Please, give credit to whom it is due. Both the original study (requires an account) and the article linked to Slashdot state that the study was committed by Andrew Monk, Jenni Carroll, Sarah Parker and Mark Blythe (From University of York).
Nielsen merely summarizes the study in his own article.
The world population currently stands at over 6 billion, and growing. If only 17% of the world uses simply one extra IP, then your supply is exhausted.
Let's put this in perspective. With more than one third of world's population lacking proper sanitation and nearly third of the world lacking access to commercial energy, I sincerely doubt the whole population would need even a single IP.
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Please, give credit to whom it is due. Both the original study (requires an account) and the article linked to Slashdot state that the study was committed by Andrew Monk, Jenni Carroll, Sarah Parker and Mark Blythe (From University of York). Nielsen merely summarizes the study in his own article.
Let's put this in perspective. With more than one third of world's population lacking proper sanitation and nearly third of the world lacking access to commercial energy, I sincerely doubt the whole population would need even a single IP.