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  1. Re:IPv6 is an interoperability failure on Little Interest In Next-Gen Internet · · Score: 1

    Example of what happens currently:

    * IPv6 host wants to reach an IPv4 address
    * failure to connect


    Actually, what will happen if we go to IPv6:

    * IPv6 host wants to reach an IPv4 address
    * Translation occurs at bridge and headers are repackaged to send stripped-down IPv4 version with IPv6 routing info in body of message.
    * Everyone happy, although IPv6 message now more prone to being forged.

  2. Re:Ways to live to 120 on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1

    4. For guys, drink one to two glasses of red wine with meals. For women, one-half to one, but depends on body mass.

    Instead of drinking red wine, try pomegranate juice. 3 times the Antioxidants and considered dental floss for the arteries.

    I like POM's blueberry pomegranate juice.


    Yeah, but not everyone else does. Plus most juices have sugar added and are usually 10 percent fruit juice and the rest is corn syrup (in the US, that is) or somesuch.

    Local variants may exist. Choose wisely and RTFM.

  3. The only thing that matters is the Games on Smoke and Mirrors from Sony and Microsoft · · Score: 1

    the ones actually being developed.

    All the rest is immaterial.

  4. Re:Ways to live to 120 on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1

    Most studies from what I can remember show that sleep duration is subjective to the individual, but on average 8-9 hours of sleep is sufficient. The subjectiveness is probably why I prefer 9+ while some of my friends go 7-8 per night.

    Your mileage may vary. Plus, it varies with age.

    Until you're almost retired, it should probably be 8 hours plus a bit, after that you can drop it to about 7 to 8.

  5. Re:as a general rule.... on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1

    As a general rule concerning processed foods - if mold can't grow on it, neither can you (or your brain).

    Well, twinkies will make you grow. But not the way one wants ....

    Plus, they're good for insulation.

  6. Re:Ways to live to 120 on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1

    When I pick one up at work I just fill it with random numbers as fast as I can and yell "BINGO!"

    That works in the UK and Japan where they have those numeric puzzles ... but not here in the USA.

  7. Re:Ways to live to 120 on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1

    Good advice, but I've just a few nits:

    2. I'm not sure how much exercise one gets riding the bus, unless one has to stand the whole time.


    It's not riding the bus that results in the exercise. It's the not driving the car from your garage straight to work. Riding the bus usually means you walk a block or four to get the bus, wait at the bus stop where all the cute girls are, ride the bus as you get the cute girls phone numbers, get off the bus a block or four from your work, walk to work, and that's where the exercise comes in.

    4. Drinking 2 glasses of wine at one sitting gets me pretty drunk.

    I didn't say at one sitting. Basically, have a glass with a big meal (guy) or half a glass with a big meal (girl). People tend to have two big meals and one light one.

    7. I write software all day. It engages my brain, but I don't tend to meet cute girls that way.

    This is where doing crossword puzzles at the cafe or park bench come in. Do them by hand, you'd be surprised who decides to help you. Hence cute girls. Almost as good as having a puppy, plus you can toss the crossword puzzle if you didn't write down a phone number on it.

  8. Re:Ways to live to 120 on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1

    Where does it say 8-9 hours of sleep? The part which talked about 8 hours of sleep was in connection with use of medication, wasn't it?

    It doesn't. Some local research here at the UW shows that 8.25 hours tends to be optimal, and also points out that only Saturday morning sleeping late seems to work.

    Not everything is published, we get a lot of news here before it becomes published.

  9. Re:Exercise exercise exercise! on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1

    If you are not doing it now start.

    But don't overdo it. This is why most people STOP exercise.

    Add it gradually. Get off the elevator one floor away in your 40 story building and walk up one floor. When you can do that without getting out of breath (not a joke) add another floor. Add it gradually and you'll keep doing it.

    If you get sick, don't try to get right back to where you were - listen to your body.

  10. Re:What a crock! on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1

    And don't miss breakfast. This is why the United States is a nation of fat slobs. Nutritional experts telling everyone they need to eat like an adolescent during his growth spurt. Most people don't need breakfast or lunch either for that matter.

    Noone said you have to eat bacon and eggs and juice for breakfast. Why not a nice bowl of oatmeal with a tiny bit of brown sugar, half a glass of real juice, or some water? Iced tea is good too, if you don't add sugar much.

    Some days I have a bagel or english muffin with water before walking to work. A piece of toast is ok too, just don't add all that butter except on special occassions (and skip the margarine, it's bad for you, maybe use a dab of olive oil).

  11. Re:Ways to live to 120 on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1

    "4. For guys, drink one to two glasses of red wine with meals. For women, one-half to one, but depends on body mass."

    Per meal or just dinner?

    Dinner. But this varies in different cultures. If your big meal is breakfast, it's ok to do it then. If your big meal is lunch (yum, steak and shrimp and salad with green crunchies and tomatoes and a glass of wine), do it then.

    Don't drink more than two glasses of red wine in a day, or for women one glass (optional for women if they do this at all, the health effects are mixed, aspirin is better in many ways in very low doses).

  12. Ways to live to 120 on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1. Eat oatmeal for breakfast - if you must add sugars, make them complex, not processed (e.g. raw).

    2. Get half an hour exercise each day, which basically means take the stairs or take the bus or if you drive don't park so close to work.

    3. Get eight to nine hours sleep a night - this is the hard one for me. If you run a sleep deficit, sleep in Saturday morning, but wake up the usual time on Sunday.

    4. For guys, drink one to two glasses of red wine with meals. For women, one-half to one, but depends on body mass.

    5. Stop watching the news. All those car chases and crashes five states away just add to stress and you can't do anything about them. If you must watch, choose a less exciting program like PBS or such.

    6. Ditch your watch and cellphone. Really.

    7. Do crossword puzzles or something that engages your brain most every day. You meet a lot of cute girls that way ...

    8. Don't be in such a rush. Biologically, we're not built to live like that.

    9. Eat low on the food chain - how you do this is up to you, but avoid processed foods.

    All the rest is commentary.

  13. When 2 billion new Net users go online on Little Interest In Next-Gen Internet · · Score: 1

    in India and China and Japan - which are rolling out IPv6 whether the US wants it or not ...

    Well, let's face it, we no longer "control" the Net.

    Time to migrate to IPv6. I read the specs years ago, it's a lot cleaner than IPv4, IMHO.

  14. Re:IPv6 is an interoperability failure on Little Interest In Next-Gen Internet · · Score: 1

    IPv6 hosts cannot talk to IPv4 hosts. Likewise, IPv4 hosts cannot talk to IPv6 hosts.

    Isn't that what a Bridge Router/Hub is for?

    Silly me, I forget that we've never used IPv1, IPv2, or other versions and had to maintain such links. ..

  15. It's not what you know, it's how you use it on Little Interest In Next-Gen Internet · · Score: 1

    ...as always. Still: want better Internet security and easier network management. they write. Thing is, those IT folks they speak about probably know exactly what IPv6 is for, which is not better security and easier management. It's mostly the extended address space, not much more, think of it as IPv4 on lower-end steroids. So they probably don't expect such features from it. Which is not true for ignorant article writers.

    True, the header is wider and more addressable. True, it's easier to send email to non-earth locations. True, the timeout values are wider.

    But if properly installed IPv6 includes IPvSec, which means better authentication, and less hackable network designators, and thus makes it easier to use securely with an IPvSec wrapper which is supported fully on IPv6 but not on IPv4.

    But, hey, live in the dark ages if you want ...

  16. Tell them it's for Homeland Insecurity on Little Interest In Next-Gen Internet · · Score: 1

    sell them on Fear Uncertainty and Doubt.

    heck, works for MSFT ... [caveat, I own shares of them]

    Seriously, though, moving to IPv6 and Gigabit Internet for the whole nation would be a SMART thing. I can't believe you don't have high-speed bandwidth in the commercial world like we do at university, college, and medical institutions.

    And you'd solve a lot of security problems by just ditching IPv4.

  17. How To Save The World In Your Firm on Mad as Hell, Switching to Mac · · Score: 1

    1. Switch all servers to Linux and BSD.

    2. Switch all desktops to Apple or Linux (the latter for techies), with a few Wintels for people who use specific software.

    3. Use OpenOffice for everyone, host databases on the Linux/BSD servers.

    4. Profit! [well, less tech support nightmares]

  18. Re:About step 3... on Intel Head Recommends Apple · · Score: 1

    "3. Download and make them use spyware"

    My own humble opinion? Skip this step.

    Oops, typed too fast. sorry. Meant make them use spyware detection software like Spybot or Ad-Aware.

    My bad.

    [hope noone followed suggestion 3 ...]

  19. First France, then Canada, then Spain, then UK on Decriminalizing File Swapping · · Score: 1

    and finally in the US

    as judges restore people's rights over corporations.

  20. Obviously, MSFT should change XML in IE on Netscape 8 Breaks IE XML · · Score: 1

    to comply with the Mozilla standard.

    After all, standards rule over companies, right?

    .

    .

    [pin drop]

    .

  21. Re:More interested in DBMS able to cope with Biolo on Beyond Relational Databases · · Score: 1

    Think of events with values that occur over time. So its either sales of blue jeans of size 14 in New York state during the period of Dec 1 to 15th, or the changes of protiens at a certain temp/conditions during the 121 second and 300 second marks

    I think you mean 121 millisecond to 300 millisecond.

    Conformational structural changes in proteins are measured in very short time segments, nowadays using lasers to heat them up fast.

    We also freeze them at -80 and -40 C temps, or use 4 C, 20 C, or 40 C temps (hint, 20 C is room temp).

  22. Linux - it's what's for Servers on Intel Head Recommends Apple · · Score: 1

    Apple, it's what's for Desktops.

    A smart person has a Linux server running the firewall with Gigabit internet which a bunch of Apple computers (Macs) connect to.

    Problem solved. Security and geekiness at the back end, and maybe a nice database or two - Cuteness and always works on the front end, safe and secure while Linux does the dirty work.

    Problem solved!

  23. Three Things To Rule Them All on Intel Head Recommends Apple · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you don't want to spend your life providing free tech support for your relatives the best advice is this:

    1. Have them buy Apple computers (hint, OS X is BSD). Whenever they ask, just say "What do you think you should do?" They will say "X." You say "Try it" X works. No more calls!

    2. Rip out any IE or other browsers and replace them with either Firefox or Opera. If Opera, set it up for them once.

    3. Download and make them use spyware and show them what they shouldn't do.

    4. Walk away and enjoy a quiet known only to those who have ditched Wintel ...

  24. Re:U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement?!?!?! on Feds Shut Down Elite Torrents · · Score: 1

    Wonder if this has anything to do with the two bills passed overwhelmingly against spyware on PCs?

    They give with one hand and take away with the other seven.

  25. Powerful this Bit Torrent Is, Yes? on Feds Shut Down Elite Torrents · · Score: 1

    Arousing the Ire of the Sith Lords, Yes?

    The data must flow ...