Actually, the project was all but killed under Scott Thompson. Most of the leadership team on the project got laid off in the last round and the engineers got reassigned to new projects. The announcement may have happened after Thompson left, but the decision was made months ago.
One useful side effect of being behind a NAT is security.
Out of the box, you pretty good protection against port scans from the outside, which means you might just be able to install a Windows OS, and get updates before getting infected by the virus de jour.
Of course, that isn't sufficient/perfect security, but it does help a lot.
Another benefit is privacy... People can't tell who in your company/home is doing what (at least by simply sniffing packet headers).
For these benefits alone, most companies/homes probably will continue to use NAT even if IPv6 is widely adopted.
Hurricanes are heat engines driven by the energy contained in warm surface water. As the winds pick up, they are able to suck more and more of the energy from the sea surface. Because there is a limited supply of warm surface water, they need to keep moving to continue to grow.
In many ways, they are like wildfires burning through brush. The heavier the brush, the more intense the fire. If there is global warming, it will certainly lead to increases in mean sea surface temperatures, which increases the energy available to storms such as Hurricanes, therefore, bigger hurricanes.
While many aspects of global warming, like the rate and the detailed effect it will have on different regions is controversial, saying that global warming will lead to more intense hurricanes is not controversial.
I've been a bit of a skeptic about global warming for years. The chicken little crowd has always bugged me. But, if you turn off the politics and look at the data you see that currrent C02 levels are the highest in the last 150K years and are rising every year. This is a dangerous experiment we are doing with our atmosphere.
If reducing CO2 was going to cost lives or billions of dollars, then it is debatable whether we should do it. But, the things you'd do to reduce C02 like driving more efficient cars, buying more efficient appliances, insulating your houses, etc. are things we should do anyway, for other reasons - reduce polution, dependence on foreign oil, and on a micro scale, save everyone money.
It isn't in any way "incompatible with windows". You could write an NDIS Intermediate Driver that its under TCP and above the network adapters and implement any security policy you want. It would have to be designed carefully to avoid too much overhead though. See the passthru sample in the DDK.
It seems the market for this is corporate networks, so they could release a product that is useful without being bundled with windows.
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Actually, the project was all but killed under Scott Thompson. Most of the leadership team on the project got laid off in the last round and the engineers got reassigned to new projects. The announcement may have happened after Thompson left, but the decision was made months ago.
One useful side effect of being behind a NAT is security.
Out of the box, you pretty good protection against port scans from the outside, which
means you might just be able to install a Windows OS, and get updates before getting infected
by the virus de jour.
Of course, that isn't sufficient/perfect security, but it does help a lot.
Another benefit is privacy... People can't tell who in your company/home is doing
what (at least by simply sniffing packet headers).
For these benefits alone, most companies/homes probably will continue to use NAT
even if IPv6 is widely adopted.
Hurricanes are heat engines driven by the energy contained in warm surface water. As the winds pick up, they are able to suck more and more of the energy from the sea surface. Because there is a limited supply of warm surface water, they need to keep moving to continue to grow.
In many ways, they are like wildfires burning through brush. The heavier the brush, the more intense the fire. If there is global warming, it will certainly lead to increases in mean sea surface temperatures, which increases the energy available to storms such as Hurricanes, therefore, bigger hurricanes.
While many aspects of global warming, like the rate and the detailed effect it will have on different regions is controversial, saying that global warming will lead to more intense hurricanes is not controversial.
I've been a bit of a skeptic about global warming for years. The chicken little crowd has always bugged me. But, if you turn off the politics and look at the data you see that currrent C02 levels are the highest in the last 150K years and are rising every year. This is a dangerous experiment we are doing with our atmosphere.
If reducing CO2 was going to cost lives or billions of dollars, then it is debatable whether we should do it. But, the things you'd do to reduce C02 like driving more efficient cars, buying more efficient appliances, insulating your houses, etc. are things we should do anyway, for other reasons - reduce polution, dependence on foreign oil, and on a micro scale, save everyone money.
My $.02
-DT-
It isn't in any way "incompatible with windows". You could write an NDIS Intermediate Driver that its under TCP and above the network adapters and implement any security policy you want. It would have to be designed carefully to avoid too much overhead though. See the passthru sample in the DDK.
It seems the market for this is corporate networks, so they could release a product that is useful without being bundled with windows.
-Drea-