The pope stole your money? ZOMG! Let's get you on AM radio to tell your tale!

My daughter is 9 and almost never asks for McDonalds when I give her the choice of where to go, and hasn't asked to go there in a few years.

I was trying to remember his name and couldn't. Considered myself lucky for a while and then you come along. Thanks, jerk! (I guess I asked for it, didn't I?)

You haven't been here that long.

For me, it was the article shortly after the US invasion about Afghanis retrieving their Commodore 64s out of dirt holes and watching video...it kinda went downhill from there.

My brain isn't working right today, can someone help me out here?

The problem I was addressing wasn't routing - it was the lack of IP addresses and how just because someone has 18 million addresses doesn't mean that all of them are available.

Where have we heard that before? (j/k)

It doesn't need to be 18 million devices - each subnet is already dropped by two to have a gateway and broadcast address. It's also unlikely that every /24 will have all 254 remaining devices on it. At work I have a /22 and only have about 700 IP addresses assigned, but the rest are unusable to anyone outside my group.

This is one of the core problems with IPv4 (which CIDR) skirted around. IPv6 has this problem as well, but having more IP addresses available than number of atoms in the sun (or something like that) means even with a ridiculous amount of waste there's still plenty of addresses to go around. Heck, Hurricane Electric assigned me a /64 IPv6 subnet (2^64 addresses available)

You're also forgetting worldwide organizations that need to do a site-to-site VPN. Each site now needs to coordinate its internal addressing so there's no overlap. Going with IPv6 completely eliminates this need.

Well, it is only the English version of Wikipedia. Which means that non-English speakers in the US (Spanish for example) are unaffected, but English speakers outside the US are stuck.

It's a difficult balance. I used to be them a few years ago before I was promoted and they're doing some of the same work I used to do (sysadmin rather than coding). Thus I have the technical skills to know exactly what they're doing and how they're implementing it. I always have to remind myself when they go a different course that it's no longer me that has to implement and maintain, so they can do it however they want as long as the project gets completed.

The simpler solution is to buy a Tivo.