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Comment Vertical integration (Score 1) 398

Seems like many peering conflicts are related to excessive vertical integration of some providers. Verizon is currently both tier 1 provider and consumer ISP. Suppose it would be split to Verizon1, tier 1 provider, and Verizon 2, tier 2 consumer ISP. Verizon1 would be one of several upstream providers to Verizon2. What wold happen in such case if there is such kind of peering conflict between Verizon1 and Lever3? Verizon2 would immediately change its routing in a way that traffic between Level3 and Verizon2 would go through another upsream provider of Verizon2, which would threaten potential revenues of Verizon1 from Verizon2, therefore Verizon1 would have much stronger incentive to promptly solve the dispute.

Comment Re:Stay Home (Score 1) 351

Socialism is an economic system where the state collects taxes to fund things like social programs, that allow people to do things like not work when they're sick without fear of, for example, starving to death.

Well, not really. Classical definition is that socialism is an economic system where means of production (i.e. capital) are publicly owned and managed (e.g. by the state or public cooperatives), while capitalism is an economic system where means of production are privately owned and managed. But press often mixes up socialists (who prefer socialism) and social-democratic parties (who prefer capitalism with socially sensitive regulations) and often uses 'socialists' as a shorthand for 'social-democratic parties'.

Comment Re:evils of sugar (Score 1) 157

Rabbit starvation is unrelated by avitaminosis or missing essential acids (that would be more long term problem). It is caused by acquiring your energy mostly from proteins (i.e. you have to cut both fats and sugars to get it) and accumulation of excessive toxical byproducts of protein catabolism - proteins are not a good energy source for humans.

Comment Re:Has he thought this through? (Score 4, Informative) 470

The inverse-square law only holds for something that radiates in a radial pattern.

More or less everything radiates in a radial pattern (has spherical wavefron) and is subject to the inverse-square law. Even lasers have some divergence. Better focus (by e.g. reflectors) would give you lower angle of divergence and therefore higher initial power density, but that is all.

x-rays are of a longer wavelength than visible light,

Definitely not. X-rays have significantly higher frequency and therefore shorter wavelength (380-740 nm for visible light and 0.01 - 10 nm for x-rays).

Comment Re:"Not widely inplemented" (Score 1) 338

> Sad jokes aside - why aren't they implementing NAT64

NAT64 is generally more restrictive for IPv4 than common NAT, while does not have much advantages (if compared to IPv4NAT together with IPv6).

But there are other options like MAP-E, which solves both IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 deployments with advantages (compared to CGNAT) for both users (better control over NAT) and ISPs (just stateless and easily scalable gateways).

Comment Re:Japan (Score 5, Interesting) 242

Well, the referred wikipedia article says a different story:

In murder, U.S. police arrested 19,000 people for 26,000 murders, in which 75% were prosecuted and courts convicted 12,000 people. In Japan, 1,800 people were arrested for 1,300 murders, but prosecutors tried only 43%. Had the allegation that Japanese prosecutors use weak evidence mostly based on (forced) confessions to achieve convictions been true, the larger proportion of arrests would have resulted in prosecutions and eventual conviction. But the opposite is true. In fact, the data indicates that Japanese prosecutors bring charges only when the evidence is overwhelming and likelihood of conviction is near absolute, which gives a greater incentive for the accused to confess and aim for a lighter sentence, which, in turn, results in a high rate for confession.

Comment Re:Already happened (Score 1) 165

For those who don't understand the extent of the problem, CGN is also called NAT444

Well, CGN does not meany automatically NAT444. Because provider uses private range, users could get multiple IP addresses for all their devices, so they don't need to have a router with NAT. This is common in small wireless ISPs, where wifi devices connecting clients to an ISP network work as bridge (but could be also configured as router with NAT).

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