is to stop being so diverse! Pick a platform and stick with it!
Ok, in all seriousness.. here's what you do:
- buy yourself a cheap (~200) box - hook all your drives to it - use whatever file system you want (JFS, XFS would be my recommendation) - share it over your zoo of a network using nfs, samba, etc..
As a bonus, your file server box could double as a media center, and replace your WD TV Live dealie.. (probably not though.. right)
Irregardless, I think you're way better off with this approach vice trying to find the magical widely supported cross platform file system with large file capacity.
You also might want to consider RAID vs. your monthly sync. Yes, RAID isn't a backup.. but for something like this where restoration would be possible, but just a pain in the ass.. mirrored raid can be a lot more convenient. You can always have a third external to back up your irreplacable data on a semi-annual basis..
These are good points, but I would counter that in these type of doomsday scenarios, where the government really _is_ out to get you... some privacy policy is probably gonna mean nothing.
Yes, everyone has things to hide.. myself included.. but that's what I don't publish them on the net, regardless of what privacy policies are in place.
Things like searches.. sure I've searched for some stuff I wouldn't want to explain to a judge, or my mother.. but I'm reasonably sure 100,000 other people have searched for the same thing. A private party might be able to use this against me some how, but the Government or large industry? As I originally said, unless you are searching for something _really_ weird (like.. beyond 4chan weird).. you probably arn't going to stick out enough for anyone to care.
And if the government does start using their omniscient status to push people around.. well.. then also as I said.. a privacy policy isn't going to do me a whole load of good..
I guess everyone has to weigh being able to express ones self vs. covering ones ass. I think this issue is relevant in the info we intentionally make public as well (i.e. social networking). It's a balancing act between the enjoyment that comes from sharing.. and the risk that comes from.. sharing. Personally it is beyond my comfort level.. but I almost envy those who are more than willing to throw every detail of themselves out onto the net... and damn the risk that it'll cost them a job 10 years down the road.
And thanks for the sensible reply! Kinda refreshing for this topic!
I love how everyone (as I half expected) jumps on the first statement and completely disregards the second..
Everyone has stuff to hide.. I don't want every detail of my life published.. but freaking out because searches I`m performing on a third party site are being logged is just nuts.
I approach Google like I approach Microsoft or the network at work. Very low expectation of privacy! Especially when it comes to what data the government has access to. Even if Google's privacy policy was iron clad.. if politics changed enough, the government could still get the data. Hell.. I suspect they probably get the data right now...
If you have any expectation that a privacy policy affords you any real protection in the doomsday type scenarios where you'd need it.. then you sir are an idiot.
Seriously.. despite all the controversy it has stirred up.. if you don't have anything to hide.. who cares
It's not that black and white.. but chances are unless you have some very disturbing fetish.. chances are "the stuff you don't want your boss to know" is fairly similar to 10 million other people.. to the point where you are just a tiny blip in a stats bucket. Your just search #234521 for "sex with staplers".
They arn't publishing your search history in the newspaper.. they are using it to increment a counter that you might be interested in office supply ads.
If you are really paranoid though.. use adblock.. route everything through tor.. disable cookies.. and be sure to encrypt your hard-drive with a 20 gazillion bit cypher.
.. but sounds like a lot of work to prove a relatively straight foward point.
It's actually been my opinion that Linux in the hands of someone who doesn't know how to use it can in some situations be less secure than windows.
My reasoning for this is that:
1) Newbie Linux users who are having problems with their systems will rpetty much run anything as any user you tell them to in a desperate hope to get Xorg working again
2) Linux commands on their own can look very cryptic to the uninitiated.. add into that the scripting abilities of most shells.. and a new Linux user won't be able to differentiate a malicious command from one that will get their nvidia driver working again
3) The out-of-box remote admin abilities of Linux are excellent.
4) Standard tools like nc can easily be used to establish out-connecting remote shell sessions
5) OR you can just get them to wget and execute your favourite piece of malware.
If hackers convert arbitrary x86 shell code into sentences that read like spam, but are natively executable.. we're all screwed:(
We'll either need to tighten up how architectures execute instructions to make it harder to execute shell code in the first place.. or come up with sophisticated AI to help filter out the shell code. Of course, as soon as we do that, hackers will develop AIs which can write convincing (and even compelling) shell code.. and THEN what the hell do we do.
Now where I live you can get a pretty decent hair cut for $17 (they even trim up the beard). You can't get anything fancy.. but a decent, professional-ish type haircut is definitely no problem.
My employer is giving us a pretty generous Christmas vacation.. really looking forward to that!!
Also this time of year is great cause CHRISTMAS is everywhere:D
It has to be political.. there has to be something going on behind the scenes here.
He's not that stupid a person.. and there's no way that someone hasn't explained to him what a robots.txt file is by now..
How has this not happened? Even mainstream media tends to at least try to get a statement from both sides.
I'm sure if the BBC had contacted google.. they would have gotten lots of information on the subject. Or at least a quote they could include.. something along the lines of "google engineer x would like to remind Newscorp that they can _completely_ "block" us (and many others) from "stealing" their content by putting a simple text file on their site.
I think when your ultimate goal is to slaughter and consume.. an animal stops being a "pet". And would sure make an interesting dinner, as your daughter chokes down Fluffy, her pet rabbit.
I mean.. it's an interesting report.. but I don't think anything realistic has been proposed here. They may as well have proposed we treat our cars as pets..
Why even bother looking at this stuff.. there's all kinds of other areas that could realistically be addressed. For example phone books! The amount of resources spent printing and distributing something that 70% of the time probably ends up in a land fill untouched is astounding. I saw some documentary where they were taking core samples at junk yards.. there were literally layers of phone books.. they used it to date the segments..
I'm unsure exactly what part you are so upset about?
The main thing I`m worried about is charge by usage.. which for the right amount of money and lobbying is a perfectly reasonable solution to network congestion.
I also don't see in any way how you were modded as insightful.
.. Totally agree.. for those keeping score at home:
Unfortunately, somewhere between now and when I was a kid...people stopped buying good home audio systems.
But, as far as good gear goes....you needn't go overboard on the super audiophile non-sense and voodoo that is out there, but, with respect to solid audio gear...to a certain extent, you do get what you pay for...
I think the issue is that home audio became less about amazing sound and more about penis extension. I have know two people who call themselves "audiophiles" and have their multi-thousand dollar speakers and monster cables and so on.. and while when they turn up the volume you can actually feel your bones rattling around.. the quality doesn't seem that much better than my cheap (relatively) $199 logitech pc speakers. On the other hand, I have another friend who's audio hardware is probably somewhere in the middle _but_ sounds absolutely incredible.
The difference? He knows what the hell he's doing! When you go over there he doesn't brag about how much money he spent and how many watts his speakers put out.. instead he talks in gory detail about how he used all kinds of meters and doodads to adjust the audio so that it's just right. I can actually picture him sitting in the middle of the room listening to white noise and saying "mm.. band xyz is a little high..".
So my original point.. I don't think interest in high end audio has gone down.. I just think the reasons for it have changed. People didn't stop buying high end audio.. they just stopped using it for more than a status symbol.
New age "hard core" sci-fi type writter states opinion regarding epic mainstream sci-fi series... world acknoledges opinion... life continues?
This isn't ground breaking stuff here.. most main-stream sci-fi just uses tech as a backdrop.. but it's been immensly popular. And like anything else immensly popular.. there are people who arn't going to like it.
Maybe I`m a masochist.. but I would _love_ my day in court to rail against this straight jacket society that we are becoming.
Like everything eventually does.. fair hiring has gone _way_ too far. I`m all for everyone getting a fair shake, but eventually you won't even be allowed to ask for a name.. lest they don't get the job and claim it's because you have it out for guy's named "Jack".
I figure if I ask the question in good faith.. I'd feel quite happy arguing my point in a court room.
My intention (though re-reading my post I know I didn't really say it) is that the second guy _also_ did the formal education/certs/had done a good job in the field.
No question, there are high school kids that can code fairly well.. but chances are they wouldn't work too well in an IT shop.. but a guy with the same degree and same working experience who _also_ lives and breaths the stuff at home is probably going to be better.
Also I occasionally delve into the "flash games" arena.. there's actually some decent stuff now days! (And there's always the classics like "defend the castle" and "Champion Archer")
Sure.. but if you have an auto-mechanic who went to community college, learned his stuff.. and now works at a shop and does a good job.. vs a guy who practically lives and breaths cars and spends his off hours fixing up old wrecks.. who is the better candidate.
Not saying the first guy is unemployable.. just that people who have found something they love and see the fact that they can make a living at it is as just a nice bonus tend to be better candidates.
You don't know that. Doing something for ~8 hours a day can lower ones intensity to do it in their "free time".
What I've found is that I`m more inclined to work on the opposite of what I do at work.
I worked at a place where the code base was a disaster.. there was no planning or design work.. no requirements management.. no semblance of order to anything (though we were working to fix that).. and I found in my free time I enjoyed coding in a very designed and managed way.. kind of refreshing to work on nice tidy Java code.
Now I work at pretty much the opposite. Every line of code is reviewed and re-reviewed.. then the review process is reviewed and a binder of documentation is produced tying it to the requirements, testing, and phase of the moon. The design process of even a simple change can take months followed by (literally) years of testing. And when I get home.. I immerse myself in Perl and just "code the damn thing already".
On the original point.. it's been my experience that while there are some programmers who are very good at their job despite treating it like a 9 to 5.. the vast majority of good coders I know at least dabble with stuff at home. I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask what (if any) projects a person works on at home. I wouldn't use it as a sole judge of whether they are a good candidate.. but it would certainly factor into things.
As for what a person does (non programming) in their off time.. again.. I think perfectly reasonable. Also on the table in my opinion are what their favourite classes in high school were, what books/movies that like, what music, what they do with their friends on a Friday. When you hire someone into a team.. you arn't just hiring an automaton that is capable of performing a set list of tasks. I've met brilliant programmers whom I'd pass over for a high school kid.. because despite being good at their job.. they would have been a negative person to have around and would make work hell (yes.. having a fun and happy work environment is important..)
.. or writing a 10 page essay on what the author _REALLY_ meant when he said "John walked briskly across the street"..
Has that ever really happened? Ever?
Hell yes! Ok.. maybe slight bit of hyperbole (ehe.. that tickled) but when I was in high school we tore "The Great Gatsby" apart line by line. The teacher we had could take just about any poor innocent sentence and explain how it was actually a metaphor for the fall of the American dream and the prevalence of materialism in our society. I honestly think if Scott Fitzgerald had sat in on one of these classes.. he would have laughed his ass off.
This two-period hybrid full-stop/ellipses you use strikes me as emblematic of your perspective on literature and literary classes.
My half-hearted ellipsis are practically a signature.. been using them for literally decades.. kind of my own little way of railing against the system:(
Well no shit. You go to school to learn, which is Hard Work, not to goof off or be entertained. If students just want to read good books, they can read themselves without taking the class.
I don't think this is necessary. I know I sound like some drugged up elementary teacher before (s)he has had the enthusiasm sucked out by "the system".. but learning can be effective _and_ fun. You don't need to suck all the life out of a book to analyze it.
No offense.. but it sounds like this course is going to be just like most English courses..
That is.. take an enjoyable experience (i.e. reading a good book) and turn it into a complete chore by over-analysing everything to the point that students shun reading forever.
Now.. maybe some high school students would enjoy comparing their favorite sci-fi series to the cold war.. or writing a 10 page essay on what the author _REALLY_ meant when he said "John walked briskly across the street".. but I suspect most won't.
That said.. if this is your intention though.. 1984 is a must. You can (and people have) turn just about any paragraph in that book into a masters thesis.
I think IPv6 is going to end up as another VCD (Video CD). That is, a pre-mature solution that won't ever actually see wide-scale adoption, but will merely fill the space until the _real_ solution is invented (out of genuine necessity).. which will probably be widely adopted quite quickly.
Lets face it.. we've been on the brink of running out of IP's in the IPv4 space for _years_... and life has continued. One day we will... but I think by that point a better technology than IPv6 will have been invented to fix the problem.. and IPv6 will be viewed as a bad dream:(
That being said.. the situation you describe is complete bullshit.. and inherently _everything_ we've come to expect from a large telco
Slashdot Mirror
There isn't one.. it's basically like irrespective
Which is why I use it.. I have a gene that compels me to torture tech writers.. tis also the reason I use these half hearted ellipsis..
is to stop being so diverse! Pick a platform and stick with it!
Ok, in all seriousness.. here's what you do:
- buy yourself a cheap (~200) box
- hook all your drives to it
- use whatever file system you want (JFS, XFS would be my recommendation)
- share it over your zoo of a network using nfs, samba, etc..
As a bonus, your file server box could double as a media center, and replace your WD TV Live dealie.. (probably not though.. right)
Irregardless, I think you're way better off with this approach vice trying to find the magical widely supported cross platform file system with large file capacity.
You also might want to consider RAID vs. your monthly sync. Yes, RAID isn't a backup.. but for something like this where
restoration would be possible, but just a pain in the ass.. mirrored raid can be a lot more convenient. You can always have
a third external to back up your irreplacable data on a semi-annual basis..
These are good points, but I would counter that in these type of doomsday scenarios, where the government really _is_ out to get you... some privacy policy is probably gonna mean nothing.
Yes, everyone has things to hide.. myself included.. but that's what I don't publish them on the net, regardless of what privacy policies are in place.
Things like searches.. sure I've searched for some stuff I wouldn't want to explain to a judge, or my mother.. but I'm reasonably sure 100,000 other people have searched for the same thing. A private party might be able to use this against me some how, but the Government or large industry? As I originally said, unless you are searching for something _really_ weird (like.. beyond 4chan weird) .. you probably arn't going to stick out enough for anyone to care.
And if the government does start using their omniscient status to push people around.. well.. then also as I said.. a privacy policy isn't going to do me a whole load of good..
I guess everyone has to weigh being able to express ones self vs. covering ones ass. I think this issue is relevant in the info we intentionally make public as well (i.e. social networking). It's a balancing act between the enjoyment that comes from sharing .. and the risk that comes from.. sharing. Personally it is beyond my comfort level.. but I almost envy those who are more than willing to throw every detail of themselves out onto the net... and damn the risk that it'll cost them a job 10 years down the road.
And thanks for the sensible reply! Kinda refreshing for this topic!
I love how everyone (as I half expected) jumps on the first statement and completely disregards the second..
Everyone has stuff to hide.. I don't want every detail of my life published.. but freaking out because searches I`m performing on a third party site are being logged is just nuts.
I approach Google like I approach Microsoft or the network at work. Very low expectation of privacy! Especially when it comes to what data the government has access to. Even if Google's privacy policy was iron clad.. if politics changed enough, the government could still get the data. Hell.. I suspect they probably get the data right now ...
If you have any expectation that a privacy policy affords you any real protection in the doomsday type scenarios where you'd need it.. then you sir are an idiot.
Seriously.. despite all the controversy it has stirred up.. if you don't have anything to hide.. who cares
It's not that black and white.. but chances are unless you have some very disturbing fetish.. chances are "the stuff you don't want your boss to know" is fairly similar to 10 million other people.. to the point where you are just a tiny blip in a stats bucket. Your just search #234521 for "sex with staplers".
They arn't publishing your search history in the newspaper .. they are using it to increment a counter that you might be interested in office supply ads.
If you are really paranoid though.. use adblock.. route everything through tor.. disable cookies.. and be sure to encrypt your hard-drive with a 20 gazillion bit cypher.
.. but sounds like a lot of work to prove a relatively straight foward point.
It's actually been my opinion that Linux in the hands of someone who doesn't know how to use it can in some situations be less secure than windows.
My reasoning for this is that:
1) Newbie Linux users who are having problems with their systems will rpetty much run anything as any user you tell them to in a desperate hope to get Xorg working again
2) Linux commands on their own can look very cryptic to the uninitiated.. add into that the scripting abilities of most shells.. and a new Linux user won't be able to differentiate a malicious command from one that will get their nvidia driver working again
3) The out-of-box remote admin abilities of Linux are excellent.
4) Standard tools like nc can easily be used to establish out-connecting remote shell sessions
5) OR you can just get them to wget and execute your favourite piece of malware.
quite terrifying :(
If hackers convert arbitrary x86 shell code into sentences that read like spam, but are natively executable .. we're all screwed :(
We'll either need to tighten up how architectures execute instructions to make it harder to execute shell code in the first place.. or come up with sophisticated AI to help filter out the shell code. Of course, as soon as we do that, hackers will develop AIs which can write convincing (and even compelling) shell code.. and THEN what the hell do we do.
Now where I live you can get a pretty decent hair cut for $17 (they even trim up the beard). You can't get anything fancy.. but a decent, professional-ish type haircut is definitely no problem.
My employer is giving us a pretty generous Christmas vacation.. really looking forward to that!!
Also this time of year is great cause CHRISTMAS is everywhere :D
But what happens when scripting becomes involved..
Write a script to make a "hey.. not out murdering my wife's lover" post then destroy/shred itself whilst you're out doing your chainsaw work.
It has to be political.. there has to be something going on behind the scenes here.
He's not that stupid a person.. and there's no way that someone hasn't explained to him what a robots.txt file is by now..
How has this not happened? Even mainstream media tends to at least try to get a statement from both sides.
I'm sure if the BBC had contacted google.. they would have gotten lots of information on the subject. Or at least a quote they could include.. something along the lines of "google engineer x would like to remind Newscorp that they can _completely_ "block" us (and many others) from "stealing" their content by putting a simple text file on their site.
Not claiming you can't eat rabbit.. just saying you wouldn't (or at least I wouldn't) want to make it a member of the family first..
I think when your ultimate goal is to slaughter and consume .. an animal stops being a "pet". And would sure make an interesting dinner, as your daughter chokes down Fluffy, her pet rabbit.
I mean.. it's an interesting report.. but I don't think anything realistic has been proposed here. They may as well have proposed we treat our cars as pets..
Why even bother looking at this stuff.. there's all kinds of other areas that could realistically be addressed. For example phone books! The amount of resources spent printing and distributing something that 70% of the time probably ends up in a land fill untouched is astounding. I saw some documentary where they were taking core samples at junk yards.. there were literally layers of phone books.. they used it to date the segments..
Me and everyone who's _not_ the telecommunication industry
I'm unsure exactly what part you are so upset about?
The main thing I`m worried about is charge by usage.. which for the right amount of money and lobbying is a perfectly reasonable solution to network congestion.
I also don't see in any way how you were modded as insightful.
.. Totally agree.. for those keeping score at home:
50% Insightful
20% Informative
20% Overrated
"Their pipes" were built with government money.
As someone who pays taxes.. I expect the people who run the network I paid for to do so in a way that best serves me..
.. and I know this will get -1 troll.. but I have to say it...
fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck..
and of course.. FUCK!!
Unfortunately, somewhere between now and when I was a kid...people stopped buying good home audio systems.
But, as far as good gear goes....you needn't go overboard on the super audiophile non-sense and voodoo that is out there, but, with respect to solid audio gear...to a certain extent, you do get what you pay for...
I think the issue is that home audio became less about amazing sound and more about penis extension. I have know two people who call themselves "audiophiles" and have their multi-thousand dollar speakers and monster cables and so on.. and while when they turn up the volume you can actually feel your bones rattling around.. the quality doesn't seem that much better than my cheap (relatively) $199 logitech pc speakers. On the other hand, I have another friend who's audio hardware is probably somewhere in the middle _but_ sounds absolutely incredible.
The difference? He knows what the hell he's doing! When you go over there he doesn't brag about how much money he spent and how many watts his speakers put out.. instead he talks in gory detail about how he used all kinds of meters and doodads to adjust the audio so that it's just right. I can actually picture him sitting in the middle of the room listening to white noise and saying "mm.. band xyz is a little high..".
So my original point.. I don't think interest in high end audio has gone down.. I just think the reasons for it have changed. People didn't stop buying high end audio.. they just stopped using it for more than a status symbol.
So.. is there anything to discuss here?
New age "hard core" sci-fi type writter states opinion regarding epic mainstream sci-fi series... world acknoledges opinion... life continues?
This isn't ground breaking stuff here.. most main-stream sci-fi just uses tech as a backdrop.. but it's been immensly popular. And like anything else immensly popular.. there are people who arn't going to like it.
Maybe I`m a masochist .. but I would _love_ my day in court to rail against this straight jacket society that we are becoming.
Like everything eventually does .. fair hiring has gone _way_ too far. I`m all for everyone getting a fair shake, but eventually you won't even be allowed to ask for a name.. lest they don't get the job and claim it's because you have it out for guy's named "Jack".
I figure if I ask the question in good faith.. I'd feel quite happy arguing my point in a court room.
My intention (though re-reading my post I know I didn't really say it) is that the second guy _also_ did the formal education/certs/had done a good job in the field.
No question, there are high school kids that can code fairly well.. but chances are they wouldn't work too well in an IT shop.. but a guy with the same degree and same working experience who _also_ lives and breaths the stuff at home is probably going to be better.
I find xmoto is an excellent time waster ..
http://xmoto.tuxfamily.org/
Also I occasionally delve into the "flash games" arena .. there's actually some decent stuff now days! (And there's always the classics like "defend the castle" and "Champion Archer")
Sure.. but if you have an auto-mechanic who went to community college, learned his stuff.. and now works at a shop and does a good job.. vs a guy who practically lives and breaths cars and spends his off hours fixing up old wrecks.. who is the better candidate.
Not saying the first guy is unemployable.. just that people who have found something they love and see the fact that they can make a living at it is as just a nice bonus tend to be better candidates.
You don't know that. Doing something for ~8 hours a day can lower ones intensity to do it in their "free time".
What I've found is that I`m more inclined to work on the opposite of what I do at work.
I worked at a place where the code base was a disaster .. there was no planning or design work.. no requirements management.. no semblance of order to anything (though we were working to fix that) .. and I found in my free time I enjoyed coding in a very designed and managed way.. kind of refreshing to work on nice tidy Java code.
Now I work at pretty much the opposite. Every line of code is reviewed and re-reviewed.. then the review process is reviewed and a binder of documentation is produced tying it to the requirements, testing, and phase of the moon. The design process of even a simple change can take months followed by (literally) years of testing. And when I get home.. I immerse myself in Perl and just "code the damn thing already".
On the original point.. it's been my experience that while there are some programmers who are very good at their job despite treating it like a 9 to 5 .. the vast majority of good coders I know at least dabble with stuff at home. I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask what (if any) projects a person works on at home. I wouldn't use it as a sole judge of whether they are a good candidate.. but it would certainly factor into things.
As for what a person does (non programming) in their off time.. again.. I think perfectly reasonable. Also on the table in my opinion are what their favourite classes in high school were, what books/movies that like, what music, what they do with their friends on a Friday. When you hire someone into a team.. you arn't just hiring an automaton that is capable of performing a set list of tasks. I've met brilliant programmers whom I'd pass over for a high school kid.. because despite being good at their job.. they would have been a negative person to have around and would make work hell (yes.. having a fun and happy work environment is important..)
.. or writing a 10 page essay on what the author _REALLY_ meant when he said "John walked briskly across the street"..
Has that ever really happened? Ever?
Hell yes! Ok.. maybe slight bit of hyperbole (ehe.. that tickled) but when I was in high school we tore "The Great Gatsby" apart line by line. The teacher we had could take just about any poor innocent sentence and explain how it was actually a metaphor for the fall of the American dream and the prevalence of materialism in our society. I honestly think if Scott Fitzgerald had sat in on one of these classes.. he would have laughed his ass off.
This two-period hybrid full-stop/ellipses you use strikes me as emblematic of your perspective on literature and literary classes.
My half-hearted ellipsis are practically a signature .. been using them for literally decades .. kind of my own little way of railing against the system :(
Well no shit. You go to school to learn, which is Hard Work, not to goof off or be entertained. If students just want to read good books, they can read themselves without taking the class.
I don't think this is necessary. I know I sound like some drugged up elementary teacher before (s)he has had the enthusiasm sucked out by "the system".. but learning can be effective _and_ fun. You don't need to suck all the life out of a book to analyze it.
Think of the children! PLEASE!
No offense .. but it sounds like this course is going to be just like most English courses..
That is.. take an enjoyable experience (i.e. reading a good book) and turn it into a complete chore by over-analysing everything to the point that students shun reading forever.
Now.. maybe some high school students would enjoy comparing their favorite sci-fi series to the cold war.. or writing a 10 page essay on what the author _REALLY_ meant when he said "John walked briskly across the street".. but I suspect most won't.
That said.. if this is your intention though.. 1984 is a must. You can (and people have) turn just about any paragraph in that book into a masters thesis.
I think IPv6 is going to end up as another VCD (Video CD). That is, a pre-mature solution that won't ever actually see wide-scale adoption, but will merely fill the space until the _real_ solution is invented (out of genuine necessity).. which will probably be widely adopted quite quickly.
Lets face it.. we've been on the brink of running out of IP's in the IPv4 space for _years_... and life has continued. One day we will... but I think by that point a better technology than IPv6 will have been invented to fix the problem.. and IPv6 will be viewed as a bad dream :(
That being said.. the situation you describe is complete bullshit.. and inherently _everything_ we've come to expect from a large telco