For some reason there is a huge resistance to IPv6 this is a case of my mother doesn't want it, the airline doesn't seem to really want it, the airports don't really want it, but the air traffic controllers do really want it but can't force my mother, the airline or the airport to get it. In the case of avionics only the airline needs to make the choice.

So my suggestion is to somehow tie in some sizzle. Then maybe everybody might get onboard. But I think the key is to get my mother on board. If she is demanding that her ISP get it then it will happen. But if some IT guy demands we get it we will tell him to go to hell and shut up or we will outsource more of his work.

I think that it was never about child porn, it is about their more petty searches such as whistleblowers, protesters, NGOs, political opponents, and the fishing expeditions that they probably found as making it easier to ruin people's lives with blackmail information. I can just see the police threatening to show your browser history to friends, family, and work. If you don't "help" them with their investigation.

That is exactly what I am talking about. If this was so easy then it would have been done. But any inconvenience that my mother would have (as in the slightest) must be offset by something cool. Or oddly enough the ISP isn't going to nuke its customers.

I find that with a rotation of admins, various screwups, machine upgrades, damaged media, etc. That legacy data tends to just lie around for decades. Generally most data security is during disposal with various mandates such as old hard drives being fed into atomic shredders. But if the server was pulled from the rack and put into a to-be-refurbished pile then it can easily exist in the back of the admin's closet. Or someone doing an inventory will say, "Hey, here is machine 53B, this machine doesn't exist in our list, I wonder what is on it?"

Think of the poor bureaucrats and how they will now actually have to prove that they have a reason for these invasive abuses. They blah blah about abducted children and whatnot but I am fairly sure that if they go into a judge and say "abducted child" that the judge will be pretty free with the information and might not even mind being woken up in the middle of the night. But if they say, "Hunting a journalist investigating the RCMP" that the judge will tell them to go to hell.

I know about the IPs running out, that is 100% clear; but does IPv6 have any other benefits? Basically what I am asking is does it come with some sizzle? If I tell my mother that IPv6 is needed because a billion IP address aren't enough her eyes glaze over. If I tell her that her netflix will spend less time buffering at the start then she will say, "How do I get me some IPv6".

Basically what I am saying is that IPv6 should also be tied in with some other upgrades such as a better TCP/IP or UDP. Then this would be a feature that ISPs would advertise.

I the UK during the early days of cars they had a law:
Secondly, one of such persons, while any locomotive is in motion, shall precede such locomotive on foot by not less than sixty yards, and shall carry a red flag constantly displayed, and shall warn the riders and drivers of horses of the approach of such locomotives, and shall signal the driver thereof when it shall be necessary to stop, and shall assist horses, and carriages drawn by horses, passing the same,

So basically it limited all cars to the speed of someone walking in front. Oddly enough not much of the early history of the automobile was written in the UK during that time period. What I am waiting for is a false flag operation on the part of the drivers where they pretend to be an Uber driver and then proceed to do the worst trip ever, and then post the results to Youtube. What they are forgetting is that it all boils down to a simple fact, if people didn't like Uber, then people wouldn't use Uber. But at the same time, under their proposed rules; if people don't like London cabs then too bad.

I have watch awesome newer teachers have opportunities ripped from them by horrific teachers who had "seniority" not only is this unfair but probably results in the loss of newer better teachers along with the fact that fewer great teachers would even enter the educational system. But this seniority would not only serve to protect horrible teachers but probably attracts them as they would know that in many other lines of business they would actually have to perform.

My problem with this would be if there were a blurry picture which then matched a few dozen people in the area. Then when the mugshots that all somewhat look like the guy are shown to the witnesses of course they are going to say, "Yup that looks like him."

Basically this system is going to be excellent at finding both the correct people and their doppelgängers. I certainly hope that in this case they were able to find some solid evidence.

But if they extended their database search a bit further into the Driver's licence photos, then it gets far more dangerous. Now they might find a few people who are a good match to their fuzzy photos and get warrants to kick down some doors.

So if I were a judge I would ask, "What else do you have?" after they showed me their sloppy detective work that hardly exceeded a google search in complexity.

There is a huge difference. Are they going with opensource textbooks and whatnot, or are they merely paying the textbook companies massive amounts of money for even less?

So far in the 23 years of schooling that my two daughters have attended there is a grand total of 1 textbook that came close to impressing me. Overall the textbook mostly sucked but its approach was refreshingly good and I suspect would have a very high long term retention rate.

At the same time I could make a fairly good list of some excellent math books and resources that would blast various subjects right into the students' skulls in short order, nearly all of which are tablet friendly.

A year or so ago I complained about Netflix using silverlight. I said that it was a stupid choice and that Silverlight was a Microsoft also-ran. A few people replied that they knew programmers at Netflix and that they were very smart and knew far more than some simpleton like me.

But the proof will be in the pudding. I suspect that with silverlight gone that people like me will finally be able to watch Netflix on their macs as I was 100% opposed to installing anything microsoft based on my machines, and absolutely 100% opposed to a browser plugin from a company like MS.

To me this is a classic case of technical people who are out of touch with the core business that they are doing IT for. I suspect that they could write a 100 page report supporting their use of this horrible technology. But I could find more than 1 million people who would write a two word report as to why they weren't going to use it.

How is it that slashdot gets manipulated into posting this self promoting crap? This is just some sleazebag SAS guy trying to Guru certify himself. What's next, used car salesmen asking what is the funniest car you ever drove to work? Real-estate agents saying, what's the funniest house you've bought in the valley?

We can moderate this stuff up and down but we really need to be able to moderate a pile of steaming excrement like this off the front page.

Why give these guys money? Start afresh like the BSD guys are doing. I suspect they don't want to lose their juicy consulting gigs.

I have always thought of the Singularity as a stupid concept. I suspect that we will soon have more brain implants as treatment for more interesting diseases. Right now we have fairly primitive electrical stimulation being played with for depression, a pretty good one for Parkinson's, implants for deaf people, and probably soon something interesting for blind people. These will no doubt progress further and further as our technology gets better and our understanding of the brain gets better. But we are a long way from where any of these implants are going to be used in a healthy person to improve their existing functionality. It will be a long time before we can upload a brain. Augment a brain. Or basically anything a brain that is practical.

Looking at this from the computer angle it is the same thing. Right now we have ML which I thing is a terrible name full of hype and over promise. I would call it Dynamic Statistics instead. We also have computers becoming fantastically powerful which is allowing computer to do some very interesting tricks. One of the scariest is near perfect facial recognition. Combine Dynamic Statistics and awesome facial recognition and with very few cameras a very comprehensive picture of a person's relationship with the world can easily be established; that is something that scares the shit out of me.

One of the other areas that ML and things like Watson are going to become scary good at are things that require vast databases of trivia to answer questions. So most of medical diagnostics will be no longer a profession. Plus as they are starting to show that even interesting recipe creation is becoming automated. This is going to eat into many white collar jobs. But there will still be a complete lack of common sense requiring people need to coddle the inputs and outputs along; so no to cyanide pudding. I am willing to bet that if Watson were put in charge of narcotic prescriptions that the nation's addicts would rejoice, in little time at all they would learn the motions to go through where Watson would prescribe them more pills than they would know what to do with.

But after generations of Watsons and similar systems are optimized, put onto better hardware, and combined, a system will appear that is going to be fairly useful as a Sci-fi AI. But not in a world destroying way but more of the ultimate butler that will do things like remember where you put your keys and the name of that guy who was on a grade 11 sports team that you are about to bump into.

But yes there will be a point where we do finally figure out how to simulate a brain that is fully self aware and yes who the hell will know what will happen at that point. But the reality is that along the way we will go through so many tiny increments of smarter tools that it won't catch us off guard at all.

Exhibit A: My daughter sits at a table not far from me asking Siri to do first and second derivatives; Siri being a voice interactive central cluster of computers that are interacting with a glowing tiny computer via a global communications system. To her, she simply doesn't understand how the hell it was possible to get through highschool without the internet. In 1989 Siri would be hard core Science Fiction material.

To me the singularity is a big blurry mess of a definition where we may not even be at the fuzziest edge.

People blah blah about machines designing machines that we don't understand. The chip companies use algorithms that arrange their CPUs into optimal arrangements right now. Is that machines designing machines? As I say, it is all a fuzzy situation.

If you want to point a robotic finger at anything it would be the continual eroding of our privacy and/or the massive and growing list of jobs lost to automation.

Quite simply I don't care if google glass cures cancer, I don't want a bunch of Glassholes wandering around reporting on my every move. Google and many companies just like it have over and over been found to be scooping up as much data as they possibly can. So here we have people wandering around with a mobile video feed plugged straight into the google servers.

So how about no. I want these things outright banned. My right to privacy far outweighs these people's right to be assholes.

Good for gaming, don't care I want them gone.