Just to add to the knowledge base, this is a real winner. You might have noted problems on the blog today. No one could figure it out. It was a mystery. Experts scratched their heads for 14 hours.
Finally, someone noticed something odd. The error log was too big, over 2GBs. The sheer size was causing the errors which were being logged, growing the size of the log, which was causing more errors, and so on. Delete the error log and all problems go away.
The end.
We all have a price, or so I’ve been told. Whether we do or not is probably a function of our individual ethical threshold. It is no different within our prison systems or for the individuals behind badges. Like contraband, drug paraphernalia, sharp objects and the various other illegal objects that make it into our prison system on a daily basis, prison systems can’t seem to keep cell phones out of the jail cells.
[An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Keith Hocker, is available for download.]
Property rights as they are circumscribed by laws and protected by courts and the police are the outgrowth of an age-long evolution. The history of these ages is the record of struggles aiming at the abolition of private property. Again and again despots and popular movements have tried to restrict the rights of private property or to abolish it altogether. These endeavors, it is true, failed. But they have left traces in the ideas determining the legal form and definition of property. The legal concepts of property do not fully take account of the social function of private property.
I recently learned of an interesting thesis by Professor Ross Emmett of James Madison College @ MSU about the nature of innovation. He’s working on book entitled “Innovation As an Act of Love: and Why it Matters for Fostering an Innovative Society.” You can find a quick overview of his argument in his TEDx Lansing talk (see below) and some of the pieces of the argument on his website. He tells me he’ll use some of my and others’ anti-IP arguments in his book.
I had known that copyright killed music in Britain in the 18th and 19th century and that the absence of copyright laws in Germany had encouraged its remarkable artistic culture. I had not known that the same is true of books generally. But this article details remarkable new research showing that this was indeed the case.
