Gives a whole new meaning to 'my computer crashed' though...

The world is consuming a /8 - 16 million addresses - roughly every 3 weeks.

Your piddling 65k addresses for a class B? 2 hours, tops.

Here, have a ::1

"But what's going to happen? Will IANA stop giving out numbers and say, "sorry, nothing we can do. No more numbers."

Yes. Quite possibly in less than a month.

When we're down to 5 /8's they're distributed to the RIRs automatically and IANA shuts down its ipv4 operations forever.

The RIRs then have until their v4 pool runs dry - they won't get any more - which may be quite quick for some (like apnic) and slower for others.

After that it's down to what ISPs have - they'll probably ramp up their prices for v4 an instigate such horrors as carrier grade NAT, just to stretch it out, but it's just postponing the inevitable.

And yeah, potentially this is bigger than y2k and the great unwashe don't even know it's happening - even though it *will* affect them.

BS. I used to use my old N95 as a GPS without any connection at all. It works fine.

Damn those entertainers...

It was voted in by about 200 pissed up MPs who had been dragged out of the pub to make sure it passed. Only about 40 actually attended the debate.

Watching it happen was an eye opener to say the least. Any illusions that we have actual representation died that day.

2*[branches of the ISP]*[Family members/friends/dog]

Also the act says nothing about keeping a count for *ex* subscribers.. so pingponging between two may be enough.

As does OSX, and by extension Safari.

It's not really news.. Mozilla is even late to the party.

They're just a bunch of fear-mongering wackos with an agenda.

That'll be why it's listed under science :p

I miss the days when science as about the scientific method and discovering stuff.. now it's about what gets the biggest headline and the biggest research grants.

No, because even bums know about news management. Bad news sells. Keep quiet about the good stuff.

Someone hasn't been taking their medication.

Nuclear winter has been pretty much debunked now. It was a nice scare story 20 years ago but we have better scare stories now :p

That's going to mean you have to produce a different app every time a new phone comes out with a slightly different CPU. Or you'll force the platform onto a single CPU model which would in the long term kill it.