Insulting their work might not be the right way to get the best Linux kernel network engineers to join your company.

How about privacy? If cows are social beings, shouldn't they have privacy? Do we need a Snowden to make the cows aware of the extensive monitoring they are subjected to?

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Oh bull..... Why do you need a GPS collar to figure this out?
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To turn common knowledge into science.
I assume the scientists new about this behaviour before they started their work. Now other scientists can use this work as a basis for more advanced research, for example detecting if cows are happy by monitoring their social behaviour. Farmers already use this technique, but by turning it into science you might be able to compare the happiness of cows in different situations, at different times or on farms across the globe. One might even teach a computer to use this knowledge.

If you want to make some money on them you could mine bitcoin, provided the power is already paid for and you don't care about the environment. Don't expect to make much though, it might not even be worth the time it will take you to set it up.

The only other way I can think of making a profit is renting the servers out. Good luck finding somebody that wants to pay enough to make it worth your while, virtual servers are dirt cheap. You already know that, otherwise you wouldn't be moving to the cloud.

If you want to do something nice for the internet-community you should run TOR on those nodes.

As far as I know there is no such thing as the HP 'g' series. The 'g' stands for 'generation' and is used for all their llines. HP uses two letters for the line, for example BL, DL or ML.

The reason why routers are so underpowered is that nobody uses multicast. If there was a strong demand for multicast I'm sure that the manufacturers would increase the capacity of their hardware.

Using P2P does not lower the total load on the network, it just spreads it out more evenly.

Netflix could create a peer-to-peer network for streaming video, just like Spotify used to do. Everyone streaming video from the Netflix network would also be sending data back. That would more or less balance the situation. Customers with data-caps or on saturated networks might nog like it, but that problem could be avoided by giving customers a choice. Either get a discount on your Netflix subscription for uploading to the network or pay a premium for a download-only subscription.

Better start learning now, while you can afford to make mistakes. The bigger IPv6 gets the more those little mistakes will hurt you.

This is Slashdot, News for Nerds. Not News for Grandma's that are afraid of configuring their router.

Instead of a poor man's firewall, why don't you use a real firewall? It's much easier to configure than NAT.
If you use Linux, like every residential internetrouter sold in the last 10 years, NAT is a part of the firewall code.
As it is more simple a "real" firewall is cheaper than your "poor man's firewall".

Cisco has nice graphics of the IPv6-deployement in the world. It's based on the same measurements but presented with nice graphs instead of a boring table of numbers. Look up your own country at http://6lab.cisco.com/stats/in... .

The big advantage is that all my computers are reachable through the internet, no more NATting port 80 and port 22 to strange ports because you can use every port only once.
A secondary advantage is that port 25 is not filtered, although that's not inherent to IPv6, just a lucky benefit of my current tunnel-provider.

I guess this is the ISP that says "Sorry, we won't censor your internet, look somewhere else."

I just tried it but something is not working.

# ping6 www.slashdot.org
unknown host

Something is horribly broken here.

That's "free" as in "freedom", not as in "free beer".