Hey, Bill Shatner has proven himself to be a fine entertainer, a imaginative writer and despite personality flaws a somewhat decent person. He will never be beloved, though, like, say Jimmy Doohan, and perhaps that irks him.
One of the areas Hillary Clinton signaled the government may try (emphasize try) to address is anonymity on the internet (in the name of nailing child molesters). Alot of this is about increasing tax revenue, I believe.
http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2010/february/copan.html
SGI acquired the assets with the goal of expanding SGI's storage portfolio to include a highly scalable, energy efficient enterprise Massive Array of Idle Disks (MAID) platform. COPAN storage solutions are designed to allow customers to access Disk-to-Disk and Virtual Tape Library (VTL) capabilities for cost-effective management of large data environments.
Infiniband does this and has been doing this and has a path to 100 gigs. CISCO is smoking marginal profit crack.
I won't call this evil but its certainly not a good trend even if Google's surface intentions are benign and even altruistic.
Google wants all the data in their system, in their format and for you to only use their tools. It's a big roach motel. Granted the company is solvent and isn't going anywhere but it appears that once you move your stuff into the Google cloud you can only work with it through their API/interface. I'd much rather see this data being offered and hosted in industry standard formats, run with whatever tool you want on that data because its accessible through a file system paradigm - native client, WxS services, mapreduce, whatever.
Since SGI holds an HPC contract for $30M, I find the price odd - perhaps the reporters got it wrong or there were significant debts on SGI's books.
Real Programs don't use shared text. Otherwise, how can they use functions for scratch space after they are finished calling them?
