Yes. They will have a dual stack with the IPv6 address being used for a bigger and bigger proportion of traffic. Meanwhile IPv4 will probably traverse some NAT.

Once IPv4 is the minority of traffic (many years in the future), it will turn into a legacy PITA to administer separately. But that is a while away.

Those 30% of Comcast customers aren't calling a helpdesk and reading out hexadecimal digits. If DNS is working they will say things like "www.facebook.com". If DNS isn't working then they can't fix it by reading out or typing those "meaningless characters".

Not viable. It wouldn't help more than a single digit percentage of users anyway.

Facebook uses psychology to make minor changes in our happiness... Something must be done!

Soda companies use psychology to sell huge buckets of sugar water... Hands off our soda, Mayor Bloomberg!

"Years of procrastination" might be a better description than "years of panic". Putting off action is my favorite strategy too, but I've heard it doesn't work forever.

This is the common definition:

• Settlement free peering: Doesn't take money from you. Advertises their routes to you. Advertises your routes to their customers.
• Paid peering: Takes money from you. Advertises their routes to you. Advertises your routes to their customers.
• Transit: Takes money from you. Advertises the whole Internet routing table to you. Advertises your routes to their customers and peers.

You will see that there is no technical difference between settlement free and paid. It's the same router configuration. The money flow is just the end result of the poker game of which peer needs the other more.

1550nm, which is the same range used in long-range optical fiber transmission.

More info on the projects linked from http://esc.gsfc.nasa.gov/267.h...

As of December last year, more than 25% of Comcast customers can get native dual stack broadband - see http://www.comcast6.net/

A few summers ago I was in the cube where the air conditioning sent in the cold air. Unfortunately the cube with the temperature sensor was occupied by a guy with a space heater. As the aircon pumped in more and more cold air I ended up taking warmth breaks standing outside in the summer sun. Finally, after a long negotiation between my neighbor and the HVAC guy, sanity was restored.

Thanks for this. Another year-round commuter here, and I get nice weather most of the time even in winter. I love your positive attitude, and it's sending me out on my Sunday morning ride in a much better mood. It will be even better if I don't see any driver looking down at his or her phone.

Looking at your mod score of zero I'm feeling whatever the French call Schadenfreude.

Mmmm... Tapas!

The 18th amendment made life seem longer by depriving people of alcohol. It's already been abolished.

19th Century: Saying "We changed our mind and decided that Ceres isn't a planet" is bad. Just say that Ceres and Pallas and Vesta and Hyperion and ... and ... and ... and ... are planets and be done with it.

Wouldn't people get more risk-averse and change the probabilities? You've driven behind 70-year-old-guys. Now imagine 7000-year-old-guy is driving the car in front of you!

Is "Internet Healthy Guy" a new variation on "Internet Tough Guy"?

"My blood pressure could kick your blood pressure's ass!"