Why? Just make it so that as far as the machines are concerned Gorillas are a subset of humans. And then keep the actual gorillas away from them.

You've got a reasonable point for more advanced machines, but for now I'd just as soon that they also avoid squashing dogs and cats...or, pretty much anything protoplasmic over, say, 5 pounds. Or 4. Slaugher house machines don't need to be intelligent, and shouldn't be. Not until things are FAR more developed.

And, really, wouldn't you just as soon that your car avoided running over that skunk? So if you adopt a variant of the precautionary principle, you can get most of the advantages without waiting for perfection.

Did you actually bother reading up about IPv6 (like you probably had to to switch from IPX to TCP/IP)?

You can't just treat IPv6 as IPv4 with longer addresses, some concepts (such as broadcast address) simply don't exist in IPV4.

There are some very good free training materials available, such as from afrinic.

http://learn.afrinic.net/en/co...

Depending on the features the ISP needs, there may not be a suitable upgrade yet.

For example half-duplex vrf isn't available on Cisco ASR9K (Cisco's IPV6 and RFC compliance first platform) and on Cisco ASR1K it doesn't support IPV4. As far as I know, ALU BNG also doesn't support IPV6 in HD VRF.

This is the reason for no native IPV6 over ADSL in South Africa

Depending on the features the ISP needs, there may not be a suitable upgrade yet.

For example half-duplex vrf isn't available on Cisco ASR9K (Cisco's IPV6-and-RFC-compliance-first platform) and on Cisco ASR1K it doesn't support IPV4. As far as I know, ALU BNG also doesn't support IPV6 in HD VRF.

This is the reason for no native IPV6 over adsl in South Africa

I meant password, of course. Sorry, not fully awake.

Also, don't give your SSID to anyone who does or might in the future use Windows 10, or have a Windows phone.

Remember "You may or may not agree with some relationships, but keep in mind, it was all generated in an automatic way by computer code, untouched by a human."

How amazing computer code that has never been touched by a human. Organic software I guess, no possible way for human bias to creep in.

You need to plate it with teflon.

What bothers me is the idea of that being a colony rather than just an outpost. Where to you get metals? Can you split the CO2 into C + O2 and than use the C for bulk fabrication? It seems as if graphene can be either conductive or insulating, and nanotubes are pretty strong, but now we're talking about a rather extensive fabrication facility just in the initial set-up.

I consider asteroids a much more reasonable habitat. (I'm not sure that Mars is a good choice, but it sure sounds better than Venus.)

Depends. How safe a neighborhood do you want? I believe that the normal asking rent for an apartment in Oakland was around $1500/month a few years ago...but I haven't actually been looking in the last 30 years, so I don't know what neighborhood is implied by that price.

12 * 1,500 = 18,000, so it depends on your other expenses...and whether you want to live that cheaply. OTOH, neighborhood is *VERY* important. And I also don't know what size apartment I'm talking about.

My suspicion, however, is that there was no intention of living in a downtown area, and that commute was as important as cost. Of course, for enough money you can find a sufficiently desireable location in a city, so saying money is the basis isn't incorrect.

LA is not a single city, San Francisco is. LA is the larger metropolitan area, but that's a lot more than one city. (Of course, the original poster said "bay area", not San Francisco.)

The author is a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. She formerly taught at UMichigan Law. I don't think she's the brick here.

Units should be of the appropriate size to what you're measuring. Farenheit is more appropriate for judging room temperature and even cooking temperature when you don't need to be precise enough to get down to fractions of a degree.

The metric system has a lot of value, especially when doing precise measurements. When doing rough measurements at human scale it runs into problems. The meter is about the right size, but centimeter, or even decimeter, isn't a good replacement for foot. And for many purposes centimeter is too small to replace an inch. (When you start using fractions of an inch this advantage disappears.)

One can argue whether a Kilogram or a pound is the more useful general weight, it seems pretty much a draw to me. Ditto for Kilometer and mile. And when being precise metric is the clear winner.

OTOH, for outside temperature, a rough measue (Farenheit) is not only better suited in size, but also in accuracy. You don't get an accurate outside temperature, because it varies too much from place to place. So it's best not to pretend that you do. Which means avoid fractional degrees, whether Farenheit or Centigrade (okay, Celsius, but Centigrade is a better name).

In the cable business, "homes passed" is a standard metric. It means that service is available to those homes. When Charter is figuring out how much to pay for TWC, they ask about homes passed, because these are potential customers.
Verizon used other meanings of the term, from street English, to mean something else. If it goes a couple of blocks away, it sort of passes, by their standard. If it goes right by the house but they won't offer service, it is still "passed". No cable company would say that, and that's not what the City meant when they negotiated their deal with Verizon.

No, they want control even if it loses money.
General Motors makes cars. They do not own the dealerships. They let dealers sell the cars. This is good for business. If Verizon made cars, they'd insist on owning the dealerships too, and would not let anyone else repair the cars, or sell parts. They might lose customers to other car companies who were more open, but they'd rather have 100% of $x than 80% of 2*$x, even though that's less. It's dumb DNA, but it's ingrained.
What other business routinely prices well above the profit maximization level -- so high that they lose more business than the higher margins make up for? It's like Mikey D's charging $10 for a crappy burger, and when nobody shows up, raising the price to $20 to make up for it.