Yup, in most cases it is privately owned switches, routers, fiber, cables, servers, laptops, desktops, phones, etc. I go over Sprint wireless to get to the Internet, then I go over many backbone providers (sometimes TimeWarner, sometimes Comcast), I use privately owned search engines like Google and privately owned sites like slashdot. I read news on privately owned papers/TV websites. I watch videos on privately managed servers. Except when I go to whitehouse.gov or nasa.gov, nothing I use is publicly owned.

Well that and they were way over priced ...

Well that and the Open Source Community caught up with them ...

Well that and they didn't have a long-term solution/strategy to ensure new entries into the tech field could gain experience/skills on their products so they would be comfortable recommending them. Sun relied on the old guard to recommend Sun, while newer entries onto the computer field were more comfortable recommending solutions they had experience with.

As a result apache replaced Sun's web server as the standard.

Red Hat (and others) took away Solaris server market share.

New startups began by running Oracle and other databases on Linux (or even Windows) servers in the initial low funding development stages and then when it came time to go into production, some of them didn't bother with moving to Sun hardware and Solaris, and instead remained with what worked and building it out to be "good-enough" for less money and less headaches.

I was in college from 1995-1999. The guys who loved going to the lab became Solaris die-hards, because that was what the school at that time ran (it is now LINUX, LINUX and more LINUX). But I preferred working in my apartment, so when I had took C, LISP, and JAVA classes that were focused on the fundamentals of code, things like recursion or objects, my teachers didn't demand I used the Solaris workstation, just that I solved the problem and got a strong foundation. So I installed Red hat on a backup PC and worked by using the same languages, with the same libraries, with the same text editors only on LINUX as the labs used on Solaris. At the time, I was the minority, but with each new class the LINUX users increased and those willing to invest in learning Solaris decreased, not to mention a larger and larger percentage of Solaris guys knew both.

When I went to work for a startup in California, they couldn't afford the quotes for Sun, so I purchased three DELL servers and installed Linux on them to accomplish the same task. Now nobody asks for Solaris admins, they ask for Linux admins.

You're post is awesome.

They are one and the same.

The main problem was that the Reid campaign was running a web site that gave people the impression it was his competitor's site. It had active forms, either collecting user information or dumping it but giving the impression they were signed up.

The key goal would be to stop this activity.

Because Reid's campaign used copyrighted material in this ruse, using a copyright legal argument to get the website down seems reasonable.

This in no way stops or prevents additional legal filings at a later point. If there is anyone who got an e-mail or anything that gave them the perception of being enrolled after using the site or worse the code shows Reid's campaign was collecting this information, it will sink him.

Americans are pissed off at corrupt incumbents who don't respect the will of the people. If Reid turns out to be playing an underhanded/illegal game, it will put him further in the hole then he already is, he is not going to get re-elected, yet he is so disconnected from reality and because he has so much money, he thinks he has a chance.

Besides what were the "wackie views" she is running away from anyway? Lower taxes, less spending, limited government? If you look at the polls, she is in the majority. What is so crazy about any of that? The department of energy was created in the 1970s, we did fine without it up until then, I think we could somehow survive without it in the future. Every state has an EPA and a Dept of Education, we don't need these at the federal level, they aren't part of the enumerated powers anyway.

Whether the forms collected the data for Reid's campaign or the forms just dumped the data giving users the impression they were signed up for information/activities, when they weren't, either way it is over the line.

To answer your question, it is the quickest legal tool to get it to stop. Using copyright, gets it shutdown faster then having to prove who is harmed or mislead by the data collection. It's just a legal tool.

Umm, you need read and understand the facts before you post.

The issue is not that Senator Reid's campaign merely reposted parts of her website. Or that she was running away from positions she has taken in the past.

It was that the Reid campaign created a website to look like hers and used that site to get names, emails and other information from people who believed it was her site.

Not if you have an Android phone with the wifi tether app. http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/

You aren't more financially agile then him if he has more cash on hand because while you were paying interest he was getting paid interest. Or if you are holding debt currently and he isn't. I decided two years ago to change my thinking to get out of the rat race. I had an awesome house ($3200/Mon mortgage) and newest Accord ($500/month payment), student loans. I sold house, paid off car, paid off student loans. I rent a condo down the street for less then property taxes. Now each month a save $2000. My wife no longer has to work. I am less stressed. Life is so much easier. Paying off car, loans wasn't fun, but it was worth it. Now I live within my means and as I do my future means rises. Americans don't need to deficit spend to get out of recession, we need to save and buy what we afford to avoid repeating problems that caused meltdown. How could banks lend to people who were unable to pay if those people never signed thee loan?

That Apple gets out of the computer business completely and focuses on iDevices, than it is that iOS and OS X will merge.

That said I cannot wait for iTiger, they could run commercials "it's the i ... Tiger, its the thrill of the web, downloading apps, music and email content. It's magical devices ..."

I know, I know, I too find myself hilarious.

I haven't seen you cutting any checks to the /.ers posting on this thread. Oh, good like with that new website, let me know how it works out.

Sadly no, you're thinking of the FIREWALLED GARDEN

You know I don't need a security exploit to cause iPhone/iPad users trouble by pushing them over their data plan.

All we need to do is send them e-mails with attachments and it just so happens that I have a long list of iPad users I purchased from my Russian friends.

Hey that gives me a great idea. I invest in AT&T stock, take advantage of their pricing scheme by flooding AT&T users with more bits then they can afford, sell the stock after the quarterly profits shoot through the roof. Wow, making money like a Chicago gangster is fun.

For bonus points I could short Apple stock, and use a virus that infects iDevices (They have taken more than a year to patch some security holes, so I just need to keep an eye out for one that works for me, that way I could push people over on the send and recieve sides as my virus propogates and depreciates Apples inflated share price.

Yeh, people said the same thing about Apple and the 2 button mouse and look how that turned out. "Oh, once Steve sees the value of it he will follow suit add a second button to Apple mice." Look how that turned out.