The Great $50M African IP Address Heist

Re:The Great $50M African IP Address Heist by geuis on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @08:45PM (#21768611)

I find this style of writing to be lazy and insulting.

“There are fewer than four billion so-called “Internet Protocol version 4” or IPv4 addresses...”

They aren’t “so called”. That’s literally the terminology.

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Re:The Great $50M African IP Address Heist by tlb on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @09:56PM (#21768900)

The usage aligns with definition 1 ("commonly named") but not definition 2 ("falsely or improperly so named") at https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/so-called

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Re:The Great $50M African IP Address Heist by C1sc0cat on Thursday December 12, 2019 @07:17AM (#21771201)

I have never heard of the "commonly named" usage certainly in modern usage "so called" is always negative.

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Re:The Great $50M African IP Address Heist by zepto on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @08:52PM (#21768650)

Avoid reading the mainstream news then.

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Re:The Great $50M African IP Address Heist by colejohnson66 on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @10:01PM (#21768923)

Fewer than 4 billion? pow(2, 32) is over 4 billion unless I’m missing something...

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Re:The Great $50M African IP Address Heist by jcranmer on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @10:30PM (#21769050)

Some of the address space is reserved for particular purposes: 127.0.0.0/8 is for loopback, 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16 for private addresses, 224.0.0.0/4 is for multicast, and 240.0.0.0/4 is class E and unallocatable for anything.

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Re:The Great $50M African IP Address Heist by qhwudbebd on Thursday December 12, 2019 @07:15AM (#21771184)

Surely you mean 'so-called "style" of writing'? :)

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Re:The Great $50M African IP Address Heist by sokoloff on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @09:45PM (#21768855)

And there are (slightly) more than 4 billion of them, of course.

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Re:The Great $50M African IP Address Heist by mehrdadn on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @09:49PM (#21768870)

I'd guess they meant to exclude the ones that are invalid? Though I'm not sure how many of them there are.

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Re:The Great $50M African IP Address Heist by solarkraft on Thursday December 12, 2019 @06:10AM (#21770917)

That it's the terminology people use would for me imply that people call it that, validating the phrase "so called".

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