Keep sensitive material out of the hands of the technologically retarded. If someone doesn't have enough sense to encrypt the data of that high a sensiti level then he doesn't deserve to be given a position where super high level information is passed to him.
Unfortunately I think the Napster model is out...
too easy to lay blame...
But, distributed peer to peer like Gnutella...not scalable enough and no clean interfaces...
I think if anything like Napster comes around again it's gonna survive using a subscription model...
nothing else will really hold sway..
I wish it did work...but hey...you know what a wish is worth..
SAP has to be the worst product of it's kind. It may be great but the interface eats it. Extremely bulky and bloated...you think M$ makes bloatware...hah!
This is one of those products that should never have even been considered for GPL...
Let's look at this in a serious light. If you start handing out 100mbit connections to home users there will be an eventual degredation of the system that has already been saturated with 'broadband' users. With only 2 million or so users with high speed home access the net has already started slowing down. You square their connection speed and the system will slow down even more. How much is too much?
With around 50 million connected users in the united states there is already the technology divide. Those who have it and those who don't. Once you start it gets worse. People w/out access will remain that way while the people who have will have more (see greed). What we should be doing is educating more people to the online resources of the internet first and then, once we have the majority connected, speed the connections. If we had everyone in this country connected properly there would be no bandwith. Backbones are not capable of handling that much traffic.
If you want to set up a rich get richer scheme then by all means. I myself have RCN fiber. And the connection speeds are fantastic. But you add users and it gets slower. But the problem is that here is not enough people using the technology. Like the phone when it first came out the rich had 'em and most everyone else had to use rural phones, usually one guy in town would have a phone and the connection was terrible. Of course we see that that has changed significantly since the turn of the century (the previous one). Remember, technology can only grow as fast as public acceptance.
Does anyone here still have a grandparent or great grandparent that has a 'phone closet'? I bet you don't. How many people here have a computer in a seperate room than the kitchen or living room?
I believe to some degree that Zen or some form of Taoist belief system is prevalent amongst most 'hackers'. Because when you get right down to it most talented 'users' feel more of a kinship with this belief system than the more traditional (popular) religions, i.e. Christianity, Mohammedism, etc... For myself it lends itself to the fact that the world we live in (virtually) is more akin to the principles of Zen or Taoism. For example the sense of community empathy. The feeling that we are all somehow connected on a deeper level. The internet and it's makeup facilitates this to a great extent because we are no longer limited by physical or geographical boundaries. And on the hardware end you get to see creation from the groun up, you not only see that everything has a place and a purpose but also that the purpose does not have to be used by the maker to be fully realized. That once made it could go on and become. This belief system is what has helped along such things as GPL and the 'hacker ethic'.
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Keep sensitive material out of the hands of the technologically retarded. If someone doesn't have enough sense to encrypt the data of that high a sensiti level then he doesn't deserve to be given a position where super high level information is passed to him.
Unfortunately I think the Napster model is out... too easy to lay blame... But, distributed peer to peer like Gnutella...not scalable enough and no clean interfaces... I think if anything like Napster comes around again it's gonna survive using a subscription model... nothing else will really hold sway.. I wish it did work...but hey...you know what a wish is worth..
SAP has to be the worst product of it's kind. It may be great but the interface eats it. Extremely bulky and bloated...you think M$ makes bloatware...hah! This is one of those products that should never have even been considered for GPL...
Let's look at this in a serious light. If you start handing out 100mbit connections to home users there will be an eventual degredation of the system that has already been saturated with 'broadband' users. With only 2 million or so users with high speed home access the net has already started slowing down. You square their connection speed and the system will slow down even more. How much is too much? With around 50 million connected users in the united states there is already the technology divide. Those who have it and those who don't. Once you start it gets worse. People w/out access will remain that way while the people who have will have more (see greed). What we should be doing is educating more people to the online resources of the internet first and then, once we have the majority connected, speed the connections. If we had everyone in this country connected properly there would be no bandwith. Backbones are not capable of handling that much traffic. If you want to set up a rich get richer scheme then by all means. I myself have RCN fiber. And the connection speeds are fantastic. But you add users and it gets slower. But the problem is that here is not enough people using the technology. Like the phone when it first came out the rich had 'em and most everyone else had to use rural phones, usually one guy in town would have a phone and the connection was terrible. Of course we see that that has changed significantly since the turn of the century (the previous one). Remember, technology can only grow as fast as public acceptance. Does anyone here still have a grandparent or great grandparent that has a 'phone closet'? I bet you don't. How many people here have a computer in a seperate room than the kitchen or living room?
I believe to some degree that Zen or some form of Taoist belief system is prevalent amongst most 'hackers'. Because when you get right down to it most talented 'users' feel more of a kinship with this belief system than the more traditional (popular) religions, i.e. Christianity, Mohammedism, etc... For myself it lends itself to the fact that the world we live in (virtually) is more akin to the principles of Zen or Taoism. For example the sense of community empathy. The feeling that we are all somehow connected on a deeper level. The internet and it's makeup facilitates this to a great extent because we are no longer limited by physical or geographical boundaries. And on the hardware end you get to see creation from the groun up, you not only see that everything has a place and a purpose but also that the purpose does not have to be used by the maker to be fully realized. That once made it could go on and become. This belief system is what has helped along such things as GPL and the 'hacker ethic'.