who said a new clean Net2 needs to have all those billions of lusers?
I mean, seriously, don't let commercial devices like toasters and fridges and cars use the Net2 until you get enough infrastructure - they can use the old Internet, since they're paying to be run on it.
Stop trying to TWIN what we have. Build what you NEED, not what you may eventually WANT. Let others add that cruft.
Otherwise this will take a decade. Just do it and stop whining that it doesn't have X Y and Z. You can add that later.
You don't have to run it on the primary ports, you can use the backup port assignments. You can specifically disallow commercial devices (like all those toasters and fridges and cars wasting IP resources) on Net2.
Load balancing is nice - but actually putting up the Name servers and running them worldwide on the backup ports is the first step.
Then lease some sat space and some trunk line space.
Again, the average household has the resources to run the IPv6 name servers - use the backup port assignments at first, since those are usually enabled.
Literally, just the average city apartment building has more computing power than the country of Botswana does.
oh bull. we ran ARPA*NET on telephone wires and 110 baud modems with RAM and disk that make your iPods look HUGE.
What infrastructure do you mean?
The average household in America or the EU has more computing power than all the servers and workstations and mainframes we had when HTTP first became important.
Our state constitution has strong protections for privacy, and you can't even put a GPS device on a car or access the records without explicit permission.
Supposedly Zynga says I have 250 CafeWorld "neighbors", but half of those are "vacant" Zynga accounts.
They had some forced activities that drew everyone into CityVille, so their total numbers - based on looking at the many hundreds of "potential neighbors" my new CityVille shows - have about HALF of those accounts not playing - e.g. level 1 or level 2. You get to level 2 within the first game session tutorial.
And they provide no easy method to "drop" inactive "neighbors" to buff up their numbers.
seriously, I've done counter-terrorism and I can tell you that all the tech solutions are literal wastes of money.
Even the tests of TSA screening show a trained terrorist can get all the items aboard 4 out of 5 times, with a more than 95 percent success rate on getting them into the cargo hold as well.
The only things that work - and have worked - are:
1. Dogs.
2. Pigs. Even better than dogs.
3. Throwing your coat or blanket on top of any hijacker and subduing them, yelling "Terrorist! We're all going to die - get them!"
Everything else is an utter and absolute waste of time and effort.
Thought crime is when you admit that having Three Wars of Foreign Adventure against Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan when al-Qaeda isn't in any of those three countries and hasn't been in any of them for five years... is a bad idea.
Did anyone else watch the cool Castle episode where the Burlesque club owner led a gang of counterfeiters?
We'd be better served if we just migrated to DNSSEC running for IPv6 addresses only.
When the underlying IPv4 stack is inherently non-secure, running a secure DNS on top is kind of a waste of time.
Plus, bonus - this would encourage people to swap over to IPv6, and if you've got a Microsoft or Linux or Mac OS machine bought in the last few years, it already is running IPv6 stacks as well as IPv4 stacks.
After seeing her on G4TV, I have to say that the only way to save this zombie SGU is to infuse it with the acting skills and charm of Allesandra from the Caprica series.
It doesn't actually have to be "impregnable", it just has to be able to scale larger than the resources their opposition is able to muster. They got that.
Um. No.
The perception of safety and reasonable consumer response is what matters, not the reality.
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who said a new clean Net2 needs to have all those billions of lusers?
I mean, seriously, don't let commercial devices like toasters and fridges and cars use the Net2 until you get enough infrastructure - they can use the old Internet, since they're paying to be run on it.
Stop trying to TWIN what we have. Build what you NEED, not what you may eventually WANT. Let others add that cruft.
Otherwise this will take a decade. Just do it and stop whining that it doesn't have X Y and Z. You can add that later.
You don't have to run it on the primary ports, you can use the backup port assignments. You can specifically disallow commercial devices (like all those toasters and fridges and cars wasting IP resources) on Net2.
Load balancing is nice - but actually putting up the Name servers and running them worldwide on the backup ports is the first step.
Then lease some sat space and some trunk line space.
Again, the average household has the resources to run the IPv6 name servers - use the backup port assignments at first, since those are usually enabled.
Literally, just the average city apartment building has more computing power than the country of Botswana does.
You asked how to do it.
The average machine in a lab has 4 to 8 cores nowadays.
It's not hard to twin the net cards. You could even run it off of Apple Mac Minis - and those are single processors, not multi-core.
oh bull. we ran ARPA*NET on telephone wires and 110 baud modems with RAM and disk that make your iPods look HUGE.
What infrastructure do you mean?
The average household in America or the EU has more computing power than all the servers and workstations and mainframes we had when HTTP first became important.
You're just lazy.
It's not that difficult.
Just have NGOs run IPv6 stack Net2 servers that blacklist any upregulated commercial traffic and run them worldwide.
But you don't have the guts to do that.
All talk, no action.
In my day, ARPA*NET was clean and free of spam.
And then you sold us out for cash.
Our state constitution has strong protections for privacy, and you can't even put a GPS device on a car or access the records without explicit permission.
And a warrant.
And on that score, the unit margin for iPhone is way higher than the unit margin for any of the Androids.
Apple wins. And cashes in.
You can aim low, and hope to win on volume.
Or aim high, and even if your market share is 40 percent, you take home more greenbacks.
Now that is going to be a killer app, if you will.
That will be the tipping point (sorry, Sony) when 3D will really take off, thanks to the boost Nintendo gave it on the handhelds.
Supposedly Zynga says I have 250 CafeWorld "neighbors", but half of those are "vacant" Zynga accounts.
They had some forced activities that drew everyone into CityVille, so their total numbers - based on looking at the many hundreds of "potential neighbors" my new CityVille shows - have about HALF of those accounts not playing - e.g. level 1 or level 2. You get to level 2 within the first game session tutorial.
And they provide no easy method to "drop" inactive "neighbors" to buff up their numbers.
Actually, I was watching an old 1967 movie set in Finland about that.
Of course, it was germ warfare, using eggs inside a thermos, but same net effect.
You can live in Fear, or realize that there is no such thing as safety and get on with your life.
I'll take your word for TELEX - I was only on BBS systems since 1978, so I don't know what went on before then.
Used to be cutting edge
Uh, when the fuck was this? Was it back when the Internet had no trolls and everyone on slashdot wrote thoughtful, well-reasoned commentary?
Dude, even back when it was ARPA*NET we had trolls and unreasoned commentary.
UseNet flame wars were ... wait for it ... legendary.
seriously, I've done counter-terrorism and I can tell you that all the tech solutions are literal wastes of money.
Even the tests of TSA screening show a trained terrorist can get all the items aboard 4 out of 5 times, with a more than 95 percent success rate on getting them into the cargo hold as well.
The only things that work - and have worked - are:
1. Dogs.
2. Pigs. Even better than dogs.
3. Throwing your coat or blanket on top of any hijacker and subduing them, yelling "Terrorist! We're all going to die - get them!"
Everything else is an utter and absolute waste of time and effort.
And a whole lot of cash.
I just can't see why this has to be wired.
I mean, don't LED lights get their energy from the aether?
After all, we all know the magnetic pole will flip in 2012, not in 2010 or 2011.
OK, it's official.
The end of the world is nigh.
Privacy is the opposite of Security.
Good is the opposite of Evil.
Thought crime is when you admit that having Three Wars of Foreign Adventure against Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan when al-Qaeda isn't in any of those three countries and hasn't been in any of them for five years ... is a bad idea.
Did anyone else watch the cool Castle episode where the Burlesque club owner led a gang of counterfeiters?
No idea, I'm running eight programs at once most of the time.
Dude, it's bare bones quad core with DDR3 - faster than your DDR2 32GB machine - the vid card with 1GB is what matters.
I'll buy DDR3 RAM when it's cheap - which will be late Feb 2011.
An amusing thing is that I bought Windows 7 for my quad core 8GB v1GB d1TB machine.
But because Microsoft Office is such a hassle, I only run Open Office on it.
The "anti-piracy" app is part of why most young people can't be bothered with Microsoft products.
Bitstream that!
We'd be better served if we just migrated to DNSSEC running for IPv6 addresses only.
When the underlying IPv4 stack is inherently non-secure, running a secure DNS on top is kind of a waste of time.
Plus, bonus - this would encourage people to swap over to IPv6, and if you've got a Microsoft or Linux or Mac OS machine bought in the last few years, it already is running IPv6 stacks as well as IPv4 stacks.
After seeing her on G4TV, I have to say that the only way to save this zombie SGU is to infuse it with the acting skills and charm of Allesandra from the Caprica series.
And then have the cast of Glee guest star.
It doesn't actually have to be "impregnable", it just has to be able to scale larger than the resources their opposition is able to muster. They got that.
Um. No.
The perception of safety and reasonable consumer response is what matters, not the reality.
I didn't say it wasn't.
So are some of the military websites.