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Comment Re:Oh the irony. (Score 1) 53

Web Browsers aren't like "they used to be" in whatever idealized period you've got inside your head.

There are probably some eternal beings logging our requests to make tech like it used to be. When we die, we'll be presented with Netscape 3.0, or Win95, or a phone with no maps available, or whatever else we've asked for.

Two weeks later we realize... "THIS is the bad place!"

Comment Re:Why exciting? (Score 1) 99

Do you believe that exactly one terrorist action on a high speed train will not bring about all the crap we have to put up with while flying?

There has been a terrorist action already, in 2015. Former high school classmates Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone were made Knights of the Legion of Honour for their part in subduing the attacker.

Comment Re:THis time (Score 2) 196

Also, analyze his stated policies and show a logical reason not to vote for him.

This policy - "Use our military to annihilate Mexican drug cartels" - seems like a logical reason not to vote for him, if you remember how well fixing things in Afghanistan and Iraq turned out. It's one of 25 promises at www.vivek2024.com/america-first-2-0/

Calling a presidential candidate you don't like a "dipshit" makes people dislike Democrats.

Would it be bad to call him a "RINO"? That seems like a popular insult among the circular firing squad.

Comment Re:17 years? (Score 3, Insightful) 86

We had essentially a blank check, and a lot of motivation. And really good engineers.

Also a total focus on flags and footprints, with no need for anything afterwards. The scientific achievements were great, but the main goal was having boots on the Moon with a less than 1 in N chance of killing astronauts. And we probably don't want to know what N was.

It seems that countries emulating our success should be able to do it in maybe 10 years or less.

Perhaps they should take longer for a more sustainable exploration program, rather than rushing there and then losing interest for decades.

Comment Re:Why is the actual argument not stated? (Score 1) 58

I believe it would have been completely possible to have modified v4 at the time to accomodate the larger addresses without doing massive surgery otherwise.

One great thing about dual stack is that it has hardly affected the good operation of IPv4 networks at all. Any breakage has been confined to the people running the new protocol with the bigger address space. In the alternate universe with two types of end system - "olde worlde" 32-bit IPv4 and "larger addresses" IPv4 - talking directly to each other, it seems like there is a lot more scope for widespread breakage. Dual stack allowed us to gradually (*) ramp up IPv6 and solve bugs going along. For example, there were bugs with routers sampling IPv6 packet headers for statistics, but it all got sorted out while IPv6 was a tiny fraction of traffic, so nobody cared about the stats anyway.

(*) Admittedly more gradually than many people would like, but we're now at 40-45%.

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