For any IPv4 host to reach your IPv6 hosts through protocol translation, you still need to have an IPv4 address. And this is a problem if there are no more IPv4 addresses available.
As mentioned in the linked article, ARIN is reserving some IPv4 addresses for exactly that purpose. You would have known that if you had read the article.
You do realize that you need IPv4 addresses to do that, don't you? IPv4 systems can't talk to you if you don't have IPv4 addresses.
Which is why ARIN is holding on to some IPv4 addresses for exactly this purpose. You would have known that had you bothered to read the very short article linked in the summary.
I would really love it if ubuntu would focus more on fixing bugs in the OS while keeping applications up to date, but not gratuitously breaking stuff in the OS just because they want to be on the cutting edge.
I think that Ubuntu could make great strides in the linux distro world if they spent one six month release cycle only fixing bugs. Make a commitment to not add any new features for six months and focus on bug fixing and usability. We'd have one hell of an operating system when they were done.
Thanks for the followup. My grandfather was in a situation like you described. He was moved to an assisted living home near my parents house, far from where his home used to be. When he passed away, my parent's contacted his old friends and acquaintances from where he lived to let them know and give them the funeral information. I don't know if they published anything in the paper, but I will ask them now. I can't imagine depending on someone reading the paper to know a friend of theirs has died. Contacting the deceased's friends seems like the right thing to do.
Why in the world would someone publish a death notice in the first place? Is it some sort of legal requirement? If not, I don't understand the thought processes that would lead someone to want to do such a thing.
Asking an honest question, but I would think that registering a domain to do illegal activities would constitute abuse?
I would agree, but that would require determining if the activities are illegal in the country or location of the domain owner. Just because such activities might be illegal in my country, your country, or the country of the submitter doesn't mean it's illegal in country of the current domain owner.
I couldn't disagree more. That's exactly what meetings are for -- to make decisions. If a decision has been made, you shouldn't call a meeting to announce it. Use a memo or email to communicate the results of the decision.
I'm sick of rebooting Ubuntu twice a day.
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It's not just Win7. I rebooted less in XP than I do in Ubuntu. Ubuntu seems to think it knows best when it sees a different monitor, so I have to shutdown and boot back up every time I dock and undock my laptop. If I don't I'll get nonsense like having my external monitor not work unless the laptop lid is open. Close the laptop lid and the external monitor turns off and the LCD screen on the closed laptop lid turns on. Grrr. Consequently I end up having to reboot Ubuntu twice a day.
When I used XP (from 2002 to Feb 2009), I could suspend, dock or undock, resume the computer and the appropriate screen would appear. I never had a problem with it and never had to think about it. XP also didn't try to be "helpful" and attempt to display anything on a second monitor until I told it to. With Ubuntu, as soon as I connect a second monitor, it changes my screen resolution to the lowest common denominator and mirrors my display even though I don't want it to do that.
The bottom line is that I have to reboot Ubuntu twice a day while with XP I rebooted about once a month on average. This problem is my biggest pet peeve with Linux and what makes me keep thinking about switching back to Windows. But I'm a year into using Linux for my desktop, so I'm still trying to find a solution.
If they can filter content, based on whatever they want to do, they lose their common carrier status, and are now responsible for all content passed over their networks.
They don't have common carrier status in the first place. It's a common assumption, but incorrect.
Just because you aren't interested in Viagra you think it's spam? Who opted to have an email account? You?
That's something completely different. In your case you opted to receive offers from Amazon, so they send the offers to you. If you don't like the products that they suggest, then take yourself of their mailing list and take your business elsewhere. It's not spam. You opted in and you can out out.
These aren't a problem if they are a niche offering, but if every search I make on Amazon winds up containing 10 or 20 of these, then that's interfering with Amazon's business and they're going to have to deal with it somehow.
Then tell them that. Maybe they can find a way to allow users to fine tune or filter suggestions.
some asshole sleeps around without a condom, and you are the one responsible for his health bill.
That was true before the healthcare bill passed. Some asshole that sleeps around without a condom and without insurance could just go to the emergency room, get treated, and the taxpayers have to pay for it. Now that same asshole is required to pay their way or pay a fine. That sounds fair to me.
Apple's tablet uses digital signatures to block any browser other than Safari.
Apple isn't the only tablet maker. They don't even have a shipping product.
Smartphones tend to use Safari (iPhone), Chrome (Android), or IE 7 (Windows Phone 7 Series). Maemo phones have essentially zero market share in the United States, home of Slashdot.
Exactly.
"Devices" are more likely to use digital signatures to block third-party software than PCs are.
Mere speculation. There's no telling what future devices will be capable of.
You're only thinking about desktop operating systems. You're forgetting about tablets, phones, and who-knows-what kind of devices that we'll see in the next several years. IE only runs on Windows. Safari, Opera, Firefox, and Chrome all run on multiple platforms including desktop and mobile platforms.
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As mentioned in the linked article, ARIN is reserving some IPv4 addresses for exactly that purpose. You would have known that if you had read the article.
Which is why ARIN is holding on to some IPv4 addresses for exactly this purpose. You would have known that had you bothered to read the very short article linked in the summary.
I think that Ubuntu could make great strides in the linux distro world if they spent one six month release cycle only fixing bugs. Make a commitment to not add any new features for six months and focus on bug fixing and usability. We'd have one hell of an operating system when they were done.
With a user name of "Assmasher" I would expect nothing less than a shitty day.
Thanks for the followup. My grandfather was in a situation like you described. He was moved to an assisted living home near my parents house, far from where his home used to be. When he passed away, my parent's contacted his old friends and acquaintances from where he lived to let them know and give them the funeral information. I don't know if they published anything in the paper, but I will ask them now. I can't imagine depending on someone reading the paper to know a friend of theirs has died. Contacting the deceased's friends seems like the right thing to do.
Why in the world would someone publish a death notice in the first place? Is it some sort of legal requirement? If not, I don't understand the thought processes that would lead someone to want to do such a thing.
You don't get it. It doesn't matter what you or I think. It matters what the law thinks. Our opinions on this matter mean absolutely nothing.
I would agree, but that would require determining if the activities are illegal in the country or location of the domain owner. Just because such activities might be illegal in my country, your country, or the country of the submitter doesn't mean it's illegal in country of the current domain owner.
But it's not domain abuse. This guy says he let his domain expire. Someone else then registered it. No domain abuse involved.
I couldn't disagree more. That's exactly what meetings are for -- to make decisions. If a decision has been made, you shouldn't call a meeting to announce it. Use a memo or email to communicate the results of the decision.
It's not just Win7. I rebooted less in XP than I do in Ubuntu. Ubuntu seems to think it knows best when it sees a different monitor, so I have to shutdown and boot back up every time I dock and undock my laptop. If I don't I'll get nonsense like having my external monitor not work unless the laptop lid is open. Close the laptop lid and the external monitor turns off and the LCD screen on the closed laptop lid turns on. Grrr. Consequently I end up having to reboot Ubuntu twice a day.
When I used XP (from 2002 to Feb 2009), I could suspend, dock or undock, resume the computer and the appropriate screen would appear. I never had a problem with it and never had to think about it. XP also didn't try to be "helpful" and attempt to display anything on a second monitor until I told it to. With Ubuntu, as soon as I connect a second monitor, it changes my screen resolution to the lowest common denominator and mirrors my display even though I don't want it to do that.
The bottom line is that I have to reboot Ubuntu twice a day while with XP I rebooted about once a month on average. This problem is my biggest pet peeve with Linux and what makes me keep thinking about switching back to Windows. But I'm a year into using Linux for my desktop, so I'm still trying to find a solution.
Ads on mobile phone? DO NOT WANT. Unless I get a free phone and free service, but even then I'm not sure if I could tolerate it.
Only for limited definitions of interesting.
That.
I get Citigroup as the first results. C (programming language) is fourth.
They don't have common carrier status in the first place. It's a common assumption, but incorrect.
Unique mac address! Ha ha ha. Kids these days...
That's something completely different. In your case you opted to receive offers from Amazon, so they send the offers to you. If you don't like the products that they suggest, then take yourself of their mailing list and take your business elsewhere. It's not spam. You opted in and you can out out.
Then tell them that. Maybe they can find a way to allow users to fine tune or filter suggestions.
Just because you aren't interested in the books you think it's spam? Who opted in to receive the emails from Amazon? You?
That was true before the healthcare bill passed. Some asshole that sleeps around without a condom and without insurance could just go to the emergency room, get treated, and the taxpayers have to pay for it. Now that same asshole is required to pay their way or pay a fine. That sounds fair to me.
It's been a long, long time since I saw the movie. Alcohol may have been involved.
Although, John Travolta is never the right guy to be in a scifi film.
You're right. It's the new Microsoft company slogan.
Apple isn't the only tablet maker. They don't even have a shipping product.
Exactly.
Mere speculation. There's no telling what future devices will be capable of.
You're only thinking about desktop operating systems. You're forgetting about tablets, phones, and who-knows-what kind of devices that we'll see in the next several years. IE only runs on Windows. Safari, Opera, Firefox, and Chrome all run on multiple platforms including desktop and mobile platforms.