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Comment Re:wow (Score 1) 380

Well, considering that there are no plans to switch to IPv6 even though nobody can deny that is absolutely necessary, then yes.

Now, even when the switch does happen, i'm guessing most isps will have IPv6 connections to the internet but may use IPv4 to assign addressess to their customers, after all, which ISP is going to want to replace every single cable modem out there with a new upgraded version? So yes, it'll still work.

Of course, in true slashdot fashion i have no idea if any of this is true, just thought i'd give an alternate un-research opinion to the ones you've already gotten :)

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 286

I may be the only one, but i find the act of speaking into pieces of plastic for hours baffling as well and try to limit such exchanges to pure data transfer.

I just prefer talking to real people i can see i guess.

I basically view all posts to slashdot as talking to myself even though i view that behaviour as crazy if done out loud :)

Comment Re:Alternate Theory (Score 1) 286

I think I'm cussing at my own mistakes...

Another behaviour that has totally puzzled me. For some reason i find the act of swearing at and blaming oneself as a little bit more unhinged then swearing at the computer, but since both behaviours are alien to me i'd be hard pressed to say which is more illogical.

Comment Re:Alternate Theory (Score 1) 286

Or maybe, just maybe, we're actually intelligent enough to know that inaminate objects do not, at least generally, respond to speech.

I find this highly interesting that so many people actually engage in this totally illogical behaviour which has thoroughly confused me each time i've seen it taking place.

Comment Re:Cybercheat? (Score 1) 484

Never saw an instance of Extra Credit at the University i went to in Montreal, Canada.

What i did see quite a bit of was bonus questions on exams, usually along the lines of derive this formula from this one. Made for quite a few of my Stats marks being over 100.

Best was a philosphy teacher who had a standing policy that anyone who could stump him twice would get an instant 90% for a final grade. Only problem was it was useless for me, stumped him way more than twice and it would have been a drop in my grade to accept only 90%, though one other student did benefit that year.

Comment Re:Because they're religious nuts? (Score 1) 243

You do know that the US government has had lots of nutcases who can only see things as black and white (if you're not with us you're against us) who think it's their duty to bring about WW3 as foretold by the Nostradamus prophecies, and have huge 'secret socieities' dedicated to accomplishing that, hence their meddling in the middle east and the world to try and bring about the prophecies in their favour?

Doesn't matter what country you're in when you drink the kool-aid, it's still kool-aid.

Comment Re:Yes, Russia better worry the most (Score 1) 243

Just be aware that the 'corruption' in Mexico is mainly due to stupidity and not maliciousness. One thing the mexicans have perfected is how to always stand in the middle of a path. Our highways are a testament to this where to exit or enter you need to criss-cross the stream of cars attempting to do the opposite of you.

Corruption is mainly because there are so many obstacles in place to actually get anything done that people will try and help those they know just because they can't bear to see anyone they know go through all the stupidity.

Of course, some of the corruption is akin to something you would call intelligence. Everybody knows that a piece of paper with a degree on it doesn't really signify anything about what the person knows and so you can either attend the school/university, etc... or just pay them a smaller fee than the tuition and save both of you the trouble of going through the act that the paper actually signifies anything.

Comment Re:iPad has USB and video out (Score 1) 480

So you are saying that having USB on an external connecter that you would have to lug around with you is better than having it built in? Or that adding HDMI out would add way to much to the cost and people don't want to spend some 5-20$ for an HDMI cable when they can just spend orders of magnitude more to buy an AirPlay?

Step away from the kool-aid.

Comment Re:10,000 years, that's nothing--- (Score 1) 145

That's too funny, egyptologists are practicing historical revision more than science, it's almost impossible to actually get the egyptians to consent to anybody doing science around the pyramids. At least they aren't destroying sites like mexican archeologists, or totally ignoring them like the chinese. Just remember, history and archeology have had very little to do with science over their long histories.

Comment Re:All cultures die out. . . (Score 1) 145

They most certainly do not see themselves as just Chinese, though they will put on that front in the face of other cultures. They bitch and complain about the other dialects, other provinces, the northerners who can't be considered chinese by the pure chinese, the yellows against the whites, hell, they still have great organizations based on family surnames. Never have i seen a 'culture' more divided than the chinese. You don't think that fear of intermingling they have was just born out of meeting whitey did you?

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