IPv6 is supposed to solve all of the peer connectivity issues introduced by NAT. And, on the surface, it seems to do just that by making it possible to assign a unique, globally routable IP address to every conceivable device that could possibly want one.

But this doesn't really solve the problem of peer connectivity.

My cell phone, for example, ( Read more... )

The iPod, the iPhone, and the new iPad. I hate them all. They are a horrible abomination that appeals to the worst in us, the part that thinks if we all just let someone else handle all the details for us that everything will be OK and we don't need or want to take any personal responsibility for the things we own, for the attitude that ( Read more... )

I got this from svairini. I've never really felt comfortable with the whole of "live each day as if it were your last" homily. This person has a much better idea:

Live as if Today was a Quantum Superposition of the the Rest of your Life

I have a rather odd view of some things. One of my views is that evil ultimately costs more than good. That evil is ultimately self-destructive.

We've committed evil recently. Our imprisonment and interrogation of hundreds of people in Guantanamo Bay and other lesser well known facilities around the world is evil. That evil is now costing us ( Read more... )

Religion is what is invented when humans want to gain control of a god.

I thought that was impressively insightful, and not an idea I'd ever seen put quite that way before. It's from a little known book by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom The Jesus Incident