Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the Slashdot story archive

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment What overcrowding? (Score 1) 460

...is like saying overcrowding of the planet can be mitigated by decreasing the size of houses.

There is no overcrowding of the planet. This is yet another specious argument created in hope that no one challenges it with facts. Have you seen the interiors of China, Africa, USA, Russia? They are EMPTY.

The only places that are overcrowded are coastal port areas, where people who make that argument tend to live.

It's the same with v4. Use it better, use it as port areas, and the interiors can be populated with non-routable addresses. I have heard the v6 song for the past 20 years. It's been Standards Track protocol for the past ten. It will be another ten before the first signs of wide spread public deployment are seen. The only things that might possibly accelerate it is mobile devices with public IPs, and even then it is not really a make-it-or-break-it issue, as it can be handled with dynamic private addresses from provider's pools.

Comment Picks and omissions (Score 1) 86

Thanks to sites such as Hulu, software like Boxee, and gadgets such as the Roku player, it's now possible to do a high percentage of your TV watching at your convenience on the Internet

It is strange that the author did not mention Youtube, where I watch a lot more of my favorite shows (albeit not current, but I don't care) than anywhere else, probably by an order of magnitude. Chunking into 10-minute pieces doesn't bother me, particularly when playlists are available. You can also see a lot of foreign shows that neither Hulu nor Netflix have. And why isn't Netflix streaming mentioned?

So much for the notion that the cloud is always a more reliable repository for our stuff than an old-fashioned PC

Don't you just love it when authors argue seemingly with themselves? I have not heard anyone make the above assertion.

Comment Yet another prescription mill (Score 1) 215

This is simply taking it to another level. Why make a pretense of actual examination when one can write a prescription serving as a bandaid to mask symptoms sight unseen and move on to the next "patient"? That's what most doctors do today anyway, except they go through a 5 minute theater of taking your vital signs.

This may be a good step, however, if it results in computers one day diagnosing patients. They will possess vast medical knowledge and will actually attempt to correlate multiple symptoms. Today most doctors seem utterly incapable of not only telling a cause from effect, but also of looking systemically at more than one symptom at a time. If anyone, god forbid, has a complex issue, most will diagnose it as 5 unrelated issues, and will treat them separately, at best helping none, and usually making it worse.

So for now, let's cut the pretense, and one day let's move to a system that may help patients instead of just separating sick people from their money.

Comment Mind boggles (Score 1) 181

Mind boggles reading garbage like this offered as at the end of the sentence as if it was a fact.

Do you consider over 80,000 killed within a span of a few weeks (15,000 Germans, over 65,000 Poles) as "almost no resistance"? How about the fact Germany lost nearly 700 tanks and over 500 aircraft in the same short amount of time? That is "almost no resistance"? Where did you learn history?

Slashdot Top Deals

This file will self-destruct in five minutes.

Working...