Yes!

I'm stunned this made the front page. This has been known for a long time actually. I had my CIO ring me up on this. He was freaking. He's seriously pissed at me for not fixing something we don't have a vulnerability too. "We use apache so why are you not fixing this!!!!!!!!"

I actually have a meeting with him and the security team on this, this week. I'm going to walk through the defect and walk through our config. I'm still going to be ordered to get my people to patch this. Even though the patch doesn't exist.

Don't even respond with NGINX been trying to win that for awhile now.

Interesting idea. Until you realise that the first time a child pram stops/gets stuck in the transition phase you will see that this can't possible work.

How can you possible ensure that all passengers transition properly.

Well you might think OK every passenger is in a pod where the pod transitions between vehicles. Again what if that now has trouble.

I like the thinking outside the box. However the human life/health risk component is too high.

How the hell does violence show that you are right and just?

Just because some people are corrupt it some how justifies violent acts. In all likely hood any attempted violence wouldn't even harm those that are corrupt. It most likely take the form property damage and have no impact on the "rich" but rather harm the lively hood of a hard working person.

As for "kneecapping" this has to be the dumbest thing I ever heard. Say you actually get close to a corrupt rich guy and kneecap him. Who do think is going to pay for the legal & medical bills. Hard working people via increased taxes and insurance costs. And guess who has to pay for your prison time?

I completely agree that some of these organisations that prosecute law abiding individuals are morally bankrupt. But good lord a violent response just shows who is wearing a white collar and who is wearing a gorilla suit.

Hear let me take a short cut and save all of us some money.

"Hey look over there, Yah just over there in that cage like thing. I nice tasty looking yellow banana. Look at that tasty banana. I know you want it. All you have to do is just go over and get it."

How about my ISP providing ipv6 DNS at all. You would be stunned to find out how few actually do.

Without DNS providing ipv6 addressing ipv6 is a dead end.

Note DNS for your toaster would most likely have to come from your own personal router. As the toaster would be using your home ipv6 prefix. It only makes sense that with in the address block the sub domain names would be supplied internal to your home. So the name would be like "4slicetoaser.419rigwaystreet.Chicago.us". Where you home domain is "419rigwaystreet.Chicago.us".

I honestly can't believe that NAT will not be implemented by vendors of home equipment.

Of course it will.

All it will take is a ISP to issue a ridiculously small range to home users and Boom NAT comes into existence as a means of getting around the issue. ISP's are going to try and make money as they do today from issue static ip ranges to users. You can make more money if you make the ranges small. It's obvious that a money grab will cause home NATing.

Secondly small devices in the home will be connected as well. I mean everything from alarm clocks to dishwashers. It strikes me as insanity to expose these devices addresses to the network at large with out going through some sort of internal filter mechanism. The filter being a combination of firewall / NAT / Data aggregation. These small devices are a rich target space for hackers. As they are going to be basically little Trojan horses in every household inside the protect home network. I most definitely will want them masked behind NAT and a lot of other obfuscating technology.

So will there be a need for home networking protocols? Absolutely. Stuff that doesn't exist today? Yep. The reason is that more and more minor devices are going to be networked. Stuff that we do not think of as needing it today will be. Most likely all of it wirelessly too. If I can bring home a clock radio that I only ever have to plug into the wall and it magically connects to the home network to get time sync, my favourite music stations, my work calendar and the weather. I'm fairly positive that I don't want hackers into this now smart device that now has access to important personal data. At the same time I want this to magically work when I bring it home.

There is no standard for this sort of thing today. ( This is where someone brings up some esoteric reference to a standard no one really uses. ) Remember the standards are not just around communication protocols. It will also have a direct influence on the simple user interface conventions. Why? Well simply put we need a method of adding a device to the home network in a very easy and intuitive way. This method must provide a level of trust and security. It must also somehow be able to proxy the users authority. Since many home devices will belong to different individuals in the home each device will most likely have to be branded to a user or set of users. So in the end if there is no standard around these interfaces and protocols there will be a reduction in the quality, usability and security of home networks.

Back around to the parent post. So I absolutely see a need for home networks to NAT. NAT as just one of many tools used to secure and personalise the home network.

But it's a blackberry!

The fundamental issue IMHO is content and the ability to consume content. Tablets / touch screens as input devices are really really slow. So the area where they shine is in content consumption. As consumption requires very little user interaction.

There are two primary issues around consumption.

First thing is the tablet version of Android pretty much sucks. The interface still is not complete. This fundamentally complicates and confuses the consumer. The consumer question is "How do I?" At the moment this is not a simple answer.

The Second item is. "Where is my content?" At the moment there is a varied mix of content sources. And to be honest most that are available around the world suck,

In a nutshell the problem with Android tablets is all about content. Will this improve? Absolutely. There is simply to much consumer market pressure for vendors not to address these issues.

Apple at the moment has a huge leg up with iTunes. iTunes combines content and the how to consume in one product. A product that ships with the device. iTunes also works all over the world.

This is why Android tablets suck at the moment!

I'm waiting for the overly keen to discover the pain for me and report it faithfully to /.

Just getting to old to beat my head into the keyboard any more. Well in this case touch screen.

I agree.

1. It is not un-reasable that an advanced civ would extend beyond the origin planet to look for resources.
2. Resource extraction is messy. Waste does need to be dealt with no matter the environment.

In space you want the waste away from you and with a low probability to collision. The best way is to dump it into gravity wells like gas giants and suns. This is going to give of spectrum of some sort. Consider it spectral pollution The more industrialized the civ the more of this spectrum pollution would be present.

I would suspect that most "mining" type operations would happen neat gas giants. As the large gravity well would have already created an aggregation of heavy matter. They would to be good locations for slingshot and breaking maneuvers. It seems reasonable to watch the gas giants for unusual spectral emissions.

Solar mining for radiation and light particles would have very little effluent. So I don't believe there would be much to detect in the form of pollution here.