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Comment Re:Chicken little (Score 2) 574

Interestingly enough, both Germany and Romania have a higher adoption rate.
I'm from Romania and gave IPv6 a try. I have a router that allows both IPv4 and IPv6 connections at the same time, so I enabled both and worked like that for a while. For some unexplained reason, the IPv6 connection took a huge amount of time to get its IP (literally minutes) and after both connections were enabled, many things wouldn't work right. I experienced repeated loss of connectivity in pretty much all online games, Yahoo Messenger would randomly disconnect, Skype would randomly disconnect, Steam would go offline for 30 minutes in a row, Dropbox would lose connectivity, etc.

Maybe IPv6-based PPPoE has issues, I don't know, but I was literally forced to disable it for my computers to work properly.

Anyway, I would definitely not consider 6-7% as being a "successful" deployment. It's a start, but still a LONG way to go.

Comment Re: Works for Slashdot as well... (Score 5, Insightful) 367

Maybe all the downmods are coming from people like me, who come to /. for the articles and comments, not caring about site design, who owns what and political bullshit implications.
I come here to see informative comments on the subject at hand and read relevant news. What you guys are doing is noise I loathe.
It's like going to a cafe to have a good coffee and overhear interesting conversation about the soft volume music playing, and when owner decides to redesign the cafe's interior, some tards start screaming in my ear whenever a new song is played, just because they don't like the new paintwork.
And when other patrons flag them as vandals, they come up with a "conspiracy theory".
You and your kind are vandals in my opinion. You don't like the new cafe paintwork? Feel free to go to another or create your own. but please, leave me be. Allow me to read the articles and relevant comments.
You're the kid in this video, and I'm the other customer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Submission + - New supernova seen in nearby galaxy M82

The Bad Astronomer writes: A new and potentially bright supernova was just discovered in the nearby galaxy M82. This is a Type Ia supernova, the catastrophic explosion of a white dwarf. It appears to be on the rise, and may have been caught as much as two weeks before peak brightness. It's currently already brighter than magnitude 12, and may get to mag 8, easy to see in small telescopes. The galaxy is less than 12 million light years away, so this may become one of the best-studied supernovae in recent times. Type Ia supernovae are used to measure dark energy, so seeing one nearby is a huge boon to astronomy.

Submission + - Hacker Guccifer Arrested in Romania (ibtimes.co.uk)

DavidGilbert99 writes: The hacker who leaked nude self-portraits of former US president George W. Bush and accused former US secretary of state Colin Powell of having an affair with a Romanian politician has been arrested in Romania. Local media reports that 40-year-old Marcel Lazr Lehel was arrested by Romanian authorities working in conjunction with US authorities.

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