Property is whatever bundle of rights, interests and privileges you hold that the state* defines as property and will defend by force if necessary.

Intangible property is still property.

The geek can live out his entire life defined by endless streams of ones and zeroes stored and processed god knows where and still not see them as property until their loss, theft or abuse affects him personally.

Careless thinking or intellectually dishonest? Your choice.

What is Intellectual Property?

This is BTW almost word-for-word how IP is defined by the Wikipedia.

In a lifetime of reading I have owned about 6,000 books, fiction and non-fiction. No two of these writers ever spoke in the same voice, and almost all were paid by the word, writing for a popular --- democratic --- audience.

The number of creative talents active in any generation is small, and that is a problem the Pirate Bay cannot solve.

or maybe their curiosity is focused elsewhere, on subjects in which the geek shows no interest in pursuing.

one size does not fit all.

Bennett Haselton fans rejoice. We have a new candidate for the most incoherent and mangled prose ever posted to Slashdot.

The geek's natural instinct to assert his god-given superiority at the worst possible moment can ruin the experience for everyone.

This isn't about "dumbing down," it's about getting the know-it-alls, the intellectual bullies, the inflated egos, out of the room, so others can prosper.

Those who pay the premium for vinyl are getting the best in audio editing, not the cut for FM radio or the 99 cent mp3.

They are also paying for turntables, amps and speakers that cost a bit more and demand more space than the integrated audio of your smartphone or tablet.

Analog audio from its earliest beginnings was marketed as a social experience. In which many elements come into play and "perfection" as a whole is difficult to quantify. There was always a tension between those who would disguise a phonograph as a piece of furniture and those would celebrate its workings openly.

The high end modern turntable is both sculpture and machine.

Polio History

Charts. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF IMMUNIZATIONS

Chart 1. Reported cases of H. influenzae type b, United States, 1991 - 1997

Chart 2. Hib meningitis in children less than 5 years old according to the National Bacterial Meningitis Reporting System, 1980 through 1991.

Chart 3. Reported cases of measles, United States, 1960-1997

Chart 4. Reported mumps cases, United States, 1968-1997

Chart 5. Reported pertussis cases, United States, 1922-1997

Chart 6. Reported poliomyelitis cases, United States, 1920-1997

Chart 7. Reported rubella cases, United States, 1966-1997

I want my kids to live --- not compensation for their death.

Which, by the way, would be almost impossible to link to any single individual ---

even given the relatively simple and modest demands a plaintiff must meet in order to win in a civil case.

Historically, there were no limits when it came to the control of infectious defenses.

"Typhoid Mary" Mellon spent 23 years in island hospital quarantine.

Riverside Hospital (North Brother Island)

That would come later.

Shockley's contributions to the evolution of the transistor and Silicon Valley were more or less complete by the mid to late 50s. There is something about Eugenics that Is attractive to the technocrat in every generation.

Lewin was tossed for abusing his position at MIT and sexually harassing a student.

Lewin at 78 has forfeited the privilege of teaching at MIT. In the time left to him, he has the freedom to do research, to write, lecture, debate or teach in any forum which will have him.

Richard Wagner is dead.

Lewin is alive and at 78 years old was caught sexually harassing an MIT online student 50 years his junior. In the old days a man like this would have been quietly put out to pasture before his senility caused his school any further embarrassment.

If you are not a sexually responsible adult you have no business being on the physical or online campus. It doesn't matter if you are the frat boy, the jerk jock, the twenty year uber-geek or the eighty year old professor emeritus.

MIT employs over a thousand faculty members of all ranks.

Over and above that, MIT has about 600 active senior lecturers, lecturers, and professors emeriti. MIT Facts

Lewin is not irreplaceable.

Which is a damn good thing because he is. after all, 78 years old,

MIT makes it easy to study physics outside the classroom, if learning matters more than academic credits.

MIT Open Courseware Physics

The message being sent is: "If you sexually harass our students you're done, you're gone, and we don't give a damn whether you are the star quarterback, the uber geek or the processor emeritus."

Not that there isn't something particularly gross about the elderly emeritus professor using his academic position and credentials to gain sexual leverage over a student forty or more years his junior,

Jailed Time Machine service? I just made a share with the appropriate settings and that was it; no jail or service required.

As long as you just want basic ZFS without fancy stuff like deduplication you can use an HP Microserver. I've got an N54L with four gigs of RAM, which is currently running FreeNAS 9.2 with a mirrored two-disk setup (because my budget didn't allow more then two disks when I put it together). It works just fine and didn't put a huge dent into my finances. Also nice is that there is a modding community for those things so if you want to replace the DVD drive with more fixed storage you can easily find an article by someone who has tried just that.

Newegg quotes 229 USD for one with 4 GB, which leaves ca. 250 USD for HDDs once S&H is factored in. Get two nice HDDs or perhaps three slightly worse ones. You've got four caddies to work with so future expansion is not a problem. Or put in more RAM.

Oh, and don't forget the USB drive. For FreeNAS 9.3 you'll want one with at least 8 gigs.

In real life, what you get is either:

1) Thw pulp fiction shocker, based on an idea which had been run into the ground back in the days when beer was still 5 cents a glass.

2) The author's defense of incest or whatever, which rambles on forever and with the dice so loaded they would be banned in every casino in Vegas.