Well, it was already a multi-billion dollar investment as of last Friday, so the only real new information is that 25% of IBM's R&D budget is in the multi-billion dollar range.
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I hate to say it, but you get what you pay for. I can't imagine complaining about an email service which is provided for free and doesn't have to send your attachment if it doesn't want to. Heck, your ISP probably already provides you with a mailbox or two along with your 'net connection, why not use them?
Not that ISPs provide flawless email either, but at least you can legitimately complain since you've spent money on it.
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The problem is the difficulty in distinguishing between bandwagon on-hoppers (hey, it's as correct as "hotting up") and those of us who've taken a reasoned look at the relative freedoms available throughout the world, made a well-reasoned choice, and simply don't care to rehash our reasons every single time the issue of freedom comes up. I would say it's as easy to knee-jerk bash those anti-communist folks, as it is for people to have knee-jerk anti-communist comments in the first place.
I feel justified in pointing out human rights abuses in China because I abhor them in the U.S. as well. I'll admit that things aren't perfect in the U.S., but that's no reason not to write legitimate criticisms of a government which has a far worse record, overall, than the U.S.
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Sounds like the Internet community needs better representation. Of course, since ICANN is theoretically representative now (kinda) (sorta), perhaps there's grounds for a malpractice suit, or at least an ethics inquiry.
Dare to dream, I guess.
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Hmmm, maybe things are different in the UK, but here in the US the FCC made a similar proposal, broadcasters all shared a hearty "Up Yours", and nothing's changed. I agree that it would totally suck and not be in the public interest to make such a change all at once, but I'm not as fearful that it will occur, since there's really no one (other than the government) with an interest in making the change.
I'm not opposed to digital TV per se; I just want to have a choice.
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So the space station can't yet handle two docked spacecraft at once? Anyone know when that capacity will be available?
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It's not Napster's job to determine if copyright is being violated - the law places that responsibility on the RIAA's shoulders alone. I'm not saying that the RIAA shouldn't go after individual users; once Napster has handed over their identities, the RIAA would be totally justified in going after each Napster abuser in court, and levying the appropriate fines if they win their case.
Except of course that suing your customers is a good way to end up without any, and suing 20% of all Internet users (statistic from elsewhere in this story) is going to be pretty expensive even if most of them settle immediately. Unfortunately for the RIAA, their business has changed for good, and there's really nothing they can do about it. They're just lashing out at Napster because it's the least bad of their options at the moment. For better or for worse, music's going to be copied, and that future doesn't include them.
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They can't turn a blind eye to the copyright
infringement that is going on and claim that "oh, I didn't know about *that* case also!" Imaging you trying to argue that before
you can get a speeding ticket, you would have to have a cop warn you and a speed limit sign would need to be on every block.
Except those are exactly the rules of the DMCA: the copyright holder must inform the publisher of the exact location of the infraction, then the publisher takes the infringing work down, and if the user wants they can appeal to have it put back up if they sign an affidavit that it is in fact not a violation. There is specifically no requirement that online publishers police their content, because it's impossible to maintain a modern interactive online presence and police anything 24/7. To hold Napster to such a standard would effectively shut down/. and k5 too.
The reason that you don't have to be warned by a cop for every traffic violation is because your use of the privilege of a driver's license means you agree to abide by traffic regulations. Napster is abiding by the governing law (the DMCA), although I admit that most of it's users are not. The RIAA just wants Napster to do the hard work that the RIAA signed up for when they got the DMCA passed.
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I reread it every so often too. My number one fear in life is that King is going to die before finishing off what has already become (IMHO) his best series to date. Plus it seems to be wrapping up several threads from his other books.
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Totally not the case - they've made their OS what they want, and they can change it if they want to. Don't confuse the cost of rolling out changes to 8000 machines with the cost of forcing a proprietary OS vendor to make the changes you need - you can roll out 8000 machines on a rolling basis in a week, assuming a conservative 1 hour automatic install 80 at a time (1% unavailability). You may never be able to get Sun or Microsoft to make the changes you need in an OS, if it isn't in their best interest to do so. Google's only "locked in" to RH in the sense that they can only achieve sufficient flexibility with an open source OS, and it sounds like they just went with RH because it's easier to hire admins. I bet they could run on any other flavor of Linux pretty easily, and *BSD without too much pain if they had to.
Moderators, the above was only insightful if you don't care to think very hard...
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Sun boxes are
expensive, but way fewer would be needed and that would save money.
Did you actually read the article? Because the guy in charge of this stuff said that they were saving money by doing it this way. Considering the amount of money Google would be out if he were just lying through his teeth as part of the Linux Zealot Conspiracy (c), I really doubt that he's making that up. But if you'd like to point out all of the Google-sized sites that you're running, maybe we could talk.
He also mentioned that using a freely-modifiable commodity OS on commodity hardware kept them free of any vendor pressure, which I imagine would be somewhat of a problem with Solaris, et al. No forced upgrades for Google!
P.S. There is no Linux Zealot Conspiracy, of course, but you wouldn't know it by reading/.:P
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``it's morally wrong and reprehensible for anybody to consider the cloning of a human being,'' said House sponsor Dave Weldon,
R-Fla
Nice to see that it's not just Germany and France (cf my comments here) which believe in ThoughtCrime. Thanks, Rep. Weldon, but I don't need you or anyone in the government to tell me how to think. I grudgingly allow the public good to interfere with what I do (on the expectation that my fellow citizens will be similarly restrained in their actions towards me), but my thoughts are accountable to no one.
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2600's case has already been ruled on. They're now appealing on the grounds that the law is bad. More evidence that the law is bad can be used in their appeal. On the surface Felten's paper doesn't have much immediate connection with DeCSS, but at the appeals level it does.
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...because it's not worthwhile. What would be the advantage of creating a baby that's an exact genetic copy of someone, and then waiting years for it to be able to walk, talk, and think? I could see some advantages to cloning body parts, but cloning a whole person will never be worthwhile. Unless of course we've developed something that can accelerate your growth tremendously and also dump knowledge directly into the brain, but I'm not holding my breath on that one.
At least Congress isn't going after mutants. Yet.
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Mostly because the web is hard to archive, but Usenet is easy. You don't see someone providing a compilation of all the helpful web sites from '95 to the present, do you? But you can now search Usenet for helpful information on a topic all the way back to then.
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Apparently Felten said Princeton had been very supportive, but some of the researchers were from other organizations that would not have been so supportive.
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...with the ma-bell, it was *impossible* for there to even BE any competition...
Unix is what it is today because of competition.
This may be the funniest unintentional juxtaposition I've ever seen on/. You realize, of course, that Unix wouldn't be what it is today without Bell Labs. One of the reasons that Unix was originally distributed free of charge was because AT&T was prohibited from charging for non-phone services, because it was... wait for it... a monopoly!
I agree with you about competition and all, but maybe you shouldn't use a product created under one of the world's largest monopolies as an example.
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So you say you got a real solution? Well, you know, we'd all love to see the plan.
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Hey, if that's what it takes to encourage thoughtful and informative posts in this forum, then I'm all for it :)
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Well, it was already a multi-billion dollar investment as of last Friday, so the only real new information is that 25% of IBM's R&D budget is in the multi-billion dollar range.
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(standard remarks about why /. editors don't ever seem to read the site, etc., etc.)
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I hate to say it, but you get what you pay for. I can't imagine complaining about an email service which is provided for free and doesn't have to send your attachment if it doesn't want to. Heck, your ISP probably already provides you with a mailbox or two along with your 'net connection, why not use them?
Not that ISPs provide flawless email either, but at least you can legitimately complain since you've spent money on it.
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The problem is the difficulty in distinguishing between bandwagon on-hoppers (hey, it's as correct as "hotting up") and those of us who've taken a reasoned look at the relative freedoms available throughout the world, made a well-reasoned choice, and simply don't care to rehash our reasons every single time the issue of freedom comes up. I would say it's as easy to knee-jerk bash those anti-communist folks, as it is for people to have knee-jerk anti-communist comments in the first place.
I feel justified in pointing out human rights abuses in China because I abhor them in the U.S. as well. I'll admit that things aren't perfect in the U.S., but that's no reason not to write legitimate criticisms of a government which has a far worse record, overall, than the U.S.
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Sounds like the Internet community needs better representation. Of course, since ICANN is theoretically representative now (kinda) (sorta), perhaps there's grounds for a malpractice suit, or at least an ethics inquiry.
Dare to dream, I guess.
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"Honest, officer, I was just adding another 4000 nodes to my Google cluster! Why won't you believe me??"
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Hmmm, maybe things are different in the UK, but here in the US the FCC made a similar proposal, broadcasters all shared a hearty "Up Yours", and nothing's changed. I agree that it would totally suck and not be in the public interest to make such a change all at once, but I'm not as fearful that it will occur, since there's really no one (other than the government) with an interest in making the change.
I'm not opposed to digital TV per se; I just want to have a choice.
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So the space station can't yet handle two docked spacecraft at once? Anyone know when that capacity will be available?
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It's not Napster's job to determine if copyright is being violated - the law places that responsibility on the RIAA's shoulders alone. I'm not saying that the RIAA shouldn't go after individual users; once Napster has handed over their identities, the RIAA would be totally justified in going after each Napster abuser in court, and levying the appropriate fines if they win their case.
Except of course that suing your customers is a good way to end up without any, and suing 20% of all Internet users (statistic from elsewhere in this story) is going to be pretty expensive even if most of them settle immediately. Unfortunately for the RIAA, their business has changed for good, and there's really nothing they can do about it. They're just lashing out at Napster because it's the least bad of their options at the moment. For better or for worse, music's going to be copied, and that future doesn't include them.
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Except those are exactly the rules of the DMCA: the copyright holder must inform the publisher of the exact location of the infraction, then the publisher takes the infringing work down, and if the user wants they can appeal to have it put back up if they sign an affidavit that it is in fact not a violation. There is specifically no requirement that online publishers police their content, because it's impossible to maintain a modern interactive online presence and police anything 24/7. To hold Napster to such a standard would effectively shut down /. and k5 too.
The reason that you don't have to be warned by a cop for every traffic violation is because your use of the privilege of a driver's license means you agree to abide by traffic regulations. Napster is abiding by the governing law (the DMCA), although I admit that most of it's users are not. The RIAA just wants Napster to do the hard work that the RIAA signed up for when they got the DMCA passed.
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I reread it every so often too. My number one fear in life is that King is going to die before finishing off what has already become (IMHO) his best series to date. Plus it seems to be wrapping up several threads from his other books.
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Totally not the case - they've made their OS what they want, and they can change it if they want to. Don't confuse the cost of rolling out changes to 8000 machines with the cost of forcing a proprietary OS vendor to make the changes you need - you can roll out 8000 machines on a rolling basis in a week, assuming a conservative 1 hour automatic install 80 at a time (1% unavailability). You may never be able to get Sun or Microsoft to make the changes you need in an OS, if it isn't in their best interest to do so. Google's only "locked in" to RH in the sense that they can only achieve sufficient flexibility with an open source OS, and it sounds like they just went with RH because it's easier to hire admins. I bet they could run on any other flavor of Linux pretty easily, and *BSD without too much pain if they had to.
Moderators, the above was only insightful if you don't care to think very hard...
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Did you actually read the article? Because the guy in charge of this stuff said that they were saving money by doing it this way. Considering the amount of money Google would be out if he were just lying through his teeth as part of the Linux Zealot Conspiracy (c), I really doubt that he's making that up. But if you'd like to point out all of the Google-sized sites that you're running, maybe we could talk.
He also mentioned that using a freely-modifiable commodity OS on commodity hardware kept them free of any vendor pressure, which I imagine would be somewhat of a problem with Solaris, et al. No forced upgrades for Google!
P.S. There is no Linux Zealot Conspiracy, of course, but you wouldn't know it by reading /. :P
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...but not for you, gunslinger.
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Nice to see that it's not just Germany and France (cf my comments here) which believe in ThoughtCrime. Thanks, Rep. Weldon, but I don't need you or anyone in the government to tell me how to think. I grudgingly allow the public good to interfere with what I do (on the expectation that my fellow citizens will be similarly restrained in their actions towards me), but my thoughts are accountable to no one.
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So, if I created two clones of myself, it would be OK? They'd just be twins, right?
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"Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun."
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2600's case has already been ruled on. They're now appealing on the grounds that the law is bad. More evidence that the law is bad can be used in their appeal. On the surface Felten's paper doesn't have much immediate connection with DeCSS, but at the appeals level it does.
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...because it's not worthwhile. What would be the advantage of creating a baby that's an exact genetic copy of someone, and then waiting years for it to be able to walk, talk, and think? I could see some advantages to cloning body parts, but cloning a whole person will never be worthwhile. Unless of course we've developed something that can accelerate your growth tremendously and also dump knowledge directly into the brain, but I'm not holding my breath on that one.
At least Congress isn't going after mutants. Yet.
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Mostly because the web is hard to archive, but Usenet is easy. You don't see someone providing a compilation of all the helpful web sites from '95 to the present, do you? But you can now search Usenet for helpful information on a topic all the way back to then.
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Apparently Felten said Princeton had been very supportive, but some of the researchers were from other organizations that would not have been so supportive.
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This may be the funniest unintentional juxtaposition I've ever seen on /. You realize, of course, that Unix wouldn't be what it is today without Bell Labs. One of the reasons that Unix was originally distributed free of charge was because AT&T was prohibited from charging for non-phone services, because it was ... wait for it ... a monopoly!
I agree with you about competition and all, but maybe you shouldn't use a product created under one of the world's largest monopolies as an example.
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Actually, it's more stable on Windows than on Solaris. Linux wasn't even mentioned as a web serving platform.
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