1. The legacy address space is a special case. They were issued directly from IANA before ARIN and the other RIRs were formed and were given out without many rules attached, so reclaiming those is legally difficult at best. Typical blocks issued today can be and are reclaimed when they're not being used and you currently have to go to significant lengths to show you need the address space, especially with RIPE's policies.
2. We've been fucking doing that. NAT is why we are running out of addresses now rather than 8 years ago. Pretty much everything that is able to be put behind NAT already is. And don't even get me started on the abomination that is "carrier grade NAT".
3. If you reclaimed the entirety of the legacy address space, assuming it is possible to do that in the 8 months we have left until IANA's pool runs out, it would buy about 2 years at the most, then we'd really be out, and existing evidence shows that ISPs and companies would simply use that 2 years to sit on their hands like they've been doing for the past 2 years, and the 2 years before that.
What? The engine will not overpower the brakes, barring something esoteric, like Leno's tank engine car. Try it sometime. Go out on a deserted stretch of highway, floor the gar, then stomp on the brakes. You will decelerate.
I think I now know why Americans think the federal government has such a level of intrusiveness on their daily lives. They attribute to government any restriction, regulation, or social convention they don't like, regardless of whether the government has anything at all to do with it.
PCI has nothing to do with the government. It's a standard implemented by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Counsel, which is an industry group of Visa, Mastercard, American Express, etc.
And they would also know why NAT is severely annoying when integrating newly purchased companies' networks and wish to avoid it.
HP is hardly the biggest offender. The US DOD has 11 blocks, which I don't see why they need that many unless they assign public addresses to every tank, plane, ship, boat, and rifle they have.
2 years maximum (I'm assuming AT&T, Cogent, and Level3 are using their blocks usefully, and including the DOD's blocks), assuming they could even reconfigure their networks to make those blocks available before we hit exhaustion in about 8 months.
I don't want bike thieves in jail. It wastes tax dollars having to give them room and board when there are tons of homeless people who would love a meal and a bunk somewhere.
I rather see bike thieves pay restitution to the victim, and then have to work for community services, such as IMBA, to keep trails maintained. Perhaps a project to get new fixtures out for people to lock their bikes to, or just a good old fashioned litter patrol on bike paths. Or perhaps deploy and keep clean Porta-Potties on bike commute routes.
Perhaps even teach some basic bike mechanics or other trade skills so they actually have something to offer an employer other than a mouth and an attitude. Even with an entry level job, they are paying taxes, and this is better than someone spending their lives watching TV 24/7 on the taxpayer dime.
Keep the jails and the prisons for the violent criminals and repeat offenders. The others can be put on a work crew and actually do something useful and not draining taxpayer dollars.
*sigh*
I already post something here and I find something needing to be modded through the roof.
Non-standard spelling? It's the name of a place (the Isle of Skye, in Scotland). I knew of 12 people (10 female, 2 male) with the name Skye (and another 8 with it as their last name) in my high school of ~800, and there are 5 other high schools in my city.
Even handing out/64s, you've still got tons of address space. Most people completely miss the scale. Comparing the IPv4 address space to the IPv6 space is like comparing a square inch to the area encompassed by Pluto's orbit.
And the "/64 is the smallest block we hand out" is current convention, mostly in the interest of keeping routing tables from getting too huge. They can always decide to hand out smaller blocks later.
Nope. It's perjury to to issue a takedown request if you don't own copyright on the work you're alleging is being infringed, not on anything related to the allegedly infringing material.
In this case, it would only be perjury if they didn't own copyright on the songs.
They can legally issue a takedown notice for any arbitrary work they hold copyright on, regardless of whether that work appears in any form in the work they're wanting taken down.
Starting to see why the DMCA is a really insane law?
There's not a whole lot of wasted space left. The only reason we've gotten this far is gratuitous use of NAT. Without NAT, we'd have been out of addresses around 2003.
RIPE has been trying to reclaim space and tighten the requirements to get address space, but it's largely pointless and isn't slowing exhaustion down to any relevant degree.
Reclaiming a/16 will delay exhaustion by about 2 hours, so you'd need to reclaim a lot of those to make any difference at all.
Yes, there are some/8s held by the DOD and various companies. Recovering those would be a legal mess, if it's even possible (those blocks were assigned by IANA before the RIRs existed and were assigned without conditions, so it's not clear if anyone even has the authority to reclaim those addresses, never mind how long it would take until those blocks are really to be reassigned), and it would only delay things by about 18 months, then we're back where we are now, and unless you have a hell of a lot more optimism than me, you know that companies and ISPs will sit on their hands for those 18 months rather than work to implement IPv6 networks.
ARIN can't do any such thing, at least not without a legal battle. Those blocks were assigned directly from IANA before ARIN or any of the other RIRs even existed, so ARIN's policies don't matter, and IANA didn't have any policies on this at the time either.
Those/8s were assigned before ARIN even existed. They were given out directly by IANA, so ARIN has nothing on them. Also, AFAIK, IANA did not attach any strings to those assignments, so they can't demand them back either unless they want to try it in court, which would be futile, as we'd be long past exhaustion by the time a case would be decided, never mind the IPs actually being freed for use.
Water isn't naturally flouridated to any reasonable level
Incorrect. Naturally fluoridated groundwater (in excess of 1.5mg/L, which is above typical artificial fluoridation levels of 0.5 to 1.0 mg/L) is found around the great lakes and in the south-western United States. Also in most of Argentina, parts of Africa, and pockets of Asia, particularly northern China.
We already do have fewer babies. Birthrates in almost all of the western world (Europe, Canada, and the US) are below replacement rate. The only reason the above countries are experiencing population growth is immigration. Some countries, such as Germany, Japan, and Russia, are currently experiencing negative population growth.
Bullshit. There's a pair of big rare earth mines in California that will be up and running by the middle of next year. One of them (Mountain Pass) used to provide the vast majority of the world's rare earths before China came on the scene and priced them out of the market.
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That map has some errors.
The big green block in the top right (240-255) is unusable.
The 10 block is reserved for RFC 1918.
Aside from that, only the following blocks remain unallocated. everywhere else is white.
005
023
037
039
100
102
103
104
105
106
179
185
IANA has a report of what blocks are assigned/reserved, to whom and when they were given out.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml
1. The legacy address space is a special case. They were issued directly from IANA before ARIN and the other RIRs were formed and were given out without many rules attached, so reclaiming those is legally difficult at best. Typical blocks issued today can be and are reclaimed when they're not being used and you currently have to go to significant lengths to show you need the address space, especially with RIPE's policies.
2. We've been fucking doing that. NAT is why we are running out of addresses now rather than 8 years ago. Pretty much everything that is able to be put behind NAT already is. And don't even get me started on the abomination that is "carrier grade NAT".
3. If you reclaimed the entirety of the legacy address space, assuming it is possible to do that in the 8 months we have left until IANA's pool runs out, it would buy about 2 years at the most, then we'd really be out, and existing evidence shows that ISPs and companies would simply use that 2 years to sit on their hands like they've been doing for the past 2 years, and the 2 years before that.
What? The engine will not overpower the brakes, barring something esoteric, like Leno's tank engine car. Try it sometime. Go out on a deserted stretch of highway, floor the gar, then stomp on the brakes. You will decelerate.
If you don't want people to have access to certain information, don't post it at all. ...duh.
And monitor everyone else in the world to ensure they don't post it either.
I think I now know why Americans think the federal government has such a level of intrusiveness on their daily lives. They attribute to government any restriction, regulation, or social convention they don't like, regardless of whether the government has anything at all to do with it.
PCI has nothing to do with the government. It's a standard implemented by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Counsel, which is an industry group of Visa, Mastercard, American Express, etc.
It's working for me in Firefox 3.6.11 on windows XP.
And they would also know why NAT is severely annoying when integrating newly purchased companies' networks and wish to avoid it.
HP is hardly the biggest offender. The US DOD has 11 blocks, which I don't see why they need that many unless they assign public addresses to every tank, plane, ship, boat, and rifle they have.
2 years maximum (I'm assuming AT&T, Cogent, and Level3 are using their blocks usefully, and including the DOD's blocks), assuming they could even reconfigure their networks to make those blocks available before we hit exhaustion in about 8 months.
I don't want bike thieves in jail. It wastes tax dollars having to give them room and board when there are tons of homeless people who would love a meal and a bunk somewhere.
I rather see bike thieves pay restitution to the victim, and then have to work for community services, such as IMBA, to keep trails maintained. Perhaps a project to get new fixtures out for people to lock their bikes to, or just a good old fashioned litter patrol on bike paths. Or perhaps deploy and keep clean Porta-Potties on bike commute routes.
Perhaps even teach some basic bike mechanics or other trade skills so they actually have something to offer an employer other than a mouth and an attitude. Even with an entry level job, they are paying taxes, and this is better than someone spending their lives watching TV 24/7 on the taxpayer dime.
Keep the jails and the prisons for the violent criminals and repeat offenders. The others can be put on a work crew and actually do something useful and not draining taxpayer dollars.
*sigh*
I already post something here and I find something needing to be modded through the roof.
Non-standard spelling? It's the name of a place (the Isle of Skye, in Scotland). I knew of 12 people (10 female, 2 male) with the name Skye (and another 8 with it as their last name) in my high school of ~800, and there are 5 other high schools in my city.
Correction : That should be comparing the IPv4 space to the number of /64 IPv6 blocks. Otherwise I'm off by a factor of about 4.2 billion.
Even handing out /64s, you've still got tons of address space. Most people completely miss the scale. Comparing the IPv4 address space to the IPv6 space is like comparing a square inch to the area encompassed by Pluto's orbit.
And the "/64 is the smallest block we hand out" is current convention, mostly in the interest of keeping routing tables from getting too huge. They can always decide to hand out smaller blocks later.
Haven't heard anything about the small breasts policy in court, but the law won with regards to the cartoon characters.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7770781.stm
When it comes to downloading its only CP which seems to be illegal here.
For extremely loose definitions of "CP" which include things such as "fictional cartoon characters" and "adult women with small breasts".
Majority? No. The US federal government employs approximately 1.9 million people.
Nope. It's perjury to to issue a takedown request if you don't own copyright on the work you're alleging is being infringed, not on anything related to the allegedly infringing material.
In this case, it would only be perjury if they didn't own copyright on the songs.
They can legally issue a takedown notice for any arbitrary work they hold copyright on, regardless of whether that work appears in any form in the work they're wanting taken down.
Starting to see why the DMCA is a really insane law?
There's not a whole lot of wasted space left. The only reason we've gotten this far is gratuitous use of NAT. Without NAT, we'd have been out of addresses around 2003.
RIPE has been trying to reclaim space and tighten the requirements to get address space, but it's largely pointless and isn't slowing exhaustion down to any relevant degree.
Reclaiming a /16 will delay exhaustion by about 2 hours, so you'd need to reclaim a lot of those to make any difference at all.
Yes, there are some /8s held by the DOD and various companies. Recovering those would be a legal mess, if it's even possible (those blocks were assigned by IANA before the RIRs existed and were assigned without conditions, so it's not clear if anyone even has the authority to reclaim those addresses, never mind how long it would take until those blocks are really to be reassigned), and it would only delay things by about 18 months, then we're back where we are now, and unless you have a hell of a lot more optimism than me, you know that companies and ISPs will sit on their hands for those 18 months rather than work to implement IPv6 networks.
ARIN can't do any such thing, at least not without a legal battle. Those blocks were assigned directly from IANA before ARIN or any of the other RIRs even existed, so ARIN's policies don't matter, and IANA didn't have any policies on this at the time either.
Those /8s were assigned before ARIN even existed. They were given out directly by IANA, so ARIN has nothing on them. Also, AFAIK, IANA did not attach any strings to those assignments, so they can't demand them back either unless they want to try it in court, which would be futile, as we'd be long past exhaustion by the time a case would be decided, never mind the IPs actually being freed for use.
Water isn't naturally flouridated to any reasonable level
Incorrect. Naturally fluoridated groundwater (in excess of 1.5mg/L, which is above typical artificial fluoridation levels of 0.5 to 1.0 mg/L) is found around the great lakes and in the south-western United States. Also in most of Argentina, parts of Africa, and pockets of Asia, particularly northern China.
We already do have fewer babies. Birthrates in almost all of the western world (Europe, Canada, and the US) are below replacement rate. The only reason the above countries are experiencing population growth is immigration. Some countries, such as Germany, Japan, and Russia, are currently experiencing negative population growth.
Bullshit. There's a pair of big rare earth mines in California that will be up and running by the middle of next year. One of them (Mountain Pass) used to provide the vast majority of the world's rare earths before China came on the scene and priced them out of the market.
There is no possibility of a long term shortage.
We're already working on it. There's a rare earths mine currently getting started up near Lake Thor in the northwest territories.
I'd love to know that myself.
Yep, T John Ward Jr. He's the guy who sued the patent troll tracker blog into oblivion a couple years ago.