The reason for the slow ipv6 adoption is that the ISP's don't want to support because everything that anyone needs to access can be accessed by ipv4, and the endpoints don't want to switch to it because they would lose out on all of the ipv4-only connections, so either side sees ipv6 as a superfluous expense that offers zero gain for the forseeable future until such time as we are *literally* out of ip addresses, and the problem has scaled to such an extent that even NAT will not solve it. Then they'll switch.

Actually, they didn't do too bad.

For somebody who's noticed so many inconsistencies, why is it that the only one you bother to mention is one that has been reported on numerous times already? One would think, after all, that a show with no shortage of inaccuracies, would have plenty to choose from that haven't been mentioned by at least half a dozen other posters on Slashdot already. Yes, "liquids" would be the more correct term, except that the colloquial expression is to "drink plenty of fluids", and the writers wanted to tell a funny sounding joke. They compromised on the accuracy for the sake of the humor value that it adds for the average viewer. But certainly, again, for a show with an abundance of errors, you should be certain to find errors which could not possibly have been caused by any such compromise, right?

As most of the people I know who actually are in the science or technical fields *ARE* pathologically awkward, abrasive, and antisocial, I only see BBT's portrayal of them as such as an example of truth in television

So don't use it. Problem solved.

How is it that we managed to evolve in the first place, exactly?

... how long will it take before somebody dies?

I don't mean to sound morbid here, I am just starting to think that this whole thing is pretty darn pointless, If you want to donate money to ALS, do it... but this ice bucket challenge thing is turning into a competition of who can one-up who in how they go about it, and I think it's now only a matter of time before somebody gets seriously hurt or killed.

Doesn't matter... it's still a war, and one side of the war detonating a nuke on the other side would be an act of aggression, since it will kill people.

Last time I checked, WW1 and WW2 didn't end humanity.

It won't be the end of humanity... There's no chance that this will ever develop to that scale.

But for what it's worth, if they go through with this, then I'll be losing a bet as well. I've been figuring for the last 15 years or so that the next nation to use a nuke as a wartime act of agression would be North Korea.

I did not know that the state could choose to drop charges. How convenient for them.

I mean, doesn't the person whose rights were infringed on have to make that call? And since that person is apparently now dead, how can they just somehow arbitrarily decide that charges should be dropped?

I would imagine that the reason price hasn't been announced yet is because they don't know just how much they will ultimately be able to make them for themselves, and the giveaway they are doing is to gauge demand so they can figure out how much they have to charge.

If that's the case, the more ideas that got submitted to them, the better it will be.

Of course, it also might mean that giving them a preview into what kind of demand to expect, they might know for sure just how much they will able to fleece future customers. So hey... what do I know?

Iirc, MIPS32 ISA is wholly compatible with MIPS64 ISA, the latter being a proper superset of the former.

I agree with your first sentence entirely, but to answer your question, standardization makes it a lot simpler, and often less expensive, to find technical information or support for whatever it is you are using.