The obvious solution is to just get your own private offshore server and route traffic through that.
In Australia we already have ridiculous volume charges, so that it is more or less impossible to make bittorrent work well one. I expect this latest nonsense will just encourage more people to use them.
Simple solution - give them their next fix for free.
This isn't a theoretical idea - the British did it for forty years, from 1926 to 1964, and it meant that heroin addiction simply wasn't a social problem. They only stopped because do-gooders got scared about increasing use in the 60s.
It's not like heroin actually costs money to make. It's only the illegality of it that causes the sort of descent into hell you are worried about.
There are plenty of people who have regular easy access to heroin - doctors, for example - who lead perfectly good lives, holding down jobs and relationships, while being full throttle addicts.
Addicts only crave the drug when they can't get enough (If no amount is enough, then they have a serious personality problem, which has nothing to do with the drug). It's the prohibition that stops them getting enough. So it's the prohibition that causes the harm.
You Yankees have some weird ideas about Australia:)
I have lived here for 40 years. I have never seen an emu, a snake (poisinous or otherwise) or a kangaroo outside a zoo - those being the only animals more dangerous than a rabbit. Of our two even vaguely poisonous spiders, I have seen a red-back exactly twice.
I would be more worried about staying in America and getting eaten by a grizzly. Although you do need to watch out for drop-bears over here...
That's not so much the issue for us. Our problem is that the US forced a bilateral "free" trade agreement down our throat (in exchange for promising to buy more of our sheep. maybe. someday. ) that has most of the DMCA in it.
All this case proved is that they didn't quite get enough detail about how ISPs should crawl to movie companies into the FTA legislation. An error I am sure they will fix in short order.
I know if I pick up the Post and the Times, I get both sides of the argument
Hysterical laughter from down under.
You do realise that from the perspective of the rest of the world, both of these papers are somewhere to the right of Ghengis Khan. In Australia, we watch David Letterman to see what those 'Crazy American Fascists' are up to now.
There's another place we've seen it before - the original unix. Unix worked because of the tight integration between the operating system kernel, the C language, the development environment (the command line and shell scripts ), fileing structure, and the data format ( line delimeted text files ).
When all the parts of a system work together like this, is becomes easy to do stuff - there is no 'impedance mismatch'. That's how this whole *nix deal got started in the first place.
Of course, this is no longer really true of unix, which supports an unholy hodge-podge of tools, data formats etc etc. What makes unix worth spending time on these days is simply the incomparably vast weight of working code that is out there for it - so much that dealing with the vast steaming pile of bullsh*t that you have to do to get anything to work is still worth it.
The question is not whether unix is currently the best - perhaps the only - serious platform for development now, and that the open-source community needs to continue to work with it. The question is whether we need to give projects like BRiX some space, time and support on the sidelines, so that 5-10 years down the track - when unix is really starting to crack at the seams, and commercial products built on exactly these lines ( like JBed http://www.esmertec.com ) are shooting past it - we don't have to start all over again, 10 years off the pace like Linus did.
So don't knock this guy - even if he is hopelessly naive - he is on the right track. And don't knock integrated systems, because your favourite OS got to where it is precisely because it was one, once upon a time...
No, you're not smoking crack. Its called Jbed, and its one of the best and biggest embeded system platforms out there.
http://www.esmertec.com
Unfortunately,its throroughly commercial. If I had a dream open-source project, it would be to get something like JBed working and put a decent GUI on top of it as a desktop platform (hahahaha - got a spare eon?). Then we might actually have a competitor for unix.
Actually, it's going to be hydrogen.
For some very cool technology that's actually happening - cheap, clean, powerfull hydrogen cars - check out
http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid18.asp
Why do Americans immediately assume that if something is going is wrong, it must be the government's fault? Australia's slow start at broadband access has been caused by precisely one fact : the control of virtually all of Australia's media - print and television - by two private corporations - Fairfax and News Ltd - who have had sufficient economic and political clout between them to prevent the development of any new technology that they don't control.
Corporations are the problem. It's highly unlikely that their advice is going to offer any solutions.
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Hello, Better World! :)
The obvious solution is to just get your own private offshore server and route traffic through that.
In Australia we already have ridiculous volume charges, so that it is more or less impossible to make bittorrent work well one. I expect this latest nonsense will just encourage more people to use them.
I think the band doeth protesteth a bit much.
As has happened to every other society in history. Evil is a disease.
http://www.ponerology.com/
Simple solution - give them their next fix for free.
This isn't a theoretical idea - the British did it for forty years, from 1926 to 1964, and it meant that heroin addiction simply wasn't a social problem. They only stopped because do-gooders got scared about increasing use in the 60s.
It's not like heroin actually costs money to make. It's only the illegality of it that causes the sort of descent into hell you are worried about.
There are plenty of people who have regular easy access to heroin - doctors, for example - who lead perfectly good lives, holding down jobs and relationships, while being full throttle addicts.
Addicts only crave the drug when they can't get enough (If no amount is enough, then they have a serious personality problem, which has nothing to do with the drug). It's the prohibition that stops them getting enough. So it's the prohibition that causes the harm.
You Yankees have some weird ideas about Australia :)
I have lived here for 40 years. I have never seen an emu, a snake (poisinous or otherwise) or a kangaroo outside a zoo - those being the only animals more dangerous than a rabbit. Of our two even vaguely poisonous spiders, I have seen a red-back exactly twice.
I would be more worried about staying in America and getting eaten by a grizzly. Although you do need to watch out for drop-bears over here ...
That's not so much the issue for us. Our problem is that the US forced a bilateral "free" trade agreement down our throat (in exchange for promising to buy more of our sheep. maybe. someday. ) that has most of the DMCA in it.
All this case proved is that they didn't quite get enough detail about how ISPs should crawl to movie companies into the FTA legislation. An error I am sure they will fix in short order.
We are your friends Why are you running away
What, like the Federal Reserve?
You do realise that from the perspective of the rest of the world, both of these papers are somewhere to the right of Ghengis Khan. In Australia, we watch David Letterman to see what those 'Crazy American Fascists' are up to now.
Both sides. Still chuckling.
There's another place we've seen it before - the original unix. Unix worked because of the tight integration between the operating system kernel, the C language, the development environment (the command line and shell scripts ), fileing structure, and the data format ( line delimeted text files ).
When all the parts of a system work together like this, is becomes easy to do stuff - there is no 'impedance mismatch'. That's how this whole *nix deal got started in the first place.
Of course, this is no longer really true of unix, which supports an unholy hodge-podge of tools, data formats etc etc. What makes unix worth spending time on these days is simply the incomparably vast weight of working code that is out there for it - so much that dealing with the vast steaming pile of bullsh*t that you have to do to get anything to work is still worth it.
The question is not whether unix is currently the best - perhaps the only - serious platform for development now, and that the open-source community needs to continue to work with it. The question is whether we need to give projects like BRiX some space, time and support on the sidelines, so that 5-10 years down the track - when unix is really starting to crack at the seams, and commercial products built on exactly these lines ( like JBed http://www.esmertec.com ) are shooting past it - we don't have to start all over again, 10 years off the pace like Linus did.
So don't knock this guy - even if he is hopelessly naive - he is on the right track. And don't knock integrated systems, because your favourite OS got to where it is precisely because it was one, once upon a time...
No, you're not smoking crack. Its called Jbed, and its one of the best and biggest embeded system platforms out there.
http://www.esmertec.com
Unfortunately,its throroughly commercial. If I had a dream open-source project, it would be to get something like JBed working and put a decent GUI on top of it as a desktop platform (hahahaha - got a spare eon?). Then we might actually have a competitor for unix.
Actually, it's going to be hydrogen. For some very cool technology that's actually happening - cheap, clean, powerfull hydrogen cars - check out http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid18.asp
Corporations are the problem. It's highly unlikely that their advice is going to offer any solutions.