On 5/14/2010 1:12 AM, Invisible wrote:
>> Yes. Who served the IP address to your machine? Time Warner San Diego?
>> I doubt it.
>
> AFAIK, IP addresses are assigned by a central allocation agency.
>
> Sure, you don't usually talk to them directly; usually you use one of
> the IP addresses from the block assigned to your ISP. But my point is,
> you can't just pick a random number out of the air and try to use that
> as your IP address. It won't work.
Mind, in principle, IPV6 could have each "device" us its own IP, kind of 
like routing to you via MAC address. But.. In a practical sense, its 
still the same DNS system being used for it.

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void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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