Fiber has a long way coming as dsl/cable operators are pushing out more and better equipment with better repeaters, 3G/4G mobile broadband, all the people using wireless to connect in their house because cables are impractical and so on. And latency is still handled extremely poorly by any QoS or is at least complicated, I can play and download in background but with this scheme it'll probably make the gaming experience suck. And that goes if you're sharing the internet connection with anyone else, like say a family, other tenants or whatever.
Have you really tried any of the best solutions today like remote X/NX, RDP, Citrix or similar? They work well enough for email and office work, but try playing a video. It's utterly and completely painful to see them try sending an unbuffered video, which is what this would be like. The only reason streaming works well is because of local buffers. And I'm talking about doing this on a 20Mbit line to a much faster corporate network, this idea is for when we all have gigabit internet and flying cars.
I'm sorry, but I have to call "bullshit", here. Whether or not you get feature requests has absolutely *nothing* to do with the license the source code is under.
But I suppose the prospect that you could fix it yourself or find someone else with the same itch leads to a more hostile approach than when the closed source maintainer is your only hope of ever adding it to the product...
I think we've defined intelligence almost like the halting problem, it's everything can't be solved by an algorithm and every time we find something solved by an algorithm we exclude it. Every time computers and robots do something we reduce it to mere execution of an algorithm, even when the algorithm wasn't defined by a human like in neural nets. As long as it stays within the problem domain we'll never consider it intelligent, intelligence is creativity and thinking outside the box. The best sign of intelligence in a Chess program would be "Want to play a game of Go instead?"
Stop being such a dickhead. Often there is a perfectly usable solution for Linux, but there's no real marketing. You know the good kind of marketing, that actually tells you of your options. So you ask a large group of people likely to have the answer and you might find one. Or you might not, but now the odds are pretty good there isn't one. Linux compatibility follows no sane pattern, the exact same class of printer or even cheaper can work flawlessly and the big name printer is a damn paperweight. Brand is a decent guess but just a guess, my parents had a Lexmark that worked fine but most of theirs don't.
Not only is it much simpler to have the printer connected to the machine you actually use, it also provides the right incentives to those producing Linux-friendly printers. Cash. Do you get a straighter case of voting with your wallet? So he does it, and everyone reading here do it, and everyone googling could run into this discussion and do it... and things change. It's so much easier once you've got the foot in the door.
It runs under WINE, no importing CDs, burning and iPod synch doesn't work but using the store does. I guess that includes Windows too. Wait, don't tell me... you're one of those crazy people using Macs, nothing ever works there...
What nonsense. No matter how poor condition the DVD is in, it's then up to your care to preserve it. Obviously nobody should be forced to give you endless replacements because your toddler chews on it. With DRM, they choose when it stops working and you have no influence on that. It's like if they put a remote kill switch in your car and push it when they think it's time you buy a new one.
About as much right as we had to complain about Bush I guess, which was quite a lot. I don't think that from the fractured landscape of hostile nation states after the end of WWII to Europe as it is today, that anyone can claim the European Union has been for the worse. But it's also been like the United States on steroids with tons of cultures clashing and the build-up of a top-heavy institution that is increasingly taking more and more control from the nation state and from the directly voted representatives, the European Parliament is no proper substitute. And with constant expansions now heading into the Baltics, Turkey etc. it's a bit like the Roman empire on the march, once they finally stop and build walls it might collapse from the inside out.
Using the UTF-8 style as length encoding would be nice. If you'd use all 8 bits for up to 8 byte length encoding you should be able to do 7*6=42 bits = 4TB while still being very efficient for short strings (< 128 = 1 byte).
I think this whole article is pretty telling about exactly what you get for buying Red Hat support and not going with CentOS. It's not just about the source code, if it was then why would Red Hat and everyone else be working upstream or pushing their patches upstream? By the way, do you think all the Red Hat patches are written by them, particularly from scratch? Oh no, often it's upstream that creates the patch which might or might not backport cleanly. The source is free and it's a huge mix of source code from different people and projects and distros.
If you want to be slightly mean, you could say Red Hat is trying to charge you 80$ (cheapest desktop version) for the privilege of putting a compiler to that mix of source code. Nobody else does that, no support means no cost and by support I mean that I can report my problems and have them resolved. The rest is basically the table scrap system implemented by the GPL, I never requested nor paid for 99%+ of the features of this system, but I guess someone did or had an itch to scratch and so I get them too. I bow and say thank you but I wouldn't pay for it if you tried charging me.
Is CentOS in itself productive to the community? No, they just repackage and don't develop. On the other hand, I think it'd be even worse to give Red Hat a compilation copyright that said they're the only ones that could deliver this exact set of packages to you. By the way, interesting question since there is such a concept in US copyright law at least. Is it possible that even though each pacakge is GPL (or other FLOSS), that the whole could get an independent copyright? Here's what I found online:
The law identifies three distinct elements, all of which must be met for a work to qualify as a copyrightable compilation:
the collection and assembly of pre-existing material, facts, or data;
the selection, coordination, or arrangement of those materials; and
the creation, by virtue of the particular selection, coordination, or arrangement of an original work of authorship.
Considering what else applies like photos in a photo book or songs on an album, it might actually be possible...
Man, sounds like you got managers or coworkers that don't respect you vacation. I think I've been called up twice on my vacation, once because a server password was missing in action and the second briefly discuss a change I'd worked with that had caused a serious regression. If you call me on my vacation it'd better fill this three criteria:
1) It's serious 2) I won't need any laptop, VPN or any remote access 3) There's good reason why you need exactly my input 4) It'll go to voicemail and I answer on my schedule
I absolutely go on vacation, but I don't put total absolute limits on it just like I'll answer a call from work in the evenings/weekends. It's a privilidge, don't abuse it and you don't bother me about recieving the occasional personal call during working hours and we're even. I call that a win-win situation, the day they become hardass I'll drop off the face of the earth when I go home.
Without defending Linus, I have thought "Well, the most secure computer is disconnected from the network, turned off and enclosed in concrete... but that wouldn't be very useful, would it?" during one of those security rants...
Amen to that. The only binary I tolerate is nVidias blob, and that's only because it's much better than the AMD open source drivers at the moment. Once they reach parity it's bye-bye blobs. Everyone else get with the program already, I don't want blobs just to run a network/raid/spund/whatever card.
After getting my head ripped off for mentioning that I liked operator overloading the other day, I'm trying to figure out why I still post here.
I'm sure you're one of those using the functionality sensibly, but it's one of those features that many misuse horribly. Too many people here are scarred from the OMG WTF WTF code you can find out there in real life software outsourced to India or other uncommented spaghetti code. Because all features are "flat" you can get people with little more than C++ for dummies using it. It's almost so I think languages should have two levels, where you have to explicitly unlock advanced features. With a warning like "This is usually not the right way of doing it, if you an experienced developer and really sure this is necessary go ahead, but this is like taking a unicycle down a mountainside. Only do it if you're really sure there's no better way."
If you're someone using Ubuntu to watch youtube or trying to make someone else who'd like to watch youtube use Ubuntu, then it's your problem. I guess it's no problem for the guy developing Ubuntu and going home to surf on his Mac or Windows machine, but for everyone else it is.
So what was the point in spinning off a foundry into a separate company?
Funding. Someone was willing to go in with the big bucks in a foundry company, which would be much harder to do inside AMD as a single company. The graphics division of AMD is doing very well though, even though they're getting whipped by Intel on CPUs. Of course the prices to the end users are competitive but the margins aren't since AMD is completely boxed in to value segments. And they have no competitor on the netbook/nettop wave, it's Intel, Intel and more Intel.
Quite frankly, if I was in the PC industry I'd start getting seriously scared of Intel, and I mean all of it. Their latest SSD offerings are very aggressively priced, their integrated chipsets suck less every year with Larrabee on the horizon and on the netbook segment they're much heavier on motherboards than usual. Pretty soon you have the Intel computer, one unit and the OEMs can basically choose what sticker to put on it.
10^1 times smaller = 10^-1 times bigger, never really managed to see the problem with it. It's perfectly unambigious since it makes no sense to refer to less than nothing. Things like there/their/they're that actually have three different meanings are much more annoying.
Ironically, libel laws make things people say more potentially damaging to your reputation, not less, as they cause others to give things said more weight than if there were no laws. Ultimately, your liberty isn't threatened by things others say, therefore there should be no laws "protecting" you from things people say (beyond threats of use of force against you).
Please state your name and address, I'd like to go around your neighborhood and drop a note in everyone's mailbox saying you are a child molester. Since the chances of catching me is slim to none, it shouldn't matter in this case if libel law exists or not. Honestly, "Where there's smoke there's fire" is human nature and you'll get no fair trial. False and malicious accusations won't go away just because you say it's not true. Hell, they'll probably not go away even if you win at trial but then at least you'll have some form of redress for your grievances. Oh you'll still have liberty as in not in jail, but if you get the evil eye from everyone, people watch their kids around you and the kids been forbidden from talking to you or being around you, I think you'll find your freedom more than a little violated.
An obscure topic of meteorology, that appears to occur naturally from time to time, being correlated with space shuttle launches? And probably with a significant delay between release and formation of the clouds, one would think. I think you vastly overestimate the degree of weather observation that actually gets done, and our understanding of the weather system. Yes, there's much ground-based data of temperatures, precipitation and cloud cover but very little on the actual conditions up there - the lone weather balloons they used to send up don't amount to much. It's really only in the last few decades of satellites we've been studying it in detail.
In any case, I'm sure this will be used as another "disproof" of global warming. Like with Darwin when he gets 95% right and 5% wrong people always want to pretend that theories are either perfect or completely wrong, even though that makes no sense. Or assume some irrational assumption of uniform effects, so the results can violate them. Mess with say the Gulf stream and everything from Mexico, eastern US and Europe could get colder even during a global warming. Sometimes I wonder if they don't understand or if they just pretend not to...
Tin foil doesn't help but you can take the easy route instead of a year of guru meditation, why do you think there's a war on drugs going on? Just keep puffing and as they lose control you'll notice them more and more, at the end of the year you'll be all like "Man, can't you tell the mind control rays are like all around? Last night I was so out there I could practically see them." Also after that year be sure to mention it to prospective employers, they love free thinkers that have already been through the program.
Now what crimes have been committed? Well copyright violation is one as the painting has indeed been copied against the will of it's painter. The person who copied it however is the one who committed that crime. Another you can say is 'aiding and abetting copyright violation' which has turned into our new and wonderful term 'making available' because there's actually no laws that I'm aware of that prohibit aiding a non-criminal act (copyright is civil not criminal) being actionable... but IANAL so maybe someone here knows of one.
Under current US law both distribution and reproduction are exclusive rights of the copyright holder. In this case there is no distribution, but there is illegal reproduction. The other place your analogy breaks down is that it's you, or rather your machine that sends the copy and you announce the availability on the network. It's like the museum curator placing the work in a photocopier with a button "push here for a reproduction", which probably would be considered a violation. Yes, I know there's photocopiers in libraries too but they're intended to copy fair use excerpts, not duplicating books.
Basically, the law doesn't look too kindly on attempts at obvious trickery with the intent of twisting the law. Just because you can make personal fair use copies doesn't mean you can forget a hundred of them under a "free CDs" sign in a public area. Accidentally sharing a file on your network isn't the same as placing it in the share folder of your P2P network.
Well, I did follow the whole spectrial and read the court transcripts, legal analysis and conviction in Swedish... I think the one sentence summary is "These files were found through TPB, thus they're guilty of contributing to copyright infringement". They spent forever describing what bittorrent was, but really no discussion on degree of contribution. You might just as well have substituted TPB with Google, or "The murderer bought the knife here, thus the owner is an accessory to murder." I could have tolerated it if they'd discussed what the defendants knew or ought to have known and degree of blindness in operating a search engine / tracker service, but it just wasn't there. To me it smelled very much like "We found a line of reasoning to hang them by, let's just ignore the issues raised by the defense." Bought? No. Biased? Yes. I think they had decided to convict long before the trial was over, or perhaps even started. I just recognize the tunnel vision in their reasoning.
Copyright is not black and white. Things like fair use create an enormous gray area, not to mention the fact that many consider copyright to be unconstitutional.
No theory of fair use will let you hand out full copies of a work to any random stranger, and without uploaders there wouldn't be any file sharing. There's plenty excuses to get away with it, but little to no doubt about the law. And apart from the "limited times" that may be in doubt, it must be one of the clearest grants of power in the constitution. Based on download counts I'm fairly sure most file sharing falls under the original terms anyway. I might not agree with the law, but it's basically pitch black, if you think it's gray you'd better clean your glasses.
I guess the usual, it gives away too much about their capabilities, orbits and nobody had made sure there wasn't anything sensitive on that ice. Military intelligence is also a game of economics, even if other nations could find things out for themselves there's no reason giving them free information of any kind.
The comment I replied to said HD was 3 Gbps, he said that because HD-SDI/3G-SDI is 3 Gbps and that was the interface I was talking about throughout my post. High-end equipment will have those to handle raw HD in realtime. I probably should have spelled that out in a post where it could be confused with the SATA 3Gbps interface.
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Fiber has a long way coming as dsl/cable operators are pushing out more and better equipment with better repeaters, 3G/4G mobile broadband, all the people using wireless to connect in their house because cables are impractical and so on. And latency is still handled extremely poorly by any QoS or is at least complicated, I can play and download in background but with this scheme it'll probably make the gaming experience suck. And that goes if you're sharing the internet connection with anyone else, like say a family, other tenants or whatever.
Have you really tried any of the best solutions today like remote X/NX, RDP, Citrix or similar? They work well enough for email and office work, but try playing a video. It's utterly and completely painful to see them try sending an unbuffered video, which is what this would be like. The only reason streaming works well is because of local buffers. And I'm talking about doing this on a 20Mbit line to a much faster corporate network, this idea is for when we all have gigabit internet and flying cars.
I'm sorry, but I have to call "bullshit", here. Whether or not you get feature requests has absolutely *nothing* to do with the license the source code is under.
But I suppose the prospect that you could fix it yourself or find someone else with the same itch leads to a more hostile approach than when the closed source maintainer is your only hope of ever adding it to the product...
I think we've defined intelligence almost like the halting problem, it's everything can't be solved by an algorithm and every time we find something solved by an algorithm we exclude it. Every time computers and robots do something we reduce it to mere execution of an algorithm, even when the algorithm wasn't defined by a human like in neural nets. As long as it stays within the problem domain we'll never consider it intelligent, intelligence is creativity and thinking outside the box. The best sign of intelligence in a Chess program would be "Want to play a game of Go instead?"
Stop being such a dickhead. Often there is a perfectly usable solution for Linux, but there's no real marketing. You know the good kind of marketing, that actually tells you of your options. So you ask a large group of people likely to have the answer and you might find one. Or you might not, but now the odds are pretty good there isn't one. Linux compatibility follows no sane pattern, the exact same class of printer or even cheaper can work flawlessly and the big name printer is a damn paperweight. Brand is a decent guess but just a guess, my parents had a Lexmark that worked fine but most of theirs don't.
Not only is it much simpler to have the printer connected to the machine you actually use, it also provides the right incentives to those producing Linux-friendly printers. Cash. Do you get a straighter case of voting with your wallet? So he does it, and everyone reading here do it, and everyone googling could run into this discussion and do it... and things change. It's so much easier once you've got the foot in the door.
iTunes doesn't work in my computer.
It runs under WINE, no importing CDs, burning and iPod synch doesn't work but using the store does. I guess that includes Windows too. Wait, don't tell me... you're one of those crazy people using Macs, nothing ever works there...
What nonsense. No matter how poor condition the DVD is in, it's then up to your care to preserve it. Obviously nobody should be forced to give you endless replacements because your toddler chews on it. With DRM, they choose when it stops working and you have no influence on that. It's like if they put a remote kill switch in your car and push it when they think it's time you buy a new one.
About as much right as we had to complain about Bush I guess, which was quite a lot. I don't think that from the fractured landscape of hostile nation states after the end of WWII to Europe as it is today, that anyone can claim the European Union has been for the worse. But it's also been like the United States on steroids with tons of cultures clashing and the build-up of a top-heavy institution that is increasingly taking more and more control from the nation state and from the directly voted representatives, the European Parliament is no proper substitute. And with constant expansions now heading into the Baltics, Turkey etc. it's a bit like the Roman empire on the march, once they finally stop and build walls it might collapse from the inside out.
Using the UTF-8 style as length encoding would be nice. If you'd use all 8 bits for up to 8 byte length encoding you should be able to do 7*6=42 bits = 4TB while still being very efficient for short strings (< 128 = 1 byte).
I think this whole article is pretty telling about exactly what you get for buying Red Hat support and not going with CentOS. It's not just about the source code, if it was then why would Red Hat and everyone else be working upstream or pushing their patches upstream? By the way, do you think all the Red Hat patches are written by them, particularly from scratch? Oh no, often it's upstream that creates the patch which might or might not backport cleanly. The source is free and it's a huge mix of source code from different people and projects and distros.
If you want to be slightly mean, you could say Red Hat is trying to charge you 80$ (cheapest desktop version) for the privilege of putting a compiler to that mix of source code. Nobody else does that, no support means no cost and by support I mean that I can report my problems and have them resolved. The rest is basically the table scrap system implemented by the GPL, I never requested nor paid for 99%+ of the features of this system, but I guess someone did or had an itch to scratch and so I get them too. I bow and say thank you but I wouldn't pay for it if you tried charging me.
Is CentOS in itself productive to the community? No, they just repackage and don't develop. On the other hand, I think it'd be even worse to give Red Hat a compilation copyright that said they're the only ones that could deliver this exact set of packages to you. By the way, interesting question since there is such a concept in US copyright law at least. Is it possible that even though each pacakge is GPL (or other FLOSS), that the whole could get an independent copyright? Here's what I found online:
The law identifies three distinct elements, all of which must be met for a work to qualify as a copyrightable compilation:
Considering what else applies like photos in a photo book or songs on an album, it might actually be possible...
Man, sounds like you got managers or coworkers that don't respect you vacation. I think I've been called up twice on my vacation, once because a server password was missing in action and the second briefly discuss a change I'd worked with that had caused a serious regression. If you call me on my vacation it'd better fill this three criteria:
1) It's serious
2) I won't need any laptop, VPN or any remote access
3) There's good reason why you need exactly my input
4) It'll go to voicemail and I answer on my schedule
I absolutely go on vacation, but I don't put total absolute limits on it just like I'll answer a call from work in the evenings/weekends. It's a privilidge, don't abuse it and you don't bother me about recieving the occasional personal call during working hours and we're even. I call that a win-win situation, the day they become hardass I'll drop off the face of the earth when I go home.
Without defending Linus, I have thought "Well, the most secure computer is disconnected from the network, turned off and enclosed in concrete... but that wouldn't be very useful, would it?" during one of those security rants...
Amen to that. The only binary I tolerate is nVidias blob, and that's only because it's much better than the AMD open source drivers at the moment. Once they reach parity it's bye-bye blobs. Everyone else get with the program already, I don't want blobs just to run a network/raid/spund/whatever card.
After getting my head ripped off for mentioning that I liked operator overloading the other day, I'm trying to figure out why I still post here.
I'm sure you're one of those using the functionality sensibly, but it's one of those features that many misuse horribly. Too many people here are scarred from the OMG WTF WTF code you can find out there in real life software outsourced to India or other uncommented spaghetti code. Because all features are "flat" you can get people with little more than C++ for dummies using it. It's almost so I think languages should have two levels, where you have to explicitly unlock advanced features. With a warning like "This is usually not the right way of doing it, if you an experienced developer and really sure this is necessary go ahead, but this is like taking a unicycle down a mountainside. Only do it if you're really sure there's no better way."
If you're someone using Ubuntu to watch youtube or trying to make someone else who'd like to watch youtube use Ubuntu, then it's your problem. I guess it's no problem for the guy developing Ubuntu and going home to surf on his Mac or Windows machine, but for everyone else it is.
So what was the point in spinning off a foundry into a separate company?
Funding. Someone was willing to go in with the big bucks in a foundry company, which would be much harder to do inside AMD as a single company. The graphics division of AMD is doing very well though, even though they're getting whipped by Intel on CPUs. Of course the prices to the end users are competitive but the margins aren't since AMD is completely boxed in to value segments. And they have no competitor on the netbook/nettop wave, it's Intel, Intel and more Intel.
Quite frankly, if I was in the PC industry I'd start getting seriously scared of Intel, and I mean all of it. Their latest SSD offerings are very aggressively priced, their integrated chipsets suck less every year with Larrabee on the horizon and on the netbook segment they're much heavier on motherboards than usual. Pretty soon you have the Intel computer, one unit and the OEMs can basically choose what sticker to put on it.
Unfortunately blackholing the entire US isn't an option (you'd lose slashdot for a start).
We could just blackhole post 25...
10^1 times smaller = 10^-1 times bigger, never really managed to see the problem with it. It's perfectly unambigious since it makes no sense to refer to less than nothing. Things like there/their/they're that actually have three different meanings are much more annoying.
Ironically, libel laws make things people say more potentially damaging to your reputation, not less, as they cause others to give things said more weight than if there were no laws. Ultimately, your liberty isn't threatened by things others say, therefore there should be no laws "protecting" you from things people say (beyond threats of use of force against you).
Please state your name and address, I'd like to go around your neighborhood and drop a note in everyone's mailbox saying you are a child molester. Since the chances of catching me is slim to none, it shouldn't matter in this case if libel law exists or not. Honestly, "Where there's smoke there's fire" is human nature and you'll get no fair trial. False and malicious accusations won't go away just because you say it's not true. Hell, they'll probably not go away even if you win at trial but then at least you'll have some form of redress for your grievances. Oh you'll still have liberty as in not in jail, but if you get the evil eye from everyone, people watch their kids around you and the kids been forbidden from talking to you or being around you, I think you'll find your freedom more than a little violated.
An obscure topic of meteorology, that appears to occur naturally from time to time, being correlated with space shuttle launches? And probably with a significant delay between release and formation of the clouds, one would think. I think you vastly overestimate the degree of weather observation that actually gets done, and our understanding of the weather system. Yes, there's much ground-based data of temperatures, precipitation and cloud cover but very little on the actual conditions up there - the lone weather balloons they used to send up don't amount to much. It's really only in the last few decades of satellites we've been studying it in detail.
In any case, I'm sure this will be used as another "disproof" of global warming. Like with Darwin when he gets 95% right and 5% wrong people always want to pretend that theories are either perfect or completely wrong, even though that makes no sense. Or assume some irrational assumption of uniform effects, so the results can violate them. Mess with say the Gulf stream and everything from Mexico, eastern US and Europe could get colder even during a global warming. Sometimes I wonder if they don't understand or if they just pretend not to...
Tin foil doesn't help but you can take the easy route instead of a year of guru meditation, why do you think there's a war on drugs going on? Just keep puffing and as they lose control you'll notice them more and more, at the end of the year you'll be all like "Man, can't you tell the mind control rays are like all around? Last night I was so out there I could practically see them." Also after that year be sure to mention it to prospective employers, they love free thinkers that have already been through the program.
Now what crimes have been committed? Well copyright violation is one as the painting has indeed been copied against the will of it's painter. The person who copied it however is the one who committed that crime. Another you can say is 'aiding and abetting copyright violation' which has turned into our new and wonderful term 'making available' because there's actually no laws that I'm aware of that prohibit aiding a non-criminal act (copyright is civil not criminal) being actionable... but IANAL so maybe someone here knows of one.
Under current US law both distribution and reproduction are exclusive rights of the copyright holder. In this case there is no distribution, but there is illegal reproduction. The other place your analogy breaks down is that it's you, or rather your machine that sends the copy and you announce the availability on the network. It's like the museum curator placing the work in a photocopier with a button "push here for a reproduction", which probably would be considered a violation. Yes, I know there's photocopiers in libraries too but they're intended to copy fair use excerpts, not duplicating books.
Basically, the law doesn't look too kindly on attempts at obvious trickery with the intent of twisting the law. Just because you can make personal fair use copies doesn't mean you can forget a hundred of them under a "free CDs" sign in a public area. Accidentally sharing a file on your network isn't the same as placing it in the share folder of your P2P network.
Well, I did follow the whole spectrial and read the court transcripts, legal analysis and conviction in Swedish... I think the one sentence summary is "These files were found through TPB, thus they're guilty of contributing to copyright infringement". They spent forever describing what bittorrent was, but really no discussion on degree of contribution. You might just as well have substituted TPB with Google, or "The murderer bought the knife here, thus the owner is an accessory to murder." I could have tolerated it if they'd discussed what the defendants knew or ought to have known and degree of blindness in operating a search engine / tracker service, but it just wasn't there. To me it smelled very much like "We found a line of reasoning to hang them by, let's just ignore the issues raised by the defense." Bought? No. Biased? Yes. I think they had decided to convict long before the trial was over, or perhaps even started. I just recognize the tunnel vision in their reasoning.
Copyright is not black and white. Things like fair use create an enormous gray area, not to mention the fact that many consider copyright to be unconstitutional.
No theory of fair use will let you hand out full copies of a work to any random stranger, and without uploaders there wouldn't be any file sharing. There's plenty excuses to get away with it, but little to no doubt about the law. And apart from the "limited times" that may be in doubt, it must be one of the clearest grants of power in the constitution. Based on download counts I'm fairly sure most file sharing falls under the original terms anyway. I might not agree with the law, but it's basically pitch black, if you think it's gray you'd better clean your glasses.
I guess the usual, it gives away too much about their capabilities, orbits and nobody had made sure there wasn't anything sensitive on that ice. Military intelligence is also a game of economics, even if other nations could find things out for themselves there's no reason giving them free information of any kind.
The comment I replied to said HD was 3 Gbps, he said that because HD-SDI/3G-SDI is 3 Gbps and that was the interface I was talking about throughout my post. High-end equipment will have those to handle raw HD in realtime. I probably should have spelled that out in a post where it could be confused with the SATA 3Gbps interface.