Good News, only in that this guy will get to go back to see his wife and child. Not Good News, as this was an ideal case to test the Constitutionality of the DMCA.
Callous as it may be, part of me wishes Adobe had not backed down. David Boes needs a chance to redeem himself.
Politically speaking, Anarchy would be the ideal system. Unfortunately, we as society (woohoo, Haven't used that phrase since I wrote a paper for PHIL 101) lack the respect for basic human rights that must be present for Anarchy to be viable.
That notwithstanding, there are a great many things a People can do to limit the ability of those with Power to exercise it. Term Limits (insure the same individuals arent' in Power very long), the Power to recall an elected official, and Laws written (as ours in the US orginally were) to protect the Freedoms of the citizenry, and the means to effectively defend yourself (both with a weapon, and a ballot.)
That Corps are considered to have all the same rights, yet little of the personal responsibility, of a Citizen is an abomination; legally, historically, and ethically.
Explain to me how my Father-in-law, who works in a GM plant in Ohio, is even close to being the same (WRT Power) as the Executives at GM, or the Board of Directors?
This isn't so much about war, as it is returning Corporations to their rightful place. And that is to serve the people. When they stop serving our interests, they get their charters revoked. They have no authority that the Gov't (and by extension, us) didn't give them. The balance of power has been shifted (through nefarious means) from The People, to the Corporations. It's high-time we shifted it back.
Government: Corporation : King...Its all the same. Different names for the same thing,that is. Power. Those who have a little want more. Those that have a lot, want it all.
If more people have been hurt by Governements, that's just b/c they've had a few centuries more than Corps to develop their resume. I suggest you search google for the words Oil+murder+Africa and see if you still are more afraid of your government. Or Banana+Central+America+murder.
The facts of the 20th Century seem to indicate that Governments have acted in a violent and colonistic manner for the sole benifit of Corporations. Point being, if you are dark-skinned and poor, and live somewhere a Corporation would rather you didn't...well, may God have mercy on your soul.
Obviously this is not a kosher thing to do with regards to established norms of Internet community and openess. But, this ain't 1993. I seriously doubt how much spam this will prevent.
But, in the end, the servers ARE theirs. If they don't want to share, or if they want to limit thier customers abilities, we can do thing the Capitalist way. Not buy thier service, and use other smtp servers. I've had RoadRunner for over a year now, and haven't even setup my *@rr.com accounts. I use thier DNS, but that's it. Perhaps I don't fully understand the implication of Verizon (Sprint) doing this, but I don't really see how it will amount to a hill of beans.
Exactly. A nice 2U like a Dell 2550 would be awesome. Something that meets Data Center Standards. Right now any server room with Macs in it need to dedicate more space per capita than the NT side. It's generally a nicer fit to install an NT server and Use Services for Macintosh as a File/Print server. If I could stick something that looked like a Dell or CQ in my manager's face, I'd have a signed PO by the end of the day.
It's hardly the same. A TB on a Netapp might cost 300,000, but it's worth every penny.
Sure, you can get just as much disk space for an order of magnitude less. But you won't get their reliability, or their feature set. We use them exclusively for our storage needs. We have about 8TB of space on them right now. At anytime we can retrieve a recently deleted file or directory, do hot bakups, make new containers on the fly, hot swap out bad drives, add a new shelf of drives, chew gum and walk.
In a production environment, where the data on those servers is the lifeblood of your company/organization, some DIY IDE RAID setup will not withstand the demands, or come close to yielding the results of a NetApp (or EMC, or Xiotech, or Compaq, etc..)
These IDE RAID setups are fine for your mp3's or your personal or small workgroup fileservers. Just don't bet the farm on them.
I don't thinkk he's got it at all. Since when were we concerned about hte content available online? Was there nothing else that offended us before Big Brothr outakes? Please. I don't give a shit and a half what anyone puts out there. Just like TV, I have the choice to NOT WATCH IT!!! This is a non-issue.
Since few of us are knowledgable enough about the details concerning the scientific expeiriment, I thought I'd point out the part of the story most of us can dig. The hardware. Managing a petabyte of data is a Herculean effort. These guys have a nice setup.
I'll have to check the bylaws, but I'm pretty sure I must submit a proposal to the Archetectual Review board, who will then submit their recommendation to the full Home Owners Association Board who then vote to grant me permission to break into my own home.
That's Apple's ill-fated mindset. Microsoft doesn't believe you shouldn't use things they didn't invent (after all, they invented very little). They don't want you using things they don't control.
Just to get this out of the way (and quell the predictable debate about PPC v. X86) anyone posting a thread conerning this aspect of the story should read this first.
That's http://www.arstechnica.com/cpu/4q99/risc-cisc/rvc- 1.html for the Goat-phobic.
I have a 2Mb WAN AP in my home office (which is in the front of my house). I put the three IP's I leave available on my DMZ, and let my neighbors use it to surf on their decks. If I lived somewhere other than a bougiouse yuppie neighborhood/town I'd invest in an antenna to spread the wealth.
I re-read what I wrote, and don't see how you are justified in your inference that I was expressing my opinion concerning the merits of Apple's case. Frankly, I'm not all that familiar with the case. I know only that it had to do with MS implementing reasonable facsimiles of Apple's design elements (Trash Can/Recycle Bin, etc..).
The gist of my analogy was that by the time the case had been settled, it's outcome was not terribly important. It's not an altogether good analogy. I wanted something with the Pony Express, but I'm not that clever.
Regardless, I was not attacking MS at all. Not in the least. Take a breath. Remember to exhale.;)
I use Time-Warner Road Runner. Since TW/AOL owns most of the content ever created, I ain't sweating this. Think about it. There are 4 major ISPs that account for %90 of the (home)users in the US. At worst, smaller ISPs get crushed because they have nothing to offer in exchange for rights to content.
Thisis where Anti Trust becomes an issue. Since the line b/t Content owner and ISP is rather blurred (AOL-TW..) A nice case could be made that AOL was using it's rights to all of it's TW holdings to gain an unfair advantage.
That is, if something of this sort was tried. When you think about it, this would make ISP more like Cable/DSS providers. You pay a flat fee, they handle all the content. I hope all you pro-privatization freaks enjoy the Commercial Internet.
While DIY may become limited, hacking never will. So long as curious people with Dremels exist, the things around them will be modified/hacked.
Will I be able to build a killer DIY system in 10 years? Maybe, maybe not. But If not, so what? The prefab stuff will be so cheap it won't matter. Sure I get a kick out of messing with my hardware. But I hope to develop new hobbies as I pass into my 30's and beyond. Like fixing up old cars. Or getting elected to Congress so I can screw around with hot interns.
Agreed. It's offset a bit by lower sales tax (%3). But there is a %3 "Road Use" tax levied when vehichles are registered for the first time in the state. That means that even though I bought my car in OH and paid ~%6 in taxes on the purchase, I had to pay another %3 when I registered it down here..
But that's really chump change when you consider how unfair mortgages and loans in general are set up. Of my ~$1200 house payment, more than $900 goes to pay off interest. In the last year of my mortgage, I won't pay anything in interest. It's frontloaded so that even if you pay 1/30 of the payments, you will still have significantly more than 1/30 of the principle remaining. Even if I pay it off in 20 years instead of 30, I will have paid the bank for more than 20 years worth of interest. I'm paying for something I may not (and probably will not) ever use, namely the interest that would accumalate over 30 years. It kinda pisses me off.
Well, the State of NC taxes my auto's (and my RV ro boat if I had one) so long as my primary residence in NC. Nevermind that my boat may be in a marina in SC. Or my RV in a campground in FLA.
While you do get some protections for your property via taxes, those protections are not explicitly given in exchange for your property taxes. The Police, in particular, will 'protect' you even if you own nothing (and thus pay no propety tax). The Fire Department is likewise indiscriminate in this regard (though if you live in a house/apt., somebody is paying a tax on it). The 911 operator doesn't ask for your Tax ID before sending help.
If I had a mod point, I'd give it to ye. Thanks for clearing that up. Now, do you have idea where one could find a demographic breakdown of PHD's (or MDs or JDs)?
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Callous as it may be, part of me wishes Adobe had not backed down. David Boes needs a chance to redeem himself.
That notwithstanding, there are a great many things a People can do to limit the ability of those with Power to exercise it. Term Limits (insure the same individuals arent' in Power very long), the Power to recall an elected official, and Laws written (as ours in the US orginally were) to protect the Freedoms of the citizenry, and the means to effectively defend yourself (both with a weapon, and a ballot.)
That Corps are considered to have all the same rights, yet little of the personal responsibility, of a Citizen is an abomination; legally, historically, and ethically.
This isn't so much about war, as it is returning Corporations to their rightful place. And that is to serve the people. When they stop serving our interests, they get their charters revoked. They have no authority that the Gov't (and by extension, us) didn't give them. The balance of power has been shifted (through nefarious means) from The People, to the Corporations. It's high-time we shifted it back.
If more people have been hurt by Governements, that's just b/c they've had a few centuries more than Corps to develop their resume. I suggest you search google for the words Oil+murder+Africa and see if you still are more afraid of your government. Or Banana+Central+America+murder.
The facts of the 20th Century seem to indicate that Governments have acted in a violent and colonistic manner for the sole benifit of Corporations. Point being, if you are dark-skinned and poor, and live somewhere a Corporation would rather you didn't...well, may God have mercy on your soul.
But, in the end, the servers ARE theirs. If they don't want to share, or if they want to limit thier customers abilities, we can do thing the Capitalist way. Not buy thier service, and use other smtp servers. I've had RoadRunner for over a year now, and haven't even setup my *@rr.com accounts. I use thier DNS, but that's it. Perhaps I don't fully understand the implication of Verizon (Sprint) doing this, but I don't really see how it will amount to a hill of beans.
Exactly. A nice 2U like a Dell 2550 would be awesome. Something that meets Data Center Standards. Right now any server room with Macs in it need to dedicate more space per capita than the NT side. It's generally a nicer fit to install an NT server and Use Services for Macintosh as a File/Print server. If I could stick something that looked like a Dell or CQ in my manager's face, I'd have a signed PO by the end of the day.
Sure, you can get just as much disk space for an order of magnitude less. But you won't get their reliability, or their feature set. We use them exclusively for our storage needs. We have about 8TB of space on them right now. At anytime we can retrieve a recently deleted file or directory, do hot bakups, make new containers on the fly, hot swap out bad drives, add a new shelf of drives, chew gum and walk.
In a production environment, where the data on those servers is the lifeblood of your company/organization, some DIY IDE RAID setup will not withstand the demands, or come close to yielding the results of a NetApp (or EMC, or Xiotech, or Compaq, etc..)
These IDE RAID setups are fine for your mp3's or your personal or small workgroup fileservers. Just don't bet the farm on them.
Still beta, I know, but startling nonetheless.
That's http://www.arstechnica.com/cpu/4q99/risc-cisc/rvc- 1.html for the Goat-phobic.
I re-read what I wrote, and don't see how you are justified in your inference that I was expressing my opinion concerning the merits of Apple's case. Frankly, I'm not all that familiar with the case. I know only that it had to do with MS implementing reasonable facsimiles of Apple's design elements (Trash Can/Recycle Bin, etc..).
The gist of my analogy was that by the time the case had been settled, it's outcome was not terribly important. It's not an altogether good analogy. I wanted something with the Pony Express, but I'm not that clever.
Regardless, I was not attacking MS at all. Not in the least. Take a breath. Remember to exhale. ;)
Thisis where Anti Trust becomes an issue. Since the line b/t Content owner and ISP is rather blurred (AOL-TW..) A nice case could be made that AOL was using it's rights to all of it's TW holdings to gain an unfair advantage.
That is, if something of this sort was tried. When you think about it, this would make ISP more like Cable/DSS providers. You pay a flat fee, they handle all the content. I hope all you pro-privatization freaks enjoy the Commercial Internet.
This is just like MS settling with Apple on it's win95 ripoff cases three years after MS gained %90 of the market. It's moot.
I liked that unification the first time. When NT 5 was released. In 1997.
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Will I be able to build a killer DIY system in 10 years? Maybe, maybe not. But If not, so what? The prefab stuff will be so cheap it won't matter. Sure I get a kick out of messing with my hardware. But I hope to develop new hobbies as I pass into my 30's and beyond. Like fixing up old cars. Or getting elected to Congress so I can screw around with hot interns.
- Dan, NT Admin.
But that's really chump change when you consider how unfair mortgages and loans in general are set up. Of my ~$1200 house payment, more than $900 goes to pay off interest. In the last year of my mortgage, I won't pay anything in interest. It's frontloaded so that even if you pay 1/30 of the payments, you will still have significantly more than 1/30 of the principle remaining. Even if I pay it off in 20 years instead of 30, I will have paid the bank for more than 20 years worth of interest. I'm paying for something I may not (and probably will not) ever use, namely the interest that would accumalate over 30 years. It kinda pisses me off.
While you do get some protections for your property via taxes, those protections are not explicitly given in exchange for your property taxes. The Police, in particular, will 'protect' you even if you own nothing (and thus pay no propety tax). The Fire Department is likewise indiscriminate in this regard (though if you live in a house/apt., somebody is paying a tax on it). The 911 operator doesn't ask for your Tax ID before sending help.