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linkedlinked writes:
After reading the latest on the court rulings concerning the RIAA, I had the idea to catch the RIAA with their pants down. Someone should release an original 'song' (it could be a random soundclip) under a permissive license on their website, but in the license, explicitly prohibit downloading it for members of the recording industry. Name it after a big-label song. Then, seed a torrent, and watch all your connections for matches against a list of known RIAA IPs, and proceed to prosecute. If it works, the RIAA either pays up (all lawsuit proceeds to EFF?) or is forced to invalidate their own arguements in court to avoid a lawsuit. Can anyone see a reason this wouldn't work?
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hawks5999 writes:
JetBlue's reservation and communication systems have been down for 5 days leaving thousands of passengers stranded and stockholders seeing red. It was almost exactly 4 years ago that JetBlue trumpeted it's reliance on Windows to help it see black. From a 2003 news.com article:
So we marched down the road of the Windows platform. We don't have any Unix; we don't have an AS/400; we don't have any mainframes — we don't have anything outside of Windows. There has been tremendous cost savings. ...everything's Windows. Every technician that works on a server works on a Windows server. Every technician working on a desktop works on a Windows desktop. That's quite a bit easier than other flavors of desktops or OS/2 or whatever else is out there.
I guess they didn't look at redundancy or reliability in their cost equation...
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linkedlinked writes:
While looking for some old backups with a friend, we started talking about storage space, and how so many of our random files wind up in obscure places. We realized that each of us has "access" to a pretty sizable heap of storage (for college kids). I would guess that, between ftp accounts on friends' servers, random school storage space, root access to a few work servers, and my own half-dozen computers and servers, I probably have near 5-6 TB of usable storage. Out of curiosity, we decided to ask Slashdot- legality aside, how much storage space could you feasibly dominate on a whim?
