My house gets cleaned weekly by Mexicans of unknown immigration status. They get $120 for about 3 hours work.
My lawn gets cut by Mexicans of unknown immigration status. They get $500/month, and I only have 1/3 of an acre.
And yes, I once had a house painted for $500 (not including the paint itself.) It took one guy two days, giving him $250 for two days work. Adjusted for inflation it's probably more like $700 today.
The idea that this is slave labor is asinine. The idea that the jobs should be paid more than that is asinine. The idea that I'm hurting the labor market by "only" paying $35-$50/hour for unskilled labor is asinine. The market is charging unreasonable amounts, and I'm responding appropriately.
A standard pro-business comment that ignores reality
The mandatory GOP "OMG IMMIGRANTS" xenophobia. (As if it's such a huge problem that I got my whole house painted for $500. Oh noes! They are *illegal*, they didn't fill out a bunch of forms before they painted my house! The horror!)
He then goes into full-on pro-war mode, advocating a long stay in Iraq, action against Iran and the continued destruction of Habeas Corpus.
Then the oblique nod towards government-funded religious education, because there are a lot of religious voters who want the right to force me to subsidize the indoctrination of their children.
And then he made a comment about how important it is that he have the ability to monitor all the traffic on the internet, to protect against child porn. Yeah, child porn. Of fucking course.
There's nothing interesting here. The guy is a pure stereotype. The slashdot editors who approved the word 'interesting' need to go take an English class, because it doesn't mean what they think it means.
I have bad news for you. Your Powerbook has 262k colors.
The MacBook displays weren't a regression in quality, they were a continuation of an exceptionally long-standing practice.
Maybe we'll see 8-bit displays in some future revision, but until now, it's been a cost issue, and Apple was smart enough to realize that if the entire industry is using 6-bit displays, they can do it too.
So, somebody installed 10.3 on what was either the oldest possible supported laptop, or possibly an unsupported laptop, then a video driver update caused some problems, all of which were fixable by somebody who fully admitted that they don't know OS X, only Unix and Windows.
Obnoxious, sure, but not really different than any other OS. (In fact I have had brand-spanking new Windows hardware that would lose video if I applied WindowsUpdate recommended driver updates.)
I'd have to be pretty stupid to think that any OS is perfect, but I'd have to be even dumber to think that your awful, whiny article (hosted on MSDN, LOL) is worth any discussion at all.
As you have utterly failed to quote me saying or doing anything fascist, so I can only presume you have yet to look up what "fascist" means.
Anybody with eyes can see that you think that people should not criticize sitting presidents, question electoral problems or point out possible conflicts of interest.
You've claimed that it's irresponsible to do all of those things.
You're the least democratic, least American, least respectful person I have ever seen on the Internet, and I have read stormfront.
Kill yourself, you democracy-hating, free-speech hating, fascist fuck.
I love that every time I point out you're a fascist fuck, you bring up awful examples.
Watergate didn't break because of the reporters. It broke because of Deep Throat. With no Deep Throat, they would not have been able to break the story. Instead there would have been continued low-level stories about things that seemed fishy.
And yes, read the papers from back them, prior to Woodward and Bernstein, people knew something was up, but couldn't quite get enough detail to nail it down.
Effectively, you've given MORE evidence that it's good to make suspicion public, because occasionally somebody else (Woodward, Bernstein and Deep Throat) will manage to get all the right access to finish the investigation.
But hey, keep pretending you're not a fascist. I read your horrible journal, in which you intimate that nobody should criticize the president simply because he was elected.
You're a fascist. Let me spell it out for you F A S C I S T.
You can try to pretend you aren't, but the facts are clear. You believe the government power should not only go unchecked, but also uncriticized.
And then look up "fascist" in the dictionary and describe to me what fascist views you think I have. That oughtta be fun.
I know what fascist means you arrogant fuck.
I call you fascist because you seek to quash all dissent or disparagement of the horrific joke that is our elections. I call you fascist because you do not respect man's right to criticize or investigate the government. I call you fascist because your whole line of thought presumes that one should never investigate the government.
That's the logical conclusion of your awful ideas, where everybody must self-censor unless they have full access to all of the information required to do a full investigation. But since almost nobody has full access to everything, they can usually only get tidbits.
But you don't like that. You say stupid shit, about how if all you have is significant suspicion of wrong-doing, you should just keep that to yourself, instead of bringing it to the attention of people who might have the power to actually confirm or deny the wrongdoing.
You're an awful, fascist fuck for that. It's possible that you're just SO FUCKING STUPID that you can't think out the logical conclusions of your own suggestions. Maybe your head is SO FAR UP YOUR ASS that you don't realize that your standards of journalism cannot be reasonably applied to a modern government without effectively quashing ALL dissent.
Oh, and as for your requests of you implying that there were no problems worth discussion:
Those irregularities existed, but were not significant (according to Sekhon).
You pull this quote out of context and the word significant ends up meaning something significantly different than what Sekhon intended. In the original quote it meant "sufficient to tip the balance of the election", but out of context it implies a more general, and lower standard of significance. One that is or is not worth discussing.
When I pointed out that patterns of corruption should be investigated to see what is what, you retorted with an utterly retarded analogy about sports betting, and were so fucking stupid that you failed to notice that you were essentially proving my point as to why further investigation would be a good idea.
Because some patterns are just noise, but many are not.
Your analogy wrongly compared complaints about likely political wrongdoing to completely random chance as well, which is fucking stupid.
Anyway, I'm done with you you stupid, arrogant, useless piece of shit.
I hope that you live your life by your awful, awful standards, and that your first son is wrongly imprisoned for murder. Because maybe then you'll realize why your journalistic standards are COMPLETELY FUCKING RETARDED.
And maybe then you'll realize why you are harmful to society.
Until then, you should seriously consider killing yourself, you fascist fucking asshole.
A commodity computer can EASILY spit out 50 MB of email per second with some intelligent software... but *paying for* the bandwidth to actually send it that fast would be absolutely prohibitive. That's the real reason spammers use botnets.
Prices from my inbox: 50Mbps sustained, burstable to 100mbit, $2,000/month. 100Mbps sustained, $3,700/month. 300Mbps sustained, $10,800/month.
(Of course, there's also the fact that botnets are a lot harder to isolate and blacklist than a single server.)
Translation: "fuck, pudge is right, and I can't respond to his claims, so I am going to pretend I have the upper hand by calling him a troll."
The only thing you're right of is Mussolini, you fascist fuck.
It's disingenuous at best to pretend that your original posts didn't imply that there should be no criticism of the problems in the elections.
Typical douchebag asshole response, pretend you weren't strongly implying something, when you know you were. Just like Bush and Cheney claiming they never tried to link Al Quaida or 9/11 to Iraq.
Technically it's true, but it's such a worthless point that only a truth-hating fascist would make the argument.
The democrats were stating that there was a margin of error on their data for both the actual count, and the exact reasons. RFK was incorrect to remove that uncertainty (even though he was writing for a lay audience), but you're equally incorrect in using this uncertainty as evidence that the data should be disregarded in it's entirety.
Your entire post reads the same way, that because a percentage of the problems may be incorrect, the whole thing should be ignored. While I agree that scope was reported in an irresponsible way, your implication that the problems were non-existent, or not worthy of discussion is abhorrent.
I am proud to be on your foe list, for it is clear that you have no respect for logic, truth, or democracy.
Or to be more concise: go fuck yourself you stupid fucking fascist troll.
That said, I have looked in-depth into the many claims made about how Ohio was "stolen," including the claims made by RFK Jr. in Rolling Stone, and it is almost all total bullshit. He completely made up almost all of the "disenfranchised Democratic voters" he claimed.
Having done the same, I am now sure that you are a liar, a troll or both.
Either way, further discussion is pointless, as you clearly have an anti-truth agenda.
When I notice dozens of hinky "coincidences", I tend to assume that I have noticed a pattern, and should act as though the pattern is likely to continue.
My scientific mind wants to explain the exact source of the pattern, and determine how much is just noise, but that doesn't rule out that I expect it to continue.
Now I don't know if they were trying to use early access to results to play a recount selection or some other manipulation game, but no matter what, the coincidence deserves attention. It seems quite unlikely that the low-bid for this contract service would come from the same company that also runs the RNC infrastructure. It's all quite "coincidental".
So I'm not making any specific accusations of wrongdoing, but I think that only an extraordinarily optimistic fool would look at Ohio or Florida and say "there's no story here." It seems far wiser to raise awareness that there was an unusual and outwardly untoward pattern of events, and see if somebody can investigate further to shed more light on the data.
Important news stories are rarely birthed fully formed. They usually come out in bits. Sometimes bits turn into nothing, sometimes they turn into enormous problems, but it's best that they come out.
The interesting thing is that the Microsoft executive was given an opportunity, and they poo-pooed it on a number of levels. Apple was given a chance to respond and simply said: "I am not interested in commenting".
The latter is what you say if something is actually irrelevant. The former is what you say if it isn't.
Apple aims at small businesses as well, and are improving on that front.
An obvious example is that 10.5 Server has been advertised as having clustered e-mail services, if you have two XServes and a SAN. This is the key reason I'm thinking of buying two XServes when 10.5 comes out, so we could get easy-to-administer, reliable e-mail and jabber servers, instead of having to have somebody remember how the hell our postfix/courier/postgres/SA/ClamAV integration works, and having to figure out when/what to upgrade.
As far as we can tell, it'd be about a $3k price premium over the other options, excluding human time, and as such would pay for itself in well under a year.
If you register fo0.com on May 1 and on May 2 you realize you goof and you meant to register foo.com, fine. But your registration still expires next May 1.
Screw that. If you register fo0.com and you meant to register foo.com, screw you, you're out whatever you spent ($10-35). That's a slightly annoying lesson if you're a regular person. But it would destroy the typosquatting market.
It's telling that I got moderated down as flamebait, and you got moderated as a troll for supporting me. (Yes, I made the AC post that said it made me want to vomit.)
The replies are an example of precisely what is wrong with Linux. Take cyclop, who wrote:
Wake me up when the Windows file manager has tabs... Or split view activable by clicking a button. Or text editor and word processor integration.
These are people who don't understand the paradox of choice.
I've used Unix on the desktop. I've used KDE, Gnome, CDE, mwm, Enlightenment, Blackbox, WindowMaker, fvwm, and God only knows how many other window managers. I've learned how to tweak everything, how to get my exact favorite combination of window buttons, how to hide all the shit I don't care about, how to use it all.
And it didn't make me more productive. Honestly, I'm pretty sure that all that configurability and such caused a significant decrease in my lifetime productivity, as I'd spend hours playing with how to save 4 seconds, five times a day, and I'd do this after every single Hot New Release.
These days, I still use lots of Unix servers. Love it. But my laptop is a Mac, because although the defaults aren't perfect and there are a few things that I'd like to change, it's Good Enough.
I get more done using OS X and QuickSilver than I ever would if I had kept on chasing the Unix Desktop dream.
And all of that is just about pure productivity and ease of use. It ignores the fact that Linux desktops continuously choose visual designs that are about 5 years past their expiration date in the commercial world.
You can buy a 100TB tape library for about $200k, and you'd be able to expand that to somewhere in the neighborhood of 100PB before you had a capacity issue. The whole thing would take about 100 square feet to start, wouldn't generate much heat or use much power.
Or you can buy a SATA-based virtual tape library that generates more heat, uses more power, and stores 70TB for about the same price. The SATA VLT won't be expandable though, as you can't just add more slots when you want more storage.
So yes, hard drives are a fantastic option if you're okay with higher cost of ownership, higher initial cost, and want to trade that for access speed. However if the goal is to save money, they're just not a viable option.
And please don't pretend that a home-brew solution would work here. That would involve even more power, and more importantly, it would add significant staffing cost.
An LTO Ultrium 3 tape holds 400GB uncompressed, and you can buy libraries that hold hundreds or thousands of these tapes (and dozens of drives).
Disc to disc backup is gaining acceptance for some applications, but there are other places where the massive storage capacity of tape just can't be beat.
The idea of DVD as a business-class backup medium is almost perfectly slashdottastic.
I work in finance, but I don't know what the exact regulations are.
I do know that our analysts treat voluntary presentations to them as though they were delivered by salesmen, but treat the mandatory ones as though the words themselves are believed to be true by company executives.
There's always spin on top of that (it's an increase in efficiency, not a mass layoff because of horrid sales, etc...), but the basics tend towards truth.
I agree with you, that he never outright states that Linux is in violation. he just mentions the two problems (linux, and IP) near each other.
Unfortunately, this sort of attack is quite effective.
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My house gets cleaned weekly by Mexicans of unknown immigration status. They get $120 for about 3 hours work.
My lawn gets cut by Mexicans of unknown immigration status. They get $500/month, and I only have 1/3 of an acre.
And yes, I once had a house painted for $500 (not including the paint itself.) It took one guy two days, giving him $250 for two days work. Adjusted for inflation it's probably more like $700 today.
The idea that this is slave labor is asinine. The idea that the jobs should be paid more than that is asinine. The idea that I'm hurting the labor market by "only" paying $35-$50/hour for unskilled labor is asinine. The market is charging unreasonable amounts, and I'm responding appropriately.
A standard pro-business comment that ignores reality
The mandatory GOP "OMG IMMIGRANTS" xenophobia. (As if it's such a huge problem that I got my whole house painted for $500. Oh noes! They are *illegal*, they didn't fill out a bunch of forms before they painted my house! The horror!)
He then goes into full-on pro-war mode, advocating a long stay in Iraq, action against Iran and the continued destruction of Habeas Corpus.
Then the oblique nod towards government-funded religious education, because there are a lot of religious voters who want the right to force me to subsidize the indoctrination of their children.
And then he made a comment about how important it is that he have the ability to monitor all the traffic on the internet, to protect against child porn. Yeah, child porn. Of fucking course.
There's nothing interesting here. The guy is a pure stereotype. The slashdot editors who approved the word 'interesting' need to go take an English class, because it doesn't mean what they think it means.
100 Million iPods Sold.
I have bad news for you. Your Powerbook has 262k colors.
The MacBook displays weren't a regression in quality, they were a continuation of an exceptionally long-standing practice.
Maybe we'll see 8-bit displays in some future revision, but until now, it's been a cost issue, and Apple was smart enough to realize that if the entire industry is using 6-bit displays, they can do it too.
So, somebody installed 10.3 on what was either the oldest possible supported laptop, or possibly an unsupported laptop, then a video driver update caused some problems, all of which were fixable by somebody who fully admitted that they don't know OS X, only Unix and Windows.
Obnoxious, sure, but not really different than any other OS. (In fact I have had brand-spanking new Windows hardware that would lose video if I applied WindowsUpdate recommended driver updates.)
I'd have to be pretty stupid to think that any OS is perfect, but I'd have to be even dumber to think that your awful, whiny article (hosted on MSDN, LOL) is worth any discussion at all.
As you have utterly failed to quote me saying or doing anything fascist, so I can only presume you have yet to look up what "fascist" means.
Anybody with eyes can see that you think that people should not criticize sitting presidents, question electoral problems or point out possible conflicts of interest.
You've claimed that it's irresponsible to do all of those things.
You're the least democratic, least American, least respectful person I have ever seen on the Internet, and I have read stormfront.
Kill yourself, you democracy-hating, free-speech hating, fascist fuck.
C'mon, admit it: you held your breath, didn't you?
No, I just watched them install. OS X isn't some bug-free panacea (I've had grey screens, etc.) but I've never had an update blow up my computer.
> I have read them. I've studied this topic in-depth. You, apparently, have not.
More lies from the self-contradictory fascist idiot.
So you are simultaneously claiming that you have read the pre-watergate rumor stories, and also that there were no pre-watergate rumor stories.
You're not just a lousy person, you're also a lousy liar.
Kill yourself, you fascist fuck.
I love that every time I point out you're a fascist fuck, you bring up awful examples.
Watergate didn't break because of the reporters. It broke because of Deep Throat. With no Deep Throat, they would not have been able to break the story. Instead there would have been continued low-level stories about things that seemed fishy.
And yes, read the papers from back them, prior to Woodward and Bernstein, people knew something was up, but couldn't quite get enough detail to nail it down.
Effectively, you've given MORE evidence that it's good to make suspicion public, because occasionally somebody else (Woodward, Bernstein and Deep Throat) will manage to get all the right access to finish the investigation.
But hey, keep pretending you're not a fascist. I read your horrible journal, in which you intimate that nobody should criticize the president simply because he was elected.
You're a fascist. Let me spell it out for you F A S C I S T.
You can try to pretend you aren't, but the facts are clear. You believe the government power should not only go unchecked, but also uncriticized.
FASCIST.
Kill yourself, you fascist fuck.
I know what fascist means you arrogant fuck.
I call you fascist because you seek to quash all dissent or disparagement of the horrific joke that is our elections. I call you fascist because you do not respect man's right to criticize or investigate the government. I call you fascist because your whole line of thought presumes that one should never investigate the government.
That's the logical conclusion of your awful ideas, where everybody must self-censor unless they have full access to all of the information required to do a full investigation. But since almost nobody has full access to everything, they can usually only get tidbits.
But you don't like that. You say stupid shit, about how if all you have is significant suspicion of wrong-doing, you should just keep that to yourself, instead of bringing it to the attention of people who might have the power to actually confirm or deny the wrongdoing.
You're an awful, fascist fuck for that. It's possible that you're just SO FUCKING STUPID that you can't think out the logical conclusions of your own suggestions. Maybe your head is SO FAR UP YOUR ASS that you don't realize that your standards of journalism cannot be reasonably applied to a modern government without effectively quashing ALL dissent.
Oh, and as for your requests of you implying that there were no problems worth discussion:
You pull this quote out of context and the word significant ends up meaning something significantly different than what Sekhon intended. In the original quote it meant "sufficient to tip the balance of the election", but out of context it implies a more general, and lower standard of significance. One that is or is not worth discussing.
When I pointed out that patterns of corruption should be investigated to see what is what, you retorted with an utterly retarded analogy about sports betting, and were so fucking stupid that you failed to notice that you were essentially proving my point as to why further investigation would be a good idea.
Because some patterns are just noise, but many are not.
Your analogy wrongly compared complaints about likely political wrongdoing to completely random chance as well, which is fucking stupid.
Anyway, I'm done with you you stupid, arrogant, useless piece of shit.
I hope that you live your life by your awful, awful standards, and that your first son is wrongly imprisoned for murder. Because maybe then you'll realize why your journalistic standards are COMPLETELY FUCKING RETARDED.
And maybe then you'll realize why you are harmful to society.
Until then, you should seriously consider killing yourself, you fascist fucking asshole.
To be fair, digg's ham-handed (and legally ill-advised) attempts to quash the number did a fantastic job of bringing attention to said number.
In fact, I have a hard time imagining a better way to make sure that it is widely published and known than to do what they did.
In a way, they're heroes.
A commodity computer can EASILY spit out 50 MB of email per second with some intelligent software... but *paying for* the bandwidth to actually send it that fast would be absolutely prohibitive. That's the real reason spammers use botnets.
Prices from my inbox:
50Mbps sustained, burstable to 100mbit, $2,000/month.
100Mbps sustained, $3,700/month.
300Mbps sustained, $10,800/month.
(Of course, there's also the fact that botnets are a lot harder to isolate and blacklist than a single server.)
Bingo.
Translation: "fuck, pudge is right, and I can't respond to his claims, so I am going to pretend I have the upper hand by calling him a troll."
The only thing you're right of is Mussolini, you fascist fuck.
It's disingenuous at best to pretend that your original posts didn't imply that there should be no criticism of the problems in the elections.
Typical douchebag asshole response, pretend you weren't strongly implying something, when you know you were. Just like Bush and Cheney claiming they never tried to link Al Quaida or 9/11 to Iraq.
Technically it's true, but it's such a worthless point that only a truth-hating fascist would make the argument.
The democrats were stating that there was a margin of error on their data for both the actual count, and the exact reasons. RFK was incorrect to remove that uncertainty (even though he was writing for a lay audience), but you're equally incorrect in using this uncertainty as evidence that the data should be disregarded in it's entirety.
Your entire post reads the same way, that because a percentage of the problems may be incorrect, the whole thing should be ignored. While I agree that scope was reported in an irresponsible way, your implication that the problems were non-existent, or not worthy of discussion is abhorrent.
I am proud to be on your foe list, for it is clear that you have no respect for logic, truth, or democracy.
Or to be more concise: go fuck yourself you stupid fucking fascist troll.
That said, I have looked in-depth into the many claims made about how Ohio was "stolen," including the claims made by RFK Jr. in Rolling Stone, and it is almost all total bullshit. He completely made up almost all of the "disenfranchised Democratic voters" he claimed.
Having done the same, I am now sure that you are a liar, a troll or both.
Either way, further discussion is pointless, as you clearly have an anti-truth agenda.
I hope you're trying to be ironic.
Sadly, I think you're just being moronic.
When I notice dozens of hinky "coincidences", I tend to assume that I have noticed a pattern, and should act as though the pattern is likely to continue.
My scientific mind wants to explain the exact source of the pattern, and determine how much is just noise, but that doesn't rule out that I expect it to continue.
Now I don't know if they were trying to use early access to results to play a recount selection or some other manipulation game, but no matter what, the coincidence deserves attention. It seems quite unlikely that the low-bid for this contract service would come from the same company that also runs the RNC infrastructure. It's all quite "coincidental".
So I'm not making any specific accusations of wrongdoing, but I think that only an extraordinarily optimistic fool would look at Ohio or Florida and say "there's no story here." It seems far wiser to raise awareness that there was an unusual and outwardly untoward pattern of events, and see if somebody can investigate further to shed more light on the data.
Important news stories are rarely birthed fully formed. They usually come out in bits. Sometimes bits turn into nothing, sometimes they turn into enormous problems, but it's best that they come out.
The interesting thing is that the Microsoft executive was given an opportunity, and they poo-pooed it on a number of levels. Apple was given a chance to respond and simply said: "I am not interested in commenting".
The latter is what you say if something is actually irrelevant. The former is what you say if it isn't.
Apple aims at small businesses as well, and are improving on that front. An obvious example is that 10.5 Server has been advertised as having clustered e-mail services, if you have two XServes and a SAN. This is the key reason I'm thinking of buying two XServes when 10.5 comes out, so we could get easy-to-administer, reliable e-mail and jabber servers, instead of having to have somebody remember how the hell our postfix/courier/postgres/SA/ClamAV integration works, and having to figure out when/what to upgrade. As far as we can tell, it'd be about a $3k price premium over the other options, excluding human time, and as such would pay for itself in well under a year.
If you register fo0.com on May 1 and on May 2 you realize you goof and you meant to register foo.com, fine. But your registration still expires next May 1.
Screw that. If you register fo0.com and you meant to register foo.com, screw you, you're out whatever you spent ($10-35). That's a slightly annoying lesson if you're a regular person. But it would destroy the typosquatting market.
In honor of Bill Hicks: kill yourself.
There is no joke coming. Kill yourself.
The replies are an example of precisely what is wrong with Linux. Take cyclop, who wrote:
These are people who don't understand the paradox of choice.
I've used Unix on the desktop. I've used KDE, Gnome, CDE, mwm, Enlightenment, Blackbox, WindowMaker, fvwm, and God only knows how many other window managers. I've learned how to tweak everything, how to get my exact favorite combination of window buttons, how to hide all the shit I don't care about, how to use it all.
And it didn't make me more productive. Honestly, I'm pretty sure that all that configurability and such caused a significant decrease in my lifetime productivity, as I'd spend hours playing with how to save 4 seconds, five times a day, and I'd do this after every single Hot New Release.
These days, I still use lots of Unix servers. Love it. But my laptop is a Mac, because although the defaults aren't perfect and there are a few things that I'd like to change, it's Good Enough.
I get more done using OS X and QuickSilver than I ever would if I had kept on chasing the Unix Desktop dream.
And all of that is just about pure productivity and ease of use. It ignores the fact that Linux desktops continuously choose visual designs that are about 5 years past their expiration date in the commercial world.
Your comment is incredibly slashdotty.
You can buy a 100TB tape library for about $200k, and you'd be able to expand that to somewhere in the neighborhood of 100PB before you had a capacity issue. The whole thing would take about 100 square feet to start, wouldn't generate much heat or use much power.
Or you can buy a SATA-based virtual tape library that generates more heat, uses more power, and stores 70TB for about the same price. The SATA VLT won't be expandable though, as you can't just add more slots when you want more storage.
So yes, hard drives are a fantastic option if you're okay with higher cost of ownership, higher initial cost, and want to trade that for access speed. However if the goal is to save money, they're just not a viable option.
And please don't pretend that a home-brew solution would work here. That would involve even more power, and more importantly, it would add significant staffing cost.
An LTO Ultrium 3 tape holds 400GB uncompressed, and you can buy libraries that hold hundreds or thousands of these tapes (and dozens of drives).
Disc to disc backup is gaining acceptance for some applications, but there are other places where the massive storage capacity of tape just can't be beat.
The idea of DVD as a business-class backup medium is almost perfectly slashdottastic.
I work in finance, but I don't know what the exact regulations are.
I do know that our analysts treat voluntary presentations to them as though they were delivered by salesmen, but treat the mandatory ones as though the words themselves are believed to be true by company executives.
There's always spin on top of that (it's an increase in efficiency, not a mass layoff because of horrid sales, etc...), but the basics tend towards truth.
I agree with you, that he never outright states that Linux is in violation. he just mentions the two problems (linux, and IP) near each other.
Unfortunately, this sort of attack is quite effective.