[Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Dave Täht quoted in the ACLU blog

[Dave Taht]

I burned an hour ranting over there. Naturally on the post, I got a
javascript error. I miss netnews.

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Rick Jones <rick.jones2 at hp.com> wrote:
>> On 06/24/2014 12:45 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
>>>
>>> In an age where you have, say, gbit fiber to your business, it makes quite
>>> a lot of sense from a security and maintenence perspective
>>> to be hosting your own data and servers on your own darn premise, not
>>> elsewhere.
>>
>>
>> Perhaps, but where does having gigabit fibre to a business imply the
>> business has the space, power, and cooling to host all the servers it might
>> need/wish to have?
>
> I didn't say there aren't compelling reasons also to co-locate in a data center,
> but for many uses today, being able to host a basic website, some service,
> email, etc at your own location, is perfectly doable, and possibly
> preferable to co-locating places where things like this are happening:
>
> http://fish2.com/ipmi/
>
> or this:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
>
>>
>>
>>> I am glad gfiber exists to put a scare into certain monopolists, but
>>> even then I'd be tons happier if municipalities treated basic wired
>>> connectivity as we do roads. One of the great "Secrets" of silicon
>>> valley is it got wired for fiber early, through the vision and
>>> foresight of people like Brian Reid and everybody got easy access.
>>
>>
>> That must be a really well-kept secret as I am aware of no fibre running to
>> my house in Sunnyvale :)
>
> The fiber loop around palo alto has quite the inspiring story behind
> it. Maybe brian will
> write it down one day, or already has.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist)
>
>
>> rick jones
>> speaking for myself alone
>
>
>
> --
> Dave Täht
>
> NSFW: https://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/russell_0296_indecent.article



-- 
Dave Täht

NSFW: https://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/russell_0296_indecent.article