If you are truly using IPv6 couldn't you just plug a plain old Ethernet switch into your cable modem or dsl modem?

(Well, I guess that assumes one is running an OS that has a firewall just as capable as the ones in home "routers".)

Nothing gets fixed until it breaks so fully that people can't ignore it any longer. ARIN should just hand out the last of their IP assignment already and then we can move on with actually deploying IPv6.

Luckily the MS users that are moving to Linux right now are the smarter / more inquisitive members of the MS crowd. It isn't too hard for the Linux community to support and assimilate them. Lets hope there isn't a large rush of the unwashed masses to Linux. It will be like "Eternal September" all over again.

Is this the same ratio as the number of VCR's that are flashing 12:00?

It is?

A hex pre-shared key (PSK) would be:

0x75aaa618b013586721413a494bd515151ae73a28aeac8d951c9d98a0b2099af6

This is a 256-bit number. Remember, each hex "digit" only represents 0-15 or 4-bits of information.

WPA2 passwords can be either 0-63 character strings which will be converted to a 64-character hex key by the software, or can be specified as a 64-character hex key directly. Since the keyspace to guess a 64-character hex key is 2^256 choices long, the attacker is going to spend a very, very long time trying to guess the password.

My recommendation has always been that people that want the ultimate security use random keys pulled from /dev/random and converted to a hexadecimal number. That key should then be input using the hex key option. While they are at it, they should also turn off WEP and WPA1, turn off TKIP and only allow WPA2 with CCMP. That will give the crackers something hard to chew on.

The best reason for them to do other OS's is that it forces them to do a better job of dividing the program into OS-dependent and OS-independent parts. The longer they wait, the harder it will be to unravel things.

I'm not about to pay some 2x 15 cents so that the phone company can shuttle one under 256 byte message to my sweetie. What we did was get a pair of Google HTC G-1 phones and we use the IM app to "text". Not only is it faster, but there is no additional cost to sending each message. The transport (at least for google-talk, which is what we use) is your basic IP, which is billed at a flat rate of ~$25/mo.

Same here. This is the point I stopped reading too. Anybody that thinks that a PC takes 89 watts per hour isn't worth listening to for technical advice. The next line just cemented it for me "If it's left on overnight for 16 hours, it consumes 1.42kW." Aaarrrrg. How did our basic science education go so wrong??? Please tell me that this guy is really a movie reviewer that is sitting in for the technical person as they take the holidays off.

Maybe they don't want the more affluent citizens (and government officials) tracked by every terrorist network capable of bribing a cell phone technician? There is no telling what capabilities the CALEA / E911 subroutines in the cell phones provide, but one thing is clear, if the positional information is available to the cell phone operators, it will be used by organised crime and terrorists looking to target specific people.

Who cares what ISP's do? If anyone cared they could run their own dns server and get all the protection they wanted. The problem is the lard-asses running the top-level domains. All but a very small handful refuse to sign the zones they are entrusted with. If you want to pass a law to light a fire under someone, that is the group of operators you need to target.