Were the Mayans right... 2012 End Of The World?
Jul 26, 2010 16:32:25 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on Jul 26, 2010 16:32:25 GMT -5
All of us have heard about the Mayan Calender that says the world will end in 2012.... with some potentially very bad things happening... up to and including being burned to a crisp and/or being frozen to death.
But hey, although I think the Mayans had some good points, these guys also danced around in feathers and cut peoples heads off.. so really, who could take them serious...
...But, I just read an article that makes me think they were really on to something...
...this really could be the end of civilization as we know it...
World Will Run Out of Internet Addresses in Less Than a Year, Experts Predict
Published July 26, 2010 | NewsCore
In 2003, Geoff Huston gave a presentation titled "IPv4 Address Lifetime Expectancy Revisited" where he showed the trends in IP address deployment, and used a simple model to extrapolate these trends to predict the moment the last IP address would be used up.
Experts predict the world will run out of internet addresses in less than a year, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday.
The internet protocol used by the majority of web users, IPv4, provides for about four billion IP addresses -- the unique 32-digit number used to identify each computer, website or internet-connected device.
There are currently only 232 million IP addresses left -- enough for about 340 days -- thanks to the explosion in smartphones and other web-enabled devices.
"When the IPv4 protocol was developed 30 years ago, it seemed to be a reasonable attempt at providing enough addresses," carrier relations manager at Australian internet service provider (ISP) Internode John Lindsay told the Herald.
"Bearing in mind that at that point personal computers didn't really exist, the idea that mobile phones might want an IP address hadn't occurred to anybody because mobile phones hadn't been invented [and] the idea that air-conditioners and refrigerators might want them was utterly ludicrous."
Read More: www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/07/26/world-run-internet-addresses-year-experts-predict/?test=latestnews
But hey, although I think the Mayans had some good points, these guys also danced around in feathers and cut peoples heads off.. so really, who could take them serious...
...But, I just read an article that makes me think they were really on to something...
...this really could be the end of civilization as we know it...
World Will Run Out of Internet Addresses in Less Than a Year, Experts Predict
Published July 26, 2010 | NewsCore
In 2003, Geoff Huston gave a presentation titled "IPv4 Address Lifetime Expectancy Revisited" where he showed the trends in IP address deployment, and used a simple model to extrapolate these trends to predict the moment the last IP address would be used up.
Experts predict the world will run out of internet addresses in less than a year, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday.
The internet protocol used by the majority of web users, IPv4, provides for about four billion IP addresses -- the unique 32-digit number used to identify each computer, website or internet-connected device.
There are currently only 232 million IP addresses left -- enough for about 340 days -- thanks to the explosion in smartphones and other web-enabled devices.
"When the IPv4 protocol was developed 30 years ago, it seemed to be a reasonable attempt at providing enough addresses," carrier relations manager at Australian internet service provider (ISP) Internode John Lindsay told the Herald.
"Bearing in mind that at that point personal computers didn't really exist, the idea that mobile phones might want an IP address hadn't occurred to anybody because mobile phones hadn't been invented [and] the idea that air-conditioners and refrigerators might want them was utterly ludicrous."
Read More: www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/07/26/world-run-internet-addresses-year-experts-predict/?test=latestnews