Yeah, the need to use NAT due to a shrinking IPv4 pool would be eliminated...but what about the people that use NAT for home networks running over a common cable/DSL connection?
If you wanted to eliminate NAT, the ISP would have to provide an IPv6 address for every network interface in your house, and I'm going to assume they would tack on some sort of surcharge for each additional address. So I doubt NAT would go away, b/c if the majority of the home users can buy a single Internet connection and split it between multiple machines, what would be their incentive to fork out the cash for multiple addresses?
Also, what about the logicistics of bringing multiple static IPv6 addresses into a house? How would that work...a router in each home? I've never had that one explained to me.
A Slashdot editor actually READ a submitted article, and posted comments that seem reasonable and logically thought out?
This will likely be offset by the fact that the article shows up again within the next 24 hours on/. Then quite possibly within the next 24 hours after that.
Yeah, I was curious about that. Seems that my CS profs here at school are doing the same thing. When did it become commonplace to use "she" when referring to "the programmer?"
I mean, c'mon, in my higher level CS classes, there is (on average) about 1 girl for every 40 guys.
An astute point. There are engine mods you can do that make the engine's job easier such as freeing up the exhaust or opening up the intake (among many many others). Or you can make the engine's job harder by forced induction or chipping it.
The first could conceivably lengthen the life of your engine, assuming you're not out abusing the hell out of it from every stop light -- though I imagine that is the precise reason some people mod it in the first place. But the chip mods and such are going to be putting stresses on the engine that it wasn't explicitly designed for, otherwise they would have put the higher performance mod chip in there in the first place (assuming the mod chip affects more than just fuel efficiency -- i.e. torque, hp, rpm-limit). That's why I don't think I'd ever chip mod my daily driver.
On Saturday, a group of Linux enthusiasts in Bergen, Norway, succeeded in exchanging some data using the Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol (CPIP).
Man, I groan every time I read the phrase "a group of Linux enthusiasts." There is never any way of telling what they hell they're going to do next, but its undoubtedly going to be a really really bad idea. I mean, wasn't it a group of Linux enthusiasts who are setting up that radio broadcast of the entire linux kernel's code? I don't feel like looking up that link...
I don't understand the drool factor of faster cars...
If you want a faster car you can buy it with enough money...there is no point in lusting after these "wonders of speed and handling" if you're not going to buy them...
why don't we look at an Audi R8 Prototype and talk about how cool it would be to spend $5M on a
610 hp car....
You my friend, are missing the point. And if you don't know what that point is, maybe you shouldn't post comments on Slashdot.
Shit, that's like giving away the car and selling the keys for 20 grand.
Piss poor analogy. With a car, the only (legit) way to get it started is with the keys, so if they hand you a car w/ no keys...duh, looks like a scam to me.
These guys are giving you the entire source code though. So if you don't know how to use it or figure it out, then yeah, cough up the dough, these guys gotta stay in business somehow.
Someone earlier made a much more proper analogy...these guys give you a car and you tell them you want to know how to advance the spark timing so they say "$10 for an illustrated guide." It's not like they're denying you the ability to use the car, they're just charging you for what could be considered "expert" knowledge that you obviously don't have for yourself.
I don't know about that. If you are paying them for support, you aren't necessarily paying for something tangible (like a CD), but it's the same idea.
You've bought something from them (knowledge). If you go and post it on your web site, who else is going to pay them for it when they can get it from you for free? Eventually all the knowledge they've spent time (= money) pulling together is publicly available, and they sink.
As for parellels to the RIAA...well, I don't have any desire to step into that at present moment...
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Geez man, calm down. You find it "depressing" when someone's comment gets modded up on Slashdot? I think they have doctors you can see about that kind of stuff. In the mean time, why don't you go outside or do something besides get depressed about Slashdot comments.
Oh, and another thing, I doubt the poster was "malicious" (New crime? Posting with malicious intent?). I would imagine they posted AC because otherwise every other Slashdotter would have broken out the "Karma Whore" cry.
I don't think she was saying she's a great person, she was just saying there are more destructive things she could be wasting her time on rather than video games. I don't think the point is that everyone should play video games, but rather that those who do aren't really hurting anything (except probably their social lives and such).
I think you're reading too much into how it "sounds" (that's an awkward statement).
It's just easier to say "Things have gotten faster due to Moore's Law" than it is to say "Things have gotten faster due to the fact that processor speed doubles every 18 months, according to a statement made by Intel's Gordon Moore in 1965." It's just kind of one of those understood things in the tech world.
Hell, professors here at my school will use it in class. Not as though it were an actual law (as in law of thermodynamics) but as in an understood concept of how fast technology is advancing.
OK, that was way too much time devoted to a petty posting...
Didn't mean to take too much time out of your busy day dude.
Witness: It seems to me that you need to get a life.
Oh Contrare. That's French, in case you need it, for 'to the contrary.' (To a Canadian, no less!!!)
But I guess it's hard to tell how someone is responding without seeing them in real life. So he's either a pompous asshole or a sarcastic hellion worthy of the Slashdot crowd.
What kind of wattage would it take to drive 173dB? OK, no gases, but more fossil fuels burned to power this thing, turning out more emmissions contributing the green-house effect. It's kind of like the whole electric car thing...electricity still requires energy from some source, and in most cases it's a fossil-fule burning power plant somewhere.
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Ehhhh...RAID vs. RAM/Dual CPU's? I was under the impression people used RAID for data integrity (at least, that's what I use it for). Unless you're striping, I suppose.
So yeah, you could probably spend your money on other things to get better performance, but that's entirely besides the point. What could you spend that money on to get better data reliability?
Wow, that's way off base. If you're dealing with a lot of SELECTs and not a whole lot of (concurrent) INSERT and UPDATEs, MySQL performs just fine. To say MySQL borks at 8,000 rows implies you haven't really used it, or you've used it in a very poor fashion -- i.e. wrong tool for the job or bad database design.
And just b/c MySQL might be the right tool for a given job doesn't mean that job isn't "REAL WORK". Kinda like the whole Linux/Windows debate...it's all about suiting the app/OS/whatever to the given task. And MySQL performs very well for tasks that have lightweight database needs.
Happy to take them? I'd wager the general population has zero choice in the matter, it's the people who actually collect and keep the money that are "HAPPY" to make the trade. And its the people who take the money who don't give a damn how much mercury or lead seeps into the same water supply that drinking water is drawn from.
To make a blanket statement that these country's people are happy to take this junk from us -- for spare parts !?!?! -- is being incredibly ignorant of the problems this "welcomed" trade is causing for the general population.
Microsoft needs to realize that cosmetic changes to the OS are not a reason to upgrade.
Yes, well, the general population in't going to get too excited about an NTFS replacement, an XML-enabled sidebar, or OS-level DRM. In fact, the latter would probably send them running.
But slap a pretty new face on it and suddenly you've given them a tangible reason for upgrading, regardless of whether the new interface is actually an improvement or not. It represents something newer, so it must follow that it is better. At the very least cooler, so that when the Smiths come over and see your new machine they can go "Oohhhh...you must be running the new Windows [insert catchy release name here]!!!"
The idea, then, is to limit the rate at which a computer can connect to new computers, where "new" means those that are not on a recent history list. Dr Williamson's "throttle" [...] restricts such connections to one a second.
OK, this seems to point to the question: Why was the ability to connect to "new" computers at an extremely high rate there in the first place? Is that ability ever utilized to any extent in legitimate, day-to-day operations?
If so, this might cause you some problems and putting "throttling" in there is a really bad idea. But if this ability isn't used, then maybe the "throttling" should be put in at the OS level.
The only time I can see having this at the OS-level being a problem is when you first start up some big iron that needs to connect to thousands of clients. The OS might kill any attempt to do this. But once you've established a semi-regular list of clients, then having the OS thwart any attempts to collect to a massive amount of "new" machines seems like a good idea.
Seems like a nice enough kid to me, if not a bit like a rabbit caught in the headlights of instant fame.
At least she can laugh about all of the crazy stuff, like dress-up contests. Too many other people would, "like, freak out because that's really, like, wierd."
Ah to be 15, ignorant, naive, on Benadryl, and an instant celebrity.
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How many syllables is a $@&!*ing haiku supposed to have?
If you wanted to eliminate NAT, the ISP would have to provide an IPv6 address for every network interface in your house, and I'm going to assume they would tack on some sort of surcharge for each additional address. So I doubt NAT would go away, b/c if the majority of the home users can buy a single Internet connection and split it between multiple machines, what would be their incentive to fork out the cash for multiple addresses?
Also, what about the logicistics of bringing multiple static IPv6 addresses into a house? How would that work...a router in each home? I've never had that one explained to me.
This will likely be offset by the fact that the article shows up again within the next 24 hours on /. Then quite possibly within the next 24 hours after that.
Oh man...the potential. Too bad I don't have a sense of humor.
Hmmm....I'm not convinced, you'll have to try harder.
I mean, c'mon, in my higher level CS classes, there is (on average) about 1 girl for every 40 guys.
Yeah, and everyone goes to that page just for the articles.
The first could conceivably lengthen the life of your engine, assuming you're not out abusing the hell out of it from every stop light -- though I imagine that is the precise reason some people mod it in the first place. But the chip mods and such are going to be putting stresses on the engine that it wasn't explicitly designed for, otherwise they would have put the higher performance mod chip in there in the first place (assuming the mod chip affects more than just fuel efficiency -- i.e. torque, hp, rpm-limit). That's why I don't think I'd ever chip mod my daily driver.
Was that after discarding the "How about a Beowulf cluster of ..." idea?
Man, I groan every time I read the phrase "a group of Linux enthusiasts." There is never any way of telling what they hell they're going to do next, but its undoubtedly going to be a really really bad idea. I mean, wasn't it a group of Linux enthusiasts who are setting up that radio broadcast of the entire linux kernel's code? I don't feel like looking up that link...
I don't understand the drool factor of faster cars...
If you want a faster car you can buy it with enough money...there is no point in lusting after these "wonders of speed and handling" if you're not going to buy them...
why don't we look at an Audi R8 Prototype and talk about how cool it would be to spend $5M on a 610 hp car....
You my friend, are missing the point. And if you don't know what that point is, maybe you shouldn't post comments on Slashdot.
Piss poor analogy. With a car, the only (legit) way to get it started is with the keys, so if they hand you a car w/ no keys...duh, looks like a scam to me.
These guys are giving you the entire source code though. So if you don't know how to use it or figure it out, then yeah, cough up the dough, these guys gotta stay in business somehow.
Someone earlier made a much more proper analogy...these guys give you a car and you tell them you want to know how to advance the spark timing so they say "$10 for an illustrated guide." It's not like they're denying you the ability to use the car, they're just charging you for what could be considered "expert" knowledge that you obviously don't have for yourself.
You've bought something from them (knowledge). If you go and post it on your web site, who else is going to pay them for it when they can get it from you for free? Eventually all the knowledge they've spent time (= money) pulling together is publicly available, and they sink.
As for parellels to the RIAA...well, I don't have any desire to step into that at present moment...
Oh, and another thing, I doubt the poster was "malicious" (New crime? Posting with malicious intent?). I would imagine they posted AC because otherwise every other Slashdotter would have broken out the "Karma Whore" cry.
I don't think she was saying she's a great person, she was just saying there are more destructive things she could be wasting her time on rather than video games. I don't think the point is that everyone should play video games, but rather that those who do aren't really hurting anything (except probably their social lives and such).
It's just easier to say "Things have gotten faster due to Moore's Law" than it is to say "Things have gotten faster due to the fact that processor speed doubles every 18 months, according to a statement made by Intel's Gordon Moore in 1965." It's just kind of one of those understood things in the tech world.
Hell, professors here at my school will use it in class. Not as though it were an actual law (as in law of thermodynamics) but as in an understood concept of how fast technology is advancing.
OK, that was way too much time devoted to a petty posting...
Witness:
It seems to me that you need to get a life.
Oh Contrare. That's French, in case you need it, for 'to the contrary.' (To a Canadian, no less!!!)
But I guess it's hard to tell how someone is responding without seeing them in real life. So he's either a pompous asshole or a sarcastic hellion worthy of the Slashdot crowd.
What kind of wattage would it take to drive 173dB? OK, no gases, but more fossil fuels burned to power this thing, turning out more emmissions contributing the green-house effect. It's kind of like the whole electric car thing...electricity still requires energy from some source, and in most cases it's a fossil-fule burning power plant somewhere.
So yeah, you could probably spend your money on other things to get better performance, but that's entirely besides the point. What could you spend that money on to get better data reliability?
And just b/c MySQL might be the right tool for a given job doesn't mean that job isn't "REAL WORK". Kinda like the whole Linux/Windows debate...it's all about suiting the app/OS/whatever to the given task. And MySQL performs very well for tasks that have lightweight database needs.
At the same time, the recipient would have to have their face, facial muscles, skin and subcutaneous fat removed.
So you're basically left with bone. And if that new face doesn't quite settle in? Man, wouldn't that be gross? You'd be like Skeletor.
Happy to take them? I'd wager the general population has zero choice in the matter, it's the people who actually collect and keep the money that are "HAPPY" to make the trade. And its the people who take the money who don't give a damn how much mercury or lead seeps into the same water supply that drinking water is drawn from.
To make a blanket statement that these country's people are happy to take this junk from us -- for spare parts !?!?! -- is being incredibly ignorant of the problems this "welcomed" trade is causing for the general population.
Yes, well, the general population in't going to get too excited about an NTFS replacement, an XML-enabled sidebar, or OS-level DRM. In fact, the latter would probably send them running.
But slap a pretty new face on it and suddenly you've given them a tangible reason for upgrading, regardless of whether the new interface is actually an improvement or not. It represents something newer, so it must follow that it is better. At the very least cooler, so that when the Smiths come over and see your new machine they can go "Oohhhh...you must be running the new Windows [insert catchy release name here]!!!"
OK, this seems to point to the question: Why was the ability to connect to "new" computers at an extremely high rate there in the first place? Is that ability ever utilized to any extent in legitimate, day-to-day operations?
If so, this might cause you some problems and putting "throttling" in there is a really bad idea. But if this ability isn't used, then maybe the "throttling" should be put in at the OS level.
The only time I can see having this at the OS-level being a problem is when you first start up some big iron that needs to connect to thousands of clients. The OS might kill any attempt to do this. But once you've established a semi-regular list of clients, then having the OS thwart any attempts to collect to a massive amount of "new" machines seems like a good idea.
At least she can laugh about all of the crazy stuff, like dress-up contests. Too many other people would, "like, freak out because that's really, like, wierd."
Ah to be 15, ignorant, naive, on Benadryl, and an instant celebrity.