Comment: Re:Translation? (Score 2) 514
sorry the link didn't make it:
http://nlpc.org/stories/2012/02/15/lightsquared-fiasco-puts-harsh-spotlight-genachowski
Comment: Re:Translation? (Score 2) 514
LightSquared Fiasco Puts Harsh Spotlight on FCC's Genachowski
"A friend of President Obama's from Harvard Law School, Genachowski has brought a culture of wheeling and dealing to the FCC, on whose decisions billions of telecom dollars ride."
Comment: That's just part of the concern.. (Score 4, Insightful) 281
What about people not wanting massive use of round-up chemicals, small farmers being sued out of existence, and one corporation monopolising the entire seed supply?
Comment: Re:The Real Thing You Want is Low Power (Score 1) 402
+1
Rack mount is primarily about organization and accessibility when you have large amounts of devices and cabling. In a commercial situation, you have to be able to reconfig a device within hundreds of servers and cables quickly and without disturbing anything else.
But there are some major downsides at home:
1. Cost: Rack mount servers are just more expensive. Rack hardware is REALLY expensive. Just the rails alone to mount a rack server can be several hundred dollars.
2. Power: Rack equip is mostly redundant and high powered, and that means a lot of electricity. Do you really want a 42U WOPR in the basement that's costing $100+ a month on your electric bill.
3. Noise: Rack mount servers alone may contain over 10 cooling fans. In the data center, noise is not a concern, but as you lie on your pillow trying to go to sleep, do you want to be listening to a steady hum coming through your house framing?
4. Transport: Keeping things small and ultra low power means you can throw it all in a box and move when you need to. A 42U rack alone is several hundred lbs weight.
Rack mount is primarily about organization and accessibility when you have large amounts of devices and cabling. In a commercial situation, you have to be able to reconfig a device within hundreds of servers and cables quickly and without disturbing anything else.
But there are some major downsides at home:
1. Cost: Rack mount servers are just more expensive. Rack hardware is REALLY expensive. Just the rails alone to mount a rack server can be several hundred dollars.
2. Power: Rack equip is mostly redundant and high powered, and that means a lot of electricity. Do you really want a 42U WOPR in the basement that's costing $100+ a month on your electric bill.
3. Noise: Rack mount servers alone may contain over 10 cooling fans. In the data center, noise is not a concern, but as you lie on your pillow trying to go to sleep, do you want to be listening to a steady hum coming through your house framing?
4. Transport: Keeping things small and ultra low power means you can throw it all in a box and move when you need to. A 42U rack alone is several hundred lbs weight.
Ireland's Former State Telco To Apply For Court Protection
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2phar writes "A decade or so after what some regard as one of the world's worst failures in privatizing a state asset, the former Irish telecoms monopoly, Eircom, is finally facing Examinership to get court protection from its creditors. The company is struggling under some €5bn in debt, after undergoing multiple episodes of leveraged buyouts, asset-stripping, and under-investment. Since the sell-off, the state has also had to separately re-invest in building national infrastructure a second time through such projects as Metropolitan Area Networks"
Comment: For whom do you vote (Score 0) 353
Would Ron Paul as president actually veto congress pushing through stuff like SOPA?
Ireland to Fix Downloading Law for EMI->
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2phar writes "The Irish Government is to publish an order early in the new year to allow music publishers, film producers and other parties to go to court to prevent ISPs from allowing their customers access to 'pirate' websites.
The government has written to music publisher EMI Ireland confirming the order will be published and incorporated into existing legislation in January. EMI Ireland recently warned the Government that it would take legal action against the State if the Government did not address the problem, following its unsuccessful attempt to seek an injunction against UPC last October"
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The government has written to music publisher EMI Ireland confirming the order will be published and incorporated into existing legislation in January. EMI Ireland recently warned the Government that it would take legal action against the State if the Government did not address the problem, following its unsuccessful attempt to seek an injunction against UPC last October"
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Ireland to Fix Downloading Law for EMI->
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2phar writes "The Irish Government is to publish an order early in the new year to allow music publishers, film producers and other parties to go to court to prevent ISPs from allowing their customers access to 'pirate' websites.
The government has written to music publisher EMI Ireland confirming the order will be published and incorporated into existing legislation in January. EMI Ireland recently warned the Government that it would take legal action against the State if the Government did not address the problem, following its unsuccessful attempt to seek an injunction against UPC last October"
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The government has written to music publisher EMI Ireland confirming the order will be published and incorporated into existing legislation in January. EMI Ireland recently warned the Government that it would take legal action against the State if the Government did not address the problem, following its unsuccessful attempt to seek an injunction against UPC last October"
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Comment: Title got truncated (Score 1) 1
The title was 'Ireland to Tackle Illegal Downloading by Government Order' in the preview but somehow it got chopped.
Comment: Can't have it both ways (Score 1) 303
The deal is we enforce their copyright protection in return for the rights being given to the public domain after a reasonable time. However, they seek to keep extending the term of the copyright. If the people have to wait longer and longer for public domain, you'd expect them to care less and less about protecting the copyright.