If you believe the unlikely proposition that Blue Glue is holding 70% of that new data,
Nobody made that proposition. Doug Balog didn't say that 70% of the world's data is housed on IBM mainframes, he said it was housed on mainframes. Other companies besides IBM made and make mainframes.
I don't know about that. There's quite a lot of big old mainframes running weather tracking and analysis software, for example. The USGS, I believe, has a number of mainframes that collect several terabytes of weather data per day... and they keep all of it. Forever.
There are quite a lot of such obscure applications out there (especially in the earth and space sciences) that gather titanic amounts of data. Even if Google cached all five billion web pages, and each web page was a megabyte (which is probably way overestimating), that's 10 petabytes of data (5 petabytes each for the pages and the cache). Now think about the thousands of mass-data-collecting computers there are out there, that (between them) archive more data than that every day.
whereas this iTMS cracker is only used by people who are being dishonest.
If a person agrees to a contract, and then violates that contract in a way that will never harm anyone, including the other party, I'd say the person is on pretty solid moral ground. In the most literal sense they're being dishonest, but the actual harm is (I love this phrase) de minimis, so it's hard to support any action against the person.
The DRM restrictions on iTunes music are designed to prevent casual copyright infringment. You can make a couple of copies for personal use but that's it. The DRM won't stop a dedicated infringer from making and distributing mass copies; but it will stop an honest end-user from making one additional copy for personal use (let's say he has a number of different places he listens to music). By the terms of the contract, I suppose he's being dishonest, but there is zero harm being perpetrated here.
I also wonder whether a contract like the one you enter into when you sign up with iTunes, that attempts to revoke some of your fair use rights, is actually even legal? I know that a contract that requires one party or the other to break a law in the course of fulfilling the contractual obligations is null and void, but I'm not so sure when it comes to giving up certain rights.
If copyright infringement is in all ways identical to stealing, why do we have the term "copyright infringment" and an entire Title of the U.S. Code dedicated to it? The fact that data and matter are different is the very reason that we have different terms for the two actions.
Copyright infringement is certainly illegal. But you don't help your case by conflating larceny (stealing) with copyright infringement. It just makes you look ignorant. Whether or not someone believes that copyright infringement is immoral, it is de facto not the same thing as larceny.
I'm saying that, in the future, you want to say, "Copyright infringement is WRONG!" not "Copyright infringment is STEALING!"
Well, since I knew exactly when it would next be April 1st almost a year ago, that makes me a super-hyper-ultra-mega-duper-telepathic chrono-genius who must be immortalized by carving the entire Earth into the shape of my head.
Sorry, but there's prior art for your laser death cannon.
Wait, maybe you do mean laser death canon -- is that some kind of orchestral piece that uses bagpipes to focus the laser energy? They're the only instrument evil enough to serve as a weapon of mass destruction.
I have no love for humanists, and I hate atheists more than you ever could.
Can I ask what you have against atheists? The rest of your post was all pretty well-reasoned so I'm wondering why you would hate an entire group of people who have nothing in common except what they don't believe.
You read stores like this and think, "Oh, it was just error."
But you fail to realize that a big heist probably took place. I saw George Clooney and Matt Damon do it to Las Vegas. They let off this big ass EMP and shut down the power to the whole city! Long story short, they stole a shitload of money and got away with it.
Don't let these stories fool you, that is exactly what happened here.
So I guess the people behind it are errorists, then?
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;
It doesn't say anything about with whom treaties can be made. And I don't know that there's ever been a Supreme Court case that established that a treaty can only be made with a country. So, as far as I know, you're incorrect.
It's a bad episode because traveling at infinite speed made Paris and Janeway devolve into salamanders.
What do you mean, devolve? Considering their development, I don't think either of those characters deserved a classification higher than "amoeba" to begin with.
Are you joking? You think the only reason they copy it is because it's good? They emulate it because it's what the overwhelming majority of people use -- so when the Linux desktops want people to switch, they want it to be as easy as possible for those people. Whether or not this is a valid point of view is arguable (some people say that they should try to improve on Microsoft's desktop style, rather than simply copying it), but that's the justification behind it.
And the overwhelming majority of people use Windows not because it's good, but because MS managed to get themselves a monopoly via illegal, anticompetitive business practices.
Feel free to change your preferences so that Microsoft stories don't appear on the front page. Then we can find out what the world would be like if people stopped whining about seeing stories they're not interested in.
Nobody forces you to read or look at them. Demanding that we don't talk about Microsoft is neither appropriate nor helpful.
Don't want the WTO to impose laws on us? Guess we probably shouldn't have been a founding member and signed treaties saying we'd abide by their rules, which allow them to do this. Good work, U.S. government!
Erm, keep in mind that the people who want trees removed from their reservoirs are likely to be government authorities, for whom profit is not (theoretically) the point of such actions.
It seems like more and more that people are just printing/reporting what ever "facts" they come across to forward their own agenda.
No, it's as common as it ever was. This has always been the way of most humans. People will go to any lengths to justify their own agenda, regardless of how they have to distort the truth to do it.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that the GPS satellites make geocaching *possible*? Whether or not it's fun has little to do with a rocket launching a satellite. Of course, you could say that it wouldn't be fun at all without a GPS system, since you'd have to navigate with less convenient methods.:)
You mean "libel." Slander is spoken, libel is written. At any rate, I don't think they have libeled LinuxToday -- the claim that LT is not authorized to redistribute the content is not defamatory, it's merely incorrect. Defamation usually requires that you know that the information is incorrect, and you intend to cause harm by publishing it.
And hey, I completely agree with you. If you, as a parent, don't want your children exposed to profanity, then you keep them from it. That's your right, privilege, and (some would say) duty as a parent.
But it is and should not be the government's or anyone else's duty to decide what my child can and cannot see. My wife will be giving birth in a few months and we both know very well what kind of control we need and want over our child's development.
I resent the implication that, because I think the FCC is being dictatorial and fascist, I'm not a human being. Did it ever occur to you that maybe intrusive government regulation is not the best solution to this particular issue?
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I don't know about that. There's quite a lot of big old mainframes running weather tracking and analysis software, for example. The USGS, I believe, has a number of mainframes that collect several terabytes of weather data per day... and they keep all of it. Forever.
There are quite a lot of such obscure applications out there (especially in the earth and space sciences) that gather titanic amounts of data. Even if Google cached all five billion web pages, and each web page was a megabyte (which is probably way overestimating), that's 10 petabytes of data (5 petabytes each for the pages and the cache). Now think about the thousands of mass-data-collecting computers there are out there, that (between them) archive more data than that every day.
The DRM restrictions on iTunes music are designed to prevent casual copyright infringment. You can make a couple of copies for personal use but that's it. The DRM won't stop a dedicated infringer from making and distributing mass copies; but it will stop an honest end-user from making one additional copy for personal use (let's say he has a number of different places he listens to music). By the terms of the contract, I suppose he's being dishonest, but there is zero harm being perpetrated here.
I also wonder whether a contract like the one you enter into when you sign up with iTunes, that attempts to revoke some of your fair use rights, is actually even legal? I know that a contract that requires one party or the other to break a law in the course of fulfilling the contractual obligations is null and void, but I'm not so sure when it comes to giving up certain rights.
Copyright infringement is certainly illegal. But you don't help your case by conflating larceny (stealing) with copyright infringement. It just makes you look ignorant. Whether or not someone believes that copyright infringement is immoral, it is de facto not the same thing as larceny.
I'm saying that, in the future, you want to say, "Copyright infringement is WRONG!" not "Copyright infringment is STEALING!"
Well, since I knew exactly when it would next be April 1st almost a year ago, that makes me a super-hyper-ultra-mega-duper-telepathic chrono-genius who must be immortalized by carving the entire Earth into the shape of my head.
I don't know if this beats that, but at my last apartment, my phone number was:
286-2691
CUM-BOY1
Of course, it gets better. My wife had her own apartment down the hall before we got married:
286-2284
CUM-BATH
Sorry, but there's prior art for your laser death cannon.
Wait, maybe you do mean laser death canon -- is that some kind of orchestral piece that uses bagpipes to focus the laser energy? They're the only instrument evil enough to serve as a weapon of mass destruction.
Yep! Tactful meta-whining is just peachy. :)
Are you joking? You think the only reason they copy it is because it's good? They emulate it because it's what the overwhelming majority of people use -- so when the Linux desktops want people to switch, they want it to be as easy as possible for those people. Whether or not this is a valid point of view is arguable (some people say that they should try to improve on Microsoft's desktop style, rather than simply copying it), but that's the justification behind it.
And the overwhelming majority of people use Windows not because it's good, but because MS managed to get themselves a monopoly via illegal, anticompetitive business practices.
Feel free to change your preferences so that Microsoft stories don't appear on the front page. Then we can find out what the world would be like if people stopped whining about seeing stories they're not interested in.
Nobody forces you to read or look at them. Demanding that we don't talk about Microsoft is neither appropriate nor helpful.
Don't want the WTO to impose laws on us? Guess we probably shouldn't have been a founding member and signed treaties saying we'd abide by their rules, which allow them to do this. Good work, U.S. government!
Dude, why did you pick the one story where Michael didn't make an editorial comment to whine that he always makes anti-corporate editorial comments?
Erm, keep in mind that the people who want trees removed from their reservoirs are likely to be government authorities, for whom profit is not (theoretically) the point of such actions.
The old Monty Python routine about a lumberjack who really wishes he was a woman.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that the GPS satellites make geocaching *possible*? Whether or not it's fun has little to do with a rocket launching a satellite. Of course, you could say that it wouldn't be fun at all without a GPS system, since you'd have to navigate with less convenient methods. :)
And hey, I completely agree with you. If you, as a parent, don't want your children exposed to profanity, then you keep them from it. That's your right, privilege, and (some would say) duty as a parent.
But it is and should not be the government's or anyone else's duty to decide what my child can and cannot see. My wife will be giving birth in a few months and we both know very well what kind of control we need and want over our child's development.