If this is true then wouldn't it mean that IPv6 won't get adopted until 2018? 20 years after the original RFC was published.

I personally think the problem is that compatibility with IPv4 seems like it was an afterthought. The designers of IPv6 should have designed the system so that individual computers/routers/networks could be upgraded independently of each other in much the same way you can easily upgrade your network from 100mb to GigE.

The actual article seems like a troll as it only reports a couple of snipits. Here's a better one with the full quote I found via google. The Pope was actually talking about the way modern media reports the news.

Use a Speed Cushion. You can also buy prefab rubber ones that just need to be bolted down to a street.

Lived as serfs

My point is that over that last couple hundred years we have built up a series of labour laws covering things like minimum wage, working hours, unions, child labour etc. It's not perfect and you can make arguments for and against certain aspects of the system. However, these online employers like Turk or Rent a Coder have the potential to wipe the slate clean. Employers can simply set up shop in whatever country has the most favourable (read none) labour laws

So what will happen in the long term? Will this be the revolution that brings prosperity for all or will it be like the industrial revolution where people were forced to send all of their children to work in the coal mines just to survive?

Should it even be legal to pay these rates? Where I live an employer can pay you based on the work acomplished but they must still pay you at least minimum wage. Welcome to the new industrial revolution where you're not entilted to minimum wage because you're working online as an "independent contractor" for a foreign company.

In a perfect world the programmers could just quit and start their own trading firm. The reality is that there is an unreasonbly high barrier to entry which is more about keeping new players out then about the true cost of entry.

At the universisty where I work. IT charges $3.00 per GB/year to store data on a NetApp SAN. It then costs you another $3.00 GB/year for backups.

NOTE: In case you're wondering the two prices are charged separtely in case you have data that doesn't need to be backed up or have data that needs to be backed up but isn't stored on the SAN.

It's funny but true. As a CEO it makes sense to role the dice, cut costs and rake in a huge bonus. The odds are in your favour that it will work out. But on the off chance you loose then just take your golden parachute and move on to another company to try it at.

Downloading child pornography is a major crime?

I think that'll be small potatoes compared to the fact that every black hat, spammer, script kiddie, phisherman, fraudster, terrorist, and mobster can safely do whatevery they want and not have to worry about it. If this ISP manages to grow to any decent size I'd expect it would turn into the pariah of the Internet with admins everywhere blocking the IPs becuase they don't want to put up with all the crap that hit's their servers.

The riddle starts out as "Johnny's Mom has 3 kids" therefore one of the kids must be named Johnny.

So you knew about the shady calling practices but how do you know it wasn't a total scam. They could have lied to you and said that the DirectTV equipment was being shipped from another city when in fact nothing was being sent. Then given you a bogus 1-800 phone number to give out to customers to call in case they have any problems.