If they did this, they could sue Google for interfering with their copy protection scheme by allowing people to search out the manuals online! By golly, we've figured out how to defeat Big Search!
Umm, we, among MANY others, have high availability contracts signed with Google. If they did this it would cost them an incalculable fortune. As a cloud service provider, they can never do anything like this, and we shouldn't threaten them. If the fed were to seize the google.com domain, our Apps for Education accounts would start bouncing back emails, causing an international incident (I'm in Canada). I don't think the Justice dept understands this, since they seem to be going after bigger and bigger targets, so eventually, this will happen.
And what if they did? The genius behind google and youtube is that they are simply algorithms. If they were shut down, Sergey and Larry could start something else, use the same code, everyone would know just about right away where the 'new' google and youtube were, and boom, status quo. These aren't manufacturing plants etc that take time to set up and get going. 200 KM north and theres a whole new country with just as much access.
Theres lots you can do. For example, you could server-side convert all text postings into jpgs and do your own search's 'behind the veil', allowing no direct access to your DB. Problem is, it makes your site less useful.
There are a couple of important counterpoints to note here, in that when you mandate open source vs closed source with the assumption that because its open its implementation will be cheaper, then you naturally create incentives to offer buggy software for free and sell hugely expensive support contracts that can't be RFP'd. Its important to evaluate total costs, rather than simply up front ones like open vs closed source.
Lol, in this case its a lie. This woman did not lie as far as we know, and no one is saying she is. So your story is irrelevant. Do you happen to work for the TSA? Or otherwise in security?
And if people feel the need to do this, then that should be a MASSIVE wake-up call for the government 'of the people' that the 'people' don't support the TSA.
Don't you american's have a document pertaining to the fact that its OK to say anything any way you like it? Oh ya, the constitution... the proper place for her to say she was raped is ANYWHERE SHE DAMN WELL PLEASES. This is an important point that I think you are missing. If someone doesn't want their name associated with 'rape' online, then they should think about that before they stick their hands down a strangers pants, regardless of what their job tells them to do.
"History is full of the result of men just simply following orders"
"(a) Rape.— Any person subject to this chapter who causes another person of any age to engage in a sexual act by- (3) threatening or placing that other person in fear that any person will be subjected to death, grievous bodily harm, or kidnaping"
This sounds EXACTLY like the TSA. "You must submit to sexual touching or terrorists might kill people, or we might put you in jail". Sounds like its dead on this statute.
Actually i believe the comment was in referring to the fact that its perfectly OK to out the TSA agent who performed this action, and anyone who thinks naming her went too far has a weak stomach
Its actually the only way to guarantee it. Pieces of data can be left in bad sectors, cache memory etc even when doing a 35-pass wipe. I destroy my HDDs and so does my 60 year old mother for exactly the same reason this guy did.
Too expensive. The average american spends 30 hours a week watching tv... at your prices hes paying 120 a month + internet connection + bandwidth. Its just too expensive.
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Not that it isn't ridiculous, but thats the law.
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"History is full of the result of men just simply following orders"
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This sounds EXACTLY like the TSA. "You must submit to sexual touching or terrorists might kill people, or we might put you in jail". Sounds like its dead on this statute.
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