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  1. Red Herring on How Things Will Change Under IPv6 · · Score: 1

    All of what you mention can be taken care of at the router in IPv6. Just like in IPv4. (Router is Firewall's oft-forgotten last name.)

  2. Re:IPv6 is unlikely to be widely deployed on How Things Will Change Under IPv6 · · Score: 1

    They are compatible in that you can run them both on the same machine at once. Incompatible would be if you couldn't. If you have an approprite gateway (which exist) you can even talk to the IPv6 address space from IPv4 or to the IPv4 address space from IPv6, so I don't see the problem. As I understand it, some Comcast cable modems take IPv6 addresses for the Comcast internal network and tunnel IPv4 through them. I have a Linode out there that is on IPv4 but that tunnels IPv6 through Hurricane Electric. And the server is accessible to both address spaces. (It also has both A and AAAA DNS records.) I've read that article by DJB before, but it seems out of character for him: he is the one with the brilliant idea to thrash the current email system (which I agree with) but he wants to preserve the old address space? Sure, it takes longer to transition from IPv4 to IPv6 this way, but it's a much cleaner transition when it's done because IPv6 doesn't have to support some of the stupid ideas (that seemed good at the time and only experimentation toppled) that went into IPv4; for instance, the way routing and flow control are handled. Those could not be properly done on an IPv4 hybrid network. And in the end, no one will be tempted to no upgrade just because the networks directly interoperate. (Which, I believe, is what you meant when you said compatible.)

  3. Re:Why the jump in version number on How Things Will Change Under IPv6 · · Score: 1

    IPv5 was an experimental stream protocol.

  4. Look at the Hobbit on Is There Such A Thing As A Final Cut? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Even Tolkien did this -- though in a much more creative way -- blaming the changes in The Hobbit (first published in 1937) on the fact that Bilbo was lying about how he got the Ring and Gandalf had finally gotten the truth out of the fellow. Why? Because it was meant as a history (albeit fictional) and the history changed.

  5. Don't forget Coda.. on Building a Massive Single Volume Storage Solution? · · Score: 1

    Coda works even when nodes disconnect, for instance with network outages or mobile computing. Plus, there is a Windows client, if that's the way your shop swings.

  6. My name is.. on Web Chats Help the Chronically Ill · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My name is Sir Pallas.. and I am.. chronically.. three.

  7. All it means.. on The exhaustion of IPv4 address space · · Score: 1

    ..is that I'm going to have to re-purchase all the networking equipment that companies are going to refuse to update. That being said, I'm already using IPv6 tunneled through Hurricane Electric and Freenet6. What's nice is the automatic DNS identification and the swimming turtle. Oh, and the price.

  8. Maybe.. on SpecOps Labs offers $10,000 to Emulator Developers · · Score: 2, Funny

    ..it'll run on this optical laptop.

  9. Re:It's remarkable how wrong this is on Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Evolving · · Score: 1

    The article is not about evolution, it is about *rapid* evolution of the brain.

  10. Luckily, license upgrade is not automatic. on GPL to be Modified to Penalize Patents and DRM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe the draftes of this next revision have forgotten that popularity among corporate benefactors is essential to free software today. And what about companies that have patents but allow free software groups take advantage of those patents free of charge? What's so bad about DRM? The problem isn't DRM, per se; it's DRM that isn't open and isn't fair. It just seems like they're losing it over at the FSF. I thought the GPL was created to help protect the rights of software authors, not to wage a holy war.

  11. Re:Cheaper? on Spyware Removal: Drop PC in Dumpster · · Score: 1

    My VAIO laptop actually has something like that. It's not hardware, just a hidden partition; so if the drive goes, I'll need to order the OEM DVDs from Sony. But barring that, it's really easy (and pretty quick) to wipe the machine.

  12. Not just Batman.. on SpamSlayer - should we DDOS spammers? · · Score: 1

    Remember the Boondock Saints.

  13. Google Maps is alright.. on Google Maps for Boingo -- And Any Page · · Score: 1

    ..but hopefully they'll be able to add this kind of thing as a Google Earth layer.

  14. Gerrymandering is a State issue. on Justice O'Connor Retiring · · Score: 1

    Intra-state, yes. We're talking inter-state.

  15. Re:Seems to me Bush won reelection on Justice O'Connor Retiring · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not really gerrymandering because the State lines aren't redrawn all that often. I don't know where you've lived, but I've lived both in the Midwest and on the West Coast. Maybe it goes without saying that they are completely different worlds; the States operate very differently. They are individual entities with distinct voices. When I try to explain my politics to people on the West Coast (in particular) they get confused because their picture is different than the picture where I was raised. And I think that distinct voice needs to be heard. (I am also quite proud that Missouri, my birthplace, has voted with the winner in the presidential elections for about the past 100 years. It's a representative voice.) Think of it this way: just beacuse one man is bigger doesn't make his voice more important; just because one state has more people, doesn't make its voice more important.

  16. Re:Why do swing votes have to be so important? on Justice O'Connor Retiring · · Score: 1

    The problem is that that could paralize the head legal interpreters ouf the US. Say the vote is already 5-3; a judge --- even one normally on the majority side of this issue --- has the opportunity to freeze the issue for whatever reason. So now you've got the problem that the SCOTUS has accepted a case, but fails to make a ruling. A court that doesn't freeze is the whole idea behind having an odd number of justices; because once they accept a case, they need to rule.

  17. Re:Seems to me Bush won reelection on Justice O'Connor Retiring · · Score: 1

    But do they represent more than 50% of the states? Just like in the presidential electorate, the population is not the predominant thing. That means that dense states can't oppress sparse states, because of course the United States is not the United People.

  18. Re:This sounds familiar on Our Brains Don't Work Like Computers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Analog computers still exist in some places, but you list discrete values. An analog computer works with an essentially continuous range of charges instead of discrete values; and it works continuously in time, instead of in discrete steps. They're very good at integrating, which is the application I used them in.

  19. Re:Incorrect on Britain's First Jedi Member of Parliament · · Score: 1

    That's not what substance means in Aristotlean terminology.

  20. Fuzzy Networks on Our Brains Don't Work Like Computers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's what I heard. Even if they don't work like sequential or even parallel digital computers, I'm pretty sure that brains still compute. Mine tries, at least.

  21. Re:Incorrect on Britain's First Jedi Member of Parliament · · Score: 1

    Exactly. There is a change of substance, but not always of form; which is why the word literal is inappropriate and the idea of a substantial transformation is juxtaposed with a formal transformation. The most straight forward (literal) idea of "transformation" includes both the substance and the form of an object, at least if you follow Aristotle, which the post-Aquianean church did; hence the langauge, and the transubstantial distinction.

  22. Re:The Force is *retarded* with this one... on Britain's First Jedi Member of Parliament · · Score: 1

    You don't have to turn water into wine to be a Christian. But you do have to turn a crystal into a lightsabre as part of the Jedi training. The force choke thing is right out because Jedi training doesn't develop that skill. It's interesting that Lucas said that Jedi is not modeled after any particular religion, but that it was intended to get people interested in exploring faith in general.

  23. Re:Wrong Claim on Britain's First Jedi Member of Parliament · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Literally" is probably the wrong word. They say that it is a substantial transformation, which in Classical terms means that the essence has changed, but the form has not. They say that it is the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ under the accidents of Bread and Wine. There are reported cases of so-called "Eucharistic miracles" where there is a formal manifestation into Type O blood and/or cardiac tissue, but I've never seen one personally..

  24. Re:That wasn't a Christian on Britain's First Jedi Member of Parliament · · Score: 1

    Not until the Council of Jamnia in 90AD were they excommunicated. In 64AD Nero was killing Gentile Christians for practicing the Jewish religion and the Jewish Christians in Rome were turning them in in droves. There were many multiple sects of Judaism at the time; it's just that after the destruction of the Temple, the group we now call the Rabbis took the reins and excommunicated everyone else.

  25. Re:Quick Fix on The Ham and Spam of Weblogs · · Score: 1

    The verification of a user account needs only happen once. There is a free UNIX host that does this, and there are a few of online games that essentially take a one time fee. I think that a lot of people would be willing to slap an actual dollar in an envelope and send it.