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« Last post by 40hz on October 06, 2011, 06:33 PM »I also do not feel the need to make lite of his passage.-Stoic Joker (October 06, 2011, 05:49 PM)
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I also do not feel the need to make lite of his passage.-Stoic Joker (October 06, 2011, 05:49 PM)
I found RND4000 to be well designed and built, and delivers what I ask from it (storage size >= 8TB, SMB write speed >= 25MB/s, quiet operations).
For me it qualifies as a great NAS.
Read reviews from end-users here:
http://www.amazon.co...317937907&sr=8-1-lotusrootstarch (October 06, 2011, 04:57 PM)
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Most of what's out there is good stuff. So all that remains is getting a solution you can work with. FWIW I'm currently in favor of using 2.5" laptop-type drives for small personal servers. They're really rugged since they're designed to be moved around and they use a lot less power. take them out if a cramped laptop case and their thermal characteristics also improve drastically. There's some manufacturers (forget which and can't do a search since I'm at a client site) that have put together some really sweet multibay swappable enclosures for these little guys. Maybe we should come up with an official Battle-of-the-Century logo for this fight. That way it'll be easier to know where to go place bets on the outcome as the game plays out.
I'm thinking two cannibals eating eachother alive ... Sound good?-Stoic Joker (October 05, 2011, 11:27 AM)
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About this Opinion:
This Opinion was prepared at the request of the Greens/European Free Alliance group in the
European Parliament. It follows a request by Jan Albrecht, Green/EFA MEP, to the EP Legal
Affairs Committee to find out “if the final Version of ACTA and its foreseen legislative procedure is
in line with the Treaties of the European Union and which legal possibilities there are for the
European Parliament to challenge this in front of the European Court of Justice.” It seeks to provide
part of the answer to that question (only), in that incompatibility of ACTA with the European
Convention on Human Rights and/or the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights would make adoption
and implementation of the Agreement illegal under EU law. The Opinion sets out the views of the
authors that there is indeed such an incompatibility, with the underlying arguments.
ACTA anti-counterfeiting agreement
New study underlines rights concerns with ACTA, strengthens calls for deal to be scrapped
A new study on the compatibility of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) with the European Convention on Human Rights and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, commissioned by the Greens/EFA group, was presented in the European Parliament today. The study underlines concerns that the ACTA agreement violates fundamental rights, strengthening the arguments of the Greens and others that are calling for the agreement to be scrapped. Speaking at the launch, Green MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht said:
"This study shows clearer than ever that the ACTA agreement violates binding fundamental rights. As such, the EU and its member states cannot ratify the agreement and have a duty to scrap the ACTA agreement as it stands.
"As the study points out, encouraging the 'cooperation' between internet providers and the content industry amounts to privatised policing, violating the rule of law and the right to fair judicial process. ACTA also allows for the monitoring of internet users without initial suspicion, the handing over of their personal data to rights holders on the basis of mere claims and the transfer of this data even to countries without adequate data protection, all of which is in clear conflict with legal guarantees of fundamental rights in the EU. The agreement does not contain 'fair use' clauses or exceptions for trivial or minimal infringements. It therefore tilts the balance - both in terms of substance and of process - unfairly in favour of rights holders and against users and citizens.
"Given the clear fundamental rights concerns with this agreement, the European Parliament should not consent to its ratification. As a first step to this end, the EP should refer ACTA to the European Court of Justice for a final legal opinion (2), before it proceeds with any consent vote, and the Greens will push for this referral to take place later this year."
The downside being, who uses PSTNs anymore??-Stoic Joker (October 04, 2011, 01:56 PM)
What options does that leave for Fido, and the BBSs if the internet's TCP/IP v? gets perverted into (Uber regulated) Cable Pay Channels?-Stoic Joker (October 04, 2011, 01:56 PM)
The forthcoming Apple dream tax is a core strategy!
We can dream, can't we? They haven't taken that away from us yet.-f0dder (October 04, 2011, 12:57 PM)-cranioscopical (October 04, 2011, 01:08 PM)
Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets
College 2.0: Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets
By Jeffrey R. Young
WashingtonYana Paskova for The Chronicle
Eben Moglen, a law professor at Columbia U., is developing the Freedom Box, a personal server that makes data harder to intercept. "The Net we have is increasingly monitored, measured, and surveilled everywhere by everybody all the time," he says. "Our Net has been turned against us."
Computer networks proved their organizing power during the recent uprisings in the Middle East, in which Facebook pages amplified street protests that toppled dictators. But those same networks showed their weaknesses as well, such as when the Egyptian government walled off most of its citizens from the Internet in an attempt to silence protesters.
That has led scholars and activists increasingly to consider the Internet's wiring as a disputed political frontier.
For example, one weekend each month, a small group of computer programmers gathers at a residence here to build a homemade Internet—named Project Byzantium—that could go online if parts of the current global Internet becomes blocked by a repressive government.
Using an approach called a "mesh network," the system would set up an informal wireless network connecting users with other nearby computers, which in turn would pass along the signals. The mesh network could tie back into the Internet if one of the users found a way to plug into an unblocked route. The developers recently tested an early version of their software at George Washington University (though without the official involvement of campus officials).
The leader of the effort, who goes by the alias TheDoctor but who would not give his name, out of concern that his employer would object to the project, says he fears that some day repressive measures could be put into place in the United States.
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