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

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 01:37:26PM -0400, Randall Webmail wrote:

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

Relatively is the word. Nobody can initiate connections to a NATed host.
I can imagine serious screwage if you're behind two or more levels of
NAT indirection.

With IPv6, you could have your own 64 k network or more, which is enough
for most people.
 
> 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.

I'm not counting on methane clathrates. It's not obvious they
can be mined with good yield, low energy input and environmental
footprint.

We need to figure out how to directly fixate CO2 to C1 feedstock
using solar input.

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