Interesting Links for 15-09-2012

[andrewducker]

• Laser injection less painful than needles. Everything's better with lasers!
  That really ought to be the title of a song.
  (tags: lasers injections technology medicine )
• RIPE NCC Begins to Allocate IPv4 Address Space From the Last /8
  Gosh, I hope my ISP has plenty of addresses left. More likely, I'm behind a huge NAT.
  (tags: ipv6 ipv4

Comments

[alitheapipkin]

I met James Doohan in a hotel lift at GenCon in Milwaukee in 1995 and then he presented the awards for the live action DS9 game we played at the convention. He came across like a bit of an arrogant so-and-so but that story makes me feel much warmer towards him. I sat suicide watch for a friend once when some new antidepressants *really* didn't agree with him. It's not something you ever forget.

[marrog]

You've read the Gaiman Susan story in Fragile Things, yes? It happens to be my bathroom book at present and, as it happens, I ran across it yesterday.

[andrewducker]

Yup. I liked this one more though.

[nancylebov]

Me, too. "No longer a friend of Narnia because she's gotten too interested in girly silliness" can be argued either way.

It's an outrage to be grabbed out of Narnia and sentenced to being 11 again in a different world.

[andrewducker]

Yup - I frequently felt that people arguing against Lewis were doing so using quotes out of context. But this raises whole areas I'd never considered.

[natural20]

Well, being behind a huge NAT is bad, but manageable, it's when you're behind one or two or three more huge NAT setups, it all gets deeply bad. And remember, consumer DSL is bottom of the pile, profit wise, addresses will be removed from there first. Ask your ISP about IPv6 support today, they're only going to do it if people ask. :)

[andrewducker]

I'm already behind one NAT (for my router), adding a second one isn't great. For starters, it makes putting a block on spam sources (etc) hard to do without wiping out lots of people.

Virgin is my ISP. I suspect they already have plans, they'll just take a while.

[natural20]

Take a look at the various writings about Carrier Grade NATs. Also, pretty much everything on potaroo.net, Geoff Heuston's site if you want to be very afraid of what might be coming down the line.

[andrewducker]

I was using Potaroo to keep track of when RIPE was going to run out. It's a handy site!

[d_c_m]

-Narnia Fanfic: Frakkin' Fantastic!

-Romney: Oh good grief. Oh and BTW, not true.

-James Doohan ROCKS!!! BLESS HIM!!!

-Rape Prevention Campaign: Respectful men are totally HAWT!!!

-No One Murdered: So wrong I LOL'd.

[brixtonbrood]

There was a woman with a household income over £100,000 in the Guardian yesterday claiming to be part of the "squeezed middle".

[andrewducker]

Yup, my father was a doctor, earning something like that, and claiming not to be rich, because there were richer people out there.

Frankly, once you're in the top 5% you don't get to claim not to be rich any more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_the_United_Kingdom#Percentile_points_for_income_of_individuals_before_tax

[brixtonbrood]

I'd have sympathy with someone claiming that 100,000 doesn't make you "rich rich", because on its own it's not enough to buy a house in London from a standing start, or to send two children to private school without serious economising. I can see why you might not feel rich if you can't afford 4 bedroom house in zone 2. But it's clearly rich by any normal standards, and in no way the "middle".