Wait a second. Wasn't it my taxes that paid for the research that led to those patents? They should release the patents to the public that paid for them.
I can understand wanting to raise funds, but not if it means that the patents will end up being abused by some random patent troll to stifle innovation.
Add to that wave power, custom built ships just for this purpose anchored in place, fiber connection to the mainland and it may well prove to be cheaper over the long term than a land-based air conditioned building that requires lots of power. Air conditioning is a huge part of the long term cost of a datacenter, using water cooling with abundant supplies of water seems like a very green way of doing things.
Here's your problem. The 4th amendment is typically protected by a judge signing the search warrant, which provides oversight against abuses. Even the secret FISA court provides oversight. The problem here, there is NO oversight whatsoever. That's not conforming to the spirit of the 4th amendment at all.
The solution is to have some kind of oversight. FISA is less than ideal, since it's secret, but there are perfectly good national security reasons for keeping some things that way. With the issuing over 200,000 unvetted letters such as these which typically automatically contain a gag order, I also cannot fathom how this FBI power is being used responsibly and not abused.
I am a firm believer in the need for a government to conduct certain actions in secret, but we risk a complete erosion of our constitutional rights when a government is given such a powerful tool with absolutely zero oversight, secret or otherwise.
Well, the judge ruled out Verizon and AT&T by using them as examples. Considering the relatively limited number of large ISP's in the USA, the chance is that it was directed at the largest of all... Comcast. I doubt a smaller ISP would dare go up against the federal government, lawuits such as these are notorious for taking years (decades?) to go anywhere. Unfortunately, it would seem likely that ultimately the lawsuit will be thrown out for "national security" reasons, as so many others have since the passing of the Patriot Act.
With SuprNova, the domain was given to the stewardship of The Pirate Bay, but there's no other relationship between the original and SuprNova 2.0. The significant difference is that in the case of Demonoid, the admin has handed off the site and database to existing staff. It's "under new management", but it's the same site that was running before it was shut down.
The new server is located in Ukraine, so unless there's a very elaborate international conspiracy here, I doubt it's a setup. The original admin isn't from Canada or the USA (or Europe for that matter). The original servers were located in Amsterdam, then they moved to Canada before being shut down, and now they've moved again. Not at all unusual for torrent sites, even huge ones like The Pirate Bay.
Demonoid has always been a public tracker, but other features of the site require an account (including uploading). You don't need to be a member to use it, just a member to access other stuff.
I'm using a couple of Vista boxes on my local LAN with a home brewed CentOS router running ISC dhcpd 3.0.5. No problems with obtaining an IP address at all.
Sounds like the flaming is misguided this time for a change. Perhaps Lund is using an ancient version of dhcpd?
peerguardian.sourceforge.net has always been the location to download the PeerGuardian software, that hasn't changed. It's the only place that the 'hijacker' couldn't take over.
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Wait a second. Wasn't it my taxes that paid for the research that led to those patents? They should release the patents to the public that paid for them. I can understand wanting to raise funds, but not if it means that the patents will end up being abused by some random patent troll to stifle innovation.
Add to that wave power, custom built ships just for this purpose anchored in place, fiber connection to the mainland and it may well prove to be cheaper over the long term than a land-based air conditioned building that requires lots of power. Air conditioning is a huge part of the long term cost of a datacenter, using water cooling with abundant supplies of water seems like a very green way of doing things.
Here's your problem. The 4th amendment is typically protected by a judge signing the search warrant, which provides oversight against abuses. Even the secret FISA court provides oversight. The problem here, there is NO oversight whatsoever. That's not conforming to the spirit of the 4th amendment at all.
The solution is to have some kind of oversight. FISA is less than ideal, since it's secret, but there are perfectly good national security reasons for keeping some things that way. With the issuing over 200,000 unvetted letters such as these which typically automatically contain a gag order, I also cannot fathom how this FBI power is being used responsibly and not abused. I am a firm believer in the need for a government to conduct certain actions in secret, but we risk a complete erosion of our constitutional rights when a government is given such a powerful tool with absolutely zero oversight, secret or otherwise.
Well, the judge ruled out Verizon and AT&T by using them as examples. Considering the relatively limited number of large ISP's in the USA, the chance is that it was directed at the largest of all... Comcast. I doubt a smaller ISP would dare go up against the federal government, lawuits such as these are notorious for taking years (decades?) to go anywhere. Unfortunately, it would seem likely that ultimately the lawsuit will be thrown out for "national security" reasons, as so many others have since the passing of the Patriot Act.
Your journal is interesting reading ShieldW0lf. Don't mistake the actions of a country's government with the (in)action of it's people.
With SuprNova, the domain was given to the stewardship of The Pirate Bay, but there's no other relationship between the original and SuprNova 2.0. The significant difference is that in the case of Demonoid, the admin has handed off the site and database to existing staff. It's "under new management", but it's the same site that was running before it was shut down.
The new server is located in Ukraine, so unless there's a very elaborate international conspiracy here, I doubt it's a setup. The original admin isn't from Canada or the USA (or Europe for that matter). The original servers were located in Amsterdam, then they moved to Canada before being shut down, and now they've moved again. Not at all unusual for torrent sites, even huge ones like The Pirate Bay.
Demonoid has always been a public tracker, but other features of the site require an account (including uploading). You don't need to be a member to use it, just a member to access other stuff.
I'm using a couple of Vista boxes on my local LAN with a home brewed CentOS router running ISC dhcpd 3.0.5. No problems with obtaining an IP address at all. Sounds like the flaming is misguided this time for a change. Perhaps Lund is using an ancient version of dhcpd?
peerguardian.sourceforge.net has always been the location to download the PeerGuardian software, that hasn't changed. It's the only place that the 'hijacker' couldn't take over.