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  1. Re:Ah, I get it. on Amazon Fights Piracy Tool, Creators Call It a Parody · · Score: 1

    Actually, they did write a paper on it, though it doesn't seem to be publicly available free ($20 to get it, and it isn't on TPB (yet)).

  2. Re:For everyone who says v4 isn't running out on IPv6 Adoption Up 300 Percent Over 2 Years · · Score: 2, Insightful

    6) NAT aggravates the problem of a limited port addressing space. you've got 65535 ports, and a lot of those are intended for specific protocols. Also, anyone who thinks NAT is a solution should try running 2 HTTPS servers behind it.

  3. Re:Tools are needed on IPv6 Adoption Up 300 Percent Over 2 Years · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind, there are items in the spec to shorten addresses, such as skipping leading zeros and blocks of zeros. For example, 2001:0DB8:0000:0000:0000:0000:1428:57AB can be written as 2001:DB8::1428:57AB. Still longer than an IPv4 address, but fairly workable.

  4. Re:That looks silly.. on IPv6 Adoption Up 300 Percent Over 2 Years · · Score: 1

    They're numbers. You can represent them in whatever base you like. 192.168.0.1, for example, could just as easily be represented as C0A8:0001 (or C0A8:1, as RFC 4291 specifies you can omit leading zeros) or 11000000101010000000000000000001. Decimal base numbers are simply convenient for humans.

    IPv6 addresses are conventionally written in hex, as the decimal representation would be significantly unwieldy, as IPv6 addresses are 4 times the length of IPv4 ones (IPv4 is 32 bits, IPv6 is 128), so you'd have something like 255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.255.

  5. Re:Fun with statistics on IPv6 Adoption Up 300 Percent Over 2 Years · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the dangling comparatives. 3 times faster than what, exactly?

  6. Re:Not So Radical? on Clarifying the Next Step in Australia's Net-Censorship Scheme · · Score: 1

    Never heard of it here in Canada, unless he's referring to the nonsense Bell and Rogers are doing with bittorrent and encrypted traffic.

  7. Re:Blocking more than 10k could/will degrade on Clarifying the Next Step in Australia's Net-Censorship Scheme · · Score: 1

    They'll only block 10k at a time and swap in a new list section every few minutes.

  8. Re:The worst part is... on Players Furious Over Buggy GTA IV PC Release · · Score: 1

    What ads in CS?

  9. Re:One filesystem to rule them all... on Real-World Benchmarks of Ext4 · · Score: 1

    Nor does it help much with typhoon() and hurricane().

  10. Re:Piracy on Political and Technical Implications of GitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Which then leads to the problem of how to effectively filter for "legit content" or even how to define what "legit content" is.

  11. Re:Piracy on Political and Technical Implications of GitTorrent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Observe the Ubuntu website this coming April when they release a new version and see if you still feel that a website is appropriate to the task. The site gets hammered so hard that it's problematic to even get the .torrent files directly from them, nevermind the ISOs, and it's not feasible to have that kind of bandwidth sitting around unused except for a few days every 6 months, nor is it currently feasible to get that much bandwidth on-demand for a website, but bittorrent allows for just that, as you're pooling the bandwidth of everyone downloading it. You can easily gets amounts of bandwidth that would cost tens of thousands of dollars to have in a conventional manner.

  12. Re:You got time machine! on Python 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    use < and > to get angle brackets that the parser won't eat.

  13. Re:And the first 10 minutes went like this: on Doctor Performs Amputation By Text Message · · Score: 1

    Eh, medical terminology tends to compress quite well (take a look at how most doctors write prescriptions or notes). I think medicine uses at least as many acronyms and initialisms as IT does, only difference being the medical ones are frequently in Latin.

  14. Re:Old News on Doctor Performs Amputation By Text Message · · Score: 1

    The appendix is actually quite useful as spare tissue for various reconstructive surgeries, such as on the bladder.

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  15. Re:Encryption on Technical Specs Released For Aussie Net Filtering · · Score: 1

    There's plenty of options already available, such as TorrentFreedom and VPNTunnel.

  16. Re:Jailbreaking on DMCA Exemptions Desired To Hack iPhones, Remix DVDs · · Score: 1

    Possibly contract law, which would be illegal in the civil sense (i.e. they can sue you about it.), if the EULA can be considered a legally valid contract.

  17. Re:YAY! Just what we needed! on New .tel TLD Now In Use · · Score: 1

    Seriously, if there even was a .dic TLD, would you want to be there???

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    I'm sure grammar/spelling fascists would find it appealing.

  18. Re:Et tu Australia? on Aussies Hit the Streets Over Gov't Internet Filters · · Score: 1

    In Canadian politics, I'd like to see either the grits or torries disappear for awhile (depending on who replaces Dion. I'd like to see Goodale running things (slight regional bias here), though it would definitely piss off Quebec, as I don't think he can speak French.), have the one that doesn't form a minority government, with the NDP running the opposition.

  19. Re:One filesystem to rule them all... on Real-World Benchmarks of Ext4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pointy stick and a large beach.

    Just be aware of occasional data loss when the tide_in function gets called.

  20. Re:Works For Me on Teacher Sells Ads On Tests · · Score: 1

    In my opinion (and apparently also in the opinion of a large portion of the US population), education is a clear and obvious interpretation of "provide for the general welfare".

    And while the constitutionality of the government providing education has not been challenged directly as far as I can find (Systems of public education in the US have existed since before the US did, dating back to the 1640s.), it can be considered implicitly constitutional due to various caselaw concerning aspects of it, such as Pierce v. Society of Sisters.

  21. Re:Works For Me on Teacher Sells Ads On Tests · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to find, where in my copy of the Constitution that an education is somehow a right.

    Try Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1.

  22. Re:Burning the life at both ends. on Mad Scientist Brings Back Dead With "Deanimation" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A useful kind.

    Doing surgery is like trying to fix a car while it's running. If this idea works, you could simply stop the engine for awhile, making many surgical procedures (heart bypass, for example) far, far, far simpler (and thus far less likely to get screwed up) and likely opening up a bunch of currently-impossible things, like spreading a long, complex procedure over multiple days, allowing the doctors to rest, which would help prevent mistakes caused by sleep deprivation.

    And of course, there's the sci-fi stuff like sleeper ships (as even at relativistic speeds, you're talking stupid lengths of time for interstellar travel.) or the old standby "Life is boring. Wake me up when X happens.".

  23. Re:fairness on Bittorrent To Cause Internet Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Obvious difference being that this system is working fine in many other countries and I fail to see their ISPs wailing about the "intertubes melting", despite having far higher bandwidth provided to customers which actually take advantage of said bandwidth.

  24. Re:fairness on Bittorrent To Cause Internet Meltdown · · Score: 1

    The difference being is that it is being oversold to the point where your "disaster" scenario is happening on a regular basis.

  25. Re:Lower-wattage bulbs on Censorship By Glut · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The exact same thing can be truthfully said of a member in any position of the political spectrum, left, right, up, down, front, and back.