongs to a unique subscriber. Each subscriber can have up to ten email addresses, so that's anywhere between $70,000 and $700,000. Plus, if they make the credit by-request-only, that would hugely reduce the cost (but would be typically evil of them).
To anyone who's had the pleasure of dealing with Charter for more than a few months, this isn't exactly astounding. Their customer service is awful, their sales department lies through their teeth, their billing department proves itself to be continually inept, and their network has numerous single-points-of-failure (i.e., a poorly placed server for the cable modem configurations).
The plus side is, I had 10m/1m cable long before anyone using Comcast did.
Now, to see if I can get $50 out of them. Not that we use the email accounts they offer, but we do have some.
You don't seem stupid (honestly), so your comment strikes me as really odd.
Is the obviousness of the AC's point that lost on you? To me, they were giving the OP an example of how it feels to be zeroed in on and threatened. It's easy enough to blow something like that off as "oversensitive" when you're detached from the situation -- "hey, it's not happening to me, what do I care?" -- but these things tend to feel different when they're directed at you.
I don't agree with their methods (posting the same kind of threatening messages this article was about), but I do understand their message.
(Nice handle, by the way -- I'm just familiar enough with Buddhism to catch the play on words.)
Without RTFA (or any prior knowledge of ReactOS, honestly), my first thought came to the leaked Windows source code. Of course, no one would be that stupid...right?
Actually, the National Guard, despite the name, can be activated by that's state's governor. A slightly better analogy would be sending out the Army to stomp on a spider. However, either one is, by far, overkill.
Y'know, for a moment (after I read the headline, before I read the description), I thought they were referring to sock puppets literally. I was rather confused as to why the EU would outlaw something so (usually, anyway) innocent.
As for banning astroturfing, that, I can understand.
In a LUG I'm in, it's known as "hasselhoffing" -- using the victim's account to profess, usually on IRC, their love for David Hasselhoff. ISTR the first victim was a guy born in Germany, which makes sense; after all, Germans love David Hasselhoff.
As previously mentioned (and I would have said anyway), IBM already has DB2, so they wouldn't have much incentive to buy another database. However, it might be worth noting that Dell offers both RHEL and SLES on some of its higher-end servers. Maybe you're looking at the wrong manufacturer?
(Not that I particularly believe Dell is going for that power play, either.)
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I'd agree, except a) it's called "Surry Power Station," and b) a quick Google on that name gives you all the gory details.
Surry Power Station
I think you're ignoring the fact in the case of Fukashima, they were set up to be self-sufficient -- it's just that the tsunami knocked out their backup generators.
I find it slightly more concerning that the power plant didn't. They're not designed to be self-sufficient?
I'm glad everyone's moving to the cloud for reliability and scalability purposes!
Akamai has been in this business for a very long time and has their infrastructure on datacenters all over the planet. They know what they're doing.
Based on the "IPv6 is hard!" whining I've heard from their camp, I'm not so convinced they still know what they're doing.
Even a tunnel holding 2 devices is usually issued a /64 which will waste 2^64-4 addresses.
I take it you're assuming that each tunnel subnet requires a network and broadcast address? Nope. All you need for a point-to-point link is two IPs, so using a /64 you waste (2^64)-2 IPs. There's a reason I generally prefer using /127s for PtP links, although some implementations don't like that.
Granted, as many other IPv6 proponents are quick to point out, it's not like we need to worry that much about depleting the IP space, but damned if that kind of wasteful thinking doesn't remind me of how we got into such a mess with IPv4.
If all the devices in your network only speak IPv6, then the missing you would just need a router that translates IPv6 to IPv4
AKA "NAT64"
(of course it will may also need to convert any DNS A record to a DNS AAAA record).
AKA "DNS64"
A subset of the IPv6 range is actually allocated to cover the IPv4 address range - basically any address with a maximum value of 2^32 in the 2^128 bit range is an IPv4 address. So your IPv4 address 216.34.181.45 as an IPv6 address is ::D822:B52D.
That's actually slightly dated; it'd now be ::ffff:d822:b52d (although ::ffff:216.34.181.45 works).
Granted, you can set up a fc::/7 network,
You don't understand IPv6 well. RFC4193 space is fc00::/7, not 00fc::/7.
(Sorry, saw that error and had to jump on the bandwagon.)
...so allow for browsing to the ARIN-designated private IP space. If someone's phishing on private space routable to your location, you've got bigger problems.
That assumes that each deleted account belongs to a unique subscriber. Each subscriber can have up to ten email addresses, so that's anywhere between $70,000 and $700,000. Plus, if they make the credit by-request-only, that would hugely reduce the cost (but would be typically evil of them).
To anyone who's had the pleasure of dealing with Charter for more than a few months, this isn't exactly astounding. Their customer service is awful, their sales department lies through their teeth, their billing department proves itself to be continually inept, and their network has numerous single-points-of-failure (i.e., a poorly placed server for the cable modem configurations).
The plus side is, I had 10m/1m cable long before anyone using Comcast did.
Now, to see if I can get $50 out of them. Not that we use the email accounts they offer, but we do have some.
You don't seem stupid (honestly), so your comment strikes me as really odd.
Is the obviousness of the AC's point that lost on you? To me, they were giving the OP an example of how it feels to be zeroed in on and threatened. It's easy enough to blow something like that off as "oversensitive" when you're detached from the situation -- "hey, it's not happening to me, what do I care?" -- but these things tend to feel different when they're directed at you.
I don't agree with their methods (posting the same kind of threatening messages this article was about), but I do understand their message.
(Nice handle, by the way -- I'm just familiar enough with Buddhism to catch the play on words.)
Is this comment supposed to be ironic? By your same reasoning, who has time to read (and respond to) Slashdot discussions?
Without RTFA (or any prior knowledge of ReactOS, honestly), my first thought came to the leaked Windows source code. Of course, no one would be that stupid...right?
Does it really surprise anyone that Viacom has skeletons in its own closet?
Actually, the National Guard, despite the name, can be activated by that's state's governor. A slightly better analogy would be sending out the Army to stomp on a spider. However, either one is, by far, overkill.
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Finer details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Nation
...you could get attacked by a rottweiler while My Heart Will Go On is playing in the background.
I only wish I was making up that scenario.
Y'know, for a moment (after I read the headline, before I read the description), I thought they were referring to sock puppets literally. I was rather confused as to why the EU would outlaw something so (usually, anyway) innocent.
As for banning astroturfing, that, I can understand.
In a LUG I'm in, it's known as "hasselhoffing" -- using the victim's account to profess, usually on IRC, their love for David Hasselhoff. ISTR the first victim was a guy born in Germany, which makes sense; after all, Germans love David Hasselhoff.
As previously mentioned (and I would have said anyway), IBM already has DB2, so they wouldn't have much incentive to buy another database. However, it might be worth noting that Dell offers both RHEL and SLES on some of its higher-end servers. Maybe you're looking at the wrong manufacturer?
(Not that I particularly believe Dell is going for that power play, either.)