Stephen Fry MADNESS: 'New domain names GENERATE NEW IP NUMBERS'

Fry Roasting

Agree with AC re Fry bashing. Sure his original Satnav trope was a top funny, deservedly lampooned in these pages for being so ludicrous. But now it feels like somebody at Reg Towers is monitoring Fry's every move, waiting for a slight mistake or vague comment then reporting it with a lot of forced laughter.

I checked out his website and he does not claim to be anything more than a keen amateur in the tech world, except doing a few gadget reviews. If you don't like the man, the image, the "brand", better to just say so straight out.

If he doesn't want to be seen as an expert he shouldn't try to sound like one.

He is surrounded by people that have no knowledge of a subject about which he has (dangerously) a little knowledge, so he can go around pretending he's the expert simply because compared to the majority he is.

There are only a few that have actual knowledge that call him on it.

And this is fun!

Sites rarely have a certificate for all their various domains. They'll just redirect to their default or create a specific secure.xxxxx.co.uk domain to use for secure interactions.

That was ironic. Right?

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@NomNomNom

I hold Stephen Fry in a certain respect; There is a long version but the shorter one is that his frank and open discussions of his own mental health issues are to be lauded and are every bit as important in that sphere as Angelina Jolie's mastectomy was for breast cancer.

So, there is a temptation for me to approve of your defence of his statements.

You are, however, raving mad if even a single syllable of your post was written without your tongue firmy in your cheek. Reading back your previous posts, I hope that is the case. (Cheek, tongue, etc...)

wtf? We are using a finite based numbering scheme which potentially could run out. The question is will we run out? IPV6 has only just been introduced so based on current uptake of IP addresses we probably won't run out for many, many years. But there there are plans afoot to hook more and more devices to the internet, consumer devices, not just computing based devices such as laptops, mobile phones.

As for being too close to the question, I would suggest that it is precisely because we are close to it, that we understand it, that we understand the industry, that we can see trends, make predictions with some degree of accuracy and make a more accurate prediction than someone that is not an expert in technology. Forest and trees is not an idiom that is relevant in this case.

I doubt Stephen Fry knows enough about IPV4, IPV6 number spaces to be able to make an informed comment on whether we will run out, his remarks are probably not based on that level of detail, but based on general common knowledge that IP numbers are running out and we have to do something about it (that something is the instantiation of the IPV6 scheme).

Given that IPV6 hasn't been in use for that long, anyone can make a prediction now, the reality is, we won't know for many years whether that prediction is accurate or not. That is, anyone's prediction now is likely to be as accurate as anyone elses. What is the value of even making a prediction under these circumstances? It's akin to making a weather forecast for the United Kingdom for the 10th June 2015, it has little value and is most likely to be wrong.

As T0 approaches the certainty increases, there comes a point where you are so far from T0, it's pointless making the prediction.

If Stephen Fry in years to come, turns out to be correct, I would suggest it's not because of a well thoughtout, intelligent analysis of the data at the time he made the prediction, but down to sheer luck.

Re: IPV6 no?

Once IPv4 is used up people will be forced to got to v6 which means IP as a whole has effectively infinite address space.

The more we use, the more we'll get... TA-DA!

In his ignorance, he may have stumbled on the truth.

It probably is time to give him a break on facts, since that should be all scripted and not what he makes up himself.

I'll give him a pass on the grounds that QI is on the ABC and its a relief to listen to with hardly a "g'day" in earshot.

Restraining order maybe?

Re: The day of .uk is upon us.

I'll bet French Connection pushed hard for that one.

Re: Orlowski afraid to put this under his own name now?

Snap!

"..then we're going to rapidly have a serious worldwide shortage of crosses & nails"

Nah we just switch to crosses and nailsV6

I actually blogged a similar thing a couple of years ago, I like that Mt Fry likes tech, I like cricket and have very strong opinions on it. I will comment on cricket too, and sometimes I will even blog about it. This however doesn't make me a cricketer, and any cricketers out there could quite easily take some sort of trentsbridge with what I say.

Give the guy a break.

Re: What's the uptake

Not good I am afraid. I just checked and the IP address for the only registered domain name in Scotland, breezyTackleUpMeKilt.sc, and that has run out so you won't be able to register. breezyTackleUpMeKilt.scot.