I remember Crabb saying almost the exact same thing back when Apple had roughly 20% of the consumer market.
These rumors have one major problem, which is that large media conglomerates have little to gain from taking such a MAJOR gamble by purchasing Apple. Hell, most of them are still smarting from their last foray into computers, namely their invasion of the consumer gaming market a few years ago.
Unless Microsoft is broken up by a DOJ, Apple's chances of becoming the Sony of consumer computers is slim to nothing. Microsoft's marketing machine has too many spin doctors on their side (and industry players won over by them) for that to happen.
And after working at Viacom for 5 years, I find it hard to believe even the best marketing wonk could overcome the pencil pushers.
So in other words, what you're saying is that one NODE of this network (they can certainly rent out multiple rooms), capable of checking 100 Tb/s, is too small to check out... what?
I'm sorry, but I find it hard to believe that internet backbones have reached the 100Tb/sec range yet.
Remember, this is the government, they can force MAE-East traffic to hop through their little room. And IMHO it would actually fill in the rest of the picture for me as to why that net is such a pig!;)
Except that with monitoring setups like this, and appropriate laws passed to outlaw non-key escrow technology (Or are you naive enough to believe that "they" would stop once key escrow was rammed down our throat?), all you'd have to do is send a non-key escrow encrypted message to be in trouble.
Baby steps, people, baby steps - implement policies so slowly that people aren't aware that people in power are doing something horribly, horribly wrong.
Freedom of speech is a powerful, powerful right. But it's useless if it's subjigated and belittled into nothingness by people who think these kinds of actions are justifiable.
Paranoid? Yeah, probably, but you know what, it's reality. We certainly haven't reached Big Brother yet, but I'm certain Big Mother is alive and well.
If companies don't want to enter into a contract with Apple they have to pay a $1/port fee.
Apple spent it's money developing the technology, now they need to recoup the money. How outrageous of them!
What MOST companies are doing is entering into contract with Apple - which amounts to paying a one-time flat fee and/or offering R&D projects.
The reality is that companies who've entered into contract with Apple are paying 1/2 to 1/4 that "outrageous" $1/port fee.
So, hey, let's see... Compaq just shipped a computer with a 1394 port on the back. Gosh, their system costs $1 more now! My god, I'd better go buy a Packard Bell instead!
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...but people are repeating themselves.
I remember Crabb saying almost the exact same thing back when Apple had roughly 20% of the consumer market.
These rumors have one major problem, which is that large media conglomerates have little to gain from taking such a MAJOR gamble by purchasing Apple. Hell, most of them are still smarting from their last foray into computers, namely their invasion of the consumer gaming market a few years ago.
Unless Microsoft is broken up by a DOJ, Apple's chances of becoming the Sony of consumer computers is slim to nothing. Microsoft's marketing machine has too many spin doctors on their side (and industry players won over by them) for that to happen.
And after working at Viacom for 5 years, I find it hard to believe even the best marketing wonk could overcome the pencil pushers.
So in other words, what you're saying is that one NODE of this network (they can certainly rent out multiple rooms), capable of checking 100 Tb/s, is too small to check out... what?
;)
I'm sorry, but I find it hard to believe that internet backbones have reached the 100Tb/sec range yet.
Remember, this is the government, they can force MAE-East traffic to hop through their little room. And IMHO it would actually fill in the rest of the picture for me as to why that net is such a pig!
Except that with monitoring setups like this, and appropriate laws passed to outlaw non-key escrow technology (Or are you naive enough to believe that "they" would stop once key escrow was rammed down our throat?), all you'd have to do is send a non-key escrow encrypted message to be in trouble.
Baby steps, people, baby steps - implement policies so slowly that people aren't aware that people in power are doing something horribly, horribly wrong.
Freedom of speech is a powerful, powerful right. But it's useless if it's subjigated and belittled into nothingness by people who think these kinds of actions are justifiable.
Paranoid? Yeah, probably, but you know what, it's reality. We certainly haven't reached Big Brother yet, but I'm certain Big Mother is alive and well.
...and people get their panties in a bunch.
If companies don't want to enter into a contract with Apple they have to pay a $1/port fee.
Apple spent it's money developing the technology, now they need to recoup the money. How outrageous of them!
What MOST companies are doing is entering into contract with Apple - which amounts to paying a one-time flat fee and/or offering R&D projects.
The reality is that companies who've entered into contract with Apple are paying 1/2 to 1/4 that "outrageous" $1/port fee.
So, hey, let's see... Compaq just shipped a computer with a 1394 port on the back. Gosh, their system costs $1 more now! My god, I'd better go buy a Packard Bell instead!