Don't (do good), Be Evil.

Why is this modded down? These seem to be legitimate concnerns. I too agree with these statements and have had similar issues. It's not like ipv6 is more secure than ipv4. No legitimate reason I can see for the mod to mod this down.

Securing ipV6 is orders of magnitude harder than securing ipv4. I have yet to read a book that shows the author understands it well enough to explain it. Since the "experts" cannot explain it right, then how are "new" experts supposed to be able to secure it. I have reasonably secured many a network with ipv4. As soon as ipv6 was added, suddenly all the machines that had ipv6 enabled were exposed directly to the internet, despite being behind firewalls with rules to block access. They were directly reachable via their ipv6 address. Since the default behaviour on ipv6 is to make something globally accessible, I can see why government organizations would be slow to adopt it. They already have a hard enough time securing their networks with ipv4, why make it easier for the dark side to access your "secured" content. I have followed many "lock down" howtos for ipv6, and none of them worked. I'm not claiming to be an ipv6 expert, just have enough experience with it to realize there are real hurdles to adoption, that many people seem to want to gloss over.

The amount of SPAM hasn't dropped, the amount being DELIVERED has. I get the reports from my SPAM Filter provider, and basically they show that the amount of SPAM hitting all the hosted domains we have is doing way UP not DOWN. Just the amount of that that is getting delivered is going down. The Symantec report is not clear as to what they are actually basing their numbers on, but it is probably just on their install base, and the amount of SPAM REACHING the install base is lower as more providers have things in place to block SPAM before it gets to the servers. So NO the amount of actual SPAM is still rising.Just the amount being delivered to the Inbox is lower. These are not equivalent.

Actually, IBM DID market OS/2 well. OS/2's demise was brought about by MicroSoft, who had signed agreements to help IBM develop OS/2 Warp 4.0.

After getting copies of most of the source code, MicroSoft some how came out on top in a court battle as to who owned the code, (of which most came from IBM) which became the code base for NT.

Take a close look, and you will see lot's of executables relying on things from os2.

Microsoft just had better lawyers, and at the time, deeper pockets.