And DHCPv6 provides for more information than merely the IP, Subnet, and Router addresses (say, DNS, boot server, configuration file name, time server, etc). And yes, you can configure a network in such a way that the device is required to be known by the DHCP server before it is allowed to talk (off of its local network anyway...).
You do realize that this draft is presented as a personal draft, not as the output of a working group, right? I coiuldn't even find which working group he wanted to consider this draft. Also, since it's presented as an Informational draft (and not Standards-track), this isn't even a "spec". You may want to read up on how the IETF works.
Nobody's complaining that they're "trying something new". The complaint is that they are taking an established name (SimCity), and increasing the version number (4 -> 5), which would imply that it is substantially the same game with some improvements. But wait, it's not substantially the same game. It's a different game that they apparently feel that they need the built-up reputation of the name "SimCity" to get people to buy it.
Not true. The temporary addresses are routable, and nearly indistinguishable from "normal" routable addresses. NAT addresses on the other hand may require intermediate devices to perform some sort of address translation (hence the name NAT...) both at the IP protocol layer as well as potentially within the application data layer (such as FTP and SIP). If the end users happen to be encrypting their SIP traffic for example, the NAT gateway has no way to adjust the SIP data to use the correct IP. With IPv6 temporary addresses, the SIP traffic will contain a properly routable address which will not need to be translated.
You need to do some reading on IPv6 and Temporary Address allocations. Also, a device may have multiple IPv6 addresses (as in, multiple routable IPv6 addresses).
> Nobody "owns" the Internet. If some ISPs or backbone companies decide to limit bandwidth to certain sites, then they will simply lose business to the service providers who don't limit bandwidth.
And then you have the people that only have a "choice" of 1, maybe 2 ISPs. If that one ISP, or both ISPs do the throttling, then the user doesn't have the ability to change service providers. That theory might work if one realistically had a choice of a multitude of service providers. It doesn't work in a monopoly or near-monopoly.
> And what would prevent musicians and their fans from using P2P techniques for distributed streaming?
The ISP throttles traffic on anything that isn't going through their web proxies. Default traffic gets capped unless you are going to a "blessed" site that the ISP has obtained $$$ from to make them blessed. So much for your P2P traffic.
What I find more interesting about the "See ID" idea, on most of the credit cards I've seen, they all have a clause that says "Not valid unless signed".
No, and this is a pet peeve of mine.
Previously, a "0-day release" of pirated (illegaly copied, pick your favourite term) software meant that the pirated version of a program was released the same day that the retail version of it was made available. (At least this is where I presume the idea of "0-day" came from).
Thus, I would have expected that a "0-day vulnerability" would have meant that the vulnerability was discovered the same day that the software was released. But no... somebody decided that they needed a suitably sensationalist title for vulnerabilities, and thus use a different definition. It's when the vulnerability is announced the same day that an exploit for it is. The reason I think that this is sensationalist is that this classification is rather artificial since the person announcing the vulnerability could simply delay announcing it until an exploit is created, thus *poof* this vulnerability becomes a 0-day vulnerability (insert ominous soundtrack).
Regarding their myth 8: PC Copy Protection
They're wrong about TotalGaming.net. You need a valid login to install/update the games, but not to play the games.
Also they try to draw the parallel that nobody complains about inserting the CD into a Playstation, but people complain about PCs. How about because I've already installed the program onto my harddrive. The only reason (in many, many cases) to insert the CD is to "verify" the license. Nobody would be complaining if the content actually resided on the CD (for reasons other than to simply require the CD to be present). I remember Civ II did this. If you had the CD in the drive, you got CD audio tracks for background music. No CD, no music. On a Playstation, you insert the CD because that's where your program is.
It's much more fun if you happen to be playing an on-line full-screen game when WU decides it's time to ask you to reboot again, so it yanks you out of the game (by minimizing it) to ask you...
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And DHCPv6 provides for more information than merely the IP, Subnet, and Router addresses (say, DNS, boot server, configuration file name, time server, etc). And yes, you can configure a network in such a way that the device is required to be known by the DHCP server before it is allowed to talk (off of its local network anyway...).
You do realize that this draft is presented as a personal draft, not as the output of a working group, right? I coiuldn't even find which working group he wanted to consider this draft. Also, since it's presented as an Informational draft (and not Standards-track), this isn't even a "spec". You may want to read up on how the IETF works.
Aristocracy is a hereditary government. I presume you meant plutocracy, which is a government formed by the wealthy.
Nobody's complaining that they're "trying something new". The complaint is that they are taking an established name (SimCity), and increasing the version number (4 -> 5), which would imply that it is substantially the same game with some improvements. But wait, it's not substantially the same game. It's a different game that they apparently feel that they need the built-up reputation of the name "SimCity" to get people to buy it.
Not true. The temporary addresses are routable, and nearly indistinguishable from "normal" routable addresses. NAT addresses on the other hand may require intermediate devices to perform some sort of address translation (hence the name NAT...) both at the IP protocol layer as well as potentially within the application data layer (such as FTP and SIP). If the end users happen to be encrypting their SIP traffic for example, the NAT gateway has no way to adjust the SIP data to use the correct IP. With IPv6 temporary addresses, the SIP traffic will contain a properly routable address which will not need to be translated.
You need to do some reading on IPv6 and Temporary Address allocations. Also, a device may have multiple IPv6 addresses (as in, multiple routable IPv6 addresses).
Doesn't that depend on a Slashdot reader to RTFA ?
> Nobody "owns" the Internet. If some ISPs or backbone companies decide to limit bandwidth to certain sites, then they will simply lose business to the service providers who don't limit bandwidth.
And then you have the people that only have a "choice" of 1, maybe 2 ISPs. If that one ISP, or both ISPs do the throttling, then the user doesn't have the ability to change service providers. That theory might work if one realistically had a choice of a multitude of service providers. It doesn't work in a monopoly or near-monopoly.
> And what would prevent musicians and their fans from using P2P techniques for distributed streaming?
The ISP throttles traffic on anything that isn't going through their web proxies. Default traffic gets capped unless you are going to a "blessed" site that the ISP has obtained $$$ from to make them blessed. So much for your P2P traffic.
"ugly amateur console-games like Nethack" Spoken by someone who has never played Nethack.
My MacBook Pro came with 3 GB ....
What I find more interesting about the "See ID" idea, on most of the credit cards I've seen, they all have a clause that says "Not valid unless signed".
No, and this is a pet peeve of mine. Previously, a "0-day release" of pirated (illegaly copied, pick your favourite term) software meant that the pirated version of a program was released the same day that the retail version of it was made available. (At least this is where I presume the idea of "0-day" came from). Thus, I would have expected that a "0-day vulnerability" would have meant that the vulnerability was discovered the same day that the software was released. But no... somebody decided that they needed a suitably sensationalist title for vulnerabilities, and thus use a different definition. It's when the vulnerability is announced the same day that an exploit for it is. The reason I think that this is sensationalist is that this classification is rather artificial since the person announcing the vulnerability could simply delay announcing it until an exploit is created, thus *poof* this vulnerability becomes a 0-day vulnerability (insert ominous soundtrack).
Or for Mac OSX, you can use the Wikipedia Dashboard Widget:
http://www.whatsinthehouse.com/widgets/
Where did you get that definition of modem from? Last I checked... it was MODulator + DEModulator (also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem)
I thought Battlestar Galactica (the current one) completed season 1 in the UK before it showed up in the US.
And if they simply publish the stuff, and release the patent into the public domain, noone else can make patent claims on it either.
Because if you reject a "taken password", you now know another user's password. You can then use it to login as them.
Regarding their myth 8: PC Copy Protection They're wrong about TotalGaming.net. You need a valid login to install/update the games, but not to play the games. Also they try to draw the parallel that nobody complains about inserting the CD into a Playstation, but people complain about PCs. How about because I've already installed the program onto my harddrive. The only reason (in many, many cases) to insert the CD is to "verify" the license. Nobody would be complaining if the content actually resided on the CD (for reasons other than to simply require the CD to be present). I remember Civ II did this. If you had the CD in the drive, you got CD audio tracks for background music. No CD, no music. On a Playstation, you insert the CD because that's where your program is.
Umm.. the FTP client? ftp.exe ... look for it...
I think it's very rude to interact with anybody when wearing headphones. The cashier at the coffee shop, whomever.
You may wish to look at VMware ACE (commercial), or CoLinux.....
"It's just about the first open source program to really become popular..." Never heard of Apache?
Nitpick... but this isn't a Linux vs. Microsoft story.. it's an OSS application vs. Microsoft...
It's much more fun if you happen to be playing an on-line full-screen game when WU decides it's time to ask you to reboot again, so it yanks you out of the game (by minimizing it) to ask you...
Or... convince your administrator that you should be allowed to use firefox....