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  1. Re:Ill bet this will happen on IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated · · Score: 1

    The fact is, we've been preparing for the IPv6 switch for years now. The IPv6 spec reserves space for the entire IPv4 network, making translation between the two a snap. Any modern OS less than 5 years old has IPv6 built in, including conversion between v4 and v6. Almost all commercial networking hardware sold in the last 5-10 years is IPv6 capable, and as I already said using IPv4 within IPv6 is a piece of cake.

    Oh yeah? Well what happens when we run out of IPv6 space?

  2. Re: Faster Than The Other Side on A Case For the Necessity of Science Fiction · · Score: 1

    Maybe, the right question to ask then is WHY do people hate welfare?

    Because the perception is that people on welfare tend to make more children on welfare perpetuating a long-term cycle that is unhealthy for the overall economy.

    Whether this is true, I do not know. But this perception is the reason you're looking for.

  3. Whereas with Syfy... on A Case For the Necessity of Science Fiction · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can keep up on the latest trends in who Marsha might be attracted to besides Curtis! And is the Jennifer's baby actually Devon's? And will Steve ever come out of that coma, and if he does, what will happen to June and Chris?

  4. Re:Bill Gates on By Latest Count, 95% of Email Is Spam · · Score: 4, Funny

    640 days ought to be enough for anyone.

  5. I wonder... on Deadline For Data.gov Arrives, and Delivers · · Score: 1

    Will they mention this on C-Span?

  6. Re:Great, still doesn't fix the Houston problem. on The Year of the E-Bicycle · · Score: 1

    Of course we road on the rode! What, did you think we rowed?

  7. Re:No wonder on Wii Balance Board Gives $18,000 Medical Device a Run For Its Money · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't. But paying very little for it does.

  8. Re:Great, still doesn't fix the Houston problem. on The Year of the E-Bicycle · · Score: 1

    This is the level of "friendliness to bycicles" that is necessary for everyone to start thinking about using a bike - when you let your kid go to school on a bike.

    Most of us road our bikes to school by 4th grade here in San Diego.

  9. Re:The poor rover on Options Dwindling For Mars Spirit Rover · · Score: 1

    Time to put Silent Running on your rental list...

  10. Re:No wonder on Wii Balance Board Gives $18,000 Medical Device a Run For Its Money · · Score: 1

    My point exactly.

  11. Re:Newspapers Place in Our Society on NY Times To Charge For Online Content · · Score: 1

    They should outsource it to India.

  12. Re:"Not for ________ use" on Wii Balance Board Gives $18,000 Medical Device a Run For Its Money · · Score: 1

    Are you though? Because I bet if that did happen they still wouldn't assume liability.

    Probably. Of course that's the insurer's lawyers coming in and getting their freak on.

    Thinking about it you're probably also paying for the fact that the part works EXACTLY to a certain tolerance and won't be replaced by something different as well. This would be more important in a nuclear reactor and not so big a deal to a hobbyist.

  13. Re:No wonder on Wii Balance Board Gives $18,000 Medical Device a Run For Its Money · · Score: 0, Troll

    More likely $5 when manufactured with coolie labor in China.

    Would you trust the strength of your bones to something manufacture by coolie labor in China?

  14. Re:"Not for ________ use" on Wii Balance Board Gives $18,000 Medical Device a Run For Its Money · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I guess we were paying $99 for the QC sticker they put on it before they sent it off through the supply system.

    Again, you're paying for the sticker and the insurance that covers the lawsuit should that piece break and irradiate an entire shipyard.

  15. Re:Tapped out, eh? on Wii Hardware Upgrade Won't Happen Soon · · Score: 1

    Mcdonalds sells a lot too. This doesn't make their menu any more palatable.

  16. Re:Tapped out, eh? on Wii Hardware Upgrade Won't Happen Soon · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to MetaCritic, there are 26 Xbox games with 90+ ratings, 20 PS3 games with 90+ ratings, and 9 games on the Wii with 90+ ratings.

    I don't see the value proposition in the Wii now that the more powerful and capable competition with better games have come down to a point where the price difference is largely irrelevant.

  17. Re:Ironically on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 1

    Just walk around with a notebook and walk around, writing down whether women you see are attractive or not. When you've seen 50-ish women, you've got a decent statistical sample.

    This depends on whether you do it outside WalMart or a fitness gym.

  18. Re:REGULATORS! on Rudolph the Cadmium-Nosed Reindeer · · Score: 1

    there cannot be "free market" if not everyone has ... 4) there is no society, i.e. there is no point in trying to improve "good for all people"

    I was with you for 1-3, then you lost me.

  19. Re:Oh great, another subdized vehicle... on Chevrolet Volt In a Gasoline-Only Scenario · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh, I would love to hear you detail exactly how the government has been gouging you in particular.

    It's not me I'm personally worried about. It's my kids. You're right, they don't actually raise taxes now to pay for their spending... they borrow money to pay for it. The boomer generation has had a grand time of it. Millenials+? Not so much.

    Hmmm, how'd all that rampant borrowing work out in the housing bubble again?

  20. Re:Cadmium Positives on Rudolph the Cadmium-Nosed Reindeer · · Score: 1

    ($75/tube vs $20/tube) why the hell aren't they using one of the much cheaper, safer reds?

    It's probably more expensive as a pigment because the people manufacturing the pigment are smart enough to try to not poison themselves making it.

  21. Re:REGULATORS! on Rudolph the Cadmium-Nosed Reindeer · · Score: 1

    No.

    Yes.

  22. Re:And this is why not to buy Chinese.... on Rudolph the Cadmium-Nosed Reindeer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem is that if one kid dies or becomes permanently sick because of these toys, it's too late.

    I note the Republicans (well, and I guess the Democrats now) saying the same thing about terrorism.

    We cannot protect everyone from everything. Well, we could, but I'm not sure that would be a world anyone would want to live in.

    But here's the question... has cadmium actually made anyone sick yet? Isn't the alarm being raised before that happened already? Do you expect our politicians to somehow spot have spotted this ahead of everyone else?

    I would be perfectly happy to see cadmium regulated, but it's not as if people are dying in the streets right now because of it.

  23. Re:REGULATORS! on Rudolph the Cadmium-Nosed Reindeer · · Score: 1

    Free market is a concept where the parties are equally informed and there is no force or fraud.

    Obviously this has no real world counterpart so we use laws as best we can to create a free market.

    Some Libertarians and most non-Libertarians do not understand this.

  24. Re:REGULATORS! on Rudolph the Cadmium-Nosed Reindeer · · Score: 1

    People like you voted for Nader and inflicted Bush the Younger on yourselves, our country, and the world. As the first decade of the 21st century has tragically demonstrated, the parties aren't the same.

    This is short sited. While I agree first past the post politics creates duopolies, isn't supporting the system that originally created GWB just as damning as voting for some other candidate?

    Look at it this way. The Ds and Rs have been in power for going on two centuries now. The result of this was GWB. Not once, but twice. Even after everyone got all brokenhearted about voting for Nader in 2000.

    It's clear that it won't fix itself. Don't blame someone for trying something different once in a couple hundred years.

  25. Re:REGULATORS! on Rudolph the Cadmium-Nosed Reindeer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It really annoys me that people are too cheap to pay an extra percent or two to support local businesses where not only the workers spend their earnings in the local community, but the owners do as well.

    It's not just that. While WMT has pushing their low prices has been a factor, there is also the ease of going to one place for several things rather than going to the local hardware store, the local toy store, the local cosmetics store, the local electronics store, and the local grocery. It's more a time thing than anything else.