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The Javascript coercion rules, arcane as they are, are actually part of the spec and (barring any bugs) should work across browsers.

Is that a distinction worth making? By that standard, how many countries in the world are actually democracies?

> IMNAL, but my understanding is that such a law would run into rock solid, granite hard, iron clad parts of a little issue called the US Constitution. E.g., if the cops ask you a …

And then they will outlaw the possession of said standard C software, as well as of computer hardware that does not comply with government-mandated eavesdropping. And then they wil…

It can be even worse than that. A significant number of routers forward IPv4 packets in hardware but fall back to a software implementation for IPv6. So it might happen that the re…

Given that worldwide Internet adoption is still growing strong, it is conceivable that sooner or later a significant number of endpoints will only have IPv6 connectivity, or that t…

In the absence of a firewall, you are correct that any node that gets hold of the publicly routable address assigned to one of your devices will be able to communicate with it from…

I certainly did not mean to be condescending. I offer my apologies if my post came across as so.

What you want is called a firewall. There seems to be this common misconception that a firewall and a NAT box are the same thing, but they're not. It just happens that most NAT imp…

Totally agree with you in that IPv6 and the end of NATs are great for the Internet. My honest (though possibly unpopular) opinion is that the incentive should have been given years…

> Compared to a world where you can't get IPs at any price? Seems pretty obvious: you can get IPs. You seem to be presenting a false dichotomy; there are plenty of intermediate sol…

So in what way exactly does the Internet as a whole benefit from allowing IPv4 addresses to be traded in a free market? This is a honest question. I would like to know how we avoid…

I actually wasn't aware of that! Thanks for the link.

Then anyone would be able to trigger the autodestruct by spoofing their UA.

I'm not sure what the typed array limitations are, but Javascript numbers are able to exactly represent integers up to 2^53 - 1, which is quite a bit more than 32 bits.

Possibly the same reason why the market share of old versions of Internet Explorer is higher on workdays: slower uptake on corporate environments when compared to residential custo…

It declares a variable named r10 and instructs the compiler to store it in the r10 CPU register. It's a GCC extension; the farthest you can get in standards-compliant C is register…

At the end of the video, he does mention that it works for any digit. A more honest way to present the argument would be to start with "let x be any decimal digit..." but I suspect…

I understand the argument for enterprise networks. Residential customers have everything to gain from using their IPv6 space, and provider-independence isn't an issue for them. It'…

I think it's a wonderful thing that the TCP/IP model (as originally envisioned) does not preclude endpoints from implementing their own transport protocols on top of IP, irrespecti…

> And NAT doesn't go away with IPv6. That was another belief that did not survive its first encounter with reality. If it doesn't go away, it will be only because of ISP greed (i.e…

> Which assumptions? Using multiple connections is pretty standard in the enterprise storage world. TCP congestion control is designed such that, under steady-state conditions, eac…

SCTP would be the ideal solution, but it's essentially broken on the wide Internet since virtually no NAT boxes understand it. Using a large number of TCP connections breaks some o…

On the flip side, TCP forces you into a single ordered stream and head-of-line blocking. If you need a reliable yet unordered message stream, you have to reinvent the wheel on top …

Although I'm not really sympathetic to the OSI model, it did get some things right. For instance, witness how almost every TCP/IP protocol has to roll out its own session layer for…