Recall quickly all the recent controversy over China’s internet filtering. Now ask how well it is working. If you said, “kinda,” you win a prize. China of course did not block out the whole internet, just the good parts. However, what many in the west did not know, was that there was a reason behind all of this other than merely restricting freedom. China wanted to keep ethnic hatred to a minimum. A fair point in a nation as large and diverse as China.

But even with the mildly logical impetus behind that actions, will this help? Of course not. People will find out what was happening anyway, and probably even become more angry at the situation. Why not instead use the internet to foster positive relations, open communication, and understanding? Banning from people from talking rarely ends enmity. We will continue tracking this story.

A while back, ARIN, the American Registry for Internet Numbers, put out a resolution saying that we’re running out of IP addresses using the IPv4 protocol. The next technology, IPv6, has been developed, but like with any big infrastructure switch, the cost of getting internet users onto the new system is a little offputting. But it came to light that Comcast would be switching customers over to IPv6 addresses next year.

IPv4 addresses are of a 32-bit address size, which allows for 4.3 billion addresses, and we’re almost out of these. IPv6 goes up to a number which I don’t even think we have a word for - 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456  total possible addresses. So we’re not going to exhaust IPv6 anytime soon, lest we expand to some sort of trans-universal internet in the next million years.

The switch will not kill all the old IPv4 addresses, but will rather keep them working for a while until IPv6 is fully in place. That’s pretty much essential as not supporting both until the transition is complete would make for some bizarre internet segregation, and we certainly don’t need that.

I hate to say this, but Southwest, we have to part ways. We had great times flying the Portland-SFO route. Sometimes you would even give me three chairs to lie on and two drinks. But, that only goes so far for a tech guy. You know what I really wanted (no, not cellphones on airlines, that would cause much annoyance induced homicide),  in air WiFi. And you know what, Virgin is giving it to me. Forget any theoretical price differential, I can email on the way to Chicago, or New York.

No more being trapped with nothing to do. No more flipping open your laptop, firing up Chrome, and then almost bursting into tears. The internet has returned. However, while I am celebrating over here at my desk, I have one last teensy itty little request: electrical outlets. I mean, why not? Wait, what is that that you say? Virgin has plugs, and internet? Someone call the Church, I am going to marry this airline.

This is an guest post by Misty Belardo. You can find more of her content from her Twitter stream at : http://twitter.com/mistygirlph

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