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Comment Re: More proof we need more laws... (Score 1) 315

No. You have to prove it was a foreseeable outcome.

Shooting a gun into the air isnâ(TM)t likely to kill someone but it is a foreseeable outcome and has happened. Thatâ(TM)s why rifle ranges have banks and restricted areas down range to stop people being killed by stray bullets.

Comment Re:Here's the article... (Score 1) 127

RFC's can document a idea. There doesn't need to be a implementation before a RFC is published.
To get to standard status there needs to be two interoperating implementations.

I've had RFC's published that documented ideas which I needed others to realise after the RFC was published.
I've also had RFC's published that were based on years of deployment of the concept covered by the RFC.

Both ways happen.

Comment Re:No DNSSEC, what did they expect? (Score 1) 83

Actually DNSSEC validation is common. Somewhere between 40% and 60% of lookups
world wide are validated as the biggest resolvers farm in the world do DNSSEC validation
and everyone using them has the answers validated. What isn't wide spread is domains
that are signed so despite the answers being sent to the validator they come out marked
as 'insecure', rather than 'secure' or in the case they are forged 'bogus'.

Every time a ISP turns on validation on their recursive servers large numbers of clients get
the benefit of that.

Comment Re:Security or Privacy (Score 1) 154

How many shares in various manufacturers do you own? The reason that the changeover is going slowly is that people don't want to junk nearly new IPV4-only equipment and pay for IPV6-compatable replacements. Right now my ADSL ISP sells IPV6-caoable router/modems. However, I have an almost-10-year-old Thomson SpeedTouch 546 that's still going strong. I want to run it into ground. I'm not an Apple-fanboi who lines up outside the store every year or two for the latest, newest, shiney toy.

So apart from the modem/router, what equipment do you think needs to be replaced when you turn ON IPv6? The answer is NONE. Turning on IPv6 doesn't mean you have to stop using the IPv4 equipment that you have. I've had IPv6 turned on for 15 years now. The house has a mixture of dual stack equipment and IPv4 only equipment. When I have a choice when buying new equipment I've got stuff that supports both IPv6 and IPv4 vs IPv4 only. All the equipment would support IPv6 but manufactures in certain market segments have been slow to provide IPv6 capable equipment. So, no your argument is not supported by facts.

Basically you are spreading lies.

Note: there were IPv6 capable ADSL modems 10+ years ago. You could have bought one so you would have been ready when your ISP finally came into the 21st century.

Comment This is why .COM does not accept underscore (Score 1) 292

Back in the 1990's I was asked if .COM and .NET should continue to accept underscore in domain registrations. This was after I added "check-names" to BIND to prevent address and MX records with non-LDH names being accidentally added to zones in contravention of RFC 952 and RFC 1123 (still the current host requirement specification). I pointed out that if underscore was permitted that people would be continually having to explain why address lookups for names like "a.label_with_underscore.com" would not work reliably. The requirements for registration were tightened to only allow LDH.

Enforcing LDH for host names allows us to use prefix labels with underscores without running the risk of colliding with valid host names. It allows software to pick out host names from free form textual contexts. When you mail client automatically creates a link that is what it is doing.

Netflix need to fix their provisioning system. Their use of underscore in a hostname is wrong.

Comment Re:Shocked (Score 1) 129

EV's still needs servicing. Breaks pads still need replacing. Shock absorbers still need replacing. Battery packs need replacing. Wiper blades need replacing. Lights need replacing. Lots of things still need replacing because they wear out. Then there are the parts that need lubrication. If you don't lubricate them they wear out faster. They just don't have a ICE that needs servicing.

Comment Re: Tired of the upgrade carousel (Score 1) 249

All things you purchase should continue to run well after warranty expires. They should work perfectly during the warranty period.

Computers should work for at least 10 years with the occasional battery change. This includes mobile phones.

I've still got a 32G 3GS iPhone that works fine except Apple cut it off from getting new apps by not supporting the hardware in newer iOS releases while also not having the SDK for iOS 6.1 with the latest Xcode which only supports iOS back to 8.1.

Apple should support iOS 6.1 in the current version of Xcode because they choose to not support iOS 7 on the 3GS. You either allow the latest iOS to be install on the phone or support the break point for 10 years after the last device is shipped.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 2) 435

Actually they are heated. They may or may not be heated to the temperature of the passenger cabin but they are heated. What they are heated to depends on the cargo being sent. If there are live animals they will be heated to approximately same temperature as the passenger cabin, if not they it may be set to ~5C. If they weren't heated all the cargo would freeze as the outside temperature is around -55C.

Comment Re:Cool (Score 1) 130

IPv6 has already gained critical mass. The CDNs are all turning on IPv6. The wireless ISPs are delivering the Internet over IPv6 today translating connections to IPv4 to talk to legacy servers. Sensible fixed line ISPs are delivering IPv6 today as it cuts down the CGN costs. The biggest players on the Internet are using IPv6 only internally translating connections to IPv4 to talk to legacy servers. IPv6 is not going away. It will just grow and grow.

When a home becomes IPv6 enabled (basically replace the CPE with one that supports both IPv4 and IPv6) most of the traffic switches to IPv6.

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