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Comment: Re:ISP (Score 1) 551

by Fareq (#35116498) Attached to: If You Think You Can Ignore IPv6, Think Again

For privacy.

If I have sufficiently many users, it becomes quite possible (with reasonably simple-to-set-up systems) to make it virtually impossible to reconstruct any user's complete clickstream.

With each machine broadcasting a publicly accessible IP address that includes the full MAC address, it becomes trivial to permanently track the full clickstream of every user on my network -- and even to track that user's clickstream between all of the networks that they ever participate in, since the (publicly-broadcast) MAC will still be quasi-unique.

Comment: Re:Most ISPs are doing /56 or /48 for residential (Score 1) 551

by Fareq (#35116468) Attached to: If You Think You Can Ignore IPv6, Think Again

So wait, standard policy will be for all devices to be publicly accessible from the internet, with its *device-unique* IP Address exposing the HW (MAC) address of the device, with no ability to shield machines from publicly broadcasting their existence so that it becomes trivial to isolate each individual device's traffic, no ability to block this behavior, no ability to segment the network or have any devices that aren't publicly accessible.

This is better, how?

Comment: Re:Answers and Suggestions and Further Questions (Score 2, Informative) 249

by Fareq (#34343314) Attached to: Coder Accuses IBM of Patenting His Work






Comment: Re:Might I suggest an alternative currency (Score 2, Insightful) 454

by Fareq (#34295946) Attached to: Estonian Economist Suggests Abandoning Cash

OK, fine. Nobody raises prices. Instantly all products sell out, since everybody has enough money to buy everything they need, everything they want, and everything that they feel like buying because its just lying there. Only there isn't enough stuff in the whole world to fill everybody's needs, wants, and whims. So people start fighting over the last few items. Someone offers to pay double, then someone offers to pay double that, etc.

Comment: Re:Might I suggest an alternative currency (Score 1) 454

by Fareq (#34295930) Attached to: Estonian Economist Suggests Abandoning Cash

Because there needs to be some inherent balance between the availability of money and the availability of things to buy with it.

If suddenly there were zillions of dollars lying about, candy bars sold for only $1 apiece would sell out everywhere, and there'd be a huge shortage of candy bars until someone had the bright idea to charge more for them -- enough more that they could handle the demand.
