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The Internet is now IPv6 supersized! I'm probably going to lose 3/4 of my readers right here since it's a technical thing, but it is a big change to the internet. If done correctly the end user won't notice a difference at all however. Currently the Internet uses IPv4 (Internet Protocol Version 4) which uses 32 bit IP addresses. The familiar 63.247.141.250 that you might have seen before. Everything connected to the Internet has a unique IP address and as everything (internet enabled washing machines for example) and everyone gets connected, there aren't many free IP address left. So in a few years it'll get really bad and while there are work arounds, it's not an ideal situation. IPv6 on the other hand uses 128 bit addressing, meaning it has 25,000 trillion trillion times the number of IP addresses as IPv6. Meaning there are enough addresses so that every square meter on earth could have over one hundred million unique IP addresses. Needless to say running out of IP's will not be a problem. Everyone will slowly switch over to IPv6 over the course of a decade or two, but the big news is that it's officially supported on the interweb now.
An MIT chem grad won the Miss Massachusetts beauty pagent. So she's not only cute, but speaks 3 languages, plays piano, and was a finalist in the Intel high school science fair competition. It's still not as cool as winning the Sexiest Geek Alive pagent though.
I really am a huge nerd aren't I?
I'm going on a roadtrip to Purdue this weekend with a bunch of the other interns, since quite a few of them are from up there. I've never been to Indiana before, I just hear it gets cold in the winters. I've been warned that it'll be a very interesting weekend indeed.
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