Indeed, taking a picture of a train is *not* comparable to "shouting fire in a crowded theater" [Lincoln, I believe.] Civil rights do trump "good intentions", especially when an arm of the government (police) are involved. That is why we call them "rights" instead of "privileges". Freedom of speech and movements are rights; operating a motor vehicle is a privilege. Police attempting to "enforce nonexistent laws" are commiting a federal crime by violating the civil rights of their victims -- I don't thing the Patriot Act repealed the Civil Rights Act.
"Store... for a long time" and "without worrying" are mutually exclusive, just like "perpetual care" is an oxymoron (ever seen a historic cemetery?) Somebody has to periodically check the data integrity and correct single bit errors as they creep in, because over time it's "will", not "if". The key to data protection is redundancy. The key to data protection is redundancy. The second mechanism is "diversity" as in "bio": using technologies that will "go bad" at different rates to cross-check each other. Good cheap alternatives available now are Blu-Ray burners and external (eSATA) hard drives; however, you have to keep checking and fixing data integrity every year (so plan to check every six months). If you have enough data, a RAID 5 SATA NAS backed up to BD-R may be optimal. It should be possible to build a BD-R RAID, but I don't know of any market products at the moment.
For definitions of IW, see Carter Gilmer's paper here (draws heavily on Winn Schwartau). Nation-states appear to be penetrating each other's defenses to gather information. This is a "level two" (of three) info-war as defined by Schwartau. Level two covers a lot of ground. Depending on who you believe, the Russia-Georgia incident might have been a case of level three.
The important point may be for eveyone to remember that sovereign powers are very real, even in cyberspace. If they start extending real warfare into the Internet, then it will be bad for everyone's business.
Rather than couch your request in terms of FOSS, why not request FOSS as SAS from a supporting vendor? The principal FOSS counter-argument (nobody to pay, so nobody to hold liable) gets neutered by the SAS contract. If it isn't worth such a subscription, then what's the business need?
[SAS = Software As Service, also written SAAS]
The Legislature is the check and balance against the Supreme Court. I'm not suggesting impeachment, just that they clarify the law, which should include technically-vetted definitions of the terms use erroneously by the court.
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Indeed, taking a picture of a train is *not* comparable to "shouting fire in a crowded theater" [Lincoln, I believe.] Civil rights do trump "good intentions", especially when an arm of the government (police) are involved. That is why we call them "rights" instead of "privileges". Freedom of speech and movements are rights; operating a motor vehicle is a privilege. Police attempting to "enforce nonexistent laws" are commiting a federal crime by violating the civil rights of their victims -- I don't thing the Patriot Act repealed the Civil Rights Act.
"Store ... for a long time" and "without worrying" are mutually exclusive, just like "perpetual care" is an oxymoron (ever seen a historic cemetery?) Somebody has to periodically check the data integrity and correct single bit errors as they creep in, because over time it's "will", not "if". The key to data protection is redundancy. The key to data protection is redundancy. The second mechanism is "diversity" as in "bio": using technologies that will "go bad" at different rates to cross-check each other. Good cheap alternatives available now are Blu-Ray burners and external (eSATA) hard drives; however, you have to keep checking and fixing data integrity every year (so plan to check every six months). If you have enough data, a RAID 5 SATA NAS backed up to BD-R may be optimal. It should be possible to build a BD-R RAID, but I don't know of any market products at the moment.
For definitions of IW, see Carter Gilmer's paper here (draws heavily on Winn Schwartau). Nation-states appear to be penetrating each other's defenses to gather information. This is a "level two" (of three) info-war as defined by Schwartau. Level two covers a lot of ground. Depending on who you believe, the Russia-Georgia incident might have been a case of level three.
The important point may be for eveyone to remember that sovereign powers are very real, even in cyberspace. If they start extending real warfare into the Internet, then it will be bad for everyone's business.
No, the cloud is made of flies. I think the call it a "large N" cloud.
Now I can start ignoring it. Smells like DCOM to me... awful smell...
Rather than couch your request in terms of FOSS, why not request FOSS as SAS from a supporting vendor? The principal FOSS counter-argument (nobody to pay, so nobody to hold liable) gets neutered by the SAS contract. If it isn't worth such a subscription, then what's the business need? [SAS = Software As Service, also written SAAS]
The Legislature is the check and balance against the Supreme Court. I'm not suggesting impeachment, just that they clarify the law, which should include technically-vetted definitions of the terms use erroneously by the court.