What you have to realize is that it isn't that the design is flawed. It's that you aren't the target market. They could have built something that achieved 90-100% of Intel's best on single threads instead of 60-80% by doubling the number of transistors per thread and halving the number of threads and cores, but think about who would buy that.
Do the math here, if Bulldozer's cores were 60-80% of Intel's then their 8 core chip should perform 120-160% of Intel's quad core chips in multithreaded performance. Instead it's stuck somewhere between the 2500K and 2600K and the 2500K doesn't have hyperthreading, which is like driving with the hand brake on in these tests. They reach parity only if you have perfect threading but if you have uneven loads like a server with different VMs they don't look so good, not just for games.
Look at the pipeline now, they're launching the FX-6200 and FX-4170 which are both 125W TDP parts and will probably be competing with Intel's 65W processors, 95W at best. And soon Ivy Bridge will bring that down even further. Does this remind you of another company that couldn't get their chips performing so they had to turn up the GHz and the wattage, making them run very hot and loud? Bulldozer is AMD's Pentium IV, hopefully it's not quite as terrible as Intel's where they had to scrap it and start over from P3 designs but right now it looks awfully similar.
Try randomly running out into the road from the sidewalk, alternatively from behind street corners, large parked cars and other cover at high speed and see how long it takes until you end up dead or in the hospital. I can guarantee you those unmanned cars are going to end up running some people over, just like manned cars do. They are going to run into freak oil spills or blow a tire in 130 km/h on the Autobahn and other surprise conditions. And even medical equipment sometimes fails spectacularly. That's even assuming you can guarantee optimal behavior in every case - which you can't - and that there's no bugs which I think is near impossible in a system with so many fuzzy variables. People will sue over all sorts of sensor input that maybe, possibly the car could have reacted to. I don't think you'll get anywhere until you have a law to not judge computer drivers harsher than human drivers. Like, would you have convicted a human of driving recklessly under the circumstances? If no, then case dismissed.
Remember it's perfectly possible and legal to brew your own beers and wines. And if there was an appetite for such home made beverages there'd be a market for them, and also moonshine.
I have a friend who makes beer, but making good home brew is quite a bit of work and while the ingredients are fairly cheap not all the equipment is. So he does it as a hobby, but if he were to allocate the full cost it'd be pretty expensive. Us friends might barter a little but he doesn't sell any, that's why there is no market. If you wanted to do it on a scale where it makes sense, you'd quickly get noticed. The equipment you buy, the amount of ingredients, the customer network and so on. And if you want to sell a bottle legally, you're hit in the head with a ton of regulations. Everything from zoning laws, hygiene requirements and health inspections, alcohol tax payments, license to store of alcoholic beverages, license to sell alcoholic beverages, mandatory course if you're selling to consumers, sales hours, bottle/can deposits and probably a billion more things I forget. So to comply with all that you must be that much bigger again. The whole system is extremely rigged with a huge canyon between "beer for myself and a few friends" and "small-time brewery".
Not to mention a general hysteria of children getting hurt. True, the child mortality rates have gone down somewhat too but in return it sounds like nature is too dangerous with those hard rocks and pointy branches and tall trees. The "kid safe" play areas are often very cramped that you could run around it in a minute or two while not being very challenging and repetitive. If you want real activity then hiking/biking/camping/skiing/swimming/something out in nature where you have larger areas is almost a must.
True, but you'd think that if you gave them a basket ball they'd spent more time playing basket ball and if you gave them a guitar they'd spend more time sitting still playing the guitar. Assuming it's something they would do at all of course, but kids often do what they're given the opportunity to do. Of course that's not all parenting is about, but I'm surprised to see no effect at all.
You DID miss something. You pay those prices if you want SUPPORT for the licenses. If you can support yourself, just use the Open Source version. Sort of like RHEL vs Fedora
No. There's plenty functionality you get in the Enterprise version that you don't get in the open source version, so nothing like RHEL vs CentOS (which I assume is what you meant). If you want those features you'll be paying whether you want support or not.
If they're dumb enough to lock down internet access to the point that it becomes unusable for work purposes whilst still allowing their network to be trivially bridged by 3G dongles then you're already fighting a losing battle.
Uh, who said anything about bridged? My impression was that they'd use 3G/4G dongles on their laptops instead of plugging into the university network at all, I don't see how you could block that short of jamming the signal. And presumably they don't care, if it doesn't happen over their network it's not their problem.
I'd like to say screw them, get fiber + cell phone and tell their landline to suck it but from the article you can't, you get a copper line no matter what. Personally I think cell phones are underrated. Cell phone towers have huge battery backups and beyond that usually generators like COs, if they go down in a storm they have portable towers too. My cell phone probably has a good charge already. I can pilfer some off my laptop, there's emergency chargers and if need be I can plug that into an UPS or generator for power. Plus I can charge it where there is power and bring it where there is not. And all towers from all providers in range will route our version of 911 calls unless they're all down.
Here in Norway about a third of all landlines have disappeared the last decade and the trend is still strong downwards. People simply aren't interested in maintaining and paying for a copper based network simply to be a backup. Give me fiber, give me cell phones, put the rest into giving the power grid redundancy because it sucks when nothing but the phone works. Deploy a satellite phone and generator in each population center for when both power and phones go down to use in real emergencies, it's the only thing that's really guaranteed to work if the local infrastructure is toast. In such cases a lot of the time the answer will be that they can't reach you so you're on your own anyway.
On LibreOffice's development stats there's a fair chunk that says Oracle (OOo code) - I'd say around 15%, so it would seem they pull in most of those improvements anyway if it's possible. So it seems there will be very little reason to run the Apache version, unless LibreOffice start breaking more than they fix...
Why does RapidShare think this will give them cover over piracy? The MAFIAA doesn't care; they're happy to burn down the Internet to protect their business.
Only in their wettest dreams will they be able to shut down all the thousands of sites that let you share files. RapidShare is trying to (a) not be next in line and (b) score points if they should try to take them down. And if they happen to get more paying customers while avoiding a lawsuit, that's killing two birds with one stone.
Yup... not to mention the false dichotomy that they must fully commit to one or the other. Did they have to shut down CD sales in order to start selling on iTunes? Hell no. Most everybody I talk to today know how to download, some don't want to or only do it a little but if you offered a legal service you'd have plenty people signing up.
You're still thinking in terms of a C&C, when it doesn't apply anymore. Think of it more like a contagion, there's no "C&C" humans only people in contact with other people in contact with yet more people. There is no command to become a C&C. Commands are encrypted but also signed by the operators and nodes only have the public key to that so you can't fake one. They can just introduce a command anywhere, to any node and it'll relay it to its peers, that'll relay it to it's peers again amd so on until everyone got the command. You probably use a unique ID to avoid loops, like command 0xfe36735b I've already relayed, no need to relay it again.
I'm sorry, what exactly are you raging about? Just about every pricing theory from monopoly pricing to perfect competition require that costs be passed to you. If raw material costs go up, the costs are passed to you. If labor costs go up, the costs are passed to you. If people shoplift, the costs are passed to you. If the government adds a new tax, the costs are passed to you. If natural disasters cause damage, the cost is passed to you. Every business operates on margins, that more money comes in through revenue than what leaves through cost. That goes for everyone from the 1%ers to the corner shop.
Do you expect it to be like in good years they'll take a profit, and in bad years they'll put the money back? Seriously? I wonder how you'd like it if your salary or your bank account worked like that. No, if I owned Newegg I'd expect it to turn a profit whether disks costs $50 or $300, my job is to beat all the other stores trying to make a business, not fight the market forces. In the long run I expect it to be the same for factories, if risk of flooding is a cost of doing business we must account for that and make sure our prices reflect all the costs, it's the ones that don't that are foolish. In short, I find your idea that 1%ers should "foot the bill" rather absurd.
Long story short, it's a 5 platter design and generally they've not been good in the past, too many parts to be reliable. The other manufacturers are probably waiting until they can ship a 4x1TB disk instead of 5x800GB. Hitachi is actually shipping 1x1TB disks in the 4K7000.D and 4K5000.B class, but I guess the yield of perfect platters is too low yet.
1. Big OEM contracts agreed long in advance takes priority, so everything had to be absorbed by the spot market which is much smaller. 2. If you don't have a HDD, you practically can't sell a new machine and for many commercial services not buying is not an option. 3. As smart people in the market realize what was about to happen, they made sure to buy now "just in case" emptying the market. 4. Even OEMs started to fear the shortage and started buying HDDs in the spot market as insurance.
Sum of all of the above = it probably took a 300% price hike until sales dropped 25% to match supply. Spot sales probably had to drop 50-80% for that to happen.
Now, suppose you are accused of possession of child pornography, and you refuse to decrypt; if convicted, you might spend 5 years in prison, but you might be held indefinitely for failing to decrypt -- it is up to a judge to decide whether or not you have been held long enough.
Actually that's exactly what happened in this case. He tried to invoke the 5th, was denied, continued to refuse and was held in contempt of court. The last lines of the PDF:
The refusal was justified, and the district court erred in adjudging him in civil contempt. The district court's judgment is accordingly REVERSED.
Actually this is a double smackdown. They hold that
1) The act of decrypting would be testimonial in proving your control over the encrypted container. 2) Even if the decryption wasn't testimonial, compelling you to produce a part of the chain of evidence is also prohibited by the 5th amendment.
This is pretty much a full victory that your encrypted contents are immune from warrants, expect new keylogger laws shortly though... And it still needs to stand in the US Supreme Court before it applies to the whole US, but the ruling seems sound.
They can't just "say it". The other case was quite exceptional, the suspect did voluntarily show the decrypted disc to the customs officer, the customs officer found kiddie porn but as the laptop was powered down it wouldn't open again without a password. So they had proof he could access it, testimony that they'd actually observed it and a chain of evidence that the contents had not changed since then. That's a whole different level of knowing than just "knowing" they're involved in something illegal.
Norway has to my knowledge not put any real effort into getting major data centers here, I remember reading some local news criticizing it. Plenty renewable energy, cool climate and overall a very stable and free society but you're not getting special tax breaks or anything like that. Unlike most countries we're not that desperate, unemployment is now 2.8% and we're trying hard now not to overheat our economy on oil income while the rest of Europe is struggling.
The obsession over "proper" sci-fi is to me a bit like wanting more fancy graphics over game play in computer games. Yes, a hardcore scientific look at the feasibility of a Ringworld is great, but put it on Discovery or National Geographic and don't call it a movie. Any good movie depends on the characters and the story, not the scientific accuracy of the setting. A good sci-fi movie is to me one that makes a good connection between the technology and the storyline, if it's just a normal series put in a futuristic setting with lasers instead of bullets then that doesn't get any points with me. Like they say, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic so I consider both of them forms of "what if" stories. Some are closer to technological advances we can imagine than others, but that in itself doesn't make it a better movie.
While what you say is true, the difference between nominal levels and purchasing power parity is not nearly as big as the difference in wealth. To take my own country vs Nigeria as example:
Norway vs Nigeria GDP nominal: 96,591 vs 1,541 = 63:1 Norway vs Nigeria GDP PPP: 53,376 vs 2,589 = 21:1
Okay so the difference is 1/3rd of the nominal, but it's still 21:1. Yes, local food, local clothes, local services are cheap but anything that's following international prices are insanely expensive. For example computers only vary by a few percent around the globe, corrected for taxes and such. I look at a CPU costing $100 thinking that's not much, they look at $100 as something ungodly expensive they can never afford. So yes, you can do with less but you're also cut off from many things. A dollar a day gets you some water, rice, clothes on your back and a shed, it's not a good life anywhere.
downloading 'cookie maker' or whatever game the 6yo is asking for also requires the password, and once daddy's entered it, it's valid for 15 minutes of all-you-can-eat smurfberries
It gets better, every purchase resets the timer so if you hand it to them 14 minutes later they have only one minute to make the first purchase but as long as they buy at least once every 15 minutes - not hard if the game is in the "you're out of berries, buy a few more" mode - it'll last the whole session. I think some kid here racked up almost $2000 in an hour's play. Hell, I've disabled in-game purchasing for myself to avoid accidents - if I should want it I'll go back and enable it on a case by case basis.
The United States of America. Direct quote from the Napster case:
We agree that plaintiffs have shown that Napster users infringe at least two of the copyright holders' exclusive rights: the rights of reproduction, 106(1); and distribution, 106(3). Napster users who upload file names to the search index for others to copy violate plaintiffs' distribution rights. Napster users who download files containing copyrighted music violate plaintiffs' reproduction rights.
With all the other control freak governments there's bound to be more...
Wouldn't a 503 be more appropriate? Also, stat can be translated as "now!" so you're supposed to say what you want first like "We need a WiFi hotspot, stat". It's not capitalized, it's just a normal adverb (from latin statim). And with this much nitpicking in one post, I'm bound to have typo'd something...
Meanwhile, funnel that money into Internet access projects for rural areas.
Well, the alternatives listed are cable, satellite and fiber - at least two out of those three always means Internet access these days so in practice it would be.
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What you have to realize is that it isn't that the design is flawed. It's that you aren't the target market. They could have built something that achieved 90-100% of Intel's best on single threads instead of 60-80% by doubling the number of transistors per thread and halving the number of threads and cores, but think about who would buy that.
Do the math here, if Bulldozer's cores were 60-80% of Intel's then their 8 core chip should perform 120-160% of Intel's quad core chips in multithreaded performance. Instead it's stuck somewhere between the 2500K and 2600K and the 2500K doesn't have hyperthreading, which is like driving with the hand brake on in these tests. They reach parity only if you have perfect threading but if you have uneven loads like a server with different VMs they don't look so good, not just for games.
Look at the pipeline now, they're launching the FX-6200 and FX-4170 which are both 125W TDP parts and will probably be competing with Intel's 65W processors, 95W at best. And soon Ivy Bridge will bring that down even further. Does this remind you of another company that couldn't get their chips performing so they had to turn up the GHz and the wattage, making them run very hot and loud? Bulldozer is AMD's Pentium IV, hopefully it's not quite as terrible as Intel's where they had to scrap it and start over from P3 designs but right now it looks awfully similar.
Try randomly running out into the road from the sidewalk, alternatively from behind street corners, large parked cars and other cover at high speed and see how long it takes until you end up dead or in the hospital. I can guarantee you those unmanned cars are going to end up running some people over, just like manned cars do. They are going to run into freak oil spills or blow a tire in 130 km/h on the Autobahn and other surprise conditions. And even medical equipment sometimes fails spectacularly. That's even assuming you can guarantee optimal behavior in every case - which you can't - and that there's no bugs which I think is near impossible in a system with so many fuzzy variables. People will sue over all sorts of sensor input that maybe, possibly the car could have reacted to. I don't think you'll get anywhere until you have a law to not judge computer drivers harsher than human drivers. Like, would you have convicted a human of driving recklessly under the circumstances? If no, then case dismissed.
Remember it's perfectly possible and legal to brew your own beers and wines. And if there was an appetite for such home made beverages there'd be a market for them, and also moonshine.
I have a friend who makes beer, but making good home brew is quite a bit of work and while the ingredients are fairly cheap not all the equipment is. So he does it as a hobby, but if he were to allocate the full cost it'd be pretty expensive. Us friends might barter a little but he doesn't sell any, that's why there is no market. If you wanted to do it on a scale where it makes sense, you'd quickly get noticed. The equipment you buy, the amount of ingredients, the customer network and so on. And if you want to sell a bottle legally, you're hit in the head with a ton of regulations. Everything from zoning laws, hygiene requirements and health inspections, alcohol tax payments, license to store of alcoholic beverages, license to sell alcoholic beverages, mandatory course if you're selling to consumers, sales hours, bottle/can deposits and probably a billion more things I forget. So to comply with all that you must be that much bigger again. The whole system is extremely rigged with a huge canyon between "beer for myself and a few friends" and "small-time brewery".
Not to mention a general hysteria of children getting hurt. True, the child mortality rates have gone down somewhat too but in return it sounds like nature is too dangerous with those hard rocks and pointy branches and tall trees. The "kid safe" play areas are often very cramped that you could run around it in a minute or two while not being very challenging and repetitive. If you want real activity then hiking/biking/camping/skiing/swimming/something out in nature where you have larger areas is almost a must.
True, but you'd think that if you gave them a basket ball they'd spent more time playing basket ball and if you gave them a guitar they'd spend more time sitting still playing the guitar. Assuming it's something they would do at all of course, but kids often do what they're given the opportunity to do. Of course that's not all parenting is about, but I'm surprised to see no effect at all.
You DID miss something. You pay those prices if you want SUPPORT for the licenses. If you can support yourself, just use the Open Source version. Sort of like RHEL vs Fedora
No. There's plenty functionality you get in the Enterprise version that you don't get in the open source version, so nothing like RHEL vs CentOS (which I assume is what you meant). If you want those features you'll be paying whether you want support or not.
If they're dumb enough to lock down internet access to the point that it becomes unusable for work purposes whilst still allowing their network to be trivially bridged by 3G dongles then you're already fighting a losing battle.
Uh, who said anything about bridged? My impression was that they'd use 3G/4G dongles on their laptops instead of plugging into the university network at all, I don't see how you could block that short of jamming the signal. And presumably they don't care, if it doesn't happen over their network it's not their problem.
I'd like to say screw them, get fiber + cell phone and tell their landline to suck it but from the article you can't, you get a copper line no matter what. Personally I think cell phones are underrated. Cell phone towers have huge battery backups and beyond that usually generators like COs, if they go down in a storm they have portable towers too. My cell phone probably has a good charge already. I can pilfer some off my laptop, there's emergency chargers and if need be I can plug that into an UPS or generator for power. Plus I can charge it where there is power and bring it where there is not. And all towers from all providers in range will route our version of 911 calls unless they're all down.
Here in Norway about a third of all landlines have disappeared the last decade and the trend is still strong downwards. People simply aren't interested in maintaining and paying for a copper based network simply to be a backup. Give me fiber, give me cell phones, put the rest into giving the power grid redundancy because it sucks when nothing but the phone works. Deploy a satellite phone and generator in each population center for when both power and phones go down to use in real emergencies, it's the only thing that's really guaranteed to work if the local infrastructure is toast. In such cases a lot of the time the answer will be that they can't reach you so you're on your own anyway.
On LibreOffice's development stats there's a fair chunk that says Oracle (OOo code) - I'd say around 15%, so it would seem they pull in most of those improvements anyway if it's possible. So it seems there will be very little reason to run the Apache version, unless LibreOffice start breaking more than they fix...
Why does RapidShare think this will give them cover over piracy? The MAFIAA doesn't care; they're happy to burn down the Internet to protect their business.
Only in their wettest dreams will they be able to shut down all the thousands of sites that let you share files. RapidShare is trying to (a) not be next in line and (b) score points if they should try to take them down. And if they happen to get more paying customers while avoiding a lawsuit, that's killing two birds with one stone.
Yup... not to mention the false dichotomy that they must fully commit to one or the other. Did they have to shut down CD sales in order to start selling on iTunes? Hell no. Most everybody I talk to today know how to download, some don't want to or only do it a little but if you offered a legal service you'd have plenty people signing up.
You're still thinking in terms of a C&C, when it doesn't apply anymore. Think of it more like a contagion, there's no "C&C" humans only people in contact with other people in contact with yet more people. There is no command to become a C&C. Commands are encrypted but also signed by the operators and nodes only have the public key to that so you can't fake one. They can just introduce a command anywhere, to any node and it'll relay it to its peers, that'll relay it to it's peers again amd so on until everyone got the command. You probably use a unique ID to avoid loops, like command 0xfe36735b I've already relayed, no need to relay it again.
I'm sorry, what exactly are you raging about? Just about every pricing theory from monopoly pricing to perfect competition require that costs be passed to you. If raw material costs go up, the costs are passed to you. If labor costs go up, the costs are passed to you. If people shoplift, the costs are passed to you. If the government adds a new tax, the costs are passed to you. If natural disasters cause damage, the cost is passed to you. Every business operates on margins, that more money comes in through revenue than what leaves through cost. That goes for everyone from the 1%ers to the corner shop.
Do you expect it to be like in good years they'll take a profit, and in bad years they'll put the money back? Seriously? I wonder how you'd like it if your salary or your bank account worked like that. No, if I owned Newegg I'd expect it to turn a profit whether disks costs $50 or $300, my job is to beat all the other stores trying to make a business, not fight the market forces. In the long run I expect it to be the same for factories, if risk of flooding is a cost of doing business we must account for that and make sure our prices reflect all the costs, it's the ones that don't that are foolish. In short, I find your idea that 1%ers should "foot the bill" rather absurd.
Long story short, it's a 5 platter design and generally they've not been good in the past, too many parts to be reliable. The other manufacturers are probably waiting until they can ship a 4x1TB disk instead of 5x800GB. Hitachi is actually shipping 1x1TB disks in the 4K7000.D and 4K5000.B class, but I guess the yield of perfect platters is too low yet.
1. Big OEM contracts agreed long in advance takes priority, so everything had to be absorbed by the spot market which is much smaller.
2. If you don't have a HDD, you practically can't sell a new machine and for many commercial services not buying is not an option.
3. As smart people in the market realize what was about to happen, they made sure to buy now "just in case" emptying the market.
4. Even OEMs started to fear the shortage and started buying HDDs in the spot market as insurance.
Sum of all of the above = it probably took a 300% price hike until sales dropped 25% to match supply. Spot sales probably had to drop 50-80% for that to happen.
Now, suppose you are accused of possession of child pornography, and you refuse to decrypt; if convicted, you might spend 5 years in prison, but you might be held indefinitely for failing to decrypt -- it is up to a judge to decide whether or not you have been held long enough.
Actually that's exactly what happened in this case. He tried to invoke the 5th, was denied, continued to refuse and was held in contempt of court. The last lines of the PDF:
The refusal was justified, and the district court erred in adjudging him in civil contempt. The district court's judgment is accordingly REVERSED.
Actually this is a double smackdown. They hold that
1) The act of decrypting would be testimonial in proving your control over the encrypted container.
2) Even if the decryption wasn't testimonial, compelling you to produce a part of the chain of evidence is also prohibited by the 5th amendment.
This is pretty much a full victory that your encrypted contents are immune from warrants, expect new keylogger laws shortly though... And it still needs to stand in the US Supreme Court before it applies to the whole US, but the ruling seems sound.
They can't just "say it". The other case was quite exceptional, the suspect did voluntarily show the decrypted disc to the customs officer, the customs officer found kiddie porn but as the laptop was powered down it wouldn't open again without a password. So they had proof he could access it, testimony that they'd actually observed it and a chain of evidence that the contents had not changed since then. That's a whole different level of knowing than just "knowing" they're involved in something illegal.
Norway has to my knowledge not put any real effort into getting major data centers here, I remember reading some local news criticizing it. Plenty renewable energy, cool climate and overall a very stable and free society but you're not getting special tax breaks or anything like that. Unlike most countries we're not that desperate, unemployment is now 2.8% and we're trying hard now not to overheat our economy on oil income while the rest of Europe is struggling.
The obsession over "proper" sci-fi is to me a bit like wanting more fancy graphics over game play in computer games. Yes, a hardcore scientific look at the feasibility of a Ringworld is great, but put it on Discovery or National Geographic and don't call it a movie. Any good movie depends on the characters and the story, not the scientific accuracy of the setting. A good sci-fi movie is to me one that makes a good connection between the technology and the storyline, if it's just a normal series put in a futuristic setting with lasers instead of bullets then that doesn't get any points with me. Like they say, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic so I consider both of them forms of "what if" stories. Some are closer to technological advances we can imagine than others, but that in itself doesn't make it a better movie.
While what you say is true, the difference between nominal levels and purchasing power parity is not nearly as big as the difference in wealth. To take my own country vs Nigeria as example:
Norway vs Nigeria GDP nominal: 96,591 vs 1,541 = 63:1
Norway vs Nigeria GDP PPP: 53,376 vs 2,589 = 21:1
Okay so the difference is 1/3rd of the nominal, but it's still 21:1. Yes, local food, local clothes, local services are cheap but anything that's following international prices are insanely expensive. For example computers only vary by a few percent around the globe, corrected for taxes and such. I look at a CPU costing $100 thinking that's not much, they look at $100 as something ungodly expensive they can never afford. So yes, you can do with less but you're also cut off from many things. A dollar a day gets you some water, rice, clothes on your back and a shed, it's not a good life anywhere.
downloading 'cookie maker' or whatever game the 6yo is asking for also requires the password, and once daddy's entered it, it's valid for 15 minutes of all-you-can-eat smurfberries
It gets better, every purchase resets the timer so if you hand it to them 14 minutes later they have only one minute to make the first purchase but as long as they buy at least once every 15 minutes - not hard if the game is in the "you're out of berries, buy a few more" mode - it'll last the whole session. I think some kid here racked up almost $2000 in an hour's play. Hell, I've disabled in-game purchasing for myself to avoid accidents - if I should want it I'll go back and enable it on a case by case basis.
The United States of America. Direct quote from the Napster case:
We agree that plaintiffs have shown that Napster users infringe at least two of the copyright holders' exclusive rights: the rights of reproduction, 106(1); and distribution, 106(3). Napster users who upload file names to the search index for others to copy violate plaintiffs' distribution rights. Napster users who download files containing copyrighted music violate plaintiffs' reproduction rights.
With all the other control freak governments there's bound to be more...
Wouldn't a 503 be more appropriate? Also, stat can be translated as "now!" so you're supposed to say what you want first like "We need a WiFi hotspot, stat". It's not capitalized, it's just a normal adverb (from latin statim). And with this much nitpicking in one post, I'm bound to have typo'd something...
Meanwhile, funnel that money into Internet access projects for rural areas.
Well, the alternatives listed are cable, satellite and fiber - at least two out of those three always means Internet access these days so in practice it would be.