this is not the civilisation clone you're thinking of... this one here is purely played online using a HTML5 capable browser...

have a look at the ash fall at the recent eruption down in Chile... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

yup... buy the physical CD and it's extremely likely it's available pre-ripped for download as well so you download it and be listening while the disc is still in the post...

Networks are allocated as /64 chunks because it makes autoconfiguration easy. It is often argued by newcomers that this is a huge waste, but really, 128 bits gives you so many addresses that you can stand to do a bit of wasting in order to make things simple. Generally the "what a waste" crowd severely underestimate just how big 128 bits is.

Yes and no. You _can_ allocate networks smaller than a /64, but you can't use SLAAC on such networks. That means you're stuck manually configuring devices or using DHCPv6. I believe Android has no support for DHCPv6, so you're probably very restricted if you choose to use a nonstandard network size.

Oddly enough, yes - ISPs really shouldn't be restricting your internal infrastructure. If your ISP is being a dick about this then the answer is pretty obvious - switch to another ISP, it isn't as if ISPs are thin on the ground.

Its undesirable in _some_ cases, it's absolutely required in others. So if you have a single IP address and you have to NAT everything, you win in the "some cases" situation and you lose for "others" (even worse with CGNAT). If you get rid of NAT and stick a stateful firewall in, you get the best of both worlds and can choose the best for the situation at hand.

That attitude is definitely wrong. The warm fuzzyness you're currently feeling is false security - lots of ways to trick a NAT into giving access to internal machines that you think are unaddressable. What you need is a stateful firewall - that gives you real security without breaking all the stuff that NAT does.

/64 is only big enough for a single network. /48s were quite common for a while, then recommendations were for ISPs to issue /56 to end users. There is no specific recommendation these days, but you certainly want to have more than a /64 if you can. I'd argue that /60 is a pretty reasonable size for a consumer grade ISP to hand out.. maybe /62 at a push, but that's starting to feel unreasonably scrimpy.

In the long term, yes. In the short term, going offline for the 93.69% of their users who don't have IPv6 yet would certainly be seen my most as a completely dickish move - I'm pretty sure their investors would be upset, for one thing.

How does IPv6 yield lower latency? If anything, the latency on IPv6 is often slightly higher than IPv4 owing to the prevalence of IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels where native IPv6 interlinks aren't available, along with larger headers slightly increasing the latency of cut-through routing.

Does anyone actually implement IP mobility? It requires support from your ISP, and I've not heard anything about any ISPs implementing it.

DHCP does pretty much the same under IPv4 - I can't see this being a boon to Google/Facebook. (TBH I wouldn't be surprised if their infrastructure was too complex for any of these protocols - they've probably got some home baked protocol for doing that stuff).

So no different from IPv6 then... both protocols have ipsec support (I think it's mandatory for IPv6 whereas the IPv4 version is an optional backport, but all major OSes support it in both cases so that's neither here nor there). However, ipsec use is currently pretty much reserved for VPNs - you can do adhoc ipsec but no one does. About the only thing you get from IPv6 is that IP addresses are much sparser, so scanning/attacking by picking addresses at random isn't effective.

it's control of the 3-D printers they're after... ultimate aim is to have them DRM'd so you can't pirate shapes...

I want my Pink Ponies back... that was original... everything yesterday was so lame I just avoided slashdot for the entire day...

http://www.metlin.org/content/...

Me? I need to get an upgraded detector to catch the one asshole I found out there with a modern LIDAR.

Perhaps not speeding in the first place would work better?

Whilst CFLs worked as a stop-gap until LED lights could become feasible, I do wonder if they have done long term harm to people's acceptance of efficient lighting - for a long time, "energy efficient lighting" is going to be associated with "takes 5 minutes to get bright enough to see" thanks to CFLs...

That said, I might miss CFLs in my bedside lights if I ever have to replace them with LEDs - that's the one place where a slow start-up is quite nice!

Calling Mayday properly requires selecting the Guard frequency to transmit on. Everybody normally flies commercial and military aircraft with the guard receiver selected so anybody around will hear the shout... and perform relay duties if required. But to make a proper Mayday call requires actually selecting the emergency frequency on the radio to transmit on. Some aircraft also allow the pilot to set the Crash Position Indicator transmitter going as well in advance of the crash so the satellite systems can pick it up and triangulate on them...

"A spokesman for Clinton defended her use of the personal email account and said she has been complying with the "letter and spirit of the rules.""

So exactly what shady deals has she been concocting with her rich chums then? And leaving no email trail?

these will seriously fsck up the Severn Estuary ecosystem not to mention destroy the Severn Bore... and massively increase flood risk on the Gloucestershire flood plain... don't want another event like back in 2007 where we came within inches of the flood topping over the hastily constructed defences at the power distribution centre and killing power to most of Gloucestershire...