There's a problem with mobs: they gang up and lynch anyone who isn't part of the mob.

This doesn't happen just in westerns. It's been happening since the dawn of time, because it's a natural property of crowds: the least able thinkers are the ones most likely to be swayed by group-think. And one of the strongest group-think arguments is "Outsider, danger to group, kill it", which is a very effective survival M.O. for life below a certain threshold of intelligence. The combination of these two aspects of mob behaviour is predictable.

That makes TFS and TFA a bit of an exercise in wishful thinking. Development by mobs could (in theory) work well, but only in the very unlikely situation that the mob has a statistically improbable makeup in which independent thinkers are dominant and are also well informed and technically experienced. Unfortunately that scenario lies in "pigs will fly" and "hell freezes over" territory.

The perfect number in team programming is two people of similar experience, because then they can't gang up and form a lynch party. If they don't immediately agree then it creates a stalemate which can be broken only by rational explanation / defence or by terminating the pairing. It's an ideal situation, yet not too hard to arrange.

Mobs don't really have a place in intellectual endeavours, and programming is one of those.

What will is miss?

On IPv4, you won't be able to reach the endpoints of millions of computers and other devices that have IPv6 addresses now (eg. Android always looks for IPv6 connectivity on startup). This is relevant not only in the east where new IPv4 address blocks are no longer available, but also here in the west where IPv6 deployment is continuing and accelerating.

Your "What will I miss?" question is pure IPv4 thinking, because in IPv4, NAT makes almost everything except static public servers inaccessible as individual device endpoints are typically hidden. That's a severe limitation in IPv4, and you've become conditioned by it and so you're expecting a reply involving a list of websites. It's incredibly narrow thinking.

With IPv6, a user on any random portable device can share an object with you directly, not needing to upload it to a public website first. You could be chatting with them on IRC and they write "Hey look at this wierd stuff I'm seeing on my phone", and you just point a browser or image app at their IPv6 address and bingo, you see whatever they're making available, live. You can't do that with IPv4 because there aren't enough IPv4 addresses available for every device to have one, and connections to arbitrary endpoints are typically blocked by NAT anyway.

That's why in IPv4 people have to upload stuff they want to share to public websites first, which is annoying and limits the content protocols that can be used. Applications can be much more versatile and immediate in IPv6, and you will be missing all that directly-available content if you can't reach the IPv6 endpoints of devices. It can't be done on IPv4.

What are the beneficial FEATURES to dumb end users?

I'll bite, as that's a perfectly reasonable question. OK, no technical info at all in the following list, the technical answers are given in detail elsewhere.

Benefits of IPv6 for dumb (meaning non-technical) END USERS:

- All protocols work over IPv6, unlike the breakage on IPv4.
- IPv6 "just works" without user setup, great autoconfiguration.
- As many public IP addresses as you want for devices on IPv6.
- Safer because network security is built into IPv6, not optional.
- Add IPv6 to see the whole Internet, not just the IPv4 part.
- New quality of service features for stutter-free video or gaming.
- Faster networking for a better all-round user experience.

Each of these 7 benefits has a technical reason for which the corresponding improvements were added to IPv6 by design to improve on IPv4. These benefits are available to everyone, and non-technical users don't need to understand the details to enjoy the benefits.

The official "switch-on for good" of IPv6 a year ago was entirely seemless in my experience. There wasn't anything to fix, as nothing was broken, and IPv6 autoconfiguration handles everything so there isn't even any setup involved, it just works. This simplicity will be a boon for non-technical users once the IPv6 rollouts gain steam.

Unfortunately the ISPs are still dragging their feet and so public rollout is slow, but it's an always upward trend, and the adoption curve is close to exponential so IPv6 will be ubiquitous before long. So many ISPs are currently planning their rollouts that there's going to be a sudden upsurge when they finally appear.

People shouldn't talk about switchover to IPv6 though, that's not how it works. IPv4 and IPv6 networks run together side by side, and you use both together. Your application (eg. browser) generally picks IPv6 if your destination is accessible on that network, or else it falls back to IPv4. This is all automatic of course. It's better described as a switch on of IPv6 by your ISP followed by your gradual increasing use, not a switchover. There is no plan to switch off IPv4. The last remnants of IPv4-only equipment could still be around and operational for decades ahead.

IPv6 works so well that I recommend everyone to get on it as soon as they can. You'll be able to see 100% of the Internet, whereas if you don't have IPv6 then you're only seeing a part of it. IPv4 is by far the larger part for now of course, but it's not all of it, and the parts you can't reach are growing daily.

Happy First Anniversary of the official turn-on, IPv6! :-)

This is the same man who proposed infiltrating and attacking any groups that dared think something of which his government didn't approve.

Although as a deeply-connected member of the Obama Administration, I'd have to agree that, at least when it comes to his own efforts at governance, "Human beings often see coherence and planned design when neither exists."

Anyone who's ever worked for George understands George himself was, however unconsciously, the model for both Darth Vader and the Emperor. Frightening but revealing that Sunstein would use this - a ruthless dictator who in truth has neither coherence nor a plan - as his template for constitutional government.