From the wired.com article you link to : "Professor Orin Kerr questions whether the decision is about getting this information from an ISP or whether it was from a device installed on a computer surreptitiously. He suggests the latter should require a higher standard, but I'm not sure why? Perhaps it's because that might require law enforcement to enter a person's house?"
The writer is not sure why attaching a device to a computer in a home would require a higher standard? Have IQs really dropped so much of late? I give you Amendment IV, Bill of Rights, US Constitution : "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
These are not optional rights, they are inalienable Rights.
Ya, should have been more precise. I included a direct predecessor to linux derived from Berkley Unix in my "over 20 years" time period. For those who don't know, linux was not the first small machine unix port. But its the most easily accessible one today.
I ran it a long time. Ran Quakeworld Team Fortress on it back in the day for a server hosted at an ISP (for tournaments, etc.)
I remember brainstorming with a friend to hack the kernel to get it to run in MP mode since the machine had 2 processors. We *almost* got it right, but messed up a small detail which corrupted the indexes after about a week. Heh.
Nonetheless, in all my years working in the IT industry, in many roles ranging from tech support to Strategic Planning Director, I can't think of a single time when linux had any effect on the future of IT.
It all goes back to basics, too. The Mac showed the benefits of the GUI. And Apple got it right. Microsoft also got their version right, it just feels different and does things differently in many ways too. Those of us who had big unix installations - I had one doing 1M transactions a day which was nothing to sneeze at back then - realized when it came time to decide what operating system sat on the corporate desktops, it wasn't going to be unix despite a pretty spiffy ui of its own. Some things just work better for some things, and the Mac and Windows machines were better for business users because they were easier to use and required less training of the users. And because a ton of software was soon available for them, high quality software.
None of which is a negative commentary about unix/linux. The inherit transaction processing power of unix is legendary. It runs Oracle (given equal hardware horsepower) better than MVS at the big machine level and better than Windows Server at the small machine level. At the mid-level, unix is king, for good reason. And there it runs Oracle better than other operating systems on the same hardware platforms. Yes, there are exceptions, but overall such is the case.
Quite true.
I've been asking the same question for over 20 years now.... since Linux is so inexpensive to purchase, why isn't it present on a higher percentage of desktops (what, about 1% or less ?) ?
This car has about as much chance of winning at Indy as Linux has of relieving Windows of its 90+ percent desktop ownership.
However, had the discussion been strictly about Indy racing and the level of funding a team needs (which is mind numbing), and to what ends team owners go to get funding, it would actually have been a good thread.
I imagine Sony is trying to appear to be uninvolved as much as possible. They might have historic involvement in BSD, but it is dwarfed by their investment and revenue stream derived from entertainment products which run on the Windows platform.
I have a prediction. If the initiative in Japan becomes "law", it will be widely disregarded in fact.
One must ask, if Linux (and variants of Unix in general) was a productive replacement for Windows and what runs on Windows, wouldn't it be fairly universal in use, given the extremely low cost of ownership? Without needing governments to intervene in the marketplace ?
There is a long standing precedent for extradition. It has existed for longer than the United States has existed in one form or another.
Frankly, I'm glad the bloke was extradited and will be tried by a court in the country of the injured party.
If you've ever been ripped off or otherwise disappointed by a person in another country, you know exactly how I feel about it. I'm cheering the US on in this matter. Props to AU for seeing it their way too.
What operating system would this run? Somehow I don't think Microsoft is going to let India have *any* Windows product for free. Nothing costing $10 would run MacOS, but free linux would be an option. Which would give you web browsing and email.
Maybe even a bigger question is, who is going to pay to run all the fiber trunk lines all over the country where not even copper pair exists? Which is way more than half the country. If you say, they'll use wireless, well, we are back to how do you fit a couple hundred dollars in a $10 matchbox.
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From the wired.com article you link to : "Professor Orin Kerr questions whether the decision is about getting this information from an ISP or whether it was from a device installed on a computer surreptitiously. He suggests the latter should require a higher standard, but I'm not sure why? Perhaps it's because that might require law enforcement to enter a person's house?" The writer is not sure why attaching a device to a computer in a home would require a higher standard? Have IQs really dropped so much of late? I give you Amendment IV, Bill of Rights, US Constitution : "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." These are not optional rights, they are inalienable Rights.
Ya, should have been more precise. I included a direct predecessor to linux derived from Berkley Unix in my "over 20 years" time period. For those who don't know, linux was not the first small machine unix port. But its the most easily accessible one today.
I ran it a long time. Ran Quakeworld Team Fortress on it back in the day for a server hosted at an ISP (for tournaments, etc.) I remember brainstorming with a friend to hack the kernel to get it to run in MP mode since the machine had 2 processors. We *almost* got it right, but messed up a small detail which corrupted the indexes after about a week. Heh.
Nonetheless, in all my years working in the IT industry, in many roles ranging from tech support to Strategic Planning Director, I can't think of a single time when linux had any effect on the future of IT.
It all goes back to basics, too. The Mac showed the benefits of the GUI. And Apple got it right. Microsoft also got their version right, it just feels different and does things differently in many ways too. Those of us who had big unix installations - I had one doing 1M transactions a day which was nothing to sneeze at back then - realized when it came time to decide what operating system sat on the corporate desktops, it wasn't going to be unix despite a pretty spiffy ui of its own. Some things just work better for some things, and the Mac and Windows machines were better for business users because they were easier to use and required less training of the users. And because a ton of software was soon available for them, high quality software.
None of which is a negative commentary about unix/linux. The inherit transaction processing power of unix is legendary. It runs Oracle (given equal hardware horsepower) better than MVS at the big machine level and better than Windows Server at the small machine level. At the mid-level, unix is king, for good reason. And there it runs Oracle better than other operating systems on the same hardware platforms. Yes, there are exceptions, but overall such is the case.
Quite true. I've been asking the same question for over 20 years now.... since Linux is so inexpensive to purchase, why isn't it present on a higher percentage of desktops (what, about 1% or less ?) ?
Soviet Russia ?
This car has about as much chance of winning at Indy as Linux has of relieving Windows of its 90+ percent desktop ownership. However, had the discussion been strictly about Indy racing and the level of funding a team needs (which is mind numbing), and to what ends team owners go to get funding, it would actually have been a good thread.
I imagine Sony is trying to appear to be uninvolved as much as possible. They might have historic involvement in BSD, but it is dwarfed by their investment and revenue stream derived from entertainment products which run on the Windows platform. I have a prediction. If the initiative in Japan becomes "law", it will be widely disregarded in fact. One must ask, if Linux (and variants of Unix in general) was a productive replacement for Windows and what runs on Windows, wouldn't it be fairly universal in use, given the extremely low cost of ownership? Without needing governments to intervene in the marketplace ?
There is a long standing precedent for extradition. It has existed for longer than the United States has existed in one form or another. Frankly, I'm glad the bloke was extradited and will be tried by a court in the country of the injured party. If you've ever been ripped off or otherwise disappointed by a person in another country, you know exactly how I feel about it. I'm cheering the US on in this matter. Props to AU for seeing it their way too.
What operating system would this run? Somehow I don't think Microsoft is going to let India have *any* Windows product for free. Nothing costing $10 would run MacOS, but free linux would be an option. Which would give you web browsing and email. Maybe even a bigger question is, who is going to pay to run all the fiber trunk lines all over the country where not even copper pair exists? Which is way more than half the country. If you say, they'll use wireless, well, we are back to how do you fit a couple hundred dollars in a $10 matchbox.