(3) the data in issue which is currently routed to a third party entity under contract to defendants That's the achillies heel, if they are pulling the data out and transmitting it already, they are sunk.
Really, the parent post and another high modded post a bit further down spell it all out.
Re: The SonicBlue / ReplayTV case in 2002...: Federal Rule 34 Neither Requires Nor Authorizes An Order To Create Records That Do Not Exist.
So, if TorrentSpy had in fact not captured the data in question from RAM and written it to another device (a file, a network port, console, etc), it would seem that they would have, or soon would be, in the clear. If they did capture, they're screwed.
And people use them too, frequently without having any idea of whether the algorithm is processing given input the way they're thinking it is... or having any idea what the inputs are. Labor saving devices are great, but it's nice to have an idea of just what laborious action one is saved from performing, otherwise a monkey can do your job. Hear me, HR rep?
JFK shot at only 20m? I've only shot 50m once in a blue moon, so I don't have any first hand experience with attempting to qualify. It's quite possible my dad wasn't in possession of all the facts. I'll ask him about that.
That show you mention even had a guy pull out Oswald's shooters score book from the marines showing what an incredible shot he was, yet you can find evidence with google proving Oliver Stone's assertion that other marines said he had "maggies drawers" and/or was a poor shooter overall. They had simply pulled out a few instances of good shooting he had for your show.
My dad was at one point a Sergeant stationed at MCAF Santa Ana, and enjoyed the dubious honor of being Oswald's last NCO, escorting him to the front gate the day he was discharged. Neither the old man nor the other NCOs he knew were impressed by Oswald's ability on a firing range, barely good enough to rate the "Marksman" shooting badge. When the nature of JFK's shooting came out, my dad could not believe JHO had the ability to pull it off.
Granted, as my mom used to argue, anyone can have a lucky day. But, with two shots, that's damn lucky.
Perhaps, or maybe it's Apple's way of finding out who's been breaking their NDA.
Yeah, and I'd bet the Board of Directors would have liked a chance to vet that kind of move before blowing away $2 billion in shareholder value. I think this is just a prank gone horribly wrong. But for the grace of common sense go I.
The top 40 people at IBM were compensated damn close to 800 million dollars last year if not more.
The point would be lost on a stereotypical Libertarian. The doctrine posits that everyone is equally empowered to enter into a contractual relationship. So, if the stockholders want to retain a board that approves this sort of compensation, that's their business.
That not everyone is really even vaguely equally empowered isn't stated up front. However, the truth is that a hardcore Libertarian doesn't care about economic screwiness in any form, as long as no one is welching on a contract. Therefore, a society on a Libertarian model would end up as an extreme oligarchy without either some sort of compromise on principles, or outside intervention.
Burned out on technical work? Then go into Sales. Better yet, go into retail sales. One of two things will occur almost immediately: 1) you'll kick ass, enjoy it, and rake in serious bucks from your efforts, or 2) you'll wonder what in the hell you were whining about in the first place that couldn't have been solved by switching departments.
Does anyone at these corporations ever consider that by putting Americans out of work they're shrinking the size of their market? A little temporary boost in profits will be followed by a long term loss...
No, they aren't considering it. This behavior is straight outta a Marxist critique of market economics, where company A works to minimize their own labor costs, and counts on every other company to pay out enough to finance a market for A's goods... except that just about every firm is company A.
A classical Adam Smith economist will respond that the capital freed by (for arguments sake) IBM ditching thousands of employees can be more profitably deployed elsewhere by the Company and stockholders. Ex-employees, too.
A fly in that ointment is that nowadays, most of that capital is being redeployed out of the US, and it takes a while for the domestic economy to take up the slack with increased added value to crank the domestic incomes back up. Most US-based multinationals (if the Economist, Forbes, the WSJ, Biz Week, and my various stockholders reports are any indication) see their future growth in sales and headcount overseas. According to his latest financial disclosure statement, so does Dick Cheney. So, exactly how or when that increased domestic value is going to be created is an open question.
For the moment, the effect of the tide of money leaving the US is hidden by the Chinese and Japanese buying Treasury Notes to hold down the value of the yuan and yen. When that tails off, interesting things will occur. It's unlikely to be a meltdown, but it won't be pretty.
The idea of an open gsm network would make for an interesting real world pilot project. Unfortunately, just about every nation considers the radio bands you'd normally want to work in to be big buck$. The parent Canadian poster can do a quick Google search regarding frequency assignments in her/his nation, and it's the same situation just about everywhere. You'd be charged a huge sum to license the bands, and/or an additional sum to be licensed as one of a limited number of com providers on those bands.
Theoretically, you could try this on - say - the ISM bands, but they aren't going to give you the same performance as the cell bands. In addition, purpose-built cell equipment isn't designed nor licensed to operate outside of the cell bands, so you'd have a lot of DIY on the hardware side. Not so bad on the provider side so much as on the user side... where're you gonna get the handsets? Yes, there are ISM YoIP handsets, but they aren't really set up for portable use. While ISM ain't what you asked for, it's really all you have available.
I went ahead and spent a couple of minutes putting in my two cents with the FDA. I surfed using Firefox 2.0.0.3 on a Mac. The FDA's server told me I "must" use Safari. I decided to test their rationale, and continued with Firefox. I was asked for my name, zip, under what category I was commenting (a consumer). I was asked to enter up to 3000 characters in a comment box, where I entered the following:
As it stands, lower quality "real chocolate" products contain a low percentage of cocoa butter and whole milk powder. If you allow manufacturers of chocolate products to completely dispense with cocoa butter and whole milk powder in the interest of economy, this will tend to drag most chocolate products down that path (the "Walmart" effect). If manufacturers don't want to use any cocoa butter or whole milk power in a product, that's fine, but I don't feel they should be allowed to call it "chocolate" any more than oleo products are called "butter".
I clicked the 'continue' box, and was offered the chance to add an attachment. Hopefully, this is where high end chocolate vendors offer a more nuanced take on the proposal. One more 'continue' box, then exit, which dumped me to the FDA's home page.
Hey dude, I think I saw your testicles. They're in your wife's purse next to her tampons.
It gets worse. My vasectomy was my doctor's last case for the day before a dinner date, which explained why - I swear to God - she wore a black lace gown with the surgical mask... at least, that's the story she went with.
I write to my local paper a lot, and periodically I get a phone call supporting something I've written. My wife has made it quite clear that the first time I get a nasty and/or threatening call, my days as a writer are over. Being married twenty years has given me the opportunity to see that women, by and large, do not grow up with the same sense of control over their person and surroundings that you or I do.
So, while I cringe at Ms. Sierra's language of defeat and withdrawal, I have come to understand that for a good many (wo)men, flight overcomes fight when reacting to threats. You can objectify the odds, but it doesn't always overcome the subjective fear.
Comp Sci has always been dead, and always will be. In 1982, one of my early CS professors claimed that the window of oportunity for a job as a programmer or s/w engineer was going to close soon as automatic code generators took over the task of raw code banging. Employers would just need a few engineers for design, and that would be it.
But, I shouldn't be surprised that yet another generation of technology dilettantes think that they're reached the pinnicle of achievement in a line of endeavor, and from here on out it's just like corn futures (Somebody oughta tell Monsanto to stop wasting time with GMO research). But seriously, when we've got bean counters like Carly Finarino and whichever IBM VP it was claiming that the years of technical advance in IT are over, not to mention the author of the fine article, Mr. McBride, I see people who are in the wrong industry. Perhaps they should be selling dish washers, or teaching MCSE cram schools.
McBride is whining because the students aren't packing his CS classes like they used to. His reasons whittle down to these: mature software packages exist to service a number of needs (which has always been true, to the contemporary observer), and it's too easy to outsource the whole thing to India. It is the writing of someone throwing in the towel. It's like the trash talk you hear from people who are about to leave your shop for another job. I won't be surprised to find him in fact "teaching" MCSE "classes" very soon. Good. His office should be occupied by someone who still has a fire in their belly.
We're going to see the god-damnest crap pouring out of ExxonMobile and their buddies' PR machine over the next year or two, and that Mr. Abdussamatov gets a hearing now is just a taste of what's coming. Hell, if I wanted to make series money, I should be sniffing around Madison Avenue and K Street right now, instead of wasting time dealing with crackpots on/.
Addressing the parent post, it's true that Methane is one motherfucker of a greenhouse gas, and plants crank it out. Plants have always cranked it out, because plants have been rotting since the beginning of life, so that's just part of the baseline. What's different is the extra gas that 1.3 billion domesticated cattle are passing every day. What's different is that billions of frickin tons per year of carbon being cut loose from fossil fuels, vast quantities that leave the the methane as not much more than a rank odor.
It shouldn't have been necessary, but it was Randal's misfortune to show us the way to live with catch-all computer crime laws. To wit:
The independent contractor shall...
Put all proposed activities in the contract/statement of work in as great a detail as possible, then...
Get written approval from the customer (your immediate POC and their boss) for any additional activities that occur to you after work commences.
The in-house employee shall...
Review company computer use policies yearly, if not already required to do so.
Before attempting activities that may even conceivably be considered against company policy, get approval from lead in writing, hard copy signature if possible.
May not seem a good use of time, unless you consider the value of staying out of the criminal legal system.
The US is a world power, Iran is a regional power. The national interests of the US and Iran usually have not, do not, and will not coincide. The controlling elite within the Irani government has traditionally made a point of publically working at cross-purposes with the US. The US has made a point of attempting to isolate Iran. In culture and religon, the US and Irani ruling elites have virtually nothing in common. Their beliefs and customs are frequently offensive to each other.
As a result, it's natural for the Iranis to attempt to extend abilities with a direct military application, and for the US (and more quietly, the EU) to object.
Estonia can afford to go nationwide with national smartcard IDs and internet voting, because Estonia is small enough to reasonably manage and oversee it. Individual citizens have a reasonable chance to find out if the system is being gamed, and to do something useful with that knowledge.
In the US, and the most populated of its constituent states, it's difficult for someone to be reasonably certain they've got a handle on the situation, much less do something about it. This is due, in part, to the vast disparity in power (ability to act) between the power brokers and the average citizen. In addition, there is vastly more at stake in gaming the system nationally in the US, and so potentially more resources brought to bear to do so.
So, I wouldn't call the "paranoia over ID cards" crippling, but healthy. If an individual State, particularly a small one like Delaware or the Dakotas wants to experiment with the idea, that's what Federalism is for.
I'll agree that PJ isn't working a story of the same category as W&B, and I'll agree that the raw material she compiles probably doesn't take the degree of hound dogging that - for instance - Watergate did.
But while not alike in degree, they are alike in kind. Therefore, there is no justice served by hauling her into a deposition. The only reason is to chill the reporting. If the reporting is grossly (and thought to be intentionally) inaccurate, then Darl can go to town. But, that isn't the case now, is it?
It doesn't matter who PJ is. So what, someone wanting to take the time to research an issue, and blog about it. Within the legal context, it's no different than Mark Felt feeding info to Woodward and Bernstein, except PJ is her own publisher. Neither Felt or PJ was/is of legal significance. Neither the Washington Post or Groklaw were/are submitting evidence into a court of law. They were/are just reporting on things that other people can choose to follow up on... or not.
Naturally, the people being reported on want to know who's doing the reporting. They're getting more light shone on things they'd just as soon everyone and their uncle didn't know about, and more importantly, start to care about. It fucks up their PR game. If Nixon or McBride found/find out who's reporting on them, they could/can try to fuck up the source's shit, and divert attention.
I read the Economist every week, where virtually none of the stories include a byline. Over time, the body of the magazine's work stands on its own, or doesn't. As with the Economist, as with PJ.
Knowing who PJ is is politically relevant, but not legally relevant.
Given the circumstances under which Mr. Henson was tried, it seemed likely that he was going to be sitting out his appeals in jail. While I find it likely that an appeals judge would have forced a new trial, Henson was running out of the cash needed to adequitely defend himself. About the only difference between he and I is 12 years and a mild alt.religon.scientology post. If I was getting railroaded by my county DA and trial judge because of my aerospace background, I'd consider foriegn travel, too.
Hawaii is waaaaay out in the sidelobes for the satt radio transponders, so it's a moot point for us. I've been quietly amused to note the portable XM units the Kahului Sears has sitting forlornly back near the boomboxes. Perhaps a bargain-hunting visitor could work a deal with the sales staff. The capability came standard with my wife's hybrid. Too bad we couldn't get a credit to delete it.
Mr. Kahn seems to be completely overlooking the fact that ownership of the national network backbones is very concentrated, and that these owners are pushing hard to use their virtual monopoly position to maximize ROI. They have no incentive or stated intention of innovating or adding significantly more capacity until they've rung every last dollar out of what they've got.
It's common practice for various industries to sponsor economists, attorneys, academics, and engineers at non-profit think tanks, so it would be all too easy to suspect a hidden agenda in this case. However, a few minutes of Googling Mr. Kahn and the CNRI didn't turn up a smoking gun, so it may be that he's just being native about the market conditions.
The concentration of wealth is not a problem that harms anybody, it's a non-problem that already solves itself- new wealth is constantly eclipsing the old, and sustained intergenerational wealth transfer is exceedingly rare.
Bull-loney.
Once into the top.01 percent of taxpayers, such transfer is the rule. Most of these households don't need to work to maintain or increase their net worth. In any case, extreme relative wealth develops into a problem for a republic because extreme wealth doesn't just sit in a big house and park its Porsche in the driveway.
It owns the major share of equity, securities, and non-residential real estate.
It sets the tone for what, where, and how business is done.
It can farm out the task of monitoring what's going on in local, state, Federal, and international governing bodies that may affect their interests 24/7/365.
It exercises a large degree of editorial control over almost all mass media.
It provides the seed money for nearly all state and federal races, and therefore...
It enjoys the opportunity for frequent personal access to officeholders at all levels.
If the holders of wealth take too literally the fantasy that their fortunes aren't tied to the fortunes of their fellow citizens, the Republic as a whole suffers. Wikipedia's articles on the US economy focus too much on yearly income. For a look at asset allocation, take a look here.
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(3) the data in issue which is currently routed to a third party entity under contract to defendants
That's the achillies heel, if they are pulling the data out and transmitting it already, they are sunk.
Really, the parent post and another high modded post a bit further down spell it all out.
Re: The SonicBlue / ReplayTV case in 2002...:
Federal Rule 34 Neither Requires Nor Authorizes An Order To Create Records That Do Not Exist.
So, if TorrentSpy had in fact not captured the data in question from RAM and written it to another device (a file, a network port, console, etc), it would seem that they would have, or soon would be, in the clear. If they did capture, they're screwed.
And people use them too, frequently without having any idea of whether the algorithm is processing given input the way they're thinking it is... or having any idea what the inputs are. Labor saving devices are great, but it's nice to have an idea of just what laborious action one is saved from performing, otherwise a monkey can do your job. Hear me, HR rep?
JFK shot at only 20m? I've only shot 50m once in a blue moon, so I don't have any first hand experience with attempting to qualify. It's quite possible my dad wasn't in possession of all the facts. I'll ask him about that.
That show you mention even had a guy pull out Oswald's shooters score book from the marines showing what an incredible shot he was, yet you can find evidence with google proving Oliver Stone's assertion that other marines said he had "maggies drawers" and/or was a poor shooter overall. They had simply pulled out a few instances of good shooting he had for your show.
My dad was at one point a Sergeant stationed at MCAF Santa Ana, and enjoyed the dubious honor of being Oswald's last NCO, escorting him to the front gate the day he was discharged. Neither the old man nor the other NCOs he knew were impressed by Oswald's ability on a firing range, barely good enough to rate the "Marksman" shooting badge. When the nature of JFK's shooting came out, my dad could not believe JHO had the ability to pull it off.
Granted, as my mom used to argue, anyone can have a lucky day. But, with two shots, that's damn lucky.
Perhaps, or maybe it's Apple's way of finding out who's been breaking their NDA.
Yeah, and I'd bet the Board of Directors would have liked a chance to vet that kind of move before blowing away $2 billion in shareholder value. I think this is just a prank gone horribly wrong. But for the grace of common sense go I.
The top 40 people at IBM were compensated damn close to 800 million dollars last year if not more.
The point would be lost on a stereotypical Libertarian. The doctrine posits that everyone is equally empowered to enter into a contractual relationship. So, if the stockholders want to retain a board that approves this sort of compensation, that's their business.
That not everyone is really even vaguely equally empowered isn't stated up front. However, the truth is that a hardcore Libertarian doesn't care about economic screwiness in any form, as long as no one is welching on a contract. Therefore, a society on a Libertarian model would end up as an extreme oligarchy without either some sort of compromise on principles, or outside intervention.
Burned out on technical work? Then go into Sales. Better yet, go into retail sales. One of two things will occur almost immediately: 1) you'll kick ass, enjoy it, and rake in serious bucks from your efforts, or 2) you'll wonder what in the hell you were whining about in the first place that couldn't have been solved by switching departments.
Does anyone at these corporations ever consider that by putting Americans out of work they're shrinking the size of their market? A little temporary boost in profits will be followed by a long term loss...
No, they aren't considering it. This behavior is straight outta a Marxist critique of market economics, where company A works to minimize their own labor costs, and counts on every other company to pay out enough to finance a market for A's goods... except that just about every firm is company A.
A classical Adam Smith economist will respond that the capital freed by (for arguments sake) IBM ditching thousands of employees can be more profitably deployed elsewhere by the Company and stockholders. Ex-employees, too.
A fly in that ointment is that nowadays, most of that capital is being redeployed out of the US, and it takes a while for the domestic economy to take up the slack with increased added value to crank the domestic incomes back up. Most US-based multinationals (if the Economist, Forbes, the WSJ, Biz Week, and my various stockholders reports are any indication) see their future growth in sales and headcount overseas. According to his latest financial disclosure statement, so does Dick Cheney. So, exactly how or when that increased domestic value is going to be created is an open question.
For the moment, the effect of the tide of money leaving the US is hidden by the Chinese and Japanese buying Treasury Notes to hold down the value of the yuan and yen. When that tails off, interesting things will occur. It's unlikely to be a meltdown, but it won't be pretty.
The idea of an open gsm network would make for an interesting real world pilot project. Unfortunately, just about every nation considers the radio bands you'd normally want to work in to be big buck$. The parent Canadian poster can do a quick Google search regarding frequency assignments in her/his nation, and it's the same situation just about everywhere. You'd be charged a huge sum to license the bands, and/or an additional sum to be licensed as one of a limited number of com providers on those bands.
Theoretically, you could try this on - say - the ISM bands, but they aren't going to give you the same performance as the cell bands. In addition, purpose-built cell equipment isn't designed nor licensed to operate outside of the cell bands, so you'd have a lot of DIY on the hardware side. Not so bad on the provider side so much as on the user side... where're you gonna get the handsets? Yes, there are ISM YoIP handsets, but they aren't really set up for portable use. While ISM ain't what you asked for, it's really all you have available.
I went ahead and spent a couple of minutes putting in my two cents with the FDA. I surfed using Firefox 2.0.0.3 on a Mac. The FDA's server told me I "must" use Safari. I decided to test their rationale, and continued with Firefox. I was asked for my name, zip, under what category I was commenting (a consumer). I was asked to enter up to 3000 characters in a comment box, where I entered the following:
As it stands, lower quality "real chocolate" products contain a low percentage of cocoa butter and whole milk powder. If you allow manufacturers of chocolate products to completely dispense with cocoa butter and whole milk powder in the interest of economy, this will tend to drag most chocolate products down that path (the "Walmart" effect). If manufacturers don't want to use any cocoa butter or whole milk power in a product, that's fine, but I don't feel they should be allowed to call it "chocolate" any more than oleo products are called "butter".
I clicked the 'continue' box, and was offered the chance to add an attachment. Hopefully, this is where high end chocolate vendors offer a more nuanced take on the proposal. One more 'continue' box, then exit, which dumped me to the FDA's home page.
My former employer, a California aerospace outfit, ran into something like that around 1970 when it opened a good-sized operation in Denver.
Sounds like something Hughes Aircraft would have done, since Martin was there since '56. I loved that place.
Hey dude, I think I saw your testicles. They're in your wife's purse next to her tampons.
It gets worse. My vasectomy was my doctor's last case for the day before a dinner date, which explained why - I swear to God - she wore a black lace gown with the surgical mask... at least, that's the story she went with.
I write to my local paper a lot, and periodically I get a phone call supporting something I've written. My wife has made it quite clear that the first time I get a nasty and/or threatening call, my days as a writer are over. Being married twenty years has given me the opportunity to see that women, by and large, do not grow up with the same sense of control over their person and surroundings that you or I do.
So, while I cringe at Ms. Sierra's language of defeat and withdrawal, I have come to understand that for a good many (wo)men, flight overcomes fight when reacting to threats. You can objectify the odds, but it doesn't always overcome the subjective fear.
Comp Sci has always been dead, and always will be. In 1982, one of my early CS professors claimed that the window of oportunity for a job as a programmer or s/w engineer was going to close soon as automatic code generators took over the task of raw code banging. Employers would just need a few engineers for design, and that would be it.
But, I shouldn't be surprised that yet another generation of technology dilettantes think that they're reached the pinnicle of achievement in a line of endeavor, and from here on out it's just like corn futures (Somebody oughta tell Monsanto to stop wasting time with GMO research). But seriously, when we've got bean counters like Carly Finarino and whichever IBM VP it was claiming that the years of technical advance in IT are over, not to mention the author of the fine article, Mr. McBride, I see people who are in the wrong industry. Perhaps they should be selling dish washers, or teaching MCSE cram schools.
McBride is whining because the students aren't packing his CS classes like they used to. His reasons whittle down to these: mature software packages exist to service a number of needs (which has always been true, to the contemporary observer), and it's too easy to outsource the whole thing to India. It is the writing of someone throwing in the towel. It's like the trash talk you hear from people who are about to leave your shop for another job. I won't be surprised to find him in fact "teaching" MCSE "classes" very soon. Good. His office should be occupied by someone who still has a fire in their belly.
We're going to see the god-damnest crap pouring out of ExxonMobile and their buddies' PR machine over the next year or two, and that Mr. Abdussamatov gets a hearing now is just a taste of what's coming. Hell, if I wanted to make series money, I should be sniffing around Madison Avenue and K Street right now, instead of wasting time dealing with crackpots on /.
Addressing the parent post, it's true that Methane is one motherfucker of a greenhouse gas, and plants crank it out. Plants have always cranked it out, because plants have been rotting since the beginning of life, so that's just part of the baseline. What's different is the extra gas that 1.3 billion domesticated cattle are passing every day. What's different is that billions of frickin tons per year of carbon being cut loose from fossil fuels, vast quantities that leave the the methane as not much more than a rank odor.
The independent contractor shall...
The in-house employee shall...
May not seem a good use of time, unless you consider the value of staying out of the criminal legal system.
The US is a world power, Iran is a regional power. The national interests of the US and Iran usually have not, do not, and will not coincide. The controlling elite within the Irani government has traditionally made a point of publically working at cross-purposes with the US. The US has made a point of attempting to isolate Iran. In culture and religon, the US and Irani ruling elites have virtually nothing in common. Their beliefs and customs are frequently offensive to each other.
As a result, it's natural for the Iranis to attempt to extend abilities with a direct military application, and for the US (and more quietly, the EU) to object.
Estonia can afford to go nationwide with national smartcard IDs and internet voting, because Estonia is small enough to reasonably manage and oversee it. Individual citizens have a reasonable chance to find out if the system is being gamed, and to do something useful with that knowledge.
In the US, and the most populated of its constituent states, it's difficult for someone to be reasonably certain they've got a handle on the situation, much less do something about it. This is due, in part, to the vast disparity in power (ability to act) between the power brokers and the average citizen. In addition, there is vastly more at stake in gaming the system nationally in the US, and so potentially more resources brought to bear to do so.
So, I wouldn't call the "paranoia over ID cards" crippling, but healthy. If an individual State, particularly a small one like Delaware or the Dakotas wants to experiment with the idea, that's what Federalism is for.
I'll agree that PJ isn't working a story of the same category as W&B, and I'll agree that the raw material she compiles probably doesn't take the degree of hound dogging that - for instance - Watergate did.
But while not alike in degree, they are alike in kind. Therefore, there is no justice served by hauling her into a deposition. The only reason is to chill the reporting. If the reporting is grossly (and thought to be intentionally) inaccurate, then Darl can go to town. But, that isn't the case now, is it?
It doesn't matter who PJ is. So what, someone wanting to take the time to research an issue, and blog about it. Within the legal context, it's no different than Mark Felt feeding info to Woodward and Bernstein, except PJ is her own publisher. Neither Felt or PJ was/is of legal significance. Neither the Washington Post or Groklaw were/are submitting evidence into a court of law. They were/are just reporting on things that other people can choose to follow up on... or not.
Naturally, the people being reported on want to know who's doing the reporting. They're getting more light shone on things they'd just as soon everyone and their uncle didn't know about, and more importantly, start to care about. It fucks up their PR game. If Nixon or McBride found/find out who's reporting on them, they could/can try to fuck up the source's shit, and divert attention.
I read the Economist every week, where virtually none of the stories include a byline. Over time, the body of the magazine's work stands on its own, or doesn't. As with the Economist, as with PJ.
Knowing who PJ is is politically relevant, but not legally relevant.
...except that they don't sell many servers, and I suspect most of those get reloaded with Linux.
Given the circumstances under which Mr. Henson was tried, it seemed likely that he was going to be sitting out his appeals in jail. While I find it likely that an appeals judge would have forced a new trial, Henson was running out of the cash needed to adequitely defend himself. About the only difference between he and I is 12 years and a mild alt.religon.scientology post. If I was getting railroaded by my county DA and trial judge because of my aerospace background, I'd consider foriegn travel, too.
Hawaii is waaaaay out in the sidelobes for the satt radio transponders, so it's a moot point for us. I've been quietly amused to note the portable XM units the Kahului Sears has sitting forlornly back near the boomboxes. Perhaps a bargain-hunting visitor could work a deal with the sales staff. The capability came standard with my wife's hybrid. Too bad we couldn't get a credit to delete it.
Mr. Kahn seems to be completely overlooking the fact that ownership of the national network backbones is very concentrated, and that these owners are pushing hard to use their virtual monopoly position to maximize ROI. They have no incentive or stated intention of innovating or adding significantly more capacity until they've rung every last dollar out of what they've got.
It's common practice for various industries to sponsor economists, attorneys, academics, and engineers at non-profit think tanks, so it would be all too easy to suspect a hidden agenda in this case. However, a few minutes of Googling Mr. Kahn and the CNRI didn't turn up a smoking gun, so it may be that he's just being native about the market conditions.
Bull-loney.
Once into the top
If the holders of wealth take too literally the fantasy that their fortunes aren't tied to the fortunes of their fellow citizens, the Republic as a whole suffers. Wikipedia's articles on the US economy focus too much on yearly income. For a look at asset allocation, take a look here.