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Comment Re:Their implementation sucks. (Score 1) 146

It is so that they can reduce the number of routes they need to manage. This applies to IPv4 and IPv6.

When segments of the network become overloaded then need to split them by installing new equipment. Rather than install a route per customer they get the customer to renumber.

Similarly if they need to increase a address pool because there is too many customers for the configured pool of addressees. They find a bigger address block and have the customers renumber into it. The old block will be marked as free, possible consolidated with other address blocks and reused somewhere else in the network.

Comment Re:Crap Traffic (Score 1) 146

You have a IPv4 address allocated to you. You have a IPv6 address block allocated to you. There is no difference from a privacy perspective. The single address (IPv4) or the block (IPv6) identifies the home. With privacy addresses implemented and on turned on by default by the major vendors you don't get to track back to individual computers unless you are running a service which doesn't use them.

Comment Re:Advantages? (Score 1) 146

Truly, you should be able to connect a box to the Internet without a firewall and it should be fine. If it isn't the manufacture has not done due diligence. That said mistakes happen. Keeping up to date with maintenance releases is the way to address this issue.

Governments could help here by requiring manufactures to supply security fixes indefinitely for any internet connectable software. For consumer electronics this could be 20 years or more. Note the fix may be "upgrade to release X" where X involves a feature jump.

Comment Re:LOL No shit!! (Score 1) 579

Which is why you also put in a speed camera on such lights as well as a red light camera with a big sign saying "Red Light - Speed Camera". All new red light cameras are both speed and red light camera here with the old red light cameras being retrofitted with speed timing loops.

If you speed up to make the light you get a speeding fine. Traffic actually obeys the speed limits as there are enough of these to make it a pain to speed up and then slow down for the intersections.

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