{"id":16565,"date":"2012-08-21T08:45:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T13:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16565"},"modified":"2012-08-21T08:45:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T13:45:14","slug":"verity-stob-learns-to-love-ipv6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/21\/verity-stob-learns-to-love-ipv6\/","title":{"rendered":"Verity Stob learns to love IPv6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A love story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2012\/08\/21\/verity_stob_ipv6\/\" target=\"_blank\">of sorts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Somewhere in the near future&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There were more than 50 people in the room, so it was hot and airless, and it smelled of stale sweat. Government-sponsored crisis posters, tatty and torn, were sticky-taped to the yellowish walls. One urged its readers: &#8216;Don&#8217;t let your selfishness come between little Johnny and his Wikipedia&#8217;, another enquired: &#8216;Do you NATter with your Neighbours? Don&#8217;t squander the nation&#8217;s resource!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>(The latter effort was illustrated with a carefully posed photo of a beaming, bosomy Minister for IT Conservation encouraging a weedy-looking Everybloke to plug his laptop into her generously exposed router socket. The photo had recently acquired a pleasing piquancy. This same Minister had been caught selling a bunch of government-owned IP addresses, supposedly earmarked for use in schools for the next generation of Olympic heroes, to the International Bank of Fatcat and Taxhavenia.)<\/p>\n<p>Under the flickering fluorescent lighting, a shuffling, miserable queue of the desperate and the hopeless zigzagged towards the bullet- sound- and Windolene-proof glass of the counter. At the front of the queue was me.<\/p>\n<p>The official behind the glass pursed his lips, flicked my carefully filled-in paperwork to one side with disdain, and leaned forward to speak into his goose-neck microphone&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A love story, of sorts: Somewhere in the near future&#8230; There were more than 50 people in the room, so it was hot and airless, and it smelled of stale sweat. Government-sponsored crisis posters, tatty and torn, were sticky-taped to the yellowish walls. One urged its readers: &#8216;Don&#8217;t let your selfishness come between little Johnny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,15],"tags":[58,469],"class_list":["post-16565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-technology","tag-internet","tag-monopolies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4jb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16566,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16565\/revisions\/16566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}