Blocking by IPv4 address is at least theoretically possible, since the total number of IPv4 addresses that could be possibly used could not even *possibly* number more than a few million, as an absolute most. In practice, this is more likely to number only in the hundreds, or maybe even a couple of thousand. Blocking them all is simply a matter of scale, one that may require substantial effort, but at least is humanly achievable in a time frame that we can relate to... probably no more than a few years, as a worst case.

Total IPv6 address space, however, is many orders of magnitude larger. You could block a single IP every minute of every day of every month from now until the earth itself is consumed by the sun's expansion, and you couldn't hope to block even a significant percentage of them.

And the English bible is also a translation of a translation.

Unless you consider being rewritten in the original language a "translation", I'm not sure what you mean by this.

While none of the original manuscripts that the bible purports to come from still exist today, documents that are in the exact same language as the original survive today, and those documents are what modern translations of the bible are based on. Even in King James' time, the English bible was translated directly from the original languages, using the oldest manuscripts that they had available at the time.

I'm not saying that every word in the bible must be literally true, only that it's not a translation of a translation, as I've noted in the past that a lot of people seem to believe.

Actually, it was my understanding that the Hebrew word that is translated into English as "day" in Genesis 1 is the same word that is used to refer to the period of time from sunset until the following sunset.

Take from that what you will...

Let me begin by saying that this post is *NOT* a deliberate troll.

Although I recognize that it might sound like one. It is actually a sincere question. I'm not taking sides here, I am simply trying to project what I think might potentially happen as a result of things like this. I am prefacing my comment with this disclaimer, because the one other time I pointed out what I am going to say below on slashdot, I ended up getting flagged at -1 troll within about 15 minutes or so of my post, from which I can only infer that people were not understanding my meaning, since I'm was not making the point to start an argument, rather because I wanted (and still want) people to think about the possible repercussions.

So with that disclaimer out of the way, does anyone think that it is possible that prolonged disputes like these might actually end up slowing the widespread adoption of IPv6? With IPv4, the number of potential addresses to have to block to effectively blacklist a site that the recognized powers have deemed offensive is substantially smaller than it could be with IPv6. Even though there may be many v4 IP's available right now, that number is still shrinking daily, and cannot possibly last more than a few more years. With a full-scale move to IPv6, even *hoping* to block an organization by IP would be completely impossible on any sort of time scale that humans could identify with, so would the organizations that are trying to shut off places like the pirate bay be lobbying to try to slow (or even halt) the adoption of IPv6, so that what they are trying to do here doesn't end up becoming completely unworkable? Why? Or why not?

I bought my 13" MacbookPro for $1100 (and that includes 8GB of RAM purchased externally, Windows 7, Office 2007, and Parallels). Yes, I exercised educational discounts for all, but for you to say that you need to spend $2000 to get a good computer.

I have a Lenovo laptop and this MacbookPro (as our main machines, we also have a desktop server machine). The Lenovo laptop outlasted its usefulness over a year ago. The keyboard has broken keys and trying to get Lenovo to tell me what I need to buy to replace it is like pulling teeth (no, I should not be transferred around to 6 different people and finally be told that I need to remove the keyboard itself and find the part number to get a replacement).

The Lenovo was an ok machine and I liked their warranty replacement service when I needed it. However the machine feels and looks cheap--because it was. It's woefully underpowered for Win7 even though that's what it came with. It had a TON of bullshit installed on it that I had to spend time removing when I first turned on the machine.

Counter to this is my MBP (13" which I upgraded to 8GB of RAM myself) which I took out of the box and haven't had a single complaint about yet. The machine is rock solid, its fast, even with only 8GB of RAM, and I didn't have a bunch of bullshit software on there.

Yeah, I admit to thinking (and still thinking) $1100 is a lot for a machine. But I use it all day, every day. Just like the bike I bought to commute to work, I need something durable, reliable, and easy to utilize. I particularly love going into a coffee shop or sitting in the airport and looking at the number of PCs plugged in somewhere and the number of Mac users happily chugging along on battery only. The MBP fits that comfortably. I am impressed and as long as Apple keeps this sort of quality up, I will be coming back time and time again.

That said, I figure I can get 5 years or more out of the MBP after an upgrade to 16GB (when it's reasonable) and SSD. I am worried OS X will stop supporting older chips (as they did with PowerPC) and I'll be left with unsupported hardware in the future but I have hope.

However, the Lenovo is underpowered, miserable to use, and has the battery life of a hooker on speed's dildo (even with a brand new battery--less than a month old).

I don't recommend Macs to everyone but it's serving its purpose well for me and I'm glad I made the switch. It does absolutely everything I need it to do and I'm quite happy with it.

YMMV.

I have tremendous respect for Mr Musk and his team at SpaceX. To have designed and built the Falcon 9 and the Dragon, and to have them work perfectly every time, in the short time they had, is an amazing achievement.

On the other hand, this really isn't the first "privately built" spacecraft. Almost all of the "NASA" rockets and spacecraft were built by independent contractors. NASA did a lot of the design work on the Saturn rockets and the spacecraft, but the Redstone, Atlas, and Titan rockets were all designed by private contractors for the military. SpaceX has some advantage in that it's doing everything under one roof (literally).

It is impressive to see that hatch open -- showing the depths of the cooperation between NASA and SpaceX. NASA has to have been working on this almost as hard as SpaceX over the past year to develop the procedures for the rendezvous, capture, and berthing of the Dragon. The opening of that hatch might not be as historic as the Apollo-Soyuz docking of the '70s but it's right up there.

IBM has has also rejected allowing anyone from using an iPhone at office meetings over concerns that Siri may be spying on the company.

No. Their requirement is that Siri be disabled, not that nobody have an iPhone.

News is, by definition, anything new or recent. Regardless of how frequently it happens or has happened in the past.

There is no strict mandate that news be interesting.

Anyone else see the irony here?