Which is why OSPFv3 is used with IPv6.

Let me change one word in your first sentence (in italics):

Which was very true when the army was first integrated, and it's still true today. Many of those people were in the army then, and some of them still are.

The army survived integration, though, and it's fine. It'll survive the end of Don't Ask Don't Tell, and it'll still be fine

Too late.

The Sumerians, the Hurrians and the Elamites want to have a word with you. (None of their languages were remotely Indo-European, but they weren't Semitic, either.)

I'm obviously not the OP, but sometimes you need a day job in order to chase your dreams.

If they're disorganized enough to accidentally put a server behind a wall, why do you think it's going to be easy to trace a cable? I bet the cabling in that place was an adventure.

Let's suppose there is life on Mars. We can get a pretty good idea of whether or not it's related to life forms on Earth by examining it and seeing how close it is to organisms here. If it has DNA, we could sequence it.

For instance, suppose it looks a lot like terrestrial bacteria, it has DNA, and its genetic code is nearly identical to or very similar to specific terrestrial bacteria. Then yes, it probably came over as contamination.

Suppose it uses DNA, but it doesn't remotely resemble any living bacteria. This may indicate that it evolved from terrestrial bacteria that came over earlier (i.e., hitched a ride on a meteorite). Or that terrestrial life evolved from a hitchhiking Martian bacteria.

Suppose it uses a slightly different DNA system than ours. For instance, the bases may be slightly different, or it uses only RNA, or something along those lines. Depending on the level of the differences, this could indicate that it evolved independently from terrestrial life, or that it hitchhiked over very early in the development of life.

Suppose the Martian organism doesn't use DNA at all. This may indicate that it's completely independent of terrestrial life. That's assuming that life on Earth always used DNA (or at least RNA), which isn't necessarily true.

Although I've never actually seen them on display in a store, you can buy both Canon's high end cameras (like the 1Ds the grandparent shoots with) and their top-grade L lenses on Best Buy's web site.Not that I would recommend buying them from Best Buy...

How exactly is using up all of your thinly provisioned disk on purpose all at once any different from your peers not watching their disk use? Answer: they might cause a problem, and you have.

As the storage admin, I'd walk over to your desk and smack you. I'm the one who's watching the size of the pool, and I'm the one who will order new disk when it's necessary. I'm the one who will make other arrangements if management doesn't fork up the money for the disks.

Depending on the technology in use, "other arrangements" could mean the migration of LUNs to other storage arrays behind the scenes (i.e., no downtime), moving virtual machines with storage vmotion, or other, usually uglier methods of dealing with it (i.e., stop the application, migrate the data manually somewhere else, bring up the application).

There's a version of this that uses much less tinfoil. If ETs were visiting every ten or twenty thousand years on average but didn't leave any large-scale, durable evidence behind, we wouldn't know about it. There could be dozens of robotic probes scattered around the solar system, but unless they were huge, obviously artificial or actively broadcasting we'd think they were meteoroids or small asteroids.

I'm not suggesting this is true, but merely that with the time and distance scales involved it may be difficult to find visiting ETs unless they came while we were watching.

From TFA, living authors include Philip Roth, Salmon Rushdie, Martin Amis and VS Naipaul. I would guess that most of the contracts for the books were signed before publishers gave any thought to digital distribution.