[tt] New Scientist: Internet to run out of addresses 'within 3 years'

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From: Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>
Date: Friday, June 20, 2008 8:31
Subject: Re: [tt] New Scientist: Internet to run out of addresses 'within	3 years'
To: tt at postbiota.org

> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 11:38:26PM +0200, Torsten Nahm wrote:
> 
> > Which of course is also a wonderful example of human and 
> technological 
> > adaptation to resource scarcity. I have been reading these "death 
> of the 
> > Internet imminent" articles since 1995.
> 
> Of course life goes on, but grimier and dirtier. I'd rather live
> without NAT. NAT at ISP level is beyond ugly.

What's wrong with it?    Both Charter and Insight do it, and it seems relatively transparent.

Re: Peak Oil - unless the abiotic petroleum nuts are not so nuts after all, we will reach (or have already reached) the Hubbert's Peak.

Unless the Chinese and other experiments with methane clathrates bear fruit - in which case we can save the long-chain hydrocarbons for Really Neat Stuff, and run our Hummers on crap we scoop from the ocean floor.