begin quoting boblq as of Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 12:31:38AM -0800: > On Saturday 25 March 2006 05:40 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 04:58:31PM > > -0800: > > > Because... Well, what _else_ are we going to do with billions of IP > > > addresses? > > > > Generate spam, of course. > > Nah.
You'll wave your magic want and it'll magically go away, eh? > Put an automated urinalysis system in every diabetics toilet, > which will knock of 170 Million IPs for starters. You guys have no > imagination at all ... You can do that anyway... giving it an IP won't make it any more useful. Oh, look, your toilet has a web-server... that's along the lines of putting your toaster on the 'Net. (It seems in the rush to build New Things, everyone's forgetting that we can *multiplex* IPs... that's what ports are for. You don't need a globally routable IP for your toilet, you just need the house server to collect, consolidate, and then expose that information, if that's what you want to do.) > I can use a billion IPs for every mornings ideas ... So if 1 idea out of 100 > has some validity all I can generate demand for 3.65 Billion IPs per year. Every item of clothing can have its own IP and a wireless connection, and then your washer can query each item of clothing as to how dirty it is, what it is made of, etc., and then automatically set itself. Further, your _mother_ can query your underwear to see if it's clean that day, and if not, she can call you to berate you for embarassing her. I can put a web-server on every door, window, and gate, so that anyone in the world can see what I've left open as I go to work. They're globally routable IP addresses, so those people in Tibet surely want to know if I've left my back gate propped open. Every turtle on the road can be put on the 'net, with a tiny motion-sensor inside, and then people could build their own traffic-monitoring system. I could put a web-server on a book so I could check what page my bookmark was set at, but the E-paper folks are trying to get rid of my library anyway, so I'll probably end up with just three physical "E" books and a wireless network connection. I suppose the issue isn't "what can you do" but "what sort of information should be available to everyone in the world"? > If I am one in a million there are 6000 people like me on the planet > which generates 6000 x 3.65 = 22 Trillion (non unique cause ideas overlap) > IPs per year. We have a problem with information glut *now*. . . > Come on guys, wake up. There is a future. It is not identical to the past. You'll probably enjoy _Rainbow's End_. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
