Calm down man. Little shitheads? I don't think anyone thought you felt self-important until you claimed to be persecuted for it. And I have no idea why you picked such a harmless musing to reply to. Being so sensitive, perhaps you should just go back to not posting.

"Scientists" will. They just wont be U.S. scientists, because they will become rare. If you play your myopic view out to conclusion, the U.S. will be a technological backwater. Well, we'll have whatever we can manage to buy from more advanced countries that fund scientific research.

And they don't. At NSF, grants are given funding by a panel of scientists with expertise in appropriate fields. These are current researchers who take time to serve at NSF for some amount of time.

It takes about 8 highly trained people quite a long time to distinguish good grant applications from bad ones. How do you think the general population will do?

I'm sure they didn't, but Wikileaks did not access those, it is publishing them. These are very different issues.

It is also the case that the government is not protected under the bill of rights, but its citizens are. This (important) point doesn't even apply here, however, because there was no accessing on Wikileak's part.

In what way has Wikileaks accessed someone's email without their consent?

I tend to give to them at several random times throughout the year. Something like EFF *needs* to exist, and it needs to have some might backing it up.

They stay on top of a wide variety of issues and *get results*. Here everyone: help them out.

If you have the extra money, I think it's worth it to ride right past $BIG_CONSUMER_ISP and go with something like Covad. They don't care what services you run, or if you max your connection all day and night. An ISP like this will enable you to run your own mail providing you:
- Also run your own DNS
- Have the ISP delegate/host reverse DNS
- Have at least one static IP

In my opinion it's worth it for the extra control, but you also have to be willing to handle data and battery backup to make things reliable.

I stopped after I got to "www.irc.paypal" being named as critical infrastructure. It's also reported that at least *two* ISPs have been found supplying an internet connection to Anonymous. Two! That's probably all of them right?

I swear this must have been written by a quick AWK script (not even perl)

I'll agree heartily with this. I "fixed" my broken wireless card by altering the ipw2200 driver. It felt... satisfying.

Please tell me how transition to your larger ipv4 is substantively different from transition to ipv6. Is it the case that you want to increase address space while still being able to use addresses from the smaller address space? How will that work?

(continue this discussion for years, and you will have reproduced a chunk of the ipv6 design process)

A lot of the rest of us get along pretty well with putting our servers behind a router/NAT that lets us define which ports get forwarded to which systems behind the router, thus adding "firewall" as a feature.

Thing is, that's only when you have control over the NAT device. If ISPs move to multiple levels of NAT, as some people suggest, then you no longer have access to a thing on which you can forward ports. You're stuck being a content consumer.

Some big ipv6 domains. (This list was posted to the nanog mailing list last week or so):

ipv6.cnn.com
ipv6.comcast.net
ipv6.google.com
www.ipv6.cisco.com
www.v6.facebook.com
m.v6.facebook.com
ipv6.t-mobile.com
ipv6.weather.yahoo.com

Or maybe it's because the brain does not do computations, and shouldn't be compared to computers at all.

It is, however, used on the maemo platform (it's much slower than flash in the native browser, but still available for use by firefox).