Another case where we should fine and enforce 24 hours of black out on this channel for reporting untrue information.
Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
It's not just them. All the major news outlets are similarly afflicted, and any one of them would probably have run the a very similar story.
When all the news was reported together in set intervals (weekly newspapers, then daily newspapers, then radio newscasts, then broadcast TV newscasts), then reporters and editorial staff had ample time to get two independent confirmations of every fact they published, and wouldn't have dreamed publishing anything otherwise.
It's not that way anymore. The last 30 years saw proliferation of 24-hour news channels, then public access to the internet. In order to keep up, everyone has to be first to report everything. News outlets now have to compete with blogs, who don't even have to pretend to conform to the standards journalists do. The integrity of the entire industry is only as strong as its weakest link.
No point shooting the messenger just because the papyrus is blank.
It wouldn't be that difficult for ISPs to quickly start issuing IPv6 to home and mobile users, etc. It's the large internal business networks that would need time to make the conversion and some probably wouldn’t even do it. They only use one or two outside IPs anyway and the rest are all internal and hidden from the outside world for the most part.
Exactly right. The building I work in has a network infrastructure that is stunningly and embarrassingly outdated. It has all it can do to manage a moderate IPv4 workload. 15-20 years old, most of it.
Still, I think there's a lot about the original numbering scheme that turned out to be a waste of vast swaths of address space: 127.x.y.z never leaves your computer (do you really need 16,777,216 IP addresses for use on only one machine?), every ham who ever did TCP/IP over the air got at least one world-routable IP address (I had 44.118.1.77, which was only usable with a specific node on a specific frequency), just for two easy examples.
IANA has tried to rectify some of these, but a lot of them are too much of a legacy to do anything about.
For the most part, few are going to migrate until they absolutely have to. Legacy support for IPv4 will live on for decades out of necessity, so it's not like IPv6 can really be touted as a replacement for anything.
I guess if "we" say it's not true, it must be "not true"
Since "we" have some years of expertise in this field, too, "we" have certainly earned the right to say such things. What conclusions should be drawn from them is left as an exercise for the reader (the way it's supposed to be).