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Comment Re:When I multitask... (Score 2, Insightful) 386

Please consider never providing contrived works of fiction as "proof" for important issues.

I can't stand this "scared straight" crap. It undermines the real issue by relegating it to the same level as any other movie special effects. It's like the "crack kills" campagins of the late 80s and early 90s. The only problem with extreme, over the top, graphic fakes is you're showing them to kids who watch graphic horror for fun and have, themselves, done exactly what you're telling them will cause Certain Doom, many time - with no ill effects. For drugs, telling people they'll overdose and die on the first hit only works if the target of your BS has never tried it, or doesn't know anyone who's tried it, or doesn't go out themselves the next day and try it - and not die. Now your credibility is zero, and you'll never get their attention again.

Leave marketing to consumer goods. Provide real examples for real issues.

Robotics

Taiwan University Students Build Tour-Guide Robot 35

BobB-nw writes "A group of engineering students and their professor at National Taiwan University have built a robot that can map out the area it's operating in and offer guided tours. The robot, named 'Hsiao Mei,' uses laser mapping and GPS technology to navigate on its own, including around corners and obstacles such as tables and chairs. In the first public demonstration on Thursday, an engineering student with a wireless remote control first took the robot through the floor of a small museum on the university's campus so it could create a map for itself. After the initial run-through, the robot was able to make an unaided journey around the floor."

Comment Re:Missing Details (Score 2, Interesting) 607

Where did the 61% come from? If 54.2% of all consoles broke, then you have a 54.2% chance of any given console breaking. So the first console you buy would have 54.2% chance of dying, leaving 54.2% of all people having to replace their first X-Box. This means that the remaining 45.8% (100% - 54.2%) of people did not have their first console break.

My math gives me 45.8% (or 46%), not 61%. I didn't see 61% in the article, so I'm curious as to where you got that number.

Comment Re:marketing speak = teh suck (Score 1) 315

While I agree with your premise for internal networking you fail to understand what the parent was referring to with 4.2.2.1 or in my case 4.2.2.2 and a bunch of other Internet addresses that are commonly used during the diagnostic process. Remembering an internal subnet is easy, nevermind the fact that I run about 20 VLANs with different subnets on each one. My whole topology changes when I switch to IPv6. Expect a lot of resistance to this change when it affects everything on your network at a fundamental level.

To most of us, the idea of subnetting internal addresses spaces makes a lot of sense as it is an easy way to control who has access to what at a layer 3 level. With IPv6 and a single subnet, you now have to rely on Intranet based gigabit firewalls to keep everything locked down. In my network, you're on your VLAN and if you change your subnet to try to gain access to a server you won't get anywhere. This is besides the fact that only the newest layer 3 switches even support IPv6 routing. Many many businesses run switching and routing gear until it dies and the vast majority of it doesn't support IPv6. On top of that, most even brand new printers don't come with IPv6 support and all my security cameras are in the same boat. Yes you can run IPv4 tunnels but that means you have to maintain both IPv6 and IPv4 infrastructures until everything catches up. There is no smooth transition to IPv6 for any company of size. Tiny shops can get by probably pretty easily as they don't have lots of bandwidth considerations. My load balancers and firewalls also don't support IPv6 and they are less than two years old. I will grant that there is a firmware version I can install for the firewall to get IPv6 but the balancer is screwed.

Bottom line, expect a lot of resistance to this change as it is the biggest change since going from token ring to Ethernet. Combined with the fact that many people were taught IPv4 in networking classes and have had no exposure at all to IPv6 you get a whole lot of experienced professionals that now feel like noobs.

Change can be good, but right now NAT works fine for the majority of us so there is no compelling reason to change to IPv6.

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