In case it makes you feel any better, just about everyone I know is scared sh!tless about all this. Of course, we all the evil ones... New England Liberals.
While it sounds like this particular proposal was written by people who just don't understand, maybe it will give people with a bit more clue (and authority) an idea.
People were talking about this being like getting fined for leaving your door unlocked. How about fining a landlord who doesn't provide locks on the doors? With the prevalence of wireless "internet router" units, many of which include basic firewall functionality, it wouldn't take much of an upgrade to make this work well. Anything that provides 802.11[bg...] should have a firewall built in and come with a VPN client - anything on the airwaves is then firewalled AND encrypted. How much would this really cost the industry? How much would it benefit the public?
> "Sure, run linux on our Sun-branded but otherwise whitebox-like and overpriced x86 and x86_64 hardware..."
Last time we did a comparison, for comparable horsepower the Sun Opteron (V20z and V40z) servers were *cheaper* than any of the competition. Unless you wanted to run your enterprise on home assembled stuff, then you could make it cheaper yourself.
Yes, *cheaper*. Fewer real greenbacks handed over to the vendor. Believe it or not.
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They're just making sure to set up for:
http://crossedgenres.com/archives/006/red-dust-by-amanda-lord/
In case it makes you feel any better, just about everyone I know is scared sh!tless about all this. Of course, we all the evil ones... New England Liberals.
While it sounds like this particular proposal was written by people who just don't understand, maybe it will give people with a bit more clue (and authority) an idea.
People were talking about this being like getting fined for leaving your door unlocked. How about fining a landlord who doesn't provide locks on the doors? With the prevalence of wireless "internet router" units, many of which include basic firewall functionality, it wouldn't take much of an upgrade to make this work well. Anything that provides 802.11[bg...] should have a firewall built in and come with a VPN client - anything on the airwaves is then firewalled AND encrypted. How much would this really cost the industry? How much would it benefit the public?
> "Sure, run linux on our Sun-branded but otherwise whitebox-like and overpriced x86 and x86_64 hardware..." Last time we did a comparison, for comparable horsepower the Sun Opteron (V20z and V40z) servers were *cheaper* than any of the competition. Unless you wanted to run your enterprise on home assembled stuff, then you could make it cheaper yourself. Yes, *cheaper*. Fewer real greenbacks handed over to the vendor. Believe it or not.