This is just like those view ads to get paid sites - except no one is going to get paid! Except for Microsoft, that is-

I think they've just taken consumer exploitation to the next level.

I'm not sure which exhaustion counter you've been looking at. I've been keeping an eye on a number of exhaustion predictions for the past few years and they have been reasonably consistent (i.e. +/- 6 months). The allocation policies have been changed over the years and this has extended the amount of time we have, but not by much. Obviously exhaustion predictions can't take into account policy changes until they are at least visible on the horizon, so I do expect it'll be extended a bit more, but I'm honestly not expecting that extension to be more than a few months. New policies will also probably start making it much harder for people to get IPv4 addresses, so increasing the pressure to migrate onto IPv6 before the IPv4 addresses are exhausted.

And _that_ is why ISPs need to act now (actually, several years ago) to prepare themselves. This *is* going to happen, the longer they leave it, the more chance they will be caught with their pants down when it actually happens.

There are certainly short-term gains to be had by sticking your head in the sand and pretending that there isn't a problem. Unfortunately the cost of having to drop everything and roll out a whole new network at crunch time is going to be very expensive, far outweighing those short term savings. Sadly, business these days seems to be all about short term gains at the expense of long term viability.

It's connected to sensitive hospital records. That's more than enough reason to lock it down and not allow web browsing or the execution of arbitrary programs.

I admit I'm not an expert, but I was under the impression that RAID was mainly about ensuring you a large number of spindles and some redundancy so you can serve data quickly even if a couple of drives fail while the servers are under pressure. Surely you would not rely on a RAID to avoid data loss since you should be keeping external backups anyway?

I think you may hold the record for most progress on a real KS! Well my email address is the same as always (the one I have for you is 4 years old) so if you'd really be interested in the RM80, let me know. And I'd love to hear about the SCSI project!

Ummm, that's a (F)ail. Because who DOESN'T believe in Peter Pan.

Do, please, enlighten us with the details o games you have designed that have sold in excess of a million copies...

Did you see the plate glass window collapse at 5:13 or so? I'm not sure if plastic sheets and file cabinets would be enough against the pressure of that much water.

But with a turbinectomy how will you generate renewable energy from your hayfever?! :P

Autoimmune system misbehaviour sucks though. :/ It's not surprising that it occurs given how complex the immune system is but still... grr.

Very cool story, I have heard about similar things happening before. Have you ever tested to see just how much better you can "see through" camouflage etc? I feel a little silly asking, but do you think its something you could describe to someone who is "not colour blind"? Funny huh, a "blind" person can see the truth :)

Depends. Some "alternative medicine" practices aren't merely useless, they're actively harmful. Further harm comes when people believe they will be magically cured, and ignore traditional medicine entirely, all while illness progresses to the point where some effects are already permanent (or, sometimes, fatal).

He's in a hole somewhere until 12/24/2012. I wouldn't admit to it either.

GPS is not a perfect solution either. I have used several different models including the Pharos GPS with Streets and Trips. They often jump temporarily to another state or place on the globe and then after a few minutes jump back. So are we going to be able to challenge the 3000 mile trip we supposedly took on our way to grocery store? I have an idea just give me a check for 150million and I'll tell them it won't work.

Depends how you're using ssh. If you ssh into something to run vi (vim, whatever) there is a much lower latency solution.

VPN in and NFS mount the directory... then run vi locally. Yes each file save will still take 1600 ms longer or whatever, but local typing and such will be regular speed.

Then there is always rsync and friends, such as bidirectional "unison".

Just curious - how do they do this? Do they send you a checksum? My online back statement are just plain old PDFs.