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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 a
by geuis 7y ago
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.
- zepto 7y agoAvoid reading the mainstream news then.
- sokoloff 7y agoAnd there are (slightly) more than 4 billion of them, of course.
- mehrdadn 7y agoI'd guess they meant to exclude the ones that are invalid? Though I'm not sure how many of them there are.
- tlb 7y agoThe 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 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/so-called
- C1sc0cat 7y agoI have never heard of the "commonly named" usage certainly in modern usage "so called" is always negative.
- colejohnson66 7y agoFewer than 4 billion? pow(2, 32) is over 4 billion unless I’m missing something...
- jcranmer 7y agoSome 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.
- solarkraft 7y agoThat it's the terminology people use would for me imply that people call it that, validating the phrase "so called".
- qhwudbebd 7y agoSurely you mean 'so-called "style" of writing'? :)