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A day or two before this announcment of an increase in pages, Googlebot swarmed all over my web site (which from Google's perspective has about 15,000 pages)... it was requesting pages and URI formats that hadn't existed for months or years.
So what I think happened was they went back through their "every URL we have ever seen" database, and respidered every page, ignoring a lot of the quality criteria that was holding down their page counts - 404 errors, no current valid incoming links, duplicate content, etc..
When doing a search, I now see a much larger quantity of 404 errors, and pages with content that is years old and horribly out of date than before this "improvement".
The folks over at the 7search search engine have a service called "TrustGauge" (trustgauge.com) that sends a report monthly showing the domain's apparent credibility based on traffic, incoming web links and other factors - the most important of which is you pay them to be "validated" by one of their other companies.
One of the underlying reasons - I'm not an electical engineer (IANEE) - Europe is standardardized on 50 Hz AC power, while North America settled on 60 hz. Remember that TVs in those days had no transistors or sophisticated electronics.
NTSC produces 60 half frames (30 frames/sec interlaced) while PAL uses the 50 Hz signal to drive a 25 frame/sec referesh rate (interlaced)
So they begs the question, which came first - 50 hz AC or 60, and why was one chosen over the other?
Westinghouse in the US was the force behind 60 hz, while AEG in Germany pushed 50 hz. Tesla had determined that was the frequency that produced the optimum in generation efficiency and AC transmission.
AEG selected 50 hz, because 60 didn't fit neatly into the Metric system.
That's slightly misleading. During the transition, TV stations are having their spectrum doubled by allocating a second unused UHF channel for the new digital signal.
Once the plug gets pulled on Analog, the licensee has the option to keep the digital station where it is or to move the digital signal to the old frequency and release the temporary digital chanel. At the end of the process, bandwidth consumption returns to what it was prior to the conversion.
The difference is that the Licensee at that point has a channel capable of carrying a single HDTV signal or up to 6 multicast channels with quality similar to today's NTSC (except it will be digital and with dolby sound). In addition, the station may choose to use that bandwidth for other digital services, which will probably be a significant revenue source.
Back in February, the stations had to state their intentions on which channel they will return to the FCC.
The quick summary is that those stations on low VHF (channels 2-6) will probably stay on their ditital channel. Those on channels 7-13 mostly want to move the digital station(s) back to their original analog frequency.
Digital ATSC does not work well on the low UHF band due to differences in propogation (2-6 is below the FM radio band, 7-13 is just above it)
And in the states who haven't repealed the laws, is adultery outside of a gay marriage a criminal matter?
And if John is bisexual and marries Jane later without divorcing Kevin first, is that bigomy? If it isn't, does that mean one person can be a party to both a straight marriage and a gay marriage at the same time? (other permutations left as an exercise to the reader)
If Mary and Jane get married and Mary gets pregnant, does the common law assumption of paternity declare that Jane is the father and required to pay child support and has parental rights to see the child and be involved in decisions regarding its upbringing after it is born?
The answer will matter when the fuel injection system fails and you find out that only a GM mechanic has access to the unpublished proprietary technical data necessary to complete the repairs.
The information on the legislation estimates that camcording and pre-release distrution exceeds $3 Billion per year. ($3,000,000,000). The federal tax revenue lost from that activity would build quite a few prisons.
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200504/041905.html
This estimate is contained in the above statement celebrating the passage of this bill by DEMOCRATIC Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, co-sponsor of the bill (Diane Feinstein is the other Democratic co-sponsor).
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy, On Final Passage, Of The "Family Entertainment and Copyright Act Of 2005" April 19, 2005
I am pleased that today the House has voted to pass the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005, clearing the way for the President to sign this important bill into law. That signature will mark the completion of our unfinished intellectual property business from last year. As we work to enact an equally ambitious intellectual property agenda in this new Congress, we have started off on the right foot. [...] The submitter of this article and the chorus of "Bush Sucks" sycophants are less than clueless about the real world.
How can I mark an entire article as Flamebait or Troll?
Back in 1997, a 28 year old staff attorney for AOL named Andrew Lewis Singer plead guilty to fondling an 11 year old boy in a DC area park after showing up to meet a teenage boy he found on AOL: - begin article - E-Mail Leads Authorities to AOL Lawyer Va. Man Is Charged In Assault on Boy, 11
By Peter Pae and Jacqueline L. Salmon Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, June 6, 1997; Page D01 The Washington Post
A lawyer for America Online Inc. -- charged with sexually assaulting an 11-year-old Loudoun County boy at a pond last week -- went there after exchanging AOL e-mail with another boy who said he would be there that afternoon, the sheriff's department said yesterday.
Investigators said they identified Andrew Lewis Singer, 28, after learning of the online exchange and tracing it to him. Authorities said Singer used the screen name "DCBOY83" to trade AOL "instant mail" with a teenager one afternoon last week, then drove from AOL headquarters in Dulles to the pond in Ashburn Farm.
After meeting the teenager there, officials say, Singer asked him about the 11-year-old fishing across the small lake, and then went over to him. After starting a conversation, Singer allegedly put his hand in the boy's pants and fondled him before walking away. [...] Primrose would not say whether Singer's status as an AOL employee gave him access to information about subscribers, such as lists of children who use AOL "chat rooms" meant only for young people.
She said, however, that "procedures are in place which govern the level of access to subscribers' information based on the employee's job." [...] Sheriff's officials said the teenage boy reported the online conversation after he heard about the alleged assault. He said Singer had asked him what he was doing that afternoon, and the boy responded that he was going to get ice cream and play basketball with a friend near the pond, investigators said. The teenager said he was surprised when Singer showed up. [snip]
That's odd - I remember listening to Larry King on the talk radio in the 1970s. Stacy Taylor was in Chicago in early 1990s... Jay Diamond was on WABC in New York City in the early 90s (now in Boston)... Jay Marvin in Chicago (WLS) during the 90s and 00s (now in Boulder). Lynn Samuels on WABC
Then you had a second tier who were not overtly political, but clearly liberal in their personal philosophy - the "self help" people like Sally Jesse Raphael, Joy Browne, Dr Dean Edell...
Bob Grant is one of the few conservative radio talk show hosts that I can think of that predates Rush. The only thing new was that Rush proved that AM radio could draw prized demographics and retain audience and advertisers even in the light of controversial opinions.
I would prefer not to return to the days of the "Fairness" Doctrine, where stations are afraid they'll lose their license, so put on nothing more controversial than potato salad recipies.
and to publish *ALL* of the questions in the survey, not just those questions which generated responses which support the thesis of the poll... and publish *all* polls which disproved the thesis - otherwise "polls" are no more trustworthly than when a TV reporter does "Person on the street" interviews, talks with 50 people and throws away the 48 interviews that didn't support the "point" the "objective" reporter is trying to prove.
The same thing is bubbling up in the medical research industry - requiring all trials to be put into a registry regardless of whether they ultimately prove some medical treatment effective - to suppress using random variation to repeat a study over and over again until you get one that just marginally "proves" the treatment effective.
The legal significance of "legal tender" is quite limited. Re-read the United States section of the Wiki link posted above.
If a person owes a debt and offers to pay with legal tender, and the creditor holding the debt refuses to accept the legal tender in settlement of the obligation, that does NOT cancel the debt - but it may prevent the creditor from charging interest from that point forward (Dooley v Smith - 1872).
All of this goes back to an earlier time before the Federal Reserve was formed, and banks would issue bank notes that people used in commerce. Because banks tended to fail on a regular basis, bank notes often traded at a discount due to their risk - so it was important that for commerce a creditor could refuse to accept payment in "dollars" that were worth less thatn a dollar, and very difficult to authenticate as genuine.
At least that's what I was taught in business law class in College.
Here is a nice summary for those actually interested in legal facts: http://tafkac.org/faq2k/legal_552.html
"It's true that some sharks get cancer. I said this in my book," said William Lane, author of the 1992 book Sharks Don't Get Cancer. "My publisher thought it would be bad to call it, Almost No Sharks Get Cancer."
"This is good science that shows us that sharks can get cancer," said biologist John Coffey of Johns Hopkins University. "I don't think there is any benefit to buying shark cartilage and eating it, any more than I think that eating a rabbit will make me run faster."
This is a claim made by people trying to peddle products to desperately sick people. It has no basis in fact, and the FTC took action in 2000 to prevent companies from making this claim.
So if there was a publication ban in the US preventing TV stations from showing OJ in his Bronco driving down the freeway at slow speed with OJ pointing a gun to his head - that OJ would then have been convicted in the criminal trial?
One of the first things taught in Computer Security is that you should not enable features or services unless there is a need for them and justify why there is a need to assume the risks inherent in turning that feature on.
As others have pointed out, pre-fetching (especially now that the/. world knows about it) has many implications for virus propogation, affiliate program click fraud, distortion of traffic measurements, employee disciplinary legal issues...
For the Foxfire folks to have enabled this feature by default - with no reasonable preference/options interface for the non-geek user and nothing in the browser help (go to Help and search on "Prefetch") to document the functionality - this plays enormously into the hands of those who want to label FireFox (and more generally open source) as being insecure, reckless, and not appropriate in the corporate environment.
In addition to the fact that on some searches Google does implement a discrete tracking redirect URL, Google also has the Google Toolbar. While not a perfect statistical sample, the tracking information that Google gets from the URL tracking has to be a huge amount of useful information.
Ultimately, all SEO will become fairly pointless - as Google has the data to determine which web sites people choose and then stay at for a number of page views - as opposed to the content-free web sites just meant to boost page rank or link to affiliate programs.
What does the ANI and or Caller ID information look like when a call originates from a VoIP connection? The initiator of a VoIP call doesn't necessarily have any POTS phone number associated with that connection.
Even more to the point - if your computer is relaying portions of files between two computers controlled by people that you do not know, and the content is encrypted, and not written by you - how is that "speech"?
It is closer to saying "You may not run a publicly accessible FTP server on your computer.".
What most people responding to this thread don't seem to realize (or wish to ignore) is that BitTorrent is not used just to "download stuff". Once you join the torrent, your computer is used to -send- portions of files to other computers. Bandwidth into the internet is where the bulk of the expense is for peering and transit costs - which is the entire point of BitTorrent - to find ways to exploit unused inbound bandwidth capacity.
and yet again the submitter totally misrepresents the substance of the matter in the summary.
The Patent itself (which is a link in the article) specifically mentions 32 bit addresses, and says that it is a product for use on a local network.
The quick and dirty summmary is:
- check to see if a DHCP server is available
- if one is available, accept the address given
- if not:
- compute an IP address using a hash the MAC id - something in the range of 10.x.x.x. Do an ARP WHOHAS and see if any computer on the LAN responds (it doesn't go to this level of detail)... if no other computer responds, that's your IP. If another computer does, pick a different one (probably adding 1 - guess)... After assigning itself its own non-routable IP, monitor to make sure that no other computer suddenly shows up with the same IP, and relinquish the address if it does.
This patent has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with IPv6. It specifically stipulates the prior art of DHCP, and states that it is a new idea because it only uses this function IF there is no DHCP server found on the local network.
Whether or not that should be a patent is its own issue - but the broad statements that Microsoft is trying to patent IPv6 is so incredibly reckless...
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" divide by 2 assuming you have each rover moving towards the other in an optimal manner."
/. people would like to think they are smarter than JPL scientists...
If the Opportunity rover could move, it wouldn't need a tow truck.
Even if the other rover were only 50 feet away, sending it to rescue the rover would just result in two stuck rovers.
And
Are there days of the week on the calendar for Mars? If so, what are the names of the days?
If you live on Mars in the future, and you want to obey the Ten Commandments, do you rest on the 7th day on Mars or on Earth?
Things to ponder.
Whatever you do, DON'T PANIC 8^P
Just press the big red button and help will arrive.
A day or two before this announcment of an increase in pages, Googlebot swarmed all over my web site (which from Google's perspective has about 15,000 pages)... it was requesting pages and URI formats that hadn't existed for months or years.
So what I think happened was they went back through their "every URL we have ever seen" database, and respidered every page, ignoring a lot of the quality criteria that was holding down their page counts - 404 errors, no current valid incoming links, duplicate content, etc..
When doing a search, I now see a much larger quantity of 404 errors, and pages with content that is years old and horribly out of date than before this "improvement".
The folks over at the 7search search engine have a service called "TrustGauge" (trustgauge.com) that sends a report monthly showing the domain's apparent credibility based on traffic, incoming web links and other factors - the most important of which is you pay them to be "validated" by one of their other companies.
Zing! :)
One of the underlying reasons - I'm not an electical engineer (IANEE) - Europe is standardardized on 50 Hz AC power, while North America settled on 60 hz. Remember that TVs in those days had no transistors or sophisticated electronics.
NTSC produces 60 half frames (30 frames/sec interlaced) while PAL uses the 50 Hz signal to drive a 25 frame/sec referesh rate (interlaced)
So they begs the question, which came first - 50 hz AC or 60, and why was one chosen over the other?
Westinghouse in the US was the force behind 60 hz, while AEG in Germany pushed 50 hz. Tesla had determined that was the frequency that produced the optimum in generation efficiency and AC transmission.
AEG selected 50 hz, because 60 didn't fit neatly into the Metric system.
Or so the urban legend goes...
That's slightly misleading. During the transition, TV stations are having their spectrum doubled by allocating a second unused UHF channel for the new digital signal.
- 04.06.05.shtml
Once the plug gets pulled on Analog, the licensee has the option to keep the digital station where it is or to move the digital signal to the old frequency and release the temporary digital chanel. At the end of the process, bandwidth consumption returns to what it was prior to the conversion.
The difference is that the Licensee at that point has a channel capable of carrying a single HDTV signal or up to 6 multicast channels with quality similar to today's NTSC (except it will be digital and with dolby sound). In addition, the station may choose to use that bandwidth for other digital services, which will probably be a significant revenue source.
Back in February, the stations had to state their intentions on which channel they will return to the FCC.
Here is a great writeup on the results at:
http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/On-RF/F_Lung
The quick summary is that those stations on low VHF (channels 2-6) will probably stay on their ditital channel. Those on channels 7-13 mostly want to move the digital station(s) back to their original analog frequency.
Digital ATSC does not work well on the low UHF band due to differences in propogation (2-6 is below the FM radio band, 7-13 is just above it)
And in the states who haven't repealed the laws, is adultery outside of a gay marriage a criminal matter?
And if John is bisexual and marries Jane later without divorcing Kevin first, is that bigomy? If it isn't, does that mean one person can be a party to both a straight marriage and a gay marriage at the same time? (other permutations left as an exercise to the reader)
If Mary and Jane get married and Mary gets pregnant, does the common law assumption of paternity declare that Jane is the father and required to pay child support and has parental rights to see the child and be involved in decisions regarding its upbringing after it is born?
Be careful what you ask for.
The answer will matter when the fuel injection system fails and you find out that only a GM mechanic has access to the unpublished proprietary technical data necessary to complete the repairs.
(hypothetically speaking, of course)
The information on the legislation estimates that camcording and pre-release distrution exceeds $3 Billion per year. ($3,000,000,000). The federal tax revenue lost from that activity would build quite a few prisons.
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http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200504/041905.htm
This estimate is contained in the above statement celebrating the passage of this bill by DEMOCRATIC Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, co-sponsor of the bill (Diane Feinstein is the other Democratic co-sponsor).
Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy,
On Final Passage,
Of The "Family Entertainment and Copyright Act Of 2005"
April 19, 2005
I am pleased that today the House has voted to pass the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005, clearing the way for the President to sign this important bill into law. That signature will mark the completion of our unfinished intellectual property business from last year. As we work to enact an equally ambitious intellectual property agenda in this new Congress, we have started off on the right foot.
[...]
The submitter of this article and the chorus of "Bush Sucks" sycophants are less than clueless about the real world.
How can I mark an entire article as Flamebait or Troll?
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-205683.html?legacy=c net
http://www.aolwatch.org/checksub.htm
http://www.aolwatch.org/list/0079.html
Back in 1997, a 28 year old staff attorney for AOL named Andrew Lewis Singer plead guilty to fondling an 11 year old boy in a DC area park after showing up to meet a teenage boy he found on AOL:
- begin article -
E-Mail Leads Authorities to AOL Lawyer
Va. Man Is Charged In Assault on Boy, 11
By Peter Pae and Jacqueline L. Salmon
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, June 6, 1997; Page D01
The Washington Post
A lawyer for America Online Inc. -- charged with sexually assaulting an 11-year-old Loudoun County boy at a pond last week -- went there after
exchanging AOL e-mail with another boy who said he would be there that afternoon, the sheriff's department said yesterday.
Investigators said they identified Andrew Lewis Singer, 28, after learning of the online exchange and tracing it to him. Authorities said Singer used the screen name "DCBOY83" to trade AOL "instant mail" with a teenager one afternoon last week, then drove from AOL headquarters in Dulles to the pond in Ashburn Farm.
After meeting the teenager there, officials say, Singer asked him about the 11-year-old fishing across the small lake, and then went over to him. After starting a conversation, Singer allegedly put his hand in the boy's pants and fondled him before walking away.
[...]
Primrose would not say whether Singer's status as an AOL employee gave him access to information about subscribers, such as lists of children who use AOL "chat rooms" meant only for young people.
She said, however, that "procedures are in place which govern the level of access to subscribers' information based on the employee's job."
[...]
Sheriff's officials said the teenage boy reported the online conversation after he heard about the alleged assault. He said Singer had asked him what he was doing that afternoon, and the boy responded that he was going to get ice cream and play basketball with a friend near the pond, investigators said. The teenager said he was surprised when Singer showed up.
[snip]
That's odd - I remember listening to Larry King on the talk radio in the 1970s. Stacy Taylor was in Chicago in early 1990s... Jay Diamond was on WABC in New York City in the early 90s (now in Boston)... Jay Marvin in Chicago (WLS) during the 90s and 00s (now in Boulder). Lynn Samuels on WABC
Then you had a second tier who were not overtly political, but clearly liberal in their personal philosophy - the "self help" people like Sally Jesse Raphael, Joy Browne, Dr Dean Edell...
Bob Grant is one of the few conservative radio talk show hosts that I can think of that predates Rush. The only thing new was that Rush proved that AM radio could draw prized demographics and retain audience and advertisers even in the light of controversial opinions.
I would prefer not to return to the days of the "Fairness" Doctrine, where stations are afraid they'll lose their license, so put on nothing more controversial than potato salad recipies.
and to publish *ALL* of the questions in the survey, not just those questions which generated responses which support the thesis of the poll... and publish *all* polls which disproved the thesis - otherwise "polls" are no more trustworthly than when a TV reporter does "Person on the street" interviews, talks with 50 people and throws away the 48 interviews that didn't support the "point" the "objective" reporter is trying to prove.
The same thing is bubbling up in the medical research industry - requiring all trials to be put into a registry regardless of whether they ultimately prove some medical treatment effective - to suppress using random variation to repeat a study over and over again until you get one that just marginally "proves" the treatment effective.
The legal significance of "legal tender" is quite limited. Re-read the United States section of the Wiki link posted above.
a l- tender.shtml
If a person owes a debt and offers to pay with legal tender, and the creditor holding the debt refuses to accept the legal tender in settlement of the obligation, that does NOT cancel the debt - but it may prevent the creditor from charging interest from that point forward (Dooley v Smith - 1872).
All of this goes back to an earlier time before the Federal Reserve was formed, and banks would issue bank notes that people used in commerce. Because banks tended to fail on a regular basis, bank notes often traded at a discount due to their risk - so it was important that for commerce a creditor could refuse to accept payment in "dollars" that were worth less thatn a dollar, and very difficult to authenticate as genuine.
At least that's what I was taught in business law class in College.
Here is a nice summary for those actually interested in legal facts:
http://tafkac.org/faq2k/legal_552.html
http://www.treas.gov/education/faq/currency/leg
IANAL
Like Robert Rubin?
s in essheads/rubin.htmi on/history/secretari es/rerubin.htmle .shtml
http://www.citigroup.com/citigroup/corporate/bu
http://www.ustreas.gov/educat
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcom
Not true.
x _ftc_stops_claims_made_by_makers_of_shark_cartilag e_products.asp
http://skepdic.com/shark.html
http://www.canoe.ca/Health0004/06_cancer.html
"It's true that some sharks get cancer. I said this in my book," said William Lane, author of the 1992 book Sharks Don't Get Cancer. "My publisher thought it would be bad to call it, Almost No Sharks Get Cancer."
"This is good science that shows us that sharks can get cancer," said biologist John Coffey of Johns Hopkins University. "I don't think there is any benefit to buying shark cartilage and eating it, any more than I think that eating a rabbit will make me run faster."
This is a claim made by people trying to peddle products to desperately sick people. It has no basis in fact, and the FTC took action in 2000 to prevent companies from making this claim.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/06/lanelabs.htm
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/nws/content/nws_1_1
Al Gore was first elected to the US House in 1976 where he "took the initiative to create the Internet".
t ical_career
o f_the_Internet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore%23Early_poli
The Internet was "created" in 1969.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%23Creation_
Next question?
So if there was a publication ban in the US preventing TV stations from showing OJ in his Bronco driving down the freeway at slow speed with OJ pointing a gun to his head - that OJ would then have been convicted in the criminal trial?
So therefore, if Repulicans want to change Social Security, then they are Liberals!
:)
Or even more accurately, since Republicans view changes to Social Security as Progress, Republicans are the true Progressives!
Now to work on deconstructing Noam Chomsky...
One of the first things taught in Computer Security is that you should not enable features or services unless there is a need for them and justify why there is a need to assume the risks inherent in turning that feature on.
/. world knows about it) has many implications for virus propogation, affiliate program click fraud, distortion of traffic measurements, employee disciplinary legal issues...
As others have pointed out, pre-fetching (especially now that the
For the Foxfire folks to have enabled this feature by default - with no reasonable preference/options interface for the non-geek user and nothing in the browser help (go to Help and search on "Prefetch") to document the functionality - this plays enormously into the hands of those who want to label FireFox (and more generally open source) as being insecure, reckless, and not appropriate in the corporate environment.
In addition to the fact that on some searches Google does implement a discrete tracking redirect URL, Google also has the Google Toolbar. While not a perfect statistical sample, the tracking information that Google gets from the URL tracking has to be a huge amount of useful information.
Ultimately, all SEO will become fairly pointless - as Google has the data to determine which web sites people choose and then stay at for a number of page views - as opposed to the content-free web sites just meant to boost page rank or link to affiliate programs.
What does the ANI and or Caller ID information look like when a call originates from a VoIP connection? The initiator of a VoIP call doesn't necessarily have any POTS phone number associated with that connection.
Even more to the point - if your computer is relaying portions of files between two computers controlled by people that you do not know, and the content is encrypted, and not written by you - how is that "speech"?
No it's not.
It is closer to saying "You may not run a publicly accessible FTP server on your computer.".
What most people responding to this thread don't seem to realize (or wish to ignore) is that BitTorrent is not used just to "download stuff". Once you join the torrent, your computer is used to -send- portions of files to other computers. Bandwidth into the internet is where the bulk of the expense is for peering and transit costs - which is the entire point of BitTorrent - to find ways to exploit unused inbound bandwidth capacity.
Dear Name Namity,
If you would be so kind as to provide us with contact information so we may discuss this with your attorney, we would be most appreciative.
Sincerely,
Not Impressed U.
and yet again the submitter totally misrepresents the substance of the matter in the summary.
The Patent itself (which is a link in the article) specifically mentions 32 bit addresses, and says that it is a product for use on a local network.
The quick and dirty summmary is:
- check to see if a DHCP server is available
- if one is available, accept the address given
- if not:
- compute an IP address using a hash the MAC id - something in the range of 10.x.x.x. Do an ARP WHOHAS and see if any computer on the LAN responds (it doesn't go to this level of detail)... if no other computer responds, that's your IP. If another computer does, pick a different one (probably adding 1 - guess)... After assigning itself its own non-routable IP, monitor to make sure that no other computer suddenly shows up with the same IP, and relinquish the address if it does.
This patent has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with IPv6. It specifically stipulates the prior art of DHCP, and states that it is a new idea because it only uses this function IF there is no DHCP server found on the local network.
Whether or not that should be a patent is its own issue - but the broad statements that Microsoft is trying to patent IPv6 is so incredibly reckless...