It isn't that bad as long as you have a job. The fact that life is horrible if you don't helps make things cheaper for those who have them.
But yes, it does seem like we really enjoy re-inventing the wheel poorly. We have great productivity though (gotta run - the boss needs 12 hours of work done this afternoon).
However, all the phone company has to do is basically say that you don't roll over when asked to, and that will scare off a lot of big companies (or raise the costs you pay to work with them). Big companies want you to roll over when asked to.
Yeah, since I don't actually store anything valuable on my windows box I might just do something like that in the future.
For my server that stores important stuff like photos/etc I need RAID (plus selective backups). If I have to re-install windows and a bunch of games it won't really bother me that much.
But who knows - maybe on my linux server I'll set up an SSD for the OS with daily backups to the RAID. That really wouldn't be that painful to recover if the SSD dies - recovering a few dozen GB of data isn't that bad especially if it is in the form of a disk clone.
Yeah, my issue is that most of the stuff I need to archive comes in 5GB chunks (like photos/etc). I back up online and I don't want to be paying Amazon for 1TB of storage (~$50/month) until I can fill an entire 1TB drive (which is how big you need to get before hard drives become economical). Paying them for 5GB of storage until I can fill a DVD is much more economical and convenient.
The only other options involve rotating hard drives offsite daily, which isn't terribly practical on home scale. Or I can do what most people do and just back-up to an external hard drive which just sits on your desk ready to burn in the next fire.
Yup. ANYBODY can look at your credit history. If you're a big megacorp do you really want to do business with somebody whose credit history amounts to "does not ask how high when big megacorps tell them to jump?"
You can ALWAYS sue. You were never going to win anyway, so the binding arbitration clause just is one more barrier to hop.
Remember - in the US anybody can sue anybody for anything. Whether they can win is another matter, but depending on your goals winning may not be necessary. If you're a small fry going after a telephone company winning probably does matter. However, if you're a big corporation who wants to punish a small fry then it does not - simply filing a suit forces the small fry to go bankrupt with legal bills.
Maybe, but I think the solution to all of that might be a stealthy drone with a missile launcher (whose missiles can vector 360 degrees), a fire control radar (with 360 degree coverage), and a gun (on a turret with 360 degree coverage).
The whole reason for dogfighting is that you can only shoot straight ahead, and I think that is mostly the result of it being difficult to fly a plane and aim a gun at the same time so they just make the plane into the turret. Plus, manned aircraft are large and radars are expensive so it is hard to stick a radar in a place where it can see everywhere so you put it in front. If the aircraft is small then one or two radars in domes can basically see everywhere. If you have 10x as many aircraft and they all talk to each other then there aren't any blind spots, and there is no requirement that the aircraft that launches is a missile is the one that provides fire control. A smart radar network would also be more likely to defeat stealth - most stealth merely redirects RADAR and is only effective if the transmitter and receiver are in the same location.
Basically you turn the drone into a SAM site floating in the sky, coupled with a CIWS or something like that. If somebody shoots at you the solution isn't to dodge, but to shoot back. If they shoot a gun at you then you just sacrifice the drone, but be sure to get the jet that fired at you in the process. Then you count on the fact that your drones are a lot cheaper than what the enemy is fielding. It is immoral to use pilots as cannon fodder, but using drones in this way may in fact be quite cost-effective.
The drone is less likely to get caught by a zoom climb intercept anyway - just have cameras scanning the ground for movement.
I have a need to backup photos. I back them up to the cloud, but that is relatively expensive (a few cents per GB per month). So, once I have a DVD's worth of data accumulated I burn it and exclude it from online backups. That costs about 5 cents per GB per copy one-time regardless of length of storage, and they last a very long time.
Hard drives are now approaching that kind of cost, but it isn't exactly convenient to update them in chunks of a few GB - you need to bring the drives back, mount them, do the backup, and then store them again.
LTO is quite expensive unless you store a LOT of data. The drives cost thousands of dollars. I'd trust them more than a pile of hard drives though.
Did you enjoy your short term gains without and long term goals? Hope you did. Bye bye in a few years, then!
You say that as if the company has feelings. The company didn't enjoy anything, and will feel no pain when they collapse.
The executives running the company, however, certainly enjoyed their hefty bonuses during the years they gouged the industry. They can just coast now until they get fired, and then retire to their private islands. I'm sure they've all learned their lessons.
If I have to choose a 2 TB SSD or a 4 TB HD, the SSD is going to win.
Yes, but the choice is usually between a 2TB HD ($110 right now), and a 120GB SSD (somewhat close in price), that isn't such an easy choice. For the OS it makes more sense, but for any kind of storage it does not. Even for things like video games the SSD is quite inconvenient - it clearly boosts performance but games eat data by the GB and moving applications between drives in Windows is anything but fun (you do want to play more than 10 games, right?).
Plus you can't really mix the SSD and hard drives on RAID, so you have to buy an extra drive as both your spinning and SSD arrays need an extra device. That is, if you care about your data. I guess you could always just image your OS on your hard drive and use that to restore from boot CD if you go down, but that isn't terribly convenient. (And yes, I know that RAID is not backup - but it eliminates the need to restore quite a bit in multi-disk setups and it is WAY cheaper for lower-risk data that you don't want to pay to backup.)
I tend to agree. Everybody points to the Vietnam war as proof that dogfighting will never die, but my sense is that they simply got the timing wrong. There hasn't really been much in the way of dogfighting since - at least not with modern aircraft like those fielded by the US.
Load a stealthy drone up with really good radar, missiles, and a liberal rule of engagement and I suspect it will dominate the skies just fine, even if it takes 15 minutes to turn a circle (assuming the missiles/radar have 360deg coverage - never really got the point in having to aim your plane to aim your weapons).
So if I am only installing from a market, what's the advantage again?
The advantage of what? Buying a phone that is easier to use, more useful, less expensive, better designed, and more attractive? Or the advantage of being able to run whatever you want on it? Or were you just referring to the advantage of owning the phone that you paid for?
I know that Pharma companies spend a lot more money making their pills look shiny white for sale in Japan. Apparently whether it works isn't nearly as important as the aesthetics of the pills - just about everybody in Japan takes pills and they're quite fussy about how they look. I know somebody at a Pharma company that had to spend a bunch of money on color analysis equipment. In the US the quality test was basically that it looked white and didn't have obvious visual defects (chips, flecks, etc) - they cared far more about the chemical purity and how it dissolved which is far more important from the standpoint of how the pill interacts with the body. For Japan the specs were incredibly tight as to exactly what shade of white the pill was.
I can believe the whole 80% is fake thing - I don't think it is just China either - likely an Asian cultural thing or something.
I was considering buying a dashboard camera and I can't really bring myself to do it. Most of the products don't even have make/model info - they're just imports and what you get when you open the box could be anything. The reviews reference things like chipsets because that is really the only identifying info - it is a bunch of tiny manufacturers all copying each other's designs and who knows which one makes the best implementation since they don't even put persistent brand names on the stuff. Locally they probably have some other way to assess quality besides brand names and such - maybe the stall on that corner of the market tends to sell the junk that lasts longer.
Maybe, but Japan looks exactly the same and they don't have the same legal structure. I think it is a culture thing.
The lack of regulation issue is real. In the US the average person uses oil or gas to heat their home, and both are reasonably clean from an emissions standpoint (I'm guessing the fuels are regulated). In China most homes use this compressed coal dust stuff for fuel and it is sooty as all get out, likely inefficient, but also dirt cheap.
You don't have those figures for the times that your site was down. And I doubt your noise floor is so low that you could pick up the customers who couldn't buy something during that one hour stopping back over the next few days.
Suppose that they'd normally sell $5M/hr. They're down for 15 minutes - that is about $1.25M in lost sales. People come back over the next 48 hours to make their purchases - that is an increase in net sales over that period of $26k/hr - or 0.5%. Are you really going to notice whether your sales went up by 0.5% over the next two days?
I doubt most purchases on Amazon are impulse buys. It isn't like a store where you can just walk out with something in your hands, and if you get buyer's remorse in an hour you can usually cancel without penalty anyway - again, the item isn't in your hands. When I buy most things on Amazon I'm comparing reviews and such - they're anything but impulse buys and if I settled on something 15 minutes of downtime isn't going to stand in the way of my placing an order.
No, English is simply a poorly designed language, if your definition of good design is a complete lack of ambiguity. A far superior language is the x86 instruction set which of course has been documented out the wazoo. So, please translate your sentence into opcodes for me...:)
Copyright does not in any way regulate imports of anything. Other laws might do that, however. From what I understand US law on this matter is a bit murky, but in general if you buy something legally elsewhere it is legal to import as far as copyright status goes. Whether the US would view that sale as legal in Antigua is another matter. However, I don't believe I've seen anybody sue anybody for receiving copyrighted goods - likely because there is no end of people to sue for distributing them and that is a far easier case to win.
Then how about people getting stopped at the border for importing fake LV bags and Rolax watches when they come back from China? This happens, and the only law that I can think of is copyright law.
18 USC 2320 - nothing to do with copyright. In fact, copyright only vaguely covers trademarks in general (only to the extent that the trademark itself is creative, and only copying the trademark, not applying it to counterfeit goods).
It is also illegal to import schedule 1 narcotics, and that also has nothing to do with copyright.
Oh, neither does changing some bits in RAM to unlock your phone, but you wouldn't realize that from the latest headlines around here. Copyright covers COPYING.
That is what I used to do. My problem is that the SO not only insists on having a land line, but also wants to know who is on the caller ID when the phone rings (heaven forbid somebody they care about has to start leaving a message before we pick up).
I think it is a fear that somebody somewhere wants to talk to them but won't leave a message, and that would be horrible if they missed out on the conversation. The somebody is no doubt their kids being raped.
As for me - I almost never answer the phone or even reach for it unless it is because I'm being yelled at to indicate who is on the caller ID. When I get the inevitable "but what if I were in trouble and trying to call you" question the answer is that if you're in THAT much trouble you should be calling 911 because they're going to get there way faster than I ever would and will be better equipped to handle the situation when they arrive.
However, simply putting your foot down is just a recipe for strife. There are just some battles not worth fighting over. Maybe when they get rid of all the bundling so that I can actually save money by dropping my landline I'll worry about it more.
Easy - the history is implemented by the App, not the OS. If you ask the OS to send a message, it just sends it.
That is why if you send a text from messaging App A you don't see it in the history of messaging App B.
The real place to monitor history is at the provider level anyway - then it will cover history even across multiple phones, OS resets, etc.
The bigger issue here is that mobile providers are allowed to sell you a service you don't want to buy. If I were grand dictator one of my first edicts would be that for ANY service the person buying the service could dictate the maximum amount they're wiling to pay per month (down to the lowest amount mentioned in any ad). The subscriber would then not be responsible for ANY charges in excess of this amount for any reason. The provider could of course refuse to deliver a service that cost more than their budget (cutting off calls when you're out of minutes, not delivering texts, blocking data, etc). However, if they provided the service they'd have to eat the cost if you told them you didn't want to spend that money. The result would be an end to $500 surprise bills - at most you could DOS yourself, and providers would really have no incentive to let you do that since it just lowers satisfaction and doesn't make them any more money.
Oh, and any increase to the limits has to be by phone call or in writing to customer service. No API on the phone that just lets you up your limit/etc which is then subject to abuse.
Phone companies are like the guys who run out and wash your windows while you're stuck in traffic and ask for money.
Considering that the apps involved aren't in the Android Market you get the same benefit from just buying from the Android Market - it is just a lot less walled. Having the freedom to install anything you want doesn't mean that you should just run any exe file Aunt Tilly sends you.
Agree that this is perjury, but good luck getting anybody to prosecute it. EVERYBODY violates the law every day. The reason that not everybody is in jail is that prosecutors get to pick who they go after. They can go after anybody they want to since everybody is a lawbreaker, but they focus their attention where self-interest and ideology demand.
The one advantage of encryption is that it gives Mega plausible deniability with regard to what is on its site. Mega can't tell what is being stored, so they can't filter out mp3s, or check files against a blacklist, and so on. The only way for them to know what the files are is to go out on the various boards where the keys are being posted and do what the RIAA has to do, and I don't know that any judge is going to expect them to find and monitor every board in existence where this stuff happens.
They do of course need to follow take-down notices, but their design keeps any removals after-the-fact, not before-the-fact. If content were not encrypted then they might be asked to police anything that fits certain criteria and do things like fingerprinting like youtube does.
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It isn't that bad as long as you have a job. The fact that life is horrible if you don't helps make things cheaper for those who have them.
But yes, it does seem like we really enjoy re-inventing the wheel poorly. We have great productivity though (gotta run - the boss needs 12 hours of work done this afternoon).
I think the bigger concern is with contracts.
However, all the phone company has to do is basically say that you don't roll over when asked to, and that will scare off a lot of big companies (or raise the costs you pay to work with them). Big companies want you to roll over when asked to.
Yeah, since I don't actually store anything valuable on my windows box I might just do something like that in the future.
For my server that stores important stuff like photos/etc I need RAID (plus selective backups). If I have to re-install windows and a bunch of games it won't really bother me that much.
But who knows - maybe on my linux server I'll set up an SSD for the OS with daily backups to the RAID. That really wouldn't be that painful to recover if the SSD dies - recovering a few dozen GB of data isn't that bad especially if it is in the form of a disk clone.
Yeah, my issue is that most of the stuff I need to archive comes in 5GB chunks (like photos/etc). I back up online and I don't want to be paying Amazon for 1TB of storage (~$50/month) until I can fill an entire 1TB drive (which is how big you need to get before hard drives become economical). Paying them for 5GB of storage until I can fill a DVD is much more economical and convenient.
The only other options involve rotating hard drives offsite daily, which isn't terribly practical on home scale. Or I can do what most people do and just back-up to an external hard drive which just sits on your desk ready to burn in the next fire.
Yup. ANYBODY can look at your credit history. If you're a big megacorp do you really want to do business with somebody whose credit history amounts to "does not ask how high when big megacorps tell them to jump?"
You can ALWAYS sue. You were never going to win anyway, so the binding arbitration clause just is one more barrier to hop.
Remember - in the US anybody can sue anybody for anything. Whether they can win is another matter, but depending on your goals winning may not be necessary. If you're a small fry going after a telephone company winning probably does matter. However, if you're a big corporation who wants to punish a small fry then it does not - simply filing a suit forces the small fry to go bankrupt with legal bills.
Maybe, but I think the solution to all of that might be a stealthy drone with a missile launcher (whose missiles can vector 360 degrees), a fire control radar (with 360 degree coverage), and a gun (on a turret with 360 degree coverage).
The whole reason for dogfighting is that you can only shoot straight ahead, and I think that is mostly the result of it being difficult to fly a plane and aim a gun at the same time so they just make the plane into the turret. Plus, manned aircraft are large and radars are expensive so it is hard to stick a radar in a place where it can see everywhere so you put it in front. If the aircraft is small then one or two radars in domes can basically see everywhere. If you have 10x as many aircraft and they all talk to each other then there aren't any blind spots, and there is no requirement that the aircraft that launches is a missile is the one that provides fire control. A smart radar network would also be more likely to defeat stealth - most stealth merely redirects RADAR and is only effective if the transmitter and receiver are in the same location.
Basically you turn the drone into a SAM site floating in the sky, coupled with a CIWS or something like that. If somebody shoots at you the solution isn't to dodge, but to shoot back. If they shoot a gun at you then you just sacrifice the drone, but be sure to get the jet that fired at you in the process. Then you count on the fact that your drones are a lot cheaper than what the enemy is fielding. It is immoral to use pilots as cannon fodder, but using drones in this way may in fact be quite cost-effective.
The drone is less likely to get caught by a zoom climb intercept anyway - just have cameras scanning the ground for movement.
DVDs work well for intermediate-sized archives.
I have a need to backup photos. I back them up to the cloud, but that is relatively expensive (a few cents per GB per month). So, once I have a DVD's worth of data accumulated I burn it and exclude it from online backups. That costs about 5 cents per GB per copy one-time regardless of length of storage, and they last a very long time.
Hard drives are now approaching that kind of cost, but it isn't exactly convenient to update them in chunks of a few GB - you need to bring the drives back, mount them, do the backup, and then store them again.
LTO is quite expensive unless you store a LOT of data. The drives cost thousands of dollars. I'd trust them more than a pile of hard drives though.
Did you enjoy your short term gains without and long term goals? Hope you did. Bye bye in a few years, then!
You say that as if the company has feelings. The company didn't enjoy anything, and will feel no pain when they collapse.
The executives running the company, however, certainly enjoyed their hefty bonuses during the years they gouged the industry. They can just coast now until they get fired, and then retire to their private islands. I'm sure they've all learned their lessons.
A 4.5 GB write-once DVD is about 25 cents. If I need to archive data I don't need a rewritable disk.
And those DVDs are easy to number and stack. Since they're dirt cheap I can burn a copy and keep it offsite.
If your goal is to archive a bunch of data the last thing you want to use is a rewritable Blu-Ray disk.
If I have to choose a 2 TB SSD or a 4 TB HD, the SSD is going to win.
Yes, but the choice is usually between a 2TB HD ($110 right now), and a 120GB SSD (somewhat close in price), that isn't such an easy choice. For the OS it makes more sense, but for any kind of storage it does not. Even for things like video games the SSD is quite inconvenient - it clearly boosts performance but games eat data by the GB and moving applications between drives in Windows is anything but fun (you do want to play more than 10 games, right?).
Plus you can't really mix the SSD and hard drives on RAID, so you have to buy an extra drive as both your spinning and SSD arrays need an extra device. That is, if you care about your data. I guess you could always just image your OS on your hard drive and use that to restore from boot CD if you go down, but that isn't terribly convenient. (And yes, I know that RAID is not backup - but it eliminates the need to restore quite a bit in multi-disk setups and it is WAY cheaper for lower-risk data that you don't want to pay to backup.)
I tend to agree. Everybody points to the Vietnam war as proof that dogfighting will never die, but my sense is that they simply got the timing wrong. There hasn't really been much in the way of dogfighting since - at least not with modern aircraft like those fielded by the US.
Load a stealthy drone up with really good radar, missiles, and a liberal rule of engagement and I suspect it will dominate the skies just fine, even if it takes 15 minutes to turn a circle (assuming the missiles/radar have 360deg coverage - never really got the point in having to aim your plane to aim your weapons).
Yeah, good luck when they charge your credit card and/or ruin your credit history. I guess you can try to sue them, but have fun with that.
In principle I agree with everything you said. In practice it is you vs the megacorp - enjoy the ride.
So if I am only installing from a market, what's the advantage again?
The advantage of what? Buying a phone that is easier to use, more useful, less expensive, better designed, and more attractive? Or the advantage of being able to run whatever you want on it? Or were you just referring to the advantage of owning the phone that you paid for?
I know that Pharma companies spend a lot more money making their pills look shiny white for sale in Japan. Apparently whether it works isn't nearly as important as the aesthetics of the pills - just about everybody in Japan takes pills and they're quite fussy about how they look. I know somebody at a Pharma company that had to spend a bunch of money on color analysis equipment. In the US the quality test was basically that it looked white and didn't have obvious visual defects (chips, flecks, etc) - they cared far more about the chemical purity and how it dissolved which is far more important from the standpoint of how the pill interacts with the body. For Japan the specs were incredibly tight as to exactly what shade of white the pill was.
I can believe the whole 80% is fake thing - I don't think it is just China either - likely an Asian cultural thing or something.
I was considering buying a dashboard camera and I can't really bring myself to do it. Most of the products don't even have make/model info - they're just imports and what you get when you open the box could be anything. The reviews reference things like chipsets because that is really the only identifying info - it is a bunch of tiny manufacturers all copying each other's designs and who knows which one makes the best implementation since they don't even put persistent brand names on the stuff. Locally they probably have some other way to assess quality besides brand names and such - maybe the stall on that corner of the market tends to sell the junk that lasts longer.
Maybe, but Japan looks exactly the same and they don't have the same legal structure. I think it is a culture thing.
The lack of regulation issue is real. In the US the average person uses oil or gas to heat their home, and both are reasonably clean from an emissions standpoint (I'm guessing the fuels are regulated). In China most homes use this compressed coal dust stuff for fuel and it is sooty as all get out, likely inefficient, but also dirt cheap.
You don't have those figures for the times that your site was down. And I doubt your noise floor is so low that you could pick up the customers who couldn't buy something during that one hour stopping back over the next few days.
Suppose that they'd normally sell $5M/hr. They're down for 15 minutes - that is about $1.25M in lost sales. People come back over the next 48 hours to make their purchases - that is an increase in net sales over that period of $26k/hr - or 0.5%. Are you really going to notice whether your sales went up by 0.5% over the next two days?
I doubt most purchases on Amazon are impulse buys. It isn't like a store where you can just walk out with something in your hands, and if you get buyer's remorse in an hour you can usually cancel without penalty anyway - again, the item isn't in your hands. When I buy most things on Amazon I'm comparing reviews and such - they're anything but impulse buys and if I settled on something 15 minutes of downtime isn't going to stand in the way of my placing an order.
It's a poorly worded sentence.
No, English is simply a poorly designed language, if your definition of good design is a complete lack of ambiguity. A far superior language is the x86 instruction set which of course has been documented out the wazoo. So, please translate your sentence into opcodes for me... :)
Copyright does not in any way regulate imports of anything. Other laws might do that, however. From what I understand US law on this matter is a bit murky, but in general if you buy something legally elsewhere it is legal to import as far as copyright status goes. Whether the US would view that sale as legal in Antigua is another matter. However, I don't believe I've seen anybody sue anybody for receiving copyrighted goods - likely because there is no end of people to sue for distributing them and that is a far easier case to win.
Then how about people getting stopped at the border for importing fake LV bags and Rolax watches when they come back from China? This happens, and the only law that I can think of is copyright law.
18 USC 2320 - nothing to do with copyright. In fact, copyright only vaguely covers trademarks in general (only to the extent that the trademark itself is creative, and only copying the trademark, not applying it to counterfeit goods).
It is also illegal to import schedule 1 narcotics, and that also has nothing to do with copyright.
Oh, neither does changing some bits in RAM to unlock your phone, but you wouldn't realize that from the latest headlines around here. Copyright covers COPYING.
That is what I used to do. My problem is that the SO not only insists on having a land line, but also wants to know who is on the caller ID when the phone rings (heaven forbid somebody they care about has to start leaving a message before we pick up).
I think it is a fear that somebody somewhere wants to talk to them but won't leave a message, and that would be horrible if they missed out on the conversation. The somebody is no doubt their kids being raped.
As for me - I almost never answer the phone or even reach for it unless it is because I'm being yelled at to indicate who is on the caller ID. When I get the inevitable "but what if I were in trouble and trying to call you" question the answer is that if you're in THAT much trouble you should be calling 911 because they're going to get there way faster than I ever would and will be better equipped to handle the situation when they arrive.
However, simply putting your foot down is just a recipe for strife. There are just some battles not worth fighting over. Maybe when they get rid of all the bundling so that I can actually save money by dropping my landline I'll worry about it more.
Easy - the history is implemented by the App, not the OS. If you ask the OS to send a message, it just sends it.
That is why if you send a text from messaging App A you don't see it in the history of messaging App B.
The real place to monitor history is at the provider level anyway - then it will cover history even across multiple phones, OS resets, etc.
The bigger issue here is that mobile providers are allowed to sell you a service you don't want to buy. If I were grand dictator one of my first edicts would be that for ANY service the person buying the service could dictate the maximum amount they're wiling to pay per month (down to the lowest amount mentioned in any ad). The subscriber would then not be responsible for ANY charges in excess of this amount for any reason. The provider could of course refuse to deliver a service that cost more than their budget (cutting off calls when you're out of minutes, not delivering texts, blocking data, etc). However, if they provided the service they'd have to eat the cost if you told them you didn't want to spend that money. The result would be an end to $500 surprise bills - at most you could DOS yourself, and providers would really have no incentive to let you do that since it just lowers satisfaction and doesn't make them any more money.
Oh, and any increase to the limits has to be by phone call or in writing to customer service. No API on the phone that just lets you up your limit/etc which is then subject to abuse.
Phone companies are like the guys who run out and wash your windows while you're stuck in traffic and ask for money.
Considering that the apps involved aren't in the Android Market you get the same benefit from just buying from the Android Market - it is just a lot less walled. Having the freedom to install anything you want doesn't mean that you should just run any exe file Aunt Tilly sends you.
Agree that this is perjury, but good luck getting anybody to prosecute it. EVERYBODY violates the law every day. The reason that not everybody is in jail is that prosecutors get to pick who they go after. They can go after anybody they want to since everybody is a lawbreaker, but they focus their attention where self-interest and ideology demand.
The one advantage of encryption is that it gives Mega plausible deniability with regard to what is on its site. Mega can't tell what is being stored, so they can't filter out mp3s, or check files against a blacklist, and so on. The only way for them to know what the files are is to go out on the various boards where the keys are being posted and do what the RIAA has to do, and I don't know that any judge is going to expect them to find and monitor every board in existence where this stuff happens.
They do of course need to follow take-down notices, but their design keeps any removals after-the-fact, not before-the-fact. If content were not encrypted then they might be asked to police anything that fits certain criteria and do things like fingerprinting like youtube does.