On my phone I just choose the "planet 3" option, then the "check my usage" option, and it both tells me my remaining minutes/texts/data allowance, and tells me the cost of any out-of-allowance stuff so far that month.
They also send me a (free) text when I'm near each limit, or go over each limit.

This is in the UK of course, where things are sensible.

Or everything.

In the UK, you must be able to pay the advertised price for anything. No compulsory fees allowed, unless they're already included in the advertised price. Tax must always be included. etc etc.
More info: http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/sale-of-goods/your-rights-pricing-disputes/your-rights/

Make it a geocaching travel bug.

When you define "even" as being a multiple of 2, and "prime" as being a multiple of only itself and 1, then of course 2 is the only number to satisfy both.

The fact that it has a name isn't that important.

It's like saying 7 is the only lucky prime number, by defining lucky = 7.

'course the extra power is there. It's in the batteries.

But even ignoring those, constantly running the ICE at its optimum revs to extract the most power from it will mean that you have as much power available as if you shifted to the right gear to be in that same power band in a traditional car. But without having to shift gears (or wait for an automatic gearbox to shift for you).

Which is one reason why most diesel trains are actually diesel-electrics. That and not needing a clutch that can start a thousand-ton train moving...

Or Tesla Roadster, for a more practical but still OMGWTFBBQ-NOTSLOW electric car.

Hear hear!

It's the same with our health service. Paid by taxes, so it doesn't cost me jack shit to go see a doctor if I need to, it's effectively already paid for.

Can you imagine if an ambulance wouldn't come because you hadn't paid your ambulance cover?

One of my friends' brothers has cancer. Would he be covered in the US? Would he be able to afford treatment if not?

You have to be really careful where you work, but there ARE some good companies to work for.

Why a CS degree? If they're after doing computer game programming, they should do a computer game programming degree. Seems to have worked for me.

Experience with the Unreal engine (or UDK) or other game engine would be a massive help too, but if someone wants to be a programmer they should focus on programming the engine, not using the editor. i.e. make mods, not levels.

6to4 works perfectly fine with a NAT if it's the NAT itself doing the 6to4.

I'm not sure what you mean about two complete parallel networks either. IPv6 is being deployed on the existing internet. It's also being admin'd by the same group (both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are allocated by IANA). As for addressing, that's the whole point of the change...

You'd still need to upgrade all clients to understand long ips before you gave even one server a long ip, or some clients wouldn't be able to connect.

You'd also need to upgrade all servers to understand long ips before you gave even one client a long ip, or the server wouldn't be able to reply to them.

So basically... you couldn't give out any long ips. Assuming you didn't give machines both a long and short ip, which is how the IPv6 transition is planned to happen anyway.

Regardless, what you're proposing for the long ips is fairly similar to 6to4, i.e. it's an IPv4 packet with some extra data for an extended address, which is routed as IPv4 by legacy equipment but provides an IPv6 connection. It's one of the many transition mechanisms.

2000 was only really shipped on corporate systems. You'd get Me or 98 in 2000.

I don't see anything innovative there. You still have the situation where you can't give someone *only* a new kind of address, because people without support for them won't be able to talk to them at all. You'd still end up running out of IPv4 addresses because everyone would still need one.

All user software would need to understand long IPs, otherwise no server could ever have a long IP, because some software wouldn't know how to connect to it.

All core routers would need updating, because they work through peering and defined routes, not by having a "default gateway".

All user hardware that deals with IPs directly (routers, NATs, firewalls, even perhaps modems) would need replacing too, else they wouldn't understand their own IP and give bad source addresses in their data.

Some hardware/software that could normally get away with routing to the default gateway would need replacing due to mangling extension headers it didn't understand.

So what's left that wouldn't need replacing?