July 27th, 2010 by Sydney

IP addresses are set to run out next year.  Apparently, there are only about 232 million IP addresses left, which isn’t even enough to the world through 2011.  The solution?  The IPv6, an address that uses 128-digits.

“It would give everyone in the world more than four billion addresses each, but most of the internet industry has so far been reluctant to introduce it. It would require each device that connects to the internet to be reconfigured or upgraded, with some users even being forced to buy new hardware, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.”

(Via Geekologie, FoxNews)

August 6th, 2009 by Sydney

[Recently posted on FantasyIRL]

In England, surveillance cameras are being installed into a number of government-subsidized homes.   Their purpose? To watch over the children of “problem families” (whatever that means), making sure they do their homework and get to bed one time.  So parents are incapable raising their children themselves now, I guess. I mean, yeah, there are some people out there that aren’t fit to be parents but could this new system of child welfare also ultimately encourage even more parental neglect and laziness than got them put into the special housing in the first place?

Also, special security will drop by each home from time to time to check in on the kids.  With constant watch over them, the government hopes that fewer of these potentially troubled children will turn to crime or drug and alcohol abuse as ways to cope with their tumultuous family lives.

Like I said, sounds to me like the government is just putting families into a situation where they can be more lazy, knowing that someone is already always watching out for their children.  That or parents and children alike will learn, if they haven’t already, to fear the government.

I think at this point it would be too obvious mention Orwellian future, Big Brother or hey, I wasn’t aware it was still 1984.  Oh wait… I just did.

[via Gizmodo via Daily Express]