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  1. Re:Comcast engineer here on The Hidden Cost of Your New Xfinity Router · · Score: 1

    That's BS. You need v6 to reach other people's v6 servers.

    Nope. v4 only reaches almost all of the Internet without NAT, or tricks.

    Who is running v6 only at this point? Not Google. Not Slashdot. Not Skype. Nobody I know if is v6 only. So why bother with the expense and complexity of supporting useless v6?

    I'm not sure why you are getting angry with me. I'm stating the facts. You should be mad at Microsoft. They are actively delaying v6 by being the last top-100 protocol/app that's inherently incompatible with v6. As for me, uptime and simplicity for my users is more important than fucking up their lives for some v6 crusade, with NAT and extra overhead in dual stacks and such.

    http://ipv6.cybernode.com/list... lists nothing interesting as v6 only. I also found a number of references to v6 sites that only work if you are dual-stack. So v6 only will break a lot of things. Until v6 is usable, why bother? It's more trouble, more headache, and the additional complexity will add in points of failure. Better to be v4 only. It's a better user environment.

  2. Re:and now we just use H-1B they don't complain on Judge Rejects $324.5 Million Settlement For Tech Workers, Argues For More · · Score: 1

    That is what unions do in the US.

    No, that's what CEOs do in the US.

  3. Re:and now we just use H-1B they don't complain on Judge Rejects $324.5 Million Settlement For Tech Workers, Argues For More · · Score: 1

    THAT is what unions do.

    Nope. They protect workers from arbitrary and capricious firings. If the teacher is a pedophile, prove it and fire them. If they are literally illiterate, prove it and fire them. Whining about not being able to prove it to fire them is the reason the unions exist. To stop jackasses like you from making unfounded accusations and expecting mass firings.

  4. Re:and now we just use H-1B they don't complain on Judge Rejects $324.5 Million Settlement For Tech Workers, Argues For More · · Score: 1

    Listen you cheeky little fool, AMA is not a union. You don't get hired by the AMA. You get hired by the company. That is not how a union works. Your employment is controlled by the union.

    Nope. When you "work for a union" you are hired by Bob's Electrics, and you are a member of the IBEW. If you let your IBEW membership lapse, then you can lose your employment. The same is true with lawyers. If you want to work as a lawyer for Bob's Lawfirm, you must join the Bar. If you get disbarred while a lawyer, you lose your job as well. But the whole time, you work for Bob, not the union.

    The AMA and ABA are unions. They are trade organizations you must join to be in that job.

  5. Re: Hang them by balls .. on Judge Rejects $324.5 Million Settlement For Tech Workers, Argues For More · · Score: 1

    Government has no authority to dictate any salary to anybody whatsoever, it usurped that power that it didn't have and destroyed individual freedoms.

    It didn't. It stated that collusion to prevent people from earning a living was illegal collusion.

    As to people being out of work, the exact opposite is the case. Without laws that make it extremely expensive and difficult and dangerous (litigation) to hire and fire people, more people have jobs.

    It was "free" to hire and fire people, they just illegally colluded to not hire competent people in order to taint the free market. You say that barriers to hiring and firing are bad, it was the companies that erected barriers, not the workers, or the government.

  6. companies ... exist ... to make money.

    Companies are "people." Why do people exist? Companies exist so people can pool resources to do what people do. What do people do?

    For your statement to be correct, the sole purpose of people existing must be to make a profit. That is suitably flamebait.

    The problem in USA is not that Google and Apple had agreements not to hire from each other, it's that there are so few employers at all, and that's a problem of business costs being too high thanks to government rules, taxes, regulations, litigation costs, inflation etc.

    And that's loonitarian bullshit. Lower regulations, and there are more worker deaths, and more profits, but not more jobs (except to replace the dead workers). When the minimum wage goes down, there aren't more jobs, there are fewer. When the minimum wage goes up, there aren't fewer jobs, but more. Reality proves loontarians wrong every time. That's why you are flamebait.

  7. Re:Comcast engineer here on The Hidden Cost of Your New Xfinity Router · · Score: 1

    If you aren't rolling out single stack v6, there's *no* reason to roll out v6 at all. It will only break things.

    That's my point. If it's impossible for anyone to get by on v6 alone, then dual-stack is a waste of money. Skype is the last big hurdle to v6 only (with NAT64 and DNS64 for the holdovers, becoming purely v6 when the last sites start publishing AAA records). If I have to support 4-6 NAT in the CPE and 6-4 CGNAT so skype can work v4-only, it's cheaper and better to just roll out v4 only.

    Until Skype is v6, we will be v4 only. It's cheaper and easier that way.

    Oh, and we don't launch until October, so we don't have a network that exists. So v4-only is better than dual stack. Cheaper and simpler to maintain, and v6-only is unaceptable so long as something as popular as Skype is incompatible with v6.

  8. Re:Good for them on Xiaomi Arrives As Top Smartphone Seller In China · · Score: 1

    That's China's imperial dogma indeed. Any past imperial military excursion or simple claim by the emperor (possibly plotted on some vague imperial map) or now the Communist Party annexes that land or territory eternally into the Chinese empire.

    At least there are ethnic chinese in those areas, and demonstrable historical claims, unlike the USSR in East Germany, or the USA in California.

    France, England, Portugal, Spain and others claimed parts of Africa. That's "imperialism". Having minor border disputes with India, and handling Tibet as an internal matter when nearly all, if not all recognize it as part of China doesn't count as imperialism.

    Or are their dealings with Taiwan "imperialism"? Taiwan claims to be Chinese. And the Chinese claim Taiwan. Nobody else has ever claimed it (well, aside from Japan that claimed everything at one point or another).

  9. Re:+1 for this Post on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 1

    I wanted one with gig ports. The 100 Mbps service here is delivered over a 1G port, so I wanted all 1G ports on the router. With 802.1ac.

    Or am I stuck with factory firmware for the current generation of hardware? That was the nice thing about the wrt54g, it was top of the line when it first came out.

  10. Re:sleep apnea on Study Finds That Astronauts Are Severely Sleep Deprived · · Score: 1

    Since much of sleep apnea is caused by gravity pulling parts into the airways, I'd presume it less of a problem. Also the physicals they do before going may exclude those with such a medical condition.

  11. Re:503 and 504 errors on Study Finds That Astronauts Are Severely Sleep Deprived · · Score: 0

    The problem is that they are running in a 90 minute day, but sleep scheduling at 24 hour day. They should have more frequent naps, and less frequent "sleeps". Also, from what I can tell, the sleep areas need to be better heated, and maybe sleep in a water-bed cocoon to give the feeling of pressure from all sides, like on a bed with heavy blankets.

  12. Skype IPv6 support on Skype Reverses Decision To Drop OS X 10.5 Support, Retires Windows Phone 7 App · · Score: 1

    More importantly, why is Skype *still* unable to support IPv6 addressing? Any device with IPv6 only can't run Skype, and no amount of NAT can fix it. Phone carriers fix it by giving IPv6 to the phone, and IPv4 to Skype that's natted within the phone to the IPv6, but that's impossible for people trying to run Skype on a desktop.

    Microsoft is obviously done extracting the "value" of Skype for Lync. So why not just sell it off and let someone else support it? Or just close it now. Why force it into a painful decline?

  13. Re:OK, Google on Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway · · Score: 1

    Wet road != entire road covered with a noticeable depth of water, indeterminably deep.

  14. Re:Comcast engineer here on The Hidden Cost of Your New Xfinity Router · · Score: 1

    But the point is, you can't if you want your subscribers to be able to use Skype. Skype will refuse to work on the endpoint if it detects v6. Yes, not only is it not v6 capable, it deliberately disables itself if it senses v6 only. It's v6 sabotage. Some say it's deliberate on MS's part to push Lync, others say it's just old code MS won't update.

    But either way, v6-only addresses on the customer endpoint is 100% incompatible with Skype, and no NAT will fix that.

  15. Re:Comcast engineer here on The Hidden Cost of Your New Xfinity Router · · Score: 1

    We were looking at v6 only, and that's doable, except for Skype. And 464xlate is possible, but kind of defeats the purpose.

  16. Re:OK, Google on Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway · · Score: 1

    How does an autonomous car know the difference between a wet road and a flooded viaduct?

    The same way we do. At least an autonomous car will identify it doesn't know, and re route. As opposed to all the people swept down stream in floods when they cross when unsafe to do so.

  17. Re:Wait you want me to drive? on Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway · · Score: 1

    And it is this attitude that will prevent a human override when the better maneuver is to simply change lanes or move to the shoulder and the programmer of your autonomous vehicle decides that hitting the truck ahead of you is "almost" better.

    As it's impossible for your false dichotomy to exist, I'll presume you are trolling.

  18. Re:Wait you want me to drive? on Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway · · Score: 1

    "Refuse to continue autonomously" was how I read it. Even Johnny Cab allows human over-ride.

  19. Re:Wait you want me to drive? on Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway · · Score: 1

    OMG, the camera watching to the rear failed, I better pull over and stop. Right here, on the freeway. With 65 or 75 MPH traffic going by just a few feet away. So I can sit here and wait with my wife who is in labor for an hour or two for a tow truck to show up.

    Then just drive,.We haven't gotten to cars that refuse human commands, just can operate autonomously. You are assuming the least logical option then showing it to be illogical. Congratulations.

    In every case, the car should continue while alerting the driver to take over or the car will pull over in 30 seconds. 29. 28. 27...

  20. Re:Wait you want me to drive? on Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway · · Score: 1

    And when the "right response" hasn't been pre-programmed into the computer, the human is much better at finding a solution.

    That's what humans think, but rarely the correct answer. Humans have been known to kill themselves and others swerving off the road to avoid a squirrel.

    Humans are dumb. In almost all cases, braking in a straight line is better than any evasive maneuvers. But humans evade, over-correct, and spin off the road. Commonly.

    We'd be much better off if the human software had the ability to process better.

  21. Re:not suprising... on Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway · · Score: 1

    I liked the President-based Q45 with the active suspension. People were afraid of the expense in upkeep and such with them, so the Q45a was cheap to buy used. And, aside from the fuel economy, not bad. But it wasn't a "Nissan with a body kit" in that the Nissan it's based on was never available in the USA. And, as far as I can tell, the President was never available with the active suspension, and some other of the features.

  22. Re:Comcast engineer here on The Hidden Cost of Your New Xfinity Router · · Score: 1

    What happens when people complain about Skype? I work for an ISP, and everything I read indicates that Skype is the only top 100 "protocol" that is not IPv6 capable. I'm trying to push v6, but I've been told "no Skype, no v6".

  23. Re:It's not autonomous on Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway · · Score: 1

    I don't know of any car with a 2500 mile range. So they'd have to stop somewhere. Does the self-driving car self-refuel? Or should it refuse an order outside its range?

  24. Re:think big, plan for future on With Chinese Investment, Nicaraguan Passage Could Dwarf Panama Canal · · Score: 1

    I wasn't on it. I was doing communications for the jack-up oil rig. The legs must have been taller than that.

    That map is interesting, but scroll to show the pacific route on the map. Going across the pacific looks to be 20% shorter, or better. It didn't let me send it the other way. Have a look at http://ports.com/sea-route/por...

    That makes me think that the route isn't optimized. Just because it shows the New Orleans - Shanghai route going to Africa doesn't mean it's shorter or faster.

  25. Re:Huh? on Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway · · Score: 1

    The incident disappeared off the Internet because it was pre-Ineternet, but there was a guy in Austin, TX who fell asleep at the wheel and ran over a crowd of students, killing a few. He received a formal and public apology by the chief of police for all he's gone through. Didn't lose his license for even a day. Had be been one of the students, I'm sure he'd have faced jail time, but a friendly old man out past his bed time seems to get a free pass.