Comment Re:Or just let IPv6 die (Score 2) 104
How old is your data? It's about 3.2% on my servers and growing. I'm going to pop open a bottle of champagne when the percentage of IPv6 users exceeds the percentage of IE6 users.
Comment Re:Verizon won't roll them out to kiosks. . . (Score 4, Insightful) 412
'Verizon won't roll them out to kiosks until it performs better on the market. .
. . . and it won't perform better on the market until agents have it in their hands to offer customers. Catch-22 anyone?
...unless Microsoft is desperate enough to pay Verizon to promote WP7. For Verizon it's not a Catch-22. It's a catch-several-million-dollars-by-doing-nothing.
Comment Re:Exactly what OS isn't susceptible to trojans? (Score 1) 203
Wake me up when a worm has been discovered in the wild targeting OS X or Linux
Good morning! I remember cleaning a worm from a client's system in the early aughts; as I recall they were old news even then.
Comment Re:Do Mobiles really need IPv4? (Score 1) 321
T-Mobile and Verizon are way ahead of you.
Submission + - Most IPv6-certified home network gear buggy (networkworld.com)
Julie188 writes: "The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab held an IPv6 consumer electronics Plugfest on Feb. 14 and CableLabs has scheduled two more for this year. UNH is tight-lipped about the results, but the sad fact is that most home routers and DSL/cable modems certified as IPv6-compliant by the IPv6 Forum are so full of implementation bugs that they can't be used by ISPs for IPv6 field trials. And that's not helping the Internet have a smooth, fast transition to IPv6. Though OpenWRT and DD-WRT solve the problem, ISPs point out that requiring the average consumer to upgrade their own firmware, because the manufacturer can't do IPv6 right, isn't a practical solution."
Comment Re:And it still doesn't support XP (Score 1) 229
60% of the market is currently XP that's a lot of people to insult.
No it's not. XP's market share has been dropping steadily for a while now. I wouldn't be surprised if that trend accelerated over the next year as companies get around to infrastructure upgrades they put off during the recession.
Comment Re:Take Back The unused? (Score 1) 551
Sigh. Once again:
Why should Ford, Apple, HP, Halliburton, etc be forced to give up their legacy blocks when AT&T and Level 3 get to not only keep theirs but resell the address space?
Comment 78.6? 75.7? 83.9? (Score 1) 104
Significant digits. I has them.
Comment Re:Ain't that qute? (Score 2) 141
QuikTrip. The device gives you coffee and a microwave sandwich while filling your gas tank, all in less than a second.
Comment Re:Yay (Score 1) 247
...or you can just use site (or even link) local addresses.
Comment Missing feature (Score 2) 174
Unless it includes a fully functional "Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" it's destined for failure.
Submission + - After IPv4, how will the internet function? (networkworld.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: There are 36 countries in the world that have over 100% per-capita usage of mobile phones, this is driving a real crunch on IPv4 addresses as more and more of these devices are data capable. The mobile network operators are acting fast to deploy IPv6 , and T-Mobile USA has had an IPv6-only trial going on for over 9 months now that only uses IPv6 addresses and NAT64 to bridge to IPv4 internet content. It is interesting to note that the original plan for IPv6 transition, dual-stack , has failed since IPv4 addresses are effectively already exhausted for many people that want them. Dual-stack also causes many other issues that has forced the IETF to generate work-arounds for end users called happy eyeballs , which conversely implies eyeballs are not happy with dual-stack, and a big stink around DNS white-listing . How will you ensure that your network, users, and services continue to work in the address fractured world of the future where some users only have IPv4 ( AT&T ), some users only have IPv6 (mobile and machine to machine as well as developing countries) and other internet nodes have both?
Comment Re:How long will IPv6 last? (Score 1) 406
Apparently you haven't heard of the Interplanetary Internet.
Comment Re:How long will IPv6 last? (Score 2) 406
There are 2^125 *global* addresses, you resource-hogging Earthist pig.
Comment Re:More than 3 and not as much as 4? (Score 1) 137
Wireless service especially for the police?
