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By Janet Evans
Thursday, Sep 25 2008, 06:40 AM
Can you say 340 trillion, trillion, trillion?
That's how many addresses the new system for web addresses will have when it is implemented.
You see, the current system is about ready to run out of addresses. Who would have thought the Internet Highway would run out of addresses? Why, the mighty inventor of the internet should have created enough in the first place, don't you think? And we all know who that is...
Oh no..I thought it was Al Gore!
He said he created the internet.
I guess it was really Vint Cerf the "father of the internet."
The world is about to run out of the internet addresses that allow computers to identify each other and communicate, the man who invented the system has told The Times.
Vint Cerf, the “father of the internet” and one of the world’s leading computer scientists, said that businesses and consumers needed to act now to switch to the next generation of net addresses. Unless preparations were made now, he said, some computers might not be able to go online and the connectivity of the internet might be damaged.
Mr Cerf said that internet service providers in particular needed to prepare and that time was running out for a smooth transition.
Every computer and online device is assigned a unique IP address, but the pool of unallocated numbers is about to dry up.
“This is like the internet running out of telephone numbers and with no new numbers, you can’t have more subscribers,” he said.
When Mr Cerf and others founded the internet system in 1977, he set in place "internet protocol version four" (IPv4) which provided 4.2 billion addresses. With the number of internet-enabled devices, particularly mobile phones, soaring, less than 14 per cent of those addresses remain vacant.
It is estimated that IPv4 addresses, each of which is a series of 32 binary digits, will run out in 2010 and possibly as early as next year. A new system, called IPv6, has been ready for implementation for more than a decade.
Continued HERE
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By Janet Evans
Sunday, Feb 10 2008, 08:00 PM
Wikipedia
Forget about all of this talk of Global Warming….
Maybe we should be more concerned about Global Cooling….
Our Sun has a larger impact on the temperature and climate changes happening to Earth than pollution, the loss of rainforests, aerosols, or any other Global Warming propaganda that is out there right now.
Canadian scientists have been studying the impact of sun spots since the end of World War II.
Solar activity can fluctuate and usually has spans of 11 year cycles.
Scientists say activity lately has been very quiet.
This is disturbing and may mean that a period of bitter cold could be on the horizon.
This happened before in the 17th century, and in Europe caused crop failures, famine and death.
Canada is seeking more funding for the use of solar flux monitor telescopes to better observe what is going on with the sun.
They have been using radio-telescopic monitoring since World War II.
Popular Mechanics science section has a article on this, with a beautiful graphic
Sun Stays Sluggish as Weathermen Fight for Anti-Ice Aging Funding à here
Wikipedia explains Global Cooling à here
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By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Dec 5 2007, 12:15 AM
"My nominee for 2007 Person of the Year is a woman--a woman with a history of abuse, a woman who has never run for elective office, someone we all know, someone who makes her presence known on a daily basis in all our lives and, for my money, is better than any male alternative. That woman is Mother Earth. I think the environment is the compelling issue of our time."
Brian Williams Veteran journalist who became anchor of NBC Nightly News in 2004, replacing Tom Brokaw
Read the article here: ► Time Person of The Year
Mother Earth, nominee for 2007 Person of the Year????
And I was hoping Williams would nominate Father Time . . . .
This award, which "used" to be "Man of the Year," and has morphed into "Person" and "Persons" and now fictional characters, is a BIG JOKE.
What next?
The possibilities are endless!
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