Migrating those services would mean shutting off IPv4.

That would mean that every customer that would want to access these services, would have to have IPv6 connectivity. If anything, MicroSoft should encourage their customers to get IPv6 connected, so they can eventually shut off the IPv4 connectivity for their services.

Given the time frame they'll have to observe for their Enterprise customers, an announcement to do the shut down would have to be at least 3 years prior to the shut down date. They can't get away with shutting off more than say 5% of their customers with an action like this, so they can't do that until they have a good indication at what date over 95% of the internet globally will have IPv6 connectivity. Even if the entire planet will start trying to accomplish that really hard all of a sudden, it will be at least two years before the bulk of it will have end to end facilities for IPv6 in place.

This puts a realistic time frame of at least 4, probably more like 5 to 7 years on your suggestion to "migrate to IPv6 so they can free up IPv4 space". That's hardly a solution for a problem they are facing right now, is it?

This trend is annoyingly spreading to a lot of websites and software vendors. "Hey, I see you have a public IP that's located in some tiny country with an obscure language. Let's assume you want to use their language, never mind your preferences set in your web browser or the language setting of the OS you have installed." Naming and shaming here not just Google, but Adobe, LibreOffice and Avast as well. Got more offenders to add? Please do.

This encryption is about protecting data against theft of storage, or accidental loss of unwiped storage due to for instance upgrading hardware by Amazon and disks not being wiped/destroyed before they are sent off to be recycled. At the time that you are actually working with your data, it will be unencrypted and the keys to unencrypt will have to be on their systems. That means there is no way you can have your processing in the cloud happening without working with unencrypted data.

By not having Amazon use their "default" keys to encrypt data, you are ensuring that some thief that somehow got their hands on Amazon's "default" key, can now decrypt stolen/found/bought storage with your data on it. This *is* an improvement over the previous situation. For all other situations that people are talking about, the encryption that was and is in use does not apply at all.

Obesity is a mental disability, most often an addiction to a wrong diet containing many addictive ingredients.

The way most people feed themselves is by stuffing enormous amounts of carbs, often a lot of them sugars in their face. Combine those with a little fat and all your body does is store fat and try and balance the glucose content of your blood. The carbs make your gut bacteria generate "happy hormones" that get in your blood, making you hungry and cranky if you don't get your fix, whether your body actually needs food or not.

The symptoms of this addiction are obesity and diabetes type 2. Please treat it as an addiction, not as a phyisical disability. If you do that, for example being taller than 6ft5 should be treated as a disability too and be given all benefits that should come with such a status. If being a size that's outside of what society will cater for is a reason to call people disabled.

Tall people can't help being tall, fat people in over 95% of the cases can help it if they kick the habit. If you treat obesity as a physical disability, you are insulting everyone with a physical disability for which there is no cure.

People that mine either mine scrypt style currencies that still run better on GPUs or they are using ASIC miners for at least a year already. Used high end cards are either NVidia which are sold because the gamer wants something new or is short on cash, or AMD when the owner wants a faster GPU for either gaming or scrypt coin mining. For scrypt coin mining on AMD, overclocking the GPU doesn't work, in general you have to clock down a bit unless you are lucky and you can overclock the memory enough to maximize output with the GPU at standard clock rates.

The highest performing video cards tend to cost so much more for their performance, that miners get slightly less performing cards for half the price of the top of the range. You can get the R9 270 and R9 290 cards for much less money than the R9 290x and now the R9 295x2. The amount of coins you can mine for the purchase price and power consumption are such, that you don't want to buy those "highest performing video cards" if all you do is mine.

The reason you can buy relatively new video cards from miners is because the prices fell after MtGox fell. The get rich quick thing didn't work out and they all need money to pay their power bills. These cards aren't burnt up technically, the miner's wallet is empty and he needs some way to recuperate part of his loss. Sure, some of those are highest end cards, because the miner didn't pay attention to the price/performance thing when he bought them, but most will be high in the midrange, especially since we've seen some new high end cards come out since the prices of crypto coins fell.

This is abusing the internet architecture. The whole idea is that services don't rely on speed and delivery, but work with the network architecture to ensure that whatever service they provide is able te deal with delays. This means that if ISPs want happy customers and companies want their internet product to work properly, they have to ensure that there's enough room on the entire network to deliver those services adequately.

Now some company that sells equipment that can prioritize packets of certain services so network providers can get away with saturating the data links more starts flipping the principle of the internet around. Sorry, no, that's not the *internet* you are talking about Cisco. That's a private network in which some company gets to say what they think is important.

Every individual company owning a network will have different priorities. Try connecting thousands of private networks with different priorities and different technologies to achieve those and make that work. This is what Cisco is proposing we do to the internet and it will be a pain to try it and chances that it will ever work are close to zero. Part of why the internet works is because we have a global goal of just routing packets without prejudice. Don't mess with that, it will end in tears, unhappy customers and only a few rich C level executives at router producing companies.

Sway bars help limit the *lean out* of the curve but never actively counter it. That happens at the cost of a lot of comfort while driving straight and less grip on bumpy surfaces. There's a reason cars have live axles these days and sway bars that are too thick will effectively turn your axles back to solid.

The EU has been taxing imports from non EU countries to protect their own market for decades. The reasoning was that those countries had "unfair advantages" because the EU producers had to deal with strict(er) laws on environment, labor and warranty and such. This lead to the countries that wanted to export trying to find a way to produce even cheaper, making their own environment and labor situations worse than they were already, leading the EU to raise taxes to offset the competition advantage again.

I'd say tax foreign manufacturers for not adhering to the standards you hold your producers to locally. That way, if something was manufactured with the same competitive rules as you hold your own to, there wouldn't be a tax and the manufacturers *and* your local economy would be trying to implement the measures you want them to take as efficient and fast as possible, just to gain a competitive advantage. You want your iPhone to be produced by people that don't jump off buildings? You don't want to send your rice and soy to poor countries because they can't afford to feed themselves? Tax them for not improving their standards of living and environment, not for producing cheap. The benefit of this is that your local competition will stop lobbying for higher import taxes but for stricter rules that they already can comply to and boost local innovation into greener, people friendly solutions instead of outsourcing as much as they can to cheap countries and trying to find holes in legislation to get away with it.

The main fault is in almost all brands and models of cars that use an automatic gear box, but it's not an ignition switch. The main fault is the fact that cars become difficult to control when the engine stalls for whatever reason. Sure, that could be an ignition switch, but running out of fuel could be just as dangerous, a loose wire or any other minor defect could create the exact same circumstances.

Instead of mandating rear view cameras, maybe a mandate that all cars should retain steering and braking capacity regardless of the engine running should be put in effect. Judging by the amount of people actually getting killed because of a flawed ignition switch, the effect would be a lot bigger than a silly camera would render.

AMD supports openGL just fine, but they aren't gracefully failing sloppy programming. The Nvidia driver tends to try and make "something you probably sort of meant anyway" out of your illegal openGL instruction and AMD fails you hard with an error message. That's no reason to blame the manufacturer. The game developers deserve blame for sloppy coding and sloppy testing.

Carbon, kevlar, fiberglass and other fiber materials are used for tensile strength but as fibers, aren't much use by themselves in cars. The trick is to make composites with a weave or other pattern with the fibers and use a resin/epoxy to give structural strength to the fibers.

Glass fiber has some nasty properties compared to carbon and kevlar when used in such a composite. It's heavier in application, it tends to draw in water once the fibers are exposed to the open air and it breaks easier than especially the kevlar type fibers. This is part of why it's so much heavier, you need to make thicker strands of glass to make the fibers strong enough to not break.

The benefit of using glass is mostly production cost. For these reasons, glass fiber composites are used less on vehicles and planes and tend to be used mostly on recreational boats and DIY projects. For any place where weight is an issue, the more expensive carbon and kevlar type of fibers are being used.

Ethanol burns, if your bike was functioning properly. If you had hanging floats in your carburetors or a bad mixture set up, you may have had fuel getting into the oil system of your engine. Once that happens, it doesn't really matter what fuel you're leaking in the oil, gasoline or ethanol. It will dilute the oil, make the engine wear like crazy and it will probably break down in an expensive way. Gasoline will do that just as bad as ethanol. Don't blame your lack of maintenance and the ensuing damage on ethanol, it would have happened with gasoline as well.

Several countries have the right to pictures with you in them declared legally. The right to your portraits. This means that under certain circumstances, you can withdraw previous implicit permissions, because you did not sign a waiver.

Most flash drives have some RAM cache and most erasing is done as a background task by the on-board firmware of the drive. Part of flash drive reliability has to do with having big enough capacitors on board so a powerfailure will allow the drive to write enough data to flash to have a consistent state for at least it's own bookkeeping data on blocks and exposed data. The enterprise ones usually have enough capacitors to write all data to flash that has been reported to the OS as "we wrote this to the drive" on top of that.

The big difference here seems to be that they don't erase block level any more and a change to just a few bytes in a block don't lead to the whole block in it's new iteration being written to an empty block and tagging the old block with a "trim". While this is beneficial for throughput, you have to make certain you will not do this indefinitely, since wear level algorithms aren't used for nothing. You'll still need to do a certain percentage of rewrites or keep count of the number of rewrites to the same block and once your counter hits a limit, do a rewrite of the entire block to a "fresh" location.

Maybe it really isn't shit today and the US currency has actually devalued this much? Compare it to the Euro (which also devaluated), the price of crude oil, the Japanese Yuen, the Chinese Renmibi, the price of iron ore, the price of gold and a few others to see for yourself. You'll find that you may be right in both cases. Yes, the US dollar has devaluated quite a lot and yes, the prices paid for "strategic acquisitions" are way inflated. A few will get rich because of this and a lot of shareholders will lose on the stock market once the share price will go down once the hype is over. Whether it is smart to own stock or dollars now and when or if to sell is up to you, but I'm not investing in those companies or the US dollar myself at the moment.