Interesting (to me anyway) but slightly off-topic is that when the Cdn government adopted Social Insurance Numbers (SINs) to track pension contributions, it was only after the government of the day had assured Parliament and the country that SINs would never be used as an identity number for citizens in general. This assurance, of course was worth nothing. The only thing that keeps every citizen's information from being completely cross-indexed is the relative enormity of such a task (considering the wild assortment of different data sources involved). Human Resources Development Canada has bee on a spending spree for a couple of years, so it makes sense that they would be the first to implement such a thing.
On the private-sector side, it is actually not legal for anyone to demand your social insurance number for any purpose except making payroll tax deductions. That is, you are not obligated to provide an SIN on an employment application, credit application, university entrance application, rental contract, etc. However, this is now an accepted practice, and financial institutions generally reject credit or new account applications from anyone who refuses to provide an SIN.
Your rights under law, in other words, are not your rights in practice.
I've still noticed that sites using jsp are still slightly sluggish when compared to other types of server side (insert internet service here) applications. I know, I know it also depends on the programmer and the jre, but I'd say it's usually a good bet that it will suck
JSP/ASP/CFM/PHP - different implementations of a fundamentally flawed concept, embedding logic within presentation. However, putting that complaint away for a minute...
JSP can be slow, yes. This is mainly because of the two-step that happens when you access a JSP file: first the server compiles it as a servlet, then it serves the output of the servlet. Predictably, this tends to suck performance-wise, although the performance of the most popular JSP engines seems worlds better now than a year ago, and hopefully will continue to improve.
On the other hand, I have seen performance from compiled servlets (not jsp) both on big-ass proprietary app servers and on low-end servlet engines that is subjectively at least pretty impressive. I say subjectively because I don't have any benchmarks at hand.
Server-side Java is much wider than JSP, and has been around much longer. Just look at the commercial development/app-server products that use Java as the development language. Hopefully with Jserv, Tomcat, and other projects becoming more mature we will have a good set of options for server-side Java that don't involve paying server tax to a vendor who is trying to lock you in for the life of your project.
Besides performance, there is the benefit of better maintainability using Java, and the benefit of all of those CS/tech school grads who learned Java over the past couple of years. In a recent round of interviews, I was astonished to see no less than 100% of our candidates had learned Java _first_, before being taught C/C++/VB. I'm old - so very old...
Delivery Driver - some pagers and communication devices which store and sort data Taxi Driver - as above, plus GPS systems, computerized trip meters Bus Driver - electronic communications systems, newer buses may have onboard computers for various purposes Waiter - been in a restaurant lately? computerized order-taking/POS systems like SQUIRREL have been around for several years now Bellhop - been in a hotel lately? guest databases, communication systems, even locks on doors Host at a restaurant - see waiter
Been on a farm or ranch lately? Operated any heavy equipment? Lots of onboard computers in new equipment. Even custodial/maintenance staff are having to use equipment with onboard computers, or electronic communications devices.
Your rudeness does nothing to reinforce your argument. Also it is clear that you have never had a real job, or really paid any attention to the world around you.
Yup, at best, giving them the benefit of the doubt (quite a stretch) this would have to be placed in the "highly speculative" file, maybe tucked in just behind the Rupert Sheldrake file.
If someone does claim to measure a particle produced by consciousness, I vote we name it the "bogon". Or maybe we could refer to the whole thing as the GSSG Effect (Grad Students Sniffing Glue).
Canada does have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. No, it does not say all of the same things as the US Bill of Rights (different country, see?). There is for instance, no "right" to buy AK-47s by mail-order. There are rights to protect citizens from discrimination, etc.
The only really shabby bit is the "opt-out" clause which may be invoked by provincial governments in making new laws. Sadly, Canada wouldn't even have a real Constitution without this.
I know AC's are not known for exhaustive fact-checking, but your error is just plain stupid.
Just because OS X is optimized for whatever, or has the other layers, like Aqua, Quartz, and Classic compatibility environment, doesn't mean that Darwin has it too.
However, I would assume that you're right and the Altivec support is there. Since they're just beginning to port this to Intel, it's hard to say whether faster clock speed will more than make up for the lack of Altivec. For the usual real-world *nix applications, there is probably no real loss.
There are many large record companies out there so thus it is not correct to say there is a monopoly. Artists have the freedom to choose which company the wish to sign with.
There appear to be many large record companies, but in fact ownership is very highly concentrated. It is no secret that two or three large companies own almost everything, although the chain of ownership is sometimes obfuscated.
It is a fact of the industry though, that the artist ends up with so little of the profits - it is quite a risk and investment to produce and promote a new, unknown musician. This is called "capitalism" and I, for one as many Americans stand by it.
The artist takes a proportionately greater risk than the media company in this sort of contract. When did you hear of an artist putting a Time-Warner out of business? The opposite, however, is true many times over.
The problem as I see it is that artists (and this extends beyond music) are relatively powerless when entering into contractual arrangements.Even if they have the resources to analyze and negotiate the contracts that are put in front of them, they have very little clout in the negotiation. It is quite similar to other labour-negotiation situations: in the absence of collective bargaining (and all of the complications that brings with it), rarely can an individual negotiate on a level playing field with an employer. There are simply too many workers/artists available, and most companies/employers tend, rightly or wrongly, to regard them as interchangeable. So, if artist #1 objects to the "standard" features of the contract they are being offered, go down the line until another artist accepts it.
If, as you point out, it will protect me from MP3's of Mariah Carey, it can't be all bad...
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I remember a year ago it took 16 hops and a route deep into the US to get from a machine I ran in Bridgewater to another in Wolfville
Not at all surprising. I have done traceroutes from Vancouver BC to other sites in Vancouver BC that yield similar results. Most routes go at least to Seattle, some to Portland, some to California, to access servers physically located a short walk away. Given the topology of Canadian networks, this turns out to be the "shortest" route. Go figure.
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..which is why each hop on the traceroute would be looked up.
Fair enough. This takes into account the Canadian users who are not using a US-based multinational ISP (e.g. AOL Canada, whose dial-up users show as originating from the US, most obvious example but not the only one), or not using a US-based proxy (home.com users under some circumstances), or whose route does not go through routers which do not provide complete information for the sake of a traceroute.
I just can't see reliability of such a scheme being acceptable for the purposes they are proposing.
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> The main routers and backbones and pipes that connect one country to another are very controlled
Not in the case of Canada. Most routes go north-south rather than east-west, with the result that if I am in Toronto and I want to connect to a server in Winnipeg, my route could easily go (for instance - likely in practice a bit different) Toronto ISP - Toronto telco hub - Chicago telco hub - Minneapolis - Winnipeg. Geographically, the best route would be east-west (e.g. Toronto - Sault Ste Marie - Winnipeg), but the north-south routes prevail in Canada, with actual east-west being handled on US networks.
The internet "border" between the US and Canada is so permeable that it really can't be said to exist in any meaningful way.
Another thing that complicates detemining geographic origin in Canada is that customers of Canadian branch offices of large ISPs appear to be originating from the large ISP's US location. Many, many people looking at Webtrends reports from their Canadian commercial sites have puzzled over why so many of their users appear to be from Virginia.
> Why is there no law against sending this crap to my house
Not necessarily a law, but in Canada the post office allows householders to indicate that they refuse to accept "unaddressed admail", and is supposed to honour those requests. They don't publicize this fact, because they make good money delivering stuff to every household in a targeted area. It also doesn't stop mail that is personally addressed to you or someone at your address (even if it is addressed to "householder").
The consequences of SPAM are much beyond an end user just having to delete the stuff. Consider that easily 90% of the stuff is sent by persons making unauthorized use of poorly-secured mail servers (where relay control is not enabled, or broken, or poorly implemented), or are viiolating the terms of use that they have agreed to with their ISP. Unautorized use of a relay, IMO, is a kind of vandalism, it also can have lasting adverse effects open the organization whose relay was used. (You can say: "idiots should learn basic security before they run servers". This is true, but doesn't change the fact that SPAMmers make unauthorized use of others machines in a way that is likely to cause inconvenience or harm to the victim.)
are we 'sposed to believe this routinely happens in the US?
You mean like the way that the CIA has operatives in the national newsrooms of the major TV networks and wire services?
Hardly anybody gets jailed, but they do get bought, or run out of business, or denied access to information and resources. Generally, the kinder, gentler form of media control practiced by the US government within its own borders happens by consensus between government and industry. Outside of US borders, however, the harrassment, jailing, and assassination of publishers and media figures by persons or agencies supported by the US is well-known.
The counterargument, though, is that copyright and IP rights in general are not natural rights in the same way that other property rights are.
Natural? Property rights are also created by society. They are not a law of nature, nor are they part of each and every human society that has ever existed. Not natural. Invented by people.
Proudhon asked the question "What is property?" and concluded "Property is theft." I have also seen a variation of this, where Donald Gutstein (in his book E.con: How the internet undermines democracy) attributes to Proudhon the statement "Intellectual property is theft."
To say that the currect structure of our society is somehow natural and inevitable is to demonstrate a lack of both imagination and insight.
A painting is a unique physical piece of work. Once you've bought it, it's your property. You can decide who gets to see it, under what circumstance they can see it, etc.
You're also missing a distinction, and the above is not quite accurate. Although you *physically* own the painting, the creator of the work still owns the rights to it (at least this is true in many jurisdictions). So while you control who sees it if it is for instance in your home or place of business, the moment that it is part of a formal exhibition (as in a museum) where the creator would normally reasonably be expected to collect a fee, you are into the copyright-protected realm. You also can't take a picture of the work and then sell postcard with the picture on it, regardless of whether you own the painting or not.
Some galleries and museums have taken to asking for a nearly unconditional signover of rights when they purchase a work for their collection. Some visual artists are follish enough to agree to it.
The death penalty is still popular in the US. This means that 63% think that Microsoft shouldn't be broken up, but would probably support lethal injection as an alternative.
> What are the churn rates on WebTV, incidentally?
Can't tell you that, but what I can tell you is that the sites whose stats I have access to showed WebTV's share of user sessions increase up until about mid-1999. After that, although the total number of WebTV users has increased slightly, the market share of WebTV appears to be declining -- other platforms (including handhelds) are increasing more quickly.
I don't think that handhelds can "replace" PCs -- however, there are a substantial number of people out there who don't want a PC and are fairly sure that they won't ever want one. They don't need what a PC provides, and find it too complex to use for the simple communications capabilities that they might be interested in.
The "internet appliance", whether it physically resembles a PC or a PDA or a cell phone, is a good item to try to sell to these individuals. The PC, by dint of trying to do everything -- office tasks, games, video, audio, print production, filing, communications -- is not a truly usable consumer appliance for a vast number of people. Too fussy. Doesn't work properly half the time. You need the help of a PC hobbyist if you run into trouble, or you need to make multiple phone calls and multiple visits to a service depot.
>My suggestion would be to write a program to >*PLAY* DVDs and not a program to *COPY* >DVDs.
My suggestion (to you) would be to consider this:
DeCss doesn't "*PLAY*" or "*COPY*". It provides a means of descrambling/reading the CSS-scrambled content. So, while it could be used to create "something that rips the data from the disc and puts it, unencrypted, on the hard drive", this is not all that feasible for reasons which have been pointed out several times already on/. (for instance the amount of space which such a copy would occupy), it is also the foundation for a player app.
There is some additional backstory which is well known to attentive readers. The industry group that created and implemented CSS did not do it for copy protection - it is very weak in this regard, as copies of all of the data on a DVD can still be made, without descrambling, given the proper hardware. What the scrambling implementation is designed to do really is to prevent you from viewing a DVD movie that the manufacturer doesn't want you to see. This restriction can be based upon where you live (a restriction which is really important to the motion picture industry, as helps preserve or bolster regional distribution monopolies), or possible future restrictions, such as what brand or type of DVD player you have purchased.
CSS is yet another scheme to take power away from consumers through proprietary standards. If you buy a movie on VHS, it will work in your VHS player, regardless of your place of residence, credit rating, hardware manufacturer (generally) - if you buy a DVD that was published using CSS, this is not necessarily true. There are even steps being taken to make sure that movie DVDs can only be played a limited number of times - built-in obsolescence. And now the companies involved are saying that any attempt to allow consumers to use their DVD players in the same way they use their VHS players is piracy? I think the real pirates are on the other side here.
Possibly I am wasting my time with this reply - saw your other post on this story and it was the same mixture of authoritativeness and cluelessness.
Apple also plays into this with its stealth update of Mac OS X server to 1.2. With delays on other fronts (Pismo, the P7, Mystic) it would have been a natural to hype the upgrade to their server software at MacWorld SF but they didn't go for it. The stock price was hammered because of the lack of news.
The MacOSX Server 1.2 release is not being hyped because it is regarded as the end of the OSXS product. By the time a new version is absolutely necessary, the "commercial" OSX release will be out, and both Client and Server will be based on the same OSX kernel/networking layer (Darwin) and display technology (Quartz), just with slightly different configuration (possibly something like the old "MacOS as a client"/"MacOS + AppleShare as a server" product line demarcation). The actual 1.2 update is not breaking any new ground, just addressing some reliability issues and making the product compatible with G4 so that Apple can start selling server hardware again.
This doesn't invalidate all of your speculation, just the part about why Apple left the MOSXS 1.2 news out of the spotlight.
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Interesting (to me anyway) but slightly off-topic is that when the Cdn government adopted Social Insurance Numbers (SINs) to track pension contributions, it was only after the government of the day had assured Parliament and the country that SINs would never be used as an identity number for citizens in general. This assurance, of course was worth nothing. The only thing that keeps every citizen's information from being completely cross-indexed is the relative enormity of such a task (considering the wild assortment of different data sources involved). Human Resources Development Canada has bee on a spending spree for a couple of years, so it makes sense that they would be the first to implement such a thing.
On the private-sector side, it is actually not legal for anyone to demand your social insurance number for any purpose except making payroll tax deductions. That is, you are not obligated to provide an SIN on an employment application, credit application, university entrance application, rental contract, etc. However, this is now an accepted practice, and financial institutions generally reject credit or new account applications from anyone who refuses to provide an SIN.
Your rights under law, in other words, are not your rights in practice.
JSP/ASP/CFM/PHP - different implementations of a fundamentally flawed concept, embedding logic within presentation. However, putting that complaint away for a minute ...
JSP can be slow, yes. This is mainly because of the two-step that happens when you access a JSP file: first the server compiles it as a servlet, then it serves the output of the servlet. Predictably, this tends to suck performance-wise, although the performance of the most popular JSP engines seems worlds better now than a year ago, and hopefully will continue to improve.
On the other hand, I have seen performance from compiled servlets (not jsp) both on big-ass proprietary app servers and on low-end servlet engines that is subjectively at least pretty impressive. I say subjectively because I don't have any benchmarks at hand.
Server-side Java is much wider than JSP, and has been around much longer. Just look at the commercial development/app-server products that use Java as the development language. Hopefully with Jserv, Tomcat, and other projects becoming more mature we will have a good set of options for server-side Java that don't involve paying server tax to a vendor who is trying to lock you in for the life of your project.
Besides performance, there is the benefit of better maintainability using Java, and the benefit of all of those CS/tech school grads who learned Java over the past couple of years. In a recent round of interviews, I was astonished to see no less than 100% of our candidates had learned Java _first_, before being taught C/C++/VB. I'm old - so very old ...
Delivery Driver - some pagers and communication devices which store and sort data
Taxi Driver - as above, plus GPS systems, computerized trip meters
Bus Driver - electronic communications systems, newer buses may have onboard computers for various purposes
Waiter - been in a restaurant lately? computerized order-taking/POS systems like SQUIRREL have been around for several years now
Bellhop - been in a hotel lately? guest databases, communication systems, even locks on doors
Host at a restaurant - see waiter
Been on a farm or ranch lately? Operated any heavy equipment? Lots of onboard computers in new equipment. Even custodial/maintenance staff are having to use equipment with onboard computers, or electronic communications devices.
Your rudeness does nothing to reinforce your argument. Also it is clear that you have never had a real job, or really paid any attention to the world around you.
Yup, at best, giving them the benefit of the doubt (quite a stretch) this would have to be placed in the "highly speculative" file, maybe tucked in just behind the Rupert Sheldrake file.
If someone does claim to measure a particle produced by consciousness, I vote we name it the "bogon". Or maybe we could refer to the whole thing as the GSSG Effect (Grad Students Sniffing Glue).
Canada does have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. No, it does not say all of the same things as the US Bill of Rights (different country, see?). There is for instance, no "right" to buy AK-47s by mail-order. There are rights to protect citizens from discrimination, etc.
The only really shabby bit is the "opt-out" clause which may be invoked by provincial governments in making new laws. Sadly, Canada wouldn't even have a real Constitution without this.
I know AC's are not known for exhaustive fact-checking, but your error is just plain stupid.
.. and then consider that 50% of people aren't as smart as that.
NONONO! Ben Stiller!
Darwin != Mac OS X
Just because OS X is optimized for whatever, or has the other layers, like Aqua, Quartz, and Classic compatibility environment, doesn't mean that Darwin has it too.
However, I would assume that you're right and the Altivec support is there. Since they're just beginning to port this to Intel, it's hard to say whether faster clock speed will more than make up for the lack of Altivec. For the usual real-world *nix applications, there is probably no real loss.
There appear to be many large record companies, but in fact ownership is very highly concentrated. It is no secret that two or three large companies own almost everything, although the chain of ownership is sometimes obfuscated.
It is a fact of the industry though, that the artist ends up with so little of the profits - it is quite a risk and investment to produce and promote a new, unknown musician. This is called "capitalism" and I, for one as many Americans stand by it.
The artist takes a proportionately greater risk than the media company in this sort of contract. When did you hear of an artist putting a Time-Warner out of business? The opposite, however, is true many times over.
The problem as I see it is that artists (and this extends beyond music) are relatively powerless when entering into contractual arrangements.Even if they have the resources to analyze and negotiate the contracts that are put in front of them, they have very little clout in the negotiation. It is quite similar to other labour-negotiation situations: in the absence of collective bargaining (and all of the complications that brings with it), rarely can an individual negotiate on a level playing field with an employer. There are simply too many workers/artists available, and most companies/employers tend, rightly or wrongly, to regard them as interchangeable. So, if artist #1 objects to the "standard" features of the contract they are being offered, go down the line until another artist accepts it.
If, as you point out, it will protect me from MP3's of Mariah Carey, it can't be all bad ...
Not at all surprising. I have done traceroutes from Vancouver BC to other sites in Vancouver BC that yield similar results. Most routes go at least to Seattle, some to Portland, some to California, to access servers physically located a short walk away. Given the topology of Canadian networks, this turns out to be the "shortest" route. Go figure.
Fair enough. This takes into account the Canadian users who are not using a US-based multinational ISP (e.g. AOL Canada, whose dial-up users show as originating from the US, most obvious example but not the only one), or not using a US-based proxy (home.com users under some circumstances), or whose route does not go through routers which do not provide complete information for the sake of a traceroute.
I just can't see reliability of such a scheme being acceptable for the purposes they are proposing.
Not in the case of Canada. Most routes go north-south rather than east-west, with the result that if I am in Toronto and I want to connect to a server in Winnipeg, my route could easily go (for instance - likely in practice a bit different) Toronto ISP - Toronto telco hub - Chicago telco hub - Minneapolis - Winnipeg. Geographically, the best route would be east-west (e.g. Toronto - Sault Ste Marie - Winnipeg), but the north-south routes prevail in Canada, with actual east-west being handled on US networks.
The internet "border" between the US and Canada is so permeable that it really can't be said to exist in any meaningful way.
Another thing that complicates detemining geographic origin in Canada is that customers of Canadian branch offices of large ISPs appear to be originating from the large ISP's US location. Many, many people looking at Webtrends reports from their Canadian commercial sites have puzzled over why so many of their users appear to be from Virginia.
The defense lawyer in this case wisely does not have an e-mail address posted anywhere. I guess defending spammers he has an idea of how to avoid them. See http://www.osbcle.org/member s/display.asp?b=781708&s=1.
Not necessarily a law, but in Canada the post office allows householders to indicate that they refuse to accept "unaddressed admail", and is supposed to honour those requests. They don't publicize this fact, because they make good money delivering stuff to every household in a targeted area. It also doesn't stop mail that is personally addressed to you or someone at your address (even if it is addressed to "householder").
The consequences of SPAM are much beyond an end user just having to delete the stuff. Consider that easily 90% of the stuff is sent by persons making unauthorized use of poorly-secured mail servers (where relay control is not enabled, or broken, or poorly implemented), or are viiolating the terms of use that they have agreed to with their ISP. Unautorized use of a relay, IMO, is a kind of vandalism, it also can have lasting adverse effects open the organization whose relay was used. (You can say: "idiots should learn basic security before they run servers". This is true, but doesn't change the fact that SPAMmers make unauthorized use of others machines in a way that is likely to cause inconvenience or harm to the victim.)
You mean like the way that the CIA has operatives in the national newsrooms of the major TV networks and wire services?
Hardly anybody gets jailed, but they do get bought, or run out of business, or denied access to information and resources. Generally, the kinder, gentler form of media control practiced by the US government within its own borders happens by consensus between government and industry. Outside of US borders, however, the harrassment, jailing, and assassination of publishers and media figures by persons or agencies supported by the US is well-known.
I'm guessing you don't want to see
Natural? Property rights are also created by society. They are not a law of nature, nor are they part of each and every human society that has ever existed. Not natural. Invented by people.
Proudhon asked the question "What is property?" and concluded "Property is theft." I have also seen a variation of this, where Donald Gutstein (in his book E.con: How the internet undermines democracy) attributes to Proudhon the statement "Intellectual property is theft."
To say that the currect structure of our society is somehow natural and inevitable is to demonstrate a lack of both imagination and insight.
You're also missing a distinction, and the above is not quite accurate. Although you *physically* own the painting, the creator of the work still owns the rights to it (at least this is true in many jurisdictions). So while you control who sees it if it is for instance in your home or place of business, the moment that it is part of a formal exhibition (as in a museum) where the creator would normally reasonably be expected to collect a fee, you are into the copyright-protected realm. You also can't take a picture of the work and then sell postcard with the picture on it, regardless of whether you own the painting or not.
Some galleries and museums have taken to asking for a nearly unconditional signover of rights when they purchase a work for their collection. Some visual artists are follish enough to agree to it.
And here I thought it was supposed to be a new iMac colour.
The thing that really makes this look like a joke is the inclusion of the .iSnotGreen domain.
CRACKPOT? How about a guy (Edison) who makes repeated attempts to build an electrical device to communicate with "the spirit world"?
The death penalty is still popular in the US. This means that 63% think that Microsoft shouldn't be broken up, but would probably support lethal injection as an alternative.
Can't tell you that, but what I can tell you is that the sites whose stats I have access to showed WebTV's share of user sessions increase up until about mid-1999. After that, although the total number of WebTV users has increased slightly, the market share of WebTV appears to be declining -- other platforms (including handhelds) are increasing more quickly.
I don't think that handhelds can "replace" PCs -- however, there are a substantial number of people out there who don't want a PC and are fairly sure that they won't ever want one. They don't need what a PC provides, and find it too complex to use for the simple communications capabilities that they might be interested in.
The "internet appliance", whether it physically resembles a PC or a PDA or a cell phone, is a good item to try to sell to these individuals. The PC, by dint of trying to do everything -- office tasks, games, video, audio, print production, filing, communications -- is not a truly usable consumer appliance for a vast number of people. Too fussy. Doesn't work properly half the time. You need the help of a PC hobbyist if you run into trouble, or you need to make multiple phone calls and multiple visits to a service depot.
>My suggestion would be to write a program to
>*PLAY* DVDs and not a program to *COPY*
>DVDs.
My suggestion (to you) would be to consider this:
There is some additional backstory which is well known to attentive readers. The industry group that created and implemented CSS did not do it for copy protection - it is very weak in this regard, as copies of all of the data on a DVD can still be made, without descrambling, given the proper hardware. What the scrambling implementation is designed to do really is to prevent you from viewing a DVD movie that the manufacturer doesn't want you to see. This restriction can be based upon where you live (a restriction which is really important to the motion picture industry, as helps preserve or bolster regional distribution monopolies), or possible future restrictions, such as what brand or type of DVD player you have purchased.
CSS is yet another scheme to take power away from consumers through proprietary standards. If you buy a movie on VHS, it will work in your VHS player, regardless of your place of residence, credit rating, hardware manufacturer (generally) - if you buy a DVD that was published using CSS, this is not necessarily true. There are even steps being taken to make sure that movie DVDs can only be played a limited number of times - built-in obsolescence. And now the companies involved are saying that any attempt to allow consumers to use their DVD players in the same way they use their VHS players is piracy? I think the real pirates are on the other side here.
Possibly I am wasting my time with this reply - saw your other post on this story and it was the same mixture of authoritativeness and cluelessness.
Here's one problem I see in your theory:
The MacOSX Server 1.2 release is not being hyped because it is regarded as the end of the OSXS product. By the time a new version is absolutely necessary, the "commercial" OSX release will be out, and both Client and Server will be based on the same OSX kernel/networking layer (Darwin) and display technology (Quartz), just with slightly different configuration (possibly something like the old "MacOS as a client"/"MacOS + AppleShare as a server" product line demarcation). The actual 1.2 update is not breaking any new ground, just addressing some reliability issues and making the product compatible with G4 so that Apple can start selling server hardware again.
This doesn't invalidate all of your speculation, just the part about why Apple left the MOSXS 1.2 news out of the spotlight.